Due to Popular request for more info (zero), here is my lastest boombox to earn a spot on my shelf. It has been 6 months in the making -- maybe longer. Mostly sitting rather than making.
It came to me as a total POS trashed beater. Seller misrepresented, a few sheetrock/wood screws held it together, entire antenna rod fell out of a hole in the back of the boombox when I unpacked, it, the tape deck was locked up and could not open requiring some risky technique to pop door off, and the speakers were rotted out. Of course the tape counter reset button tip was snapped off too. I'm not even gonna start with the dirt and grime and smoke and poor paint.
It was represented as "perfect condition -- everything works." The photos were like totaly small/fuzzy and in the photos, the antenna was actually up and at an angle. He apparently tried to fix it but couldn't figure out how to crack the box with the locked up deck and removed all screws including the antenna screw. Well, once the antenna falls out, it's hard to realign it without backside access so he just tossed it back into the hole. I was soooo displeased that I literally wanted to go over and bonk that seller on the head for flat out lying. Anyhow, the condition gave me a nothing-to-lose opportunity to restore it, the SD way.
Glucifer helped with photos of the tape door and gave me ideas on how to pop it off. It worked but lemme just say I wouldn't ever want to do it again. Next time, it might not be as happy ending. The speakers, having been rotted out gave me a reason to refoam it with Cervin Vega red surrounds. The tape deck was rebelted and it would play fine, but it would not want to release so that was going to be a problem since I had to unplug it to stop any function, be it play, FF or RW. That was a bugger to find and the PCB is difficult to work on since there is no real chassis to speak of and so everything had to come out to get to the back of the board to desolder. But to test, everything had to go back in. Obviously, it is hard to do "live" tests on this model. I eventually tracked it down to a blown fusible resistor hiding beneath a fiberglass shield and a power transistor was reseated -- a few caps were replaced. That fixed it.
The boombox was stripped, front dial glass repolished, grills removed, straightened and repainted. The boombox was then repainted.
Like my maroon M70, this would be the life of any party. It stands out above the rest and is the only thing you will see amongst a sea of boring grey boomboxes. See what I mean? Classic silver/grey boomboxes? Yeah, I got those. But when one looks at the shelf, which one do you think they'll be looking at? And no, the photo has not been photoshopped. It looks like that in real life.
GREY/SILVER = BORING |-) |-) RED = ALIVE, EXCITING, FLAMING HOT, SPECIAL, SEXY! :super:
OH, and BTW, before I get a flood of questions about how I did the painting and lettering -- let's just say very very carefully, very very time consuming, and very very expensive.
It came to me as a total POS trashed beater. Seller misrepresented, a few sheetrock/wood screws held it together, entire antenna rod fell out of a hole in the back of the boombox when I unpacked, it, the tape deck was locked up and could not open requiring some risky technique to pop door off, and the speakers were rotted out. Of course the tape counter reset button tip was snapped off too. I'm not even gonna start with the dirt and grime and smoke and poor paint.
It was represented as "perfect condition -- everything works." The photos were like totaly small/fuzzy and in the photos, the antenna was actually up and at an angle. He apparently tried to fix it but couldn't figure out how to crack the box with the locked up deck and removed all screws including the antenna screw. Well, once the antenna falls out, it's hard to realign it without backside access so he just tossed it back into the hole. I was soooo displeased that I literally wanted to go over and bonk that seller on the head for flat out lying. Anyhow, the condition gave me a nothing-to-lose opportunity to restore it, the SD way.
Glucifer helped with photos of the tape door and gave me ideas on how to pop it off. It worked but lemme just say I wouldn't ever want to do it again. Next time, it might not be as happy ending. The speakers, having been rotted out gave me a reason to refoam it with Cervin Vega red surrounds. The tape deck was rebelted and it would play fine, but it would not want to release so that was going to be a problem since I had to unplug it to stop any function, be it play, FF or RW. That was a bugger to find and the PCB is difficult to work on since there is no real chassis to speak of and so everything had to come out to get to the back of the board to desolder. But to test, everything had to go back in. Obviously, it is hard to do "live" tests on this model. I eventually tracked it down to a blown fusible resistor hiding beneath a fiberglass shield and a power transistor was reseated -- a few caps were replaced. That fixed it.
The boombox was stripped, front dial glass repolished, grills removed, straightened and repainted. The boombox was then repainted.
Like my maroon M70, this would be the life of any party. It stands out above the rest and is the only thing you will see amongst a sea of boring grey boomboxes. See what I mean? Classic silver/grey boomboxes? Yeah, I got those. But when one looks at the shelf, which one do you think they'll be looking at? And no, the photo has not been photoshopped. It looks like that in real life.
GREY/SILVER = BORING |-) |-) RED = ALIVE, EXCITING, FLAMING HOT, SPECIAL, SEXY! :super:
OH, and BTW, before I get a flood of questions about how I did the painting and lettering -- let's just say very very carefully, very very time consuming, and very very expensive.
