When we moved off the farm and into the town, dad got a job tearing down wrecks at a scrap yard. I got to know the owner quite well when I stopped in to bring dad his lunch and coffee. So it was I could get old AM radios for my old 50 Ford for 5 bucks a throw, of course that was 1960's 5 bucks, and my summer job paid 5 bucks a day. I spent many hours on my head under the dash putting in different radios for better sounding AM sound. I had on fancy one out of a Imperial that had electric tuning on a 6 volt radio, even a remote switch that was under the floor mat that I could hook up so a tap of the toe could change the station. Ah for the good old days, being 6;2 made climbing under the dash a bit harder then most but I managed. Don't think I could get up any more if I had to now days.
this is the most complete AM repair troubleshooting I have seen since I was in high school in 1976. vey nice to see. you are a rare breed. very nice to watch.
DJ shango scratching the volume knob! Thanks for the flash back, I had a 78 Fairmont Futura that unfortunately rusted away from sitting. It was a great sleeper, it has a 302 in it!
Ford actually built their own radios back then and they were pretty reliable for what they were. The FM stereo ones used to say "Aeroneutronic" on them in the 1970s. I'm a huge AM radio fan and it's a shame so many of these AM radios got tossed into the trash when people upgraded to FM radios, Compact Disc, etc.
I have one of those sets. I built it into a wooden cabinet and made a portable battery-powered radio. The idling current with low volume is only about 250 milliamps max... very sensitive set, too.
I am impressed at how much gain they could squeeze out of each stage. Your radio has one RF stage, a converter, stage, and a single IF stage, yet the stations are wall-to-wall as you tune through the band.
klafong1 I'd love to understand that better myself. I frequently look at videos and circuits for Regenerative, TRF Tuned Radio Frequency, Superheterodyne, and the IC Integrated Circuit type designs. Maybe Shango can do a video taking about and demonstrating some of those designs and concepts. Car radios are fantastic DX'ers. God Bless and Happy New Year!
My parents had a 78 Fairmont from the time it was new until about 89 or 90. I have a lot of memories of the radio playing 60s and 70s music on the 'oldies' station. Of course if it drove under a bridge the music faded out a couple of seconds. I learned my music trivia.
Wow man. Talk about cry time. My mother had this car in wagon form in the early 90s. The memories flooding back are crazy... I once hit the parking brake/moved the shifter while Mom was in the store. I rolled 1/2 a mile backwards while locking the doors to keep the men running after the car from getting in. That 90's tv! Diddnt wanna get kidnapped!
Michael Williams FM radio was just about non existent in my area when I was a kid in the 60s. My parents bought me a Sony portable radio for my 10th birthday in 1968 and at that time there were only two FM stations. You could either listen to classical or jazz. AM is still pretty popular in my region.
Yeah, it's a sad commentary. I'll be 55 on June 10, good Lord willing and the creek don't rise, and at one point in my life, were you to give me an AM country station, you wouldn't find a happier person on earth.
i remember my dad owning 2 of them which were the mercury zephyr version 1 of them was a 1978 z71 coupe and then my dad owned the 1982 sedan and still to this day many years after the cars are long gone we still have the repair manual for the car
I still have the factory ford AM radio out of the Fairmont I had in high school. it works just fine now because like yours there it lost it's 2nd IF and I replaced it with an IF can out of some old ham radio thing I had and re-peaked it.
