No it’s actually a new radio that’s just went out of warranty. It’s surprisingly clean except all the golden modifications that were done to it, now undone.
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Scary Snake Radio "Setting Up" President Lincoln II V3
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IT just kills me, that they haven't even put the radio thru it's paces and they've handed it to a guy that could care less about what they may use it for, once it leaves their shop.
Incredible...
I've gotten several Doorstops to become workable pieces of equipment again, when others have given up.
Wow I don't particularly care for seeing this kind of work. Especially knowing that when there are parts that sit on their desk and laying in their trash can - I need to put back into the radio - to get it's heart beating again. Only, I have to reconstruct it. It seems a waste of time - but this is how I've learned to repair radios.
Incredible...
I've gotten several Doorstops to become workable pieces of equipment again, when others have given up.
Wow I don't particularly care for seeing this kind of work. Especially knowing that when there are parts that sit on their desk and laying in their trash can - I need to put back into the radio - to get it's heart beating again. Only, I have to reconstruct it. It seems a waste of time - but this is how I've learned to repair radios.
The liquid tape may likely be for protection against vibration, through-hole parts are bodged onto an SMT board, this won't make for a durable or rigid mod; not something you want for the radio in your mobile.. maybe for a stationary radio, okay.. but yeah the "hack" will work, but not in any rigid sense.
The thermal compound here is actually not needed (it works against you), it looks like someone used silicon thermal transfer pads and paste together, that's a #$@ mistake.
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Well the “hack” is part of an incomplete NPC mod. As short as the leads were and closely soldered, nothing else was needed. They did that to attempt to hide what they did, seen this from “Trucks” also. I don’t know why, why hide it, so people like it and some don’t. There’s arguments for and against it.
It’s not there now, I removed the mod and the crud trying to hide it. Now once I get this holy terror working again then I’ll put it back because that’s what the owner wants. I’m not in the business of trying to convince people one way or another, so no time shall be wasted on that. His radio, not mine.
Yes, there’s a CF going on in the back of that radio for sure. That crap will be all cleaned up and fixed like factory when I’m done with it. I don’t know WTF somebody was thinking but it looks more like they weren’t at all.
It’s not there now, I removed the mod and the crud trying to hide it. Now once I get this holy terror working again then I’ll put it back because that’s what the owner wants. I’m not in the business of trying to convince people one way or another, so no time shall be wasted on that. His radio, not mine.
Yes, there’s a CF going on in the back of that radio for sure. That crap will be all cleaned up and fixed like factory when I’m done with it. I don’t know WTF somebody was thinking but it looks more like they weren’t at all.
TRPC,
isn't there an 8 volt regulator on the same wall as the audio chip that could cause your issues?
you might try measuring the output on the collector and see if you find a flaky 8 volts there.
LC
isn't there an 8 volt regulator on the same wall as the audio chip that could cause your issues?
you might try measuring the output on the collector and see if you find a flaky 8 volts there.
LC
Yes there is. I laid it to the side to catch up some others. I’ll check it out later and let you know what I find.
I have restored 100's of door stops that others put on the parts rack. In the case of Snake I have not involved myself but after watching his videos I will say this, He is nothing more than a REPLICATOR he clearly has learned how to do what he does and whatever that is it's not anything more than assembly line techniques and he little or no knowledge of what he is doing or why it may or may not work, and whenever he runs into a radio that actually has a component level issue and requires troubleshooting skills that can only be applied if you know your way around the circuits and how they work in a radio or anything for that matter he is clearly at a loss and it is evident by the fact he can't fix the simplest problems or issues and has to sell the radio to someone that knows someone that can fix it. That is just my opinion but I have been teaching and repairing for nearly 50 years so I'm pretty sure that is all that is going on with the Snake. Please feel free and explain why I may be wrong.
My bad, I'm talking about 2 different radios at the same time here. The one I pictured is not the new out of warranty radio, that's an entirely different radio...my bad.
This one is about 50 years old and had more golden screwdrivers poked at it than, well, I guess you couldn't touch it if they were all poking out right now. How about that?
This one is about 50 years old and had more golden screwdrivers poked at it than, well, I guess you couldn't touch it if they were all poking out right now. How about that?
It's been mentioned in this video that he was on his live stream having a problem with a radio and watching Mikes Radio Repair to get the answer.
I agree with you
There are more hacky guys out there than Snake.
Take a look at Joker Man. That's truly ignorance on fire running down the street.
It's been mentioned in this video that he was on his live stream having a problem with a radio and watching Mikes Radio Repair to get the answer.
I agree with you
There are more hacky guys out there than Snake.
Take a look at Joker Man. That's truly ignorance on fire running down the street.
You made me spit coffee all over my monitor... you gonna come help me clean this mess up? I didn't think so.
No reason too, just wanted to add that I learn a lot from other peoples' mistakes (Read: Snake) - it's knowing how they do it, that helps me UNDO it.
So - if you were ever to wander away or disappear - you would be sorely missed.
Thanks OT03.
I will admit as I'm no technician I do watch YouTube videos on how to but, Mr snake pumped out more than 800 cobra 2000s he should know the in and outs of the circuit boards by now .
I have heard him say thousands of Cobra 2000s.
The oldest search results I can find for him around around 2010/2011 when he seemed to come into existence.
Just some basic math... "thousands" of Cobra 2000s that he spends a day or more - as in 24+ hours of work, so each radio may be equivalent to two actual days..
1,000 would be 5.4 years. if he came into existence in 2010 that means we should see a lot more Snake Cobra 2000s on fleabay than we see.
Being generous, if it was 800 Cobra 2000s - that's 4.3 years.
No way. A hundred? Maybe.
The oldest search results I can find for him around around 2010/2011 when he seemed to come into existence.
Just some basic math... "thousands" of Cobra 2000s that he spends a day or more - as in 24+ hours of work, so each radio may be equivalent to two actual days..
1,000 would be 5.4 years. if he came into existence in 2010 that means we should see a lot more Snake Cobra 2000s on fleabay than we see.
Being generous, if it was 800 Cobra 2000s - that's 4.3 years.
No way. A hundred? Maybe.