Last month I ordered a Seiko watch direct from Japan, it was a very basic army-type watch that they only sell to their domestic market. No date or days,, just the time. Anyway it arrived 5 days after the order was placed, and had a Japanese snack inside along with a coupon for free shipping on my next order :) Gotta love the way they do business.
@@randyab9go188 The seller was ShoppinginJapanNET. I saw some interesting watches while surfing online, and this seller had many positive reviews, so I gave it a try. I don't claim to be an expert on this sort of thing but I was very happy with their service. Be advised that warranty service for a JDM(non-export Japanese product) item will probably only valid in Japan.
The only thing that bugs me with some Japanese sellers is the fact that they like to put "EXCELLENT +++++++++++++++" on most of their items, especially cameras. The more pluses the better, apparently! Even though they look less than excellent..
“Look at this list of ingredients here! Do you think that thing (points to cat) was designed to run on all this” Your commentary on the cat food is hilarious,I’m glad the cat came around for his scientifically engineered meal and started all this.
I have a 1963 Marantz Model 10 FM stereo tube tuner (#35 of 100 made), in which each individual solder joint was marked red. This was a very expensive unit and Marantz quality control was second to none. The Japanese admired the company and actually started collecting vintage tube Marantz hi-fi equipment before everybody else in the 1970's..
I used to work at Raytheon where they used to made military electronics equipment. Every components we put together by soldering we have two independent inspectors to check each solder joints and stamp the process sheets for each steps of solder. These are hand soldering and we have to qualify both tools and worker and inspectors. I was told this type of quality control and manufacture made American not competitive with the rest of the world and we were fired from the job after servicing to the origination for 12 years,
Pye and Pilot branded Tv's and radios made in the 50s and 60s under licence by Brownlee Bros. In Ireland all have the red QC inspection paint dots on all component joints.
Shango this is why we love your videos so much. No matter what you are jonesing for...you got it covered. Whether it be Politics, World Events, Nicotine Glaze, Wildlife(human or otherwise) or Aviation you the man. Look forward to the next video if we all aren't hiding under our kitchen tables to protect us from the nuclear blast by then.
It used to, its just toshiba now.. like the korean LG used to be "lucky goldstar" but it got a rep in the 80s as being shitty electronics so they rebranded themselves as "lifes good" hah.
I scanned that sticker with the Japanese text on it with google lens and got: Since this unit is a high performance TV that uses "Keyed AGC", it is not necessary to adjust "AGC" during installation. Smaller text: if the radio wave is too strong and the screen bends, or if the white part turns gray, turn the "AGC"knob" to the left. If the radio wave is too weak and there is a lot of noise.
Japanese-market cars will also often have a mixture of English, Japanese, and universal symbols for dashboard and stereo controls. Sometimes it's because the equivalent Japanese characters won't fit in the space and still be legible, sometimes it's because of the cost of making different plastic molds isn't worth it, sometimes it's an aesthetic choice.
Fairly certain those modulators with comsat on the front were made by R. L. Drake company who made communications receivers and branched out into satellite TV receivers etc. Vintage about 1990.Very well made and ran for years with no problem, channel number set by dip switches, search Drake VM400.
@@skuula yup, complete garbage. Has been for many decades, but now it's so bad it is on par with actual Chinese govt propaganda. They aren't even pretending anymore. I'm sure they're having trouble keeping their pants on over this current situation.
I collect and repair early SS receivers and have seen alot of those vintage grey electrolytic capacitors. I have an all germanium 1965 Kenwood KT-10 receiver, the first solid state model they made. It has close to 70 of them in it and it works great. It's capacitors were around 2 to 5 ohms esr with a little leakage. The unit tests pretty close to spec. Then another one might need many or all replaced. I think it's mostly down to the conditions it spent it's life in. I was once given a 1966 Lafayette receiver that spent 30 years in a hot humid flea market attic, every single electrolytic cap was wide open, didn't even register as a cap. Most of the resistors were double their value and a small fire sometime in the past melted one of the wiring bundles. I was going to use it for parts but I thought "what parts", so I as a joke I replaced the caps, fixed the wiring and shorted outputs set the bias. I wasn't expecting it to work, but the thing worked. I use it as my computer headphone amp and it sounds pretty good. I've been watching you videos for years and learned alot. Keep up the great videos. Keith
I have a kenwood tk-80u receiver from around 1965. It has a solid state amplifier section but still uses tubes in the tuner. It’s pretty heavy and well made. I like the two tone cabinet on it too.
Wow . . . thanks for the transformer bucking configuration concept! Had NO clue about nor heard about it - until today. Yes, I am a relative noob to electronics. Learning about electronics is why I watch the shangster. Belt that Toshiba picture bulb with the Beltron!
Hi Shango0. Great to see the Japan set working. We had one our Brother in law bought back,in the mid 70's Of course it never picked up any of the two channels we got here in the mountains. : ) It was a console set. Bright picture tube. No internet in those days. All my best.
A perfect Saturday, my birthday and I get my Shango fix. What could be better! .. " could you get out of the way" he says to the cat. I think that kitty needs a recap! Toshiba Pubic 12 with the folding channel selector and child proof picture adjustments!
