Little digital GE

[Radio-Active]

Found this little guy in the bottom of a box of records I bought at auction. Crushed beneath a once treasured music collection,I could existentially relate to him.
He was in poor shape,nothing was working. I could hear a faint hum when I toggled cassette. He had a pulse. He wanted to live.
I wrestled out the rusty screws,only to find more rust inside. Not a good outlook for this patient. I vacuumed the dust and wiped out the grime. Controls were so dirty there wasn't even static.
Well,without much hope,I removed the straw tip from my DeOxit and just gave it a good blast on a couple spots.Then left it upside down to soak/dry.
And also did the same with it tilted back.
Scraped the battery terminals.
Oiled a couple parts.

 

[floyd]

Thats a nice little boom box . I love the tweeters. Never seen that model before,actually might be rare.

 

[Radio-Active]

So dirty...

He's alive!!
Radio,cassette,led's all work great!
Clock keeps perfect time!

So I decided to spend another 10 minutes cleaning it.
And coloring those dirty speakers black.

A few rough spots,but a respectable little tough guy,back for more!

 

[ralrein1]

O.K. I guess I'm gonna be that guy. It not a G.E. its a Sears boombox. Other than that,dude you did an outstanding job bringing that cool little box back to life! Awesome,just awesome. Looks almost brand spanking new! Good pictures too. This is what Boomboxery is all about,saving these little gems. My hats of to you.👍👍

 

[Radio-Active]

Haha. I'm an idiot! Good eye!
I'm messing around with a GE,I get names so mixed up when I'm typing stuff. Or even real life.haha.

Yup. Its obviously a Sears.
SR(Sears+Roebuck),2100series.

Sorry for the typo.

Back label:

 

[MyOhMy]

Ah, that's so cute and what an inspiring story.

 

[ralrein1]

Oh no worries at all bro,I was just bustin your chops.😄😄😄 Still think you did a killer job on that mini!👍👍

 

[goodman]

Never seen before! This is nice looking mini. Congrats!

 

[baddboybill]

Very cool mini!!

 

[Nickeccles]

Wow!! I love that mini but I love all silver mini's that are nicely made like your Sears

What a great find & clean up exceeds my clean up efforts

 

[Mystic Traveller]

Cool little stereo, nice story!

 

[im_alan_partridge]

Oh thats a really nice little box, it looks great now youve spent some time on it. I love how much cassette you can see through that deck door, the big clear door makes all the other features seem smaller.
It would be nice to see a pic of this next to a couple of other boxes to get a size caparison when you have some spare time

 

[Radio-Active]

Thanks for the high-fives gang!

Here's a pic for size comparison.