I have a SEARS radio like this one. It was my Dad's. I can tell you that this one you've worked on is from around the late '70s. My Dad bought his brand new in 1978 or '79 shortly before he married my Mom. My parents used the clock radio until he passed away in 2017. I now use it. As of right now, the clock still works fine, but the radio is possibly having the same problem as this one. Now that I've seen this video, I know what to do to fix mine. No matter what happens to it, I will never get rid of my Dad's clock radio, because it's very special to me. It's a piece of memory of my Dad. I miss him so much. I'm turning 30 in August and I'm the youngest out of 5 children.
Much like that 4 stroke weed wacker I trashpicked. It was EOL on account of the cylinder and piston having massive gouges in it. But it WAS a great learning experience!
Don't know why, but I fell in love with that sweet-ass old radio the first time you showed us. Gorgeous patina and character. I'd like to think that old cabinet finish includes a visually and olfactory 'sheen of nicoteine'. lol. Thanks Shango :)
I've started to find myself diagnosing my stereos and thanks to your videos and a bunch of research and learning im beginning to learn how to fix my own vintage stereos
The Sears clock radio looks mid or late '70s, the kind of thing that was new when I was a kid. I seemed to remember a Ken Tech clock radio that looked similar. Anyway, I love the direct tuning dial scale.
Where I live in the south, vehicles with loud exhaust are very common and have been for many decades. Some of it is people letting their vehicles go until the wheels fall off. Most of it are kids with pickup trucks and guys riding around on motorcycles that are the issue. They gotta hear that noise. I'm not sure about what it's like in SoCal, but I've noticed a few Harley-Davidson motorcycles here that don't have loud exhaust but loud amps and large speakers that rival rolling four-wheel boomboxes. They actually sound pretty good, but they are loud. Gotta be able to let everyone hear crappy bar-rock music. The state does have a loud vehicle law, but since it doesn't make them any money, they choose not to enforce it. Only once in 46 years have I've seen someone get a citation for loud exhaust. Yes, the US is sliding down into the third-world classification.
I live way out in the countryside in South West England. Still no escape from the loud exhaust Champions! I sometimes wonder if they are trying to compensate for a deficiency somewhere...😄
Some brand new cars here get an exhaust refit by the owner to boost the deep booming sound even when idle, a sound that resonates a small living space until it shakes.
@@erikdenhouter resonators we’re illegal in the US at one time, some lobbyists likely paid off some politicians to get the law thrown out, probably buried in some other legislation.
I don't mind the noise so much but I despise the obsession with super bright BLUE HID headlamps everywhere. I have to drive with sunglasses on at night otherwise I would go blind.
The people not putting any spaces after a period must be very young, because that's what I did when I was like 9 or 10 years old and was first learning how to use a word processor. That was back when you were supposed to put *two* spaces after a period!
How about using a typewriter and multiple tabs for columns, then using multiple layers of carbon paper for copies! tab tab tab tab tab tab tab tab tab I still have an IBM selectric with the font ball. Why? I have not idea, kind of a boat anchor or door stop nowadays.
I have a Realistic Concertmate stereo made in 1972. It's a futuristic looking compact unit, probably made by Onkyo. When I tried to fire it up recently, it wouldn't do anything until I sprayed all the pots. Even then it needed hours of on time before it began to sound close to normal.
I still have the same alarm clock radio I bought new in 1987 right after I graduated high school. It's been in continuous use since then. Never sprayed any deoxit in it. Works like the day it was new.
Sounds like the electrolytic caps are going, time to replace them. Many of the early transistor/LED clock radios get tossed because their cheaply made power transformers start to buzz. The glue preventing the thin iron plates from vibrating lets go and you get to hear the 60 cycle power line.
I wouldn't expect a 1970's-era Sears clock-radio to be an adequate performer. After all, it was only intended to wake you up! I had a Realistic clock-radio I bought new in 1978 and it had an option to wake up to a loud 60-cycle hum.
Eh, the Chinese Special 8 track one I have is pretty sensitive. My Sony Dream Machine is also decently good. My GE digital clock radio is pretty deaf though.
I have a landline, but it's fiber (only because copper isn't available anymore). But it is still a landline. It's regular old phone and I have a 1960s push button telephone hooked up to it (inside my house, it's copper). I like the nice loud mechanical ringer.
