This came in just needing a service really, it worked ok but the pilot bulbs had both blown, therefore there was no backlight for the tuning dial. First thing I noticed was the mains filter capacitor had blown one end out so that got replaced. After a good clean to get rid of years of […]
Bush DAC90A service / repair Read More »
Not a difficult fault to diagnose on this one, intermittent and erratic operation of the function selector, I never see any point squirting these with switch cleaner as it’s only a temporary fix, there’s also no point replacing it with a new one as it’s easy enough to remove disassemble and clean up. I used
Technics SU-C800U Preamp Repair Read More »
This came in with a loud hum as soon as switched on, I found dc was reaching the speaker and the only way this could happen was if there was a fault in the output ic. Not an easy circuit board to remove but I was able to fit a new ic and get it
Fender Frontman Repair Read More »
A new jockey wheel for this one, someone had filed the old one down so far that that the plastic backing was contacting the motor pulley and platter, I have no idea why they did that but the mechanical noise was very distracting. I wasn’t able to get an original but found that one from
National Panasonic SG-1070L Repair Read More »
I never know what to expect with these old Sharp systems, 40 years ago they were very innovative but gave us a lot of problems under guarantee, so I guess the ones that made it this far are doing pretty well. First up was the turntable, it would wouldn’t load the tray, there was no
Sharp RP-107 / RT-107 / SA-107 Read More »
I had this brought in by a friend of mine who seems to have an endless supply of old HiFi, the decks had several problem, the first of which was they didn’t seem to register a tape being present. The first and most obvious place to look for this was the leaf switches at the
Sony TC-D505 Tape Deck Repair Read More »
In for an update as these will not connect to internet radio services without the latest software.
Naim Unitilite Streamer Read More »
This is a lovely amp, the owner told me it would drop out on the left channel after a few minutes, and after testing for a while I could confirm this. A light tap on the left channel amp module restored the sound on that channel, so out it came for inspection. I found a
This system was brought in with a couple of problems, the cd wouldn’t read a disc and some of the function buttons needed an extra hard press, and even then it wasn’t guaranteed to select the correct function. So starting on the cd mech I found a worn loading belt and although that wasn’t causing
Denon F-10 System repair Read More »
Bose wave radio not playing discs, usually a case of replacing a few of the surface mounted electrolytics on the logic board, in fact I found enough that were way off value or were high esr to warrant replacing all of them. That wasn’t enough in this case though, I had to replace the laser
Bose Wave Radio Repair Read More »