Nothing quite like the comfort a glowing radio brings to the mind set. Once a modern miracle, now just a curiosity to most. Tube radios will always inspire anyone that dare turn one on and explore the dial. shango066... Thanks man
I just finished restoring an Emerson BF-204, which is the same chassis in a wooden Ingraham cabinet. These are 1938 models. The BF-207 was a bakelite set with an unusual 3-piece cabinet which was very prone to breakage, I used to have one! Most likely someone's cabinet broke, and they placed it in the cabinet of another set. The BF chassis is an excellent performing chassis, very sensitive, and with great sound from the 6.5" speaker. They were also well built, and had insulated component leads from the factory. Before I recapped my BF-204, it played just fine on almost all original components!
Seeing the Olson Electronics caps brought back memories. I worked for Olsons in the 1960’s. Most of the components were Japanese private label. No Chinese stuff yet in those years. The company did mail order out of Akron Ohio and had about 10 stores including 2 or 3 in Southern California. By the late 70’s, the company was gone. What all of this means is those caps are not new - more like 40 to 50 years old. Anyway, to quote Bob Hope “thanks for the memories “.
Thanks for the mention “Shango066”. I listened to “Disco Saturday Night” which was late at night, and Fred Missman did his final show. I hope Mike Johnson will take over for “Disco Saturday Night” next week. I hope I would look forward to listen to it. This is still a great show for all nighters. I recorded the show off the stream from 10pm until 4am which is kinda strange to hear dance music all night. If you are in the car or in around New York City listening to in cars with TuneIn built-in, it’s still quiet on a busy highway and streets like driving around 5th Avenue, FDR Drive, Belt Parkway, and one of the Robert Moses highways in the city like driving around BQE, LIE, the East River bridges like the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, and Williamsburg Bridge which is smooth driving late at night without getting into a messy traffic. None of the people crossing the streets in the city,!except some people, and many of the stores were closed that night while “Disco Saturday Night” came on, except some were open for 24 hours. The songs played on “”K-Surf” are the ones that we all remember from WBLS, WKTU, WRKS “Kiss-FM” which is now dead back in 2012, and the days of WQHT’s “Hot 103” and “Hot 97”. Great times. I can’t wait for Mike Johnson to take over his shift for “Disco Saturday Night” next week. I hear Fred Missman’s promo at the beginning, and that’s I was listening to now. I listened to it all night while fixing my Revere S16 16mm sound projector.
My parents had a Westinghouse console stereo, mahogany, Italian Provincial. It had just that smell. I also like the smell of old books and the boxes that Christmas ornaments were packed in.
I was still listening to “Disco Saturday Night” with Mike Johnson last night and it was fantastic right up until 4AM. I have to remind everyone whoever lives in the east coast, that “Disco Saturday Night” is going to be at a special time from 10PM all the way to 5AM instead of 4AM which is due to Daylight Savings Time where you can turn your clocks ahead to about an hour. By November, “Disco Saturday Night” will also be on a special time from 10PM to 3AM instead of 4AM where you can set your clocks back to an hour.
There is something about Rainy days and late nights mixed with an old tube radio.........and an open fire of course.......a bloody shame we are losing so many AM BC and shortwave stations.........its not the same listening to your local low power FM/AM repeater
I was in high school when disco was huge, and while there was a ton of bad disco hits, there was a lot of great songs that can still pack a dance floor after 40 years. That radio is amazing that it still works, I think it needs a good restoration.
I saw this at 18:02 according to K-Surf’s Facebook page, and the show is on at 7PM until 1AM Pacific, but here in New York, “Disco Saturday Night” comes on later at 10PM until 4AM Eastern. 6 hours of retro dance music for all you night owls. It’s party all night.
Before you moved the tube it sounds like you were trying to listen to AM on SSB. Even though this is a resurrection, I think it would still be wise to measure the resistances of the ballast just in case it breaks you can replace them with ceramic resistors.
Yes, measure them before they burn open. I would also like go see if he would experiment replacing them with a few microfarad nonpolarized film capacitors to reduce the heat generated in the case.
