PCS CyberMax 800 Watt transmitter repair
Today’s mission Jim, should you decide to accept it, is to get the PCS CyberMax 800 watt FM broadcast transmitter up and running again. When …
Vieta Spanish amplifier, 1970s
inglés y español 1970s Vieta stereo amplifier. Not come across one of these amplifiers before and was unaware of the make. Good to see that …
Power cuts or what??!!! Have a UPS
We all like living in the country side, small villages and towns etc. but the drawback is the angry electric pixies that we use to …
Hacker Centurion Garrard SP25Mk5
In comes the chap carrying his treasured Hacker Centurion. “Stopped working” was the fault summary. On closer interrogation under the angle poise lamp, I learned …
FM home brew refurbisment
Sorting out some FM broadcast transmitters for various local stations recently. Here is a typival one. A home brew sort of. Fabricodled using a little …
Kolster Brandes “Rejectostat” model 666, 1933
A fine Kolster Brandes Rejectostat model 666, 1933 I forgot about this set that I restored in the early ‘90s. I recall buying at as …
Ferguson 3216 1960s reel to reel tape recorder
Someone dropped this little machine in, wanting it no longer. I can remember being taken to the Ideal Home Exhibition in the late ‘60s, …
Eaton Bray 12 2 mixing desk
Here is an old skool mixing desk. Customer was desperate to have this repaired, he loves pure analogue. Well, the desk had seen some service …
Fender Bassman
Now I like my amplifiers like I like my women, hot dirty, smelly, well worn, old and seen lots of action. This Fender Bassman was …
Ferrograph RTS2 test set
Strange how things come around. When I moved to Spain, I thought I would be leaving tape recorder repairs behind me. But, after starting Zeta …
BSR, the record deck company
If, like me, you are a ‘50s-‘60s ite, you probably remember stacking records up on an automatic turntable, watching the first drop, being played then …
BSR TD1 “Stuzzi” tape recorder refurbishment and tips
This little Stuzzi tape recorder came in via a customer, wanting it brought back to life. He had bought it from new in the late …
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