Congratulations on getting the radio you wanted Manuel. Looking forward to you pulling it down and troubleshooting its problems, always the best part 😀
Hi Manuel. That is a lovely looking and interesting radio. I think it will give you a lot of fun getting it working to your usual very high standards . It has ended up in the right hands. Cheers Chris.
In 1979, my dad purchased a Grundig Studio 3010 music centre. It was new old stock from 1976 so he got it on the cheap. Predictably enough, it came with a whole swathe of Grundig sales brochures (even the one for in-car audio) and I remember this radio from one of those brochures. I've never encountered one in the flesh but the 10 year old me saw it as a glittering prize! Even the game shows on telly didn't have anything this good as a prize, it wasn't a radio for mere mortals. This was a radio for legends! You could even plug in a turntable and use it as an amp! They'd thought of everything... Beaten down over the years by such real-world considerations as financial constraints and an obsession with the acquisision and repair of cruddy old hi-fi gear, thoughts of the shimmering Satellite were pushed firmly to the back of my mind. Imagine therefore, my suprise and delight when I opened You Tube today, unsuspecting that these decades-old thoughts would be re-awakened! This is the latest of several absolute must-see series you've put out. I know you'll get this radio back on top form and I can't wait to see that! Except, obviously I will have to wait...
These are in fact great radios. Just out of curiosity I looked up the original sale price (it was actually DM 1400), and factored in an inflation calculation. The price today is in the order of €2000. Quite an investment, so not taken lightly. Back then these radios were bought to last, and cost a lot of money. Today all that has changed, with ‘disposable’ equipment being the norm, so these are even more treasured by hooks like us 😊
Manuel, finally you got one - you´ll have fun with it´s restoration. A hint: Weak AM reception may be caused by the bandwidth switch (3 settings). I had to unsolder and open this switch manually because contact cleaner didn´t help. The preowner didn´t use this switch for decades because he didn´t know what this is for .... OMG.
Thanks Stefan. I’ll keep that in mind. Many of the functions on older equipment suffered from that problem - don’t know what it is, so don’t touch 😊 By the way, I was in the middle of your hp608e video when the notification came up about your comment. For a second these I thought the phone was spying on me 😊
Manuel I just managed to get hold of a Satellit 3400. I was originally a bit daunted by the length of your videos and wondered if I was going to be able to get mine working adequately. It was very cheap and sold as untested. When it arrived yesterday it had the usual array of broken switches and missing knobs and was pretty dirty. It was totally dead initially and I found the sliding contacts adjacent to the power lead were not contacting properly. Once I understood what they were doing I managed to get it to power on. None of the bulbs were lighted but that is not a problem provided the access is not too hidden away. I was really delighted to have it running at pretty good volume on FM and after studying your videos and fiddling with the switches I managed to get the frequency counter and AM to work. This was much more than I expected. I have bought a 2000, 2100 and now the 3400. The sound of all of them is really great and the 3400 seems to have the best sound. I now have a nice project ahead of me to strip the switches and clean them and give the case a really good clean. The secret to success with these old radios seems to be getting hold of rather tatty ones that have not had anyone digging around inside them. None of mine seem to have been opened up for years if ever. Thanks again for your guidance. I now have many happy hours looking at your videos on the 3400. John
Hi John I’m happy to hear that my videos have come in handy. That is precisely the idea of my posting those long reports, in the hope that they will serve as a source of valuable hints and info for anyone wanting to undertake a similar project. It is difficult to actually assist anyone doing a project personally, due to time and memory constraints, so I try and put everything out there in the videos when I’m doing the restoration itself. Good luck with yours. It’s a great radio, and well worth the effort.
@@electronicsoldandnew Manuel I have now had some time to look at the likely cuprits for losing wavebands on my 3400. I have today tacked the middle switch was I know dirty and I took the board out like you did and then removed the switch and disassembled it and cleaned it. I also cleaned the turret short wave connections. Now everything works!! I have good volume in all bands and no crackling. The FM particularly is great and I think nothing needs to be done. I still have some switches that need new levers and can be easily remedied. The sound is magnificent and I think the components, particularly the capacitors are good quality and I am not inclined to change them. I found my 2100 had similarly good components and works really well and I didn't renew any capacitors. The 2000 was a different kettle of fish. The capacitors were the plastic cased ones Orange and dark red. One had no reading and had leaked all over the place. I am so grateful to you. John
I purchased a Grundig Satellit 2100 about 2 years ago for £40 and it worked first time. Had to buy a missing telescopic antenna £20, plastic battery box cover for £6, dial display bulbs for £4. In all, I think it was worth it, because it is a great radio. I had been looking at the Grundig Satellit 3400, which does look great, having a digital frequency readout. The circuit for the 2 models are quite similar for the amplifier and power supply. As you mentioned the Grundig Satellit 3400 is expensive and hard to find. I will follow your progress on this radio and see if it will encourage me to buy one.
