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Transistor radio repairs x2
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 3:22 pm
by snoopy64
Hi
For a repair/service I can recommend the following...
Car radio in Reading
http://vintagecarradio.co.uk/index.html
Old transistor radio repairs (inc car)
http://www.vintagewirelessrescue.co.uk/
Re: Transistor radio repairs x2
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:24 am
by Peter Laidler
Tried the semi-local Reading repairer, Chris by phone and email. 0118 number now unavailable and messages left on mobile number plus email. Nothing.....
Re: Transistor radio repairs x2
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:23 pm
by woodypup59
This guy was on a TV programme doing all sorts of vintage electronic repairs.
He even drives an 1100. Hes in Norwich.
https://www.vintagetvandwireless.com/
Re: Transistor radio repairs x2
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:16 pm
by snoopy64
Peter Laidler wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:24 am
Tried the semi-local Reading repairer, Chris by phone and email. 0118 number now unavailable and messages left on mobile number plus email. Nothing.....
That’s a shame if Chris is no longer in business he’s one of the few guys who didn’t need telling what positive earth meant!
Re: Transistor radio repairs x2
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:51 pm
by Peter Laidler
The radio is from my 2001 Rover Cooper sport so it's not really vintage. It switches on and off but sod all from the speakers..... uuntil I gom over a bomp and it sparks into life. That's until the next pot-hole and it goes dead again. I think that it's a speaker connection in the radio. But unless you have a test-bed to wire in a set of slave speakers and main harness........... Anyway. Onwards and upwards as they say.
Maybe Rover expected the radio to just outlive the now 23 year old ccar
Re: Transistor radio repairs x2
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:34 am
by Exminiman
This guys good, he repaired my 35 year old Marantz Amp.....hes just outside Burghfield, Reading
He is old school one man band, so not best at email etc.....so might worth chancing a visit ?
Its probably something simple dry joints, etc....
https://www.djsindustries-reading.co.uk/
Re: Transistor radio repairs x2
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:58 pm
by Peter Laidler
I'll give him a try. I've just tried to do it myself. Kicked the tyres, wound the windows up and down a few times, banged the top and bottom as my dad used to do with our old telly and it still doesn't work.
Mind you, living in darkest Oxfordshire, there's plenty of pot-holes that give the radio a good shaking as we travel along. The problem is that it fires up and there's Jimmy Young at full volume........ until the next pot hole and off it goes........