Hello I am Andrew and I am fixing vintage (often incredible engineering feats)

Hi
I used to be quite interested in electronics at school I am 53 now and my soldering is not what it used to be! Here’s my current work basket!!!

any tips would be welcomed!
Andrew

 

Welcome to Stereo2go Bonymarrony

 

Thank you for the kind welcome everyone. I must admit that I seem to be better at spotting and buying things than fixing them at the moment. I agree that the sights, sounds and smells of things we had as a child or young adult are powerful stuff. I spotted a Sharp “back to back” double cassette player boombox which I had in the mid 1980s. I couldn’t resist buying it if only to demonstrate to my kids how I used to record stuff from John Peel with my fingers hovering over Play/Pause/Record. Tricky stuff as Peel had a habit of putting every 6th or 7th record on at the wrong speed. Tracks would start at any point during what could be a 2 second or 2 minute ramble about all sorts of stuff . I have a large number of cassettes - many without track listings from those shows which are now treasured items - largely because of the wonderful commentary and random thoughts from Peel. I listened to a long forgotten “Sundays” Peel Session the other day and it was incredible to say it was recorded on the Sharp on a TDK D90.

 

Thank you - I’m getting better at forcing myself to watch YouTube stuff - I much prefer written instructions and a diagram.

 

Thank you!

Thank you ! I used to blow out or melt components quite regularly when I was learning. I did the first ever GCSEs when they came in and one new subject was control technology. In those days LEDs were bloody expensive (several £s each) and pretty huge !