My Foolish Purchase

Another one bites the dust.  Well, two really.  Spent money on this useless, defective RCA product again! RCA RS2767IFE  Go ahead and sue me RCA corporation, this product doesn't work for long.  Our good old AIWA CD boombox from 2002 was faithful for seven years.  This not-so-good RCA CD boombox RS2767IFE didn't last one year!  Yours truly would not buy another one of these.  If you see one of these in the store, Do Not Buy it!

RCA used to be a good name.  That was then and this is now.  There is something wrong with this boombox design.  This main circut board is not supported, and it is heavy.  There is provision to attach this heavy circuit boar to the rear panel, though alas! the circuit boar was shipped out in this product, unsupported. 

This article was supposed to be, "how to repair yor RCA boombox!."  No amount of do-it-youself home repairs have been sufficient to repair this music box.  Because the metal parts of the circuit board have been subjected to stimulus that has resulted in metal fatigue.  Metal Fatigue!  On the assembly line.  On the fork lift.  On the truck.  On the sea voyage to the USA from China. 

We re-supported the circuit board.  We replaced the capacitors that were smooshed by a robot, because the circuit boaerd was warped (..long story).  We supported the cirsuit board that went unsupported during the long sea voyage from China.  This RCA product was destroyed by the long sea voyage.  Because of metal fatigue, on the ship to this USA from China bobbing back and forth, back and forth, for months at a time on the high seas.  The delicate innards became corroded. 

Our engineer manual states, "The circuit board must have supports."  This blog says, "use one-half inch PVC pipe 6 and 3/8 inches long to support the circuit board."  But it's too late because the circuit board is already broken.  For the long sea voyage from China, resulting wherefrom months spent bobbing around at sea.  The results are: a broken circuit board.  From  "A Man In the Factory, Far Away" to here in the USA and now, where the circuit board is already broken before the boombox is presented for your purchase in the store or on the internet.  Fact: This boombox doesn't work once it gets here to the USA, or this boombox quits after one year of service.  Fact: This RCA product RS2767IFE  has been downgraded from "Do Not Buy" to: "Goes Straight To Landfill". 
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