Kinda weird that they put so much effort into making it waterproof between the 2 shell parts but didn't bother with the battery cover. no wonder that it got corroded in there
Yea, also it doesn’t help alkaline cells when depleted often outgas and then they are designed to crack open and leak caustic fluid which eats metal for breakfast.
I think this proves that you need to get one of those FM transmitter thingies so you can transmit your own singing without having to worry about copyright for future radio projects.
Something you may want to try on a future repair like this. If you add baking soda to the super glue, it causes a chemical reaction where the super glue instantly cures into a tough plastic form. When repairing broken plastic like this, the resulting repair can sometimes be stronger than the plastic itself. Lots of other youtubers that have good examples if you don't trust some random bloke from Texas.
Happy Christmas! You have given me unfeasible amounts of humour and pleasure this year. You are much appreciated, even if as a retired old bloke with zero cash reserves I can't meaningfully demonstrate my joy with every video you release. Stupid New Year thing, too!😅
In the vid, you made a comment about how it was odd that the black wire went to the speaker terminal. The black return wire going to the speaker and not the board was just a different way to route the wires. Electrically, it's all the same. Obviously, because you fixed it. More specifically: That particular terminal of the speaker needed to be connected to common (i.e. 4.5V return). You might think of this as "ground", but just keep in mind that it isn't actually ground because it's an isolated battery-operated device. So, as long as the board, the speaker, and the battery cells have the same "common", and Kirchhoff's Voltage law is satisfied.
I feel like the speaker was the highest power draw component, and it was biased between about 4.5Vish and 0V, so the ground went right from the battery to the speaker then branched to the tuner/amplifier so that it had the least noise.
Vintage? 2000 is vintage? Fuq I’m an antique then. Funny, my 7 year old asked me the other night, “when you were a kid did you have to wear the clothes that were made out of animal fur?” I said “I’m not that old bud.” lol.
I really enjoyed this video (and all your other videos). Buying random (extra random in the case of a seahorse shower radio) and trying to fix it is entertaining. I say the MORE random, the better 💯
O.O I gave this speaker (this type probably not this exact one lol) to my Dad as a Christmas present years ago. He used it for years! EDIT: And tinfoil would have been something he'd have done too. Still very unlikely to be the same one, but I'm side-eyeing it a bit now. xD
And to think I chucked one of them bad boys in the bin years ago and I find out there's drunk ebayers willing to part with actual money for it. Not sure who's the bigger fool. Stupid...
So i have tried to go about and fix my kids toys. I have had success and failure, but in the end, it never matters. They will just break it again 39 seconds later. ,..........................fucking kids.
This is why I prefer to wrap a valve radio in cling film and use that in the shower. You can't shut the bathroom door, though, as the mains extension lead has to be plugged in, in the bedroom and then reeled out to the bathroom.
That’s the thing about primitive countries, they don’t have outlets directly in the bathroom next to the sink or bath tub. We may have lower voltage here in America, but those ground fault outlets we were supposed to be using in the bathroom or within 6’ of water are like complying with a code. We just takde soome drugs to ignore the side effects and get over it in a few days. Then we can have our favorite toys in the shower, even with a short cord.
I had one of these when I lived at my parents. Yeah the siren was a weird feature. Presumably you were meant to bang that with your fist as you flailed on the way to slipping and breaking your leg in the shower, lest you were left unable to move staring up at the un-pressed button on the wall now high above you taunting you. I suppose you could've screamed for help of course, like some sort of peasant.
It's videos like this one which make me really worry about you, Steven.. You sometimes seem more caught up in pondering whether you'd be able to fix something, that you completely forget to assess whether you actually should. An example: Let's say that you somehow got a chance at fixing Talkie the Toaster from Red Dwarf. Undeniably one of the upmost horrid and utterly bad ideas of all time ever... do you think you would be able to hold back and resist the temptation? 🤣❤
The negative of the battery goes to the speaker and then on to the rest of the radio because the speaker is connected to the audio output of the radio on one side, and ground on the other.
Richard Marx’s ‘Hazard’ was playing in the office early one morning as the cleaner did her rounds. When it finished, she whispered under her breath, “He is as guilty as sin.”
