Taking Stuff Apart: Nikko NA-550

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From time to time I come across an old piece of electronics that I want to harvest some parts from. Stepping motors from floppy disk drives, Solenoids from zip drives, small DC motors from CD drives to name a few of my favorites. Audio Amplifiers in particular are my very favorit. They have lots of interesting and hard to find pieces.





Without further adieu, here's a before shot of this vintage 80's "Nikko NA-550 Integrated Amplifier" that I picked up at a landfill a few weeks ago. For anyone curious, the power button was jammed in the off position, which is probably what earned it a spot at the dump.



Got a bunch of nice metal knobs, some dB meters, some very nice Alps selector switches, some Alps potentiometers, a 2.5A breaker and some other misc parts.

Comments

  1. AnonymousOctober 23, 2009 at 7:00 PM

    You ruined a perfectly good integrated amp? :(

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  2. Will WinderOctober 24, 2009 at 7:33 PM

    Well... it did come from the landfill. I tried turning it on (since the thing looked really cool) but it wouldn't. By the time I found out the power button was jammed it was too late.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 27, 2009 at 8:27 AM

    Hi, are you selling the parts?

    John.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 27, 2009 at 8:33 AM

    If you are selling the parts.
    My Contact:jleon92f@yahoo.com

    Thanks,
    John.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 31, 2009 at 8:04 AM

    Hi again, I am trying to fix MY Nikko, and could really use the selector switch from your parts.

    Thanks,
    John.
    jleon92f@yahoo.com

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  6. AnonymousDecember 17, 2009 at 12:25 AM

    I have one that is in well working condition. Can't seem to find them any where. Does anyone know how much they are worth?

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  7. AnonymousOctober 24, 2012 at 5:39 PM

    amp is from late '70s
    bought one in 78

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