apparently radio-matic made a lot of those coin operated radios. I have a radio-matic coin op radio that fortunately still has the mechanism, but the cabinet is wood. I restored it including the coin mechanism. it gives you 2 hours of "continuous or intermittent reception" for each quarter. you can turn the radio off and the timer stops too, which was nice of them.
As I watched the beginning, I realized I had no idea what Bakelite truely was nor how it was manufactured. I searched the youtubesies and found a video named "Bakelite Manufacturing 1936"... Really interesting start to the plastics industries. Thanks for the video leading me down a total rabbit trail.
I read somewhere that the oddball values for Philco resistors was owing to the off-color the lights in their factory floor put off. It was therefore necessary to avoid using certain resistor color codes, as certain colors were difficult to ascertain under the factory lighting.
Nobody else works on radios this old in this condition. Gotta hand it to Shango because the times I looked at this era chassis I got my butt kicked. Nothing made sense lol.
Repairing these radios just takes patience. All you need is a decent multimeter. A signal generator and a tube tester are nice to have but not completely necessary. The most important piece of test equipment is between your ears.
Sontag Drug Stores was one of the largest drug store chains in the U.S. in the 1930’s & 1940’s. The one at the corner of Wilshire Blvd. & Cloverdale Ave. is now Wilshire Beauty Supply. Who knew...
@59:24 - My wife and I are in our 50's and neither of us have ever been to a casino. It's not really our thing, but we decided to visit one while out of town. We each had $20 to spend. It was the longest 9 minutes and 47 seconds of our lives. Two things that were worthy of note to both of us were - 1, wireless charging pads for your pocket computers in direct opposition to the used built-in ash trays on the decks of the casino games and 2, not a free drink in site. Wild experience.
Beginning of the RCA dominance in USA tubes and circuits patents. This lead to superior cash flow over all its competitors, meaning bigger laboratories, brighter scientists, capacity to take high magnitude risks, etc. They earned a ton of militaria money, as well. Sarnoff leveraged all that to almost monopolize television inventions and early development of its broadcasting platforms. Running NBC and winning the Color Television battle, the 1960s maintained the various cash cows. Quality decicions in the middle 1960s haunted the early 1970s, especially in the legacy color televisions. Simultaneously dumb expansion decisions drained the coffers. It's a story of two halves. The fifty years of exceptionalism from early 1920s to early 1970s, where they owned (for better or for worse) the best labs outside of ATT Bell Laboratories and directed the way of consumer electronics to the second half, where the three iconic letters became a thin stick on label.
DC - Very insightful analysis. Explains why my grandparent's 1970's RCA console color TV was often "on the blink," resulting in our family staying home on Sundays to watch the "Wonderful World of Disney" on our own B&W TV😢 Edit: This dissapointment colors (pun intended) our current decisions on brand purchases.
Ahhh! The old days when drug stores used to sell vacuum tubes. Even back in the mid 80's As a 10 year old kid in L.A. I remember Thrifty drug stores the one on 5th and Broadway having a vacuum tube testing machine and vacuum tubes being sold in the photo department. Next to the ice cream. Damn, I'm old. Sontag Drug Store existed from 1929 to 1946. And I have seen dozens of resurrections you have accomplished before. Total garbage baked and roached trash! You amazed me by resurrecting those items. Sir, you are a friggin' god!
I recall that the bottom part of the tube tester was a cabinet stocked with common tubes. The consumer tube tester performed a very simple test, basically just measuring emission, I think just using the second grid as a plate. The tube sockets got a lot of wear and did not always make good connections. So, a tube which was good might test bad due to poor connections. I would twist or rock the tube in the socket to make connections. Tubes were sold at list price, while radio/TV parts stores might sell them for 50% of list, so I used the tester to identify a bad tube and then bought the replacement at 50% of list. However, if the customer could identify a bad tube and replace it himself/herself and pay list price, it would still be a lot less expensive than a service call. Some people pulled all the tubes and brought them in for testing. They risked doing more damage trying to reinstall the tubes and getting them in the wrong sockets. Even if the tube number were the same, it was best to put it back in the same socket it came out of. This was especially true of the IF tubes. Best was a targeted approach. I recall leaflets identifying common problems and which tubes to test. Before the tube testers became commonplace, repair shops found that most repairs could be completed just by changing a tube. Afterward, the customers had changed the tubes and most repairs required replacing other components (resistors, capacitors, etc.)