And here I am watching Steve fixing a stupid seahorse thing at 9 in the morning on Christmas day from my vacation address in Mexico. Time to go to the beach 😅
For plastic cracks, i would recommend using a latex paint or some other water seal after gluing. Flex Seal is a great product we have in the states, but you could also grab some latex molding stuff at a craft store. Just some extra insurance for the shower radio
I have a similar shower radio with the siren, although it's an octopus. I disconnected the siren to use that button as the on/off across the battery terminal as, when you have wet hands you can't turn the normal on/off dial there it has no ridges, you then leave the volume (on/off) dial in a nice volume setting and switch on/off with the siren button.
Think it’s a Steve Urkel alert. Seen this type (not shape) of radio in a retirement home. (For anyone not old enough Steve Urkel: “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”)
Me and my late father modified our fish fm radio with an longer external wire antenna and potted it to go down to 85mhz so we could listen to the local taxi service whilst sitting on the bog !
Stupid Radio Seahorse Thing
But it has nice Ukrainian colors on it. Or Sweden, but they're stupid.
Merry Christmas 🎄 Steve! Thanks for all the fun and inspiration ❤
Great video Steve; my wife had almost the same thing when we started dating.
She referred to the siren as the Macy Gray alarm.
Merry Christmas!
Steve I'd like to wish you a merry Christmas and happy new year to your self and your family 👍👍
Always Horseing around huh Steve
“So what did you do on Christmas Eve?”
“I watched a Lancastrian heat up a seahorse’s bum.”
“Please get out of my house.”
Hey wait wait.............................. ......................................... ...........I want to see what happens.
Kinda weird that they put so much effort into making it waterproof between the 2 shell parts but didn't bother with the battery cover. no wonder that it got corroded in there
Yea, also it doesn’t help alkaline cells when depleted often outgas and then they are designed to crack open and leak caustic fluid which eats metal for breakfast.
IIRC, the cover you take off to put the batteries in had a really thin rubber gasket on it.
looks like it was adequately done until the crack/missing spring let a leak in.
I think this proves that you need to get one of those FM transmitter thingies so you can transmit your own singing without having to worry about copyright for future radio projects.
You mean a stupid broken FM transmitter to fix and then use on future radio projects.
The Ronco Mr Microphone from 1978.
You mean one of those technicly illegal to use transmitters that were sold everywhere for a couple quid.😂
Whats the Name of the Song please?
@@dankonani3963 sounded like A-Ha - were the sun don't shine ... or something
StezStix working on a shower seahorse was on my Christmas list! Thanks Santa!
"Made in 2000" and "vintage"; thanks, Internet, for making me feel ancient yet again.
23 years went fast eh
@@robot566323?? 23???!!! Ffs
That's what I was thinking if 2000 is vintage I must be an antique
Something you may want to try on a future repair like this. If you add baking soda to the super glue, it causes a chemical reaction where the super glue instantly cures into a tough plastic form. When repairing broken plastic like this, the resulting repair can sometimes be stronger than the plastic itself. Lots of other youtubers that have good examples if you don't trust some random bloke from Texas.
I like when you open unique things like this, it’s fun to see what’s on the inside.
Happy Christmas! You have given me unfeasible amounts of humour and pleasure this year. You are much appreciated, even if as a retired old bloke with zero cash reserves I can't meaningfully demonstrate my joy with every video you release.
Stupid New Year thing, too!😅
Hey good to hear the classic disassembly music again, Steve! Happy New Year! 🎼
Obviously the siren is to ward off unsuspecting intruders to your shower seahorse shenanigans, what else would it be there for?
If you fell in the shower? Not the worst thing for a senior who can't afford a pricy call system.
@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co when you can’t afford to seahorse around in the shower.
In the vid, you made a comment about how it was odd that the black wire went to the speaker terminal. The black return wire going to the speaker and not the board was just a different way to route the wires. Electrically, it's all the same. Obviously, because you fixed it. More specifically: That particular terminal of the speaker needed to be connected to common (i.e. 4.5V return). You might think of this as "ground", but just keep in mind that it isn't actually ground because it's an isolated battery-operated device. So, as long as the board, the speaker, and the battery cells have the same "common", and Kirchhoff's Voltage law is satisfied.
We were chatting about you last night in the chat before the bigClive stream last night. Merry xmas Steve
reading "Vintage" from the listing about something that was made in 2000 really hurt my feelings
I feel like the speaker was the highest power draw component, and it was biased between about 4.5Vish and 0V, so the ground went right from the battery to the speaker then branched to the tuner/amplifier so that it had the least noise.
