How nice was it when stuff was actually made to be repaired ? Someone brought me a Grundig Concert Boy transistor radio to look at today. Due to the clever way that the case had been designed, with the top of the back hooking into the top of the front, the entire thing came apart with just two screws at the bottom having to be removed. I needed to get the main PCB out. It was fixed to a plastic sub-chassis that came out with just four easily accessible screws, leaving the buttons, vol control, tone controls etc behind. I was a bit concerned about the dial cord and drive for the tuning gang, but even that had been thought of. Once the two screws securing the PCB to the sub chassis had been removed - it was otherwise held firmly in place by plastic mouldings in the sub chassis that it hooked under - the whole board was able to be lifted away, leaving the entire dial drive mechanism behind, still fully laced up, on the sub chassis. What a brilliant piece of design work, and simple to manufacture and assemble originally.
Once I had done the work on it needed to get it going again, it went back together in about 3 minutes, and the whole thing worked as good as it did the day it came out of the factory 40 years ago, or whatever it was ...
Gentler times, eh ... ? d:-)
Arfa