Vintage Radio Repair
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:33 pm
Anyone know who can service and repair old radios?
I bought a 70's Becker Grand Prix from a guy who seems to sell many of them. He's on ebay as 'seerm' and runs mbclassics. I didn't test it when it arrived last January, only fitting it in the car in May when I got it back. Anyway, it didn't work so I emailed him a few times to complain. He washed his hands of it and at the time I didn't have time to go to his 'showroom' and cause a 'scene' as my wife likes to call it. I figure what goes around comes around and I would well advise anyone else not to buy from him.
Inspecting it I found a dry connection and fixed it quite quickly with fresh solder. However, its just packed up again and I can't fix it.
Anyone else had one repaired?
I bought a 70's Becker Grand Prix from a guy who seems to sell many of them. He's on ebay as 'seerm' and runs mbclassics. I didn't test it when it arrived last January, only fitting it in the car in May when I got it back. Anyway, it didn't work so I emailed him a few times to complain. He washed his hands of it and at the time I didn't have time to go to his 'showroom' and cause a 'scene' as my wife likes to call it. I figure what goes around comes around and I would well advise anyone else not to buy from him.
Inspecting it I found a dry connection and fixed it quite quickly with fresh solder. However, its just packed up again and I can't fix it.
Anyone else had one repaired?
, I've bid on a lot of Becker Grand Prix from this guy. I'll give it a miss from now on 
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. I'll look it up in the morning and send the details.