Now that her Rose is In Bloom my light hits the Doom of her glaze

You know you love repairing stuff when the effort and/or cost of repair is infinitely greater than the value of the kit. Great job, interesting video to watch. Makes me feel better when I see somebody else really struggle with a dial cord, I know it's not just me that has that problem.

Nice finished product! 11:28 I think the glue on the capacitor bottom to PCB surface was used to secure them for "wave soldering" the PCB, as larger components might move a bit when going through the mechanical process of passing the board over a liquid pool of solder, that has peaks of waves contact all of the exposed copper and component leads, as it looks like that board has been made with ( all of the joints have the same look, no real excess or lack of solder on them from what you showed). It's just too bad they used a product that causes issues over time.

I have this radio. Purch'd new in 1990. A daily driver with orig. caps. No leaks and performs well. Did replace the orig. lamp bulb with LED. Remember: SEPARATE "OFF" and "ON" buttons.

Got a pair of these last week. Both of them work fine, they just turned yellow. Got a place that gives me free electronics.

I jumped out of my chair when your hand slipped on the big pulley. 🤣

This repair and restoration is definitely a labour of love, and not for profit.

I repaired one of these a while back. It needed the backlight (I used an LED) and the power supply cap. It's been working very well since.

Those were THE THING back in their day. I remember seeing those when I was in college. Yes, I’m old…

Great video. Just a couple of points that could be helpful. Acetone may soften the glue under the caps and you could put a drop of nail polish on the knots you tied in the dial cord so it won't loosen. I've watched many of your videos always enjoyable. Thanks for your efforts.

I have one I use for my alarm clock. Haven't recapped it, but it's working extremely well.

I have an all in one Proton stereo stored in a closet that’s actually quite phenomenal

Very cool radio, very 80s... "HiFi" might be a bit of a stretch though. But much better than most other clock radios from the era for sure.

Nice!

I have one of these radios, the sound quality is amazing owned from new since 1988 and it was very expensive, only thing i ever had to do to it was replace the dial backlight bulb. dont know how the hell they managed to get such a great sound out of a speaker thats not sealed in an enclosure, these have a lovely warm and full sound, excellent radios. mine doesnt have any circuit glue or matsushita capacitors, theyre jamicon, might be because mines the 250v UK version, spray oven cleaner will remove that shitty glue mate, spray on and leave for 15minutes. theres a bulb behind that silver panel on the dial, they need to be replaced with a green diffused led and resistor.

You aren't the only one, been there burnt those strings, and regretted it. Just keep saying "electronics are fun" over and over.

If you like, you can print a copy of the scematic diagram. On that you mark out all "new" capacitors and put it in the radio for future repair. Good repair. Regards Stig Österberg from Dalsbruk in Finland.

Excellent as always Jordan Hopefully you will do a video on my Kenwood KA 7200 that is at your shop That’s going to be a challenge I believe

There was a nakamichi clock radio from this era that was pretty amazing too.

Great video as usual, thanks Jordan. Any chance you can talk about getting manufacturer diagrams? Have you done it already? Cheers

I took some of your advice and picked up a cap wizard. It's the older style with the yellow writing, you had mentioned this is better. This one does not have the cap saver board. Do you advise adding that board? Also bought the chem-wik solder wick, wow does this work so much better!

What’s the little hole on the front for (under the clock, but above the dial)? looks like a CdS cell with some crud on it.

I wonder if spiderwire would work for dial string?

Any thoughts on where a bluetooth receiver might best be integrated into one of these? I was thinking of having the BT take AM's place. And where to get a power source for it? Looking at the schematic nothing jumped out at me as being a rectifier, so I don't know where they're making their DC supply, but I'm a newbie.

I have a Panasonic HiFi VCR from 1984 that has some issues with the loading mechanism and the playback mechanism and it has tons of those purple and bluish purple Matsushita capacitors on all of the logic boards in the VCR. I wonder if those caps would cause some of the issues I'm having with my VCR? The VCR I'm referring to is a PV-1730.

Well done jordan. i also hate over complex stringing. You think its great untill it locks up and sticks its tongue out

Did you get rid of the 20+-year-old battery?

I may have seen it wrong, but that backup battery appeared to be dated 2002.

I messed up one those tuning strings never right after that

I feel like the dial string part took longer than the recap :(

initial thought: Holy jEEpers did a car crash into the livingroom wall onto it?? 😱

Radio Is made in Japan correct? A shot of the name plate would be cool.

I wonder if the original owners of electronics ever catch their old device being repaired on KZfaq. I can spend hours watching other people work on stuff while my "to do" pile gets bigger and bigger!

Does anyone know of anyone that will refurbish Proton 320's? Nothing major, just cleaning, replacing dial plug, and replacing items (capacitors?) that fail after 35 years.

I've fixed a lot of consumer electronics during the years but never been as good at knitting as you. Hence my extremely fat hairy hands

A piece of aluminum foil around the dial cord will prevent accidents like this from happening.

Your capacitaters stopped capacitating