It’s being stubborn, but we should get there. This is more your playing field, but I must admit it’s a relief taking a break from lethal voltages and massive chassis to sand down and repaint 😊
Some notes on my repair of a 3400: That 4700 uF is known to short...so it is better to replace it even if it is ok. This radio has a lot of these blue Philips electrolytics which are generally not that great. One of them completely killed FM on mine. Hope you get yours working perfectly again. 👍
Congratullations, I have The same radio, but mine must have problems with amplyfier. Volume controls work but very low. I need to find a good repairer in Spain...
Perfect timing! 🙂 I have 3 of these wonderful "beasts" waiting to be repaired. (1 only for parts, 1 in good condition and one somewhere in between). I'm eagerly awaiting your video series. 😄 If the radio is operating on mains power, the counter switch can be left in the top position and shows the LED frequency counter. On battery, it is either off (0) or can be pushed in the lower position to turn the LED on temporarily to save power. I had in both of the functional radios big problems with the 5V converter due to bad caps.
@@electronicsoldandnew Yes, that's what I plan as well. Unfortunately, in one of the 5V converter, the transistor heated up the surroundings and destroyed the printed circuit as well. This 5V converter is located in a roundish metal casing inside the square metal box in which the frequency counter is located. It's a bit of a pain to solder it out but if it fails, nothing is working correctly.
@@electronicsoldandnew Hi Manuel! I have the original printed Schematic which I scanned and assembled into one big jpg file. I also have other explaining graphics which I think are in better quality what you have. (Especially the one for the tuning order.) I also made photos of the inside of the frequency counter box. As you guessed, there are more things inside not just the counter logic. In the 5V converter which I mentioned above and which is located in a heavily shielded box inside this box are unfortunately 3 Roederstein caps. As you know from your other projects, these are most of the time broken. (On the photos you can see what damage my converter had.) I couldn't find any email or contact address of yours so I uploaded the zip file to my server and created a tiny URL: tinyurl.com/3z54arhm In the file are 2 PDFs, 9 PNGs and 11 JPGs. I hope this helps a bit on your project. If you are doing the video on the capacitor replacement maybe you could give some advice which brand of capacitors should be used. This is my first radio repair project and I don't have any experience so your videos are my masterclass. (I started with this exact modell because it is so repair friendly and because I love the design of this radio.)
You will have to get the required switches from Grundig, I would have thought that Grundig would have used the SO42P Double Balanced Mixer for the front end and the FM stage.
Congratulations on your purchase! I saw a couple of such devices at a local flea market, but the price was unrealistically high, and the condition was too poor. Even the watch is lost. So far I have found a cheap faulty C4500 purely for fun to restore) Just not a single Grundig in the collection yet)
I have this exact radio that used to sit on my fathers desk. I took it after he passed away. What is it worth? I see a battery section, which batteries does it use?
When you shut it down with the power switch, that circuit to empty the filtercap through 18Ω is activated, so I think thats why it looks like a short when powering down. It is about the way you just alternatively power it.
Hello Mr. Calderia Just bought a really nice looking 3400 but no sound and a (not active) tuning meter. Appears to have all switched and antenna. Would like to purchase an owners/repair manual and any advice. Very exciting. Thanks in advance. Joe D from Florida USA.
Hello Manuel, congratulations on this work! It´s really a masterpiece! Is there any chance of sharing this hi-res material you got? I will probably have one of these beauties on my workbench soon, and a good readable material would be really handy. Thanks for sharing the videos with us!
You got the bees knees in radio's there I got the 650 but the blo##y belts broken on the if motor tuner .so it resides in the cupboard lol I would probably cause more damage trying to change it dont want to swap lol
Looks a nice beast..! There's one on ebay uk. at the moment, and it looks the business..! £200 or best offer if anyone's interested..Look forward to this restoration..Ed..uk..😀
Hi Manuel... Have you got a huge radio collection, or just repair things for other people, or resell them? I ask always myself where all the restored set land... So, a 15th August question :)
I have about 20 radios in various places (including friends’ studios, etc.). I have a friend who has actually sold quite a few of mine for me as I don’t want to get involved in that activity. In recent years, I’ve had more and more radios brought to me by friends (and friends of friends) to restore, so those go back home when I’ve had my fun with them 😊
Hi Manuel. Nice radio! Looks like a fun project. I have a Minerva (Grundig Austria) that was quiet on FM which turned out to be a bad FM detector transformer where the little capacitor inside has gone off-spec. I can´t find a replacement part, so I hope you have better luck for this old girl!!