Adding that mica to only half of the secondary I.F. works much better than I thought. You won't have full I.F. output but it is useable. Pretty smart idea that you came up with, I have to admit. Man, it would be a nightmare to unwind all those tuning slug wireds to get to that bad I.F. can's internal cap. I think you would be the happiest, just hooking a switch and audio coax cable to the audio I.C. input and call it good. It is refreshing to see troubleshooting instead of mere carpetbombing to resolve problems.
shango066 I actually found it very refreshing and very interesting. I still love your Ham outings into the desert the most, I have to admit. That last one was unbelievably interesting and cool! What a "60's era" trip that was! "Iron man" was also very, very, cool too... You ever got your drone fixed? 73s
Well it is quite late now, but I just opened a bunch of old IF cans pulled from stuff, and they all have tiny tubular capacitors. Some of them are directly visible from the bottom, others can be seen by removing the assembly out of the shield. Just guessing here, but since the thansformer is tuned with the slug, the value of the capacitor can be changed to some extent. Remember reading somewhere that some people would intentionally change the value of the caps on the larger IF's in order to be able to push the slug further in, getting more coupling between the windings, thus increasing the audio output of the receiver.
The board is easy to take apart. The coils slide out and there is enough wire to slide the coils clear to tip the board up so you can work on it. Just need to remove the back plate off.
skil3z The "resetability" of the mechanical tuning presets seems a marvel to me. I'm old enough to remember them. They drop you right on center every time. They rarely need to be reset. God Bless.
LOL...I lost it when you started banging the dashboard trying to get the radio to work. After watching many of your other videos I was kind of surprised to see that. I only do that when there's no other options.
You should be able to find another one of those at a car swap meet, or even a garage sale or C.L, maybe even an AM/FM version or one with a cassette or 8 track built into it, they used the same basic design for years only changing the knobs to suit the vehicle. I used to have one that came out of a Merc or a Crown Vic from the mid 80s. I think the caps inside those IF cans were a precision ceramic type so they themselves wouldn't fail but the connections at one end might. If you wanted to go to the trouble (which I would not) you could probably open up the can and investigate what happened, it could be as simple as a failed solder joint, but it looks like it would take an hour just to get the board out just to get at it.
Hey I really enjoyed this as I always do any of your videos. You should consider a sencore sg165. It has the 262khz if output.They are usually priced right on ebay. Jimmy Lane
Hello, If I was in that situation and wanted to find a replacement IF can, I would check at the junk yards for another whole radio, and get the can from it. Or look on eBay. It's been quite a while since I worked on one of those, but to remove the board, is to first remove the screws that hold the bottom casing so you can have clear axis to the whole board that is attached to the tuner assembly. Remove the screws, or nuts (I can't remember) and pull the board straight out. The inductors should stay attached to the board without having to unsolder the wires...
It's not the cap its corrosion.Same thing 1974 Mustang.Top was froze bottom wasn't.It can't peak because there is corrosion on the grid.Leave it unplugged spray the hell out of it let it set for about an hour then do it again.Then take an.air compressor put it around 50 lbs and blow it out.Mine works great good luck
Try some heat from a heat gun to the rear solder side, using a thin pipe attached to the nozle, the padding capacitors on thoses Toko style cans become dry jointed or oxidised, a bit of heat very often re flows the connection.
I'd find the factory am/fm radio from like a mustang or an ltd from the early eighties and stick this on a shelf after repairs but none the less for originalities sake gotta keep in there!!!!
I just wonder why you cannot have a ring of two amp driving the final IFT might give some more gain as I have seen a ring of two amp used in a DNT CB transceiver, there are tiny polystyrene caps inside the can.
