I was walking home from work yesterday and found myself a Sanyo JCK-2600K on the curb. I saw it from a ways off... obviously was hoping it was a Sansui, Marantz or a Rotel, but still not too shabby. Had to carry that 40+ pound monster about a mile home with me.
I work at university, and it was outside some student rental housing, probably just binned by a landlord cleaning out the basement.
Did a bit of reading up about it here before I took it down to the work bench. Luckily I read a couple of threads about the external pre-amp to amp connection, the jumpers were missing, so if somebody had tried it before they might have just thought it didn't work.
Anyway, it's dirty and grungy, and presumably lived a hard life in a college house, but it's mine now.
Connected the jumpers with an RCA cable, attached some speakers and my phone as a source and tentatively plugged it in. No smoke, no sparks, no shock. And it lit right up.
Played with the tuner a bit, which seemed to work fine. Copious amounts of crackling and popping from the volume pot, but other than that everything seemed to work. Switched over to the AUX input and played some tunes off my phone. Sounded really quiet, and a bit muffled... and then I noticed the volume attenuator switch, and turned it off, and oh yes, it works... there's the volume.
About a year ago I was looking to pick up a vintage receiver, but was a bit put off by the prices of the "good" ones, and the amount of work involved in bringing back the bad ones. Dipped my foot in with a cheap MCS 3237 which showed up with one of the channels completely dead. Still have that too, and was thinking about using it to learn a bit about repair. But now I have a freebie that actually seems to work.
It needs a cleaning and a fair bit of deoxit, but it's all there, and under the grime doesn't seem to be too beat up.
Any recommendations on getting that faceplate cleaned up? What about permanent jumpers between pre-amp and amp, just use short RCAs?
Dead flies on the dial lights... good stuff.
Anyway, long time occasional lurker, first time poster. I've been sort of a casual budget audiophile since the late 90s. My current main system is an NAD C316BEE V2, Music Hall MMF 2.2 and cheap Sony CD player running through Wharfedale Diamond 225 speakers. So a nice little system, but not vintage. Have a handful of other things kicking around the house too.
I work at university, and it was outside some student rental housing, probably just binned by a landlord cleaning out the basement.
Did a bit of reading up about it here before I took it down to the work bench. Luckily I read a couple of threads about the external pre-amp to amp connection, the jumpers were missing, so if somebody had tried it before they might have just thought it didn't work.
Anyway, it's dirty and grungy, and presumably lived a hard life in a college house, but it's mine now.
Connected the jumpers with an RCA cable, attached some speakers and my phone as a source and tentatively plugged it in. No smoke, no sparks, no shock. And it lit right up.
Played with the tuner a bit, which seemed to work fine. Copious amounts of crackling and popping from the volume pot, but other than that everything seemed to work. Switched over to the AUX input and played some tunes off my phone. Sounded really quiet, and a bit muffled... and then I noticed the volume attenuator switch, and turned it off, and oh yes, it works... there's the volume.
About a year ago I was looking to pick up a vintage receiver, but was a bit put off by the prices of the "good" ones, and the amount of work involved in bringing back the bad ones. Dipped my foot in with a cheap MCS 3237 which showed up with one of the channels completely dead. Still have that too, and was thinking about using it to learn a bit about repair. But now I have a freebie that actually seems to work.
It needs a cleaning and a fair bit of deoxit, but it's all there, and under the grime doesn't seem to be too beat up.
Any recommendations on getting that faceplate cleaned up? What about permanent jumpers between pre-amp and amp, just use short RCAs?
Dead flies on the dial lights... good stuff.
Anyway, long time occasional lurker, first time poster. I've been sort of a casual budget audiophile since the late 90s. My current main system is an NAD C316BEE V2, Music Hall MMF 2.2 and cheap Sony CD player running through Wharfedale Diamond 225 speakers. So a nice little system, but not vintage. Have a handful of other things kicking around the house too.
