🔊 Powerful Obscure 80's Mini Boombox (1980's Daytron RCS-7020 | Repair, Restore, Fix)
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- $20 Goes A Long Way...
This is a Daytron RCS-7020, I don't know the exact year but I'm certain it's from the 1980's, also made in Korea!
This model was sold under various other names and brands:
Grundig PC-5022
Clever RCS-7020
Magnasonic CPS-907
This is the only one I've seen on sale on eBay, and I bought this when I didn't really know anything about boomboxes, I just thought it looked cool and it was super cheap.
It's in very decent shape however it's not without its issues. For one when I plugged it in it wouldn't output any sound at all! I later found this out to be user error (stupidly!) as I was plugging in the speakers (which are detachable!) to the phono/aux inputs, so of course they're not going to work that way. It's quite rare for such a small and cheaper boombox to not only have detachable speakers, but also an aux input, so I figured there was no way this thing had a line in. It's quite fully featured for being so small, and one thing I can say it is extremely powerful and loud. This amp is way overkill for these tiny speakers.
The tuner also needed to be looked at, as when you turned the knob the knob would keep turning however the tuning needle would stay relatively in the same position, it was simply stuck. Another issue was that the "phono" button was stuck down.
Thirdly the cassette player did spin however it did not sound good and I replaced the belts in there as well. After that I tuned the motor to spin at the correct speed and it ended up sounding great.
Upon cleaning the sliders and switches I ended up accidentally breaking the left channel slider, so I had to take it apart and figure out how to fix it. Thankfully I was able to do this as one of the only real downsides of vintage gear is that for a lot of these knobs and switches it's very hard to get replacement parts unless you've found another unit to pull working things from.
I have a whole slew of boomboxes to show you guys with a lot of mods and upgrades in the future, so stay tuned!
Thanks for watching!
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00:00 - Intro \ Issues
04:02 - Clean
06:09 - Teardown
13:10 - Tuner Fix
15:13 - Slider Fix
21:02 - Cassette Fix
22:29 - Test It
26:06 - Reassembly \ Outro
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Interesting format, would love to see more repair videos from you.
Would also interesting to put some lipo cells in there for a rechargable boombox :D
Thanks man! I have a lot more repair videos coming up too! It would be cool to convert one to lipo, I'm sure I will do it in the future 🍻
Some modern speakers replacement and this thing booming
Thanks man! 100% this is getting a speaker upgrade, coming soon!
Had a magnavox back in the 80's. Love to find something similar. Cool score
You should search around, I've found a ton of deals out there so far. Thanks man!!
@hightech-lowlife might do it over the winter. I just remember making mix tapes and taking it with while shredding on the bmx back in the day.
@@kirkoglesby6175 I just bought some tapes to record a bunch of stuff on, there's something satisfying about cassettes. That's awesome man, you should totally find one and get it going!
@hightech-lowlife these folks today won't know nothing about spending an entire day waiting to record the next song for a mix tape. I never gave it a second thought. Lol
@@kirkoglesby6175 It seems like it would be annoying and tedious, but I can't tell you the satisfaction of waiting for hours listening to the radio just waiting for that one song to come on so you could grab it and be able to listen to it forever 🍻
I used your music in my latest review video. Hope you get more exposure. Thanks again!
Awesome man, thanks!
love the commitment.. not the kind of box i would put any love in.. has to at least have separate Bass/Treble controls.. but if you learn from it.. it's not a bad thing.. i see a JVC PC-550 in the background along with a Sanyo C-60.. the JVC is a beast.. and the Sanyo is quite a rare unit.. great video..
Thanks man! You definitely know your boomboxes! I have since upgraded this Daytron with modern speakers and now it rivals the Sony, it may actually sound better. I have a video on that upgrade (I did even more mods to it than speakers) but I haven't posted the video yet. The JVC sounds great, and that Sanyo I got for like $20 it's decent but is missing the cassette door, I 3D printed my own door but it's not the same. Thanks for watching 🍻
@@hightech-lowlife post them they are good vids..
@@kyfeam Thank you, I will I just have a large backlog of videos as editing and processing after the filming takes about 70% of the time for a project 👍
Commenting before the little kids say first
Most of my 'other' (non ebike) videos don't get a lot of views/comments so you may be only making 2 or 3 little kids cry 👍 😅 I appreciate it though man, thanks!