Our GE boombox gets a refresh!

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Years ago we'd found this crusticated contractor's boomlet box released in the suburban wilds. Belts were naff, one of the pause mechanism bits had broken loose and it was missing the knobs and one of the sliders. We'd got it working and fashioned some knobs from VCR tracking knobs and rigged a slider from spares...


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Welp, we were browsing about and found someone was listing GE 3-5635a boomlet box parts...

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T'was our lucky day! Didn't need any of the tape control buttons so they're spares for anyone else looking for 'em - we'd actually posted a query on the previous version of this site to no avail. Dood has spare speaker grills if we ever have the urge to replace ours. Probably won't as it's not really that bad looking...
 
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Years ago we'd found this crusticated contractor's boomlet box released in the suburban wilds. Belts were naff, one of the pause mechanism bits had broken loose and it was missing the knobs and one of the sliders. We'd got it working and fashioned some knobs from VCR tracking knobs and rigged a slider from spares...


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Welp, we were browsing about and found someone was listing GE 3-5635a boomlet box parts...

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T'was our lucky day! Didn't need any of the tape control buttons so they're spares for anyone else looking for 'em - we'd actually posted a query on the previous version of this site to no avail. Dood has spare speaker grills if we ever have the urge to replace ours. Probably won't as it's not really that bad looking...
Nice!
 
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