Very entertaining and some good music to top it! Just as good as your 1934 Patterson all-wave repair and the subsequent Alec Costandinos` Romeo and Juliet excursion ;-) I am gobsmacked by the amazing sound quality..
I'm in need of a CTC15 (D) Chassis...but these are unobtainable in Germany and shipping from the USA would be very expensive...if anybody would be willing to deal with international shipping at all. I recently got a RCA 14F616MU Roundie which might be the only one existing in Germany at all. This TV was imported by the Telefunken company in 1964 to study it. Color Television was introduced in 1967 so this RCA TV probably played a role in development of the PAL technology. Would love to bring it back to life but the TV has been heavily modified and is missing the whole video section circuit board. I will do a video on the RCA TV soon if you're interested.
AudioMobil You could make that work. Have to get someone to help you out. Roundies are tough to find these days. You'll need a converter too. This will be NTSC. Not sure but you are PAL or something? God Bless
@@johnnytacokleinschmidt515 They are really hard too find, especially since they were never sold in Germany. We are PAL, but it looks like the TV has been converted from NTSC, but the main video circuit board is missing. They changed the transformer, so it runs on 220V and the tuner has been replaced with a custom made VHF / UHF tuner. Everything was really experimental on this TV since we did not have color TV broadcasts until 1967. I hope to find someone who knows these TVs well enough to make it work again, even if this would mean to convert it back to NTSC. This shouldn't be a problem, since many older DVD players or VHS recorders can do NTSC, Secam or PAL and might be used as a converter.
It was “Baby Face” by A Wing & A Prayer Fife and Drum Corps, a disco remake of a 1920’s early jazz standard. I heard it over the weekend at the 11PM hour.
Nice Emerson radio. It has a bad tube connection so it squeals! Now you got it working and boy it sounds great even with the hole in the speaker. The warm glow of victory!
That will make a good looking and performing radio.You should clean up the chassis and cabinet,including the grill cloth and knobs,sounds good.Save it in memory of the retired DJ. from LA.I enjoy watching your channel.Fix that speaker cone.
Did like how the thumping of the disco would make the 10Kw CCA AM 10D cabinet vibrate!!!The mod transformer and reactor vibrating from the audio going thru them-5Kw audio!Now at the SW station I am presently 125Kw of audio in the older GE transmitters.Sounds like a speaker is in the transformer vault!Mod blocker caps acting as electrostatic speakers!
I owned a radio similar to this set. It was an Emerson BF204 that was in a older Emerson cabinet; a Emerson B131. The chassis was made in 1938, and the cabinet was made in 1936. Both models have similar chassis. The cabinet that your chassis was in is definitely the wrong cabinet. The proper cabinet will have a squared dial with curved sides. If you like a replacement ballast tube (the old time resistor you were describing with the octal base) they are available on the web. One source is Vacuum Tubes LLC. Sadly, I had to auction my set off because of money problems.
Nice Emerson radio resurrection there, Shango066! I believe that's about a 1938-'39 model Emerson, which would most likely have been in a bakelite cabinet, originally, that was probably broken from a drop, long ago. I'll be darned if it doesn't fit nicely in that Grunow cabinet though! If ever you decide to "adopt out" this radio, I'm interested!😊
Ha! I have a bunch of those Olsen capacitors I got from an Ebay auction with a bunch of other good stuff. They are a ceramic body, paper in oil type. They seem to hold up ok!
That's a really nice radio Shango. I had to come back and look at it again. If I could, I'd give you a like each time. I really wish I had that radio. I would'nt restore it. Why would I? Thank you very much for sharing that beautiful radio and also some of your local AM culture. 73 OM
@@shango066 Oh, I'd love to Mr Shango.. but it's a long drive. Which I'd do if it were springtime in Michigan. If you want to sell it, I'd love to buy it from you but you'd have to ship it of course. I'll paypal u the money. What say you, Shango Man?
