Can anyone hear your scream in a tool shed lost in the woods?!

[cb123]

I found just yesterday a (1981) RCA phonograph, misplaced in a damp, dank old rotten tool shed, which looked more like a medieval torture chamber, right out of Dante's Inferno it was. The kind which broils in the summer and freezes in the winter...Man, was it a mess! After I got it home, I cleaned it up and replaced two 500 MF 25 volt caps which tested bad with two 510 MF 25 volt caps, realigned its auto retract cam, and now most happily her Pioneer speaker sings sweet music once again! So I guess the answer is yes,  you really can hear a scream in a tool shed lost in the woods. 

 

[arh1953]

You find the coolest things! I have the General Electric model of that style. I like it, but it sure does perform like a plastic record player with one little oval speaker. Yours is a beauty!

 

[cb123]

Thanks so much arh1953, this one also has a touch of that dread Dyson twang, just a dash of a British drawl to it. However, that little mono "Pioneer" speaker it has, really makes up, somewhat, for the plastic body it's trapped in!

 

[super-sweeper]

Lol, remind me to mail you my reel-to-reel deck,you know what you're doing! I didn't have a clue what a µ was until Tolivac taught me! 

 

[cb123]

OK Alex, this is how it is: In my spare time, I've been watching way too many YouTube videos, and it hasn't been the X rated kind...sorry!

 A lot of those vintage radio ones are really, realy, super really,  GOOD, GOOD, and another GOOD to grow on! It's not like you have to have a porn...I mean a photographic memory to help you along. Those people have made all the mistakes, so we don't have to. I believe you just might have an open resistor sending to many ohms to your cap...I could be wrong, but it's quite likely.

 

[Metaphor]

Shame there aren't more such videos showing how to repair and restore our vacuums or how to build up hoses. It seems the vacuum industry keeps its secrets.