Hello People! As the thread title asks............Just what does 11 quid get you?? I am very surprised no one else went for this..........I am familiar with this era of Sharps & knew how easy they 'usually' are to sort out! - This one did stretch my patience a little The answer is a rather sorry looking Sharp GX-250 Compo System Both speaker grilles pushed in so far they were both concave rather than the convex shape they were meant to be One belt dissolved into goo that was everywhere - the images don't really show how bad it was!! Second belt stretched into that familiar 'Egg Shape' many of us are familiar with Both operating cams seized that operate the soft touch system, a flywheel with a shaft as dry as a nuns fanny & would hardly turn............... Speakers so filthy inside around the cone edge....... Can't think of any more at the moment...............lol I spent all afternoon on it & had all the belts etc that I needed! I won't go into all the details, those that repair these beautiful things will know what it's like, you patiently deal with whatever they throw at you! This machine is far too nice to not restore it to full working order & that is what I did! I now have a GX-250 fully working & I love it Feeling very pleased with myself & overall a great day & result! What a looker this model is & it will be coming to the meet later this month Time for the images & vids - Youtoob links & direct links to the full 4K quality video's - Use them you won't believe the quality There is a little sibilance on one track.......this is the microphones on my phone & not a fault with Sharp, just annoying & I don't know how to reduce it https://1drv.ms/v/s!ANEYKw-3GKK-gcAS https://1drv.ms/v/s!ANEYKw-3GKK-gcAT
Great radio Nick....if you can get a sharp gx 300 it will blow this away, i only paid £20 for my red gx 300, i couldn't belive it i was the only bidder has dolby b and c both great radios though, mine still needs to go to my engineer but he said it will be a few months before he has time to do my crown 970....great catch lad
I bought one of these long ago but I just have not had time to review it, I may have made a video of it but I am in the bedroom computer and I cannot operate the cpu where all my data is as mother is sleeping now, so I don't know if I ever made a video and then just never had time to put the video out there. Yes this is a terrific machine.
Obviously a lot more than at any time in the past. Anyone who says this is an expensive hobby should read your threads.
I paid a bit more for mine but then I also bought it from Waghäusel Germany back in 24 Jan 2016 SHARP GX-250H 391369359704 bebelusa1975 Waghäusel Germany - Now I cannot find this listing on the web at all and I thought I had saved the .mht of the bidding page but I forgot to do so. I did save the translated text of the description. and I did make a really Nice video but I never uploaded it due to my self-consciousness of my bad teeth back then of which present day my mother has bought for me a full set, anyway here is my one pic and maybe soon I will upload that video ( it is Fifteen minutes long as I compare this GX-250H with others of some I have sold since I shot that video. Oh wow please note the date in this picture. IMG_3399 Sharp GX-250H underneath is a TELEFUNKEN TM 6670 needing a battery back this is the only front picture I took of this model taken back when - wish I had taken more of just the 250H but those pictures are of just the unboxing of this model. This Sharp GX-250H is a terrific sounding machine for its size!
Did you clean up the woofers Cassette2go?? Mine were so dirty & the grilles all badly bent Look at them now though...............beautiful white 6 inch woofers
No didn't have to do anything to this model and I did find that video I thought I had made but it is not specific to just that one model and I uploaded it under another of my names in youtube - here you can speed forward in the video to see just it or watch the entire thing Audio compare boombox Pioneer SILVER SR8800 SHIN-SHIRASUNA TELEFUNKEN JVC Sharp Yamaha Sale www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4uc53K5Za0 3-piece Sharp GX-250H @ 10:30 played ** Above link *** found again 02 July 2017
what a great score and what an underrated box ! i used to own one (still remember the story how i got it but don't know what happened to it ), for beeing a "three-piecer" it never reached any fame, but i remember it having serious good sound for a boombox, "low noise"-amp and very good radio-reception, nice box that one !