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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on July 2, 2017 at 10:39am

Post a couple pics of the electronics and slider in question.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Williams on July 2, 2017 at 1:49pm

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Permalink Reply by Joe Williams on July 2, 2017 at 11:32am

I'll have to get to that a little later, on the way out. Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Tom T on July 2, 2017 at 12:05pm

There is a group dedicated to radio amp conversions. Check it out at Radio Amp Group

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on July 2, 2017 at 12:16pm

If it has a cassette player, the simple way is to tap into the tape head wires, or even easier, plug into an aux port if it has one

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Permalink Reply by Mike on July 2, 2017 at 1:13pm

darryl - apologies in advance if this is a dumb question. i knew about the tape head tap but intrigued by the aux port. Can you just hook up to that on an old stereo?

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on July 2, 2017 at 1:26pm

Mike, the aux port is usually an input unless it's marked aux out, if you have 1 you just need a jack adapter 1/4" to 1/8" or whatever size your aux input is

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Permalink Reply by Mike on July 2, 2017 at 1:36pm

Thanks for the confirmation. For some reason my brain refused to believe it was that simple!

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Permalink Reply by Joe Williams on July 2, 2017 at 1:53pm

It only has a headphone output.

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on July 2, 2017 at 2:02pm

Tape heads are probably easiest to get to, but volume inputs will also work, best way to test is probably make a couple of jumper leads with alligator clips on one end and a jack socket on the other, one other thing, does it have a mic in port? that will also work, but most likely a stereo input, so you'd need a stereo to mono adapter to utilise both speakers

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Permalink Reply by JL on July 5, 2017 at 3:23am

a little careful poking around the slider, you will likely find its solder/contact points on the back side of the board.  they work just like the barrel type potentiometers we use for volume/tone knobs.

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