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Neil's Old Radios
United Kingdom
Приєднався 25 сер 2021
A place to look at, and fix, mostly old transistor radios from the 1960s onwards. But there will occasionally be some non-radio content.
Philips RH781
Is it a posh radio or a cut-price hi-fi? Either way, it's very Philips and very much of its time.
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Hitachi KH-1040ER
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Don't think we've featured Hitachi here before, so here's a late 70s example.
Pilot of the Airwaves - The story of Captain Eckersley
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A look at the life of one of the pioneers of British broadcasting.
Nordmende Carrera
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A fairly rare German set which seems to have come over from Switzerland.
Bush TR90
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A radio I've been ignoring for too long, with an unexpected fault.
Sony CFM-A50
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There's nothing wrong with this. Well, nothing broken anyway. But it has some interesting foibles.
Dual CS 505-1
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As mentioned in the Rotel video, my turntable needs a bit of attention.
GEC G820
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A 1960s British set which has some special relevance to this channel.
The Rotel Inspector
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A solid 1970s hi-fi unit which was on the brink for a while!
Turn up the Eagle, the neighbours are listening!
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Another product from the largely forgotten British company Eagle.
Nice to see this ITT as there aren't many videos of them on YT. I have an ITT Tiny 109, nice build quality but I find it poor on FM, it misses many stations, I actually need to clip a longwire onto the aerial to improve FM reception, it is ok on MW & SW. Thanks
Nice video, I'm looking at this radio on a well-known auction site just now but I think it's out of my depth, will stick to 70s & 80s Panasonic's I reckon 😃 Thanks, excellent review.
I have the exact same turntable bought in 1986 when I was eighteen. One of the channels is very muted, I have done the basic cleaning and headshell check, do you think this is a phono lead problem? Hope you could answer this please - I would be very appreciative if you can please? Rgds Gary
I loved that Escort 1300E colour, it was so right for that car, the name of the colour slips my mind but I still rate it. The Philips radio is lovely too, a quality look.
Have one to they sound great
Amused with your choice of replacement linear analog meter, it’s centralised needle & scale suggests it is a; +\- DC voltage indicator for a multi-meter or an FM station alignment indicator, as for the original ‘seized’ meter, you could try taking the side/top off and lightly oil it and gently push the needle to see if you can revive it? As for the motor ‘continuously’ running, I have a BUSH BS3026WH record changer/amplifier from my great-grand parents (both have died) bungalow and it’s motor has a secondary winding for the “lower” voltage for the amplifier section, = functioning both as a motor for record changer & transformer for the amplifier 😉, your tape deck might have the same arrangement?
It just happened to be one I had lying around!
Beautiful looking set...
Can tell it's a commie radio, all the German stations on the dial are East Germany(GDR), not West Germany. Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig,
The local oscillator(red core) and IFTs(black, yellow, and white cores) are actually very much standard in these cheap HK radios. I had an vintage Binatone early 1970s radio that required local oscillator coil, I obtained a replacement from a cheap Chinese AliExpress kit radio I assembled a few years previously, that I never used. The bent over component leads, are from how the radio was assembled. All the components would have been stuffed into the board, leads bent over so the components don't fall out when the board is turned over to be hand soldered.
The "gram"(gramophone) input would definitely be for a ceramic or crystal cartridge equipped turntable. I think if this was a true HiFi, the input would be suitable for a magnetic cartridge with the pre-amplification and RIAA equalization, and the input might be labelled as "disc" or "phono". Also it would have a grounding terminal, that magnetic cartridge turntables require. The odd holes at the back, look like they're for stowing a two prong European type plug
Philips, where is all plastic?
be careful replacing bulbs, you often need the exact types, or ones with a least same or lower current, going higher could cause issues or even cause damage( i have an armstrong thing that needs a 50v 50mA thing!)
I come across this before. I've got an early 70s Radionic X40 electronics construction kit, that has 6v 40mA bulbs in it. And there's a warning in the instruction manual, about not replacing the bulbs with a higher current rating, as that could damage the transistors in the kit. I don't know what the transistors actually are, as they're unmarked dome top TO106 package silicon type. Some of the experiments are things like multi-vibrator circuits, that flash the bulbs.
@@michaelturner4457 yep, if using small transistors like those, you have to use low current bulbs
Yes I noticed the issue once the pilot holder started getting hot!
The Radionic kits were great, I had one and learned so much from it.
@@neilsradios i used to have one plus several Tandy kits such as 50-in-1, etc.
0.64uf? typical of philips to use a non standard value! try and fit a 0.68uf poly, it'll never give trouble again, 😉 if you cant find/get one, i have some..
I finally found a use for the 0.5 uf electrolytics that come with the bulk packs!
@@neilsradios 😁
careful with grommets in contact with the dial plate, if its plastic, if the grommets are pvc not rubber, 'stuff' can leach out of them over time and eat into the plastic!
The grommets are rubber. There was a type of expanded polystyrene around in the 80s that would really rot PVC mains cables if you left them in the packaging without the cellophane cover, plastics can be really nasty at times.