Sontag Drug store. From a historic site "In 2021 we went through the process to declare the Sontag Building an....... Historic Cultural Monument. Unfortunately, because of a city planning department mistake (they failed to act on paperwork in time) it could not be designated." However, I think the building still exists.
I restored a 38-8 about 10 years ago. The 1936-38 Philco's are wonderful sets, very sensitive and well built. They usually sound very nice too. Have not seen a bad power transformer or bad coils in this series. Some '37 and 38 models use a subchassis which makes them harder to work on, but worth the effort for a nice one. The early 30's Philco's (like the 19, 89, etc) used a celluloid insulator on the antenna coils and the small winding gets corroded and goes open. Fairly easy to repair, just annoying.
I want to see a end of the world restoration using drinking straws to insulate the wires (maybe coffee stirrers) because after the apocalypse that's all you can find that would work.😮
This video was certainly interesting, as well as entertaining. Most radio restoration videos, including all of mine, borders towards abismal in more parts than could be mentioned. Nonetheless I suppose all Vintage Radio repair/restoration enthusiast can repair a radio via a ‘standard’ procedure. It takes a brave genius to approach a radio repair like you performed in this video. Thank you, PB.
3:01 wow, i love that label. 90 years ago someone bought that unboxed tube. Edit: it was 80 years ago... Tube said 34, no idea why I was thinking otherwise.
Well done as always! HDD magnets are hexapolar - alone one long edge SNS, along the other long edge NSN. They're strong, and will hold on to things very well (as the lines of force get shunted), but getting them to deliver usable magnetism to something else is very difficult.
11:13 Yes, some decent speakers from this era (and into the 60's and 70's) used braided cloth for the tinsel leads going to the voice coil, and some of them had no hookup terminals mounted to the basket as you saw. I have an 8" Heppner driver fron '65 that also has those nice thick braided cloth leads. It's not just bare wire like most typical speakers nowadays (unless you're into car audio).
@30:46 - I listened to the bobbin winding bit in the voice of the character Boomhauer from King Of The Hill. "Yeah, man talk about dang ol bobbin man like put it in a drill man and wingo just woo woo woo round that dang ol thing up man talk about resistance field coil and such. Talk about dang ol high fidelity man."
Since the field coil is open, the only load on the B+ is the filter capacitor. Meaning that the -0.7V you measured was from the leakage through the filter cap. Since the ground is floated with ~245ohms... 0.7 / 245 = 0.0028.. So that capacitor has around 2.8mA leakage through it.
Would absolutely love to see that dial light reservated also. Seriously, I’m in favor of running it as a test set. We definitely need more of that instead of people recrapping sets for hrs!
Tons of crust. Restoring an old Setchell Carlson 5 tuber from that same era. The thing doesn't even have an AVC circuit. Nowhere could I find a schematic. Just had to trace everything out and make my own. Fun Fun Fun
Yep, never seen such an old radio in that great of condition. I would have to give up on restoring/resurrecting this Philco. Only Shango and Buzz would have the kahunas to work on it .
Amazing rebirth of an old Philco crustacean.I hung in to the very second. I have an old RCA that a train ran over/Maybe you want it for a resurrection-for sure you'd get it going Subbed
I'm just blown away that this works! - let alone that it does not emit smoke & flames! I know I wouldn't be so lucky! You're a braver man than me Shango!
It sounds like you're from around the same area I'm from. I am from Lawndale, grad from Leuzinger, HS.I now live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I joined the Air Force 1980. You're very good, I learned a lot from your videos. Thank you. I repaired electronic countermeasures for the F15 Eagle.
