DISCOLITE Boombox Sound Test Before & After
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Lately, I have been working on DISCOLITE restoration + Bluetooth mod. It had many broken parts inside out and a loud noise problem on the tape function. After 60 hours of work, I thought I finished work well, but when I did the sound test with my precious HITACHI demo tape, the DISCOLITE ate it. I noticed it right away and stopped playing the tape, so the damage to the tape was minimal. Then I spent another 16 hours and 4 more tapes destroyed, I finally finish tuning up the cassette deck.
Probably I will make a video for the detail work, however, I am working on the next one and had no time to edit video. So I decided to make a short sound test video.
I uploaded pictures and short video clips on Instagram while I was working with this machine. Subscribe it if you haven't done it.
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Demonstration tape (Hitachi original)
1) Battle of Jerico
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hi my dear friend where are you going we missed you welcome and happy to see you teddy
Long time no see! Thank you for supporting my channel!
We junked so many of these back in the day unfortunately.
Indeed. And if we are lucky we will find and rescue them!!
Beautiful things men. Welcome back.
Long time no see! thank you for your support!
Oh boy my weekend has been a weekend of going back to the 80s and one video (yesterday) was the Axel one? I'd love to own one but for me it's the light displays and personality. Modern tech is too falsely perfect. Metal pieces of art aren't they? Best box Aztec gods commanding in tempo and melody. Thanks for the videos.
Someone was selling a similar model of this on eBay for $2,500 AU (pickup only) a couple of months ago - I took one look at the pics and said "no way" (it was missing parts including a cassette door) - price was IMO way too high considering it does not have auto-reverse tape decks.
Once again you got this one working Teddy, despite losing a couple of tapes in the process. Peace be with you.
Thank you for your compliment on my work. The tape eaten problem started suddenly, it was ok while I was tuning up the speed. Anything happens when we dealing with these vintage ones!
Great job
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Nice work on restoring that beauty to its former glory! We all have to do our best to keep these classics running.
I just got one of these Disco Lite boomboxes but mine was sold under the Clip Sonic brand name. It also suddenly made that same loud humming sound when I put the selector switch into the tape setting a few days ago for the first time since I got it. It would make that sound as soon as I put the switch on "Tape," whether a tape was playing in either deck or no tape was playing. I tried turning the power off for a while and then turning it back on but the hum was still there.
Before I bought mine, the previous owner (he bought my Disco Lite brand new) sent me a video of it in operation and it made that same humming sound once in the video. Unlike the Disco Lite in this video though, my humming sound only comes through the right channel while the left channel is clean.
How did you fix that humming sound? Was it easy to fix?
I actually got the hum sound to go away when I just used the record function on the number 2 tape deck. I did not put a tape in that deck and I just left it recording for about 30 seconds and then the hum went away completely. I don't know if this will be a permanent fix but it has been about three or four days since I did that and the hum has not come back. I wonder if I have to do a more permanent fix for it like what you did. I only had this problem once so I don't know if my fix will work every time.
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I will let you know how to remove the noise.
Teddy
Аппарат такой же красивый как и МАДОННА!!!!!!
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nice that you are back👍
you haven't made a new video for a long time?
Long time no see, thank you for sporting my channel!
Wow after a very longtime...
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All show and no go, some may like it but it hurts my eyes and ears, I have renovated a Crown Sz5100 and can't wait to sell it:) Good luck to you Teddy!
Thank you Kurt!
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Thank you Hamoda!
@@teddyhashee you are more than welcome sir
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Those boomboxes were so awsome.where did you get it?
This one is my client's. But I found the other one many years ago at the estatesales. It was in the hoarding house's basement where no lights just dark, I mean pitch blackness. I spent hours in there and found it. It was in the very deep corner under the tons of trash. It was a great experience for me!! LOL.
I posted the lengthy comment below in a reply to another Disco Lite boombox video, but I thought that I would also post it here since the Discolite in this video has a very bright, white light coming from its blue woofer dust cap. Hopefully you'll find what I wrote informative and helpful.
I noticed that this one Discolite boombox has a beautiful vibrant blue light coming from its woofer dust cap:
czcams.com/video/vnIa7QN_Xm8/video.html
czcams.com/video/edm0Snot8W0/video.html
It's the only Discolite that I've seen with a nice blue woofer light and it's what immediately caught my eye. The Discolite in those two videos was sold under the Breakdancer name. That is the only one that I have seen with such a beautiful deep blue light so maybe the ones with the Breakdancer brand name have better blue dust caps. Maybe they were from a later production run by Skitronic (the company that actually made all these Discolite boomboxes sold by numerous different brands that are all now long-gone) and by then they perfected the blue dust cap.
If you want to improve your blue woofer illumination, you can do what I did and simply color the bulb blue. To do that you first have to remove the light bulb holder from the back of the Discolite. You just pull the light holder out straight without any unscrewing at all. It is just simply pressed in place. There are two little notches in the base of the holder that you can insert a flat tool into and pry the holder out straight. You have to look very closely because the two notches are hard to see since the holder is made from clear plastic.
