Hi everyone, it's great to be here. I work on 70's 80's and 90's radios, TVs, cassette decks and boomboxes. I've amassed a collection of machines that probably don't mean as much to anyone else as they do to me, but that's ok!
I was the same 20 years ago, my friends called me the 40 year old virgin with my boombox/Walkman Collection. I was getting them really cheap back then, now who's laughing when I pull out a $5 Nak. Luckily this forum was just getting started so I knew I wasn't entirely crazy.
It is important that you like your boomboxes yourself. Paying a lot of money to buy something that everyone likes is not interesting and gets boring quickly. Although I also have boomboxes that are very popular now that I bought cheaply a long time ago. I still get a kick out of scoring and repairing something that fits in my collection for cheap. We love pictures here. Especially of unusual things. Welcome Mayor Wood.
I’ve learned quite a bit about repair working on my devices. The giant Goldstar PCD-N1 that I have was completely nonfunctional other than a staticy radio. Fixed the cd drive, the cassette player, and fixed the radio reception by using a tip from 12voltvids. I ran a hairdryer over the radio board til reception got better, and was able to pinpoint a broken solder joint. I’ve got just as many good memories of fixing these things as I do enjoying them.
Yup hair dryer... or touching each component works too (best to power on battery heh). And I also did that a few times to locate faulty transistors and switches that needed yet another DeOxit application. Can be a lot of fun to solve the problem and get a device working again