Hi So in this video how did you pull the radio out? I have a 1981 Mustang with Am/FM and also has the same type radio indash setup. Your video did not show how you totally removed the radio. I found a Philco Am/FM with factory 8track player and want to install it. Uses the same wiring harness as original radio. Radio and 8track works perfect when tested. Just need more info on taking out original factory radio. Thanks,Mike
@@robertdrayfahl6632 2 more months later... You use a deep socket to release the nuts that are on the tuning and volume knob shafts as shango mentioned. On the back of the radio there is a threaded stud sticking straight out that is used with a mounting strap or other mechanical support to keep the radio from bobbing up and down on the tuning / volume shaft. Unthread the nut on that stud and remove the support connection. Pull the antenna, speaker and power connectors and out she comes from the back, behind the dash. It can be fished through with patience. Hope you see this and it helps if you still are wondering. Cheers
I am trying to troubleshoot a Philco Ford AM only radio out of a 1967 Ford Mustang On the side of the radio its marked 7TPZ . It powers up and has audio but its squeal with static like its going into oscillation. With a 5 foot piece of wire I could get a local radio station weak not clear. If I connect it to my outside wire antenna the station drops out as though the radio was overloaded. I have been searching for the schematic but so far no luck. I checked the only 3 transistors with a meter in the diode mode and they look good. There is a germanium diode that measures good too. I certainly would appreciate anyone offering a schematic. I might be able to fix this. There is one large round capacitor. It looks like a multi-capacitor. I noticed its corroded on the top. Could use help with a schematic. Thanks
Perhaps you could have also added a small inductor in series with the added 110mfd cap to compensate for the loss of half of the secondary coil in the if transformer.
My mother had a 78 fairmont before i was born. ended up lighting on fire on her from the fuel rail having a leak with under 20k miles from what i recall. it was base like this, no a/c, am only
I think if you can get the bottom panel off then you might be able to get at that transistor what about a capacitor across the the resistor on the emitter lead and ground like a 0u5 for decoupling duty.
Shang, I'm restoring the Motorola AM radio in my '62 Plymouth Valiant, which used space-charge tubes in all but the audio section (which uses transistors). Remember them, and how they came to be?
hey man if you still have this car i thinki got a nos radio for ya i dont want nothing for it as long as ya want it, but i cant really be shipping stuff out for free my girlfriend would kick my ass may trade ya out on some other old junk electronics though, .I been watching your videos for a few weeks now and amreally getting into wanting to learn how to work on vintage electronics , ive always been intrigued about them but alli curently no is how to solder not much else but im willing to learn for sure my body is too worn out to continue doing body work on cars , keep up the good work
I doubt if the repair shops tried to fix those transformers, they replaced them. Of course today it's hard to find those parts. In my area many shops have closed and some of the places that sold parts are gone too.
Good Day, I have at least one mint cond Ford Radio just like that one left. I used to work in a Salvage Yard years ago, & we had a raft of ancient Autos there. I removed a few Radios from Autos that were owned by People that rarely or never used them. The best one of what I have left is a "Wonder Bar" 1977 Cadillac Fleetwood Radio out of a Funeral Car. They never used it. Also a 1972 Philco Ford Stereo Radio out of a Mercury top of the line,. . I forgot the model Name. ."Monterey"? Marquis?? owned by a wealthy Man who never used the Radio. Anyways I owned a 1979 Ford Super Cab 1/2 Ton at the Time, 1997,. & installed & used it. until the Truck became too costly to repair in 1999. I pulled it out before scrapping the Truck, & it's available. I wonder if it would have been possible to cut one of the Cans legs using a Dremel Tool so You could access the faulty Cap. Auto Radios have always been difficult to work on. Even the ones from 1930 I have poked around in the Parts were crammed in, making it a Headache.
Do you remember listening to am sterero? I remeber my dad had one in his oldsmobile. I remeber it sounding really worm and it had good stereo separation. I should try and find one in a junk yard and set one up has a portable. That would be fun to do. Also I wonder if there are any am stereo radio staions around? I love to see ypu tinker around with cool old stuff like that. It's fun to see what you can figure out and make somthing work better for you. Anyway's take care and fun. If I get around to making a portible out of a car am stereo I will share that with you for sure. I thik that you should make one up to for fun, if you have the time to waste on it. :-)
31:30 - Shango decides to modify the IF transformer so that he can "Have AM Radio, that kind of works in the event of an Emergency" Imagine an Emergency so bad that Shango doesn't have an AM radio that works, that would be one hell of an emergency
BUDDY LIGHT That's true. I remember shopping for a mid 70s car in the mid 80s and just about every one of them had the original radio replaced with an AM/FM cassette player. The cassette players usually had a busted tape stuck inside them. lol
james42519 Where I live in California there's more AM stations than FM stations. The newspaper lists 53 am stations and 41 fm stations. Of course more than half of those am stations are in Spanish or Cantonese.