5401 Wiltshire Boulevard (Sontag Drug) is a Building of Historical Interest and the Art Deco Society in Los Angeles is trying to get it listed so that it will be preserved. Dated 2021.
Ohhh yeahh shango, boa noite velho, bom shango gostei de ver você funcionando o radio Philco antigo, gostei porquê funcionou Ohhh yeahh shango, good night old man, good shango I liked seeing you working the old Philco radio, I liked it because it worked
Honestly personally, I'd like to see you just run the set and replace components only when needed, like your tv your monitoring, I've been doing it with a 1954 GEC compact set , from here in England for the last 7 years , I got it in a bag in pieces, put it together and in that time I've only replaced about 3 caps everything is still running perfectly I make sure it runs 2 or 3 hours every day, even the selenium rectifier is spot on still plus all the resistors, 2 of the valves have been reading virtually dead all that time too, , I did it because of all the people saying you must replace all the caps and the selenium rectifier, well 7 years later it's still performing great on virtually all original parts , I'd like to see you run it like the tv, ,, ps , thanks for all the videos I've been watching over 10 years even my 8 year old daughter watches with me sometimes, she loved your mate dancing in the mine 😂😂
The radiomatic would have had some decor in the hole and a slide rule tuner with 2 knobs at the top. That plastic you have would join to another piece of Bakelite that caught the coins.
@28:43 - I am not sure what impresses me more; your tendency to over-manipulate, fondle and generally squirmulate this old equipment or your simultaneous ability to finely finesse the finest of wires with a screwdriver and thick gloves on. Consistently some of the most engaging content that UA-cam can manage these days.
SoCal back in the old days was dotted with bungalow type motels where people could go to conduct illicit affairs. You can spot the remains of some of these places today. Many had those coin op radios, but just how popular they were is a mystery. Imagine waking up in AM with your office secretary, dropping a dime in the radio to hear the latest Rudy Vallee hit tune! BTW, never heard of drug stores selling vac tubes!
Gregs- Drugstores in the 70's and maybe early 80's sold radios, tubes, and had tube testers as well. I remember being about 7 years old in the 60's and told my dad he could trust me to carry the brown paper lunch bag with the tubes he was going to test in the drug store, and of course I dropped the bag, breaking three of the tubes, and I don't remember him getting mad at me. We weren't rich, so that had to have hurt him 😢
@johnnytacokleinschmidt515 - Yep, true for the most part. One time his brother in law borrowed his '61 Comet with "three on the tree" and returned it with a bad engine miss which had to be fixed by a mechanic. Dad was not angry in the least 🤷....However both my parents did enjoy their Iron City by the quart 🍻🫠
Living in a company row house the walls were paper thin. Used to turn-up the radio so the neighbors couldn’t. Listen to our conversations in the parlor.
Nice one Dan, I knew you would be able to resurrect it, but even in it's current state, I was surprised by how sensitive it was. Must have been an awesome set back in its day. Cheers mate, from Richard in Worthing, England.
I am working on a model 89 Baby Grand Philco that has 99k resistors in the same spot. I think they made their own resistors. Mine is the exact opposite of yours being near pristine. I saved the power cord on account of the nice condition.
A magnet from a microwave magneto might work well for that speaker situation. Usually when I find a broken Microwave on the curb I take them and rob the PT, Magneto and power cap and chunk the rest.
The weird values were standard in the 1930's. I have a large collection of NOS resistors that are all odd values like that. the modern scheme is predicated on the values being distinguishable in the worst case of variation within tolerance. That is why there are many more intermediate values in 1% resistors than there are in 10% tolerance resistors.
If the tubes aren’t rare and they are already weak to marginal, then just run the life out of it. We’ve got a Ferguson one in the garage that I recapped with those cheap copy orange drops about 5 years ago. Been running it as an experiment and it’s still going mint, all I’ve had fail over that time was an audio output transformer, not bad considering it’s hammering away all week 10+ hours a day in all temperatures.
Not finished watching the video yet thank you for the time..I have a few 1930-1931 tubes in a Philco radio not working yet all the tubes light probably all do work ..