Jabs for joints..... LOL There must be something about a shot so effective that you have to pay people to take them. Very cool television I think. I like that modulation rack. Good ideas! Cheers to you buddy! 🍻 -Al
I know I saw others commenting on this, but it's actually very common for Japanese products to contain English text. They actually take mandatory English classes in school (although I'm not sure exactly when this process started.) English is considered cool or trendy, and a lot of basic words are known to the general population. In fact, it's very common for video games (in the original Japanese release) to be sprinkled with random English terms to this day.
I'm guessing it's a prestige thing too - it gives the impression that Toshiba are a prominent global manufacturer, not someone who has never sold anything outside of Japan.
@19:25 - No matter how sarcastic or sardonic you may be, you never cease to make things relatable to the average non-repair guy. My wife does not agree. She thinks you're dry. She never listens long enough for the humor to hit her.
@@directcurrent5751 because you can put that bucking transformer in the tv and leave it there, also the transformer costs $5 or something a variac is gonna be 10x that for the required current
My uncle brought Sanyo colour TV 14" set from Px in Japan in 1968 for $250.00. He hand carried it to Philadelphia, PA and the set was stolen from his apartment 1 month later. Color TV was consider out of reach for ordinarily citizen that cost more than 3 years old used car back in 1968.
'If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized .... If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance - you can be absolutely certain that what is promoted is not in your best interest. Ian Watson. Sounds like the vaccination program too me.
Years ago, a friend who grew up in the 80s and still got to experience soviet tv told me that the fact color tvs were so expensive there did not bother people that much since there was hardly anything except propaganda to watch anyways. Having quit watching tv myself around 2005, your snippets of cable news make it perfectly clear what he meant, back then I did not really get it. If there were no way to watch old movies/series on them, restoring tvs today would be a very odd hobby - hours of tedious troubleshooting only to be rewarded with content that makes you want to throw a brick at the damn thing instantly. Love your commentary, keep up the good work!
Bottled - Ha, that's funny. I can imagine an interstellar traveler, billions of years from now, landing on our inert husk of an earth, finding and restoring a television and some media, only to throw a brick through the picture bulb once the results were viewed and translated.
I remember watching Soviet TV channel 1 on satellite(Gorizont satellite) in the 80's,the grain harvest was a favourite topic and going round factories. There were various channels on this satellite, not intended for public viewing, sometimes they'd put up the BBC 'Top of the pops' show(bit like American bandstand) and sometimes even porn tapes. This was in downtime on the 'intervision' channel where they'd do newsfeeds to Cuba and E. Europe.If you search Soviet TV on UA-cam there are some news clips about.
i kinda think you can watch old stuff on new tvs....restoring is not about that... it's mostly "can i do this, is it possible today?" it's not about picture quality, as that will almost always be inferior... i agree on modern content... radio, tv, might as well add internet as a whole these days....
@@ivok9846 For me the purpose of restoring is mainly to bring the (in my case) radio back to a solid reliable working state like when it was in regular use. It would be nice to have some normal broadcast that is worth listening to, but where I live there are only weak signals and several stations overlapping each other at night. To have some period correct stuff to listen to, I built a low power 3 channel "transmitter" from 3 cheap mp3 players that modulate 3 small single transistor oscillators tuned to 700, 1000 and 1200 kHz. This gives just about the right range for use inside the house. The mp3 players each loop through their sd card full of django reinhard, seeburg muzak etc. constantly, so you can choose the genre but its always a surprise whats currently playing.
@@tpa6120a2dwp interesting idea, reminds me of gallery widget on android phone that randomly shows images on ' desktop', from phone's camera or screenshots, few "channels" at once... would be interesting to make video version, that way there would always be "something interesting on", and you would never know what.... and one would get to watch all those hours and hours of video collection.... and it would mostly be good stuff, ie stuff i picked, not them people's junk repeated over and over... or i could also just start watching those Capra's movies i capped at least 10yrs ago...or few random episodes of "northern exposure", 20 years old vhs tapes i dunno contents of, etc.
Why is the text on the cabinet in English? Because it's cheaper when the company decides to export the set - all they'd have to do in that case is change the stick-on labels and the supply voltage. For one, huge companies, like Toshiba, would have had a much larger market outside Japan - they sold sets all over the world. For another, I can imagine that having a set with English markings would be seen as more "modern" in Japan at the time, as opposed to the ancient hieroglyphs.
Google something like, "diy buck boost transformer" It's pretty cool to increase or decrease potentials while playing with primary and secondary windings I'd post a link but Dan doesn't like that. His channel, his rules. Peace
The kitty-analysis & feed portion of this video makes it an instant classic in my books, up there with the Philthy Ford, fly-zapper-vision and all. At least you can make more use of NTSC-J sets than we can in the UK. Who knows, if I ever hit the big bucks I may well look you up to send over a Trinitron KV1360U that doesn't really work. Has a raster but nothing else currently. I best not mark it "fragile" though else the shadow mask will end up tangled with the grids.
The back has english probably because they shipped a similar model to USA, Canada. Cheaper to print different labels than make different plastic molds.