@@n8nkqrp595 you can have it minus the tube. Cover the shipping. You are aware of the condition right? Which is poor no knobs needs to be restored cosmetically
@@shango066 Yep. I want it exactly as it is. I'll install tubes. I assume you have paypal.. just let me know what you want for it. I don't know if YT lets you see my (and I yours) email addy but if not, look on QRZ.com and enter my callsign if you want mine. I'll look for yours and see if i can find it. That radio is beautiful just the way it is. Like i said - I can't explain it. That radio did something to me Shango. It's weird
After hearing it for the last two to three weeks, “Disco Saturday Night” is now automated without a host. Mike Johnson has been the host of “Disco Saturday Night” during the past two months, and as of mid to late March, Mike Johnson did his final show for the time being until the show went automated. Mike Johnson has not done this show for a few weeks, but no word on what he is going to bring him back. He might be staying home during the COVID-19 outbreak. Instead of listening to “Disco Saturday Night” without a host, I decided that I had enough, so I went to WEBE’s “Webe 108” and listen to “Studio 108” every Saturday night at 7pm which is way better than “Disco Saturday Night” and you can hear the same songs that “Disco Saturday Night” played, along with many of them that are not being played on this show including J-Lo’s “Waiting for Tonight”, Los Del Rio’s “Macarena”, Chubby Checker’s “The Twist”, Isley Brothers’ “Shout”, Kris Kross’ “Jump”, Marcia Griffith’s “Electric Slide”, and DJ Casper’s “Cha Cha Slide”. But it does have commercials during each hour rather than hearing commercial free that “K-Surf” was on during “Disco Saturday Night”, but “Studio 108” on “Webe 108” is a completely different show, and I have not heard it in such a long time.
Well, that radio doesn't seem to mind disco music signals coursing through its circuitry. Reminds me of the video you did on restoring a full size console type radio that you played a LONG disco tune on some time ago. That "Baby Face" tune near the end...I have a 78rpm from 1949 by Art Mooney and his Orch. on MGM Records with that same title. Radio sounds pretty good though!
Nice that it wasn't so hard to get working again. I don't think a lot of people realize just how much work it is to properly replace the parts that need it, clean it up, and maybe refinish the cabinet. I'm not a restoration guy at all. I just want things to work well, and look half decent again.
Yep! That song was by Alec R Constandinos which was heard on his Hoffman’s radio console from the 1930’s after restoration with “radiotvphononut” as his cameo. Funny! I used to have the album.
I have a emerson alarm clock from around 1985 it works well I think this radio might be a case of 2 junk radios to make one good radio so I think the case came from a radio with junk chassis and the the chassis came from a broken case because the chassis dosent look like it fits well in that case
There was a period of time when I had to listen to disco 8Hrs a day-40hrs a week at a Wash DC top 40 station!Some songs were OK others could drive you mad!The disco station you have actually would be OK.
I have a fully restored1940 Stromberg Carlson that has the same thumping sound (kind of like a russian woodpecker through a sub woofer) shown at 14:15 just at the lower end of the dial.
You are lucky that you have SW radiostations in the US, here in Europe good luck finding one. Sure you can catch some Asian stations in the night, but well...
I was Thinking thats about Like the RCA FADA radio chassis, almost Identical tuning dials on those Radios,but its in The wrong cabnet, but still sounds pretty good for Shape its In, You should find a good Case for it and Restore it as seems like that would be a good Radio for Restoration and nicer Cabnet Plus i bet it will last another 50 years or so with little work done too it. Here I still Listen To disco and Rock and Older country music, from what we Grew up with from the Late 50's to 70's and some 80's mixed in there too. no Mumble rap for me, i'm an oldies/classics type guy, I have lots of it on Tapes and Record Here too, and some on open reel tape too, good stuff. Old tube radios and TVs are best for audio more bass abd cleaner sound, that radio can prove that. So restore it and give it a good home it deserves.
That was July 1979 when they did a publicity stunt at Komisky Park in Chicago called the “Disco Demolition” and Steve Dahl emceed the event that a lot of people are going to blow up disco records which was kinda sad, and then the crowd went out of control that they decided to cancelled the White Sox game, because of the incident. Not in New York City, because, the city is becoming more rhythm and more upbeat during the last 40 years. Stations like WKTU was “Disco 92” was a dance station, and then WBLS became more R&B and dance, and of course, WRKS when it was “Kiss-FM” did the same. New York City has become a rhythm and urban town for years.