Love the High Anxiety creating power cord. Waiting for the hot side to ground on the power bypass metal box and assuming it's grounded sparks would fly! Crustaseous!
How many hours must this radio have been running for for it to bake every single tube in it, burn out the audio output transformer and burn out the field coil, it must have been on all day every day from new into the 80s!
That field-coil wire looks almost as delicate as flyback transformer windings. AM radio programming was a lot different in the days when this was a new receiver.
@shango066 I did some research and was able to find a completed listing for a Radio Matic identical to yours. (Its for sale for $1,250) It says your Radio Matic was made in 1947 and shows that it originally had a matching base about the same size as the top section where the coins would collect. The circle opening had a disc with an art deco nude woman with bubbles in the background that would illuminate when the radio was being played. If it's OK to post a link to it here let me know and I will so you can see it.
Chassis and many screws rusty as hell but Shango got it working even with all those crapacitors and tested poor tubes still in it. Got to be some kind of award for a resurrection here! With really NOS tubes , new wiring and recapping it might work even better. It could (as supposed to should) be a restoration candidate but not having a lowboy cabinet and dial face, etc. I'd pass on that as it really is a parts only chassis. Another cringe-tastic job Shango!
finding that tube with the date is cool
apparently radio-matic made a lot of those coin operated radios. I have a radio-matic coin op radio that fortunately still has the mechanism, but the cabinet is wood. I restored it including the coin mechanism. it gives you 2 hours of "continuous or intermittent reception" for each quarter. you can turn the radio off and the timer stops too, which was nice of them.
As I watched the beginning, I realized I had no idea what Bakelite truely was nor how it was manufactured. I searched the youtubesies and found a video named "Bakelite Manufacturing 1936"... Really interesting start to the plastics industries. Thanks for the video leading me down a total rabbit trail.
This chassis makes your desert finds appear pristine.
I read somewhere that the oddball values for Philco resistors was owing to the off-color the lights in their factory floor put off. It was therefore necessary to avoid using certain resistor color codes, as certain colors were difficult to ascertain under the factory lighting.
I knew someone would know that!
Good enough for me !
Nobody else works on radios this old in this condition. Gotta hand it to Shango because the times I looked at this era chassis I got my butt kicked. Nothing made sense lol.
I bought one and foolishly tried to recap it. It didn’t go well, but it still looks pretty. I stick to ‘50s-‘80s stuff now.
You can learn them. So many still out there in horrible condition. Next one you find commit to figuring it out if you will.
@@johnnytacokleinschmidt515This video will help a lot! This is the EXACT chassis I have.
Repairing these radios just takes patience. All you need is a decent multimeter. A signal generator and a tube tester are nice to have but not completely necessary. The most important piece of test equipment is between your ears.
Sontag Drug Stores was one of the largest drug store chains in the U.S. in the 1930’s & 1940’s. The one at the corner of Wilshire Blvd. & Cloverdale Ave. is now Wilshire Beauty Supply. Who knew...
So the date of "24" on the label is too early?
Edit, meaning the store wouldn't have even existed then, so it's not 1924 like I was thinking.
@@volvo09'34 like Shango said fits
WordPress article shows the Wilshire Blvd store and it looked beautiful.
@@incandescentwithrage oh I don't know why I was thinking 24 if he actually said it! Maybe I was too preoccupied with looking at the label...
@@volvo09I read the Date as 3/20/3?4?.
The final digit was not very clear.
So glad the “here here here here” is back. I haven’t heard it in a while!
Sontag Drug Store building at 5401 Wilshire Boulevard
I think that building still exists.
@59:24 - My wife and I are in our 50's and neither of us have ever been to a casino. It's not really our thing, but we decided to visit one while out of town. We each had $20 to spend. It was the longest 9 minutes and 47 seconds of our lives. Two things that were worthy of note to both of us were - 1, wireless charging pads for your pocket computers in direct opposition to the used built-in ash trays on the decks of the casino games and 2, not a free drink in site. Wild experience.
