I know these have been detailed before, but this one is an exceptional example as many these days are really beat up. The front exposed switches and really large, flat acrylic viewing window are always hammered.
A Magnavox from the 1970s future. Manufactured by Sanyo (speaker sourced from Foster Electronics, another electronics manuf. in Japan) in Japan in (possibly late 1969) 1970-1971. Not fun to pull the board from this model as it is very densely packed inside. The board itself is also very densely packed with components. Not powered by a Copal movement this uses a GTC (General Time Corp) motor, but the movement itself is probably Sanyo in-house. Some of these had Rhythm motors which copied some GTC designs. This entire motor/movement setup is also found in clocks/clock radios made by York (not Yorx), Ingraham, Edison and a handful of others. These clocks are notorious for buzzy transformers, but the problem is caused by loosened mounting screws for the transformer itself. Some will show delaminated plates in the transformer, but that can be fixed by a new coat of wood lacquer to quiet the plates.
This one was in rough shape and took a lot of work to get working again.
A Magnavox from the 1970s future. Manufactured by Sanyo (speaker sourced from Foster Electronics, another electronics manuf. in Japan) in Japan in (possibly late 1969) 1970-1971. Not fun to pull the board from this model as it is very densely packed inside. The board itself is also very densely packed with components. Not powered by a Copal movement this uses a GTC (General Time Corp) motor, but the movement itself is probably Sanyo in-house. Some of these had Rhythm motors which copied some GTC designs. This entire motor/movement setup is also found in clocks/clock radios made by York (not Yorx), Ingraham, Edison and a handful of others. These clocks are notorious for buzzy transformers, but the problem is caused by loosened mounting screws for the transformer itself. Some will show delaminated plates in the transformer, but that can be fixed by a new coat of wood lacquer to quiet the plates.
This one was in rough shape and took a lot of work to get working again.
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