Hello everyone:
My name is Dan and I'm happy to have finally joined the forum. I have recently gotten into the vintage electronics repair space and I enjoy it very much, I am by no means a pro or expert, I just enjoy tinkering and fixing things, it gives me a certain satisfaction to take something old and broken and breathe new life into it. I'm an enthusiast that would like to broaden my electrical "know how" which is not my strongest skill. I have recently gotten into fixing vintage pioneer car radios and 8 tracks, growing up my father was a manager at Radio Shack and over the years he amassed a huge collection of old pioneer car radios and 8 tracks which he has recently given me. I have been going through the radios one by one assessing their condition and level of repair needed and then trying to fix them. I have much to learn about vintage electronics and I'm excited to go on the journey, I have many radios to repair and even more questions regarding them, but I will save that for another post. Thanks
My name is Dan and I'm happy to have finally joined the forum. I have recently gotten into the vintage electronics repair space and I enjoy it very much, I am by no means a pro or expert, I just enjoy tinkering and fixing things, it gives me a certain satisfaction to take something old and broken and breathe new life into it. I'm an enthusiast that would like to broaden my electrical "know how" which is not my strongest skill. I have recently gotten into fixing vintage pioneer car radios and 8 tracks, growing up my father was a manager at Radio Shack and over the years he amassed a huge collection of old pioneer car radios and 8 tracks which he has recently given me. I have been going through the radios one by one assessing their condition and level of repair needed and then trying to fix them. I have much to learn about vintage electronics and I'm excited to go on the journey, I have many radios to repair and even more questions regarding them, but I will save that for another post. Thanks
The unit I am working on now is a pioneer TP-900, it's brand new fresh outta the original box and packaging, but it's obviously gonna have some issues. The first noticeable issue is the #1 IC on the IF/MPX board, it basically leaked out a dark tacky substance which was at one time some kind of sealant. The problem I have run into is you can no longer find a replacement, they're just not really available. The IC that went bad was a H8D1177, so my mission right now is to find a substitute or alternative, if anyone knows a solution or maybe a different IC that I could replace it with I would love to here your opinion. I have included a couple pics of the bad IC below.