Beginning of the RCA dominance in USA tubes and circuits patents. This lead to superior cash flow over all its competitors, meaning bigger laboratories, brighter scientists, capacity to take high magnitude risks, etc. They earned a ton of militaria money, as well. Sarnoff leveraged all that to almost monopolize television inventions and early development of its broadcasting platforms. Running NBC and winning the Color Television battle, the 1960s maintained the various cash cows.
Quality decicions in the middle 1960s haunted the early 1970s, especially in the legacy color televisions. Simultaneously dumb expansion decisions drained the coffers.
It's a story of two halves. The fifty years of exceptionalism from early 1920s to early 1970s, where they owned (for better or for worse) the best labs outside of ATT Bell Laboratories and directed the way of consumer electronics to the second half, where the three iconic letters became a thin stick on label.
DC - Very insightful analysis. Explains why my grandparent's 1970's RCA console color TV was often "on the blink," resulting in our family staying home on Sundays to watch the "Wonderful World of Disney" on our own B&W TV😢 Edit: This dissapointment colors (pun intended) our current decisions on brand purchases.
Don't forget about RCA's money pit that they developed for over 20 years, the CED disc. It lasted a whole of less than 3 years on the market.
Ahhh! The old days when drug stores used to sell vacuum tubes. Even back in the mid 80's As a 10 year old kid in L.A. I remember Thrifty drug stores the one on 5th and Broadway having a vacuum tube testing machine and vacuum tubes being sold in the photo department. Next to the ice cream. Damn, I'm old. Sontag Drug Store existed from 1929 to 1946. And I have seen dozens of resurrections you have accomplished before. Total garbage baked and roached trash! You amazed me by resurrecting those items. Sir, you are a friggin' god!
Yep,Thrifty used to have a tube tester in the front of the store once upon a time. Last electronics store I know of that had one vanished 20 years ago
I recall that the bottom part of the tube tester was a cabinet stocked with common tubes. The consumer tube tester performed a very simple test, basically just measuring emission, I think just using the second grid as a plate. The tube sockets got a lot of wear and did not always make good connections. So, a tube which was good might test bad due to poor connections. I would twist or rock the tube in the socket to make connections. Tubes were sold at list price, while radio/TV parts stores might sell them for 50% of list, so I used the tester to identify a bad tube and then bought the replacement at 50% of list. However, if the customer could identify a bad tube and replace it himself/herself and pay list price, it would still be a lot less expensive than a service call.
Some people pulled all the tubes and brought them in for testing. They risked doing more damage trying to reinstall the tubes and getting them in the wrong sockets. Even if the tube number were the same, it was best to put it back in the same socket it came out of. This was especially true of the IF tubes. Best was a targeted approach. I recall leaflets identifying common problems and which tubes to test.
Before the tube testers became commonplace, repair shops found that most repairs could be completed just by changing a tube. Afterward, the customers had changed the tubes and most repairs required replacing other components (resistors, capacitors, etc.)
Man, the fact that you can even get something that deteriorated to work is nothing short of amazing!
It's a trip just watching you separate the hot and neutral at the plug using your hand while it's plugged in..
1936 is when the Sontag Drug store building was erected.
I can't believe you got that POS to work utterly amazing!! I bet you could bring Frankenstein back to life😅😅😅😅
Amazing how he gets any ol’ electronic devise to work! Great job!!
Just plug it in....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 mushroom cloud..
Sontag Drug store. From a historic site
"In 2021 we went through the process to declare the Sontag Building an....... Historic Cultural Monument. Unfortunately, because of a city planning department mistake (they failed to act on paperwork in time) it could not be designated."
However, I think the building still exists.
I restored a 38-8 about 10 years ago. The 1936-38 Philco's are wonderful sets, very sensitive and well built. They usually sound very nice too. Have not seen a bad power transformer or bad coils in this series. Some '37 and 38 models use a subchassis which makes them harder to work on, but worth the effort for a nice one. The early 30's Philco's (like the 19, 89, etc) used a celluloid insulator on the antenna coils and the small winding gets corroded and goes open. Fairly easy to repair, just annoying.
