One of the downsides about only doing one entry per week is that some of the photo sets can stay in the backlog for over a month, maybe more if I find a lot of stuff over a short period of time. This entry, for instance, is from July's heavy trash day. I think. I didn't bother to write down exactly when I found it because it really doesn't matter. And of course, writing this entry further puts off other things that I found at the same time. I just hope I can keep remembering enough about each appliance to write something about them.
As you can see, this radio is far from mint condition. Parts are missing (the parts that most likely had the manufacturer and model names), there are various decorations drawn or stuck on it (the stickers suggest the former owner was a teenage girl), and it looks like it's been dropped or kicked. I am going to assume that the markings inside the cassette deck were made after the door came off, so it seems that the owner didn't just trash it at the first problem. I can relate: I still use my portable CD player/radio despite the CD player not working, and the radio not working as well as it used to. (When it finally kicks the bucket, be sure I'll scrap it and post pictures.)
The radio more or less splits in half. The housing seems to be designed around the size of the speakers, rather than the electronics, hence all the empty space in the middle.
The cassette player controls remind me a little of piano keys from this angle.
The CD player is its own module. I don't remember getting a lot of interesting parts out of it.
The focus of this picture is that tall column where the screw goes in. I like taking things with cavernous plastic housings apart because they often have columns like this. Rods and tubes are good basic shapes to have around, much more versatile than some of the more esoteric shapes that I often get.
Not a bad haul, though I seem to recall taking apart radios that had more stuff in them.
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