My projects

[Alasondro Allegre]

Don't want to soil forum with pretty old materials. I'll try to make only one thread by adding pics of different stuff.
JVC RC-M50JW:

 

[Alasondro Allegre]

Hitachi TRK-8020EW:

Later it turned to this:

Then to this:

New "chrome", new grilles:

 

[redbenjoe]

love your red hitachi

 

[Alasondro Allegre]

Thanks,man!
Soviet Tom' 206S. Project, which made russian collegues very angry:

Would not go through all those troubles with aluminum and plastic cutting and polishing, if i knew how hard it will be. I'm not happy with the results, especially with those function stickers. Also, the box is too heavy, sound is too poor for carrying around.

" 1 rubel" reel2reel fakie:

 

[k2j]

Respect brotha. Good work

 

[Alasondro Allegre]

Word, k2j:]


Poor cheapo Continental GA 4000, a.k.a. of Toshiba RT120S. A simple painting/new grilles/chrome job:

I gave it to a friend, she's crazy happy about it, so am i:].

 

[Alasondro Allegre]

More design, DIY, than very functional thing - VEF 221 "Special Blend" . A VEF radio body with Belorus M-310C ('91) stuff inside. Still, not bad, pretty good sounding, bassy, compact iPod speakers with vol, trebble, balance and bass functions and some fake stuff added (micro cassette, broken digital VU, etc.)
Parts from this little poor thing:

In this body:

Result:

 

[Alasondro Allegre]

Sharp GF 8989 restoration.
I received it without carying handle, cosmetical condition was pretty bad, but it was in good working order.
No clear "before" pics unfortunately. Handle from Philips donor fits very nicely:

Sanding, repainting:

New antenna:

Cassette with paper reels. Goldstar is fine too, i think:

 

[Alasondro Allegre]

Crazyest project so far. I would not like to try this again..
The idea was to connect (bad sounding) classic bbx shapes with newer (bad looking) egg sound quality.

Nice looking, classical body of half dead, cheap Sanyo M9800L (got it for free from relatives):

With my kitchen radio's, (also almost dead, but very good sounding) egg Goldstar CD-660A parts..

"Ti-iime.. tooo sa-YY goodbyyyyyye":

Will need only this:

Checking space:

A simple "line in" problem solution:

Goodbye, Sanyo parts:

Lucky with new speakers:

All of the rest of new stuff inside:

With new metal grilles instead of old plastic ones:

Strange ....It is still working
Testing "line in". With 4 position digital equalizer turned to "Rock", box sounds bassy, nice and loud.

At last...finishing... New knobs layed out, some polished alu touch added:

Digital radio, eq with leds are working fine..

In the pic with flash u can see the real size of the speakers (almost impossible to notice with day light):

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Wow man.... Truly Inspiring customization's. You made some serious jewels out of some already nice radios!

Incredible work!

 

[Reli]

Flatback Power System......I love it!

 

[kingrat2010]

:frankenstein: :frankenstein: :frankenstein:

 

[davebush]

 

[Alasondro Allegre]

Thanks allot, guys. Much Appreciated..
Ja, genau, Kingrat..Ich bin ein Boomkenstein :frankenstein: :'-(

 

[blu_fuz]

Holy cripes you are crazy!


Everything has turned out GREAT! These are fun to look at

 

[Old school Scott]

Your projects are very inspiring.
I had started a similar project too.
Can you tell me how you attached the circuit board that was sitting on top of that last Sanyo?
And also discuss your process with the awesome little VEF radio?
Thanks

Cheers OSS

 

[fresh produce]

Great work i love how they all came out

 

[goodman]

Great jobs...

 

[Alasondro Allegre]

Thanks!!!
OSS, all of these boards are attached by using some original mounting holes, some angular little pieces of aluminum, or plastic and some little bolts (bottom of the Sanyo's "All of the rest of new stuff inside" pic. ). I think it is same with that upper board as well. There's couple of visible bolts on the Sanyo and Vef backs, also some of them are hidden under stickers. On the "safe places" of the boards u can drill carefully new ones, if original ones are not suitable.
Belorus box was a simple little ugly recorder without radio, but it sounded good. Cassette gear was broken, but i tryed to use it's recording function (via DIN socket) as a line in for iPod and it worked well. I removed cassette mechanism and staretd to instal 2 boards and speakers into the Vef body. Becouse of pretty limited space, two Belorus sircuit boards are mounted parallelly, that's why u can see on the Vef's top "Z" shaped placing of "vol, balance, bass, trebble" potentiometers.
Belorus speakers are attached to Vef's front panel with loads of epoxy - i wanted make that thin panel stable and more thick. I don't know if it improves the sound:].
Belorus had an external power adapter, but becouse of ugly design (white cables, red adapter), i'm trying to avoid it , Vef runs fine with 6 "D" rechargables (original Belorus used 6 "C" - lucky me with same voltage).
OSS, can u tell more about your project ? Feeling not alone

 

[lazanas]

YOU DA MAN!