I'm looking forward to see Dan resurrection a power cord... using only shrink tubes.. that will be something 👍
I want to see a end of the world restoration using drinking straws to insulate the wires (maybe coffee stirrers) because after the apocalypse that's all you can find that would work.😮
I always get a kick out of how you take what looks like it can only be destined for the dump and make it work again.
I think it be a fun experiment to just let it run, love to see how many hours you could get out of a crusty set like that
This video was certainly interesting, as well as entertaining. Most radio restoration videos, including all of mine, borders towards abismal in more parts than could be mentioned. Nonetheless I suppose all Vintage Radio repair/restoration enthusiast can repair a radio via a ‘standard’ procedure. It takes a brave genius to approach a radio repair like you performed in this video.
Thank you, PB.
It takes a good man to say that.
3:01 wow, i love that label. 90 years ago someone bought that unboxed tube.
Edit: it was 80 years ago... Tube said 34, no idea why I was thinking otherwise.
You were right, 1934 was 90 years ago not 80.
Time flies when you're jumping electrons in a vacuum, or so I'm told.
@@_-_Michael_-_ oh yeah, I was thinking 100 for some reason
Whatever, I'll leave it 😂
Well done as always! HDD magnets are hexapolar - alone one long edge SNS, along the other long edge NSN. They're strong, and will hold on to things very well (as the lines of force get shunted), but getting them to deliver usable magnetism to something else is very difficult.
That power cord is safe and effective!
power cord could have its own yt channel
Lol !
11:13 Yes, some decent speakers from this era (and into the 60's and 70's) used braided cloth for the tinsel leads going to the voice coil, and some of them had no hookup terminals mounted to the basket as you saw.
I have an 8" Heppner driver fron '65 that also has those nice thick braided cloth leads. It's not just bare wire like most typical speakers nowadays (unless you're into car audio).
@30:46 - I listened to the bobbin winding bit in the voice of the character Boomhauer from King Of The Hill. "Yeah, man talk about dang ol bobbin man like put it in a drill man and wingo just woo woo woo round that dang ol thing up man talk about resistance field coil and such. Talk about dang ol high fidelity man."
Totally impressed by this vintage item especially the tube and the loud speaker. Nice vid ty.
Since the field coil is open, the only load on the B+ is the filter capacitor. Meaning that the -0.7V you measured was from the leakage through the filter cap. Since the ground is floated with ~245ohms... 0.7 / 245 = 0.0028.. So that capacitor has around 2.8mA leakage through it.
Would absolutely love to see that dial light reservated also. Seriously, I’m in favor of running it as a test set. We definitely need more of that instead of people recrapping sets for hrs!
Tons of crust. Restoring an old Setchell Carlson 5 tuber from that same era. The thing doesn't even have an AVC circuit. Nowhere could I find a schematic. Just had to trace everything out and make my own. Fun Fun Fun
Yep, never seen such an old radio in that great of condition. I would have to give up on restoring/resurrecting this Philco. Only Shango and Buzz would have the kahunas to work on it .
Amazing rebirth of an old Philco crustacean.I hung in to the very second.
I have an old RCA that a train ran over/Maybe you want it for a resurrection-for sure you'd get it going
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I love your videos man.
02:39 My mom was a little over month old when that tube was sold...
I'm just blown away that this works! - let alone that it does not emit smoke & flames! I know I wouldn't be so lucky! You're a braver man than me Shango!
That power cord still functions fine because the copper was better back then!😳✔️👀😆
It sounds like you're from around the same area I'm from. I am from Lawndale, grad from Leuzinger, HS.I now live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I joined the Air Force 1980. You're very good, I learned a lot from your videos. Thank you. I repaired electronic countermeasures for the F15 Eagle.
Barnacles make it a marine radio.
Someone listened to the news telling them about the war in Europe on that thing.
Far cry from pink flamingo gamble master
Well done getting results out of that one Shango!
Great Saturday morning exciting learning experience. The only one who does this. Love this channel.
