Wow, what a great job. What a patient to remake every detail. So nice to see. My father bougt this radio around 1965. The display had dutch radiostations but no connection at the backside. Every evening by dinner the radio was on at 6 pm for the news. I was a child 7 years old. I am now 62 but this wonderfull radio i will never forget. Its a part of my life. The radio is still in my family in The Netherlands. But i live now in Brazil. Thanks for sharing this!
The radio was quite expensive in the day...then again a lot of time and effort went into its design and construction. You are a true handyman and well done. 👍
I remember my parents having one of these (or very, very similar model) back in the late 50's... Philips were ahead of the game in technology and quality manufacture back then.. Nice to see a sympathetic and skilled restoration on this early solid state piece of radio receiver history. The plastic was definitely brighter , but still looked age appropriate after the peroxide treatment.. I once said that to the better half and wish I hadn't !!!
Hi Pete, The front looks pretty good and was apparently a cream colour originally anyway, The retrObright works on ABS plastic which I doubt this is but it is definitely brighter. You must enjoy living on the edge with that comment to your 'better half' 😄 Cheers
These were also assembled in New Zealand and were available in several colours. Very popular when new and still easy to find in good condition. Nice mellow tone and battery life is extremely good. I have many and have yet to find one that didn't work when acquired. Great radios!
Hi Robert, I wonder why in New Zealand. This one appears to be from Holland judging from the stickers and writing on the cabinet but I could be wrong. Interesting, thanks Robert 🙂
@@DavidTipton101 Not sure when production started or finished here in New Zealand but the majority of them are date stamped 1961 and 62. The date stamp disappeared and the handle attached to the end panels and ran right across the top on late production. The identification plate looks very similar to yours but says Made in New Zealand in very small letters along the bottom edge.
Another beautiful refurbishment of a cool little radio! The chassis construction reminded me of the type of construction of my old Philips (Norelco) open reel recorder from 1960. Well done Dave.
Thank you Quantum Leap. I believe Norelco were rebranded Philips equipment made in Holland and sold in the US. I have seen this same radio with the Norelco name on it 🤔 www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/norelco-all-transistor-radio-293694213
Dave, you have an uncanny eye for candidate radios. That radio is gorgeous and sounds great especially after your TLC. Wonderful work again from the dial pulley to the electrical checks to the case and front panel treatment. Thank you for so clearly displaying everything. It's so pleasing to see these radios restored so expertly.
Well done David, great work. Nice and simple dial string. Some of the Philips strings on the valve radios are a nightmare with dual strings running through small diameter tubes formed from coiled wire - a bit like a brake cable! The radio has many typical Philips features. All in all another great job. Cheers Lynton.
Hi Lynton, pretty simple job on this string but it didn't end up the same as the drawing, still it works fine. I have a number of European radios with the complex multi-string arrangement so far I haven't had to fiddle with the strings but that day will come. Thanks Lynton 😃
Hi Jim, thank you. I'm always willing to have a go but it gets me in trouble sometimes 🤦♂️ My collection is growing but not many outstanding radios so far 🤔🙂
I can see it now Pauline, Dad smoking a pipe on the picnic blanket on the ground and Mum sitting on the tailgate with a sandwich listening to her Philips radio 🙂
I think this is one of my favorite radios you ever did. Beautiful work! And yes, it was very interesting, I like many others enjoy watching you work very much.
Hi David, Great job on the small Philips, it's called a "sharpie" Don't know why. I own two of them myself. A Dutch version, and a very rare one for tropical area's. Because she only has shortwave bands and broadcast. The grill on your radio has about the original colour, they where a little off white, a creamy colour. The brown staining is nothing you can clean i'm afraid, it's the glue from the backside which has come trough the fabric. Most are affected now after 60+ years... She has come out really nice though... Best regards from the Netherlands, Nico den Haak.
Hi Nico, thanks. I just Googled "philips sharpie" and up it came. the colour of the grill looks correct now, it had a brown look about it originally. I hadn't thought of the glue bleeding through but you are spot on, that's exactly what it is. Thank you and Hi to the Netherlands 👋😃
Great job , this restauration was wonderfull !!! In my colection I have two radios exactily the same yours, it was made in philips brazil in 1960. Philips Brazil start factorying radios in 1950. Tanks for yours videos!!!!!! Congratulation - São Paulo - Brazil
Thanks Dave. I watched this one a few years back, and it popped up as a recommended on UA-cam today so I re-watched. Back the first time, I took away some hints, one was the pin stripe replacement. I had purchased a little transistor radio that was old stock in the box, of course it didn't work when a battery was added, a bit of quick troubleshooting proved it was corrosion on the earphone plug, after cleaning and replacing a couple of caps that were dried out, the set works great now. I tried to clean the front of the set with a cleaner as it had some finger prints on it from a dirty prior owner and the gold came off the plastic. Your trick worked great and the little set looks brand new again, still in the box with a 55 year old 9 volt battery still in the cellophane wrap it came in, and the little ear phone in the box with the warrantee card and direction sheet. A nice center piece for my collection of old transistors that I have repaired and restored. My restorations never reach the wonderful results that yours do, but some come out very nice, I have another Motorola that is about the same design as the one in this video however it runs on 4 D cells. I stuck in an old 4 volt lithium from a cell phone to run it for now and that seems to work as well as the D cells but cuts the weight of the radio in half. It is straight AM but has the extra IF so it can do the "fringe" reception, something needed in this part of the US as our stations are few and far between, as is the population of our old State, however it is now growing with the influx from both coasts, the idea of no State Income Tax and low cost license plates for RV's and cars has a magnetic effect, I see hundreds of rigs going down the highways of our nation with South Dakota Plate, when I was comparing cost with a neighbor when we were still going South for the Winters, I found that compared to California, our plates were about 1 tenth the cost of the folks on the left coast.
Hi Jerry, You did a great job fixing that little transistor radio, it's amazing that the battery was still in the box. i'm glad you were able to use my idea to restore the look of the radio too 👍🙂
Impeccable restoration David! This beautiful Philips radio was designed and built in my 'backyard'..😇 Regards from the Netherlands and thanks for sharing!
Sir,you are so lucky man.I am 72 years and spent my life with radio servicing.Though I never seen this particular Philips radio model,many other next gen. Philips radios made in holland are serviced by my shop. Philips is my fevrit brand.
5:47 I recognized the first diode I had as a kid: the OA79 ! Jippee 🙌 It was the detector of the Pionier 2 kit. 2 pcs. OC13 for the amplification , crystal earpiece. Spent hours with it 😊 The brightening of the plastic worked out great. It just needed some time, apparently. Another great job, Dave 👍🤝🇳🇱
Hi David ,another fantastic restore job you have done ,you have inspired me to get mine out from under the bench ,i brought one of these quite a few years back for a couple of dollars at a garage sale as i wrecked one also in my younger days for parts, Lovely bit of history these radios are .Well done.
Hi Doc, you must get yours out and see if it works. Someone else said some were assembled in New Zealand, it would be interesting to see if yours was 🙂
David fantastic job mate. It's good when you can make a new part for a roller on your lathe very handy. Thanks for sharing and happy radio days in the Sun. Cheers mate.
Hi Dennis, thank you. The lathe has been a real asset, probably could have used a nut and bolt if there was enough room but the lathe is way more fun. There is plenty of sun now 🤦♂️😄
What a cracking little set...and yes it was very interesting...almost as exciting as getting my first little transistor radio (a pocket binatone) as a present back in 1962 and discovering almost simultaneously (a) pirate radio stations and some real music (b) the heavy cost (in pocket money terms) of 9v batteries and (c) the grisly amount of earwax that'd readily transfer onto the earphone - all very worthwhile and memorable life experiences!
