Okay, I don’t think its a question of how big Sony is, more a question of whether one can get parts for the radio any longer and - given the fact the ICF-2010 is a 30 year old radio - you’re not likely to receive much from Sony, perhaps a bag full of sympathy and a huge smile from one of their sales reps.
So what to do? Dealing with older products myself, the first suggestion is to find a local High Street repair shop that wants to earn a bit of money on the side as many do. In short, these shops touch the sort of stuff the big company’s won’t. For example I have a 10 year old Yamaha receiver here. The display stopped working, I took the receiver back to yamaha and - after 15 weeks of total silence from them - I finally found out that the faulty piece of ribbon wire was not available any longer, $89 just to find that out thanks very much. So I then went to a little reaper shop I know of as a last resort, I’d rather have the receiver working than throw it out. The chap at the shop hand crafted a piece of ribbon wire to fit the faulty one, receiver now works as good as ever. I’m actually watching a couple of Sony 2010’s on eBay as I’m thinking of purchasing one for my own personal use but I’m not in any hurry. Sure, they were wonderful receivers particularly on AM and Shortwave - bloody horrible on FM - and they’re classics but age is the enemy, over 400 electrolytic capacitors to replace in those things, dry joints to fix and so on, given all that you’re damn lucky you only have a faulty antenna connector to deal with <smile>. > On 5 May 2016, at 9:00 AM, Donald L. Roberts <donald.robert...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Although I seldom listen to short wave any more, I love my old Sony 2010. > Unfortunately, the whip antenna is not making good contact with the rest of > the set and needs to be replaced. Sony is a big company, and I have no idea > how to find the appropriate part of the company which can repair this thing. > Does anyone have any meaningful contact info? I doubt that I can find anyone > local to deal with this. > > > Thanks for ideas. > > > Don Roberts > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