@@matthewbestdfghy Molds cost a whole lot more than adjusting a resistor value or changing to a tube with a different filament voltage for the series string.
I'd heard of the bucking xformer concept, but never seen it or heard it explained that clearly. Will be going back to that segment after a bit. I have a bunch of hi amperage 12 volt xformers that should work well.
Think of each coil in the secondary of a transformer as having it's own voltage across it. If you wire them in phase, meaning series aiding (like batteries adding their voltages together) you get the voltages adding together, if you wire them out-of-phase, one voltage subtracts from the voltage of the other. If one voltage is 120 volts and one is 20 volts, in phase, you get 140 volts, if the 20 volt winding is wired out-of-phase (antiphase), you get 100 volts output.
My parents bought a Toshiba in the late 80s, It was a Japanese chassis and I think a Singapore tube, it was assembled at their plant in Nashville and it refused to die, they kept it as their main TV until 2009 when they got an LCD. The only real annoyance with it was it didn't have composite video inputs.
Kudos to you Sir ~ For Having the Patience to fix and Collect these Electronic Relics! --I have a few Myself - mostly in parts - Have an Old CRAIG R-T-R tape recorder for you in parts ( Interested??)
Here's another idea for sane content to display on your repair TV sets: Find a Laptop with an S-Video output and just play some Radio-TV-Phononut UA-cam Playlist on it, of course full screen. It might be a bit of a challenge to find a laptop that is old enough to have S-Video but new enough to not choke on UA-cam video playback. But it only has to do 480p, so that should help. Or you could use a modern computer and use some kind of hdmi-to-composite converter, I guess that would be easier to pull off. You could also play videos of cute kittens, or even straight up info wars (not from YT of course), although that might get you banned for defying the narrative. Well, my favorite would still be if you would put your own repair videos on a hardware video player with composite or s-video output and would feed that into your professional modulator.
I too like to step the voltage down on my older electronics. Mainly my radios from the 1930s that have the little dinky power transformers which run hot as hell. I'll use a 20-30Ω 25W chassis mount power resistor, applying PC thermal paste really helps spread the heat.
@@Rev22-21Definitely worth a try. Although I think a lot of it boils down to companies cheapening out. Whether it be the transformer has less Iron in the core, or the specs barely meet the requirements.
Aztec in the 80's did the red mark inspection on every solder joint on their switching power supplies. Good quality stuff except Aztec used RIFA across the line caps. Bang, smoke, stink!
ive seen the red dot on solder joint thing a tonne on old japanese stuff here in the UK. always imagined some poor fella (or fellette) with a wee red marker in a QA factory dabbing it all day every day. Made me sad tbo, that a persons work could be so dire.
A good friend of mine lived in the German democratic republic and when he was a sixteen year old apprentice in a metal workshop, he had to make vent grills for electric motors with a drill and sheet aluminum. For three months or so. He drilled literally millions after millions of holes; day after day, week after week; just because there was a shortage of perforated sheet aluminum...
The most tedious job I ever had to do was running a self-test on new boards in which you had to watch the LED blink 3 times; if it only blinked twice, the test failed, so you could not take your eyes away. The guy working next to me was a coke-head and he could pass twice as many as I could in an hour, with zero failures. A week or two later, once they were built into a chassis, we found out why.
Shame the knobs got broken in shipping.. nice little set, I cant remember anymore but you used to be able to build a little box that used an rf modulator out of a vcr or something that you could retune to convert the japanese RF frequency to standard US spec... maybe some schematics floating around on the net but these days its probably easier just to bypass the tuner with composite video unless you are really trying to use some old computer or game or something.
That's a nice little cat you have there. Considering that the TV has English all over it, it must of been a special TV made for American military personnel living in Japan.
24:15 You should try a different connection, connecting primary and secondary in series and then going to mains. Primary will receive lower voltage and the voltage reduction will also be lower. Also decreases flux in the transformer, lowering losses. This combination I often prefer to use with 250V on mains, which makes traditional 230/24V transformers a bit warm because of higher flux when pushing 250V onto 230V winding.
Rod Elliot has an article "Bucking (And Boosting) Transformers" and he also recommends wiring the way you suggested. Probably doesn't matter for a quick bench test (and less confusing with leads), but for a permanent connection this is a good suggestion.
The text being molded in English is maybe due to shared molds between export and domestic models. Molds are expensive to manufacture, and the export market probably much larger.
What a shame. That tv lasted all this time until the shipping co. Threw it around like a football and busted the knobs. On the flew occasions when I shipped something I packed it VERY well and I wrote on the box in large letters. " smash me bust me" I need to collect the insurance. Nothing was ever damaged. Go figure???.
Your Buck/Boost idea using a Mains Transformer is interesting. While Average Level A.G.C. was o.k. for an A.M. Radio when it came to Television Sets where the video was sent using an A.M. Carrier we needed the A.G.C. to be controlled by an accurate representation of the signal strength or the contrast range of the picture would be reduced and thus Keyed A.G.C. was born.
You don't need keyed AGC because a broadcast signal is at 100% modulation during sync pulses. It works fine just to set the gain based on the peaks of the envelope.
