[ICOM] Looking for Parts for an IC 725

[Clif Holland]

Why are people so hesitant to check with Icom. Actually on most of their 
parts they are very reasonable. The listed display shows to be $32.51.

Clif Holland KA5IPF
www.avvid.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Wood" <ke9xq at charter.net>
To: <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:09 AM
Subject: [ICOM] Looking for Parts for an IC 725


> Greetings and Salutations Folks
>   Newbee here, so forgive please, if I don't do something according to 
> protocal, but here's one reason I joined this reflector...
>   A friend of mine just gave me a basket case IC 725 that had been damaged 
> in shipping.  It was dropped maybe on it's face, and the front panel 
> crunched in, breaking the circuit board in several places, and the LCD is 
> broken bad too...  I think I could fix the curcuit board with a dozen or 
> so soldering and bridges, but the LCD is not fixable.  I don't know what 
> ICOM would charge for this piece, but was hoping to find another basket 
> case, maybe the finals blown, or hit by lightning where I could scavage a 
> few parts.  the LCD number is
>
> #  HLC9599-01-3210
>
>  The rig came with schematic and most all the parts, except the fan, 
> knobs, filter, cabnit and all the nuts and bolts are missing.  The thing 
> was taken apart a couple of years ago, so you know the story there... 
> I've checked it over, and several of the mounting plates and such are 
> there, so If I ever did get the thing running again, I could always make 
> my own cabnit if I can't find that basket case...   The circuit board 
> looks to be double sided, (I was hoping it would not be multi layered like 
> much of the computer stuff)so the soldering while small in some places, 
> should be fairly straight forward. I don't think the straining went too 
> hard on the IC and other parts, the damage is mostly to the board itself.
>  So my question to you good people is this...   IS the LCD easily found??? 
> or might ask the second question do you know of any parts rigs laying 
> around, and I could just rebuild the thing???   Thanks for your time and 
> energy on this matter, and hope all is going well with you and yours...
> 73 and Merry Christmas
> Bill
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