This one is a beauty cogidubnus1953. It was an interesting system in the UK with the government controlling the airwaves. We heard about it over here but I couldn't understand why there was a need for pirate stations as we had complete radio freedom here. The cost of batteries was always a problem for youngsters 😀
On my bench now is an old Motorola AM transistor radio, employing the Germanium devices. I was amazed how well these transistors in this chassis worked. I would say it was as sensitive and selective as the best Tube type radio. Modern radios use a lot of large scale integrated devices that don't work as well.
Don't forget the large HF transformers and antenna coil that disappeared for the sake of smaller devices. These large ones came over from tube technique.
Very nice, and I did find it very interesting, as with all your wonderful restorations, I love the way you actually get them back into original or better condition.
My family had a similar model in the early 60's in Ontario Canada. It had a folding chrome aerial that stored around the front. The story goes this way, the first radio we bought was a Sony, it would not receive any distant stations so we brought that one back to the store and got the Philips, big gain in reception. I think it took "D" size batteries. Wish I still had that radio,
Hi NewBookz, I have seen photos of this model with the four D batteries online. Even in our poor reception area this one picks up local stations very well with it's large loopstick antenna
Late to this party.. I have the short wave model which my father bought in 1962 new for around 60 Australian pounds. The sensitivity was/is very good and the finish is better - metal tuning wheel and volume control. It takes 6 D cells but was always quite hungry so later on I placed a 9V DC jack in the back. A good video, David, and the H2O2 treatment seemed to work.
Hi Dave, Eindhoven is only about 35km from where I live. My first job was at Philips and believe it or not I repaired audio equipment. Not this old though.. ;) I think you did a nice job and this radio looks great. Thanks for sharing the process!
You are right about those being exported around the world, they even sold them in Canada around 1957-58 or so. There is also a rebadged version, with a slightly different dial from the Phillips versions, that they sold under the Rogers-Majestic brand. The other difference is that the Canadian sets had a shortwave band or two, which that Australian model doesn't seem to have.
Hi Bob, I'm surprised your piper has a Philips radio fitted, do you use it for ADF 😉 I was an aircraft engineer but on heavy RPT. I have some gold pinstriping left if you want to make the Piper go faster 😄
Simply amazing! Loved every bit of the video. This Philips Holland transistor radio reminds me of my dear grandpa but the one he owned could be slightly later model. It had 4 - shortwave and a AM/MW bands. It also had a rectangular brass antenna and powered by six 1.5 volts (um) dry cells. It also had a push button dial light. All the bands' reception was superb as this set was highly sensitive to signals on the airwaves. Besides, the sound quality was just amazing with great bass. I love this transistor radio and would surely pick up if ever I come across. I wish Philips Holland comes up again like these radios. Your video was just too good. Greetings from New Delhi, India
Hi Shandy Brandy, that's nice that it reminded you of your Grandpa. His sounds like it was quite a radio and with the powered antenna it would pick up distant stations, maybe even Australia. thanks for your comment 👍🙂
@@DavidTipton101 Hi David, this Philips Holland transistor radio brings loads of memories. During my school's 3-month-long winter vacation I used to always go to my grandpa's place who was a physician. Often after lunch he would take a short siesta and tune on to the news broadcast before going back to his clinic again. I would lie down close to grandpa and watch him with exitement tune on to numerous radio stations around the world. Following my grandpa's demise, my granny gave us the radio. And believe me, inspite of having a furniture radiogram, there was somewhat a tug of war for this radio since my mother wanted to listen her choice of programmes belting out from All India Radio, Calcutta, my dad loved the radio for its portability, sensitivity and great sound while my siblings including me always tuned on to radio stations broadcasting music programmes... I was a fan of Radio Australia and I remember after my school used to be over for the day, I used to come home around 03:00P.M. (IST) and tune in to the 13-metres shortwave band. This radio station used to belt out latest beautiful music and the RJs too had a unique style that only caused listeners like me to get hooked to this awesome station. This Philips Holland radio could often catch this station amazingly clear and sounded too good. Must even say the broadcast quality of Radio Australia was also very good. I still love radios as there is a different charm listening to distant or the weakest radio stations. However, sadly, the fun is over since too much of RFI (radio frequency interference) from numerous modern electronic devices has become troublesome in tuning to AM/MW and shortwave bands radio stations. By the way, this Philips Holland radio also had a tan colour leather case. Had watched your video again and felt that what a splendid restoration work you have done. Thank you!
Thank you Shandy Brandy for sharing your story. I do like to hear how people lived in the old days, it seemed a lot simpler then. A very enjoyable read, thank you.
you did a great job again. As someone who has the same profession elsewhere in the world, I am watching you with admiration. Thank you very much for sharing your skills.
Thank you - lovely video and beautiful result. I've used the retrobright technique on a number of radios and generally had good results - even with very yellow plastic. I use a slightly stronger concentration of liquid hydrogen peroxide - nearer 20% and also add in a couple of spoonfuls of Oxy activator - the powder that can be used to help clean stains in a clothes washing machine. Then leave it out in strong sunlight for 12 or 36 hours. Many thanks David
What a great sounding and unique little radio David, great job on the dial string and handle.I love the color and that white definitely looks whiter to me. Great job!
A fine job David. Gave me the motivation to have a go at my Dads old 1967 Panasonic.. Covered in paint splatters as he is a painter and Decorator... This will be ascetics only as the radio works as good as the day he bought it..
Excellent . I use a range of germanium transistors for my 1960s , scratch built radio control transmitters and receivers .Only single Chanel sets but I still get a thrill when I press the button on the Tx and the Rx relay clicks . Hopefully will go further back in time and build valve equipped sets !.
I picked up a "Grammond" transistor radio on the weekend, no model number, but similar construction techniques to your radio, metal chassis and transistors in grommets. It also has a push pull output stage, and band selector ( knob ). I was curious of the year of construction, so guessing it would be the same, late 1950's.
This Philips radio type was released in 1957, mine was probably 1958. Can you send a photo of your radio to vintageradioaus@gmail.com I maybe able to identify it 👍🙂
Nice job David. No germanium whiskers to deal with this time. Maybe a piece of foam under the leather on the handle would make it look thicker? 73 de KB7ICI....Bill
Oh goodie! This radio was built in the city where I come from (Eindhoven, the home town of Philips), but has lived a little longer than I have 😃. My grandparents had a similar radio that was a slightly later model; I've seen several variations of it elsewhere too. And I can almost smell it too! The case had a very distinctive smell. Probably just the vinyl but anyway. I think you put the clamps on the handle a little too far apart; the handle is supposed to go all the way flat against the radio. Great restore! Thanks for posting!
Hi Jac, thanks for your comment. That's interesting, is Philips still in Eindhoven? This case didn't have any smell, it must have worn off 🙂 I put the clamps back in about the same as they came off I think. I could move them out a little bit more but they will never go flat. Thanks Jac 😃
@@DavidTipton101 They moved their head office to Amsterdam in the 1990s and that was the beginning of the end. Eindhoven was once dominated by Philips but now they're no more than a shadow of their former selves. Many of their buildings have been repurposed as apartments, offices for small companies, the public library etc. The biggest employer in the area now (at least in the tech sector) is ASML which is a spinoff from Philips that makes machines for chip production. I don't live there anymore (emigrated to the USA 20 years ago). In my opinion, Philips made great stuff until the 1980s when they got competition from Japan and couldn't keep up and started dropping the ball on everything. Quality went down, their electronics got a reputation for being difficult to service and not having the features people wanted, and basically customers walked away. They had great success with the CD but they couldn't market themselves out of a paper bag anymore so many other great products failed, such as Video 2000 and the Digital Compact Cassette.
