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Don;t forget about those DAK "BSR" thundering colossus 15" woofer speakers of the mid-'80s... :)

might be GE Hydrowave design: no transmission,inverter driven motor drives agitator through slower but long stroke agitation.The other variation of GE washers of this era has geared transmission, across the line motor and brisk,short stroke agitation.There is a belt and clutch that could be...

I need to do Mechanical service on the Califone school phono doing record playing duty in the moon shack-starts right up,but runs a whiff slow for a couple min. then it is good. This will be a fast fix. This one,1983,has traditional GI shaded pole motor-Last of these Califones had little DC...

Cool old RadioShack combo in reply 36-i have a couple slightly newer Clarinets-both have lost their original speakers.For 8-track tapes,i have loads of those-these tapes usually need repair after 4-5 decades: Foam pressure pads crumble,felt ones come off,Tape splice/track switch foil falls...

Next few days,might try to get a piccy up-keep updates on progress coming too :)

I hear a 1950s air raid siren alert for somebody to grab that !

A while back junked a crap-ola 1973 era console and kept the "made in England" Glenburn AT100 changer: plastic platter "consumer grade" and about equivilent to a BSR,except odd narrow cartridge. Not checked out-might put it to use if passes a test run.

#32,My 18" Danby is a toy dishwasher-but it washes dishes pretty good :) My '84 Maytag belt drive is a REAL dishwasher...

Presuming a Collaro (Made in England) Turntable? Those were usual for an early '60s Magnavox.

UNREAL! - and nice matchup on the rivets too :)

Very cool-the tuning tube is nicely presented in the design and the CD frequency markings on the AM dial sit era correct :) Original drivers?,ALNICO magnets ?

Cool on the confirmation of the Germanium transistor problem-that brings to mind the small Japanese transistors that get noisy and otherwize "funny" in Japanese equipnent especially around 1972-75 era,certain type #s(that i do not recall) especially known for this.Then there is that yellowish...

I think that big Motorola console mentioned might have been an X-300: found pic of amp chassis-Transformer and filter caps not big enough for a real 150 watts...a couple press-in rectifier diodes on a heatsink had 6618 date codes,could not see the transistors.Woofers were in sealed enclosures...

that late model Zenith console was in the back room of a swap shop-i returned with a nutdriver and flashlight to peek inside-cassette motor had 1984 date(possibly changed i suppose) and typical early '80s Taiwan components-a few years ago tried to find out when the last Zenith console was made...

Since we are nicely warmed up on vintage stereo equipment might as well discuss these too: Some of these could be quite high quality and amps over 100w :) Earlier ones,pre~1965,only the phono was stereo. These consoles were common into the late '70s and the newest one i have encountered Was a...

Looks like that one is from around 1980-ish,probably Taiwan made and looks decent enough.

That is repairable, but will be quite a project-these do seem to lose their original speakers quite often, but just about any speakers around 8 ohms will work ok. Poor sound could have several causes-degraded capacitors high on the list, and there are other causes including transistors that have...

OK, test motor sitting here- right side of stationary switch,3 terminals:Blue from washer connect to BU.White to W. Orange to OR. Left side of stationary switch: black jumper wire connected to capacitor connects to BK.Red wire on other side of capacitor goes into motor winding.Violet wire from...

I thought about trying LEDs in that Sanyo,but looking at other receivers converted to LED,usually too bright and gaudy-does cut out several watts of heat though. The dial of the Sanyo is supposed to light up warm white with a clear plastic light guide around the festoon bulbs evening out the...

#9,That '82 Fisher tuner sure did look "Sanyo"inside and did have a few broken solder joints... Speaking of Sanyo,I have a big Sanyo receiver from 1978 they built to get on the prime era bandwagon: it has those big black amp modules :) The transformer is quite large,so probably has some...