After your price comment I checked ebay I can't believe the prices, one person is selling jest an 3400 antenna for the price of what one mite get for the hole receiver. Greedy speculators are ruining the e-bay radio hobbyist market.
I’m afraid getting it to and from Madeira is really expensive and risky. I also have a lot of personal projects on my plate right now, so time is scarce.
I’m also an admirer of your work and would love for you to fix my radio - I understand you have allot on your plate but would it be something you’ll be interested later on in the year???? Also I’m based in the UK so do you have any recommendations for anybody over hear that can do a job of similar quality?
My suggestion in the UK would be Graham (Radiocruncher). Getting things over here is a problem for two reasons: shipping cost and customs. I’ve had lots of problems with trying to convince customs that I’m not buying the radios 😊
i have satellite 3400 radio, i bought in 1986 upto 1993 it worked very well. in 1993 there was some problem in the FM i checked 30 voltage DC, change the capacitors but its still not working, send me the solution. All other short waves is working except FM. right now radio is in pakistan. i will go there afetr 6 months. radio repairing is my hobbie, i repair alot of radio like Murphy, Phillips, Telefakin, Bluepankit, Tesla, and lots of other radio. I start this hobbie in 1968, I work in vaccume tube radio and transistors. this is my short introduction. this is all written by my son.
The big problem nowadays is that when people find something ”old”, or looking old in their attic, they think they found the 7th wonder of the world and they ask insane money for it. When everyone begin to act like that, thenmarket gets completely biased to the point even a non-working pile of crap from the eighties that practically needs a total overhaul gets sold like if it was a lamborghini countach. Not saying this particular radio is crap, far from that but you get the point. People are just too greedy and also so very dumb in general.
One quick question: so many of these 3400's have grey, smoky plastic windows. It looks as though you have something of this sort with yours. Were you able to bring them back to being clear again or is the smokiness internal to the acrylic and therefore not restorable?
It's an amazing radio.
My Favorite in 1978.. I was 14 Jears old.
Thank you for this Video 👍👍
my pleasure
Looking forward to the adventure. Thanks for the look.
pleasure
Congratulations on getting the radio you wanted Manuel. Looking forward to you pulling it down and troubleshooting its problems, always the best part 😀
It sure is 😊
Hi Manuel. That is a lovely looking and interesting radio. I think it will give you a lot of fun getting it working to your usual very high standards . It has ended up in the right hands. Cheers Chris.
Thanks Chris.
In 1979, my dad purchased a Grundig Studio 3010 music centre. It was new old stock from 1976 so he got it on the cheap. Predictably enough, it came with a whole swathe of Grundig sales brochures (even the one for in-car audio) and I remember this radio from one of those brochures.
I've never encountered one in the flesh but the 10 year old me saw it as a glittering prize! Even the game shows on telly didn't have anything this good as a prize, it wasn't a radio for mere mortals. This was a radio for legends! You could even plug in a turntable and use it as an amp! They'd thought of everything...
Beaten down over the years by such real-world considerations as financial constraints and an obsession with the acquisision and repair of cruddy old hi-fi gear, thoughts of the shimmering Satellite were pushed firmly to the back of my mind.
Imagine therefore, my suprise and delight when I opened You Tube today, unsuspecting that these decades-old thoughts would be re-awakened!
This is the latest of several absolute must-see series you've put out. I know you'll get this radio back on top form and I can't wait to see that! Except, obviously I will have to wait...
These are in fact great radios. Just out of curiosity I looked up the original sale price (it was actually DM 1400), and factored in an inflation calculation. The price today is in the order of €2000. Quite an investment, so not taken lightly. Back then these radios were bought to last, and cost a lot of money. Today all that has changed, with ‘disposable’ equipment being the norm, so these are even more treasured by hooks like us 😊
@@electronicsoldandnew Yes, Grundig equipment was nigh-on indestructible and that's what you paid extra for and that's why so much of it still exists.
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Grundig envy.
Looks great, Can't wait to hear it.
