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Dear all, I just signed in after reading through some threads and must say I am excited! My first contact with a boombox was in 2008 when I went on holiday and the guest house we stayed in had a 1981 Pantronic CX-473F. I loved the box, on holiday I managed to make it work with my mp3 by...

Hi All! Long story short I've just dropped some cash on a Sharp GF9191E, it arrives next week and is in need of the inevitable belt replacement. I've had a quick look through the forums here...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=156&v=z7n3KeaE6xM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpWgJB72NNk

I’m still vacationing in Barbados and I went looking for the abandoned Harp gun today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP?wprov=sfti1 The gun is situated near the end of the Grantley Adams airport runway. There are a lot of abandoned buildings and huts as well as the military base up...

Hi all Being restored a SHARP VZ-2000 and I'm blocking. The radio is working. The cassette player is working. But when I select the LP record part, the solenoids A and B will boot up and shunt it down. I notice that the EP/LP LEDs are off. Any ideas? In advance, thank you

In the early 1980s, Sharp released a series of hefty record player boomboxes under the name Sharp VZ. The VZ 2000, VZ 2500, and gargantuan VZ 3000 sported a high tech “AutoDisc” feature that allowed them to play both sides of a record without the record being flipped. The Sharp VZ series was...

Anyone have a trick on how to remove broken-off slider posts from the slider tracks without taking the top face off? Looks like removing the face will be a beast of a job. This must be a common issue since the sliders are so fragile. Here's a photo of the broken posts, there's 4 of them. :-/...

hi everyone ..i finally fix my potties and everything is fine except one thing i notice that olny one of my two bass speaker works ( L) so the ® one doesn't work at all ...i also notice that when i plug the R bass speakers on the L one ... the R speaker works so the issue doesn't come from...

Here is a little video of an UNBOXING of a radio I brought home from the UK Meet. HUGE thank you to Stereomad for the hook up and to Hisrudeness for the assist on getting it boxed up and helping me get it to and through the airport in London! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Tpm5BMWMM

Promotional video of Sharp VZ-2000 Boombox Stereo (1983) https://archive.org/details/Sharp_VZ-2000_Boombox_Stereo_1983

http://www.video-koubou-topaz.jp/SHARP-RADIO-BOOMBOX-1981.html

"Sharp GF 909 das etwas andere Boombox Video JAPAN sehr cool" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4MHw9y-T-I

Hi all, can anyone please tell me is the motor on the sharp GF9191 speed adjustable on the rear of the motor or is this on the board? My friends 9191 is a beauty its not long had the belts, pinch roller & capstan tube all replaced, but its deffo playing slow and by a fair amount also the FW &...

:clap: Hi all just wondering are there any repro labels available for the Sharp WF939 been looking for a while now :bang:

Hi all, So I'm new to the forum and looking for help. I picked up a Sharp GF-4700, and wired in a BT dongle. It connects and plays but sounds like sh*t. I threw in a ground iso transformer and sill sounds terrible (reverb ans static). One odd thing is that the get exremely loud instantly...

Hi All, I have just started to restore a Sharp VZ3500E Vertical Record Player Stereo. Having removed the old belts which had gone like tar and stuck to every surface. Photos show the pinch roller which had just melted! I changed the belts and got the record player and tape working, but some...

Recently, I heard a radio commercial of an upcoming dance that was to be a 1970s, 80s & 90s Prom theme. When I heard the "80s" part, I immediately started thinking of how cool it would be to have My boxes on display there to add to the 80s experience. Attendees were encouraged to wear Prom...

Here is a little glimpse into my ever growing collection, I will add photo's through out the week. I just picked up this beauty, a Technics SA-C07 - Great shape and everything works as it should!

Not have the technical expertise of Ye Wise Ones of this forum I did an internet search to identify the part I now know as a 'leaf switch'. Setting about a clean up and resto of a Panasonic RX-C36 I found the leaf switch to be loose. (At this stage I do not know if this is/was a contributing...