Phillips took over Magnavox in the 1960s, and by the 1970s they were having Magnavox TVs made in Japan, or at least the chassis were. I have one from 1978 and the chassis was made by the NIppon Electric Company, NEC, it worked pretty decently for it's age. I would imagine that the actual Phillips branded TVs from the same era were the same as the Magnavox, NEC TVs in different cabinets. That may have been where Phillips went wrong, they went on a buying spree after the war, and just had too many branch companies to manage.
@@OlegKostoglatov Competition from Japan with better quality and cheaper prices was the beginning of the end for many companies, it wiped out the Australian electronics industry.
@@OlegKostoglatov No way! Philips TVs made for the European market were designed and made by Philips at least to the very end of the CRT era. Not necessarily made in Holland, they had plants for example in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and of course in China. But all sets were Philips designed, and made mostly from Philips components. In the mid '00s, their CRT division was 'married' with LG, and made CR tubes under the 'LG-Philips Displays' brand, which they put into the very last CRT sets, both LG and Philips, and many other brands used their tubes. They made their last CRT in 2009, IIRC. There's a UA-cam video about it, it it's still around.
Hi David, nice work as usual. I was going to watch Benny Hill on UA-cam but decided to watch your video instead. I wasn’t disappointed either. I think it was the pesky string that did it for me. I laughed in a kind way though if it’s any consolation. Seriously, you have the magic touch.
Mister Perfect job !!! Again .... Yours videos is very very interisting for me ... I'm a tech in Elec Low Frequency and i'm learning many things with you ... Thanks a lot Eric from France
The color tone of the face seemed brighter, later, once back with the radio. But like you, when you took it out of the bag, didn't really seem different. Nice fix and good save from the scrap heap :)
Hi David, I don't know if you ever look back at your previous programs? My husband Peter just found one of these, September 20th 2023 in Sydney Nova Scotia. Yes we have several Sydney's in Canada. What is so interesting is the badge engineering in 1958. It is labeled as a Rogers Majestic which was a big Canadian name in radios and tube (Valve) manufacture. The radio was dirty but upon cleanup looks really good! Now for new caps and perhaps a few resistors. Sending lots of greetings to our Australian cousins from Canada. These radios went around the world but some were known as Rogers Majestic.
Hi Mary, I avoid looking back at my previous videos, too embarrassing 🙂 I think I read they were sold in Canada under the Rogers-Majestic name. Nice to hear you managed to clean up and save your radio. Here is a excerpt from Radio museum about Rogers-Majestic. "In 1941, all the assets of Rogers-Majestic Corp. Ltd., except shares and bonds of Rogers Radio Broadcasting Company and shares of Canadian Radio Artists Bureau Ltd., were sold to Small Electric Motors (Canada) Ltd. for $645,000 net [DR; Ottawa Citizen, 5. Feb. 1941, p.21]. Small Electric Motors Ltd. later became the Canadian division of Royal Philips Electronics (~1946). Philips kept the Rogers-Majestic label. [Source?] Philips and Rogers-Majestic radios and TVs were made side-by-side in the Toronto factory from the late 40s until the 1970s. [Information courtesy C.Walter]" 👍🙂
Here in New Zealand in the 1960's and early '70's, EVERY house had either: one of these Philips transistors, or the (NZ made) Bell Colt (5 valve, mains powered, bakelite case) for use as the family's kitchen/living room/mantle radio !
The Philips would have been very popular in NZ I imagine Catherine as it was made there, the Colt shows up at auctions in Aus quite often, I will get one when I find the right one. thanks 😃
@@DavidTipton101 Cheers, do you have a mailing address or po box ? I visit Aussie periodically and could bring one across and then send it on up to you or leave it with a friend of yours in Sydney or Newcastle perhaps. Apart from me smuggling dunny-rolls into Aus, my bags should have plenty of spare space in them. zl3cath (at) yahoo (dot) com
@@KiwiCatherineJemma Thanks for the offer Catherine but forget the radio, just bring dunny paper... kidding of course. I will contact you via email, thanks 👍🙂
Good one, nice work. Another great touch-up for damaged speaker surrounds is liquid electrical tape. Dries looking much like the old goo they used to put around 'em, and as a bonus it's black. Stays flexible, and you can go all the way around and it will protect and preserve.
This is a lovely job. Philips speakers have a unique quite modern apearence and dtrange impedances. For TVs was it 5 ohm. Compared to usual 3. Some radios used 70 ohm I hope this is correctly remembered.
Love all the restoration techniques you used here David ! The outside needed far more attention but that is sometimes what is needed to fix an older radio.📻😁
Hi he's the master, thank you once again. I am pretty happy with how it came out and it didn't really need much to get it looking presentable. We had it going while we had dinner alfresco (at home) last night, it sounds pretty decent 🙂
I believe they used MBLE capacitors around that period. MBLE was a Belgian brand of electronic parts, later they were absorbed by Philips. MBLE capacitors are for life. Never had to replace one in my 25 years of repairman.
You are a really skilled repairman and smart person. I am also a collector of radios 📻. Thank you very much for your videos, they are interesting to watch. Greetings from Finland!
@@DavidTipton101 Hello I have bought several radios from on-line auctions and flea markets. My idea in this beloved hobby is to restore the radio to its original condition, and I don't think about the value or rarity of the radios, each radio is its own beautiful individual. I also collect radio tape recorders 😊. I don't want to be a hoarder, but I can't bear to part with the equipment I buy, So, I never sell, I just buy. . Thank you so much for replying to my comment! Autumn greetings, from Finland! -Juhani
Hi Steve, thank you. The Sun is a star which the earth orbits, it provides warmth and sunshine for a fun day at the beach, I'm surprised you haven't seen or heard of it in the UK 😄 Sorry, that was mean 😉
Sweet! FYI: Not sure what the political climate is over there, but if you ever need germanium transistors, the russians manufacture NEW germanium replacements and they always either match the original specs or exceed them. They are inexpensive and there are no sanctions against buying them.
Thank you Azri'el. I'm aware of the Russian ones and there is no restriction on buying them that I'm aware of. I haven't had to resort to that yet but might look into it in the future, thanks 👍🙂
Thanks for video Dave. Really enjoyed watching that and learned a few things - like the hydrogen peroxide. Some nostalgia too as I used to do a bit of radio resto years ago. 1 hour to fix the radio and 2 hours to string the dial cord.😢 Philips were certainly known for elaborate dial cord setups on their valve sets at least. For bakelite, plastic and leatherette cleaning, I normally used T-cut (paint cleaning/cutting compound for car paintwork). Sometimes also used Brasso. Though, it is advisable to test in a small area out of view first as, only occasionally, it could discolour the plastic. Used to protect the finished cases with a light coat of car wax. Had a chuckle at that chassis; the size of the IF cans! Anyway, thanks again, really good to see a nice old transistor set all cleaned up and working.
Hi Steve, thanks. The dial string was relatively easy once I worked out how to do it. I use all the products you mentioned although didn't use any of those on the letherette. I now think the stains on it was from the adhesive bleeding through after a suggestion from another comment. The components used clearly show a transition from valves to transistors, the dropping resistor was also huge 😄
You kidding me, that's the radio from my childhood! =) My fathers car, A Volvo PV444 did not have any radio, but it had an antenna so I brought the radio and plugged in the antenna and listened to music as long as the battery lasted. :)
@@DavidTipton101 Oh hello Dave. The dashboard on a Volvo to small and slanted to place the radio there, I often had it in my lap. But that you seen it too, make that habit more widespread than what I might have thought. =) In a way I never left that age, superglued in place as I refuse to listen to music on anything but Vacuum tubes from the 1950's and 60's. :p~
Excellent video. I enjoyed al 39 min and 39 seconds of it. I remember now that the one we had in the Netherlands had a brass coloured handle with rectangle corners and that served as an areal. The battery voltage was 9 Volts then. New subscriber from New Zealand.