And end up with worse RFI.... the new technology produces a lot more RFI than the old stuff...and at higher frequencies. LED and CFL even interfere with FM!
Hey shango do you plan to Do a Victrola eol video? unfortunately Crosley was one of many knockoff brands out on the market. Victrola (aka Innovative technology) was a company that basically have nothing to do with RCA's Victrola record brand! they are a disgrace and a joke. i don't think QVC should have given them any airtime! Stop the retro knockoff flood!
The most insidious car radio failure ever. KINA carried Rush Limbaugh on 910Khz IE 2x455Khz under the right conditions Delco ETR would fail so that you couldn't get rid of him no matter what station you tuned to.
The Ford AM radios were unchanged since the very early 70's maybe even 1969. Were actually considered the best in class for sound way back when AM had music not just religion and right wing religion like Limbaugh. In 60's -70's it was considered a big deal to have 2 speaker AM radio in giant apartment sized cars. Also thinking this maybe the 1st broken one I ever saw. The Delcos didn't break much either
No offense intended but.... why would someone restore a Ford Fairmont, (AKA Mercury Zephyr with a different trim)? I mean it was one of their most embarrassing moments in that era. To each his own I guess.
When we moved off the farm and into the town, dad got a job tearing down wrecks at a scrap yard. I got to know the owner quite well when I stopped in to bring dad his lunch and coffee. So it was I could get old AM radios for my old 50 Ford for 5 bucks a throw, of course that was 1960's 5 bucks, and my summer job paid 5 bucks a day. I spent many hours on my head under the dash putting in different radios for better sounding AM sound. I had on fancy one out of a Imperial that had electric tuning on a 6 volt radio, even a remote switch that was under the floor mat that I could hook up so a tap of the toe could change the station. Ah for the good old days, being 6;2 made climbing under the dash a bit harder then most but I managed. Don't think I could get up any more if I had to now days.
this is the most complete AM repair troubleshooting I have seen since I was in high school in 1976. vey nice to see. you are a rare breed. very nice to watch.
I've seen this radio in dozens of old movies and TV shows.
DJ shango scratching the volume knob!
Thanks for the flash back, I had a 78 Fairmont Futura that unfortunately rusted away from sitting. It was a great sleeper, it has a 302 in it!
Ford actually built their own radios back then and they were pretty reliable for what they were. The FM stereo ones used to say "Aeroneutronic" on them in the 1970s.
I'm a huge AM radio fan and it's a shame so many of these AM radios got tossed into the trash when people upgraded to FM radios, Compact Disc, etc.
found one of those AM only radios in a bus someone parked in the woods. Bus was a Chevrolet, so they had to adapt it to work.
I have one of those sets. I built it into a wooden cabinet and made a portable battery-powered radio. The idling current with low volume is only about 250 milliamps max... very sensitive set, too.
I am impressed at how much gain they could squeeze out of each stage. Your radio has one RF stage, a converter, stage, and a single IF stage, yet the stations are wall-to-wall as you tune through the band.
klafong1 I'd love to understand that better myself. I frequently look at videos and circuits for Regenerative, TRF Tuned Radio Frequency, Superheterodyne, and the IC Integrated Circuit type designs. Maybe Shango can do a video taking about and demonstrating some of those designs and concepts. Car radios are fantastic DX'ers. God Bless and Happy New Year!
My parents had a 78 Fairmont from the time it was new until about 89 or 90. I have a lot of memories of the radio playing 60s and 70s music on the 'oldies' station. Of course if it drove under a bridge the music faded out a couple of seconds. I learned my music trivia.
