FIRST FULL POWER UP - 1953 VACUUM TUBE CAR RADIO Pt2 - CHEVROLET PUSH BUTTON MODEL 986668 [4K]

[@Simon-mz7sf]

Lovely restore. Thanks for sharing

[@PracticallyFixed]

Hi Simon. Thanks for the kind comment.

[@jimnewman5596]

Great video on the car radio, the old vibrator still works rather well, and I love the headlight dim bulb.

[@PracticallyFixed]

Hi Jim. Thanks. I was fortunate to have a 6v headlight available. As mentioned to Doug, some interesting stuff still to go on this project. Thanks for the comment.

[@DERB_Seymour_Indiana]

Congrats on a successful power up. :)

[@PracticallyFixed]

Thanks Doug - you may have guessed I was also holding my breath that the EICO power supply could deliver the muscle needed, after all the work that went into "fixing That, before I could this This."
Spoiler:
This unit is not as "restored" as it looks... there is a problem hiding in there.

[@kilcar]

When the vibrator came on, my cat alerted and was drawn to the screen.

[@ericstevenson1903]

Also the current for the radio should be somewhere around 77 and a half amps so the factory double that and use the 14 amp fuse

[@ericstevenson1903]

Check the buffer capacitor it's the first one the punk out it's across the old Z4 inputs they will get hot and start sweating wax

[@ericstevenson1903]

With that operating in a running vehicle the cutoff voltage of the voltage regulator at 7.2 volts