Hi David, Another great video. Thank you. I agree the retrobright seemed to continue lightening the facia. I use a slightly different technique which has worked well for me. I buy industrial hydrogen peroxide at about 99% (available wheer I live from Chemists) and then water it down to approx 30-40%. Then add an laundry oxygen booster and leave the panel in a plastic container in the sun (in Greece) for about 24-36 hours then rinse etc. Seems to work well. Keep up the good work!
Great job!! I own similar Phillips L3X80T, 1959 transistor radio. It also have almost same issues ( dial string broken and need new leed production, some acid arround from old battery and dirty plastic paint ). But, it's in good electronic working condition. I'll definitely use some of yours solutions. Keep up with theese excellent videos! Best wishes from Bosnia.
Another great restoration David - even though there was little in the way of electronic repairs needed.I would love to have your range of tools the lathe looks really nice and the way you restored the little pulley wheel was amazing - even heat sealer on hand! The whitening process does continue over time - I used to have an early computer system called a Dick Smith System 80 and over the years the keys all went yellow and this was the method to restore them to white. - Looking forward to the next job.
Hi Kenneth, The lathe has paid for itself in handyness. I forgot to put the bag sealer back until the wife went to seal something that night... 'not happy Jan' . I remember the System 80, a clone of the Tandy TRS 80 or very similar. The first computer I could afford was a Commodore 64 that Kmart were selling off cheap because the Amiga had been released 😃
Hey, id like to know where u get all your schematics? I have a rca Victor model 211 that im about to restore, but I can't find any information for the unit. Plz help
Hi SBR, Google "RCA Victor model 211" you will get a number of hits. It seems your radio was made in both New York and Montreal, you will have to find where yours was made to get the correct schematic, I don't know what the difference is though. Try these links: (You will need to copy and paste the top link into you browser) www.nostalgiaair.org/PagesByMode ... 014831.pdf www.radiomuseum.org/r/rca_211.html (New York) www.radiomuseum.org/r/rca_victor_211.html (Montreal)
Wow, what a great job. What a patient to remake every detail. So nice to see. My father bougt this radio around 1965. The display had dutch radiostations but no connection at the backside. Every evening by dinner the radio was on at 6 pm for the news. I was a child 7 years old. I am now 62 but this wonderfull radio i will never forget. Its a part of my life. The radio is still in my family in The Netherlands. But i live now in Brazil. Thanks for sharing this!
Hi Sander Live, so many have said how seeing these old radios bring back memories, I'll add you to the list, thanks 😃
The radio was quite expensive in the day...then again a lot of time and effort went into its design and construction. You are a true handyman and well done. 👍
Hi Steven, yes it was expensive back in the day. Thanks 🙂
Rather nice restoration. Quite interesting. I can watch that all day. Charlie
Hi Charlie, thank you 🙂
Ace job, the white plastic front looked whiter to me as soon as it emerged from the bag. 40 minutes of pure entertainment, great to see it restored
Hi Ken, thank you. It looks and works well, cheers 🙂
I remember my parents having one of these (or very, very similar model) back in the late 50's... Philips were ahead of the game in technology and quality manufacture back then.. Nice to see a sympathetic and skilled restoration on this early solid state piece of radio receiver history. The plastic was definitely brighter , but still looked age appropriate after the peroxide treatment.. I once said that to the better half and wish I hadn't !!!
Hi Pete, The front looks pretty good and was apparently a cream colour originally anyway, The retrObright works on ABS plastic which I doubt this is but it is definitely brighter. You must enjoy living on the edge with that comment to your 'better half' 😄 Cheers
Vary therapeutic and calming to watch, beautiful! Thank You
Hi David, my wife says I put her to sleep too, cheers and thanks 😄
These were also assembled in New Zealand and were available in several colours. Very popular when new and still easy to find in good condition. Nice mellow tone and battery life is extremely good. I have many and have yet to find one that didn't work when acquired. Great radios!
Hi Robert, I wonder why in New Zealand. This one appears to be from Holland judging from the stickers and writing on the cabinet but I could be wrong. Interesting, thanks Robert 🙂
@@DavidTipton101 Not sure when production started or finished here in New Zealand but the majority of them are date stamped 1961 and 62. The date stamp disappeared and the handle attached to the end panels and ran right across the top on late production. The identification plate looks very similar to yours but says Made in New Zealand in very small letters along the bottom edge.
Another beautiful refurbishment of a cool little radio! The chassis construction reminded me of the type of construction of my old Philips (Norelco) open reel recorder from 1960. Well done Dave.
Thank you Quantum Leap. I believe Norelco were rebranded Philips equipment made in Holland and sold in the US. I have seen this same radio with the Norelco name on it 🤔
www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/norelco-all-transistor-radio-293694213
The plastic was definitely whiter when you added the gold strips than when you first took it out of the bag. Nice job.
Hi Wayne, I agree, looking at the before and after video it is brighter 👍🙂
Dave, you have an uncanny eye for candidate radios. That radio is gorgeous and sounds great especially after your TLC. Wonderful work again from the dial pulley to the electrical checks to the case and front panel treatment. Thank you for so clearly displaying everything. It's so pleasing to see these radios restored so expertly.
Hi Jeff, thank you. This radio works very well and the front panel is still bright since I treated it 👍🙂
Well done David, great work. Nice and simple dial string. Some of the Philips strings on the valve radios are a nightmare with dual strings running through small diameter tubes formed from coiled wire - a bit like a brake cable! The radio has many typical Philips features. All in all another great job.
Cheers Lynton.
Hi Lynton, pretty simple job on this string but it didn't end up the same as the drawing, still it works fine. I have a number of European radios with the complex multi-string arrangement so far I haven't had to fiddle with the strings but that day will come. Thanks Lynton 😃
Nice attention to detail, love how it came out. Well done!
Thank you Bruce 😃
Another great job. It’s good to see someone who’s not afraid to tackle difficult tasks. I’ll bet your collection is magnificent.
Hi Jim, thank you. I'm always willing to have a go but it gets me in trouble sometimes 🤦♂️ My collection is growing but not many outstanding radios so far 🤔🙂
Very smart. The sort of radio you would take on a family picnic in the 1959 Holden Station Wagon. Nice. Cheers
I can see it now Pauline, Dad smoking a pipe on the picnic blanket on the ground and Mum sitting on the tailgate with a sandwich listening to her Philips radio 🙂
Fun times 🙂
I think this is one of my favorite radios you ever did. Beautiful work! And yes, it was very interesting, I like many others enjoy watching you work very much.
Thank you very much Haunter 👍😃
Hi David,
Great job on the small Philips, it's called a "sharpie" Don't know why. I own two of them myself. A Dutch version, and a very rare one for tropical area's. Because she only has shortwave bands and broadcast. The grill on your radio has about the original colour, they where a little off white, a creamy colour. The brown staining is nothing you can clean i'm afraid, it's the glue from the backside which has come trough the fabric. Most are affected now after 60+ years...
She has come out really nice though...
Best regards from the Netherlands,
Nico den Haak.
Hi Nico, thanks. I just Googled "philips sharpie" and up it came. the colour of the grill looks correct now, it had a brown look about it originally. I hadn't thought of the glue bleeding through but you are spot on, that's exactly what it is. Thank you and Hi to the Netherlands 👋😃
Great job , this restauration was wonderfull !!!
