About a year and a half ago, I stumbled upon what was a bargain, but a homely beast on the 'Bay. It was cheap enough and had enough features to catch my interest. Given it was a Sears unit I knew it was an AKA of something I just didn't know (and still don't know) what.
Well, two things were clear when I got it...
1. Dirt...plenty. Obviously lived the nicotine life.
2. Functions...barely. Tuner was out of whack, no cassette, line in uneven.
Needless to say, this was not something I wanted to speak of as I already had (and still have) plenty of project boxes. Well, I figured after watching Frank (Hemiguy) paint his Telefunken HP-800 then this would be a great candidate. Also, I am known by quite a few of you out there for speaker mods and here was another candidate. After some work over the course of a few months she was complete. But I never took pics or posted until now. Bobby is the only one who has seen it albeit not completed right before the '09 Sunshine Mix.
It is actually a very nice sounding box. Loud as heck, if screechy, at max volume, but most are. Will lose it beyond 2/3 of volume in the bass department (depending on music) but for normal listening pretty nice. I was quite surprised after I took out the sorry excuse for speakers including the housings they came in. (I actually reworked some MDF cabinets I found in a thrifty from a Sears shelf unit which it too had piss poor speakers.) I reworked attachments so they would mount without coming off and "look" factory. I also ditched the RCA speaker plug ins at the rear of the box for real speaker clips and added them to the new speaker cabinets when I added the speakers as well. I went for more of a textured metallic finish but since it's been so long since I've painted it I couldn't tell you what color it is.
It's a Krylon product, that I know. I then hit it with a clear satin top coat and acrylic sealer.
Here she is.
I also posted the original speaker so you could see how pathetic it is and the original color. 
Now...does anyone know the AKA?!?
Well, two things were clear when I got it...
1. Dirt...plenty. Obviously lived the nicotine life.
2. Functions...barely. Tuner was out of whack, no cassette, line in uneven.
Needless to say, this was not something I wanted to speak of as I already had (and still have) plenty of project boxes. Well, I figured after watching Frank (Hemiguy) paint his Telefunken HP-800 then this would be a great candidate. Also, I am known by quite a few of you out there for speaker mods and here was another candidate. After some work over the course of a few months she was complete. But I never took pics or posted until now. Bobby is the only one who has seen it albeit not completed right before the '09 Sunshine Mix.
It is actually a very nice sounding box. Loud as heck, if screechy, at max volume, but most are. Will lose it beyond 2/3 of volume in the bass department (depending on music) but for normal listening pretty nice. I was quite surprised after I took out the sorry excuse for speakers including the housings they came in. (I actually reworked some MDF cabinets I found in a thrifty from a Sears shelf unit which it too had piss poor speakers.) I reworked attachments so they would mount without coming off and "look" factory. I also ditched the RCA speaker plug ins at the rear of the box for real speaker clips and added them to the new speaker cabinets when I added the speakers as well. I went for more of a textured metallic finish but since it's been so long since I've painted it I couldn't tell you what color it is.
It's a Krylon product, that I know. I then hit it with a clear satin top coat and acrylic sealer.Here she is.
I also posted the original speaker so you could see how pathetic it is and the original color.
Now...does anyone know the AKA?!?
I say this so there are no unrealistic expectations. Keep in mind as well, that the 2198 version was the top of the line (based on what info I could find scouring around) at that time for Sears. (It has Dolby, music search, seperate phono and line in, etc.) But a Sansui it is not. Look at the speaker housing I took a picture of and it will tell you all you need to know.
