Testing CRTs and Old Television Graveyard
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- Опубліковано 2 тра 2016
- Testing picture tubes in abandoned houses, going through electronics in old dump and overview of what I brought home. There is an abandoned TV translator site on a peak some 20 miles away that I would guess served this area, nothing now, no digital OTA. Only satellite
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This site is a currently operating mine site in Nevada and is not open to the public, the employees stay in trailers now, not the houses used in the early days of operation
Okay
Nevada? Isn’t that where in 1955 they did a test site nuke somewhere in Nevada
@@jellyjordy1154: January 27, 1951, until September 23, 1992; with above-ground testing until July 17, 1962. Yeah, there was a test or two. I participated in a few.
@@edwatts9890 wildlife: _thanks_
@@qwertykeyboard5901: You are quite welcome. That "job" was one of the best assignments I have ever had, and every precaution was taken to avoid injuring your kinfolk.
Literally looks like Fallout live action edition
I thought the same when started to watch the video!
Nuketown ?
I thought so
Duke Nukem
Damn...you beat me to it
Gotta let my wife see this, she won't believe someone else is as bad of a junk collector as me. : )
Brings back so many memories, I still have my CRT checker..B&k.
33:45 This works, why can't Windows 10?
AIO inc. lol
Is 8 bit
Too many updates 😉
thanks for explaining the various stages to complete my RCA 14-S-7070 G restoration~ 1959
I went through USMC radar repair school in the early 80s, they were still teaching us tube theory. :) love these videos!!
Great stuff!
I hope you go back, still many goodies out there in them hills.
+ZenithClarity1969 I got a freebie of a GE model 303 am radio/turntable a few weeks ago. Got it home and flipped it over, completely packed with mouse bedding. It had been living in a mouse infested basement for many years after the womans husband passed. She just locked the door to his basement workshop with all the goods still locked down there.
I pulled the chassis and it was pathetic, packed full of bedding, holding thousands of turds and years of mouse piss had just eaten away most of the components inside. Still will be able to hopefully save the transformer and some other parts. Magically the cabinet is still pretty nice!! Now i need another one of those chassis.
Your video's are simply fantastic. Love every second of them. Pity that the vacuum bulbs were missing in that second TV with the good tube. You are the TV expert in fixing these devices. Amazing that the graveyard TV's tube necks weren't broken.
Santos,BRAZIl here🇧🇷. I am Eletronics techinican. Love❤old CRT TV's. 😃👏👏👏👏👏
When you said that you are gonna take that GE radio you became my hero. I love old stuff. Hope you restore the clock. Hurts me to see all that sitting like that
Sad to see all the vintage electronics like that! Looking forward to your future videos on these items!
Great memories of centering tabs, ion traps, convergence boards, etc. I always buy Sony because I saw so few coming through the shop.
The portable at 24:45 is/was a Sears Silvertone 900 (model 42231) manufactured by Warwick circa mid-60's. Quite a good performer in it's day, both in reception and audio quality.
Another great video!
+NorthRiverTV You nailed it, I had just received the sams based on the stamped chassis tag on the board.
That was awesome the TV coming to life like that.
Gosh. That big old rusty RCA would make a wonderful resurrection video. Imagine all those people laughing at "old stuff" seeing that one play again after 30 years in wind, rain and a merciless desert. I can't wait for you to get into restoring it.
I almost wish I could cheer you on while you're doing it. It certainly would make for a nice series of videos on industrial archeology.
Loved the video by the way... Like you said, it is not something you will ever see anywhere else, and it proves you can combine hiking in the desert with electronics.
Fascinating tour...thanks...!
This is like a real-life version of the Fallout series of games. Imagine a ghoul answering the door at 5:42
this is your best video ever shango, love it, make more like this!
YES,some good videos coming!!! I love digging the dump vids!