😊
Manuel, finally you got one - you´ll have fun with it´s restoration. A hint: Weak AM reception may be caused by the bandwidth switch (3 settings). I had to unsolder and open this switch manually because contact cleaner didn´t help. The preowner didn´t use this switch for decades because he didn´t know what this is for .... OMG.
Thanks Stefan. I’ll keep that in mind. Many of the functions on older equipment suffered from that problem - don’t know what it is, so don’t touch 😊
By the way, I was in the middle of your hp608e video when the notification came up about your comment. For a second these I thought the phone was spying on me 😊
Manuel
I just managed to get hold of a Satellit 3400. I was originally a bit daunted by the length of your videos and wondered if I was going to be able to get mine working adequately. It was very cheap and sold as untested. When it arrived yesterday it had the usual array of broken switches and missing knobs and was pretty dirty. It was totally dead initially and I found the sliding contacts adjacent to the power lead were not contacting properly. Once I understood what they were doing I managed to get it to power on. None of the bulbs were lighted but that is not a problem provided the access is not too hidden away. I was really delighted to have it running at pretty good volume on FM and after studying your videos and fiddling with the switches I managed to get the frequency counter and AM to work. This was much more than I expected. I have bought a 2000, 2100 and now the 3400. The sound of all of them is really great and the 3400 seems to have the best sound. I now have a nice project ahead of me to strip the switches and clean them and give the case a really good clean. The secret to success with these old radios seems to be getting hold of rather tatty ones that have not had anyone digging around inside them. None of mine seem to have been opened up for years if ever. Thanks again for your guidance. I now have many happy hours looking at your videos on the 3400. John
Hi John
I’m happy to hear that my videos have come in handy. That is precisely the idea of my posting those long reports, in the hope that they will serve as a source of valuable hints and info for anyone wanting to undertake a similar project. It is difficult to actually assist anyone doing a project personally, due to time and memory constraints, so I try and put everything out there in the videos when I’m doing the restoration itself.
Good luck with yours. It’s a great radio, and well worth the effort.
@@electronicsoldandnew Manuel
I have now had some time to look at the likely cuprits for losing wavebands on my 3400. I have today tacked the middle switch was I know dirty and I took the board out like you did and then removed the switch and disassembled it and cleaned it. I also cleaned the turret short wave connections. Now everything works!! I have good volume in all bands and no crackling. The FM particularly is great and I think nothing needs to be done. I still have some switches that need new levers and can be easily remedied. The sound is magnificent and I think the components, particularly the capacitors are good quality and I am not inclined to change them. I found my 2100 had similarly good components and works really well and I didn't renew any capacitors. The 2000 was a different kettle of fish. The capacitors were the plastic cased ones Orange and dark red. One had no reading and had leaked all over the place. I am so grateful to you. John
Thanks for that news. 👍
the little casing at 11:30 is to keep an antenna wire
I saw it pictured while browsing such radio sets
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Great video. We have two Grundig Satellits too. A 2100 and a 3000. And we use it every day hearing radio with it.
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I purchased a Grundig Satellit 2100 about 2 years ago for £40 and it worked first time. Had to buy a missing telescopic antenna £20, plastic battery box cover for £6, dial display bulbs for £4. In all, I think it was worth it, because it is a great radio. I had been looking at the Grundig Satellit 3400, which does look great, having a digital frequency readout. The circuit for the 2 models are quite similar for the amplifier and power supply. As you mentioned the Grundig Satellit 3400 is expensive and hard to find. I will follow your progress on this radio and see if it will encourage me to buy one.
Hope the videos help you to decide 😊
That’s a lovely radio Manuel. It’s showing signs of life which is good. I’m looking forward to seeing you get to work on it. Cheers Graham
It’s being stubborn, but we should get there. This is more your playing field, but I must admit it’s a relief taking a break from lethal voltages and massive chassis to sand down and repaint 😊
Nice radio, looks like you have a lot of work ahead of you. I can't wait to see the repairs and finished results
👍 should be fun
Some notes on my repair of a 3400: That 4700 uF is known to short...so it is better to replace it even if it is ok. This radio has a lot of these blue Philips electrolytics which are generally not that great. One of them completely killed FM on mine. Hope you get yours working perfectly again. 👍
I plan to replace most if not all the electrolytics. They’re usually near death in these radios.
i don't know a whole lot about radios (tho i've been watching david tipton lately) so when you said "bfo" my brain said "big fucking oscillator"
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Manuel boa tarde top demais longo vc vai ter mais um Satellit 3400 vou mandar aqui de Londres pra uma revisão completa parabéns um bom trabalho…
Obrigado
Congratullations, I have The same radio, but mine must have problems with amplyfier. Volume controls work but very low. I need to find a good repairer in Spain...
