The easier vintage boomboxes to service?

[Northwood]

Greetings everyone, noob here I just had my first go at servicing a couple of mini boomboxes with hit-or-miss type of success. Probably not the easiest ones to start with anyway. Managed to get a tape deck working, but still sounds like crap. The second box proved to be 'unserviceable' for me, there's just no way I'm able to do anything about it. Luckily, I didn't lose a dime on them.

This brings me to my question... Which vintage boxes would be on the easier side of things to take care of? Just the simpler ones to learn with and build up my faux confidence with electronics Thanks.

 

[deech]

I would say mid size Toshiba boomboxes and bigger Crown boomboxes are the easiest to start working
Sanyos and Aiwas especially from 1979-1981 are hardest to begin with.

 

[floyd]

a lot of the lower end Panasonic RX series are some of the simplest boom boxes in the world. plus they sound good.

 

[Wes125]

well we all had to start somewhere fixing these boomers..ive been doing it for over 30 years and i still come across some pain in the butt repairs. u just need to study as u take it apart. put screws on table in the same configuration as they came out b-coz some might be longer. ive always done it this way. i see some just dump all the screws- springs and god knows what else in a big pile.then they wonder why they split the plastic by putting the wrong screw back in coz its too long..well thats my advice anyway

 

[Northwood]

Alrighty, thanks guys. I did as instructed, a mid-sized Tosh is now on it's way to me. I'm gonna make it shine and sing like an angel.