@@eDoc2020 It's true to say that we could have had such a T.V. Set working with only manual control of the Receiver Gain. Indeed applying this to the first I.F. Stage would have done the trick. Many people using such T.V. Sets would have been able to receive a few different Stations probably at different signal strengths though and so we couldn't have had that slick "one press" channel change like that.
Important to mention the bucking transformer connection has no isolation effect also that the primary current rating must be sufficient to run the load. This is a useful addition to the video -
The primary does _NOT_ need to be rated enough to run the load. In the configuration he's using the only copper connection to the load is through the secondary.
@@eDoc2020 I stand corrected - you are right. The secondary carries the full current required by the load at the reduced voltage but the primary current would be that current divided by the transformer ratio.
Interesting.... Here in Brazil in 90´s many japanese-brazilian people went to work in Japan for many years and back to Brazil with eletronics (normally radios, game consoles, CD players) many of them in 100VAC so they buy transformer adapters,since brazilian home power lines in some cities may be 127 or 220VAC 60Hz. Also our Digital TV standard is based on Japanese standard (ISDB-T), the diffrence is the video and audio codecs (mp4 and AAC+ here). Altough our language is portuguese, is quite common many eletronics are legends or menus configurable in english.
Mr. Shango066, you Definitely MUST have another channel commentig the commenters. I bet you hit 100.000 viewers in a week. Perhaps even you can run for president, hahaha
Good to see that the automatic rodent suppression system is doing well.
Problem is sometimes the chief rodent control officer likes to bring his catches into the house.
If Shango keeps feeding Kitty a whole can of Friskies at a time, he might not bother catching mice! Oh well, I wouldn't be able to resist either.
Even without a personal interest in electronics, the commentary alone makes these videos worth watching. Keep up the good work, sir.
I agree. I’m not into the vintage tvs but I am into vintage radios. I still watch all of his videos anyway because of the commentary
I agree. It’s also a trip watching the mask hysteria and Covid psychosis in the LA area.
I am japanese.What does the high pressure caution sticker mean is Be careful of high voltage. It's a translation mistake.
Voltage is literally the pressure of the current....so the term isn't that far off.
Last month I ordered a Seiko watch direct from Japan, it was a very basic army-type watch that they only sell to their domestic market. No date or days,, just the time.
Anyway it arrived 5 days after the order was placed, and had a Japanese snack inside along with a coupon for free shipping on my next order :)
Gotta love the way they do business.
Richard what company did you buy your watch thorough? I would like to purchase a watch like that made in Japan.
@@randyab9go188 The seller was ShoppinginJapanNET.
I saw some interesting watches while surfing online, and this seller had many positive reviews, so I gave it a try.
I don't claim to be an expert on this sort of thing but I was very happy with their service.
Be advised that warranty service for a JDM(non-export Japanese product) item will probably only valid in Japan.
The only thing that bugs me with some Japanese sellers is the fact that they like to put "EXCELLENT +++++++++++++++" on most of their items, especially cameras. The more pluses the better, apparently! Even though they look less than excellent..
@@kenji6612 maybe, they just love Bill and Ted.
I bought some video games from a Japanese seller, and they included some candy along with them. It was very nice of the seller to do that.
I don’t just come here for the television’s, the chaos and commentary make it absolutely priceless
I like the cat feeding part of the video too. a rare glimpse into your life. If the cat likes you You must be OK.
Mark Twain: When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.
Coffee and a snarky Shango066 video are time well spent.
It's always good to see a cat in a video
22 year olds here ! Totaly approve ! I love my (still in repair state) old 80's Philips Color CRT !
“Look at this list of ingredients here! Do you think that thing (points to cat) was designed to run on all this”
Your commentary on the cat food is hilarious,I’m glad the cat came around for his scientifically engineered meal and started all this.
The cat wants you to open the box already so he can sit in it.
I have a 1963 Marantz Model 10 FM stereo tube tuner (#35 of 100 made), in which each individual solder joint was marked red. This was a very expensive unit and Marantz quality control was second to none. The Japanese admired the company and actually started collecting vintage tube Marantz hi-fi equipment before everybody else in the 1970's..
made in sun valley?
@@danilorainone406 No. This is way before that. Made in Long Island City, New York!
Having worked in Japan, knowing their attention to detail, yes someone checked each individual solder joint.
I used to work at Raytheon where they used to made military electronics equipment. Every components we put together by soldering we have two independent inspectors to check each solder joints and stamp the process sheets for each steps of solder. These are hand soldering and we have to qualify both tools and worker and inspectors. I was told this type of quality control and manufacture made American not competitive with the rest of the world and we were fired from the job after servicing to the origination for 12 years,
Thats why I love my Lexus. Each one gets checked thoroughly by humans. Not like every 30th (I think) with their "cheaper" Toyotas.
Pye and Pilot branded Tv's and radios made in the 50s and 60s under licence by Brownlee Bros. In Ireland all have the red QC inspection paint dots on all component joints.