In my colection I have two radios exactily the same yours, it was made in philips brazil in 1960.
Philips Brazil start factorying radios in 1950.
Tanks for yours videos!!!!!!
Congratulation - São Paulo - Brazil
I wonder where else they built these radios Fernando, I've heard, Holland, New Zealand and now Brazil. Thank you 😃
Thanks Dave. I watched this one a few years back, and it popped up as a recommended on UA-cam today so I re-watched. Back the first time, I took away some hints, one was the pin stripe replacement. I had purchased a little transistor radio that was old stock in the box, of course it didn't work when a battery was added, a bit of quick troubleshooting proved it was corrosion on the earphone plug, after cleaning and replacing a couple of caps that were dried out, the set works great now. I tried to clean the front of the set with a cleaner as it had some finger prints on it from a dirty prior owner and the gold came off the plastic. Your trick worked great and the little set looks brand new again, still in the box with a 55 year old 9 volt battery still in the cellophane wrap it came in, and the little ear phone in the box with the warrantee card and direction sheet. A nice center piece for my collection of old transistors that I have repaired and restored. My restorations never reach the wonderful results that yours do, but some come out very nice, I have another Motorola that is about the same design as the one in this video however it runs on 4 D cells. I stuck in an old 4 volt lithium from a cell phone to run it for now and that seems to work as well as the D cells but cuts the weight of the radio in half. It is straight AM but has the extra IF so it can do the "fringe" reception, something needed in this part of the US as our stations are few and far between, as is the population of our old State, however it is now growing with the influx from both coasts, the idea of no State Income Tax and low cost license plates for RV's and cars has a magnetic effect, I see hundreds of rigs going down the highways of our nation with South Dakota Plate, when I was comparing cost with a neighbor when we were still going South for the Winters, I found that compared to California, our plates were about 1 tenth the cost of the folks on the left coast.
Hi Jerry, You did a great job fixing that little transistor radio, it's amazing that the battery was still in the box. i'm glad you were able to use my idea to restore the look of the radio too 👍🙂
Impeccable restoration David! This beautiful Philips radio was designed and built in my 'backyard'..😇 Regards from the Netherlands and thanks for sharing!
Sir,you are so lucky man.I am 72 years and spent my life with radio servicing.Though I never seen this particular Philips radio model,many other next gen. Philips radios made in holland are serviced by my shop. Philips is my fevrit brand.
Hi Crippleman, I have had a number of comments from folks living in or used to live near Eindhoven. Thank you for your comment and it is my pleasure 😃
Came out very good! The front panel did seem to get whiter as time went on.
It certainly seemed to Robert. It might be wishful thinking but it looks about right now 🙂
Really enjoyed watching that - it was particularly interesting to see Retrobright being used on something that wasn't an old computer.
Hi Dave, thank you. It's the first time I've tried it 🙂
5:47 I recognized the first diode I had as a kid: the OA79 ! Jippee 🙌
It was the detector of the Pionier 2 kit.
2 pcs. OC13 for the amplification , crystal earpiece. Spent hours with it 😊
The brightening of the plastic worked out great. It just needed some time, apparently. Another great job, Dave 👍🤝🇳🇱
Hi Nard, These things bring back memories sometimes. The plastic turned out OK in the end 😀
Hi David ,another fantastic restore job you have done ,you have inspired me to get mine out from under the bench ,i brought one of these quite a few years back for a couple of dollars at a garage sale as i wrecked one also in my younger days for parts, Lovely bit of history these radios are .Well done.
Hi Doc, you must get yours out and see if it works. Someone else said some were assembled in New Zealand, it would be interesting to see if yours was 🙂
I spit out my drink when you pressed the button while trying to power it up and you said 'Oh dear'. I've no idea why I found that funny! Great video.
Ha-ha... it's probably my tendency to understate calamity. Thanks pacmania1982, now I have a smile too 😄
David fantastic job mate. It's good when you can make a new part for a roller on your lathe very handy. Thanks for sharing and happy radio days in the Sun. Cheers mate.
Hi Dennis, thank you. The lathe has been a real asset, probably could have used a nut and bolt if there was enough room but the lathe is way more fun. There is plenty of sun now 🤦♂️😄
What a cracking little set...and yes it was very interesting...almost as exciting as getting my first little transistor radio (a pocket binatone) as a present back in 1962 and discovering almost simultaneously (a) pirate radio stations and some real music (b) the heavy cost (in pocket money terms) of 9v batteries and (c) the grisly amount of earwax that'd readily transfer onto the earphone - all very worthwhile and memorable life experiences!
This one is a beauty cogidubnus1953. It was an interesting system in the UK with the government controlling the airwaves. We heard about it over here but I couldn't understand why there was a need for pirate stations as we had complete radio freedom here. The cost of batteries was always a problem for youngsters 😀
I always dread re-stringing dial cords, that one looked fairly straightforward for a Philips set!
I wish they were all that straightforward
That one wasn't bad markpirateuk , it was disconcerting it didn't work the way the string guide said, it seems to work OK though 🙂
On my bench now is an old Motorola AM transistor radio, employing the Germanium devices. I was amazed how well these transistors in this chassis worked. I would say it was as sensitive and selective as the best Tube type radio. Modern radios use a lot of large scale integrated devices that don't work as well.
Hi Cosimo, that seems to be the thinking on the internet also, I wish I knew more about transistors to be more subjective 🤔🤦♂️🙂
Don't forget the large HF transformers and antenna coil that disappeared for the sake of smaller devices. These large ones came over from tube technique.
nicely done love these old vintage radios. cheers from Michigan U.S.A.
Hi Robert, thank you. Hi to all the good people in Michigan 😃
Very nice, and I did find it very interesting, as with all your wonderful restorations, I love the way you actually get them back into original or better condition.
Thanks Jerry 😀
Philips folks who worked on this project would be so proud to see their product is still alive and treated this well! ...with AM is still around
It's a nice radio and works very well hadi reg, thanks 🙂
Worked for Phillips / Sylvania tv for 30 years saw lots of fine radios you have a gem there.
That's cool, thanks Stephen 😃
My family had a similar model in the early 60's in Ontario Canada. It had a folding chrome aerial that stored around the front. The story goes this way, the first radio we bought was a Sony, it would not receive any distant stations so we brought that one back to the store and got the Philips, big gain in reception. I think it took "D" size batteries. Wish I still had that radio,
This model was my fevrit and I had it in earley 70's.
Hi NewBookz, I have seen photos of this model with the four D batteries online. Even in our poor reception area this one picks up local stations very well with it's large loopstick antenna
Late to this party.. I have the short wave model which my father bought in 1962 new for around 60 Australian pounds. The sensitivity was/is very good and the finish is better - metal tuning wheel and volume control.
It takes 6 D cells but was always quite hungry so later on I placed a 9V DC jack in the back.
A good video, David, and the H2O2 treatment seemed to work.
Thank you Alexander. 60 pounds was a lot for a small radio, a lot of work to make them I guess 🙂
Hi Dave, Eindhoven is only about 35km from where I live. My first job was at Philips and believe it or not I repaired audio equipment. Not this old though.. ;) I think you did a nice job and this radio looks great. Thanks for sharing the process!
Hi Rene, I guess it would be repairs on Philips equipment under warranty, all nice and new. Thank you for watching 😃
You are right about those being exported around the world, they even sold them in Canada around 1957-58 or so. There is also a rebadged version, with a slightly different dial from the Phillips versions, that they sold under the Rogers-Majestic brand. The other difference is that the Canadian sets had a shortwave band or two, which that Australian model doesn't seem to have.
