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#1765 Sony ICF-SW1E Radio Repair
#1765 Sony ICF-SW1E Radio Repair
#Sony #ICFSW1E #Radio #Repair
“IMSAI Guy”
Episode 1765
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I have had that radio in the UK since it was launched here and I am still using it every morning. One of my dearest possessions. I also needed to recap it about 15 years ago and corrosion had damaged some of the traces but I managed to complete the repair regardless. It has one of the most stable clocks I have ever had. I’m sure you will enjoy it as much as I have done.
I've an old ICF-7600D that I bought back in 1987 or so while on a trip to Australia and NZ. Saw it in some shop there, and couldn't resist. I was already spending too much money on this trip to the other side of the planet, so what the heck is few more $$$.. It's dead now, but I'm sure there's angry caps awaiting me inside.
get an ICF-SW7600 with the SSB option, and tactswitch front panel. Not the membrane switch panel, because that's crap. If you can feel a definite click when you push the buttons on the front panel, it's the tactswitch variant, which will outlast you and you can give it as inheritance. This variant is made with the tantalum capacitors, which never leak and are quite reliable.
I'm glad you got this going again. Thanks for sharing your fix!
Ast here, Ex-Sony bloke. I can definitely attest to the fact that these are very cramped to work on. 🙂 Nice little radios though. Probably worth mentioning that it might be worth putting down something like a microfibre cloth for the facia as these do get easily scratched, and that would be a shame.
I was watching you slide the front face of that “perfect” condition little radio on the bench and cringing 🙁
I use a leather / suede sheet to stop any scratchy damage during repairs.
Nice job though 👍🏻 I have the same little gadget and did that same repair about 10yrs back😉
I have similar story and I bought a Minolta Dimage 5 digital camera before they where a thing here in the UK, in fact the English version of software hadn't been released and I had to wait a couple of weeks !
I've got a larger Sony ICF-SW7600G that must be from the same era since the UI is similar. I thought it'd died for the usual problem, an electrolytic. Watching your restoration, I checked it with four new batteries. It worked and then it didn't. It now looks like the problem is that quirky locking power switch. I'll have to see if that is fixable. It was nice to have a SW radio that could pick up SSB.
On the old FCC radiotelephone licence tests, there used to be a question – Motorboating is caused by: A) Shorted rectifier B) Leaky coupling capacitor C) Open decoupling capacitor D) Defective Evinrude circuit I guess the FCC examiners had a sense of humor.
Vacuum tubes to this. How long from here before it no longer makes sense to advance the technology? With your repairs it may last a lifetime barring accidents.
Yeah, Sony used to make some really cool stuff 👍
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