Electronic Thread (if anyone is interested)

[SkinsFTW]

I used to buy old electronics just to see if I could fix things and resell them but mostly I ended up buying a lot of junk that for the most part I never even tried to fix. I did repair some of the more expensive items but not everything.

I did end up repairing and improving an old Sansui 8080 and some old 60s Marantz amps to resell but most of my stuff just ended up piling up in the attics of my parents houses since I was a world explorer, aka Navy dude.

Today I found this one in my pile and its got a problem in one channel but I can't believe that it's still got almost all of the manufacturing tape on it.

WTF? I guess I bought this in Japan. Who else leaves the tape all over their very expensive audio system?

Look at how simple that set of electronics is! This is going to be a piece of cake

Just look at that circuit board!

 

[skinsmarydu]

Hey! That thing's SOLID STATE!!!

I went thru USN BE/E, and I'm like, "well, there are the capacitors, where's my multi-meter, probes, and a soldering iron?"

You just took me back 40 years

 

[SkinsFTW]

Hey! That thing's SOLID STATE!!!

I went thru USN BE/E, and I'm like, "well, there are the capacitors, where's my multi-meter, probes, and a soldering iron?"

You just took me back 40 years

Yeah, it's straight out of A school. What was funny though was that it's still got all the tape on it. It's basically brand new except I'll have to replace a cap or a resistor.

It's probably worth 300-400 bucks fixed. I think I got it free in Japan years ago but never checked it out.

 

[SkinsFTW]

AI likes it at least lol

The Sansui AU-555 (and its successor, the AU-555A) is a highly regarded vintage solid-state integrated amplifier from the early 1970s, known for its warm, musical sound, robust build, and versatile features like independent pre/main sections, multiple inputs/outputs, and adjustable damping factors. Despite its modest 25 watts per channel, it delivers solid performance with low distortion, making it a popular choice for vintage audio enthusiasts seeking an "uncompromised" amplifier in its power class, often requiring servicing like capacitor replacement and bias adjustment for optimal performance today.

 

[skinsmarydu]

AI likes it at least lol

The Sansui AU-555 (and its successor, the AU-555A) is a highly regarded vintage solid-state integrated amplifier from the early 1970s, known for its warm, musical sound, robust build, and versatile features like independent pre/main sections, multiple inputs/outputs, and adjustable damping factors. Despite its modest 25 watts per channel, it delivers solid performance with low distortion, making it a popular choice for vintage audio enthusiasts seeking an "uncompromised" amplifier in its power class, often requiring servicing like capacitor replacement and bias adjustment for optimal performance today.

What a find!!!
Since I've already met you, I can see the smile on your face!

 

[SkinsFTW]

What a find!!!
Since I've already met you, I can see the smile on your face!

The thing is, I already have a bunch of Sansui stuff but nothing that matches this one so I either need to sell it or find a matching set. Could be expensive.

I have this tuner but it's not a match for this older amp

https://www.theturntablestore.com/cdn/shop/files/IMG_5869.jpg?v=1709329411&width=1946

I might need to go shopping lol

 

[skinsmarydu]

The thing is, I already have a bunch of Sansui stuff but nothing that matches this one so I either need to sell it or find a matching set. Could be expensive.

I have this tuner but it's not a match for this older amp

https://www.theturntablestore.com/cdn/shop/files/IMG_5869.jpg?v=1709329411&width=1946

I might need to go shopping lol

I would have no idea how to remember test points, I'd be Easter-eggin' around...

 

[SkinsFTW]

I have this one in a box, paid 300 or so in Japan 15 years ago. Now it's going for over 1500 bux on eBay. Wtf?

Mine is much cleaner than that pic, yuk.lol and mine has a custom actual wood box. That one looks like crap.

 

[SkinsFTW]

Anyway, everyone else can use this thread to show off their shit. I will later also lol.

 

[SkinsFTW]

I would have no idea how to remember test points, I'd be Easter-eggin' around...

Yeah, it's hard remembering all that after so many years but I did have a lot of practice working on the entire 7th fleet crypto equipment at srf in Japan. I had no choice but to relearn it all and solder 100s of things there. What a pain in the ass.

Also the techs on the ships since about 2000 don't know how to do anything with their electronics. They don't teach them like they used to. They don't have a 2 year A School+ C school anymore, it's like 2-3 months.

 

[skinsmarydu]

Yeah, it's hard remembering all that after so many years but I did have a lot of practice working on the entire 7th fleet crypto equipment at srf in Japan. I had no choice but to relearn it all and solder 100s of things there. What a pain in the ass.

Also the techs on the ships since about 2000 don't know how to do anything with their electronics. They don't teach them like they used to. They don't have a 2 year A School+ C school anymore, it's like 2-3 months.

Truth be told, I had 72 hours to get to A school as a CTM, but I kept rushing through my last BE/E test. Could've spent almost 2 weeks to make sure I passed.
Instead, I EAF'd out because I hurried. I could fix the radio, no prob, but there was one question on the test that I could never get right.
Got shipped off into hurricanes and whatnot.

It is what it is.

 

[SkinsFTW]

CTM?

Some type of crypto tech?

Did you a school in Orlando? That is where the ETs and nukes went in my time 1991-1992.

It's kind of weird, they have an entire rate for crypto, then whenever it needs to be fixed they send it to me, the Electronics Tech, lol. 😂

I mean. At one point they were sending me out to Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, just to look at YOUR stuff, lol. I'm not a crypto tech but I did have the clearance.

I was the 7th fleet srf crypto custodian for a few years. Why don't they have a CT do that job?

 

[skinsmarydu]

CTM?

Some type of crypto tech?

Did you a school in Orlando? That is where the ETs and nukes went in my time 1991-1992.

It's kind of weird, they have an entire rate for crypto, then whenever it needs to be fixed they send it to me, the Electronics Tech, lol. 😂

I mean. At one point they were sending me out to Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, just to look at YOUR stuff, lol. I'm not a crypto tech but I did have the clearance.

I was the 7th fleet srf crypto custodian for a few years. Why don't they have a CT do that job?

Yup. That's what I was sayin', I flunked out of BE/E, so I never made it to A school in Pensacola, got sent to the USS Canopus instead, which has now been decommissioned and demolished and sold off.

I PAINTED THAT BITCH AND MOVED IT OUT OF 2 HURRICANES.

 

[SkinsFTW]

Almost all of my ships are now either reefs off the coast of Australia (USS Elliot+O'Brien) or razors USS Tripoli Dubuque, or crashed directly into ships 100x their size with 3-4 working radars and several lookouts, USS Fitzgerald.

I don't paint ships, but I did, on orders, needlegun away the entire ships topside foam counter radar stuff while in drydock, then I left on new orders.

I found out years later that the ship had to go back to drydock for several months because I removed the ships entire electronic countermeasure, which I did tell them about before they told me to stop asking questions and just do my job, lol.

That was the USS Elliott.