That song was “Baby Face”. I listened to it at around 11:20pm Eastern Time, and we’re in the middle of the night, and people are still sleeping in their beds, and no one listens to “Disco Saturday Night”, but only me, and I was recording this show. I have the full show in my TuneIn app. In addition, right before “Disco Saturday Night” comes on later at 10pm Eastern, it was snowing.
Indeed, I think it's great that they're actually playing some 'proper' Disco, and not just rubbing the same two ABBA records together for two hours to keep everyone warm..and then calling it a wrap!
Emmerson has throughout its history contracted out multiple companies to do their work and putting their brand on those products from TV's to microwave ovens to radios etc.; as have many other Product Brand companies. It's not uncommon to have an Emmerson that Panasonic, G.E., RCA or the likes that actually built it. Sometimes they do really well....and sometimes they dont. When working for TI we built several thousands of Sharp laptops back in the day. Like they say "there's nothing new under the sun".
Emerson built all there equipment. I know because my parents both work for Emerson. In 1968 Emerson went bankrupt, then other companies built their radios and t.v.s
Stable, and decent sounding too! Can't complain too much about that, specially for a holed rotten speaker. Makes me want to get on with my Bush SAC35, but then AM is pretty rubbish over here in the UK & not sure I'd want to spend the money on the missing AC044 just for talk/sport :(
You could be "Dan the magical engineering man that keeps the capacitors from blowing". Grunow was a major radio manufacturer in the 30's.....I'm guessing the Emerson's case was broken, so the Grunow got repurposed? It actually sounds quite nice, good tone
Nothing quite like the comfort a glowing radio brings to the mind set. Once a modern miracle, now just a curiosity to most. Tube radios will always inspire anyone that dare turn one on and explore the dial.
shango066... Thanks man
Ksurf AM1260 is available online and I'm listening to it, here in Denmark, Scandinavia. Thanks Shango for pointing my attention to this.
R u indigenous Danish?
@@chadcastagana9181 Absolutely. Sitting here in Sonderborg in Denmark, some 30 kilometers from the German border.
Brian Hougaard Baldersbæk Also picking this station up in the uk
It's a "Frankenradio", an Emerson BF207 chassis inside a 1936 Grunow Teledine 588 cabinet. How cool is that!
Great video.
I think you mean to say Teledial.
James Bowie Yes, you're right. Thanks
I just finished restoring an Emerson BF-204, which is the same chassis in a wooden Ingraham cabinet. These are 1938 models. The BF-207 was a bakelite set with an unusual 3-piece cabinet which was very prone to breakage, I used to have one! Most likely someone's cabinet broke, and they placed it in the cabinet of another set. The BF chassis is an excellent performing chassis, very sensitive, and with great sound from the 6.5" speaker. They were also well built, and had insulated component leads from the factory. Before I recapped my BF-204, it played just fine on almost all original components!
Seeing the Olson Electronics caps brought back memories. I worked for Olsons in the 1960’s. Most of the components were Japanese private label. No Chinese stuff yet in those years. The company did mail order out of Akron Ohio and had about 10 stores including 2 or 3 in Southern California. By the late 70’s, the company was gone. What all of this means is those caps are not new - more like 40 to 50 years old. Anyway, to quote Bob Hope “thanks for the memories “.
When Shango said “check this noise out” I swore he was going to play more mumble rap
What the hell is "mumble rap"?
Thanks for the mention “Shango066”. I listened to “Disco Saturday Night” which was late at night, and Fred Missman did his final show. I hope Mike Johnson will take over for “Disco Saturday Night” next week. I hope I would look forward to listen to it. This is still a great show for all nighters. I recorded the show off the stream from 10pm until 4am which is kinda strange to hear dance music all night.
If you are in the car or in around New York City listening to in cars with TuneIn built-in, it’s still quiet on a busy highway and streets like driving around 5th Avenue, FDR Drive, Belt Parkway, and one of the Robert Moses highways in the city like driving around BQE, LIE, the East River bridges like the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, and Williamsburg Bridge which is smooth driving late at night without getting into a messy traffic. None of the people crossing the streets in the city,!except some people, and many of the stores were closed that night while “Disco Saturday Night” came on, except some were open for 24 hours.
