Hey guys, I started thrift store shopping years ago to search for a cool blaster. Well, that turned into me being a thrift store fiend but after all these years I've only just found my first cool blaster this past weekend.
I have a schematics and breakdown sheet, but I just realized that I have no clue what the heck I'm reading.
Here's what I want to accomplish:
> Rip out a cassette deck and create a protective dock for my iPod/auxiliary jack/cell phones
> Power my box with something rechargeable and modern (li-ion?) so that we can use it as our regular blaster at the basketball court/on the beach/out and about
> Fix the selector switch (the only thing broken on the fascia)
> Fix the remaining cassette deck so I can rock out to some Steppenwolf the Second (it seems to play alright but the FF/rew are really iffy?)
I don't know if ripping out a deck is considered faux pas or not, but I realized last night while I was playing with it that my iPod Classic fits perfectly into the cassette slot, so the only proper thing to do at this point would be to let it sit there. I was thinking that I could run a split from the line-in so that I could keep the jacks on the back usable but also have a permanent cassette deck #2 plugin for iPods or cell phones or whatever, and then after the cassette internals are ripped out, bondo or use an equal molding body to make a new "deck".
As for powering the blaster with something rechargeable like li-ion batteries, I have no clue where I could order them from that would have a high enough mAH to run it for a few hours at moderate to high volume, much less how to wire them up so that they don't blow anything up instead of power them. (I'm really useless in this field). Again, I have no clue what I'm talking about, so any help here is great.
I was thinking I could fix the selector switch just by making a quick mold of one of the other two matching switches while the blaster is apart or just gluing a paper clip or something to the broken switch (right now you have to have a long fingernail or something along the lines to switch from tape to line to radio.
And I have no clue where to start with tape deck repair so yeah.
Also, I'm open to anything else I can do to help prolong the life of this box while it's open. You guys are the pros, after all. I haven't cracked the box open yet, but I have a fair idea of what it looks like from the schematics book. I'm just looking for ways to do this the correct way since I'm new to the whole blaster scene and not very comfortable with going at it blindly.
Oh yeah, and I got it for ten bucks. My friend said that I should have seen the look on my face when I saw it.
I have a schematics and breakdown sheet, but I just realized that I have no clue what the heck I'm reading.
Here's what I want to accomplish:
> Rip out a cassette deck and create a protective dock for my iPod/auxiliary jack/cell phones
> Power my box with something rechargeable and modern (li-ion?) so that we can use it as our regular blaster at the basketball court/on the beach/out and about
> Fix the selector switch (the only thing broken on the fascia)
> Fix the remaining cassette deck so I can rock out to some Steppenwolf the Second (it seems to play alright but the FF/rew are really iffy?)
I don't know if ripping out a deck is considered faux pas or not, but I realized last night while I was playing with it that my iPod Classic fits perfectly into the cassette slot, so the only proper thing to do at this point would be to let it sit there. I was thinking that I could run a split from the line-in so that I could keep the jacks on the back usable but also have a permanent cassette deck #2 plugin for iPods or cell phones or whatever, and then after the cassette internals are ripped out, bondo or use an equal molding body to make a new "deck".
As for powering the blaster with something rechargeable like li-ion batteries, I have no clue where I could order them from that would have a high enough mAH to run it for a few hours at moderate to high volume, much less how to wire them up so that they don't blow anything up instead of power them. (I'm really useless in this field). Again, I have no clue what I'm talking about, so any help here is great.
I was thinking I could fix the selector switch just by making a quick mold of one of the other two matching switches while the blaster is apart or just gluing a paper clip or something to the broken switch (right now you have to have a long fingernail or something along the lines to switch from tape to line to radio.
And I have no clue where to start with tape deck repair so yeah.
Also, I'm open to anything else I can do to help prolong the life of this box while it's open. You guys are the pros, after all. I haven't cracked the box open yet, but I have a fair idea of what it looks like from the schematics book. I'm just looking for ways to do this the correct way since I'm new to the whole blaster scene and not very comfortable with going at it blindly.
Oh yeah, and I got it for ten bucks. My friend said that I should have seen the look on my face when I saw it.
