Rescuing two boomboxes to see if they can be brought back to life. Both spent some time outside, though one looks better than the other. Let's check em out.
I do concede that later Duracell batteries tend to leak/rupture much faster than their earlier counterparts (even while still new/unused in the packet) which is why I switched to Energizer Ultra and Max types. 🤓 I no longer use Duracell batteries in any device I own and/or repair. 😇 Glad to see you got the new camera and welcome back. 👍👍
The people bitching about messing with such low end equipment should try shopping for a new one. This thing is absolutely audiophile level stuff in comparison. It's hard to imagine being able to buy something as high quality as these units today.
Please repeat that a little louder, for the benefit of those on the back row who didn't catch it the first time. Most of these modern radios and boom boxes that I've found were absolute crap, and anything back in the '80s and '90s that performed that poorly would have been taken back to the store.
@@radiotvphononut I agree. A lot of later model radios and boomboxes were mostly cheap plastic crap with flimsy parts that broke easily. Not worth repairing and the audio quality of those when they did work was equally poor. I've binned many that fell apart due to terrible design and un-obtainable parts. By the way I like the classic tube radios and CRT TV's you talk about and fix in your videos. 😇
Yeah, these models might not have been worth the time. There are some really good ones from that era though. I'd be interested in watching you restore more. Jvc in the late 80's early 90's had some really nice boom boxes
While it wouldn't apply here due to the low end nature of this unit, you can make another gear pretty easily so long as you have the old one and you physically repair it. Like if the gear has a crack, you can temporarily fix it with superglue. But the key is take a mold of the gear when it is fixed. The superglue will never hold, but a new gear made from the old repaired gear using a silicone mold will fix it. You take a mold of it with silicone molding compound. Once the mold is taken, you can pour as many new ones as you want. Works great for broken or missing knobs too. So long as you have one of the old ones, you can take a mold of it and then pour new ones.
I've been a sucker for boomboxes lately, but I've given up on any 90s and later cassette mechanisms, because of the chances the nylon gears are cracked, and of course if you need a belt, you can either use one from one of those bags o' belts off Amazon with built in wow and flutter, or pay more than the deck is worth for a "good", well made belt. So, I hope for a good CD player which, if it doesn't work, has a laser adjustment pot I can tweak to get it going again. Unfortunately, cassettes are dead, and the only way to bring them back, even for nostalgia purposes is to find a good vintage 1980s or earlier deck and have it refurbished. It doesn't appear anyone is going to make good cassette mechanisms anymore. I mean, I know they're cool, but like 78 RPM records or wax cylinders, you have to go back to period correct machines to play them properly.
Don't get me wrong, I love wasting time and effort on things that aren't worth it. How about those old suitcase record players from the 1950s? It can take almost $100 US to get one working, and it's maybe worth $100 only if the case looks good. (Give me a 1950's V-M record player over any 1990s cassette deck any day! You can still get idlers for those!)
would you be interested in fixing an old sony cassette player when i wake up ill get you a model number. I found it at an estate sale and it was to cool looking to junk it when it didn't work.
