Thanks for your kind comment. More to come so thanks for watching

Useful tip thanks. It can be difficult to get hold of

Thanks Andrew, appreciated

Hi Jim. Im glad my video helped you out with you 2010D. They are tricky to work on as that FFC cable is so fragile. Well done fixing it and fingers crossed it keeps going for many years to come. 73 Graham

Thanks Andrew she will be sadly missed. All the best Graham

Thanks for that Rob. Yes all good here and keeping busy. Thanks for watching. Graham

Thanks Chris. I have plenty of work on at the moment with 6 repairs in and another 2 on the way. Just need a puppy sitter and chicken feeder to get back up to full strength! Cheers Graham

They are pretty tricky to work on Peter and beware of those film cables. Thanks for watching

Hi Simon. Yes those antenna wires were a real pain. I ended up taping them on temporarily with insulating tape after soldering them back on a couple or times. Strange that freezing your output sorted it permanently. Thanks for watching

Thanks Mike. A very complex radio and j was glad to get to the bottom of it

Hi Mike. I was wondering how you had got on with the RP18 and assume the resistors did the trick. The Sony certainly has been very tricky to work on. I did a restoration on a blue R200 recently for a customer. A bit unusual as it had woodworm! The Hacker VHF Herald is a lovely set if that's what you have and well worth restoring. I'm sure Jon will get you sorted soon as his replica knobs look great. Keep up the good work and thanks for watching. All the best Graham

A great radio as most of Sony products are .

Hi Jack. I hope you are well. Slowly getting back to normal here. The video I put out a while ago was of the same radio asking for help so is a bit of a spoiler for this series. I shot a lot of footage showing the process of elimination to get to that stage. Thanks for watching

Ima dork, all I had to do was look one video back and I will find my answer! :) All is well here, thanks for asking! I fully understand where you're at...just take your time...it will get a little easier....cheers mate! ~Jack, VEG

Thanks for your comments Leonard. I will have to review the footage. In some clips my 3D printer is going in tha background so it may be that. Thanks for watching, Graham

Hi Leonard. I have reviewed the footage and there does seem to be a hiss throughout the video. I will have a look at the original. Thanks for pointing it out.

Apologies if I got them the wrong way around. I am so used to making the battery packs now with the stud as the positive. So I should have wired the female connector as positive. Please let me know directly if you need any bits that I make and if you need a part for the multimeter let me know. Kind regards Graham

Bless you Graham and thanks, but I'll sort the multimeter, it can't be anything too serious. The display on it lights up, but I'm not getting anything out of the probes. There is only one chip on the board that is completely obsolete, but I don't think it's that. Anyway, I'll let you know how we get on. Keep up the good work. Wayne and Nina.

The little piece was part of the FFC connector

Hi Ron. I used a full HD camcorder for this video. I’ve changed equipment since I started live-streaming though

That’s a shame. It could be an issue with the capacitors as these sets are getting old now

This was the 1st one I had ever taken apart and I didn’t know the radio very well. Thanks for watching though

Hi and thanks, shes sadly missed. The plugs are mostly connected to a jack board. How have they failed? You may need a replacement board unless you can source pcb mounted replacements

I stripped it down and found it was a little dirty inside. Now when I plug in jack plug with wire to it on Shortwave its great but on long wave and medium wave it causes the radio to be dead, without the jack plugged in MW and LW are good. But plugging in a wire always used to make MW/LW better. What may have gone wrong please?

You will have to get the service manual and trace the components back along the Jack plug traces. There may be a resistor gone open circuit

That would fetch a good amount if you were to sell it. Very nice radios

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Hi Wayne. There is a product called fader lube that works well. It would have to be taken apart to be done though. There is a 2010/ 2001D group on groups io. If you join that then there is a repairer on there in the USA that should be able to help. Good luck, Graham

@@Radiocruncher Hi Graham Thanks for the info., this 2001D is a complex radio. Like a Rolex watch. Just don't want the mob down the street working on it. For it's time, the 2001D was a pretty darn good advanced radio. It wasn't cheap thought. Even at a duty free shop. Cheers Wayne

They are great radios and I have a few of them here. I’ve just finished an extensive repair on one for a group member

@@Radiocruncher Hello radio cruncher Yes, these radios are truly great radios. The radio sits on my nightstand now for 36 yrs. Eventually I'll get it serviced. As you know. This is not the kind of radio you have the mob down at the corner work on. You may agree. The antenna is the weak link in the chain. Not as sturdy as it could be. However, the Antenna stays folded all the time. Cheers Wayne

Could be the power supply capacitors. Sounds like the PLL is going out of lock

@@Radiocruncher Thank you. Another owner looks to have experienced exactly the same issue I am experiencing: "When I turn the radio on, it starts at 150kHz. I can then tune up all the way to 30 MHz with no problem, receiving station all the way up the dial, as long as I do all of my tuning with the tuning knob. However, as soon as I press any button (except the battery test button, which performs as it should), the whole radio locks up entirely, and goes to 150 kHz and the a8 memory position is listed. The tuning knob no longer works at this point either. If I turn the radio off and then turn it back on, the radio remains frozen on 150 kHz, no button works, and the tuning knob doesn't work either. If I take all the batteries out, and leave them out overnight, then put them back in the morning, I'm back to square one above - the radio works fine with the tuning knob, but as soon as I press a button, everything locks up".

Sounds like this could be a complex fix. Start by replacing the caps. There could be an issue with the flat film cable not seating properly or damaged. Hopefully not as these are irreplaceable

​@@alparslanesmer4251Idk if you still have the radio, but if the board is somehow warped or the a8 button contact is failing so that it would make permanent contact, would you not end up with the radio not wanting to tune anywhere else and be blocked in that function (a8 engaged and holding)? Might be stupid or naïve, but that just popped in my mind, reading about your experience. Not even sure what I say makes any sense. If you try manual tuning and then, in the process, use a8 to save any chosen frequency, and the radio blocks in that position, then that would probably confirm a sticky contact on a8. Or dismiss if it doesn’t and the radio gets back to 150, and blocks from there. Then I have no idea.

And, that job looks like a royal pain in the ass.

Hi Joe. Yes it's a bit out of my comfort zone but I will have a go at most things. This is the radio that I needed the crystal for. Luckily I did manage to find one. Regards Graham

Average Joe Hi nice to see your still keeping it real ! LOL

Hi Paul. Drop me an email to graham@radiocruncher.com and let me have some detail. Thanks Graham

@@Radiocruncher I will email you soon, my Sony aw 07 speaker is very quiet and distorted, and not as loud as it should be, do you think the speaker needs replacing?

Thanks for the info. I do have the service manual for this radio but the online reference is very useful

Yes, the "AA" "computer batteries" *must* be installed, if you want it to power up, regardless of whether you are attempting to run it with the "D" batteries or the A/C adapter.