This is one of the best ones you did this reminds me of Sandy shores on GTA and thats cool about bringing your inverter and a small battery
its nice to know that you can go out there and get this stuff so you don't have to break in or steal you just have to find the land/property owner and ask if you can have the items.
that old Muntz stereo 8-track player , sure brought back some memories
I still have a 1950s Pye 8” TV set in a wooden case I used to watch as a kid. I often wonder if it will still work, but daren’t fire it up in case it explodes! Still has the instruction leaflet tucked inside. I’m sure it was made at the Cambridge Pye factory in the UK, my home city. It had a big heavy Perspex magnifier hanging over the screen!
Wow, I can't believe that tv turned on after sitting out in the weather all those years! Your a genius at this stuff, so I reckon you will get this tv running in no time. 😀👍🏻
I can't believe that you still got at least static out of that set that has been sitting for sooooo long!
I'm looking forward to you working on that RCA, that should be fun! Neat to get stuff like that to work on.
That RCA!! I had to laugh when the audio came up, amazing.
+Andrewausfa If anything, the audio was the only thing which I expected it MAY work (I gave... say... 5 percent chance for it). What has blown my mind, when the horizontal deflection started squealing at 32:23, roughly at the right frequency ! It's incredible! I am really looking forward to a followup video on this TV.
poor poor tv's
i would take them all home
same
+DiamondPro same
Same
I'm a tv lover so me too
I would love to take the radios and restore them :(
My favorite place the junk yard , love it and look forward to your next video follow on from this .Thanks Shango006.
Go back there with a trailer and grab all the stuff !
You are doing good work. On a serious note we should look for as many vintage crt s as possible to service the special collections of tv s. I dont know of anyone except a tv museum that can rebuild or blow new cr tubes. Always a great ride watching you. Thumbs up Shango!!
So many electronics.. Love it.
I find old radios and TVs at goodwill and fix all the time nobody knows how to work on them anymore so I have people bring me stuff constantly that they don't want. I been repairing this stuff for 40 years
Lots of people think you shouldn't take items from abandoned locations. I agree its stealing if someone cares for the item, but at the same time if you see something of some sort of value in an abandoned location weather its monetary value or personal its, a lot better if the item is recovered for a new life rather then left to slowly decay. I understand shango has permission here I'm just giving my thoughts. And after all is it really stealing if no one wants it cause if your leaving something to rot away in an abandoned place you clearly don't care about it.
I love watching your videos you are very smart with TVs📺📺📺📺📺📺📺📺😜
Throw Survivorman into the wilderness then come back in a year and he has a cabin, food, furniture and cooking implements. Throw Shango066 into the wilderness then come back in a year and he is watching TV, listening to a radio and 8 track tapes..... awesome !!!! :-)
Man I absolutely love this!! More vids like this please.
17:30 Lol, I have this exact tape deck, from around the mid 80s, it's a Japanese Sharp deck. All the controls are in the exact same place and look exactly the same. Even the Headphone and Center Mic jacks line up.
If I was there I would be scrounging around for old portable tape recorders!
What is this place ? an old army base or something like that ? its weird a whole town would just Up and Leave !
the aliens took all the town folk back to their mother ship to stick large scientific probes in their orifices.
@@mrliberty8468 thanks for appreciating my insights. it is lost on most. You give me the motivation to continue on.
this is so exciting, can't wait to see what happens in the next couple vids
Tune in again tomorrow as electronics archeologist Shango Jones brings you another episode of "Raiders of the Lost Parts".
@33:10 - dust jumping out of the speaker - great!
Great comment. love it!
Kingdom of the crystal oscillator.....
Me going to an abandoned house and instantly listening to my intrusive thoughts “that’s a pretty nice tv”
Enjoyed the tv hunt!
We got the best of both worlds with this one, exploring & electronics! If you can get the older RCA Victor (the one rats were using as a latrine) working, I crown you the best there is in restoration! At least it had an excellent picture tube in it. That alone is worth saving.
We need more videos like this!
Loved the video and I have to admit, I'd be hauling a bunch of that stuff home too. Try to restore, or scavenge parts and if nothing else, recycle the metal rather than let them rot away in the desert.
I would have grabbed the Muntz 8 track and maybe the Akai Cassette deck too.
