The Smashed HT1250

[d119]

Had an HT1250 come in the shop today with a leather case and speaker microphone. It was marked "Please Dispose - Radio Destroyed".

The entire back of the speaker mic was smashed off, and the case was all torn up.

I pulled the radio out of the case, and the battery and back of the radio were all separated, the back of the radio was popped out of the case, and there was a noticeable curve to the back frame of the radio.

The side PTT/Option buttons were completely gone, leaving the space where the side button rubber/plastic clips in.

We were all laughing about how this could've happened to this radio.

I yanked off the smashed battery and walked to the back of the shop, and put a battery pack on it.

Wouldn't you know the only thing wrong with this radio is that it needs a new housing and a new LCD board.

It works fine. Customer still opted to purchase a new unit.

Radio looks like hell, but it's still chugging along! I tried to align it, but it didn't need to be aligned

Anyone have an LCD board for an HT1250 they care to sell? hehehehe

[dxon2m]

Little o/t here, can you post a picture of how "hellish" the radio is?

[Rayjk110]

I've received many broken/ "Marked for repair" radios from friends of radio shops. Always makes for fun rainy day projects! I've actually ended up with a few good working radios, too!

[d119]

Well it just looks like an HT1250 with a mar on the corner of the case that has a broken LCD display and missing the side buttons, other than that it looks normal. Knobs and everything are still there, but it looked like hell when it came in... I just pushed the case back together and pushed on a battery, and it lit up!

I'll have to straighten the frame in a vise or something, reattach the board, replace the LCD and recase it, and I'll have a like-new "S" split HT1250 (useless, I need the R split). But it's NOT an LS!

[Grog]

I've received many broken/ "Marked for repair" radios from friends of radio shops. Always makes for fun rainy day projects! I've actually ended up with a few good working radios, too!

We'll rememebr that the next time you have anything to sell

[Rayjk110]

No, I don't sell parts crap. That stuff is kept in the personal collection, however, they make for fun projects. Next up I may try blanking an mtx8000 controller in lab, connecting to a vhf jedi pa deck and see if I cant parts me an MT2000. Who knows.

[kf4sqb]

My first Moto handheld was an HT600 that a track crew on the railroad I used to work for ran over with a backhoe. Needles to say, the case was shot to #%!!, but the guts were good. Replaced the case with parts begged off of the local MSS, and got a battery. It still works, and I still have it!

[nh7cy]

wish i got that lucky. got an mt1500 awhile back for about $20 off of ebay.

same condition, the radio had been run over, the controller board was bent but not broken, straightened everything out, but the radio wouldnt power on for anything.

probably some of the internal circuitry was stretched beyond its limits.

anyway, radio's still in the shop, seems they cant figure out whats wrong with it. oh well.

[Tom in D.C.]

A couple of years ago I accidentally/stupidly ran over my
V180 cellphone; broke both displays but otherwise it still
worked fine, though you couldn't use it in the practical
sense. Anyway, one night I see this person is selling the
complete display setup on eBay for $15.00 so I bought
it. It took about a half an hour to get the new screens
in but when I fired it up the first time it worked fine, and
this is an el cheapo foreign-made cellphone! I have the
V180 that replaced this unit in service but the old unit
makes a great "drop-in" charger for the spare battery!

[RadioSouth]

You guys are reminding me of the MT1000 that lies on the bottom of the East River, NYC since it took it's swim in 1986. That would be a great trick to find it and get it working Actually that river swill probably dissolved it years ago.