I knew that slider switch was dirty! Those almost alway oxide up after a while. Spray in some contact cleaner and move it back and forth. Then do it again. Had the same problem on a nearly identical GE alarm clock radio from the same era. Lots of dust bunnies in it including a Fuzz- O- Matic speaker. LOL Cleaned it both inside and out and it plays quite loudly too. Nice one Shango!
I have to say, there is nothing better on an early morning watching Shango repair vintage equipment from times past and make commentary on the slow destruction of this great country.
In the case of the Philco (which seems like a really nice set), whenever I know a radio uses a pilot light (and seems to be intermittent) I always check the bulb rather than waiting to see if you have filaments. If something is intermittent, the bulb will flash and follow the problem more closely--plus you have to replace it anyway. When I worked as journeyman electrician in the steel-mill,, in the steel-production department, we used to use asbestos blankets to insulate the control cabinets that were adjacent on the outfeed or roll-lines. We had large rolls of it. When we worked split-shifts or double-overs, we used to try and get some shut-eye on the graveyard shift since many times you had to stay for the dayshift (having worked it that previous day!). Anyway, I remember sleeping on those asbestos blankets; they have a very soft and split-leather feel. They are very comfortable and keep you warm. Go only knows what's in my future! On the Sears, maybe looking into the FM alignment as far as performance goes. Tip: When you want to desolder a cap from the PCB-top, I've had luck with using a C210 soldering station with a 0.1mm curved-tip. If the cap it to tight to the board, I just cut them out preserving the topside leads. Anyway, grreat video and nice to see old radios being made to work...
Some years ago I dug out a Casio calculator from 1979 I'd had since new but had been sitting around in a drawer over a decade after I took it out of the glovebox of a car that it have been hanging out in for like 15yrs that I finally parked for good (the car). Put in some batteries and it was dead. Of course I opened it up. Turns out the little slide switch for power was silver plated and was black with tarnish. Burnished it up with a pencil eraser and it was good to go. One would not realize how old that calculator is until taking it apart as there is a 40 pin DIP IC in there compared to some SMT die on board covered with glue like you would find in a modern version.
I got a Walkman cassette player style (aiwa) that didn't turn on at all and the switches were so dirty that cleaning them brought it to life and a new belt
I've been using the same clock radio alarm since 1987. It's been in continuous daily use for 35 years. Never sprayed a drop of deoxit in it. Works like the day it was new.
i purchased new, the absolute top of the line hong kong made sears led digital alarm radio, slide rule tuning, stereo, ( with indicator light) with stereo headphones jack, dual speakers and external speakers binding posts, external antenna posts, touch sensors for alarm control, automatic dimming, dual alarm setting, purchase new in. 1980 , and its still working well, ( just with occasional deoxid baths) it the pinnacle of hong kong codial technology. the interior is very similar with considerably more complex circuits. the parts are mostly Japanese mid grade. assembly is almost identical to your example.
Yes, I borrowed a Shango euphemism, Hong Kong codial,… or is it kodial or Kodeal, maybe codeal, or koydeal, possibly koiedieal, koideal?…. Honestly I like koideal best, the roots of this version are pleasing, starting with k referencing Kong, koi like a fish. given a root of “ fishy deal” ,…deal, like “ oh what a deal this is “ but the originator of the term should reveal the correct spelling.
Sometimes I get stuff working and I do a few things to try to get it to work, all of a sudden it’s working and good, too which solved the problem, ac line? Loose connection somewhere? Put back together and if it’s still working, excellent!
They're doing the same thing up here in Canada directionally getting rid of copper phone lines they're even starting to dig up the old copper lines and basically going to the scrap pile in man old man that is a lot of copper
The power switches on those Philco's are known to go intermittent and eventually stop working. I've seen a number of them bad and the volume control changed to a power/volume combo. Sometimes when they quit working, you can spray them with contact cleaner to bring them back to life.
I worked with a master electrician that had 30 years on the job and used to tell me that asbestos wasn't that bad if you encountered small fiber which is in wiring and insulation. It's the long fiber crap that was used in ship yards that was a problem. He said he breathed in a considerable amount of asbestos over the years working on old wiring and old buildings and smoked like a chimney.
