Bjorn Posted February 18, 2006 Report Posted February 18, 2006 Right, after checking out this second hand deck my student union were selling - tunes were only coming out of one channel (the left) - i rang a few service centres and they said it could cost around 40 quid to fix - so i told the manager of the SU so she ofered to sell me the deck for £50!!! which i swiftly did! I got it home, plugged it in my system and the channel was then working slightly but not properly - this is the state of the deck:- i decided to dissasemble it to clean it and try and source the problem. After finding no obvious problems i re-assembled the deck to try it again, except now nothing was coming through the phono cable :shock: me and my mate thought that it was the phono cable cos it was a state and looked a bit melted - so we went to our local garage and borrowed a multimeter to do a continuity test on the phono cable - after which we found it was f***ed (phew!! :wink:) after much sitting around waiting, my mates finally returned from my other mates house with sum solder (in which time i set to cleaning the 1210 up!) with the solder we replaced the phono cable with a new one, and after about 10 hours spent on it yesterday i finally re-assembled it and tryed it and it works perfectly!! heres a pic now im finished:- all that needs doing is to clean that silver pen off, and then im gonna get a blue or pink LED kit to change the LED's! what a bargain for £50 eh!!!!! i spent £0 repairing it!
Aza Posted February 18, 2006 Report Posted February 18, 2006 Good work buddy - nice to see you getting into the DIY frame of mind and things LOL! I absolutely love playing on technics, there is no substitute!
Quadrant Posted February 18, 2006 Report Posted February 18, 2006 Very impressive. Soldering? I'm a white collar man, leave that to you Vocational-skilled boys More importantly, why the hell was it in such s*** state to begin with?
Bjorn Posted February 19, 2006 Author Report Posted February 19, 2006 Very impressive. Soldering? I'm a white collar man, leave that to you Vocational-skilled boys More importantly, why the hell was it in such s*** state to begin with? dunno man, just how it was - its at least 8 years old - there is a sticker on the back with 1998 written on it!! just not been looked after i suppose!
bigsteve Posted February 20, 2006 Report Posted February 20, 2006 Good effort mate 8-) The photos remind me of a 'before' and 'after' from a reality TV show
bigsteve Posted February 20, 2006 Report Posted February 20, 2006 Good effort mate 8-) The photos remind me of a 'before' and 'after' from a TV makeover show
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