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View Poll Results: What shoud I do about my Bose wave radio? | |||
Send my radio out for repair | 5 | 17.86% | |
Buy the exact same radio locally, and cheaper than the cost of repair | 1 | 3.57% | |
Buy the same radio but with a working CD player for significantly more | 0 | 0% | |
Buy a CD equipped radio with broken CD player and send it to be fixed | 0 | 0% | |
Stop living in the past, grandpa, and just buy a new radio | 22 | 78.57% | |
Voters: 28. You may not vote on this poll |
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12-19-2023, 10:11pm | #21 | ||||||
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Well, you could go buy the local for $80. Bring it home, pull the guts out and install in your original shell and there ya go!
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As someone who places sentimental value at about 1000 x actual value, I'd get it fixed.
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We had friends had the exact same question back in 2013. I told them to junk it. She said "what will I play my CDs on" ? I told him/her - rip all your CDs to a server, then buy a nice portable sonos unit. You can get all your radio stations on that, plus play all your ripped CDs. They did it - they loved it. Now they have 4 sonos boxes of various types sprinkled around the house.
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Massive Update!
Just for grins, I plugged in the radio, put fresh batteries in (used for backup of time and presets), plugged it in and, viola, the am radio works, but not the fm. I do listen to our local news talk station anyway. The time, display, and alarm clock functions seem to work, too. I'll continue using the phone as a primary, and just see if the Bose continues to function for a while.
Of course, the whole point of the Bose was supposed to be good sound, totally wasted on the am band. |
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I saw that. It actually came with a T shaped copper strand antenna just like that, but my radio has a coaxial style connector on it, and I've tried wiring the actual original antenna to a coax adapter, and no joy. Sadly, the original connection was frayed at the point where the wires met the connector, that couldn't be remedied, so I just used a Radio Shack coax to two wire adapter.
No joy on FM. |
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Does anybody know where I can get a new OEM sparkwheel for my Bic lighter? Not some Chinesium aftermarket crap.
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BOSE = Buy Other Sound Equipment
The best part of the OP is the pictures of the unit, and details of how old it is, what features it has, etc. Not that it matters much, since most of the responses will be bullshit like this one either way. But if anyone wants info from someone who has at least a little experience with Bose equipment, stuff like that could be really helpful. |
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Features? It's a 20+ year old clock radio that sounded great and was wildly over priced for the time.
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You may want to research but I am pretty sure that there are videos of people soaking yellowed plastic in Peroxide and it turning white again.
Here is one. |
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I think it was like $400 in 1998 when I got mine. That's about $750 in today money.
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I tried a second option, an old TV antenna I had....coax style connector housing connected to rabbit ears and the round UHF antenna. I know it works because I loaned it to a friend who moved and didn't have cable yet, or any kind of antenna. He said it picked up most of the Houston stations, just that little cheapo antenna, so it should have at least tried to pick up an fm station, but no joy. I'd buy the antenna you have there if I thought it would work, but I think the problem is in the radio, not that I have TWO bad antennas.
Having said that, I was just surfing, it looks like my radio was made in the mid 90's, so at least a quarter century old. There's a "fix" by unplugging it, waiting an hour, holding the on/off button for a minute, then plugging it in while still holding the on/off button....a reset of sorts. I'm going to try that. l |
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