Thank You! I’d like to see more vintage clock radios. I have a fairly famous one. A GE Great Awakening which I repaired the keyboard on but am stumped because the clock runs fast. Suspect its having a 60/50 hz problem since thats the base timing method. Totally stumped on it. Thanks Again Shango.
A vote from me for more vintage clock radios.👍 In the UK in the 1970s, there were lots of clock radios which had mechanical flip clocks. These clock radios were imported from Hong Kong. In one I researched, the clock unit was made in Japan. The radio boards were good enough; nothing special. The clocks are now prized as collectables. Did these clock radios find a market in the USA?
Some old clocks used the 60hz of the power line to keep time. This used to be tightly controlled for timekeeping but since everything has it's own RTC now the power companies are allowed to drift the grid frequency much more than they used to. I am curious if it keeps time attached to an inverter of some kind which should generate it's own 60 hz alternation.
Yes. Flip dial clocks were sold here quite a lot and certain ones are pretty valuable . I never tried obtaining an inverter that would assure 60hz but its a lot off so I have to assume even with a controlled feed it will run fast. The drift couldn’t be this large. Thanks for the interest.
Your videos are awesome they actually inspired me enough that i started teaching myself to solder so I can repair and mod old game consoles as a hobby. It also helps me in my actual trade as a tech... overall keep the vids coming 👍
Thanks for the video, it's always useful to see your process of analysis and repair. I started to 'collect' Sony clock radios with the 'Flip Numbers' but I got (a bit) obsessed and opened it up to all Sony clock radios from the simple mechanical round clock display to the ones that have a LCD display that will play mp4 videos ! I now own 125+ units and have run out of room !
Rarely have I seen a clock radio whose FM antenna is part of the power cord, all the ones I've owned have a dedicated FM antenna wire sticking out the back of the case somewhere.
I actually learn a thing or three from your videos plus I have some vintage equipment, like a Dynaco 70 pre-amp and Amp, a Rotel receiver and some others. The Dynaco still works, but the pre-amp is a bit scratchy when turning the knobs. Maybe you'd like a go at it, Mr. Shango066? Thanks for the great videos!
The only I don’t like is the people are so easily offended when they are the one’s that make there own poor decisions and blame everyone for it! I love watching your video’s
I hope you all realize. Which I'm sure you do. That someday Shango will not be with us anymore. And all his knowledge will be lost to the world!! How will we ever torko qurlculate without him?
When I moved to the US in 1972, the American store brand name like Sears JC Penny K-Mart were manufactured in Far East! This including TV with screen diameter less than 19" including GE, RCA that sold at below er than $200.00 price range! The US manufacturer only expensive item like Zenith Transoceanic SW that sold over than $250.00.
I have a land line but only use it for AT&T UVerse DSL. When you live way out in the sticks too far for cable, satellite and phone lines is your only option. With speeds at 12Mbps it’s fast enough for watching online HDTV. I’m hoping one day TMobile extends service out my way then I can get 5G home internet hotspot
In my 1980s typing school courses(Self-paced Learning Center), I was taught to space TWICE after a period, before the next sentence. I don't know if UA-cam preserved the double space before this sentece and after the last one.
You could try bringing the antenna out to a set of terminals and attaching a dipole. Honestly they were not great performers. You may be better off or happier with a said that was known as a good performer from the start. It's not a clock radio but if you can find a GE or RCA super radio III I think you'll be happy.
The FM could be improved by taking the antenna out of the cabinet, and hang it as a single wire of about 90 cm. As shango066 says, often these sets have the antenna wound a few turns around the mains, but in this case he does not show.
~”America is a golden calf and we will chop it up and sell it off piece by piece until we have created the worlds largest welfare state. This is what we do to countries we hate, we destroy them very slowly” Benny Netanyahu
Can the brightness of the led display be improved, or is the module burned out? To me it looks like hitachi made for Sears, I had a portable with the round dial, a hitachi fm was low on that too
Burned out as far as I can tell, they all do after 30 years. The FM could be improved by taking the antenna out of the cabinet, and hang it as a wire. As shango066 says, often these sets have the antenna wound a few turns around the mains, but in this case he does not show.
Drop the resistance to the LEDs. Might accelerate demise but it's on its way out anyways. I think one can actually still source these displays or one very similar that will work.