Shango this is why we love your videos so much. No matter what you are jonesing for...you got it covered. Whether it be Politics, World Events, Nicotine Glaze, Wildlife(human or otherwise) or Aviation you the man. Look forward to the next video if we all aren't hiding under our kitchen tables to protect us from the nuclear blast by then.
Or WEF - You will own nothing but be happy :-)
the World shall look no further. _says the Cat_
Agreed! I wish the guy was my neighbor. 🍻
Try being in the U.K. where the mains voltage is between 230-240V, you feel that I can tell you!⚡️⚡️☠️☠️
I was today years old when I learned that Toshiba stands for Tokyo-Shibaura...
It used to, its just toshiba now.. like the korean LG used to be "lucky goldstar" but it got a rep in the 80s as being shitty electronics so they rebranded themselves as "lifes good" hah.
I scanned that sticker with the Japanese text on it with google lens and got: Since this unit is a high performance TV that uses "Keyed AGC", it is not necessary to adjust "AGC" during installation.
Smaller text: if the radio wave is too strong and the screen bends, or if the white part turns gray, turn the "AGC"knob" to the left. If the radio wave is too weak and there is a lot of noise.
The "High Pressure Caution" is actually "Warning - High Voltage" A lot of Asian languages still translate Voltage to Pressure even now.
And if I'm correct, French too. Tension means both voltage and pressure.
“Feel the tension man what a ride!”
Japanese-market cars will also often have a mixture of English, Japanese, and universal symbols for dashboard and stereo controls. Sometimes it's because the equivalent Japanese characters won't fit in the space and still be legible, sometimes it's because of the cost of making different plastic molds isn't worth it, sometimes it's an aesthetic choice.
Fairly certain those modulators with comsat on the front were made by R. L. Drake company who made communications receivers and branched out into satellite TV receivers etc. Vintage about 1990.Very well made and ran for years with no problem, channel number set by dip switches, search Drake VM400.
Wow, it looks so surreal to see those Covid news in black and white on a vintage Toshiba screen 😂😂😂
Hell, for any other purpose than just demonstrating the receiver, I don't understand how anyone could watch that vaxaganda...
@@skuula yup, complete garbage. Has been for many decades, but now it's so bad it is on par with actual Chinese govt propaganda. They aren't even pretending anymore. I'm sure they're having trouble keeping their pants on over this current situation.
@@volvo09 here in Germany it's even worse. Unbearable.
Hey I get a Cat Video AND an awesome TV unboxing in one!
I collect and repair early SS receivers and have seen alot of those vintage grey electrolytic capacitors. I have an all germanium 1965 Kenwood KT-10 receiver, the first solid state model they made. It has close to 70 of them in it and it works great. It's capacitors were around 2 to 5 ohms esr with a little leakage. The unit tests pretty close to spec. Then another one might need many or all replaced. I think it's mostly down to the conditions it spent it's life in.
I was once given a 1966 Lafayette receiver that spent 30 years in a hot humid flea market attic, every single electrolytic cap was wide open, didn't even register as a cap. Most of the resistors were double their value and a small fire sometime in the past melted one of the wiring bundles. I was going to use it for parts but I thought "what parts", so I as a joke I replaced the caps, fixed the wiring and shorted outputs set the bias. I wasn't expecting it to work, but the thing worked. I use it as my computer headphone amp and it sounds pretty good.
I've been watching you videos for years and learned alot. Keep up the great videos.
Keith
I have a kenwood tk-80u receiver from around 1965. It has a solid state amplifier section but still uses tubes in the tuner.
It’s pretty heavy and well made. I like the two tone cabinet on it too.
@@Suddenlyits1960 How does it sound?
Wow . . . thanks for the transformer bucking configuration concept! Had NO clue about nor heard about it - until today. Yes, I am a relative noob to electronics. Learning about electronics is why I watch the shangster.
Belt that Toshiba picture bulb with the Beltron!
Those air pillows are good for packages when used properly. But this should have been double boxed.
Minimum 6 inches on each side from inside box to outer box. But, if you don't give a damn, or you're uneducated, ship it like this.
Its fun watching tv with Shango.
Another young collector here, just so you know we're around
Hi Shango0. Great to see the Japan set working. We had one our Brother in law bought back,in the mid 70's Of course it never picked up any of the two channels we got here in the mountains. : ) It was a console set. Bright picture tube. No internet in those days. All my best.
A perfect Saturday, my birthday and I get my Shango fix. What could be better! .. " could you get out of the way" he says to the cat. I think that kitty needs a recap! Toshiba Pubic 12 with the folding channel selector and child proof picture adjustments!
"All you had to do was follow the damn filament curcuit CJ!"
Jabs for joints..... LOL There must be something
about a shot so effective that you have to pay people to
take them. Very cool television I think. I like that
modulation rack. Good ideas! Cheers to you buddy! 🍻 -Al
Awesome, not only a vintage television, but a vintage JDM television! Glad to see it.
Reminds me of my 12 inch XAM TV I had as a kid. Good video. Amazing it survived shipping.
I know I saw others commenting on this, but it's actually very common for Japanese products to contain English text. They actually take mandatory English classes in school (although I'm not sure exactly when this process started.) English is considered cool or trendy, and a lot of basic words are known to the general population. In fact, it's very common for video games (in the original Japanese release) to be sprinkled with random English terms to this day.