I pulled out the bulb behind the blue woofer dust cap on my Discolite (sold under the Clip Sonic brand name) because the light coming through the dust cap was an ugly white and not blue at all. I think that this is a common problem with older model Discolites that weren't sold under the Breakdancer name. The yellow, red, and green woofer light colors all shine through bright and colorful but the blue one looks really bad and not blue at all on mine. I removed the bulb from its holder and simply colored its entire clear glass with a light blue Sharpie felt tip permanent ink pen. I pulled the bulb a little bit out of its holder and I colored its glass all the way completely down to the black heat shrink tubing that covered its base. When I was done, there was absolutely no clear glass left on the bulb. Now my woofer shines nice and blue! It's not a nice dark blue like the one in this video but it looks great considering how fast, easy, and cheap it was to do.
The hard part was applying the blue ink evenly over the entire glass light bulb surface. If you apply it too light in some spots, then more of the white light will shine through that part if the bulb and result in ugly white "blotches" on the woofer's dust cap. I had to pull out the bulb and recolor over the lighter blue parts several times. If you don't remove the bulb from the holder and color its entire glass surface like I mentioned before, then that will also result in ugly white light on portions of the dust cap, as I found out on my first try at this modification.
Also, be careful when reinstalling the light bulb holder back through the woofer magnet. If you scrape the bulb on the magnet, you can scrape some of the blue ink off of it and that will result in ugly white spots on the dust cap. It is difficult to slide the bulb holder back in place without scraping the bulb - trust me! Just take your time. If you mess up, you'll have to pull the holder out again and color over the spot on the bulb where the ink was scraped off. I know all about this step since I did it several times.
If you do this modification, make sure to use a light blue colored Sharpie pen. I first used a standard dark blue one and it blocked too much of the light. The woofer dust cap was a nice dark blue color but it was too dimly lit. The lighter blue Sharpie pen gives a sky blue color and it allows the light to shine just as bright as the three other colors.
The blue coming from my Discolite's woofer now looks just like the blue coming out of this Discolite with the ITC brand name on it:
czcams.com/video/F3jY4R9KIfo/video.html
It's not perfect like on the Breakdancer Discolites but it is now a lot better than the ugly white color that it originally had.
If you don't like the sickly white color coming from your supposedly blue Discolite woofer dust cap, then try this easy modification. If you don't like it, the blue ink can easily be cleaned off with isopropyl alcohol or nail polish remover so this modification is not permanent.
Thank you for the tip!
@@teddyhashee You're welcome!
If anyone wants to try coloring their blue Disco Lite woofer light bulb like what I did, I used the Sharpie pen color called "Blue Ice." It's shown here:
www.sharpie.com/all-markers/classic/fine/SHFineBlueIceFine
I did that modification about two months ago and my woofer is still shining a nice blue color. The color has not faded at all.
nice.
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These need to be brought back so much potential for RGB LEDs
Indeed! Thank you for your comment!
Yo quiero un Radio de esos pero me fascinan los Radios de antes
So you like old radios, me too. Thank you for the comment.
I just bought one and mine is doing exactly the same as this was. Same hum and all.
There is a simple solution for that. In the next video that I am editing now will show you.
@@teddyhashee Thank you
email me at teddy.hashee@gmail.com, I will let you know how to fix it.
Hi teddy, I just like to know if you know anything about Shadow JB 750 AKA HELIX 5000? some guy wants to sale it to me for $300 but I have no idea if is real or a fake brand.
Thanks!!!
If it is a real one, I want to buy it. To see it is real or not, you may have to go through talking seller more detail.
How can something be so gaudy and so awesome at the same time?
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А где сам процесс ремонта и восстановления как всегда ??
Yes, it will be.
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@@teddyhashee THANKS...
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Это же как игрушка была в 90- х годах.😀
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Teddy,I have a RAXA boom box that I want to have a headphone jack put in and have the blue lights put on,can you do it?? Thanks 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
I haven't done it, but there must be a way to make your idea come true.
Teddy Hashee can I send it to you to have it done??
I have a long waiting list for the restoration.
Teddy Hashee when do you think I can send it to you?? Your the very best I’ve seen😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
A year later. I am fully booked of many boombox restoration requests.
Hermosa Radio. Cómo se llama?
It named DISCOLITE, thank you for the comment.
I'd like to 3D print a frame of a Ghetto Blaster and build a bluethooth radio. With UV meters and lights.
Nice idea, I may try someday!
Hellou mister teddy i em from kazahstan
Hi, Moka. Thank you for your comment.
@@teddyhashee mhere are you from
You are a good master
Japan!
Know where is the country or Kazakhstan
I collect Japanese equipment
What's the bill?
Can not tell you since it is related to the clients privacy. Sorry but I hope you will understand it! Thank you for the comment.
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