Hi all - brand new to the forum as well as vintage radios (please forgive my lack of knowledge!).
I recently inherited a Bush TR82B which I'm quite keen to see if I can get going and learn something new in the process. I've got some soldering skills (mostly from modding/repairing guitars). If it's not worth the effort it's no great loss - it looks quite pretty on the shelf anyway!
The current situation is this:
- It has a new battery in it
- Switches on, but only static comes through the speaker
- Volume and tone pots both seem to be functioning and reasonably crackle-free after some contact cleaner
- After switching between Med and Long repeatedly (to see how the mechanism worked, largely out of curiosity) it started picking up a station, albeit it with a fair amount of static. I couldn't move away from this station using the tuning dial - it was stuck on that station.
- That lasted about 10 minutes - in that 10 minutes it dropped out a couple of times, but switching to Long and back again kicked it back in.
- Now I can only very faintly hear voices and music, and it's almost all static.
The serial number is 345/06551 - I believe this is an earlier one without the AF117 transistors but I could be wrong.
Where should I start looking to diagnose its problems? Any help would be brilliant. I've attached some pictures if it makes things easier.
Thanks!