Wow man. Talk about cry time. My mother had this car in wagon form in the early 90s. The memories flooding back are crazy...
I once hit the parking brake/moved the shifter while Mom was in the store. I rolled 1/2 a mile backwards while locking the doors to keep the men running after the car from getting in. That 90's tv! Diddnt wanna get kidnapped!
1978 was the last year of AM radio domination. In 1979, listenership was split evenly between the two bands (50% AM, 50% FM). FM took over in 1980.
Michael Williams FM radio was just about non existent in my area when I was a kid in the 60s. My parents bought me a Sony portable radio for my 10th birthday in 1968 and at that time there were only two FM stations. You could either listen to classical or jazz. AM is still pretty popular in my region.
Yeah, it's a sad commentary. I'll be 55 on June 10, good Lord willing and the creek don't rise, and at one point in my life, were you to give me an AM country station, you wouldn't find a happier person on earth.
That was great. Excellent diagnosis. Thanks as always.
Carl
I enjoyed this car radio repair very much...Thanks!
Thanks for the videos. You have great taste in tunes!
i remember my dad owning 2 of them which were the mercury zephyr version 1 of them was a 1978 z71 coupe and then my dad owned the 1982 sedan and still to this day many years after the cars are long gone we still have the repair manual for the car
I still have the factory ford AM radio out of the Fairmont I had in high school. it works just fine now because like yours there it lost it's 2nd IF and I replaced it with an IF can out of some old ham radio thing I had and re-peaked it.
Nice job....it smells wonderful!
Great video. Love that Peter Murphy track btw
Great fix, good idea to keep it original and working as an AM radio with auxillary input. Pretty good sound too.
shango066
Yes I remembered that noise quiet well on the L.A. motorway
Adding that mica to only half of the secondary I.F. works much better than I thought. You won't have full I.F. output but it is useable. Pretty smart idea that you came up with, I have to admit.
Man, it would be a nightmare to unwind all those tuning slug wireds to get to that bad I.F. can's internal cap.
I think you would be the happiest, just hooking a switch and audio coax cable to the audio I.C. input and call it good.
It is refreshing to see troubleshooting instead of mere carpetbombing to resolve problems.
shango066
I actually found it very refreshing and very interesting.
I still love your Ham outings into the desert the most, I have to admit. That last one was unbelievably interesting and cool!
What a "60's era" trip that was!
"Iron man" was also very, very, cool too...
You ever got your drone fixed?
73s
My grandmother had a Zephyr from about that time period in the early 1980's. I recall the radio in that car was AM/FM.
great repair!!
Good vid's. I never get bored. I have good memories of a 78 Fairmaont too. It had an AM/FM Panasonic Stere, but DX was good. Thanks.
Love them old cars!!!
Well it is quite late now, but I just opened a bunch of old IF cans pulled from stuff, and they all have tiny tubular capacitors. Some of them are directly visible from the bottom, others can be seen by removing the assembly out of the shield. Just guessing here, but since the thansformer is tuned with the slug, the value of the capacitor can be changed to some extent. Remember reading somewhere that some people would intentionally change the value of the caps on the larger IF's in order to be able to push the slug further in, getting more coupling between the windings, thus increasing the audio output of the receiver.
The board is easy to take apart. The coils slide out and there is enough wire to slide the coils clear to tip the board up so you can work on it. Just need to remove the back plate off.
Mr Carlson would have done it. lol
Nice sound.
that mechanical channel saving is cool
skil3z The "resetability" of the mechanical tuning presets seems a marvel to me. I'm old enough to remember them. They drop you right on center every time. They rarely need to be reset. God Bless.
Nice Video!
LOL...I lost it when you started banging the dashboard trying to get the radio to work. After watching many of your other videos I was kind of surprised to see that. I only do that when there's no other options.
Tech 101: "Jar the instrument slightly. This will require a three to six foot drop...."