I'm guessing it's a prestige thing too - it gives the impression that Toshiba are a prominent global manufacturer, not someone who has never sold anything outside of Japan.
Another awesome video Shango. Thank you.
Nice little set. Quite amazing to see a fully tube based set from the '70. In Europe most 1968 year and onward sets are all transistorized.
@19:25 - No matter how sarcastic or sardonic you may be, you never cease to make things relatable to the average non-repair guy. My wife does not agree. She thinks you're dry. She never listens long enough for the humor to hit her.
Actually I'm impressed with the voltage dropping method. I'd forgotten you'd could do that.
I missed why that is better than the Dial-o-Rama Kill Volts thingy ?
@@directcurrent5751 because you can put that bucking transformer in the tv and leave it there, also the transformer costs $5 or something a variac is gonna be 10x that for the required current
Nice Set I have a little color Toshiba tv from 1978 it is a nice little set !
My uncle brought Sanyo colour TV 14" set from Px in Japan in 1968 for $250.00. He hand carried it to Philadelphia, PA and the set was stolen from his apartment 1 month later. Color TV was consider out of reach for ordinarily citizen that cost more than 3 years old used car back in 1968.
Grat video as usual. Nice setup with the buck transformer
Great video as always Dr Shanego
Thanks for the video Shango.
'If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized .... If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance - you can be absolutely certain that what is promoted is not in your best interest.
Ian Watson. Sounds like the vaccination program too me.
fantastic video to watch on youtube thank you take care.
I love your content. Keep it up, and stay safe!
Kitties and electronics….dang fine video Shango ! Greetings from South Dakota. I love your commentary, keep up the good work.
I love your meowmix. He deserves the camera time.
the content was spot on for this video
Good afternoon I like all your videos very excellent
Years ago, a friend who grew up in the 80s and still got to experience soviet tv told me that the fact color tvs were so expensive there did not bother people that much since there was hardly anything except propaganda to watch anyways. Having quit watching tv myself around 2005, your snippets of cable news make it perfectly clear what he meant, back then I did not really get it.
If there were no way to watch old movies/series on them, restoring tvs today would be a very odd hobby - hours of tedious troubleshooting only to be rewarded with content that makes you want to throw a brick at the damn thing instantly. Love your commentary, keep up the good work!
Bottled - Ha, that's funny. I can imagine an interstellar traveler, billions of years from now, landing on our inert husk of an earth, finding and restoring a television and some media, only to throw a brick through the picture bulb once the results were viewed and translated.
I remember watching Soviet TV channel 1 on satellite(Gorizont satellite) in the 80's,the grain harvest was a favourite topic and going round factories. There were various channels on this satellite, not intended for public viewing, sometimes they'd put up the BBC 'Top of the pops' show(bit like American bandstand) and sometimes even porn tapes. This was in downtime on the 'intervision' channel where they'd do newsfeeds to Cuba and E. Europe.If you search Soviet TV on UA-cam there are some news clips about.
i kinda think you can watch old stuff on new tvs....restoring is not about that... it's mostly "can i do this, is it possible today?"
it's not about picture quality, as that will almost always be inferior...
i agree on modern content... radio, tv, might as well add internet as a whole these days....
@@ivok9846 For me the purpose of restoring is mainly to bring the (in my case) radio back to a solid reliable working state like when it was in regular use. It would be nice to have some normal broadcast that is worth listening to, but where I live there are only weak signals and several stations overlapping each other at night. To have some period correct stuff to listen to, I built a low power 3 channel "transmitter" from 3 cheap mp3 players that modulate 3 small single transistor oscillators tuned to 700, 1000 and 1200 kHz. This gives just about the right range for use inside the house. The mp3 players each loop through their sd card full of django reinhard, seeburg muzak etc. constantly, so you can choose the genre but its always a surprise whats currently playing.
@@tpa6120a2dwp interesting idea, reminds me of gallery widget on android phone that randomly shows images on ' desktop', from phone's camera or screenshots, few "channels" at once...
would be interesting to make video version, that way there would always be "something interesting on", and you would never know what....
and one would get to watch all those hours and hours of video collection....
and it would mostly be good stuff, ie stuff i picked, not them people's junk repeated over and over...
or i could also just start watching those Capra's movies i capped at least 10yrs ago...or few random episodes of "northern exposure", 20 years old vhs tapes i dunno contents of, etc.
Why is the text on the cabinet in English? Because it's cheaper when the company decides to export the set - all they'd have to do in that case is change the stick-on labels and the supply voltage. For one, huge companies, like Toshiba, would have had a much larger market outside Japan - they sold sets all over the world. For another, I can imagine that having a set with English markings would be seen as more "modern" in Japan at the time, as opposed to the ancient hieroglyphs.
They would need to change the text anyway since no other country uses 100V line voltage.
@@kpanic23 but that's just a small piece in the mold which has to be changed.
Oh man! That news will just get more depressing uggh but anyhow nice video! This is better than the news watching you revive/repair tv and radios!