Funi tvs I got so I didn't want to take them in for repairs. I went to a warehouse and saw hundreds of late model funi sets stacked on pallets I guess they were returns. They refurbished them and sold them.
Would it be posible to get an episode on AM/ FM radio/ +digital clock " SANYO RM 5500" ... with an explanation of it's schematic ; * how it works and * how to test stuff following schematic lines, please ? I would like to start from somewhere... into the vintage transistor radios ... and that model I got for free - to get sacrificed for learning.
This might sound like a silly question here however I can not find out the answer on the internet but how does this dim bulb set up work and how do you wire it all to work in this way?
I would love to learn more from you but you are so far away. So many good people on you tube but very few around me. I am in Sprigfield New Brunswick Canada.
It seems that roughly forty per cent of the vehicles here in Albuquerque don't have mufflers. We really need to pass some kind of city ordinance requiring mufflers.
Newer ON / OFF ush-push switches could stick half way. Especially those big gang switches in 70's instant on sets. Just let it snap & usually that will put them in there place. LFOD !
Those early 40's Philco's are a hellish world of their own. Asbestos flakes, dry rotten wire, and crusty fragile tube sockets. An average Philco in average Philco condition.
I have a SEARS radio like this one. It was my Dad's. I can tell you that this one you've worked on is from around the late '70s. My Dad bought his brand new in 1978 or '79 shortly before he married my Mom. My parents used the clock radio until he passed away in 2017. I now use it. As of right now, the clock still works fine, but the radio is possibly having the same problem as this one. Now that I've seen this video, I know what to do to fix mine. No matter what happens to it, I will never get rid of my Dad's clock radio, because it's very special to me. It's a piece of memory of my Dad. I miss him so much. I'm turning 30 in August and I'm the youngest out of 5 children.
Sorry for your loss. I know the feeling, I lost my dad and have his red Panasonic Panapet radio. I get it out and play it from time to time. ❤📻
Sears sold that radio from '78-'80. $34.50 in '78-down to $28.95 in '80. Was their entry-level clock radio with an electronic clock.
Shango is an incredible technician of this era.
We can learn a lot from him and do!
Master tech full stop
I'd say he is very credible 😉
The Philco segment of this video was NOT a waste of time! Your learning is our learning.🙂
Much like that 4 stroke weed wacker I trashpicked. It was EOL on account of the cylinder and piston having massive gouges in it.
But it WAS a great learning experience!
Wow an intact 2" speaker from the 70's with no pencil holes - rare
Don't know why, but I fell in love with that sweet-ass old radio the first time you showed us. Gorgeous patina and character. I'd like to think that old cabinet finish includes a visually and olfactory 'sheen of nicoteine'. lol. Thanks Shango :)
Dear Shango, I really enjoy watching your videos, and repairing electtronics, it is a great learning tool for me, have a nice day.
Always enjoy your videos!!! Thanks for taking the time to take us along Shango066!
"as the country slides into the third world," I love your humor!
nothing like a Sat morning diagnosis video from Shango!
I've started to find myself diagnosing my stereos and thanks to your videos and a bunch of research and learning im beginning to learn how to fix my own vintage stereos
The Sears clock radio looks mid or late '70s, the kind of thing that was new when I was a kid. I seemed to remember a Ken Tech clock radio that looked similar. Anyway, I love the direct tuning dial scale.
The bane of 1970s electronics . . . slide switches (especially the circular sliver ones) and slide potentiometers.
Where I live in the south, vehicles with loud exhaust are very common and have been for many decades. Some of it is people letting their vehicles go until the wheels fall off. Most of it are kids with pickup trucks and guys riding around on motorcycles that are the issue. They gotta hear that noise. I'm not sure about what it's like in SoCal, but I've noticed a few Harley-Davidson motorcycles here that don't have loud exhaust but loud amps and large speakers that rival rolling four-wheel boomboxes. They actually sound pretty good, but they are loud. Gotta be able to let everyone hear crappy bar-rock music. The state does have a loud vehicle law, but since it doesn't make them any money, they choose not to enforce it. Only once in 46 years have I've seen someone get a citation for loud exhaust.
Yes, the US is sliding down into the third-world classification.
