Sankyo Model SCR-700 AM/FM "Digital" Clock Radio issues

[MadMan]

Yeah I'd second dirty contacts. Anything else would probably be intermittent, rather than fade to nothing. But still could be a broken solder joint somewhere.

Also, cool clock! I have an orange Sankyo digital clock, no radio on that one, just a buzzer. And the digits aren't as cool looking, but they are the drum type.

[Captainclock]

Thanks, and yes the radio comes on manually and the sleep feature works too, its just the alarm part don't work anymore, but I'll be sure to check into the maybe spraying some contact cleaner into the switch for the alarm function and see if that doesn't fix it.

[Captainclock]

Well I got the buzzer part working again, but the radio part doesn't work with the alarm feature (when the alarm goes off the radio comes on instead of the buzzer) and I did clean the contacts on the switches as best as I could (the switches are sealed except for a small hole on the top of the switch which is barely accessible). So what else could be causing the radio portion of the alarm function to be non-functioning, but the buzzer part to be functional?

[jr_tech]

Just a WAG, but perhaps the top (mode?) switches could use a good cleaning, as well.

jr

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Just a WAG, but perhaps the top (mode?) switches could use a good cleaning, as well.

jr

Those mode switches are the switches I cleaned and it only brought back the buzzer's functionality for the alarm but not the radio's functionality for the alarm function, also what other swithches did you think we were talking about besides those top switches? Because those top switches are the only switches on this radio for selecting the functions of this clock radio. The far right switch is for selecting the radio Band, the middle right switch is for selecting the alarm mode (whether the alarm comes on with the buzzer or the radio), the middle left switch is the Auto/Manual selection switch which either switches the radio on manually or automatically via the alarm, and the far left switch is the power swich which is the master power switch which has to be on in order for the sleep timer and the alarm to work along with the manual/automatic switch being set to automatic. This radio functions very much like the old flip-dial Sony Dream Machine alarm clocks. Hope this helps.