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We have one of those sitting in our living room right now. Hasnt been opened in years.

If it's solid state, you might just be okay to plug it in and see whether it functions to its original standard.  If it does, I can show you some parts you can buy very cheaply that would have it running on Bluetooth.

 

If it's a vacuum tube model, it can still be converted, but it's going to very expensive to have it recapped.  Never plug in a tube model that has been sitting around unused for several years.  The caps could be bad and that means a fire hazard.

 

Solid state models also have caps, but normally, they are of much better quality and designed to be resistant to heavy humidity and other situations that would rot the older caps.

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If it's solid state, you might just be okay to plug it in and see whether it functions to its original standard.  If it does, I can show you some parts you can buy very cheaply that would have it running on Bluetooth.

 

If it's a vacuum tube model, it can still be converted, but it's going to very expensive to have it recapped.  Never plug in a tube model that has been sitting around unused for several years.  The caps could be bad and that means a fire hazard.

 

Solid state models also have caps, but normally, they are of much better quality and designed to be resistant to heavy humidity and other situations that would rot the older caps.

 

I think it broke a while ago? I dunno. It hasnt been played since i was a kid. What is it called?

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I think it broke a while ago? I dunno. It hasnt been played since i was a kid. What is it called?

Entertainment devices like this were usually called stereo consoles or Hi Fi consoles.  Comparable ones can be found on eBay.

 

To determine whether yours is tube or not, carefully open the back.  If you see little glass things that resemble light bulbs, those are tubes.  Pain the ass and really expensive to fix.  If you don't see those, it may be solid state.  That all works with transistors in place of the tubes.  That was a state of the art feature back in the 60's and 70's and so many solid state models would have that phrase printed on the face plate near the control dials.

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Entertainment devices like this were usually called stereo consoles or Hi Fi consoles.  Comparable ones can be found on eBay.

 

To determine whether yours is tube or not, carefully open the back.  If you see little glass things that resemble light bulbs, those are tubes.  Pain the ass and really expensive to fix.  If you don't see those, it may be solid state.  That all works with transistors in place of the tubes.  That was a state of the art feature back in the 60's and 70's and so many solid state models would have that phrase printed on the face plate near the control dials.

 

Nah. We had roaches real bad before i moved here and called an exterminator. Im afraid to open it.

Wonder if it can b cleaned fixed and sold. Google says its from the 1950s.

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Nah. We had roaches real bad before i moved here and called an exterminator. Im afraid to open it.

Wonder if it can b cleaned fixed and sold. Google says its from the 1950s.

 

Ick... roaches kill electronics faster than water does.  They chew on wires and gum up the contact points with their waste product.  Probably better off selling it "as is" to a collector who knows restoration.  Good news is, if you haven't seen any live bugs coming out of the unit in the past three or four years, you can at least assume that any colony inside is dead.

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