@@neilsradios its the other way round, something comes out of the pvc that attacks soft plastics, i've had it happen on several things
inductive tuners were a bit of a philips 'thing' ,some of their valve radios also used inductive tuning for AM ranges, i have a few ..
those 'strange cutouts' are to park the mains plug, it'd have been supplied with a 2 pin europlug
i have a similar but different philips tuner/amp, the phono/gram input would be for a crystal/ceramic pickup deck, mine has 4 big TO3 cased transistor on the base panel, so likely a higher power output model
was the gram for a ceramic cartridge maybe, that dont need eq if driving into 1meg ohm? keep going with the schoolboy humor, suits me sir !
Quite likely. Though I don't think many stand alone decks (rather than record players) had ceramic cartridges by then.
I have a Roberts rm 50 that has also a rod adjuster on the back.
i used to have a rm40, almost identical, but now sold it
@@andygozzo72me too
Hi there! I got the same model and I have been looking for a the right cables for it. I wanted to be able to connected to record sounds into tape via my synths and connectet to my mixer. But I am not sure if the right audio cable is a 6 pin din to Jack(and/or)rca? Hopefully you can help me with this one! Thanks in advance.
The DIN sockets are 5 pin - the tape one uses pins 3 and 5 for L/R input and 1 and 4 for L/R output. The Gram one uses 3 for L input and either 5 or 1 for R input. These inputs are parallel with the tape input, so if you select Gram you get tape input as well.
My dad's hifi broke today and he was wanting to listen to the radio so I went upstairs and got this exact radio which was his dad's and after I took a couple of minutes how to figure out how to work it it worked jsut fine with a high quality sound
Merece la pena para colección? He visto en páginas de segunda mano esa radio por 25-30 euros Gracias por el vídeo
They don't make em like that anymore.
Nice radio. 👍
The older one had a celestian speaker.
Reminds me of a ITT.
The standard TR 82 only has AM which isn't much use now Medium Wave has been emptied off stations mostly.
I have the VTR 103 with FM added from around 1963. FM goes to 100 MHz . Hand wired too .
Hey Neil, if you ever want to look over my Quad FM4, I'd be happy to lend it to you for a few months. It has standard mains connector on the back, so no special leads needed.
Nice work!
nice, i have an early to mid 60s hitachi radio and used to have 2 early 70s CNP190 tvs in the mid 90s that still worked well,... your one looks vaguely familiar, i may have had one when i was young,
"Like I'm allergic to 6 pints of IPA Kate" - now that was funny ;) Great video as ever keeping the sets alive!
True comic this chap! merry Christmas
0:34 😂
your speech is calm-not the hands
i dot think it is stereo,anyway
the Philips radio was not made by Phillips in an actual Philips factory nor was the Gec , I’ve worked in two plastics factories so I know just how cheap plastic really is massively cheap .
Very unsafe radio , don’t like cardboard radios with press stud opening, so any 5 year old could put there hands all over it, if run off the mains.
I have a feeling it was sold in the USA (hence FCC sticker) - perhaps a bit more lenient with the 110V supply but still pretty awful!
Soviet radios were amazing and cheap because the Soviet government subsidied them , if a device costed £100 from Japan then the same thing from Russia would cost less than £20 .
I seem to remember there were ads in magazines like Practical Wireless for radios from the USSR in the 1970s, but we we probably wondered if we'd end up on The List if we bought one :-)
Kb were a good brand, made radios I think both in Britain and Germany, ruined by ITT , to me ITT were the poor mans Grundig I think they took over other German companies not just KB .
Not sure they made them in Germany, as KB was an amalgamation of a Canadian and a US company and ITT was US as well (and bought out KB and a number of other companies). They had a big factory in Kent but I think later production was out in HK.
Don’t like pre set only , if no other company copied the idea it can’t be a good idea.
Beautiful and solid Radio, Sheikhupura Pakistan 07-12-2024
yep, Fidelity were generally a 'cheaper' brand, Gerald Wells once called them 'all fur coat and no knickers' sets 😁
I think the undergarments are better than the outerwear in this case though!
oo bbc radio cambridgeshire, you're probably not far from me, i'm in cambridgeshire...
that corrosion is probably glue that has 'degraded', become corrosive, its a known issue...
do not ever chuck that radio out, i'll have it if you dont want it!
yep, that weird 4 connector battery is for the 2 extra terminals on the mains unit, they connect to a separate switch pole in the radio and switch the transformer out in the mains unit when off, but cant remember if they switch the mains itself or the secondary side.....
nice, i have a couple of Baird and Radio Rentals sets,
almost certainly designed for visually impaired people with that cassette in thing , large knobs, well spaced tape controls, dial light, and the flip scale, so only one band visible at a time
i have one of these, was given to me by a friend at school when i was 12 in 1984, still got it but it has 'issues' 😉, still got the pencil in mine, looks unused, i had a second model i sold off, it had chromed push buttons on top.. there was also a version of this in a wood cabinet
I think the one in the wooden cabinet was the G836, it had almost exactly the same circuitry but an older style case, perhaps hedging their bets on what customers would want!
Very Japanesey inside, likely made in Japan or Honk Kong for Nordmende or they had a factory there? Maybe by Hitachi as it has Hitachi transistors?