& Today I Present:
Another Generic Stereo From The Early 80's......
The Mighty Bush 7090 Portable Power Compo Repair!!
I used to have this model in 1985 when I lived in a grotty bedsit! I was unemployed & very broke but managed to find £60 (A lot of cash back then) by doing odd jobs & washing cars etc enabling me to buy one of these......
Not the last word in quality, these generic boomers sported not only the Bush badge but many others all over europe & this was 1984 when you could still find half decent cheap machines! A great time to be around & love stereo's.....
Anyway, this one had a broken cassette key & a dislodged flat drive belt so it was inside we go! Not at all bad build for a cheapie, all unpluggable except the erase head lead.......What was that all about?? An oversight for sure!
Anyway it was still possible to remove the deck out enough to repair it
Key repaired with superglue & left to set rock hard while a cursory head clean & new counter belt were dealt with!
Now just a reverse of the above not forgetting to refit the capstan flywheel belt which was fine - I suspect some one had been in here before & knocked the belt off while trying to fix the broken key!
A squirt of servisol in all the switches & a clean up resulted in a half decent ressurection of my days as a young man!
This is never going to match my heavy hitting boomers but it takes me back to a much more innocent time when we only had cassette as a truly portable format........AND most of it was beautiful silver & chrome which I always loved!
Et Viola:






https://youtu.be/oSxox87uAsc
Another Generic Stereo From The Early 80's......
The Mighty Bush 7090 Portable Power Compo Repair!!
I used to have this model in 1985 when I lived in a grotty bedsit! I was unemployed & very broke but managed to find £60 (A lot of cash back then) by doing odd jobs & washing cars etc enabling me to buy one of these......
Not the last word in quality, these generic boomers sported not only the Bush badge but many others all over europe & this was 1984 when you could still find half decent cheap machines! A great time to be around & love stereo's.....
Anyway, this one had a broken cassette key & a dislodged flat drive belt so it was inside we go! Not at all bad build for a cheapie, all unpluggable except the erase head lead.......What was that all about?? An oversight for sure!
Anyway it was still possible to remove the deck out enough to repair it
Now just a reverse of the above not forgetting to refit the capstan flywheel belt which was fine - I suspect some one had been in here before & knocked the belt off while trying to fix the broken key!
A squirt of servisol in all the switches & a clean up resulted in a half decent ressurection of my days as a young man!
This is never going to match my heavy hitting boomers but it takes me back to a much more innocent time when we only had cassette as a truly portable format........AND most of it was beautiful silver & chrome which I always loved!
Et Viola:






https://youtu.be/oSxox87uAsc