Bought another Junker

[demy1942]

Go tthis one cheap from goodwill and I am batting 500 on the ones I bought. This one is Model CTRE 864
it looks like a bakosonic? tv receiver with am/fm radio dc 12 v 8w made in korea.
1986

a deluxe - yeah right - 5" portable

I do get a picture on the one but the picture probably only takes up 75% of the potential screen. It's more like a 4" screen

Plus, I have to depress the power button to keep it on.

what do you think on this one? If I can't fix maybe one of you guys might want to work on it? I'll send it to you, I feel bad just chucking these in the garbage.

this is the one, the power button?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBe5zIn-p9s

[JohnCT]

A lot of those power switches had a bent wire held down by a spring that rode in a track on the top of the switch. Sometimes reshaping them allowed them to latch properly.

John

[demy1942]

Thanks john

[zeno]

The symptom is a power supply problem. Try running it on 12 VDC
& see if it clears up. If you are already using 12 VDC the wall wart may
be too light to run it.
The switch may also be related. Try some contact cleaner in it & turn it
on & off a bunch of times. Some of these sets run on 120V AC, 12 VDC,
batteries & rechargeable batteries so the on/off SW may be more than
a simple SPST.

73 Zeno
LFOD !