Electronics

So…. yeah. I thought I’d jump into this 1980 Pioneer KP-6500 car stereo. I mean, it sort of worked, I had one channel of audio. GREAT. Let’s open her up…

I figured I’d dust off my little collection of vintage calculators from the mid 1970’s up through the mid 1980’s and have a look at them. As they say, three…

Why “Amateur Hour?” Because like an idiot I thought I could just fire up my scope and it would just do what I wanted. No. I forgot that this stupid…

If your R-2000 suddenly goes deaf, here’s a likely (and pretty easy) fix for it. The strange attenuator control gets dirty. All you need to do it open it up,…

Just let loose this one where I futz around with a pair of essentially useless old bits of test equipment: A Century Capacitor and Resistor Analyzer Model 201, and a…

So, looking back at 2024, I can come to one logical conclusion. One statement that sums it all up. None of that shit worked. Well, most of it, anyway. This…

Lets get these boat anchors and receivers OUT the door! Problem is they are in various states of disrepair and need to be addressed, probably fixed. If nothing else they…

So I didn’t post about the Panasonic TR-425 TV video I published, damn, two weeks ago, so here’s that: I need to figure out how to get the CRT out…

Oh yeah hi, guess I should be updating this thing, huh. Here’s my latest video I uploaded to YouTube. I “fixed” this Pioneer CD Player. Or did I. If you…

[So I wrote this, left in draft mode and just found it. I don’t even… so here it is.] The video on the CD player will be coming out soon….