Hi OlegKostoglatov, Philips had a presence in most countries I guess so they would be pretty widespread. Someone else mentioned a shortwave version 🙂
David, many thanks for another fine video. I think you’re the man I need to do a similar job on my 1968 Piper Arrow!
Hi Bob, I'm surprised your piper has a Philips radio fitted, do you use it for ADF 😉 I was an aircraft engineer but on heavy RPT. I have some gold pinstriping left if you want to make the Piper go faster 😄
David Tipton , it already has the orange and brown go faster paint job. The only problem being that I need to wear flares when I fly it. 😎
@@roberto9666 Oh yeah, those are hard to get 😄
Simply amazing! Loved every bit of the video. This Philips Holland transistor radio reminds me of my dear grandpa but the one he owned could be slightly later model. It had 4 - shortwave and a AM/MW bands. It also had a rectangular brass antenna and powered by six 1.5 volts (um) dry cells. It also had a push button dial light. All the bands' reception was superb as this set was highly sensitive to signals on the airwaves. Besides, the sound quality was just amazing with great bass. I love this transistor radio and would surely pick up if ever I come across. I wish Philips Holland comes up again like these radios. Your video was just too good. Greetings from New Delhi, India
Hi Shandy Brandy, that's nice that it reminded you of your Grandpa. His sounds like it was quite a radio and with the powered antenna it would pick up distant stations, maybe even Australia. thanks for your comment 👍🙂
@@DavidTipton101 Hi David, this Philips Holland transistor radio brings loads of memories. During my school's 3-month-long winter vacation I used to always go to my grandpa's place who was a physician. Often after lunch he would take a short siesta and tune on to the news broadcast before going back to his clinic again. I would lie down close to grandpa and watch him with exitement tune on to numerous radio stations around the world. Following my grandpa's demise, my granny gave us the radio. And believe me, inspite of having a furniture radiogram, there was somewhat a tug of war for this radio since my mother wanted to listen her choice of programmes belting out from All India Radio, Calcutta, my dad loved the radio for its portability, sensitivity and great sound while my siblings including me always tuned on to radio stations broadcasting music programmes...
I was a fan of Radio Australia and I remember after my school used to be over for the day, I used to come home around 03:00P.M. (IST) and tune in to the 13-metres shortwave band. This radio station used to belt out latest beautiful music and the RJs too had a unique style that only caused listeners like me to get hooked to this awesome station. This Philips Holland radio could often catch this station amazingly clear and sounded too good. Must even say the broadcast quality of Radio Australia was also very good. I still love radios as there is a different charm listening to distant or the weakest radio stations. However, sadly, the fun is over since too much of RFI (radio frequency interference) from numerous modern electronic devices has become troublesome in tuning to AM/MW and shortwave bands radio stations. By the way, this Philips Holland radio also had a tan colour leather case.
Had watched your video again and felt that what a splendid restoration work you have done.
Thank you!
Thank you Shandy Brandy for sharing your story. I do like to hear how people lived in the old days, it seemed a lot simpler then. A very enjoyable read, thank you.
you did a great job again. As someone who has the same profession elsewhere in the world, I am watching you with admiration. Thank you very much for sharing your skills.
Hi mustafa, this isn't my profession it just a hobby. Thank you for your lovely comment 😃
Early solid state, very interesting. Nice restoration.
Hi Phillip, thanks. Very happy it worked, I struggle with transistor sets even more that valve sets 😄
Thank you - lovely video and beautiful result. I've used the retrobright technique on a number of radios and generally had good results - even with very yellow plastic. I use a slightly stronger concentration of liquid hydrogen peroxide - nearer 20% and also add in a couple of spoonfuls of Oxy activator - the powder that can be used to help clean stains in a clothes washing machine. Then leave it out in strong sunlight for 12 or 36 hours. Many thanks David
Thanks David. Sounds like a good tip with oxy activator, I'll try it next time 🙂
What a great sounding and unique little radio David, great job on the dial string and handle.I love the color and that white definitely looks whiter to me. Great job!
Hi Gregg's Vintage Workshop, yes, nice little set, it came up a treat. Thanks 😃
A fine job David. Gave me the motivation to have a go at my Dads old 1967 Panasonic.. Covered in paint splatters as he is a painter and Decorator... This will be ascetics only as the radio works as good as the day he bought it..
Thanks Nifty Fifty Camping adventures, I can imagine what a painters radio would look like, good luck 👍🙂
Excellent . I use a range of germanium transistors for my 1960s , scratch built radio control transmitters and receivers .Only single Chanel sets but I still get a thrill when I press the button on the Tx and the Rx relay clicks . Hopefully will go further back in time and build valve equipped sets !.
HI Pufango, thank you. I don't do a lot of transistor stuff because I don't have much experience, radio control Txing sounds fun 🙂
I picked up a "Grammond" transistor radio on the weekend, no model number, but similar construction techniques to your radio, metal chassis and transistors in grommets. It also has a push pull output stage, and band selector ( knob ). I was curious of the year of construction, so guessing it would be the same, late 1950's.
This Philips radio type was released in 1957, mine was probably 1958. Can you send a photo of your radio to vintageradioaus@gmail.com I maybe able to identify it 👍🙂
@@DavidTipton101 will do.
Thanks David, a great lesson on how to restore every aspect of the radio; electronics, cabinet, tuning drive, trim. Smashing!
Thanks SoRTs6233 👍🙂
Nice job David. No germanium whiskers to deal with this time. Maybe a piece of foam under the leather on the handle would make it look thicker? 73 de KB7ICI....Bill
Hi Bill, thank you. Yes no germanium and I agree, the handle needs more work 🙂
Hi Dave. Just found your channel the other day. Love your work. Going back and watching you older videos. Keep up the great work. Joe
Hi Joe, thank you 😃
that is a amazing restoration all I can say is WOW!!!!
Haha... thank you Richard 👍😀
Oh goodie! This radio was built in the city where I come from (Eindhoven, the home town of Philips), but has lived a little longer than I have 😃.
My grandparents had a similar radio that was a slightly later model; I've seen several variations of it elsewhere too. And I can almost smell it too! The case had a very distinctive smell. Probably just the vinyl but anyway.
I think you put the clamps on the handle a little too far apart; the handle is supposed to go all the way flat against the radio.
Great restore! Thanks for posting!
Hi Jac, thanks for your comment. That's interesting, is Philips still in Eindhoven? This case didn't have any smell, it must have worn off 🙂 I put the clamps back in about the same as they came off I think. I could move them out a little bit more but they will never go flat. Thanks Jac 😃
@@DavidTipton101 They moved their head office to Amsterdam in the 1990s and that was the beginning of the end. Eindhoven was once dominated by Philips but now they're no more than a shadow of their former selves. Many of their buildings have been repurposed as apartments, offices for small companies, the public library etc. The biggest employer in the area now (at least in the tech sector) is ASML which is a spinoff from Philips that makes machines for chip production.
I don't live there anymore (emigrated to the USA 20 years ago).
In my opinion, Philips made great stuff until the 1980s when they got competition from Japan and couldn't keep up and started dropping the ball on everything. Quality went down, their electronics got a reputation for being difficult to service and not having the features people wanted, and basically customers walked away. They had great success with the CD but they couldn't market themselves out of a paper bag anymore so many other great products failed, such as Video 2000 and the Digital Compact Cassette.
Phillips took over Magnavox in the 1960s, and by the 1970s they were having Magnavox TVs made in Japan, or at least the chassis were. I have one from 1978 and the chassis was made by the NIppon Electric Company, NEC, it worked pretty decently for it's age. I would imagine that the actual Phillips branded TVs from the same era were the same as the Magnavox, NEC TVs in different cabinets. That may have been where Phillips went wrong, they went on a buying spree after the war, and just had too many branch companies to manage.