I had my first TV that was almost identical to this. Had it in my bedroom. I was so happy. Watched Solid Gold
That is awesome what you did with the transformer I never knew you could do that....very cool
Google something like, "diy buck boost transformer"
It's pretty cool to increase or decrease potentials while playing with primary and secondary windings
I'd post a link but Dan doesn't like that.
His channel, his rules. Peace
Cats love your voice. Thats normal with all calm people
The kitty-analysis & feed portion of this video makes it an instant classic in my books, up there with the Philthy Ford, fly-zapper-vision and all. At least you can make more use of NTSC-J sets than we can in the UK. Who knows, if I ever hit the big bucks I may well look you up to send over a Trinitron KV1360U that doesn't really work. Has a raster but nothing else currently. I best not mark it "fragile" though else the shadow mask will end up tangled with the grids.
For me its the tv with the mask
Nice job
The back has english probably because they shipped a similar model to USA, Canada. Cheaper to print different labels than make different plastic molds.
Yes but you wouldn’t build a tv for the North American market at 100 volts.
@@matthewbestdfghy True. Must be a bit more complicated.
@@matthewbestdfghy Molds cost a whole lot more than adjusting a resistor value or changing to a tube with a different filament voltage for the series string.
@@hotpuppy1 but the voltage is molded into it so you would have to change the mold anyway
"Passed the inspection" might actually mean something in Japan. Possibly not like China Inspector 3.
Well I learned me something today alright, great tip 'bucking transformer'...cheers.
I'd heard of the bucking xformer concept, but never seen it or heard it explained that clearly. Will be going back to that segment after a bit. I have a bunch of hi amperage 12 volt xformers that should work well.
Think of each coil in the secondary of a transformer as having it's own voltage across it. If you wire them in phase, meaning series aiding (like batteries adding their voltages together) you get the voltages adding together, if you wire them out-of-phase, one voltage subtracts from the voltage of the other. If one voltage is 120 volts and one is 20 volts, in phase, you get 140 volts, if the 20 volt winding is wired out-of-phase (antiphase), you get 100 volts output.
@2:22 - plate had a scrumptious sky raisin!
Step on those packing bubbles and you'll be walking on imported air!
I agree with you completely on the gray caps, either all are ok, or all are bad, that's what I have found on Japanese color and BW sets.
My parents bought a Toshiba in the late 80s, It was a Japanese chassis and I think a Singapore tube, it was assembled at their plant in Nashville and it refused to die, they kept it as their main TV until 2009 when they got an LCD. The only real annoyance with it was it didn't have composite video inputs.
you know that dog "His Master's Voice " well you have the cat version .. nothing looks bad with your new mascotte
Kudos to you Sir ~ For Having the Patience to fix and Collect these Electronic Relics! --I have a few Myself - mostly in parts - Have an Old CRAIG R-T-R tape recorder for you in parts ( Interested??)
Here's another idea for sane content to display on your repair TV sets: Find a Laptop with an S-Video output and just play some Radio-TV-Phononut UA-cam Playlist on it, of course full screen. It might be a bit of a challenge to find a laptop that is old enough to have S-Video but new enough to not choke on UA-cam video playback. But it only has to do 480p, so that should help. Or you could use a modern computer and use some kind of hdmi-to-composite converter, I guess that would be easier to pull off. You could also play videos of cute kittens, or even straight up info wars (not from YT of course), although that might get you banned for defying the narrative. Well, my favorite would still be if you would put your own repair videos on a hardware video player with composite or s-video output and would feed that into your professional modulator.
Raspberry Pi composite out would be much easier and capable of playing modern UA-cam
@@AaronSmart.online Great idea, of course, i totally forgot about the RPi.
Que buena imagen para ser una TV de blanco y negro y de válvulas ELECTRÓNICAS, estas si son TVS y duran muchos años 👍👍👏
I too like to step the voltage down on my older electronics. Mainly my radios from the 1930s that have the little dinky power transformers which run hot as hell. I'll use a 20-30Ω 25W chassis mount power resistor, applying PC thermal paste really helps spread the heat.
I've tried that too...even using a fan to assist in keeping them cool. But going to try the transformer trick.
@@Rev22-21Definitely worth a try. Although I think a lot of it boils down to companies cheapening out. Whether it be the transformer has less Iron in the core, or the specs barely meet the requirements.
I've often caught CJ watching your videos at the workshops we go to.
Workshops?
@@shango066 ya, with VCF. I'm assuming we're taking about the same younger CJ who's big into tube stuff, who lives on the east coast?
@@compu85 Yes
Aztec in the 80's did the red mark inspection on every solder joint on their switching power supplies. Good quality stuff except Aztec used RIFA across the line caps. Bang, smoke, stink!
Love your cat "photo bombs!" 😄
That cat food made us hurl and turn a shade of monochrome.
ive seen the red dot on solder joint thing a tonne on old japanese stuff here in the UK. always imagined some poor fella (or fellette) with a wee red marker in a QA factory dabbing it all day every day. Made me sad tbo, that a persons work could be so dire.
