[AMRadio] SB-10 Modification (was DX-100B on Phone - bad audio distortion / oscillation)

[Rick Poole]

At 11:09 AM 12/11/2011, Tom Chesek wrote:

 >>>>>
>Really now, is this sound advice?  Wouldn't you think that someone capable
>of repairing an electronic product would be able to think up the clever idea
>of looking in the yellow pages?
<<<<<

Good morning, Tom.

Actually that was a reasonable thing for Russ to suggest.  But I have 
been down that road.  There really isn't anything anywhere near here 
that is a reliable source of parts.  No one around here, that I can 
find, does component-level repairs anymore; at best, they do board 
swapping and send the defective board back to the factory.

The closest source of parts I've been able to find is You Do It 
Electronics (affectionately known around here as "Whodunit") in 
Needham, MA, which is about 65 miles from here and usually involves 
fighting heavy traffic, and even they don't have anywhere near the 
inventory of parts they used to have... I remember the day when one 
could almost build a whole receiver or transmitter or amplifier using 
the parts available at You Do It, including chasses, cabinets, boxes, 
panels, meters, knobs, controls, just about everything, the only 
things that had limited or no stock there were transformers, 
inductors, and large variable caps, and they really catered to the 
hams... but not any more.

Rick WA1RKT