Couple months ago I got a nice Universum CTR 2236 mini boombox. There is a sign "Quelle international" on the back, probably meaning that it was sold through mail-order catalogue or shop by that name. Quelle was popular in Germany during 1960s and 1970d, but I could not put exact date on this box. Here are the pictures before cleaning and restoration job:
To make long story short, I got it cleansed, the belt replaced, and it worked really nice for small box. But, now the plot gets a twist.
Several months before my friend dropped off this one on me, I got a glimpse of Sharp GF-9292 at one location.
The thing was, the 9292 was in one company, sitting on the same floor, playing local radio. It was used non-stop from 1983 (or something lite that, nobody could say exactly) until yesterday. When I saw it, I new that her days were numbered.
The tape buttons did not had any effect, volume and other pots were, as expected, scratchy and contacts were not reliably switching. Also, tuner was drifting and the right channel would die after 30-60 second after she was engaged. Yes, the days were numbered.
Yesterday was raining like... pouring. I was happy to get there and tried to be fast, but it took me two hours, across the mountain. There were leafs and branches on the road, rocks and mud. Funny thing, when I was there several months ago, there was also a storm on that same road. But yesterday, even police patrol pulled me over for a check. They probably saw that I was only one on the road during, driving during the storm across the mountain, only a madman would do that... Did I mention that there is no cell reception at all for at least 60 out of 80 km of that trip. Just 10 km from city, you get so enclosed in mountain that radio reception gets weak.
After arriving I had interesting situation. Some 30+ people working there could not come to agreement if they would just give her away or shall I get them something instead. So I offered my old home theater 5.1 system, above mentioned "Universum", or just some money. Guess what, they did like CTR2236 better.
Shall I just mention that there was never a trace of this home cinema model on LG internet pages? But they did sell 
Finally, after I got this GF-9292 in the trunk of my car, clouds dispersed, sun was shining, and here are the pictures of my GF-9292:
There!
I do not know what kind of gunk this is, but looks like some glue.
There is so much dust inside grills.
I am going to need two areials for GF-9292...
To make long story short, I got it cleansed, the belt replaced, and it worked really nice for small box. But, now the plot gets a twist.
Several months before my friend dropped off this one on me, I got a glimpse of Sharp GF-9292 at one location.
The thing was, the 9292 was in one company, sitting on the same floor, playing local radio. It was used non-stop from 1983 (or something lite that, nobody could say exactly) until yesterday. When I saw it, I new that her days were numbered.
The tape buttons did not had any effect, volume and other pots were, as expected, scratchy and contacts were not reliably switching. Also, tuner was drifting and the right channel would die after 30-60 second after she was engaged. Yes, the days were numbered.
Yesterday was raining like... pouring. I was happy to get there and tried to be fast, but it took me two hours, across the mountain. There were leafs and branches on the road, rocks and mud. Funny thing, when I was there several months ago, there was also a storm on that same road. But yesterday, even police patrol pulled me over for a check. They probably saw that I was only one on the road during, driving during the storm across the mountain, only a madman would do that... Did I mention that there is no cell reception at all for at least 60 out of 80 km of that trip. Just 10 km from city, you get so enclosed in mountain that radio reception gets weak.
After arriving I had interesting situation. Some 30+ people working there could not come to agreement if they would just give her away or shall I get them something instead. So I offered my old home theater 5.1 system, above mentioned "Universum", or just some money. Guess what, they did like CTR2236 better.
Shall I just mention that there was never a trace of this home cinema model on LG internet pages? But they did sell Finally, after I got this GF-9292 in the trunk of my car, clouds dispersed, sun was shining, and here are the pictures of my GF-9292:
There!
I do not know what kind of gunk this is, but looks like some glue.
There is so much dust inside grills.
I am going to need two areials for GF-9292...