I live way out in the countryside in South West England. Still no escape from the loud exhaust Champions! I sometimes wonder if they are trying to compensate for a deficiency somewhere...😄
Some brand new cars here get an exhaust refit by the owner to boost the deep booming sound even when idle, a sound that resonates a small living space until it shakes.
@@erikdenhouter resonators we’re illegal in the US at one time, some lobbyists likely paid off some politicians to get the law thrown out, probably buried in some other legislation.
I don't mind the noise so much but I despise the obsession with super bright BLUE HID headlamps everywhere. I have to drive with sunglasses on at night otherwise I would go blind.
The people not putting any spaces after a period must be very young, because that's what I did when I was like 9 or 10 years old and was first learning how to use a word processor. That was back when you were supposed to put *two* spaces after a period!
I usually still do two spaces after a period. It makes it a little easier to read.
How about using a typewriter and multiple tabs for columns, then using multiple layers of carbon paper for copies!
tab tab tab
tab tab tab
tab tab tab
I still have an IBM selectric with the font ball. Why? I have not idea, kind of a boat anchor or door stop nowadays.
Shango is a national treasure.
I mainly enjoy the videos. I do not care what happens to any comments I make. And, I have learned so much from Shango, love it.....
I have a Realistic Concertmate stereo made in 1972. It's a futuristic looking compact unit, probably made by Onkyo. When I tried to fire it up recently, it wouldn't do anything until I sprayed all the pots. Even then it needed hours of on time before it began to sound close to normal.
I still have the same alarm clock radio I bought new in 1987 right after I graduated high school. It's been in continuous use since then. Never sprayed any deoxit in it. Works like the day it was new.
@paulzehner9149 Probably due to dried out electrolytic capacitors. Recap it and it should come back to life.
Sounds like the electrolytic caps are going, time to replace them.
Many of the early transistor/LED clock radios get tossed because their cheaply made power transformers start to buzz. The glue preventing the thin iron plates from vibrating lets go and you get to hear the 60 cycle power line.
I had this one as a kid- vivid memories. Air Florida crash in DC was one of them.
I wouldn't expect a 1970's-era Sears clock-radio to be an adequate performer. After all, it was only intended to wake you up! I had a Realistic clock-radio I bought new in 1978 and it had an option to wake up to a loud 60-cycle hum.
Probably one that drives the speaker with line AC through a fatty resistor
Eh, the Chinese Special 8 track one I have is pretty sensitive. My Sony Dream Machine is also decently good.
My GE digital clock radio is pretty deaf though.
I have a landline, but it's fiber (only because copper isn't available anymore). But it is still a landline. It's regular old phone and I have a 1960s push button telephone hooked up to it (inside my house, it's copper). I like the nice loud mechanical ringer.
I knew that slider switch was dirty! Those almost alway oxide up after a while. Spray in some contact cleaner and move it
back and forth. Then do it again. Had the same problem on a nearly identical GE alarm clock radio from the same era.
Lots of dust bunnies in it including a Fuzz- O- Matic speaker. LOL Cleaned it both inside and out and it plays quite loudly too. Nice one Shango!
I have to say, there is nothing better on an early morning watching Shango repair vintage equipment from times past and make commentary on the slow destruction of this great country.
In the case of the Philco (which seems like a really nice set), whenever I know a radio uses a pilot light (and seems to be intermittent) I always check the bulb rather than waiting to see if you have filaments. If something is intermittent, the bulb will flash and follow the problem more closely--plus you have to replace it anyway.
When I worked as journeyman electrician in the steel-mill,, in the steel-production department, we used to use asbestos blankets to insulate the control cabinets that were adjacent on the outfeed or roll-lines. We had large rolls of it. When we worked split-shifts or double-overs, we used to try and get some shut-eye on the graveyard shift since many times you had to stay for the dayshift (having worked it that previous day!). Anyway, I remember sleeping on those asbestos blankets; they have a very soft and split-leather feel. They are very comfortable and keep you warm. Go only knows what's in my future!
On the Sears, maybe looking into the FM alignment as far as performance goes.
Tip: When you want to desolder a cap from the PCB-top, I've had luck with using a C210 soldering station with a 0.1mm curved-tip. If the cap it to tight to the board, I just cut them out preserving the topside leads.
Anyway, grreat video and nice to see old radios being made to work...