If only I had a guy like you around here I'd have a healthier hobby!
sounds like a pretty good party happening in the background
You should be able to find another one of those at a car swap meet, or even a garage sale or C.L, maybe even an AM/FM version or one with a cassette or 8 track built into it, they used the same basic design for years only changing the knobs to suit the vehicle. I used to have one that came out of a Merc or a Crown Vic from the mid 80s. I think the caps inside those IF cans were a precision ceramic type so they themselves wouldn't fail but the connections at one end might. If you wanted to go to the trouble (which I would not) you could probably open up the can and investigate what happened, it could be as simple as a failed solder joint, but it looks like it would take an hour just to get the board out just to get at it.
The "T" markings on the dial stood for "Travelers' Advisory Band" or something like that.
Hey I really enjoyed this as I always do any of your videos. You should consider a sencore sg165. It has the 262khz if output.They are usually priced right on ebay. Jimmy Lane
Nice job...
Hello, If I was in that situation and wanted to find a replacement IF can, I would check at the junk yards for another whole radio, and get the can from it. Or look on eBay. It's been quite a while since I worked on one of those, but to remove the board, is to first remove the screws that hold the bottom casing so you can have clear axis to the whole board that is attached to the tuner assembly. Remove the screws, or nuts (I can't remember) and pull the board straight out. The inductors should stay attached to the board without having to unsolder the wires...
Interesting vid! Ah, and i like 12" too ;))
I would buy the shortwave radio antannae to get the stations farther away and listen at nite
It's not the cap its corrosion.Same thing 1974 Mustang.Top was froze bottom wasn't.It can't peak because there is corrosion on the grid.Leave it unplugged spray the hell out of it let it set for about an hour then do it again.Then take an.air compressor put it around 50 lbs and blow it out.Mine works great good luck
Got to hand it to your diligence. I would have given up on this in two minutes.
"This is really hard to hold the camera and do this..."
*music* "In my hands, in my hands again..."
hahaha
I love that car..
Try some heat from a heat gun to the rear solder side, using a thin pipe attached to the nozle, the padding capacitors on thoses Toko style cans become dry jointed or oxidised, a bit of heat very often re flows the connection.
alot of old headunits were well made!!
How did you remove it?
I'd find the factory am/fm radio from like a mustang or an ltd from the early eighties and stick this on a shelf after repairs but none the less for originalities sake gotta keep in there!!!!
I accidentally hooked one of these radios up backwards what do I do?
Sounds to me you just have a dirty volume pot. A shot of Deoxit©D-5 and some vigorous turning of the wiper ought to fix the problem. Dirt, dust and water gets into these car radios all the time, and it doesn't take much to fix them. Just give everything a good cleaning, set it aside to dry out from the cleaner, and see if it works. I have a JVC AUTO REVERSE cassette player AM/FM radio I'm going to fix and I am going to go through all the switches and contacts with a Deoxit cleaner and a cue tip first to see if that does it. The tape mechanism works fine, so that is all I may have to do.
I just wonder why you cannot have a ring of two amp driving the final IFT might give some more gain as I have seen a ring of two amp used in a DNT CB transceiver, there are tiny polystyrene caps inside the can.
I got one similar, AM/FM in my 96 Crown Vic but the FM drifts like crazy. Not sure what to do about it.
Hi So in this video how did you pull the radio out? I have a 1981 Mustang with Am/FM and also has the same type radio indash setup. Your video did not show how you totally removed the radio. I found a Philco Am/FM with factory 8track player and want to install it. Uses the same wiring harness as original radio. Radio and 8track works perfect when tested. Just need more info on taking out original factory radio. Thanks,Mike
6 Years later and I'm wondering the same. How the hell does this thing come out? 🥲
@@robertdrayfahl6632 2 more months later... You use a deep socket to release the nuts that are on the tuning and volume knob shafts as shango mentioned. On the back of the radio there is a threaded stud sticking straight out that is used with a mounting strap or other mechanical support to keep the radio from bobbing up and down on the tuning / volume shaft. Unthread the nut on that stud and remove the support connection. Pull the antenna, speaker and power connectors and out she comes from the back, behind the dash. It can be fished through with patience. Hope you see this and it helps if you still are wondering. Cheers
Do you take radios in for repair?
