Made a deal to swap with a non member from Spain for a bombeat 40. Video showed it playing ok and could see it was fairly rough.
Parcel arrived after about 6 or 7 days and was well packed. Upon opening it up I was ok with what appeared!
There is no doubting it, it had a pretty tough life but was dirty and needed some TLC.
Opening her up I quickly discovered why a power lead was coming from the inside instead of being greeted by the usual c8 socket.
Socket has a pin missing and the transformer board was broken. First things first, gluing the board back together to repair the traces afterwards. Also needed to disconnect the socket and try put a new pin in place.
Waiting for glue to dry, I confirmed 15v output, transformer working again ðŸ‘
Meanwhile, front and rear case were completely tore down and the cases bathed. Speakers cleaned etc.
Before
After
Bathed the rear case, gave the deck a regrease and new belt, contact cleaned everything and soak tested the deck.
This took some real mcgyver shiznit but it has to be worth every effort right?
Had to reattach some new battery springs to the tranny board too. The old ones broke after a battery leak. Glad to say, it now works on batteries too!!!
Bringing a few solid days of non stop work to an end brought this from a 4/10 to a 7/10 at least.
Happy days!!!
Parcel arrived after about 6 or 7 days and was well packed. Upon opening it up I was ok with what appeared!
There is no doubting it, it had a pretty tough life but was dirty and needed some TLC.
Opening her up I quickly discovered why a power lead was coming from the inside instead of being greeted by the usual c8 socket.
Socket has a pin missing and the transformer board was broken. First things first, gluing the board back together to repair the traces afterwards. Also needed to disconnect the socket and try put a new pin in place.
Waiting for glue to dry, I confirmed 15v output, transformer working again ðŸ‘
Meanwhile, front and rear case were completely tore down and the cases bathed. Speakers cleaned etc.
Before
After
Bathed the rear case, gave the deck a regrease and new belt, contact cleaned everything and soak tested the deck.
This took some real mcgyver shiznit but it has to be worth every effort right?
Had to reattach some new battery springs to the tranny board too. The old ones broke after a battery leak. Glad to say, it now works on batteries too!!!
Bringing a few solid days of non stop work to an end brought this from a 4/10 to a 7/10 at least.
Happy days!!!