I can't wait to see that CTC48 get resurrected. I grew up with one like that but in a different cabinet.
I thought the radio was hopeless. You did well.
Crispy crunchy crusty goodness!
You saying look at the graph reminded me of that Nickelback meme. Look at this GRAAPH
This is why I like this channel. Brought it back from the dead. It still is basically scrap IMO, but cool to see it live.
Love the crusty finish on everything, you better do more with this TEST SET, would be great !
5401 Wiltshire Boulevard (Sontag Drug) is a Building of Historical Interest and the Art Deco Society in Los Angeles is trying to get it listed so that it will be preserved. Dated 2021.
That has to be the best silk purse I have ever seen made from a sow's ear!
Ohhh yeahh shango, boa noite velho, bom shango gostei de ver você funcionando o radio Philco antigo, gostei porquê funcionou
Ohhh yeahh shango, good night old man, good shango I liked seeing you working the old Philco radio, I liked it because it worked
Nice video. That rusty thing just works with few new parts
Yes to Radio Test Set! This one deserves new life and purpose and its 100th birthday is not far off.
Honestly personally, I'd like to see you just run the set and replace components only when needed, like your tv your monitoring, I've been doing it with a 1954 GEC compact set , from here in England for the last 7 years , I got it in a bag in pieces, put it together and in that time I've only replaced about 3 caps everything is still running perfectly I make sure it runs 2 or 3 hours every day, even the selenium rectifier is spot on still plus all the resistors, 2 of the valves have been reading virtually dead all that time too, , I did it because of all the people saying you must replace all the caps and the selenium rectifier, well 7 years later it's still performing great on virtually all original parts , I'd like to see you run it like the tv, ,, ps , thanks for all the videos I've been watching over 10 years even my 8 year old daughter watches with me sometimes, she loved your mate dancing in the mine 😂😂
The radiomatic would have had some decor in the hole and a slide rule tuner with 2 knobs at the top. That plastic you have would join to another piece of Bakelite that caught the coins.
@28:43 - I am not sure what impresses me more; your tendency to over-manipulate, fondle and generally squirmulate this old equipment or your simultaneous ability to finely finesse the finest of wires with a screwdriver and thick gloves on. Consistently some of the most engaging content that UA-cam can manage these days.
SoCal back in the old days was dotted with bungalow type motels where people could go to conduct illicit affairs. You can spot the remains of some of these places today. Many had those coin op radios, but just how popular they were is a mystery. Imagine waking up in AM with your office secretary, dropping a dime in the radio to hear the latest Rudy Vallee hit tune! BTW, never heard of drug stores selling vac tubes!
Gregs- Drugstores in the 70's and maybe early 80's sold radios, tubes, and had tube testers as well. I remember being about 7 years old in the 60's and told my dad he could trust me to carry the brown paper lunch bag with the tubes he was going to test in the drug store, and of course I dropped the bag, breaking three of the tubes, and I don't remember him getting mad at me. We weren't rich, so that had to have hurt him 😢
Yup, drug stores sold tubes and anything else the could fit on a shelf and make a buck.
@@cmans79tr7Your dad was probably a great guy. God Bless!
@johnnytacokleinschmidt515 - Yep, true for the most part. One time his brother in law borrowed his '61 Comet with "three on the tree" and returned it with a bad engine miss which had to be fixed by a mechanic. Dad was not angry in the least 🤷....However both my parents did enjoy their Iron City by the quart 🍻🫠
Living in a company row house the walls were paper thin. Used to turn-up the radio so the neighbors couldn’t. Listen to our conversations in the parlor.
All common resistor values back in the day.
Nice one Dan, I knew you would be able to resurrect it, but even in it's current state, I was surprised by how sensitive it was. Must have been an awesome set back in its day. Cheers mate, from Richard in Worthing, England.
I am working on a model 89 Baby Grand Philco that has 99k resistors in the same spot. I think they made their own resistors. Mine is the exact opposite of yours being near pristine. I saved the power cord on account of the nice condition.
