Repairing vintage audio is appealing to me as well. With a litle bit of knowledge you can replace most of the components. If I could not find the schematics of it and visually I dont see burn marks or exploded caps, I stop.

http://www.repairfaq.org/REPAIR/F_tshoot.html   Many information about electronical repairs you can find here. Maybe there are better sites, but this is a good starting point I think. 

That's a collosally useful site, thankyou so much :) Pretty much exactly what I needed.

Might be a good idea to purchase an electronics project lab or set, this will familiarise yourself with the basics and you can build little radios and transistor amplifiers etc.

Not sure there is a website offering exactly what you want, (lots regarding throry though so start reading these!) so you will just have to pull lots of faulty stuff apart and see if you can put what you learnt about components to the test.

Step1 wrote:

Might be a good idea to purchase an electronics project lab or set, this will familiarise yourself with the basics and you can build little radios and transistor amplifiers etc.

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Step1 wrote:

Might be a good idea to purchase an electronics project lab or set, this will familiarise yourself with the basics and you can build little radios and transistor amplifiers etc.

link has kits for beginners

I like the

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I like the old school stuff :)

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that was my starter long ago ... 😂

Step1 wrote:

I like the link stuff :)

Me too - I got one of the link from my father around 1979. He brought it from Germany and so most of the material was in German, which slowed me down a bit because I was eleven or something 😁

I had plenty of fun with it and amended it with components salvaged from old radios and TVs (in those times you could bicycle to a junkyard and pick up anything you wanted...) - my heart breaks every time I visit the facilities of today and see all the stuff that is going to be "recycled" 🙁

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Step1 wrote:

I like the link stuff :)

Me too - I got one of the link from my father around 1979. He brought it from Germany and so most of the material was in German, which slowed me down a bit because I was eleven or something 😁

I had plenty of fun with it and amended it with components salvaged from old radios and TVs (in those times you could bicycle to a junkyard and pick up anything you wanted...) - my heart breaks every time I visit the facilities of today and see all the stuff that is going to be "recycled" 🙁

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I know how you feel Mika it is rediculous that all this good stuff is simply destroyed... You use to be able to grab stuff at my local refuse centre (although it was never 'allowed' they generally turned a blind eye) but now they have changed it so you can't reach the stuff :(

@hemenex our sets had components attached to a large piece of colourfull cardboard whos pins were attached to little springs that you would bend and feed wire into. Later they provided breadboards I think... I will be purchasing for my son when I feel he is ready!

Step1 wrote:

Søren Mexico wrote:

Step1 wrote:

Might be a good idea to purchase an electronics project lab or set, this will familiarise yourself with the basics and you can build little radios and transistor amplifiers etc.

link has kits for beginners

I like the link stuff :)

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