Good luck. This one is really worth repairing. It’s a great radio.
Perfect timing! 🙂 I have 3 of these wonderful "beasts" waiting to be repaired. (1 only for parts, 1 in good condition and one somewhere in between). I'm eagerly awaiting your video series. 😄 If the radio is operating on mains power, the counter switch can be left in the top position and shows the LED frequency counter. On battery, it is either off (0) or can be pushed in the lower position to turn the LED on temporarily to save power.
I had in both of the functional radios big problems with the 5V converter due to bad caps.
All the caps will be checked and probably replaced. Shouldn’t be too difficult.
@@electronicsoldandnew Yes, that's what I plan as well. Unfortunately, in one of the 5V converter, the transistor heated up the surroundings and destroyed the printed circuit as well. This 5V converter is located in a roundish metal casing inside the square metal box in which the frequency counter is located. It's a bit of a pain to solder it out but if it fails, nothing is working correctly.
👍
@@electronicsoldandnew Hi Manuel!
I have the original printed Schematic which I scanned and assembled into one big jpg file.
I also have other explaining graphics which I think are in better quality what you have.
(Especially the one for the tuning order.)
I also made photos of the inside of the frequency counter box. As you guessed, there are more things inside not just the counter logic. In the 5V converter which I mentioned above and which is located in a heavily shielded box inside this box are unfortunately 3 Roederstein caps. As you know from your other projects, these are most of the time broken. (On the photos you can see what damage my converter had.)
I couldn't find any email or contact address of yours so I uploaded the zip file to my server and created a tiny URL:
tinyurl.com/3z54arhm
In the file are 2 PDFs, 9 PNGs and 11 JPGs.
I hope this helps a bit on your project. If you are doing the video on the capacitor replacement maybe you could give some advice which brand of capacitors should be used. This is my first radio repair project and I don't have any experience so your videos are my masterclass. (I started with this exact modell because it is so repair friendly and because I love the design of this radio.)
Great radio. Looking forward to seeing what the low sound problem is caused by.
👍
You will have to get the required switches from Grundig, I would have thought that Grundig would have used the SO42P Double Balanced Mixer for the front end and the FM stage.
Congratulations on your purchase! I saw a couple of such devices at a local flea market, but the price was unrealistically high, and the condition was too poor. Even the watch is lost. So far I have found a cheap faulty C4500 purely for fun to restore) Just not a single Grundig in the collection yet)
Never lose hope. The perfect one will show up (at the right price) 😊
I have this exact radio that used to sit on my fathers desk. I took it after he passed away. What is it worth? I see a battery section, which batteries does it use?
When you shut it down with the power switch, that circuit to empty the filtercap through 18Ω is activated, so I think thats why it looks like a short when powering down. It is about the way you just alternatively power it.
Yes, correct.
N/B translates: Netz/Batterie. Wonderful project!
Thanks. Hadn’t got my translation brain activated yet 😊
Hi Manuel, Absolutely a wonderful series, I've watched them all. Do you have a link for the service manual you used? Thanks
Email me and I’ll send you one direct
at the start the radio does not even turn on ... what did you change to make it turn on?
love Grundig just got a Grundig V3 amp in for service
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The band range switch was obviously mangled by the finest Vise Grips you can buy
😊
Hello Mr. Calderia
Just bought a really nice looking 3400 but no sound and a (not active) tuning meter. Appears to have all switched and antenna. Would like to purchase an owners/repair manual and any advice. Very exciting. Thanks in advance. Joe D from Florida USA.
Email me and I will send you all the schematics and info I used on this restoration. No cost.
@@electronicsoldandnew What is your email?
@autobuff4 : it’s in the “About” section of the channel home page.
Try to make cod process I want to get it
I would be interested to know how to remove the front of the housing
The manual gives full instructions
Who was those peoples use this very good quality Radio mistreated like a very badely ?
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SUPER
Hello Manuel, congratulations on this work! It´s really a masterpiece! Is there any chance of sharing this hi-res material you got? I will probably have one of these beauties on my workbench soon, and a good readable material would be really handy. Thanks for sharing the videos with us!
email me.
You got the bees knees in radio's there I got the 650 but the blo##y belts broken on the if motor tuner .so it resides in the cupboard lol I would probably cause more damage trying to change it dont want to swap lol
Happy days ahead.
Edit. Mr C on his last video on a small radio. Have you seen that video?
