| Classic Car Radio Repair |
| Our super-equipped repair shop |
| At Classic Car Radio Repair, you can trust our work - my signature literally means it is safe to fly! Professional Avionics Technician by day, my work is under the very strict scrutiny of FAA standards and those of ISO 9001, Department of Transportation and the Aerospace Industry. Put simply, my work MUST be of the absolute highest quality, meet the most exact specifications, and withstand the intense demands of extreme temperatures and high altitudes. Pictured above is our larger bench, with four separate fully-equipped workstations. There is a high quality Oscilloscope at each station, along with AM-FM Signal Generators, Power Supplies, Stereo Analyzers, Frequency Counters, Tube and Transistor Testers, etc. This "always prepared, everywhere" approach enables us to work on several jobs without the hassle of putting one item back together and throwing it in the corner to work on another while the first one is "burning in" or waiting for parts to arrive. |
| Here is my other bench, with two workstations featuring more precision test equipment, more analyzers, a Tektronix 4 channel 350 MHz Oscilloscope, HP Distortion Analyzer - basically, everything needed to perform absolute top notch, factory quality repair and alignment on virtually any broadcast band radio or tape recording machine ever manufactured. I work at this bench for particularly critical jobs, where I can also watch TV and talk to the wife. |
| A few notes on my background and resources: |
| Well, let's see. I started my first electronics repair business at age13. Worked as tester and technician at SLM Electronics in St, Louis, Mo. (manufacturer of Crate, Ampeg and Audio Centron guitar amps and PA equipment). Bench technician at Pacesetter Electronics - maker or radio equipment for 3M, Muzak and the Illinois Farm Bureau. Played, wrote and recorded music professionally before moving to Arizona in 2003. And now very much enjoy my new day job at a licensed FAA repair station, repairing high-end Avionics equipment such as ADF (Automatic Direction Finder), DME (Distance Measuring Equipment), KDA (King Data Adaptor), RMU (Radio Management Unit), Auto Pilot and Synthesized Vision - with no end in sight to the many new challenges and learning opportunities. By the time I was working there 9 months, I led the department of 12 technicians in overall performance (especially quantity of repairs completed), and continue to do so. Here are a few of the benches I work at during the day: |
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| My resources... |
| I've been collecting books, schematics, service manuals and parts connections since I first started playing with electronic stuff. I currently have the COMPLETE sets of Sam's Auto Radio and Tape Recorder Series manuals. The Auto Radio series covers every radio installed in every car from the late 40's to 1985, with the Tape Recorder Series covering almost every 8 track, cassette and reel to reel machine made for home use. In addition, I purchase the full set of schematics and service information for every unit I run into if I don't have it already. I guess I don't need to mention that I also more than 400 books on every subject of electronics imaginable. Electronics is my living - and my intense passion. |
| Please bear in mind that I have spent a tremendous amount of time, effort and money to enable me to perform this level of quality work. I regret to say I am not the least bit generous with my parts, advice or service literature. I DON'T SELL PARTS, PERIOD. If you need a schematic or other piece of technical information on a particular unit (or even general repair advice), please do not ask me to give this information out free - there will be a reasonable fee for anything that takes me away from my paid duties at the bench. |
| Our work carries a LIFETIME WARRANTY! |
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| For a detailed list of our shop equipment, click |
| We always have hundreds of NOS radio tubes in stock! |
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