Hey guys, been a while
Was in my basement and had some time to kill
My Macdonald instruments box was dead when I bought it, it would power up for 1-3 seconds and die, none the less I paid $$
Well, I opened the case tonight and to my unpleasant surprise only 1 screw was holding it together-BUT it wasn't loose
Great craftmanship on the box.
I opened her up and found she isn't a virgin box, somebody has been in there and epoxied knobs, and wrote 'notes' on the interior.their repair probably worked for a while, then broke and they thought they would sell it to me
Well too bad for them!
took the pots board down, brushed them and put some curcuit cleaner on them for about 5 min, then turned them back and forth a million times, before they were just hard to turn and now they turn with ease.
then cleaned the power board, and speaker .closed her up, then hopes it wouldn't burst into flames!
BUT it worked! I had sound!!! Before it was DEAD, now she lives
Feels good to get back into the swing of boomboxery
Bought a Lasonic off ebay today and from JustCruisin
oh yeah- I put some antenneas from an emerson and jvc on her after the vid, picks up more channels than I have fingers
(sorry about the poor lighting)
This will be my fishing boombox if nobody wants to buy her
Was in my basement and had some time to kill
My Macdonald instruments box was dead when I bought it, it would power up for 1-3 seconds and die, none the less I paid $$
Well, I opened the case tonight and to my unpleasant surprise only 1 screw was holding it together-BUT it wasn't loose
Great craftmanship on the box.
I opened her up and found she isn't a virgin box, somebody has been in there and epoxied knobs, and wrote 'notes' on the interior.their repair probably worked for a while, then broke and they thought they would sell it to me
Well too bad for them!
took the pots board down, brushed them and put some curcuit cleaner on them for about 5 min, then turned them back and forth a million times, before they were just hard to turn and now they turn with ease.
then cleaned the power board, and speaker .closed her up, then hopes it wouldn't burst into flames!
BUT it worked! I had sound!!! Before it was DEAD, now she lives
Feels good to get back into the swing of boomboxery
Bought a Lasonic off ebay today and from JustCruisin
oh yeah- I put some antenneas from an emerson and jvc on her after the vid, picks up more channels than I have fingers
(sorry about the poor lighting)
This will be my fishing boombox if nobody wants to buy her
aka money pit. got a spare 350 with a race cam, crank and headers 
for free from my mechanic friend to replace my doggy 305. and need new leaf springs all around. thinking of 2-3" lift 
you did an awesome cleanup job 