Some years ago I dug out a Casio calculator from 1979 I'd had since new but had been sitting around in a drawer over a decade after I took it out of the glovebox of a car that it have been hanging out in for like 15yrs that I finally parked for good (the car). Put in some batteries and it was dead. Of course I opened it up. Turns out the little slide switch for power was silver plated and was black with tarnish. Burnished it up with a pencil eraser and it was good to go.
One would not realize how old that calculator is until taking it apart as there is a 40 pin DIP IC in there compared to some SMT die on board covered with glue like you would find in a modern version.
I got a Walkman cassette player style (aiwa) that didn't turn on at all and the switches were so dirty that cleaning them brought it to life and a new belt
Thanks for your awesome video as usual. Have a great weekend Scott
Will this show up? I'm glad you have a new video out today!
This video is a great lesson in terms of dirty contacts
Shango I think that clock radio is around 1977 to 1978 I had one similar to that way back in the days thanks for your videos brother
I've been using the same clock radio alarm since 1987. It's been in continuous daily use for 35 years. Never sprayed a drop of deoxit in it. Works like the day it was new.
Regular use keeps these devices afloat. Being stored in a dusty, perhaps moist basement or hot attic ruins these devices rather fast.
@@deineroehre So true.
I love that the first preset is KFI 640. I have tried to DX KFI for years out here in Wisconsin with little luck lol
i purchased new, the absolute top of the line hong kong made sears led digital alarm radio, slide rule tuning, stereo, ( with indicator light) with stereo headphones jack, dual speakers and external speakers binding posts, external antenna posts, touch sensors for alarm control, automatic dimming, dual alarm setting, purchase new in. 1980 , and its still working well, ( just with occasional deoxid baths) it the pinnacle of hong kong codial technology. the interior is very similar with considerably more complex circuits. the parts are mostly Japanese mid grade.
assembly is almost identical to your example.
Yes, I borrowed a Shango euphemism, Hong Kong codial,… or is it kodial or Kodeal, maybe codeal, or koydeal, possibly koiedieal, koideal?…. Honestly I like koideal best, the roots of this version are pleasing, starting with k referencing Kong, koi like a fish. given a root of “ fishy deal” ,…deal, like “ oh what a deal this is “ but the originator of the term should reveal the correct spelling.
2:29 Many of the loud cars driving around here have an open gap in the exhaust where the catalytic converter used to be.
When you take catalytic delete literally
@@1marcelfilms People steal them for the metals inside.
Thus the slide into the third world.
Sometimes I get stuff working and I do a few things to try to get it to work, all of a sudden it’s working and good, too which solved the problem, ac line? Loose connection somewhere? Put back together and if it’s still working, excellent!
You can always learn something new here each week folks. today we learned how to correctly identify Philcos patented “asbestos sanitary biscuit”
This was nice a radio from when my father was born and a clock radio from about when I was born.
Good tip about period and space. Crude URL sensor.
shango time!
They're doing the same thing up here in Canada directionally getting rid of copper phone lines they're even starting to dig up the old copper lines and basically going to the scrap pile in man old man that is a lot of copper
Lovely green patina on those copper switch contacts
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In a life-or-death emergency, a landline is still the best to have.
came in handy on friday when the storms got bad enough to knock out the internet (and with it the VoIP line)
The power switches on those Philco's are known to go intermittent and eventually stop working. I've seen a number of them bad and the volume control changed to a power/volume combo. Sometimes when they quit working, you can spray them with contact cleaner to bring them back to life.
I worked with a master electrician that had 30 years on the job and used to tell me that asbestos wasn't that bad if you encountered small fiber which is in wiring and insulation. It's the long fiber crap that was used in ship yards that was a problem. He said he breathed in a considerable amount of asbestos over the years working on old wiring and old buildings and smoked like a chimney.
thank you for your sweet video !
I remember when you could share a picture in the comments but there goes your freedom .
Thank You! I’d like to see more vintage clock radios. I have a fairly famous one. A GE Great Awakening which I repaired the keyboard on but am stumped because the clock runs fast. Suspect its having a 60/50 hz problem since thats the base timing method. Totally stumped on it. Thanks Again Shango.