It's 20 past midnight, and I'm watching you take apart a shower radio. I love it :D
Vintage? 2000 is vintage? Fuq I’m an antique then.
Funny, my 7 year old asked me the other night, “when you were a kid did you have to wear the clothes that were made out of animal fur?”
I said “I’m not that old bud.” lol.
this brings me back. I'm pretty sure we actually had one of these. it never worked after the first week
And.... with all the plastic and heat.... you did NOT melt the plastic
I was once drunk and did something regrettable with a seahorse. She was drunk too.
DUDE!! I had one of these when I was a kid! Holy Crap! I forgot all about that thing. Nice video, as always, my man! Thanks for the nostalgia.
This caught my eye for the same reason! I had one as a kid, too!
Frohe Weihnachten und ein glückliches neues Jahr 2024 von The Umbrella Corporation.🎁🎄🎉
I had this radio! Nice to see it again. I knew what was coming when you pressed that red button 😆
I was half expecting a shower scene with hair net on and a scrubber in hand 😁
I would have added tub sealer around the crack on the inside and outside to help with waterproofing
I've been told I'm hung like a horse. A seahorse.
With that siren ...you want to gift that to a kid of a family you really hate
I had one of those waterproof seahorses. It's not very waterproof.
Thumbs up for a drunken Ebay purchase.
I really enjoyed this video (and all your other videos). Buying random (extra random in the case of a seahorse shower radio) and trying to fix it is entertaining. I say the MORE random, the better 💯
9:04 Jesus indeed! Merry Christmas Steve!
maybe it's a panic alarm if you slip in the shower?
Shower. Seahorse. Thing. Can. l. Fix. It
Loving your work Stez lad , thanks for all you do , its mighty entertaining. Happy Xmas.
I've been watching your vids for nearly a year now mate please keep up the great work, and i thoroughly enjoy them all. Cheers, rob
Brilliant it’s in good condition for being 23 years old nice fix Steve thanks
Have a great Christmas 😊
It will take weeks to get this song out of my head, thanks for reminding me to that absolute classic!
Oh, and also, merry x-mas ;)
Look that secret stash for a chunk of hashish!
Indeed a stupid seahorse thing.
had to laugh at the siren reaction.
O.O I gave this speaker (this type probably not this exact one lol) to my Dad as a Christmas present years ago. He used it for years!
EDIT: And tinfoil would have been something he'd have done too. Still very unlikely to be the same one, but I'm side-eyeing it a bit now. xD
And to think I chucked one of them bad boys in the bin years ago and I find out there's drunk ebayers willing to part with actual money for it. Not sure who's the bigger fool. Stupid...
Richard Marx's song is awesome......seahorse thingy ..what has possessed you?????
So i have tried to go about and fix my kids toys. I have had success and failure, but in the end, it never matters. They will just break it again 39 seconds later.
,..........................fucking kids.
Merry Christmas!
Lmao… when I saw the price I said out loud… HOW MUCH?? 😂
Really really cool... And the song on the end... I love it so much ❤❤❤❤ Much greatings from Germany
This is why I prefer to wrap a valve radio in cling film and use that in the shower.
You can't shut the bathroom door, though, as the mains extension lead has to be plugged in, in the bedroom and then reeled out to the bathroom.
That’s the thing about primitive countries, they don’t have outlets directly in the bathroom next to the sink or bath tub. We may have lower voltage here in America, but those ground fault outlets we were supposed to be using in the bathroom or within 6’ of water are like complying with a code. We just takde soome drugs to ignore the side effects and get over it in a few days. Then we can have our favorite toys in the shower, even with a short cord.
Wow, Hazard... This is probably the biggest distribution Richard Marx has gotten in a while.
I had one of these when I lived at my parents. Yeah the siren was a weird feature. Presumably you were meant to bang that with your fist as you flailed on the way to slipping and breaking your leg in the shower, lest you were left unable to move staring up at the un-pressed button on the wall now high above you taunting you. I suppose you could've screamed for help of course, like some sort of peasant.
It's videos like this one which make me really worry about you, Steven.. You sometimes seem more caught up in pondering whether you'd be able to fix something, that you completely forget to assess whether you actually should. An example: Let's say that you somehow got a chance at fixing Talkie the Toaster from Red Dwarf. Undeniably one of the upmost horrid and utterly bad ideas of all time ever... do you think you would be able to hold back and resist the temptation? 🤣❤
Sounds great...but be glad an Eagles song wasn't playing at the time. They strike ALL channels for using their music.
