So Wednesday this week I found myself visiting my dear friends Tim & his wife in Bristol, a fair old way for me but simply wonderful to see them again & I found out that I really can drive the distance & feel just fine
It was also a great opurtunity to deliver to Tim his boxed & as new 1979 Sony CFS-D7 he bought from me last week featured right here on my facebook page & shared with all the groups I joined!
Anyway we all had a great chat & I was delighted to see so many of Tims stero's - In fact I was green with envy when a minty Sanyo M9998 was produced from the next room, what a beauty & took me back to boarding school days & 1979 was so clear in my memory as I looked at this amazing machine! Love them & my favourite of the day!
Tim then produced my old Toshiba RT-782S that he bought off me with many other stereo's & one of two I wished I had kept & remembering a previous telephone conversation, he let me take it home with me again! The boombox community does things like this but it still makes you so glad you are part of these crazy folk that collect & more importantly love these things more than most would ever know!!
We did both agree that maybe the woofers were either rotting at edge or just tired after 35 years, so I knew it would need a looky at.....
I recently bought another RT-S782 for hardly any money & it was as it turned out completely farked both mechanism & amplifier had been "Got At" despite the seller trumpeting "It's Perfect Mate, just needs a clean"..........Well you get the pitcher!
So Today:
Strip down the one I brought back from Tims
Remove the woofers, tweeters just fine so left them in
Remove the cassette deck to see why there was no record function
Clean all switches with Serviceoil while it was all apart!!
Next:
Simply replace the woofers with the visibly much better one from the doner machine
Change the steel record bar that seemed to have suffered metal fatigue & simply fell apart on touching - The doner machine's bar was fine & fitted in seconds
I rebelted this back in December 2015 & since it had seen very little use, there was no need to change the belts - In fact, the rewind/fast forward & play had really strong torque.........must have been repaired by an expert previously
Quick test while the front was still off, everything just perfect & record function now working every time after rigorous checking
All back together & the sound has been transformed! Sounds like I remember these sounding back in 1984!
So another stero saved & will be used as I really like these models, they have some nice features, Dolby B, manual recording level with an Led meter & a subtle bass boost function that works really well!
So, as expected it was the knackered spokers that let it down anywhere above a third of volume being turned up
As usual there are too many images & 2 video's one of which demonstrates just how good the cassette decks in these are - Very stable & the bass is very nice from tape & radio.......
Am glad I got this one back, Thanks Tim & we will do it again soon!!
Images of the original rebelt/restore in December 2015 with today's spoker transplant here:
https://1drv.ms/f/s!ANEYKw-3GKK-s3Q
Et Viola:
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https://youtu.be/UZTrtNer55E
https://youtu.be/2FRcAHb-4aw
It was also a great opurtunity to deliver to Tim his boxed & as new 1979 Sony CFS-D7 he bought from me last week featured right here on my facebook page & shared with all the groups I joined!
Anyway we all had a great chat & I was delighted to see so many of Tims stero's - In fact I was green with envy when a minty Sanyo M9998 was produced from the next room, what a beauty & took me back to boarding school days & 1979 was so clear in my memory as I looked at this amazing machine! Love them & my favourite of the day!
Tim then produced my old Toshiba RT-782S that he bought off me with many other stereo's & one of two I wished I had kept & remembering a previous telephone conversation, he let me take it home with me again! The boombox community does things like this but it still makes you so glad you are part of these crazy folk that collect & more importantly love these things more than most would ever know!!
We did both agree that maybe the woofers were either rotting at edge or just tired after 35 years, so I knew it would need a looky at.....
I recently bought another RT-S782 for hardly any money & it was as it turned out completely farked both mechanism & amplifier had been "Got At" despite the seller trumpeting "It's Perfect Mate, just needs a clean"..........Well you get the pitcher!
So Today:
Strip down the one I brought back from Tims
Remove the woofers, tweeters just fine so left them in
Remove the cassette deck to see why there was no record function
Clean all switches with Serviceoil while it was all apart!!
Next:
Simply replace the woofers with the visibly much better one from the doner machine
Change the steel record bar that seemed to have suffered metal fatigue & simply fell apart on touching - The doner machine's bar was fine & fitted in seconds
I rebelted this back in December 2015 & since it had seen very little use, there was no need to change the belts - In fact, the rewind/fast forward & play had really strong torque.........must have been repaired by an expert previously
Quick test while the front was still off, everything just perfect & record function now working every time after rigorous checking
All back together & the sound has been transformed! Sounds like I remember these sounding back in 1984!
So another stero saved & will be used as I really like these models, they have some nice features, Dolby B, manual recording level with an Led meter & a subtle bass boost function that works really well!
So, as expected it was the knackered spokers that let it down anywhere above a third of volume being turned up
As usual there are too many images & 2 video's one of which demonstrates just how good the cassette decks in these are - Very stable & the bass is very nice from tape & radio.......
Am glad I got this one back, Thanks Tim & we will do it again soon!!
Images of the original rebelt/restore in December 2015 with today's spoker transplant here:
https://1drv.ms/f/s!ANEYKw-3GKK-s3Q
Et Viola:
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https://youtu.be/UZTrtNer55E
https://youtu.be/2FRcAHb-4aw
