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Radio Shack SCR-58
Saturday, November 14th, 2020 04:50 amRadio Shack Radio Cassette Player model SCR-58.
Might add photos later.
This is the radio I got at work (last year?) when they were cleaning up old cubes and giving stuff away.
The tape player was working fine when I got it, and worked for letting me record the audio from I'm not sure how many cassettes to my computer. But then something in the tape mechanism started making a rattling noise whenever I press Play or Fast Forward.
So I opened up the case to see if it was something I could fix. The screws holding the back of the case on were each a different length, quite odd. Then I needed to remove a circuit board to get to the cassette parts. The screws to remove are all helpfully coated in a red color to make them easy to see. I got the one screw on that top circuit board removed. The only other red spot was on one of the wire connections of the varicon (aka variable capacitor tuner, from what I looked up). But I couldn't figure out how that piece could come out without possibly breaking things. It has several tiny screw heads on top, but they seem to be adjusting screws, not mounting screws. The bottom of the varicon and surrounding parts were coated in a waxy substance.
So I gave up on fixing the cassette player part of it and put it back together. It's still a great little radio. On the AM radio (which I don't usually tune in to as I never find anything good playing there), before it was even picking up some people talking in French! No one anywhere near here broadcasts in French that I know of. Could it be all the way from Cajun country? Or Haiti? Or a Caribbean island? Who knows. It was too faint to make out much and now I turned the dial and lost it.
Might add photos later.
This is the radio I got at work (last year?) when they were cleaning up old cubes and giving stuff away.
The tape player was working fine when I got it, and worked for letting me record the audio from I'm not sure how many cassettes to my computer. But then something in the tape mechanism started making a rattling noise whenever I press Play or Fast Forward.
So I opened up the case to see if it was something I could fix. The screws holding the back of the case on were each a different length, quite odd. Then I needed to remove a circuit board to get to the cassette parts. The screws to remove are all helpfully coated in a red color to make them easy to see. I got the one screw on that top circuit board removed. The only other red spot was on one of the wire connections of the varicon (aka variable capacitor tuner, from what I looked up). But I couldn't figure out how that piece could come out without possibly breaking things. It has several tiny screw heads on top, but they seem to be adjusting screws, not mounting screws. The bottom of the varicon and surrounding parts were coated in a waxy substance.
So I gave up on fixing the cassette player part of it and put it back together. It's still a great little radio. On the AM radio (which I don't usually tune in to as I never find anything good playing there), before it was even picking up some people talking in French! No one anywhere near here broadcasts in French that I know of. Could it be all the way from Cajun country? Or Haiti? Or a Caribbean island? Who knows. It was too faint to make out much and now I turned the dial and lost it.