The dab fm one I bought a year back has kind of removable rubber bumpers all
round that can be replaced. I think the build quality is very good, but as I
say, its not made in the uk. It does have a dry and rechargeable battery
switch and comes with a pretty good charger/mains unit that does not create
huge amounts of interference unlike some of the others I've tried.
Brian

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On 12/04/2021 21:02, newshound wrote:
On 12/04/2021 18:24, Clive Arthur wrote:
I sometimes repair and refurbish Roberts DAB radios as a sort of hobby.
I do a few minutes a day while waiting for simulations to finish, or
just thinking. There are a few fairly common faults and I have the gear.

These are covered in a sort of leatherette, I suppose. This is of
appalling quality and is usually very badly worn and torn, even after a
couple of years of just sitting on a shelf. This is good, it makes them
inexpensive.

My "real" analogue Roberts from the 60's still looked good after 30
years.

Yes, I have a pre-DAB FM one and an old MW/LW RT1 from Harrods both of
which are good. The problem was with the RD-50 and RD-60 models. This
one is typical...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Roberts-R...53.m1438.l2649

...some are much worse. I had one which was an expensive gift, and after
a couple or three years it looked like that, though it had hardly been
touched. Roberts deny it's a manufacturing fault, but they're clearly
lying. Even some of the circuitry looks like it's been designed by
someone on work experience.

They lost their way, I don't know if they're any good nowadays.

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Clive