@@OlegKostoglatov Competition from Japan with better quality and cheaper prices was the beginning of the end for many companies, it wiped out the Australian electronics industry.
@@OlegKostoglatov No way! Philips TVs made for the European market were designed and made by Philips at least to the very end of the CRT era. Not necessarily made in Holland, they had plants for example in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and of course in China. But all sets were Philips designed, and made mostly from Philips components. In the mid '00s, their CRT division was 'married' with LG, and made CR tubes under the 'LG-Philips Displays' brand, which they put into the very last CRT sets, both LG and Philips, and many other brands used their tubes. They made their last CRT in 2009, IIRC. There's a UA-cam video about it, it it's still around.
Hi David, nice work as usual. I was going to watch Benny Hill on UA-cam but decided to watch your video instead. I wasn’t disappointed either. I think it was the pesky string that did it for me. I laughed in a kind way though if it’s any consolation. Seriously, you have the magic touch.
Ha-ha... I haven't been compared to Benny Hill before, next time I do a restring I'll play Yakety Sax in the background 😄
You timed the retrobright application to perfection!
Hi lo, thanks, I haven't tried it before 🙂
Mister Perfect job !!! Again .... Yours videos is very very interisting for me ... I'm a tech in Elec Low Frequency and i'm learning many things with you ...
Thanks a lot
Eric from France
Hi Eric, thank you and it is my pleasure 🙂
What a great refurbishment job Philips used to use high quality capacitors and inductors the RF and IF alignment seems spot on
after 60 years amazing
Hi Paul, yes it worked alright, I was happy not to mess with the alignment though 😃
The color tone of the face seemed brighter, later, once back with the radio. But like you, when you took it out of the bag, didn't really seem different. Nice fix and good save from the scrap heap :)
Hi Jason, It may just look cleaner, I should have done a before and after under the same exact conditions, next time 🙂
Nice refurbishment, good to see someone showing fixing up old radios that were available in Australia!
Hi Chris, thanks. There aren’t many Aussie repairers on UA-cam so I thought it would be a nice change, thanks 🙂
Brilliant job. Good to see there are fellow radio and wireless fans out there.
There are still a few of us hanging on Simon 😄
Great find. Such a cool piece. Nice to see something not made entirely of plastic. Great video.
Hi John, thanks. The timber gives it a better sound too I think 😀
@@DavidTipton101 I agree, I would wager the sound resonates differently thru the wood.
Hi David, I don't know if you ever look back at your previous programs? My husband Peter just found one of these, September 20th 2023 in Sydney Nova Scotia. Yes we have several Sydney's in Canada. What is so interesting is the badge engineering in 1958. It is labeled as a Rogers Majestic which was a big Canadian name in radios and tube (Valve) manufacture. The radio was dirty but upon cleanup looks really good! Now for new caps and perhaps a few resistors. Sending lots of greetings to our Australian cousins from Canada. These radios went around the world but some were known as Rogers Majestic.
Hi Mary, I avoid looking back at my previous videos, too embarrassing 🙂
I think I read they were sold in Canada under the Rogers-Majestic name. Nice to hear you managed to clean up and save your radio. Here is a excerpt from Radio museum about Rogers-Majestic.
"In 1941, all the assets of Rogers-Majestic Corp. Ltd., except shares and bonds of Rogers Radio Broadcasting Company and shares of Canadian Radio Artists Bureau Ltd., were sold to Small Electric Motors (Canada) Ltd. for $645,000 net [DR; Ottawa Citizen, 5. Feb. 1941, p.21].
Small Electric Motors Ltd. later became the Canadian division of Royal Philips Electronics (~1946). Philips kept the Rogers-Majestic label. [Source?]
Philips and Rogers-Majestic radios and TVs were made side-by-side in the Toronto factory from the late 40s until the 1970s. [Information courtesy C.Walter]"
👍🙂
Here in New Zealand in the 1960's and early '70's, EVERY house had either: one of these Philips transistors, or the (NZ made) Bell Colt (5 valve, mains powered, bakelite case) for use as the family's kitchen/living room/mantle radio !
The Philips would have been very popular in NZ I imagine Catherine as it was made there, the Colt shows up at auctions in Aus quite often, I will get one when I find the right one. thanks 😃
@@DavidTipton101 Cheers, do you have a mailing address or po box ? I visit Aussie periodically and could bring one across and then send it on up to you or leave it with a friend of yours in Sydney or Newcastle perhaps. Apart from me smuggling dunny-rolls into Aus, my bags should have plenty of spare space in them. zl3cath (at) yahoo (dot) com
@@KiwiCatherineJemma Thanks for the offer Catherine but forget the radio, just bring dunny paper... kidding of course. I will contact you via email, thanks 👍🙂
Yet another purest job David.
Love it.
Thanks again Stephen 😀
Good one, nice work.
Another great touch-up for damaged speaker surrounds is liquid electrical tape. Dries looking much like the old goo they used to put around 'em, and as a bonus it's black. Stays flexible, and you can go all the way around and it will protect and preserve.
Is that right scofab, I'll get some and and check it out, thanks 👍😃
This is a lovely job. Philips speakers have a unique quite modern apearence and dtrange impedances. For TVs was it 5 ohm. Compared to usual 3. Some radios used 70 ohm I hope this is correctly remembered.
Thank you William. The Aussie tube radio I'm working on now has a 15 ohm speaker for some reason, it's not a Philips though 🤔
Love all the restoration techniques you used here David ! The outside needed far more attention but that is sometimes what is needed to fix an older radio.📻😁
Hi he's the master, thank you once again. I am pretty happy with how it came out and it didn't really need much to get it looking presentable. We had it going while we had dinner alfresco (at home) last night, it sounds pretty decent 🙂
brilliant little restoration! Enjoyed watching thanks David
Thanks Noriri 😀
5:03 "...and the book says..." What book is that please?
Hi fins59, sorry, I downloaded the schematic from the internet, that was the book I was referring to 🤦♂️🙂
@@DavidTipton101 Could you say where on the internet you got the schematic please?
I believe they used MBLE capacitors around that period. MBLE was a Belgian brand of electronic parts, later they were absorbed by Philips. MBLE capacitors are for life. Never had to replace one in my 25 years of repairman.
Thank you Guy, I didn't look for a brand but I will keep that in mind for next time, thanks 🙂
A lovely set - I can just imagine enjoying the outside listening to The Ashes! Great - really enjoyed this.
Thanks Stephen. Ideal of doing just that 🏏🙂
You are a really skilled repairman and smart person.
I am also a collector of radios
📻.
Thank you very much for your videos, they are interesting to watch.
Greetings from Finland!
Hello and greetings Juhani from Finland, thank you. You must have some interesting radios in your collection 🙂
@@DavidTipton101 Hello
I have bought several radios from on-line auctions and flea markets.
My idea in this beloved hobby is to restore the radio to its original condition,
and I don't think about the value or rarity of the radios,
each radio is its own beautiful individual.
I also collect radio tape recorders 😊.
I don't want to be a hoarder, but I can't bear to part with the equipment I buy,
So, I never sell, I just buy. .
Thank you so much for replying to my comment!
Autumn greetings, from Finland!
-Juhani
Beautiful job, I love the early transistor sets with the metal chassis construction. I am in the UK, what is this 'sun' to which you refer?
Hi Steve, thank you. The Sun is a star which the earth orbits, it provides warmth and sunshine for a fun day at the beach, I'm surprised you haven't seen or heard of it in the UK 😄 Sorry, that was mean 😉
@@DavidTipton101 Ha ha, now you're rubbing it in!!
