Well,amigos,I'm back again! The thrift shop gods have smiled upon me once more.:yes:Hey, you! Wake up!!! Just today I found the above mentioned Scott double deck. I know what you're thinking-BPC.Well.... yes and no! Yes,we're talking black plastic,but crap? I don't think so!The horrible photos show (ha!) the black finish,the obnoxious "gold" lettering is hard to see here.I MUST get a better camera!! This thing is solid-built in Japan,for real.2 wells, both auto-reverse, digital... Read more ..read more

I have done multiple google searches and reverse image search and can't figure out what these are. Any help ..read more

Tour of the Wichitas Tour of the Wichitas offers a beautiful cycling ride through the Wichita Mountains and the most enchanting scenery of Southwest Oklahoma. Located in Lawton, Oklahoma. tourofthewichitas.com My company volunteers for one of the rest stops.. we have water, gatorade, pickle juice, bananas, and hold the riders bikes while they take a break.. The event provides porta potties.. Beautiful country, mountains, wildlife, history.. (for transparency, the only way I'd do this ride is on a motorcycle.. ) Wichita Mountains - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org ..read more

I have a CDP101 here which originally was refusing to have it's drawer stay closed. After some cleaning up, resoldering and regressing it now accepts a disc and detects on is in place. I have tested all limit switches for the drawer. Anyway, the sled mechanism itself is really just doing its own thing. It will never stay in the 'home' position even after a reset. When I insert a cd the player is trying to detect it, I can see the laser going up and down. But the sled is sat at the... Read more ..read more

Hello I have received Tonearm that fit to a Thorens TD-125MK1 the name is Infinity Black Widow Existing needle and cartridge is using Shure M95. I want to upgrade to Ortofon 2M Red. Is it suitable or not? Can you give me suugestion, what's cartridge+needle that is match or perfectly match with Infinity Black Widow ? Thank you ..read more

So first, there was this: No problem, replaced the caps and now the optocoupler 1.2V is good and the 70V is good. Still in protection. Then I removed all the corrosive glue and components on the B power supply. Now it’s working great and B +/- are steady. Still in protection. I had 2V on the left channel, unadjustable. Pull the predriver card and a 220 ohm for the rail is toast. Fine. I replace all transistors except for the funky package ones on that... Read more ..read more

I am thinking of buying a Marantz PM 8004. I notice on the bay some units from Japan are listed as 100 volts. Also some are shown as 120 volts. Why is this? Would the 100 volt model not work here in the U.S ..read more

Hello guys, My very first post here in AK, some few weeks ago I found a Dynaco SCA-35 in the garbage (no joke), physically it looks quite ok for its age, I found that the volume pot was a bit stiff and the balance, bass and treble pots were completely stiff and not turning at all. I have to say, Im a complete noobie, this is a hobby for me, so Im reading on internet and watching youtube to see if I can learn a bit electronics repair. After inspection and cleaning the boards I run the dim... Read more ..read more

Hello I am pretty new to electronics as a hobby and have been gathering equipment for testing , I managed to find a Heath kit IT-18 for checking transistors . I am seeing they also sell a Transistor withstand voltage tester , it's a fairly inexpensive and most guys using it seem to feel it's useful for checking transistors /diodes/ caps and such . Is this something that will be useful or will the IT-18 do the very same thing . seems the withstand voltage tester uses much higher voltage... Read more ..read more

Picked up one of these a few weeks ago. Display was working and scope was not. Took a look under the covers and the main power board had been worked on. Diodes were replaced and a resistor. The resistor was burnt to a crisp and one of the diode sets broke after just barely touching it. Redid the entire board, every part new. After hooking back up the display came on right away and looked way better (brighter). The scope also came back to life, although its about 50 years old and not as... Read more ..read more