Sriskie
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One of these showed up on kijiji last spring with a crappy picture for FREE! Obviously their inbox exploded but I managed to get it for what I considered to be a fair price. I turns out they picked it up off the curb and he didn't know what he'd found, but figured it out pretty quick. The guy wasn't familiar with this stuff and couldn't get it to work. I'm always looking for worthy winter projects and love rebuilding Sansuis of this era so I took the plunge. Somewhere along the line somebody decided to stand it up on it's back and pinched the power cord so I just put it away for later.
Sadly some one thought it might look better if they added some custom touches to the top with a fork. I don't share their vision so a repaint was necessary.
I chemically stripped all of the covers and resprayed with Rust-Oleum Satin Black and Hammered Dark Bronze, I'm happy with the results, despite not being able to save the block diagram.
While I had it apart I repaired the power cord and did a little preliminary testing. After checking the fuses I plugged into the DBT and threw the switch. 100w bulb dimmed and relay clicked....hmmm. Bias and DC offset looked acceptable so I hooked it up and got decent sound on Aux.. Nice. Volume and balance pots scratch when turned but quite a lot of disassembly is required to get at them so that's as far as I'm going for now.
It looks like a worthy project for when the weather turns cold. My question is, does anybody have a BOM for this series? I know about the pre-driver upgrade thanks to Dr*audio as well as a few other Sansui gotchas to keep an eye out for. I'm more concerned with choosing the correct capacitor brand type. I've restored a couple of BA 2000s so my records would help up to a certain point but there's quite a bit more to deal with here. A good list for any in this series, 9900(A) or 11000(A) would help. Thanks.
Sadly some one thought it might look better if they added some custom touches to the top with a fork. I don't share their vision so a repaint was necessary.
I chemically stripped all of the covers and resprayed with Rust-Oleum Satin Black and Hammered Dark Bronze, I'm happy with the results, despite not being able to save the block diagram.
While I had it apart I repaired the power cord and did a little preliminary testing. After checking the fuses I plugged into the DBT and threw the switch. 100w bulb dimmed and relay clicked....hmmm. Bias and DC offset looked acceptable so I hooked it up and got decent sound on Aux.. Nice. Volume and balance pots scratch when turned but quite a lot of disassembly is required to get at them so that's as far as I'm going for now.
It looks like a worthy project for when the weather turns cold. My question is, does anybody have a BOM for this series? I know about the pre-driver upgrade thanks to Dr*audio as well as a few other Sansui gotchas to keep an eye out for. I'm more concerned with choosing the correct capacitor brand type. I've restored a couple of BA 2000s so my records would help up to a certain point but there's quite a bit more to deal with here. A good list for any in this series, 9900(A) or 11000(A) would help. Thanks.