Dansette RT111

[DrStrangelove]

Since it's rained all day so gardening is out of the question I fixed my ancient Dansette RT111 little red radio.

I've owned it for knocking on for 60 years and it's been variously potched about with over that time.

Quite why there was one of those horrid pcb type 680R resistors tacked on under the pcb is a mystery.

Maybe it was the only resistor I could find at the time, and it was 2nd hand at best, out of some defunct pcb or other.

Replaced with a totally anachronistic modern 680R from stock.

I did some shockingly poor work 50 odd years ago.

The poor old thing is also full of 'orrible Hunts, and those multicoloured Plessey electrolytics but it still soldiers on.

Or will until LW is turned off.

[ppppenguin]

I did some shockingly poor work 50 odd years ago.

Didn't we all. At least those of us who are old enough to have wielded a soldering iron back then.

While 'orrible 'unts might work OK in a low voltage radio, those Plessey horrors are strictly shoot on sight.

[DrStrangelove]

I might potch about with the Murphy pocket radio next: it's full of AF11X tin whisker specials.

And it's as dead as a dodo now.