Yes - I try to keep as many units as I can. You just never know when you might need some spares. I have to be organised though, and disciplined with reassembling the donors later. Otherwise it gets very messy in no time! Thanks for watching 👍
That will be a nice radio 📻 restoration. Ya should also change any out of tolerance capacitors. Also, check the dial cord, and the dial light. It's best 👌 to get everything on this working. Happy Thanksgiving!! Your friend, Jeff.
The days of anything like these being made so well, by so many different companies, are long gone now. Yes they need work now - but I bet electronic goods made today won't be being re-commissioned on 2075!
Nice job on this one. I think these units were more popular in Europe because in the late 70's it was JVC that ruled the US with their boombox radios which were the standard.
I have a superscope CD-320 portable stereo cassette deck (1978) designed by Marantz, and I'm wonder If the belt layout is the same, looks like it should be. I replaced the belts, but I don't think i got them installed correctly. Its a great deck and I'd like to get it working again.
I have a couple of CD-320s in that need a service, but I thought they are quite different beasts inside. I could be wrong though, as I've not opened them up yet. I'll look into it. Thanks for watching 👍
I've bought a few boomboxes and some of them had tuner faults (no FM stations, just static hiss, but the AM worked fine). I never came across one with faulty AM.
@@retro_restos FM faults tend to be a lot harder to fix than AM. Dirty switches are often not the cause. I've junked several boomboxes with failed FM tuners as no one is willing to repair them at component level. 😓
I have 7 or 8 of these in the workshop at the moment, so my plan is to make the best possible examples out of them as I service them (they all have different issues to address). I'm looking forward to working on them. In the meantime, Techmoan did quite a useful repair video which covers disassembly if you get stuck.
Of course I can't say for sure, but maybe try derusting any mechanical parts that are supposed to move around and slide on top of eachother? Maybe that's a part of the deep cleaning you need to do and the cause of your issue? I found it rather strange you do so much cleaning and oiling and stuff, but leave that whole part rusted...
Thanks for watching. The faulty mechanism was spotless with zero corrosion. The corrosion you saw was on the working donor unit, which was polished before final assembly (it was captioned in the video). I didn't leave any rusty parts in the working unit - as you say, why go to all the trouble otherwise? My plan is to re-visit the donor unit and get it working - including addressing the original fault with the removed parts, which will require re-profiling of the slider.
Unfortunately many viewers have a very short attention span, and I've learnt that over 600 videos on 3 different channels that the audience like to see what they are going to get.
Really enjoyed this vid!! I love these old retro radio cassette units being brought back to life!!
Thanks very much for watching - glad you enjoyed it! 👍
@@retro_restos I have a panasonic boombox with a coke badge on it may have been an employee reward have you ever seen one its on the tape player door.
Very nice! Good thing you had another one lying around. 😁
Yes - I try to keep as many units as I can. You just never know when you might need some spares. I have to be organised though, and disciplined with reassembling the donors later. Otherwise it gets very messy in no time! Thanks for watching 👍
That will be a nice radio 📻 restoration. Ya should also change any out of tolerance capacitors. Also, check the dial cord, and the dial light. It's best 👌 to get everything on this working. Happy Thanksgiving!! Your friend, Jeff.
Great looking. I wish one company would make something quality again
The days of anything like these being made so well, by so many different companies, are long gone now. Yes they need work now - but I bet electronic goods made today won't be being re-commissioned on 2075!
Nice job on this one. I think these units were more popular in Europe because in the late 70's it was JVC that ruled the US with their boombox radios which were the standard.
I love the late 70's JVC units - some of my all time favourites.
I have a superscope CD-320 portable stereo cassette deck (1978) designed by Marantz, and I'm wonder If the belt layout is the same, looks like it should be. I replaced the belts, but I don't think i got them installed correctly. Its a great deck and I'd like to get it working again.
I have a couple of CD-320s in that need a service, but I thought they are quite different beasts inside. I could be wrong though, as I've not opened them up yet. I'll look into it. Thanks for watching 👍
I've bought a few boomboxes and some of them had tuner faults (no FM stations, just static hiss, but the AM worked fine). I never came across one with faulty AM.
I've had a couple, but mostly through transit damage. I was lucky with this one, as it only a dirty switch.
@@retro_restos FM faults tend to be a lot harder to fix than AM. Dirty switches are often not the cause. I've junked several boomboxes with failed FM tuners as no one is willing to repair them at component level. 😓
waiting for the Sharp VZ-2000 vid.. need a reference video when i put mine back together.. :)
I have 7 or 8 of these in the workshop at the moment, so my plan is to make the best possible examples out of them as I service them (they all have different issues to address). I'm looking forward to working on them. In the meantime, Techmoan did quite a useful repair video which covers disassembly if you get stuck.
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Of course I can't say for sure, but maybe try derusting any mechanical parts that are supposed to move around and slide on top of eachother? Maybe that's a part of the deep cleaning you need to do and the cause of your issue? I found it rather strange you do so much cleaning and oiling and stuff, but leave that whole part rusted...
Thanks for watching. The faulty mechanism was spotless with zero corrosion. The corrosion you saw was on the working donor unit, which was polished before final assembly (it was captioned in the video). I didn't leave any rusty parts in the working unit - as you say, why go to all the trouble otherwise? My plan is to re-visit the donor unit and get it working - including addressing the original fault with the removed parts, which will require re-profiling of the slider.
Jump over that "Coming up" I hate it. "American tv format"
Unfortunately many viewers have a very short attention span, and I've learnt that over 600 videos on 3 different channels that the audience like to see what they are going to get.