I am trying to troubleshoot a Philco Ford AM only radio out of a 1967 Ford Mustang On the side of the radio its marked 7TPZ . It powers up and has audio but its squeal with static like
its going into oscillation. With a 5 foot piece of wire I could get a local radio station weak not clear. If I connect it to my outside wire antenna the station drops out as though the radio was overloaded. I have been searching for the schematic but so far no luck. I checked the only 3 transistors with a meter in the diode mode and they look good. There is a germanium diode that measures good too. I certainly would appreciate anyone offering a schematic. I might be able to fix this. There is one large round capacitor. It looks like a multi-capacitor. I noticed
its corroded on the top. Could use help with a schematic. Thanks
Perhaps you could have also added a small inductor in series with the added 110mfd cap to compensate for the loss of half of the secondary coil in the if transformer.
I'll have to look to see if I have one of those radios. I may have an older 70s Philco - Ford AM only radio. If I locate one, I will let you know. ;-)
My mother had a 78 fairmont before i was born. ended up lighting on fire on her from the fuel rail having a leak with under 20k miles from what i recall. it was base like this, no a/c, am only
I think if you can get the bottom panel off then you might be able to get at that transistor what about a capacitor across the the resistor on the emitter lead and ground like a 0u5 for decoupling duty.
I have a 1976 Ford Philco a.m., FM, mono car radio and I was wondering if you would be willing to recap it and I would have no problem paying for it?
what is the small #4 on the dial?
540 KHz, the bottom end of the AM broadcast band on that radio.
Shang, I'm restoring the Motorola AM radio in my '62 Plymouth Valiant, which used space-charge tubes in all but the audio section (which uses transistors). Remember them, and how they came to be?
1980 ford am radio with blue tooth connectivity!! ROFLAO!!
hey man if you still have this car i thinki got a nos radio for ya i dont want nothing for it as long as ya want it, but i cant really be shipping stuff out for free my girlfriend would kick my ass may trade ya out on some other old junk electronics though, .I been watching your videos for a few weeks now and amreally getting into wanting to learn how to work on vintage electronics , ive always been intrigued about them but alli curently no is how to solder not much else but im willing to learn for sure my body is too worn out to continue doing body work on cars , keep up the good work
i have a factory am only radio that will fit this car. its a philco ford. lmk if your interested. pay for shipping and its yours. has no issues.
We should go back to those instead of the dangerous distracting "infotainment systems" on new cars.
I doubt if the repair shops tried to fix those transformers, they replaced them. Of course today it's hard to find those parts. In my area many shops have closed and some of the places that sold parts are gone too.
Sam's cost more than the Fairmont is worth 😁
There's places man wasn't intended to go .a radio for that car on eBay worth 10$ may have a 8\tract too as a bonus.!😁
Good Day,
I have at least one mint cond Ford Radio just like that one left.
I used to work in a Salvage Yard years ago, & we had a raft of ancient Autos there. I removed a few Radios from Autos that were owned by People that rarely or never used them.
The best one of what I have left is a "Wonder Bar" 1977 Cadillac Fleetwood Radio out of a Funeral Car.
They never used it.
Also a 1972 Philco Ford Stereo Radio out of a Mercury top of the line,. . I forgot the model Name. ."Monterey"? Marquis?? owned by a wealthy Man who never used the Radio.
Anyways I owned a 1979 Ford Super Cab 1/2 Ton at the Time, 1997,. & installed & used it. until the Truck became too costly to repair in 1999.
I pulled it out before scrapping the Truck, & it's available.