I think what happened to your RCA TV on the front was the black plastic got distorted sitting in the baking hot sun.
I definitely would've gotten the two tape decks, and probably that poor lil Panasonic TV, believe it or not, I could probably fix it!
@@TheRetroMacNerd The CRT was cracked.
So sad to see all those things just left to rot. Even the old fridges. My old Sony Trinitron from the late 60's was shudderring ! I noticed an old inside out speaker, possibly a Norelco /Philips too. Too far gone alas.
This is a very interesting video for sure
awesome tvs and place
It's like a blairwitch TV project docu😂...btw, i really like to see those vintage stuffs and wow! never been tried to use that CRT tester before. I just hooked the wires few turns from flyback to kick the heater pins...it really works,but then horizontal output transistor burst after a few days..again a back job😓
Great stuff!
You must love your work if you are going this far afield in search of usable kines. This was me 40 years ago. One table model monochrome I salvaged was at one point completely submerged for many weeks in a flooded basement. There was all of 2 inches of mud on the chassis. It was a Westinghouse 21" unit with an RCA Silverama kine. Because I really didn't care if it lived or not, but that I was an adventuresome cuss, I simply hosed the set out in the driveway, and left it to dry in the sun. I aimed a jet of water from a garden hose nozzle, and tubes when flying every which way. After it dried, I applied contact lube to all the sockets, controls and tuner, reinserted all the tubes, and plugged the darn thing in! That set worked. It worked perfectly. And ran well for 3 years before the seleniums failed with a series of loud pops and a fetid smell. The table model you show with good kine is in no worse shape except for the missing knobs. Try it. You might be surprised.
My Congratulations on the rescues of Televisions ... I felt sorry for that big abandoned TV ...
This is really nice! A graveyard of TVs?! Ghost city and a few treasures. Your channel it is the best! Regards from Brazil =)
I think this has been your most interesting video to date
Man that neighborhood looks like it was used by the AEC to test atom bombs back in the 50's!
Well that's one good CRT you could put in the parts bin.
Some of those graveyard sets were OLD, I mean 70 or 90 degree deflection B&W CRTs.
Crap, a mad man Muntz POS!
Good luck on those radio tuning capacitors being any good. Bet the plates are all shorting together.
I remember this being in my recommendations like 4 years ago
That RCA is nothing short of amazing.
+AbandonedSC They don't make them like they used to.. If they made today's flat screen TV sets to last like that China would go bankrupt!
At first, I didn't know how the hell you were going to test these where there's no electricity. Then you cracked out the 12V battery. I thought "You need way more voltage". Then out came the inverter. Did some mental math and.. WOW. Watched your videos for a while, but never commented (I don't think). Great stuff dude. Rock on!
Awesome video... and sad!
LOL TV repair man. Late by 30 years.
TV repair people still exist.
+MrWolfSnack not any more
I'm a new comment yeet
32 years now
technical they still do but our tv's are so modern if our color line blows we can call the company or go to the local repair shop & get it fixed .
I'd put those radio's on ePay and advertise them as 'the true definition of vintage' with a ridiculous price tag.
+Critical Shareholder IRK some of the prices now on there are just stupid.
that general electric ! you rock !
Permission is a wonderful thing.
I asked the local arcade vendor about lightening their pile of things going to the dump. They said okay.. I have a Galaga and an Asteroids for the cost of maneuvering it into the truck. To the vendor, they've made their money off the machine. A ridiculous amount, if the coin slot counters are accurate. That's why they rarely want to part with the working ones. Patience.
+webmonkees In Florida and maybe elsewhere, some young guys are buying old pinball/arcade machines and setting up a store. You play the machines for a set amount each day. Probably they had to spend time fixing some of the machines, but interesting to see how young the crowd is playing the machines.
nice video... its really fun to explore old tube based electrical equipment. I really enjoyed sifting through abandoned Iraqi bunkers and destroyed Kuwaiti farm houses back in early 1990s.
If you do not mind, I would like to suggest better personal hygiene.
