So this is a flea find I have regretted buying quite a while now. I saw it under a table, it was big enough to look like it was good so I took it back then. It was covered in yellow nicotine and just very very ugly and all sticky. 
At home, I plugged it in and.....nothing :'-(
The unit was completely dead. I was discouraged. I really expected lots of static and a not working tape deck but this was the first guy to quit on me completely
So it sat there for a while and then I thought of the possibility that the trafo could be broken inside so I had a go with batteries in it.
BAM!
It was working on batteries, that is when I got happy with it. It saw it as a small challenge to get this sucka back to life.
So yesterday I had time and I took it apart. It was a lucky set up so I could get the front seperated pretty quickly and dunk it in soap water.
And I had to scrub it for so very long until some silver showed eventually. I could not believe it. It had an aluminum front plate
.
So after an hour or two of scrubbing, I let the grills and front dry and went over to cleaning the knobs and the cassette door.
There was beautiful chrome under the nicotine! It looked like it was conserved over years under the dirt
So then when everything was cleaned, I still has the problem with the electronics in it. All switches had really bad contact and especially the volume knob was really bad. I fiddled with everything a lot and moved it around a lot and that seems to have fixed the worst issues on it!
Don't get me wrong, it still needs lots of adjustment to get it playing correctly but FM stereo works and I played my iPod through DIN In 
I had never thought it still had that much potential. now only some new belts and contact spray and it is all nice again
I really discovered I had fun restoring this one and see the contrast to the nicotine filthy "thing" I bought back then.
At home, I plugged it in and.....nothing :'-(
The unit was completely dead. I was discouraged. I really expected lots of static and a not working tape deck but this was the first guy to quit on me completely
So it sat there for a while and then I thought of the possibility that the trafo could be broken inside so I had a go with batteries in it.
BAM!
It was working on batteries, that is when I got happy with it. It saw it as a small challenge to get this sucka back to life.So yesterday I had time and I took it apart. It was a lucky set up so I could get the front seperated pretty quickly and dunk it in soap water.
And I had to scrub it for so very long until some silver showed eventually. I could not believe it. It had an aluminum front plate
.So after an hour or two of scrubbing, I let the grills and front dry and went over to cleaning the knobs and the cassette door.
There was beautiful chrome under the nicotine! It looked like it was conserved over years under the dirt
So then when everything was cleaned, I still has the problem with the electronics in it. All switches had really bad contact and especially the volume knob was really bad. I fiddled with everything a lot and moved it around a lot and that seems to have fixed the worst issues on it!
Don't get me wrong, it still needs lots of adjustment to get it playing correctly but FM stereo works and I played my iPod through DIN In
I had never thought it still had that much potential. now only some new belts and contact spray and it is all nice again
I really discovered I had fun restoring this one and see the contrast to the nicotine filthy "thing" I bought back then.