A vote from me for more vintage clock radios.👍 In the UK in the 1970s, there were lots of clock radios which had mechanical flip clocks. These clock radios were imported from Hong Kong. In one I researched, the clock unit was made in Japan. The radio boards were good enough; nothing special. The clocks are now prized as collectables. Did these clock radios find a market in the USA?
Some old clocks used the 60hz of the power line to keep time. This used to be tightly controlled for timekeeping but since everything has it's own RTC now the power companies are allowed to drift the grid frequency much more than they used to. I am curious if it keeps time attached to an inverter of some kind which should generate it's own 60 hz alternation.
Yes. Flip dial clocks were sold here quite a lot and certain ones are pretty valuable . I never tried obtaining an inverter that would assure 60hz but its a lot off so I have to assume even with a controlled feed it will run fast. The drift couldn’t be this large. Thanks for the interest.
@@chad2787 I can say from experience that the Eastern US grid is still good for clocks.
@@alsguitars5127 Maybe it's using a crystal internally that has drifted.
Your videos are awesome they actually inspired me enough that i started teaching myself to solder so I can repair and mod old game consoles as a hobby. It also helps me in my actual trade as a tech... overall keep the vids coming 👍
Thanks for the video, it's always useful to see your process of analysis and repair.
I started to 'collect' Sony clock radios with the 'Flip Numbers' but I got (a bit) obsessed and opened it up to all Sony clock radios from the simple mechanical round clock display to the ones that have a LCD display that will play mp4 videos !
I now own 125+ units and have run out of room !
I just got a fluke meeder just like shango so now I cool too.
Rarely have I seen a clock radio whose FM antenna is part of the power cord, all the ones I've owned have a dedicated FM antenna wire sticking out the back of the case somewhere.
I actually learn a thing or three from your videos plus I have some vintage equipment, like a Dynaco 70 pre-amp and Amp, a Rotel receiver and some others. The Dynaco still works, but the pre-amp is a bit scratchy when turning the knobs. Maybe you'd like a go at it, Mr. Shango066?
Thanks for the great videos!
Great video
The only I don’t like is the people are so easily offended when they are the one’s that make there own poor decisions and blame everyone for it! I love watching your video’s
@12:50 good thing you got that camera rolling 💭 @14:50 guess not 😂
I hope you all realize. Which I'm sure you do. That someday Shango will not be with us anymore. And all his knowledge will be lost to the world!! How will we ever torko qurlculate without him?
Heck, even I had a fighting chance at fixing these two!
Lol same.
I've noticed that GE radios with a band switch like that almost always have this problem.
Got a little National Panasonic transistor radio from 1969 of my father's. Same thing, really really dirty band switch
On the Sears, looked like R17 next to the yellow IF can was cracked or damaged. (Freeze and step frames at 11:55 to see it.)
12:42 to 12:44 is even clearer. Looks like it is burnt in half and peeled open.
i love alarm clocks
The Sears was probably made by Sound Engineering Far East Ltd, in HK
When I moved to the US in 1972, the American store brand name like Sears JC Penny K-Mart were manufactured in Far East! This including TV with screen diameter less than 19" including GE, RCA that sold at below er than $200.00 price range! The US manufacturer only expensive item like Zenith Transoceanic SW that sold over than $250.00.
I have a land line but only use it for AT&T UVerse DSL. When you live way out in the sticks too far for cable, satellite and phone lines is your only option. With speeds at 12Mbps it’s fast enough for watching online HDTV. I’m hoping one day TMobile extends service out my way then I can get 5G home internet hotspot
In my 1980s typing school courses(Self-paced Learning Center), I was taught to space TWICE after a period, before the next sentence. I don't know if UA-cam preserved the double space before this sentece and after the last one.
They did preserve your double space.
I’ve got a similar General Electric model, very close structure and electronics. Any idea what could it be done to improve FM performance?
You could try bringing the antenna out to a set of terminals and attaching a dipole. Honestly they were not great performers. You may be better off or happier with a said that was known as a good performer from the start. It's not a clock radio but if you can find a GE or RCA super radio III I think you'll be happy.
The FM could be improved by taking the antenna out of the cabinet, and hang it as a single wire of about 90 cm. As shango066 says, often these sets have the antenna wound a few turns around the mains, but in this case he does not show.
Good radios
Unless you are a chronic smoker the few particles of asbestos you've inhaled probably are insignificant. Your lawyer may have other ideas though.
