So ;
The wonderful , fabulous more than I ever expected out of a radio Becker Electronic in my '84 300CD went whacky recently , I love listening to the tappets and roar of my open exhaust yes but I also like the News & Views plus The Prairie Home Companion on the weekends
So yesterday I grabbed a newer , W-126 (gray display) Becker Electronic and popped it in the dash & set all the various AM/FM presets , it works fine although it doesn't seem to have a clock function , I know , there's a quartz clock in the dash binnacle , you're missing my point here but I digress .
This morning I took the old Becker apart and began cleaning the circitry inside the faceplate as I thought maybe that's the trouble since the display lights up every number & sign in it ~ I washed out an amazing amount of Diesel smoot , first I tried DEOXIT but that only gives a .003 second burst each time you pull the trigger so instead I cadged some radio electro - contact cleaner they use in the radio shop and washed that bugger silly , then I use canned air to blow it as clean as I could & dabbed gently at the residue with a lint free cleaning wipe......
It's now reassembled and awaiting me to try it again , if it's still dead I'll try another faceplate before scrapping it .
I'm told the newer Beckers are better in sound and remote signal aquisition , looking at the various buttons and antennae displays I believe it but I know and love the original typ green/yellow display models .
Somewhere I have stashed a nice European Spec. Becker Tom spotted in a '79 W-116 a few years back , i know i didn't sell/ toss it so one day it'll surface and I'll pop it in .
The Euro. Spec. radios have short wave bands .
-Nate
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