I wonder if it would have been possible to cut one of the Cans legs using a Dremel Tool so You could access the faulty Cap.
Auto Radios have always been difficult to work on. Even the ones from 1930 I have poked around in the Parts were crammed in, making it a Headache.
Do you remember listening to am sterero? I remeber my dad had one in his oldsmobile. I remeber it sounding really worm and it had good stereo separation. I should try and find one in a junk yard and set one up has a portable. That would be fun to do. Also I wonder if there are any am stereo radio staions around? I love to see ypu tinker around with cool old stuff like that. It's fun to see what you can figure out and make somthing work better for you. Anyway's take care and fun. If I get around to making a portible out of a car am stereo I will share that with you for sure. I thik that you should make one up to for fun, if you have the time to waste on it. :-)
31:30 - Shango decides to modify the IF transformer so that he can "Have AM Radio, that kind of works in the event of an Emergency"
Imagine an Emergency so bad that Shango doesn't have an AM radio that works, that would be one hell of an emergency
Joe, you ain’t lying! If he doesn’t have a working radio, all hope is lost!
Can you bodge a variable cap on the back of the board? .. ah ha, you managed to get a cap on that IF …
$22 for an online schematic?
where there's a will there's a way . . . If the rest would just follow . . ~
Most of those radios were removed and trashed.
BUDDY LIGHT That's true. I remember shopping for a mid 70s car in the mid 80s and just about every one of them had the original radio replaced with an AM/FM cassette player. The cassette players usually had a busted tape stuck inside them. lol
i don't think i could live without fm here. then again there is no am stations really and if lucky enough to get not worth listening to.
james42519 Where I live in California there's more AM stations than FM stations. The newspaper lists 53 am stations and 41 fm stations. Of course more than half of those am stations are in Spanish or Cantonese.
Won't get a lemon at Toyota of Orange.
I see you hgave the same problwm with your flourescent lights that I have.... RFI
+John Gedde OPld Those old magnetic ballasts = bad, you should get LED lighting or solid state ballasts in them.
And end up with worse RFI.... the new technology produces a lot more RFI than the old stuff...and at higher frequencies. LED and CFL even interfere with FM!
I thought you would of tried to open it up, its not like you would of destroyed a classic tressure
Why won't you give out the website where you down load the sam's (schematic)?
www.samswebsite.com/ and i have the whole paper set too
That's ooooo skooool lol.
Hey shango do you plan to Do a Victrola eol video? unfortunately Crosley was one of many knockoff brands out on the market. Victrola (aka Innovative technology) was a company that basically have nothing to do with RCA's Victrola record brand! they are a disgrace and a joke. i don't think QVC should have given them any airtime! Stop the retro knockoff flood!
The most insidious car radio failure ever. KINA carried Rush Limbaugh on 910Khz IE 2x455Khz under the right conditions Delco ETR would fail so that you couldn't get rid of him no matter what station you tuned to.
piece a shits but they were code-cars.. you must learn the code to return abode. haha
The Ford AM radios were unchanged since the very early 70's maybe even 1969. Were actually considered the best in class for sound way back when AM had music not just religion and right wing religion like Limbaugh. In 60's -70's it was considered a big deal to have 2 speaker AM radio in giant apartment sized cars. Also thinking this maybe the 1st broken one I ever saw. The Delcos didn't break much either
Restoring a 1980 Ford Fairmont.......WHY????😲😵😳
Bob Whammer My guess is because he likes it. Maybe had it a long time. God Bless.
I’m restoring one. These cars ruled!
Man you need a freaking tripod for your camera, either that or a third arm, or a cameraman.
Who would listen to music (of any kind) on AM radio?
No offense intended but.... why would someone restore a Ford Fairmont, (AKA Mercury Zephyr with a different trim)? I mean it was one of their most embarrassing moments in that era. To each his own I guess.
I was thinking the same thing.