I immediately suspect the band switch on 1970s clock radios but I too have yet to see one where jiggling didn't make it work.
I concur with your comment on how America 🇺🇸 is on track to becoming the largest third world 🌎 country.
Yes, thanks to right wing policies that started in the Reagan era and have only gotten worse no matter which party is in power. Time to tax the rich!
~”America is a golden calf and we will chop it up and sell it off piece by piece until we have created the worlds largest welfare state. This is what we do to countries we hate, we destroy them very slowly” Benny Netanyahu
Can the brightness of the led display be improved, or is the module burned out? To me it looks like hitachi made for Sears, I had a portable with the round dial, a hitachi fm was low on that too
Burned out as far as I can tell, they all do after 30 years.
The FM could be improved by taking the antenna out of the cabinet, and hang it as a wire. As shango066 says, often these sets have the antenna wound a few turns around the mains, but in this case he does not show.
Drop the resistance to the LEDs. Might accelerate demise but it's on its way out anyways. I think one can actually still source these displays or one very similar that will work.
Could you maybe take a look at some Czechoslovakian radios someday? They are quite good from my experience.
Hey what is your opinion of the plentiful Funai manufactured sets disguised as classic American brands from the mid 2000s?
Funi tvs I got so I didn't want to take them in for repairs. I went to a warehouse and saw hundreds of late model funi sets stacked on pallets I guess they were returns. They refurbished them and sold them.
I'm the third person with a functional landline... complete with four solid copper conductors.
You also have to careful with version numbers. For example "version 1 point 2" if written with a dot sometimes gets detected as a URL.
I'm one of the few who still have a landline connection ☎️😁
I do too, plus rotary telephones. I just love vintage. Adds character to the home.
Would it be posible to get
an episode on
AM/ FM radio/ +digital clock
" SANYO RM 5500" ...
with an explanation of it's schematic ;
* how it works and
* how to test stuff following schematic lines,
please ?
I would like to start from somewhere... into the vintage
transistor radios ... and that model I got for free - to get sacrificed for
learning.
Got to love the old asbestos mouse turd spider diapers. They smell like victory.
This might sound like a silly question here however I can not find out the answer on the internet but how does this dim bulb set up work and how do you wire it all to work in this way?
The bulb goes in series with the line conductor or live wire like how fuses are wired
the bulb just acts like a current dropping resistor. one side of the line is going to the socket. Sort of a poor man's variac.
Oh no don't talk about the precious HARLEY DAVIDSON!! lmao
@19:21 - weird the on air commercial seems to be set in the past. I got rid of my landline in 2002
I would love to learn more from you but you are so far away. So many good people on you tube but very few around me. I am in Sprigfield New Brunswick Canada.
It seems that roughly forty per cent of the vehicles here in Albuquerque don't have mufflers. We really need to pass some kind of city ordinance requiring mufflers.
Newer ON / OFF ush-push switches could stick half way. Especially those big gang switches in
70's instant on sets. Just let it snap & usually that will put them in there place.
LFOD !
Shango, the unusual switch ist for the stupidity filter. Thats why you hear nothing.
Those early 40's Philco's are a hellish world of their own. Asbestos flakes, dry rotten wire, and crusty fragile tube sockets. An average Philco in average Philco condition.
Philco was like Apple. All show and no go and expensive. Also hard to repair.
i rebuilt a Elektronika 2 USSR digital clock
Amplitude Vaxulation 😮
I love your comments about the inevitable demise of our country!
Tone Loc - when rap was fun!
Now it's Mumble rap. Plus country music trying to get into rap. The world is turning to crap
brought to you from the land of the snow capped peaks of so. Ca. mmm, omicron
That funky called Moderna...
I guess I get the straw and do a couple lines of asbestos.
Never stop being you.
Valve radios are at their best when listening to baseball games...
Have 2 original wired lines in use to this day...
Like 🇧🇷🇧🇷
3:22 No, its the "Asbestos Delight".
Just a dirty little switch. I wish you would have checked to see if the alarm mode worked.
"I [heart] [flying away from] California."
@5:10 he realized the 25w bulb had expired. 😢 - @5:57 never mind 🤣
I heart dot seagull california.
Another moldy oldie returns from the 1970’s!