@@stevedoubleu99B 😄
Sweet! FYI: Not sure what the political climate is over there, but if you ever need germanium transistors, the russians manufacture NEW germanium replacements and they always either match the original specs or exceed them. They are inexpensive and there are no sanctions against buying them.
Thank you Azri'el. I'm aware of the Russian ones and there is no restriction on buying them that I'm aware of. I haven't had to resort to that yet but might look into it in the future, thanks 👍🙂
Amazing attention to detail; a delight to watch.
Thank you Steven 😃
Very interesting video. Thanks David.
Hi Neil, thank you 🙂
First video I've watched, and you make very lovely videos and your accent is very clear! Thank you
Hi robbyxp1, thank you, you are very kind 😃
I liked when you attached the string to the spring.
Thanks Jess 😀
Thanks for video Dave. Really enjoyed watching that and learned a few things - like the hydrogen peroxide. Some nostalgia too as I used to do a bit of radio resto years ago. 1 hour to fix the radio and 2 hours to string the dial cord.😢 Philips were certainly known for elaborate dial cord setups on their valve sets at least. For bakelite, plastic and leatherette cleaning, I normally used T-cut (paint cleaning/cutting compound for car paintwork). Sometimes also used Brasso. Though, it is advisable to test in a small area out of view first as, only occasionally, it could discolour the plastic. Used to protect the finished cases with a light coat of car wax. Had a chuckle at that chassis; the size of the IF cans! Anyway, thanks again, really good to see a nice old transistor set all cleaned up and working.
Hi Steve, thanks. The dial string was relatively easy once I worked out how to do it. I use all the products you mentioned although didn't use any of those on the letherette. I now think the stains on it was from the adhesive bleeding through after a suggestion from another comment. The components used clearly show a transition from valves to transistors, the dropping resistor was also huge 😄
Congratulations on an excellent job. Kind regards from Cape Town
Hi Peter, thank you very much. Hi to the good folk in Cape Town 😃
I like to see old radios get repaired and out of a land fill, kudos!
Me too Fred, thanks 👍🙂
Amazing restoration! Nice job!
Thank you very much Matt 🙂
Really enjoyed that - keep them coming!
Thanks Julian, I'll try 😃
That was a first-class job! You are very professional workman. Thank you for this inspiring video! Hello from Canada.
Hi Wayne in Canada. Thank you. I hope it's starting warm up over there, too cold for me 🥶😄
@@DavidTipton101 LOL Its not too bad here. I am in Toronto which is not quite s bad as you may think.
@@waynekozak1462 I just checked Toronto weather and it says a top of -3C 😏 I wouldn't like to be there if it gets a bit chilly 😁 stay warm Wayne 😉
You kidding me, that's the radio from my childhood! =)
My fathers car, A Volvo PV444 did not have any radio, but it had an antenna so I brought the radio and plugged in the antenna and listened to music as long as the battery lasted. :)
It was normal to have a transistor radio propped up on the dashboard when I was a kid Anders. Thank you for your story 😃
@@DavidTipton101 Oh hello Dave.
The dashboard on a Volvo to small and slanted to place the radio there, I often had it in my lap.
But that you seen it too, make that habit more widespread than what I might have thought. =)
In a way I never left that age, superglued in place as I refuse to listen to music on anything but Vacuum tubes from the 1950's and 60's. :p~
Good to see you are hanging on to old and valuable memories Anders, tubes are the only way to go 😃
Very nice, really like the hydrogen peroxide concept. This radio has a great home and caretaker
Thanks Craig 🙂
@@kronkitelin I did but I don't know enough about transistor sets to be confident to repair them if they give trouble.
i did have one when i was young very happy with it at the time. nice to see how u restore the radio.greetings from Nederland
Hi Peter in the Netherlands 👋 Thank you 🙂
Excellent video. I enjoyed al 39 min and 39 seconds of it. I remember now that the one we had in the Netherlands had a brass coloured handle with rectangle corners and that served as an areal. The battery voltage was 9 Volts then. New subscriber from New Zealand.
Hi RODALCO2007 in NZ 😃 thank you and thank you for the sub 🙂
Hi David, Another great video. Thank you. I agree the retrobright seemed to continue lightening the facia. I use a slightly different technique which has worked well for me. I buy industrial hydrogen peroxide at about 99% (available wheer I live from Chemists) and then water it down to approx 30-40%. Then add an laundry oxygen booster and leave the panel in a plastic container in the sun (in Greece) for about 24-36 hours then rinse etc. Seems to work well. Keep up the good work!
Hello David, thank you. I have seen the idea of adding laundry booster, I will try it next time. Thanks 👍😀
Another excellent job David.
Love your videos.
Thank you Stephen 😀
Great job!! I own similar Phillips L3X80T, 1959 transistor radio. It also have almost same issues ( dial string broken and need new leed production, some acid arround from old battery and dirty plastic paint ). But, it's in good electronic working condition. I'll definitely use some of yours solutions. Keep up with theese excellent videos! Best wishes from Bosnia.
Hi Almir for Bosnia. Good luck with your project, these Philips radios work and sound great 😀
Nice job, it's a great restoration and a fantastic period piece.
Hi Alan, thank you. It's sitting with the rest of my transistor collection and looks quite nice 🙂
We had one of those Philips in the Netherlands in 1972. It took 6 x D cells.
A 9 volt version, others have said they had a 9 volt version as well, thanks RODALCO2007 🙂
Another great restoration David - even though there was little in the way of electronic repairs needed.I would love to have your range of tools the lathe looks really nice and the way you restored the little pulley wheel was amazing - even heat sealer on hand! The whitening process does continue over time - I used to have an early computer system called a Dick Smith System 80 and over the years the keys all went yellow and this was the method to restore them to white. - Looking forward to the next job.
Hi Kenneth, The lathe has paid for itself in handyness. I forgot to put the bag sealer back until the wife went to seal something that night... 'not happy Jan' . I remember the System 80, a clone of the Tandy TRS 80 or very similar. The first computer I could afford was a Commodore 64 that Kmart were selling off cheap because the Amiga had been released 😃
It's probably not looked that good since the '60's! Lovely job.
Hi Paul, thank you 🙂
Great restoration!! greetings from Finland!
Hi Eemil from Finland, thank you 👋😃
You might touch-up those areas that should be *black* in the front.
What black bits pi-duino? There was nothing black when I got it. The "Philips" text is gold on a fawn frame 🤔
Looks great. You did a nice job, especially with the gold pin-striping.
Hi tarstarkusz, thank you 😃
Nice job, handle looks better than new. Gold strips look better as well and the case front is whiter.
Hi bob4jjjj, thanks, yes, it come out looking very nice 😃
Excellent job! Re-stringing has always been a fiddey job, but you made it look easy. Great video! New subscriber.
Hi Bradley, yep, pretty easy restring. thanks for the sub 😃
Excellent work David, I bet the radio would run for ages on that big lantern battery
Thanks Michael, you would hope so. It's good I can still get the batteries and they are cheap 😃
Hey, id like to know where u get all your schematics? I have a rca Victor model 211 that im about to restore, but I can't find any information for the unit. Plz help
Hi SBR, Google "RCA Victor model 211" you will get a number of hits. It seems your radio was made in both New York and Montreal, you will have to find where yours was made to get the correct schematic, I don't know what the difference is though. Try these links: (You will need to copy and paste the top link into you browser)
www.nostalgiaair.org/PagesByMode ... 014831.pdf
www.radiomuseum.org/r/rca_211.html (New York)
www.radiomuseum.org/r/rca_victor_211.html (Montreal)
We had a in store. Pay plan. To be precise. About 5 USD per pay check for tv/radio.
I remember those days well Stephen, "only 5/6d a week' the ad would say 🙂