bad way to wake up... my new smashed M-X650K

[Jboogie2384]

Muthaflippin hotdog!!! It gave me Deja vu when I got my 767 with a cracked backing!! Hit up this lint licker asap and resolve this matter quickly before he thinks it arrived safe and sound!! Sorry to see it like this!! I know what your going through.

 

[swansoncj10]

alright... talked to the sender & it so it sounds like i will be getting this for $25 bucks. i can work w/ that.

& thank you all for the feedback, i was freakin out for a minute there, but im good now. i got this thing opened up & its cleaning up nice. however the piece that busted is in about 12 pieces, so we will see how this goes.

im going to go to the hardware store in a little bit, any suggestion? i saw the tenax 7r post, probably get some of that. my big question is what color paint to get since i will be painting the front shell. i was thinking once i get the puzzle glued back together & sanded i will paint the top & sides & mask of the front cuz the front looks good. so when done it will be a three tone. duplicolor graphite??? gunmetal grey??? & probably clear coat it right?

also the screen needs painting, on the side its rusty & has this white chunky stuff on it that i couldnt see from the pics. should i soak it in CLR then steel wool it, then primar, then paint?

sorry, mayb this post shouldnt b under general discussion anymore now that its a help topic.

any help is much appreciated

 

[monchito]

yes i would send him pics of his own s***y packing job he just did.. and try to get at least some of what you paid back

 

[sony_apm_fan]

What a a$$ packing! :annoyed: .

That it is, for sure.

 

[LLopez]

That is bs packing job, That is defeanetly the sellers fault.
That seller is one lazy bum, No bubble wrap, No peanuts, No nothing.
I see this and it makes me sick. bad seller.

 

[Gluecifer]

Awful to see this happen, swansoncj10, but good to see you're getting some justice.

The repair job shouls be reasonable simple. Get her all glued up and back together as best you can then look for a natural 'seam' where you can paint to so to it won't be obvious. Might be a problem on the top, but I'm sure we can do it. Once she's all glued up sand her back on the broken section, this will get the surface completely flat. Mask the rest of the box, undercoat and then top coat a few thin layers. You'll probably then need to remove most of the masking, but just mask the front panel, and then do a few coats of varnish/clear. This will even out 99% of the inconsistency with the new paint colour as it's usually the sheen/finish that differs and makes the repair obvious.

Good luck! And please post more on this or ask some more questions if need be, there are a lot of us on here that have repaired this kind of damage in the past, so don't think you're on your own!


Also, your avatar is k-rad bitchin to the max!! Awersome!!



Rock On.

 

[swansoncj10]

Gluecifer... thanks for the help but i beat you to it ive been going at it all day on this thing, turned into quite the project. only bummer is that there is one piece that is on the lip(not shown in my photos earlier today) of that front shell & there is no way to really repair it. its so weird too, cuz the box it came in was entirely wrapped in tape so no piece could have fallen out... mayb my dog ate it. but just that one corner busted into 12 little pieces & little shards/flakes & was a hell of a challenge to get those to all align right, mainly because the plastic bends/streches before it snaps. so i cut those warped areas out w/ a razor but there were holes in my puzzle that i had to fill with epoxy. i will post pics this weekend, the busted corner looks great now.

i guess i have a painted box now.

 

[Superduper]

I'd take a box like that for $25 any day of the week. Frankly, I'd prefer a cheap fun project over a $costly$ shelf queen in a heartbeat.

 

[Gluecifer]

Frankly, I'd prefer a cheap fun project over a $costly$ shelf queen in a heartbeat.

Absodamntootinloutely!

I find it almost disappointing when I get a box and all it needs is a little clean up these days.
I love the challenge of repairing/restoring or hacking something together to make a broken feature work again.



Rock On.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Gluecifer... thanks for the help but i beat you to it ive been going at it all day on this thing, turned into quite the project. only bummer is that there is one piece that is on the lip(not shown in my photos earlier today) of that front shell & there is no way to really repair it. its so weird too, cuz the box it came in was entirely wrapped in tape so no piece could have fallen out... mayb my dog ate it. but just that one corner busted into 12 little pieces & little shards/flakes & was a hell of a challenge to get those to all align right, mainly because the plastic bends/streches before it snaps. so i cut those warped areas out w/ a razor but there were holes in my puzzle that i had to fill with epoxy. i will post pics this weekend, the busted corner looks great now.

i guess i have a painted box now.

Bondo time! Or some other sand-able hardening putty. I have a project I am about to start on that has a 1 1/2 in x 1/2 chunk missing and I have to recreate it. I am going to use bondo and then sand it all down and paint it.

Sounds like you've really gotten your head around this now.

I will say this.....once you are done with this radio, the rebuilding, gluing, sanding, painting and reassembly, this radio will quickly become your favorite BECAUSE all the work you did to it. As men, our inability to have children leaves us with a desire to create and this project is going to become one of your children!

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Frankly, I'd prefer a cheap fun project over a $costly$ shelf queen in a heartbeat.

I tell that to people all the time because my collection is a P.O.S.

 

[swansoncj10]

As men, our inability to have children leaves us with a desire to create and this project is going to become one of your children!

hilarious!!!! & i agree, im a fan of "the man project"

anyone know of a way to get old faded speakers to look newer again? i dont know what that speaker material is called, its like a papery porous texture, you know what i mean... but could you make like a diluted indian ink wash to stain or something to make it darker? one of my speakers has faded pinkish/brown & the other is faded grey. it would be nice to get them to match?

 

[swansoncj10]

so i found a post about MINWAX BLACK STAIN for speakers, but the post had no conclusion, anyone know if this stuff works?

 

[floyd]

As men, our inability to have children leaves us with a desire to create and this project is going to become one of your children!

hilarious!!!! & i agree, im a fan of "the man project"

anyone know of a way to get old faded speakers to look newer again? i dont know what that speaker material is called, its like a papery porous texture, you know what i mean... but could you make like a diluted indian ink wash to stain or something to make it darker? one of my speakers has faded pinkish/brown & the other is faded grey. it would be nice to get them to match?

you can use a sharpie black permanent marker to blacken the woofers works great ,you just have to go over them twice and you will never know the difference from when they were new ,the wide makers are great for the bulk of it then use the pointed one around the dust caps and around the edges.

 

[BENDYCAT]

that's the s**ts mate - shame to kill a box with little thought like that :annoyed:


you say ups is not to blame but there should deliver the package in a carefull way - it's not a brick to be throw or kicked around

i once got a box sent to me in just brown paper a sharp 8585 - got it from ebay for £5 cos it was misspelled - turn up ok and was in a great condition ! so why did he only use brown paper ?

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

i once got a box sent to me in just brown paper a sharp 8585 - got it from ebay for £5 cos it was misspelled - turn up ok and was in a great condition ! so why did he only use brown paper ?

That's just crazy, must have been a little old lady or something. Luck it showed up ok! I'm surprised the post office took it in the first place!