Hello again and here is my 5th and the greatest boombox so far - the GF-777!
I bought it off ebay about a month ago. The seller actually lied about it's condition - "perfect in any way" - it was not. Packaging was quite good so several cracks must been there before. When I pluged it in there was no sound but power led light up. When I turned volume pot quickly several times I got sound from the radio on left channel, the right channel was dead and stayed dead. All pots got loud scratch sound. Treble/bass pot didn't work. Source button also didn't work, didn't matter what input I select still got only radio. Only thing that worked okay was weak green dial light!
Didn't think long, this is now my priority nr1, other projects can wait!
Took it apart, all parts were brownish and sticky including the case - really disgusting. I think it must have been in some bub or bar's kitchen for a long time. Gave it a good bath and a lot's of contact cleaner with tooth brush.
Finally it's clean enough for a plastic repairs. So now I repaired a screw post and couple of cracks on the bottom of the case.
I used a professional plastic glue for car bumper repair works (you can't buy it from store!) which is like liquid or gel like plastic. After 30 minutes you can drill holes or what ever you can with plastic - really good stuff!
Fixing a broken power button with paper clip
And now 'testdrive' for the electronics, surprisingly there was sound and everything works again like it should! Really happy with results!
I bought it off ebay about a month ago. The seller actually lied about it's condition - "perfect in any way" - it was not. Packaging was quite good so several cracks must been there before. When I pluged it in there was no sound but power led light up. When I turned volume pot quickly several times I got sound from the radio on left channel, the right channel was dead and stayed dead. All pots got loud scratch sound. Treble/bass pot didn't work. Source button also didn't work, didn't matter what input I select still got only radio. Only thing that worked okay was weak green dial light!
Didn't think long, this is now my priority nr1, other projects can wait!
Took it apart, all parts were brownish and sticky including the case - really disgusting. I think it must have been in some bub or bar's kitchen for a long time. Gave it a good bath and a lot's of contact cleaner with tooth brush.
Finally it's clean enough for a plastic repairs. So now I repaired a screw post and couple of cracks on the bottom of the case.
I used a professional plastic glue for car bumper repair works (you can't buy it from store!) which is like liquid or gel like plastic. After 30 minutes you can drill holes or what ever you can with plastic - really good stuff!
Fixing a broken power button with paper clip
And now 'testdrive' for the electronics, surprisingly there was sound and everything works again like it should! Really happy with results!
Awesome work so far. Very inspiring!!
It really inspired me to finally open my GF-777.