A magnet from a microwave magneto might work well for that speaker situation. Usually when I find a broken Microwave on the curb I take them and rob the PT, Magneto and power cap and chunk the rest.
Damn, that thing is great. I think im gonna go gamble now.
Congratulations I never thought that this would ... Work
Smokers choice 🚬
This video is a Mr. Chinese man restoration special here.
The weird values were standard in the 1930's. I have a large collection of NOS resistors that are all odd values like that. the modern scheme is predicated on the values being distinguishable in the worst case of variation within tolerance. That is why there are many more intermediate values in 1% resistors than there are in 10% tolerance resistors.
I love these vids!! Shango is the alchemist who knows how to take lead (solder😂) and turn it into gold😁
Rusty and crusty and baked.. oh my.
I have to say, I squinted hard when you plugged that in.
I am impressed with what you done. It actually sounds good. You should rebuild the rest.
That thing with the coil on one of the pilot lights is a tuning indicator...a "poor man's" magic eye tube.
Crispy power coard 😁😁
Now that power cord takes the cake. It’s BAKED.
BAKED !
Roached!
I think you could resurect a pile of dust and make an AM radio. 😊
Stuff was built to last back then
Forget the weird resistor values, If you can't fix it, send it to David Tipton along with some cruise ship tickets.
He'll restore it for you.
Did it again junk radio mostly good stock caps ! Good job as usual!
Another brutal miracle!
Rise and shine, Lazarus!
happy time
If the tubes aren’t rare and they are already weak to marginal, then just run the life out of it.
We’ve got a Ferguson one in the garage that I recapped with those cheap copy orange drops about 5 years ago. Been running it as an experiment and it’s still going mint, all I’ve had fail over that time was an audio output transformer, not bad considering it’s hammering away all week 10+ hours a day in all temperatures.
Not finished watching the video yet thank you for the time..I have a few 1930-1931 tubes in a Philco radio not working yet all the tubes light probably all do work ..
"Buy something to make your prostate work better"!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣!! Your friend, Jeff!!
Love the High Anxiety creating power cord. Waiting for the hot side to ground on the power bypass metal box and assuming it's grounded sparks would fly! Crustaseous!
Nah, assuming the bulb is in the hot side it will just light up. If there's a GFCI that would trip, too.
Yes and assuming there's a circuit breaker it will pop. Uha
Yeah man... test set!
Back in the 70's Thrifty Drugs Store had tube testers and also sold them.
🙏 TNX
I have a Philco radio and the speaker in that had clips for the wires going to the voice coil. Apparently that was the way they did it at one point.
How many hours must this radio have been running for for it to bake every single tube in it, burn out the audio output transformer and burn out the field coil, it must have been on all day every day from new into the 80s!
That field-coil wire looks almost as delicate as flyback transformer windings. AM radio programming was a lot different in the days when this was a new receiver.
Well, that's interesting...who would have thought!
What beats me is, how does ANYTHING still work on that thing. 🤣
@shango066 I did some research and was able to find a completed listing for a Radio Matic identical to yours. (Its for sale for $1,250) It says your Radio Matic was made in 1947 and shows that it originally had a matching base about the same size as the top section where the coins would collect. The circle opening had a disc with an art deco nude woman with bubbles in the background that would illuminate when the radio was being played. If it's OK to post a link to it here let me know and I will so you can see it.
Hotel 🏨 radios 📻 should be a focal point 👉 on this station. You're always running into them. Your friend, Jeff.
Chassis and many screws rusty as hell but Shango got it working even with all those crapacitors and tested poor tubes
still in it. Got to be some kind of award for a resurrection here! With really NOS tubes , new wiring and recapping it might
work even better. It could (as supposed to should) be a restoration candidate but not having a lowboy cabinet and dial
face, etc. I'd pass on that as it really is a parts only chassis. Another cringe-tastic job Shango!
If you recap that thing and modern up the wiring, change the tubes, and do a good cleaning, you could have an expensive mediocre ball game radio.
That power cord looks better then those cheap thin junk LED Christmas light sets you can get from China on eBay and Amazon.
Radio test set sure nice experiment