Six months ago I bought a mint Sharp GF777 but arrived all broken and non working. The broken radio parts were inside the box and also shattered plastic case sections. Luckily it didn't tear the speaker cone.
After carefully examining and removing broken parts I powered it on. Cassette was working but one channel totally out so also radio had issues. The tuning cord was hanging down and found the weighted wheel for tuning all broken to pieces.
I started getting parts one by one and finally fixed it all.
I postponed fixing the broken case for a while but seeing the temperature plunging to 40 F soon I had no excuse. I had to paint it soon.
It took a lot of patience and effort to fix all and put it all together. Luckily I found no screws in excess.
Now it looks great and works excellent!
I had to replace the main amplifier, radio board, weighted flywheel assembly, re string the cord, glue all broken pieces with 2K epoxy and JB Weld, open up the pots and clean and did deoxit treatment, and then
paint the case and the front grills.
Re stringing the tuner was not easy but I was lucky to get it done in 10 min. First I had issues the tuner wheel slipping a little bit, but pulled the spring to the next hole on the tuning gang large wheel made it all work well. That increased a little tension and solved the slipping on the 5 turns of thread on the tuning wheel axle.
Thanks to nikonfoo (Geoff), and Icemedmelon
(Lee) for parts and special thank to our Jimmy the GF King! bklyn sound for his advises and valuable suggestions.
After carefully examining and removing broken parts I powered it on. Cassette was working but one channel totally out so also radio had issues. The tuning cord was hanging down and found the weighted wheel for tuning all broken to pieces.
I started getting parts one by one and finally fixed it all.
I postponed fixing the broken case for a while but seeing the temperature plunging to 40 F soon I had no excuse. I had to paint it soon.
It took a lot of patience and effort to fix all and put it all together. Luckily I found no screws in excess.
Now it looks great and works excellent!
I had to replace the main amplifier, radio board, weighted flywheel assembly, re string the cord, glue all broken pieces with 2K epoxy and JB Weld, open up the pots and clean and did deoxit treatment, and then
paint the case and the front grills.
Re stringing the tuner was not easy but I was lucky to get it done in 10 min. First I had issues the tuner wheel slipping a little bit, but pulled the spring to the next hole on the tuning gang large wheel made it all work well. That increased a little tension and solved the slipping on the 5 turns of thread on the tuning wheel axle.
Thanks to nikonfoo (Geoff), and Icemedmelon
(Lee) for parts and special thank to our Jimmy the GF King! bklyn sound for his advises and valuable suggestions.
