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RE: Vintage Grundig Majestic Stereo Console

Posted by Sherwood Forest on November 10, 2014 at 14:29:23:
Oh boy, welcome to the wild and wooly world German radios!

These are fantastic machines, but delicate, and stupidly complex. The transmission and mechanicals for the push-buttons, the clutch mechanism on the tuning dial, etc... Those should all be checked out before you dive too far in. Some components, like the multi-position slider switches in the push-button section are just about literally impossible to replace or even service. I'd make sure that you don't have any unfixable issues in there before going to far in...

Also - be CAREFUL with that glass panel, it breaks quite easily when you're trying to wrestle the tuner out of the cabinet.

Sounds like some folks here know a thing or two about these, which is nice. The only other place I've seen where experts on these talk is radiomuseum, which has a cumbersome paid membership application process.

Good luck!