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26th Mar 2019, 2:32 pm | #1 |
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Binatone Crossworld
I have purchased one of the above, circa 1965 and working.
However, with a new battery in it, it is loud even at minimum volume. The options appear to be loud and very loud, you certainly couldn't use an earphone. I have only just started to purchase radios of this vintage, so I am not au fait with the obvious things to check. So I am appealing to the more knowledgeable to point me in the right direction. I rather naively thought that it might be the pot going closed circuit and then realised that it would never be as simple as that. So, before I go exploring, any thoughts? |
26th Mar 2019, 3:04 pm | #2 |
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Re: Binatone Crossworld
Not being familiar with the set, and at risk of stating the more-than-obvious, but you are sure you're turning the volume control not the tone?
Couple of sets have caught me out in having the controls unmarked & also having the on/off switch married to the tone control not the volume! (2 that spring to mind, Alba 532 and Sobell 519) |
26th Mar 2019, 3:20 pm | #3 |
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Re: Binatone Crossworld
The first thing to do with any old radio is to clean all the pots and switches with Servisol 10.
I have a very similar Hong Kong radio from that era, and it too develops a dodgy volume control after a period out of use. A squirt of Servisol sorts it out. |