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Wanted: Band Switch Rocker Arm Lever from Grundig 5399 or 8000-series Radio [Repair]
I’m having trouble coming up with a replacement part necessary to bring my client’s Grundig 5399U/S back to life, so I turn to the Internet to help.
Part of the band switch assembly is a rocker arm which spans the length of the chassis and allows the radio to switch between AM and FM. This piece of the mechanical linkage was made with very poor-quality metal on the Grundig 5399 radio and the part has degraded into dozens of tiny pieces which cannot be readily reassembled. If anyone reading this has, or knows where to locate, a Grundig 5399 rocker arm or pattern to recreate one please leave a comment and I’ll be in touch.
The rocker arm from any Grundig 8000-series console chassis from the mid 1950s is also a suitable replacement, and I am interested in any 8000-series parts chassis if one of those is available as well. The part looks like this:
Leave a message if you have any leads! Thanks.
July Projects
July is always a pretty busy month – it’s finally summer in the Pacific Northwest and so my attention is divided between my electronics work and spending time in the great outdoors. I have a few things in the pipeline for the month of July which I hope to accomplish.
First, a client has brought me their Grundig 5399U/S radio from 1965 for repair. It has some severe mechanical issues and is currently holding for parts, but it will be featured in a repair article later if they come through.
I’ll also be fixing this Bose 901 Series 1 Active Equalizer, brought to me by a friend whose vintage hi-fi speakers started to experience distortion. It turns out modern capacitors can fail too!
Finally, I hope to fix up my early ~1931 General Electric J-105 antique radio. It’s in beautiful cosmetic shape looking like it just rolled off the showroom floor, but the electrics are predictably dead after 81 years and will need reconditioning.