I'd be interested to know if that AKAI cassette deck worked. If not I bet it wouldn't have took much to get it going.
love the dust blowing out of the speaker....lol.
Wow...I never would have imagined the portable RCA would show some life. Maybe you can go back there and check some of the other picture tubes at the dump?
its weird to think they would pile everything up then forget about it why not sell it all off when your done TV's stereos houses and all just my two cent. thanks for the vid please keep making them I am learning a lot about older electronics and it's awesome.
This would make the most epic of horror film locations!
Looks like fun
I had that exact same Akai cassette deck I wish I kept it
Might want to bring a rad counter with you next time visiting this place
#beautiful thankYou kiss #Brazil
17:47 I have this same deck.
Excellent piece of kit if you can get your hands on one.
One of my personal favorites in both quality and ease of repair 😄
Wasn't even that old when they threw it outside.
I've seen one listed on a website recently. Thought about getting one just because it's in this video, lol. I do have a slightly better kenwood at home but I particularly like the design of this akai
With your mike picking up all the wind noise outside, and rummaging close up among the junked technology, it felt quite spooky, more apocalyptic than many larger budget films trying for the same effect.
You could regun an old model of that with a flat tube and get a working TV set. Plenty would like a slightly used CRT for replacement. Wrap in some hefty bags and you can transport it.
I'm watching from western NY here, but I'm from So Cal it looks like you might be around the Mojave desert area.. Victorville Adalanto apple valley area.. it looks very familiar where your at.. AWESOME VIDEO..
I love that place
Lmao when the dust started flying out of the speaker
that CRT in the end was very odd on how it tested. Good Video.
Wow looks like something out of Fallout games. Amazing places like this exist.
Excellent stuff. Subscribing.
what an adventure
Right now I am sorry that I didn't save the two Packard Bell computers we bought from Sears in the 1990s; they'd be _real_ artifacts now. This isn't even to mention the dual-floppy Franklin computer we gave to a relative after three years of use. That relative of ours reported that she couldn't do anything with the Franklin since it was completely obsolete.
The speaker works !!
RODALCO2007 wat soeker
Wat speker
Smelltastic on the drive back I bet
Hard core service
Its funny, years ago, I wouldn't think of having anything but the newest or largest HD flat screen with all the goofy apps and gadgets... but now I think the coolest thing would be one of those late 70s/early 80s Zenith wood console 27" TVs but retrofitted with a HD tuner and screen, I'd be sure have one of those huge 35 lb Sony Betamax units as well, just for looks of course.
I've lost count of the amount of old valve sets I've ripped the guts out of, Smashed up and sent to the trash" only keeping the the old casing to sell to fishtankers or people who want to retrofit an LCD panel inside.
I use old CRT’s from the 90’s to play retro video
games and watch standard definition content.
Отличный специалист, завораживающая природа
Vintage TVs and abandoned houses! I am a beginner in electronics but would love to learn vintage TV repair but no one around here seems to know anything about them anymore. Do you think you could create some videos for beginners to the hobby (like how to read schematics, components that are unique to vintage tvs, basic troubleshooting and repair, tools required etc)? Thanks.
I hope no vandal destroys it, just take it home!
21AMP4A - I believe that would replace some of those 2 volt Phiclo pieces of crap in a set with a regular cabinet (non-Predicta.)
Recommended for me today by Yotube, definitely Fallout site, search everything for ammo, books, stimpaks! This old CRT could be a computer, use science on it :)
19:20 I think all those caps need to be replaced. Seriously, cool to see very old e-waste from the past. I admit, as a very young kid back in the early 80's I used to find dozens of vacuum tube TV's on the street and in dumpsters. I loved kicking off the back open and get the vacuum tubes to throw at each other, with my other young friends at the time. At some point I think I had about 300 and I loved throwing them to see em' explode and smashing them.
I guess old electronic tech collectors would not like that.
I enjoyed the E-Waste prospecting. When you do the product placement on the large RCA will it list as Old Old Stock or simply habitat for Dipodomys deserti?
Wellcome to flaver country!!
I had to pause the video to go and hug my CRT tv