Yay Kamakiri!!

[AiboPet]

Thanks a WHOLE BUNCH for sending me the "donor" Sony 8-301W!!

Arrived yesterday.... and was PROMPTLY put to good use by swapping the first and second board to see where I was getting the "crackling fits" in the audio. Turned out this was in the second board, and NOT the little IF board I thought it was.

Saw you had some trouble with the sweeps,HV board...but also saw that you had recapped this board I took the two little 47uf/12V green bipolars (C37,C38) off yours....and they fixed the "finicky" horizontal hold on mine

Now mine is in REALLY nice shape with decent audio, nice NOT chipped up bakelite handle, all four knobs in back not "jury rigged" with shrink tubing...and I got "Sony's Fragile Baby" to behave pretty much as I suspect it did new.

The little 301 is my oldest set.....and sort of my "flagship" in my collection of very small sets. Now I can get going on the little Singer TV6U that I REALLY wanna get going (It's just SO small and COOL looking). Got the Sams already

Sorry the pic looks pretty lousy....but trust me, the picture looks GREAT on the little Sony. The little JVC "Everio" is a little HD camcorder....with pretty mediocre quality with stills