Help With A Stereo Amp
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 2:51 am
So my mother runs a consignment store and managed to get a record player and stereo mixed amplifier. I plugged the beast in and it works, mostly, it's especially quiet and i'm thinking some of the internal components are tired.
Anyways; I own it now and I've been trying to get it disassembled so I could at least look at the innards to see if theres anything obviously wrong with it, the only problem that I'm running into is that it's proving difficult to take it apart. the electronics are mounted on a piece of ply-wood, there are screw on the back and on the bottom which i've unscrewed. the plywood didn't budge so i took the nobs off as gently as i could to see if that helped. it didn't. so now i'm wondering if there's some way to get into this particular amplifier that i'm not aware of.
the screws in the back let loose a pressure board panel that showed four more screws and a bar that mounts the banana plugs and rca plugs that the speakers and record player use to connect to it. i tried pulling gently but it did not move, i seem to be looking at it from the backside as i just see a large heatsink and there are no other screws that i can get to inside of the case. the bottom screws loosened the plywood from the actual wooden case but when i tried pulling it out of the case it still would not move.
the amplifier is a general electric series 5000 stereo amplifier. I've tried Google-ing this but came up negative.
i'm hoping that i can figure out the correct way to do this, projects in which i'm taking devices apart very rarely leave the device in aesthetically pleasing states and more often than not in non-functioning conditions and this thing is honestly too beautiful for that fate.
Anyways; I own it now and I've been trying to get it disassembled so I could at least look at the innards to see if theres anything obviously wrong with it, the only problem that I'm running into is that it's proving difficult to take it apart. the electronics are mounted on a piece of ply-wood, there are screw on the back and on the bottom which i've unscrewed. the plywood didn't budge so i took the nobs off as gently as i could to see if that helped. it didn't. so now i'm wondering if there's some way to get into this particular amplifier that i'm not aware of.
the screws in the back let loose a pressure board panel that showed four more screws and a bar that mounts the banana plugs and rca plugs that the speakers and record player use to connect to it. i tried pulling gently but it did not move, i seem to be looking at it from the backside as i just see a large heatsink and there are no other screws that i can get to inside of the case. the bottom screws loosened the plywood from the actual wooden case but when i tried pulling it out of the case it still would not move.
the amplifier is a general electric series 5000 stereo amplifier. I've tried Google-ing this but came up negative.
i'm hoping that i can figure out the correct way to do this, projects in which i'm taking devices apart very rarely leave the device in aesthetically pleasing states and more often than not in non-functioning conditions and this thing is honestly too beautiful for that fate.