A bit of microsurgery Graham. I am away from home at the moment so playing catch up. I'll be interested to see how well the repair goes. I hope you and Mrs Cruncher feel better quickly/
To remove the ribbon cable, push back the tabs around the front boards and take the two boards out together. This gives you access to the flex cable connector. there is a subercap/battery on the one of the front boards. after all that you are left with the speaker surround clipped to the back board. I took mine apart as per the service manual and discovered that between the display and the board there is a rubber zebra strip which hours the get refitted properly. Also looking at the two front boards from the display side there is a clip on the right hand side of boards.This clip connects both boards together. ATB
Hi Graham. It's taken all day, but I've finally finished watching. Great advice on the 2001D and groups IO. When I picked mine up 10 days ago it was showing Error 3. I thought what have I spent all this money on. I was very glum on the long drive back. I found groups IO and joined up when I saw all the things you can do to them. I hard wired the batteries and it came to life fully. The 95 year old gentleman I bought it from said it had been in the cupboard for 25 years. Great radio. All the high end Sony radios are as rare as hens teeth here. You had to go to the 1 Sony shop, or special order them. I look forward to the videos on your mods, although I might be reluctant to mod it as it is so original - even the LEDs are bright, so it didn't get much use. Hope the dreded lurgy goes away soon in the house. Andrew
Hi graham well done on a great stream which I enjoyed watching I am sure Clint will be delighted with his radio when complete hope you and Mrs cruncher are feeling better Daniel
great publication, thank you for your work. Please expand the subtitle options next time. Normally, automatic translation appears in youtube settings. but it didn't appear in your video.
Hi Graham, thx for that great video! Heard a lot about recapping old SONYs with tantalums, but first time I actually saw it being done on an SW55. Did SONY eventually fix the issue with those SMD electrolyte caps over the course of the production period, or are all SW55 gonna run into it at some point? Mine's a 100k+ serial number, still in daily use and no symptoms so far whatsoever, but I'm wondering if I should go for a preventive recapping...what would you recommend? Thanks, and looking forward to today's stream -- I love that moment when broken old radios come back to life after repair. Fingers crossed 🤞 73 de DD6TY, Falk
Hi Falk. Sadly all the SW55's and SW77's suffer from bad caps. You need to get yours done really as it can really damage the PCB which can be costly to repair. All the best Graham
welcome back my distant friend, you and mrs Cruncher take care
Thanks very much Graham! I almost managed to stay the course but my XYL had other ideas! 73, Clint
You’re welcome Clint. Fingers crossed that it will work once again
A bit of microsurgery Graham. I am away from home at the moment so playing catch up. I'll be interested to see how well the repair goes. I hope you and Mrs Cruncher feel better quickly/
Thanks David. Yes I do enjoy a bit of a challenge but I'm confident that it will solve the problems
To remove the ribbon cable, push back the tabs around the front boards and take the two boards out together. This gives you access to the flex cable connector. there is a subercap/battery on the one of the front boards. after all that you are left with the speaker surround clipped to the back board. I took mine apart as per the service manual and discovered that between the display and the board there is a rubber zebra strip which hours the get refitted properly. Also looking at the two front boards from the display side there is a clip on the right hand side of boards.This clip connects both boards together. ATB
Thanks for the pointers. Luckily I got it all apart safely. Regards Graham
Just been catching up too. Very good livestream on the miniature components!
Thanks Geoff. Tricky work but once you get the old caps off it's plain sailing
Hi Graham. It's taken all day, but I've finally finished watching. Great advice on the 2001D and groups IO. When I picked mine up 10 days ago it was showing Error 3. I thought what have I spent all this money on. I was very glum on the long drive back. I found groups IO and joined up when I saw all the things you can do to them. I hard wired the batteries and it came to life fully. The 95 year old gentleman I bought it from said it had been in the cupboard for 25 years. Great radio. All the high end Sony radios are as rare as hens teeth here. You had to go to the 1 Sony shop, or special order them. I look forward to the videos on your mods, although I might be reluctant to mod it as it is so original - even the LEDs are bright, so it didn't get much use. Hope the dreded lurgy goes away soon in the house. Andrew
Had one of them Clint it warbeled on ssb great to see you
Looks like this one has the same issue. Check out part 2 near the end
Hi graham well done on a great stream which I enjoyed watching I am sure Clint will be delighted with his radio when complete hope you and Mrs cruncher are feeling better Daniel
Thanks Daniel. I think maybe Clint has no finger nails left by now😁
@@Radiocruncher no I bet it’s been a roller coaster hasn’t it. Hope you Mrs cruncher are feeling better now Daniel
@@danielrussell446 Getting there slowly. It's taking ages to shift
great publication, thank you for your work. Please expand the subtitle options next time. Normally, automatic translation appears in youtube settings. but it didn't appear in your video.
Hi Graham, thx for that great video! Heard a lot about recapping old SONYs with tantalums, but first time I actually saw it being done on an SW55.
Did SONY eventually fix the issue with those SMD electrolyte caps over the course of the production period, or are all SW55 gonna run into it at some point? Mine's a 100k+ serial number, still in daily use and no symptoms so far whatsoever, but I'm wondering if I should go for a preventive recapping...what would you recommend?
Thanks, and looking forward to today's stream -- I love that moment when broken old radios come back to life after repair. Fingers crossed 🤞
73 de DD6TY, Falk
Hi Falk. Sadly all the SW55's and SW77's suffer from bad caps. You need to get yours done really as it can really damage the PCB which can be costly to repair. All the best Graham