A good friend of mine lived in the German democratic republic and when he was a sixteen year old apprentice in a metal workshop, he had to make vent grills for electric motors with a drill and sheet aluminum. For three months or so. He drilled literally millions after millions of holes; day after day, week after week; just because there was a shortage of perforated sheet aluminum...
The most tedious job I ever had to do was running a self-test on new boards in which you had to watch the LED blink 3 times; if it only blinked twice, the test failed, so you could not take your eyes away. The guy working next to me was a coke-head and he could pass twice as many as I could in an hour, with zero failures. A week or two later, once they were built into a chassis, we found out why.
Overnight TV's from japan? getting fancy there ! !
fed ex guy was driving a black honda civic with green neons under it and mishimoto zx tyres
My kitties love Mixed Grill too,
Maybe high pressure refers to high voltage seeing it's on the HV rectifier box...
Shame the knobs got broken in shipping.. nice little set, I cant remember anymore but you used to be able to build a little box that used an rf modulator out of a vcr or something that you could retune to convert the japanese RF frequency to standard US spec... maybe some schematics floating around on the net but these days its probably easier just to bypass the tuner with composite video unless you are really trying to use some old computer or game or something.
Well I did learn a little bit about canned cat food. 🐈 today.
That's a nice little cat you have there. Considering that the TV has English all over it, it must of been a special TV made for American military personnel living in Japan.
I agree with on propaganda news a load of lies.
Muito bom parabéns
Very smart
27:00 No... Not cringe worthy. Just the way things are done during testing and research and teaching! Good job!
In Kalifornia they got Jaberjointus. The joints for jabs program.
24:15 You should try a different connection, connecting primary and secondary in series and then going to mains. Primary will receive lower voltage and the voltage reduction will also be lower. Also decreases flux in the transformer, lowering losses. This combination I often prefer to use with 250V on mains, which makes traditional 230/24V transformers a bit warm because of higher flux when pushing 250V onto 230V winding.
Rod Elliot has an article "Bucking (And Boosting) Transformers" and he also recommends wiring the way you suggested. Probably doesn't matter for a quick bench test (and less confusing with leads), but for a permanent connection this is a good suggestion.
I was going to say this. In an autotransformer configuration a 120->24 transformer will output exactly 100 volts.
Japanese channels 1,2 and 3 are in the FM band (their FM band is roughly 70-90mhz). Ch 1 video is 91.25, Ch 2 is 97.25 and Ch 3 is 103.25mhz
Thanks Dan, you continue to kill this shit!
The text being molded in English is maybe due to shared molds between export and domestic models. Molds are expensive to manufacture, and the export market probably much larger.
What a shame. That tv lasted all this time until the shipping co. Threw it around like a football and busted the knobs. On the flew occasions when I shipped something I packed it VERY well and I wrote on the box in large letters. " smash me bust me" I need to collect the insurance. Nothing was ever damaged. Go figure???.
Your Buck/Boost idea using a Mains Transformer is interesting.
While Average Level A.G.C. was o.k. for an A.M. Radio when it came to Television Sets where the video was sent using an A.M. Carrier we needed the A.G.C. to be controlled by an accurate representation of the signal strength or the contrast range of the picture would be reduced and thus Keyed A.G.C. was born.
You don't need keyed AGC because a broadcast signal is at 100% modulation during sync pulses. It works fine just to set the gain based on the peaks of the envelope.
@@eDoc2020 It's true to say that we could have had such a T.V. Set working with only manual control of the Receiver Gain.
Indeed applying this to the first I.F. Stage would have done the trick.
Many people using such T.V. Sets would have been able to receive a few different Stations probably at different signal strengths though and so we couldn't have had that slick "one press" channel change like that.
that set kicks ass for how old it is. no caps needed
Important to mention the bucking transformer connection has no isolation effect also that the primary current rating must be sufficient to run the load. This is a useful addition to the video -
The primary does _NOT_ need to be rated enough to run the load. In the configuration he's using the only copper connection to the load is through the secondary.
@@eDoc2020 Primary and secondary are connected in series so current is the same in both.
@@clifffiftytwo They are in series but current flowing through the "center" connection means the current isn't equal on both sides.
@@eDoc2020 I stand corrected - you are right. The secondary carries the full current required by the load at the reduced voltage but the primary current would be that current divided by the transformer ratio.
Something about the picture quality I like....
How does Japan get rid of the screen text buzz-o-matic?
Interesting.... Here in Brazil in 90´s many japanese-brazilian people went to work in Japan for many years and back to Brazil with eletronics (normally radios, game consoles, CD players) many of them in 100VAC so they buy transformer adapters,since brazilian home power lines in some cities may be 127 or 220VAC 60Hz. Also our Digital TV standard is based on Japanese standard (ISDB-T), the diffrence is the video and audio codecs (mp4 and AAC+ here). Altough our language is portuguese, is quite common many eletronics are legends or menus configurable in english.
Curious how the got the buzz out of the sound?
Mr. Shango066, you Definitely MUST have another channel commentig the commenters. I bet you hit 100.000 viewers in a week. Perhaps even you can run for president, hahaha
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how do you catch channels so accurate without a SCART port to insert a decoder?
36:30 You could play an old news cast from around the time the TV was manufactured.