Philips Elephant UPDATE: 5 August 2018

[Nickeccles]

You will remember I put this up for sale last week!!

Well.............

No Longer Is It The: Los Blancos Elephantes!

I have been tinkering with it & thanks to advice from a couple of Facebook stereo groups, I found a fractured wire that feeds the clock - looked connected but inside the insulation, the fracture was complete so no power which I am told it needs to power up! After a battle with very brittle wiring & f**king Mickey Mouse solder (where can I buy some old school 80's or 90's solder??) It powered up & it needs belts but it works now & I am keeping it unless I change my mind but that's unlikely (Just being honest) There will be a follow up thread to the one I an writing on the main forum soonish!!

These are quite a machine with lots of bells & whistles - Lets see if I can rebelt it & fix the power switch!! I could end up with a fully working elephant!

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[T-STER]

Nice, it lives! Good catch, that's starting to look like a lot of machine for not much money..

 

[docs]

Well done Nick.

 

[Radio raheem]

always liked the look of these, great score lad, i know you will sort it out bro, nice one

 

[MyOhMy]

Good for you, Sir and well done - I can feel how pleased you are from here!

 

[Nickeccles]

So it seems that £85.00 was a good punt!! Never been opened until it arrived here & power button kept by original owner, so I need to fix that! Just the cassette deck that looks a bit scary!
We will see..........It is easy enough to dismantle, just how easy is it to repair??