It’s on my watch list. Looking forward to it.
Hello sir,
I have a Grundig 3400 in working order. How much would it be worth
Check for similar sales on eBay
Good evening, the first time it does not turn on but after it turned on without you doing a few things!?
Not sure I understand your question
@@electronicsoldandnew at the start the radio does not even turn on ... what did you change to make it turn on?
@@electronicsoldandnew at the start the radio does not even turn on ... what did you change to make it turn on?
See the video from 23:40 onwards. It’s all shown there.
Looks a nice beast..! There's one on ebay uk. at the moment, and it looks the business..! £200 or best offer if anyone's interested..Look forward to this restoration..Ed..uk..😀
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I have one of those. How easy would it be to sell them???
Very. Depends on the price. Check out ebay.
Do you service radios.."?Ihave a Sony radio CRF320 that needs attention.let me know please thanks
No, I do mostly my own as a hobby. Being in Madeira makes it very difficult and expensive to get sets and then return them.
Hi Manuel... Have you got a huge radio collection, or just repair things for other people, or resell them? I ask always myself where all the restored set land... So, a 15th August question :)
I have about 20 radios in various places (including friends’ studios, etc.). I have a friend who has actually sold quite a few of mine for me as I don’t want to get involved in that activity. In recent years, I’ve had more and more radios brought to me by friends (and friends of friends) to restore, so those go back home when I’ve had my fun with them 😊
Forgot to mention: E/A is Ein/Aus.
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Hey mate. Was this actually made in Portugal? we used to have really good receivers made here.
have a great week and 73s
According to Radiomuseum, they actually did make these in Portugal as well as in other places. Didn’t even remember to check that.
But such a radio would have been good when the Hungarian broadcast of the Free Europe radio was still broadcasting.
Yes, it really picks up everything.
Hi Manuel. Nice radio! Looks like a fun project. I have a Minerva (Grundig Austria) that was quiet on FM which turned out to be a bad FM detector transformer where the little capacitor inside has gone off-spec. I can´t find a replacement part, so I hope you have better luck for this old girl!!
Hope lives eternal. Also reminds me of “‘n boer mask ‘n plan …” 😊
After your price comment I checked ebay I can't believe the prices, one person is selling jest an 3400 antenna for the price of what one mite get for the hole receiver. Greedy speculators are ruining the e-bay radio hobbyist market.
It’s getting crazy out there 😊
Good morning sir
Plz inform your address
I have radio 3400
Overall repair
I only do personal projects
Would you willing to repair one as a service? It used to belong to my dad and now it is my inheritance.
I’m afraid getting it to and from Madeira is really expensive and risky. I also have a lot of personal projects on my plate right now, so time is scarce.
I’m also an admirer of your work and would love for you to fix my radio - I understand you have allot on your plate but would it be something you’ll be interested later on in the year???? Also I’m based in the UK so do you have any recommendations for anybody over hear that can do a job of similar quality?
My suggestion in the UK would be Graham (Radiocruncher). Getting things over here is a problem for two reasons: shipping cost and customs. I’ve had lots of problems with trying to convince customs that I’m not buying the radios 😊
Congrats on the new radio Manuel. Are you sure it wasn't all your drooling that hasn't shorted out the audio ? :-}}
could be 😊
i have satellite 3400 radio, i bought in 1986 upto 1993 it worked very well. in 1993 there was some problem in the FM i checked 30 voltage DC, change the capacitors but its still not working, send me the solution. All other short waves is working except FM. right now radio is in pakistan. i will go there afetr 6 months. radio repairing is my hobbie, i repair alot of radio like Murphy, Phillips, Telefakin, Bluepankit, Tesla, and lots of other radio. I start this hobbie in 1968, I work in vaccume tube radio and transistors. this is my short introduction. this is all written by my son.
I hope this video series will give you the answers to repair yours.
The big problem nowadays is that when people find something ”old”, or looking old in their attic, they think they found the 7th wonder of the world and they ask insane money for it. When everyone begin to act like that, thenmarket gets completely biased to the point even a non-working pile of crap from the eighties that practically needs a total overhaul gets sold like if it was a lamborghini countach. Not saying this particular radio is crap, far from that but you get the point. People are just too greedy and also so very dumb in general.
Agreed 😊
One quick question: so many of these 3400's have grey, smoky plastic windows. It looks as though you have something of this sort with yours. Were you able to bring them back to being clear again or is the smokiness internal to the acrylic and therefore not restorable?
I think it can be polished with plastic polish.