"How many screws should we use to secure this seahorse thing?"
"Yes."
21st century, do we have Buck Rodgers?, Noooo, we get seahorse am/fm radios that can play in your shower.
A horse walks into a bar. The barman (Steve) says, ‘Hey’. The horse says, ‘You read my mind!’
Have a great Christmas Steve.
The negative of the battery goes to the speaker and then on to the rest of the radio because the speaker is connected to the audio output of the radio on one side, and ground on the other.
I've never one been in the shower and thought to myself "You know what'd make this shower even better? listening to some AM radio. That'd be perfect"
House alarm Alarm going off in the background 8:35 😂😂
Richard Marx’s ‘Hazard’ was playing in the office early one morning as the cleaner did her rounds. When it finished, she whispered under her breath, “He is as guilty as sin.”
Use epoxy instead of superglue, it's better for watery things :)
Super glue wont hold up to pressure over time. Better off melting the plastic back together. Or using plastic epoxy.
Now you got you a shower seahorse buddy. I could watch your videos 24/7. Keep up the good work.😊❤️
Gets my vote all day long with that ska'ery background tune going on :D
Turns it on and exclaims A-ha! and seahorse coincidentally plays Take On Me. 😂
I once used foil to put AAA batteries in a Wiimote. They were all I had. It worked.
Might be wrong, but that very much looked like aluminium foil rather than tin foil.
And here I am watching Steve fixing a stupid seahorse thing at 9 in the morning on Christmas day from my vacation address in Mexico. Time to go to the beach 😅
Stupid alarm, siren, klaxon thing.
My housemate had one of those in about the year 2001. God the quality of the audio was rubbish 😂
For plastic cracks, i would recommend using a latex paint or some other water seal after gluing. Flex Seal is a great product we have in the states, but you could also grab some latex molding stuff at a craft store. Just some extra insurance for the shower radio
Sorry mate, it's never been called 'Tin Foil', it's a mandela effect.
If you sprinkle baking soda on super glue it sets rock hard 😊
I have a similar shower radio with the siren, although it's an octopus. I disconnected the siren to use that button as the on/off across the battery terminal as, when you have wet hands you can't turn the normal on/off dial there it has no ridges, you then leave the volume (on/off) dial in a nice volume setting and switch on/off with the siren button.
Superglue activator spray for instant bond
It is a fin, Steve. Pectoral fin.
A marine biologist
Ste, I hate to tell you this: we live in a throwaway society. This video proves that information hasn't reached you yet.
That siren is a "Hazard" warning 😄
Think it’s a Steve Urkel alert. Seen this type (not shape) of radio in a retirement home. (For anyone not old enough Steve Urkel: “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”)
It is possible to melt plastic cable ties as a messy plastic welding for cracks like that.
I have one of these shaped like a frog. Pretty sure it was made by the same factory.
don't glue plastic, use heat. then smuge the crack together. can use different plastic as a patch and file it off afterwards
The year 2000 is not vintage. It isn't!!! 😭😭😭
Me and my late father modified our fish fm radio with an longer external wire antenna and potted it to go down to 85mhz so we could listen to the local taxi service whilst sitting on the bog !
Made in 2000, listed as 'vintage'... Feel old yet?
I mean, you HAVE to turn that into a bluetooth speaker. :)
I had one of those, they were brilliant and I still miss mine
Can i fix it?... yes you can!... can ii fix it?... yes you can!...
The siren is incase your elderly relative slips over though how they would be able to reach the button in that case is dubious.
have you ever put yourself to sleep with your own talking?
some chinese co went to a fair amount of trouble and expense to produce scads of these things
I've been watching your videos for months and only just realized I'd never actually subscribed. Fixed that straight away. Stupid RUclips.
Oh, hold on...this is a different channel! Stupid ME, apparently.
So, the "Siren" button makes a siren noise... who knew? 😆
The siren is to make you feel safe in the shower after watching Psycho!
Maybe that's a clue as what the sea shells where for in Demolition Man.
We used to have one of those in the bathroom....till it broke too.
What does the siren say: Wiuwiuwiu oh, how surprising
The siren is the be sounded whenever you say multimeter in that weird way.
I just want to say, I did not make that. JMB are my initials
I used to have one of these, I knew that the siren would startle you. 😂
I would of put a thin coat of silicone on to seal it waterproof again.