1959 Grundig Majestic SO141Ua Radio Phono Stereo Console Part 1 of 6 Disassembly
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Here is the initial disassembly of this LARGE console. I had to do this work in my spray booth, because there was no way I was getting this big beast down to my electronics shop in the basement!
Hey! I just started my first stereo project and I’m working on the same console, just wanted to let you know that your playlist has been extremely helpful. Also even though this video is 5 years old, my stereo came with the original schematics if you would be interested in them.
I’d love this schematic! Have the same stereo!
Thanks alot. I have just bought this box.
Excellent the second time through as well. Thanks
Amazing I am now doing an Admiral 1949 AM Phono just like the one you did, my next project is a Short Gtundig Majestic 3 speed Phone and AM/FM/SW Radio. I am following you right down the road. In Virginia.
I start a notebook on each top restoration? Everything get labeled and photographed finally I've come across infestations too. I do like your well lit up shop and hydraulic table.
beautiful cabinet
Is it possible to open and clean the volume pots on these? Unlike other volume pot manufacturers like a Zenith I don't believe these have a slot to shoot cleaner into
the cat is very pretty
Cute cat!!! I am a serious cat lover!!!!
As am I, Arthur. I wouldn't know what to do without my feline sidekicks!
Cheers!
Michael
German over engineered. Always overkill on caps. I, personally hate working on them. We get alot of them here in the uk. as soon as seen the title in your playlist, I giggled to myself. Keep up the good work Michael.
Thank you for the encouragement, Gary.
I don't understand the mystique of "German Engineering" . I spent a lot of years working on German cars. Mechanically, they were terrific right up through the first generation of Golf. Then, they started to slip. I've had Audi 5000, 4000, and Quattro cars, as well as many, many later VWs. I've also had a few BMWs, M-Bs, and even a gen 1 Ford Fiesta (which I adored). All except the early VWs, the BMW 2001, and the Fiesta were pains in the posterior!
The camel's back breaker for me was a '98 Golf GTi with a VR6 in it. I had to change a water pump, and thought that it might be like the earlier Golfs ("Rabbit" in the States) and be straightforward. Hell, I can change a GM 3800 V6 water pump in about 15 minutes! Not so with this GTi. For that car, half of the front of the car had to be removed. I wanted to go screaming into the woods, never to return! I unloaded that car after only 4 or 5 months. Besides, it was a petrol pig. Instead, I bought a nice Buick LeSabre (with that wonderful 3800) that was more comfortable, and was actually more fuel efficient. I'm not sure, but I think that it may even have been faster!
German radios are the same. They sound mediocre to my ears. I don't know if you see many American radios where you are, but the most mundane late '40s to late '50s Magnavox or Scott can play rings around the best Grundig, Telefunken, Kuba, or Nordmende. Those German are all finicky to operate with the flimsy push-button keys. The dial cord arrangements are insanely over-complicated, the parts of inferior quality, and chassis layouts that are almost impossible to work on. On top of all of that, they all look the SAME!! Have I just about covered it all?
Back to cars...I have had several Porsche sports cars. I love the 914, but it was as much VW as Porsche. The Porsches were fun to drive and they were reliable. But, parts were rediculously expensive and the engines left little room for error or impromptu-get you home on a rainy night-kind of emergency repairs. My Triumph TR4A could be repaired with a pair of scissors and some twine! It was tough, a stinking blast to drive, and built like a tank. I have always wanted a vintage REAL Mini. One day, maybe...
When I get a customer with a German radio, I charge quite a bit more to work on them, and I explain why. They are usually so relieved to find someone who WILL work on them, that I usually get stuck with the job, after all!
Thank you for your great comment. It made me smile, my friend. Cheers! Michael
I have a similar unit that does not work. Do you do service and repair work?
Could you tell me the transformer output voltages of the 3 power supply branches?
You're not going to cut that in the middle? Oh Nooo!!, de-solder it! or at least cut on the end of the harness to keep it unspliced? You're giving me nightmares my good man... otherwise clean work!
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