Boomboxery´s (maybe) most crazy restauration...

[ViennaSound]

Economical restaurators > keep off!
Original fans > stop reading :'-(
Mono haters > let it be

Technical fans who try the impossible, or just want to have fun > let´s go!

Review:
This trashbox i got for free:

Brrrr, what kind of scrap!
Dirt and damage everywhere...

Screws are rusted and full of dirt.
But i got it open without more damage

Oh, the belt of the tapedrive is fallen off.
And it´s in quiet good condition
But many corrosion at the drive

Woha, look how they mounted the caps!
They burned it together...

Speaker, weak but working

Argh, what´s this???
The trafo must´nt have fitted, so they mounted it 45° with only one screw

Ok, taking out - with some dirt...

Taking the tapedrive out

Looks like, there have exist an better version with LED-meter

Clean the tapedrive as good as possible.
It works now, but the buttons stay not at it´s place

Ok, parting now all out

Take a first clean up

The most difficoult part was to get the scaledrive back to the right place

The whole life are out now

Original?
NO!
Taken out some old colorsprays and get it on...

Slowly coming together again...

Also the labels back at the right place

Insert the electronic life

Hard to glue the broken parts at the tapedoor, but every broken piece was inside.
Except the eject-clip.
There i must find a idea for it.

Also the backside, clean now

Ok, the first part is done
Here it is - and no longer nonamed!

Next will be to produce a scale and repair the eject.
And some more.

Economical? NO!
Beautiful? NO!
Original? NO!

But funny, crazy and a good training for real boombox repairs!

So - why not?

Part 2 comes when finished.
Hold the line...

 

[redbenjoe]

great thread , roman--
we all love to be witness to cool miracles

 

[Superduper]

I'm speechless.

 

[monchito]

I'm speechless.

 

[Superduper]

Vienna, what did you use to make the yellow badge in the front? Just a vinyl label maker?

 

[2steppa]

Great choice of colour scheme, you've made something quite special there.

 

[analogboi]

Love it Roman... absolutely love it...

That radio is happy now!

 

[ViennaSound]

Vienna, what did you use to make the yellow badge in the front? Just a vinyl label maker?

I have this DYMO labelmaker in our company:

But just taken it off again and made an better looking one in white.
Will also try to make the scale with it...

 

[Gluecifer]

This is golden! Awesome work Roman, your skills are incredible!!

This ViennaSound brand mono is already a must-have brand for the TRUE collector!



Rock On.

 

[Ghettoboom767]

Excellent Roman-It's like ressurecting the dead!!
Keep with it man-it's a very cool color to!
Have a great week-GB.

 

[Old school Scott]

 

[Fatdog]

Wow! Simply... wow!! You have breathed new life into an otherwise "dead" boombox.

 

[ViennaSound]

Had a little time today, so the work goes on.

Producing a scale, simply over MS Excel:

And a new plexiglass:

Hm, need a little more fun....
Got some bling.

Get it on:

Coming soon to an end.
But the repair of the eject is needed.
And i try to implant a LEDmeter...

Wish me luck to manage the rest.

 

[Fatdog]

That boomer needs a spot in the BBDB! I hope Jens sees this thread.

 

[Börny]

This is just cool , nice job Roman.

When i ever get a Box thats not working or broken i ´m gona do something like this.

 

[jaetee]

Great job, VS....

The purple and silver looks great. But, I gotta say that, for my tastes, I prefer the look without the stars... It looks almost too busy with them on there.

Sometimes, less is more.

Still, a fantastic and worthwhile effort. Congrats and well done!

 

[monchito]

 

[devol-toni]

Great job there roman,

 

[monchito]

that looks really cool roman and it really gives us that push to really work on boxes that need that tlc really bad with a little magic look how cool that looks

 

[blu_fuz]

oH BOY, some of you are just crazy! haha - watching this thread makes me laugh. If I had the time, I would probably do it too.