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  • Set the circuit board beside the case, being careful not to damage the thin wires going to the earphone jack and speaker.

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  • The earphone jack is composed of a few strips of metal. It also acts as a switch - when the earphone is inserted, contacts are opened to disconnect the built-in speaker.

  • Carefully lift out the earphone jack assembly and set it aside from the case, still connected to the speaker.

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  • The speaker is fastened to the case with small clips held down by two nuts.

  • Use a 5mm nutdriver to loosen the nuts.

  • You may find the space a bit tight to fit a nutdriver in close to the case edge. If so, you can try using needlenose pliers instead to loosen the nuts.

  • Once the nuts are loosened, you can separate the speaker from the case.

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  • Here's the circuit board, earphone jack and speaker after they've been removed from the case.

  • Notice that there are components mounted on both sides of the circuit board. Perhaps the resistors and capacitors on the solder-side were a last minute design change?

  • On the other hand, the circuit board is so tightly crammed on the component side there probably wasn't enough room for everything on one side.

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  • Here's a closeup of the solder-side of the circuit board.

  • Unlike modern electronics, you can tell this radio was assembled and soldered by hand.

  • I wonder what mark my old high school electronics teacher would have given to this work? :)

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  • Here's the component side of the circuit board.

  • You can see the various components in these views of the circuit board. Remember, these are all discrete components here -- no integrated circuits! But state of the art at the time, a lot of circuitry crammed into a small space.

  • Six of the gray components with an oval cross-section (marked or stamped with "Sony") are transistors.

  • The 7th similar looking gray component is a varistor. It's the one at the front left of the circuit board in the 3rd photo in this series.

  • Say, do they still teach the resistor colour code in schools these days? :)

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  • Here's a closeup of the volume dial / on-off switch

  • An eccentric cam in the middle of the dial opens and closes a metal contact (marked with green square) to disconnect/connect the power to the circuits.

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  • A few more miscellaneous views of the components, while we're at it...

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