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Melbourne Florida checking in. Safe and sound. I too would love to see an AA5. I have a Zenith I restored and recapped a few years ago and I’m ready to retire and start repairing older sets. I love your videos. Keep them coming.

I just picked one of these up. Thanks for this!

I love this one, Seth. Thank you for yet another awesome video.

If I get to be 90 I'll need new capacitors and a cleanup too!

So what happened to your freeloading ducks?

An early superhetrodyne radio with a whole lot of components in it's design with very low capacitor values and quite high resistor values mainly because it has an aperiodic( untuned) first RF stage in the receiver. A nice touch was having two lamps, one for lighting the shortwave band and one to light the broadcast band. Nice Seth type restoration.

Beautiful radio. The polish was the cherry on top. The speakers sound amazing for a 90 year old radio. Great job as always, Seth.

If your car was leaking gas out of the fuel pump there's a possibility that the diaphragm has gone bad. If diaphragm went bad it may be dumping gas into your crankcase which will blow the motor eventually. Definitely take a look at that you can rebuild them at home I just did the one of my 55 Buick it's easy

I have a 1962 Studebaker Hawk and a 1963 Studebaker Avanti. On a hot day in Northwest Arizona in my garage there is a slight smell of gasoline since the gas tanks are vented to the atmosphere and so are the carburetors.

very nice Mr. Radio, I like that music near the end of the video 👍

I always look for your videos, I'm in Lakeland Florida and survived Milton

Regarding “thrown together” videos, I love the way they are put together. Maybe it’s my ADHD, but the videos are structured in a way that makes perfect sense to my brain, and I can’t get enough of them. They’ve also been a great encouragement to me to go from being just a collector to repairing them. So far I’ve brought three of my radios back from the dead, and I couldn’t be happier about it.

Another very enjoyable video.

Say what you will, but that thing sounds better than any of those modern plastic suitcase players like the Crosley Cruiser! I'm sure you could bodge in a 12AV6 and use a newer stereo cartridge for compatibility if you wanted to.

What legs would you recommend for a Grundig console

I don't know anything about that particular radio but I think a 50 amp fuse is way too big. A regular table radio draws about 30 watts so I don't expect the car radio to draw much more than 6 amps. I'd think a 15 amp fuse would be more than enough to prevent nuisance blowing but still small enough that it will protect in case of a short.

Love the car! You got a gem! That would be fun to tool around in. Nice radio too! I saw the odometer with 18,000 + miles on it. Is that actual or has it gone around already. Doesn't matter I guess, beautiful car regardless.

You're better off wet sanding the tail lights working your way up to 2500 grit. Then polishing them with plastic polish. Also when I do 54-56 Buick radios, I use a pair of Diodes and resistors to replace the 0Z4. I beleive your rectifier can be replaced the same way.

I had one of these cars given to me by my uncle in 1961 when I was 11. I learned to drive on it. This is going back a few years, but I could have sworn the taillight lenses were glass. There used to be a guy that sold solid state vibrators that I found in Hemmings. I used them and they worked very well.

The extra wire for the lamps was to wire them into the dash light switch.

A vibrator is a square wave generator. O Volts to 6 V then back to O Volts . To act as a power supply it does this 115 times a second with two strips of metal switching electrical contacts back and forth electromechanically. That "pulse" is fed to a step up transformer's primary side and induces an AC output to the secondary side. It goes to a rectifier and then filter capacitors that makes the DC voltage output much higher than the 6 Volts originally supplied by the battery / alternator. A special note about a car radio. They went through temperature extremes in many cases and all resistors, capacitors, tubes must be changed out. After all it is 75 years old. Good call on adding Bluetooth to it Seth. Looks and sounds great! That song "You Belong To Me" by Jo Stafford was my mom's favorite song! She said she sung it to me when I was born. Thank you Seth this was a great video!

Thanks for showing us this. I think I need to start hunting for more vintage car radio videos, fascinating stuff.

This is the first time I've seen you overhaul an original 1949 car radio, and with an auxiliary input for Bluetooth. Also I tried getting Google Lens for that spray from Japan you ordered, and had no luck. Nice video as always, Seth!

I have heard that old car radios tend to be particularly excellent for DX. Have you found that to be the case with this one?

A great restoration! I was just wondering what the rectangular thing was in the dial next to 540. Is it a magic eye?

Spray some light oil into that wiper motor on the vacuum side and work the blades back and fourth by hand. They dry out inside. Might take a decent amount to get it working to its best possible performance.

Was the speaker impedance 4, 8 or 16 ohms ?

The B+ in your radio should be somewhere around 250 to 275 volts if the HV circuit is working correctly. The 6AQ5 output tubes will not function correctly if the voltage is lower than that. There should be a .47uf 100Volt cap across the 6 volt input for radio noise and the critical one is the buffer cap which should be either a .0047uf or .0068 uf 1600 volt cap across the vibrator.

Yes, I love those 6v alternators. They have served me well!

its ohms law, lower voltage high resistance

make sure your starter has a good ground also

first gear has no syncros , you must cone to a compleat stop to put it into 1st gear , or double clutch. Kool car i like it ! have fun with it, and dont be in a big hurry with it when you go somewhere! take your time and take yourself back to 1949...

when the windsheald is wet the wipers will work better

some old cars are like that , so when the dash lights are on, the light in the radio is on, the pilot light can be dimmed

are your battery cables 1/0 or bigger? they look kind of small

Are there solid state replacements for the vibrator thing? Its really just a pulse generator into a step up transformer.

Replacement wiper blades for your car are available from many sources; eBay, various auto parts suppliers and even Amazon

Oh shitz!!! What everyone has said at one time or another doing restorations! 😵

Between the phallic spray can from Japan and the stiff power of the car and the vibrators....goodness, quite the innuendo laden episode. Loved it. I'm glad you're taking us along on this project, it's so neat!

The pilot lamps are on a separate supply that is controlled by the dash lamp dimmer control.

I admire your dedication to keeping things as original as possible. Thanks.

The pilot lights were wired through interment dimmer system.

Excellent job I really appreciate your content and keep learning something new from you each episode cheers😊

115 times pr second

What type of connection do you use to hook up the external speaker?

I guess the magic eye is shot those always seem to go!

When did you replace the string? I guess you didn't show that part!

I would have thought that a very low power AM transmitter would do the same thing would it not.

Interesting set, you can tell it was built to a price - lower cost cabinetry with simple veneer, no RF stage, no power transformer... But two rectifiers, an eye tube and ballast to inflate the tube count. Looks impressive but is basically an AA5 in a big cabinet. I bet they used that chassis in a console, too. It also appears the dial is paper - not metal like even mid range brands like Silvertone and Emerson would use. That being said, still a collectable set. I'd probably refinish the cabinet again the right way though - nothing worse than a badly refinished cabinet!

Its not distortion on billie hollidays voice its heroin 😂