u/Much-Beyond2

Hello! I am looking for some advice about the feasibility of my scheme. I have this beautiful Toshiba Sugar boombox, but as it's a Japanese domestic product the radio only picks up FM radio between 76 - 90 Mhz. When researching this I found out that this is a common problem in car stereos and you can buy cheap converters, e.g. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/318177171232 . Since these are designed for a 12V car setup I was planning to get one of these and also a small 9v -12v step-up ( https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174123815317 ) . I am fine with the soldering etc. but just wanted to check if i'm missing something.. do I need to worry about interference and placement of the components? There's not a lot of room in there!

Thanks in advance!

For some reason Sony went through a phase of shipping their walkmans with their proprietary 9-pin connector and headphones fixed to the remote. As you can see the earbuds themselves are not in great condition and I was thinking of modding these to add a slimline jack so I can use the remote with any headphones. Has anyone else done this? I am assuming that if I cut into the wire between the remote and the earbuds I will just find left and right channel signals and ground, but life experience also tells me that these things are rarely as simple as assumed, and that there's maybe some proprietary Sony nonsense in the earbuds. Has anyone got any experience with these?​

Splintered electorate plus first-past-the-post voting system means six different parties running councils in the same city, and nine boroughs where parties will need to form a coalition or run a minority administration. Source: https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-local-election-results-greens-labour-reform

25 Boroughs have life expectancy below current state pension age.. this really surprises me given the younger age profile of Londoners. I wonder if the reaulta are skewed by healthier older people retiring away from London.