Both radios are now working. I might be a few decades late to hear anybody transmitting but it was a fun repair. Another antenna would be needed to try getting one radio to transmit to the other but that is for another day as I have used this to procrastinate going outside all day and I should get a cycle in. #repair #cbradio

Maybe I look like a radio person now but at the last Repair Cafe in Blanchardstown library. Someone offered me a CB radio antenna without me even talking about radio. It will do nicely for this test. Seems some bits are missing but we will make do.

Being ok with a little bit of mystery, I have just taped up the two add-on wires that someone had added in the past.

New speaker installed with a little soldering.

I found a speaker that is the same resistance (8 Ω) 0.5W , similar physical size unknown if it's the same wattage. A few crocodile clips later and I can hear it's just the speaker that is blown.

Now for the radio, the sound works on the external speaker but not the internal speaker. There are two random wires that someone added on coming out of the radio. Let's open it up.

A slight tangent to show you the mechanism of the switch. Lovely!.

So it blew a load of fuses, I increased the rating on the fuse from 100 mA to 200mA and it seems fine. I adjusted the output to 13.8 volts. It seems fine now. Is it due to the age of the components that it now consumes more current?

Well it popped the new fuse right away. My digging so.