The songs played on “”K-Surf” are the ones that we all remember from WBLS, WKTU, WRKS “Kiss-FM” which is now dead back in 2012, and the days of WQHT’s “Hot 103” and “Hot 97”. Great times. I can’t wait for Mike Johnson to take over his shift for “Disco Saturday Night” next week.
I hear Fred Missman’s promo at the beginning, and that’s I was listening to now. I listened to it all night while fixing my Revere S16 16mm sound projector.
HOLLYWOOD LOVES FRED MISSMAN!
I love listening to K-Surf through the internet stream. Disco Saturday Night was good to listen to as well. Love you shango xoxo
Corinna T Roberts76 i recorded the whole thing to a bunch of cassettes
@@HDXFH - Cool, i reckon it would sound good on cassette though playback.
Props for the shutout for retiring broadcasters.
FRED ROCKS!!:-)
Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1976!
Nicely done, that old beat up radio sounds pretty darn good! Also nice to find music on AM, a rarity for sure!
I agree it looks like a snar-sel-skrim-ler . Love these old radio resurrections, keep up the good work.
Nice sound for an 82 year old radio!
Not just the glow---but the smell of dust on HOT GLASS!!And the smell as the tubes warm up the wood case making a nice wood smell.
My parents had a Westinghouse console stereo, mahogany, Italian Provincial. It had just that smell. I also like the smell of old books and the boxes that Christmas ornaments were packed in.
"Babyface" by Wing and a Prayer Fife and Drum Corps, 1975. LOVE that album (I'm old)!
that tune is a very "OLD" one, its a new cover, just like "PUTIN ON THE RITZ" by taco, that is another old one( irving berlin- 1928)
music on am radio what a concept gives me flashbacks of the mid 60's
great job as always leave it to you to fix everything you get your hands on all the best have a great weekend
your great I just love your video"s. thanks
I wonder how beautiful that radio could be completing restored .nice save .
I looked at so many parts suppliers and can't locate one of those Snargle slemmers anywhere.
Great vid, thanks for sharing
👍👍👍👍👍
If Surplus Sales of Nebraska hasn't got one then it's game over.
I heard a good replacement for a snargleslemmer is a pair of Russian military spec snickelglubbers running in parallel.
I heard the snickelglubbers are being phased out and replaced with weggogommlers. Much better design!
I really hope that CTC 11 chassis finds a good home. Funny to think that radio was already an antique before Disco was a thing.
touching remembrance actually, well done
I was still listening to “Disco Saturday Night” with Mike Johnson last night and it was fantastic right up until 4AM. I have to remind everyone whoever lives in the east coast, that “Disco Saturday Night” is going to be at a special time from 10PM all the way to 5AM instead of 4AM which is due to Daylight Savings Time where you can turn your clocks ahead to about an hour. By November, “Disco Saturday Night” will also be on a special time from 10PM to 3AM instead of 4AM where you can set your clocks back to an hour.
There is something about Rainy days and late nights mixed with an old tube radio.........and an open fire of course.......a bloody shame we are losing so many AM BC and shortwave stations.........its not the same listening to your local low power FM/AM repeater
Thanks for shareing
Fred saw the video and loved it.
Thank you for the website my age know absolutely nothing about radios
Loved hearing Disco on an amazing old Emerson radio! Your videos like this make listening to Radio fun again!!
I was in high school when disco was huge, and while there was a ton of bad disco hits, there was a lot of great songs that can still pack a dance floor after 40 years. That radio is amazing that it still works, I think it needs a good restoration.
and then a fully functional Emerson!! Cool discovery this Disco SN!! thanks shangoo066! 👍🍺
I have a Emerson VR-30 portable TV radio from 1984, and it is still looking new.
I love those radio noises.
I saw this at 18:02 according to K-Surf’s Facebook page, and the show is on at 7PM until 1AM Pacific, but here in New York, “Disco Saturday Night” comes on later at 10PM until 4AM Eastern. 6 hours of retro dance music for all you night owls. It’s party all night.
Before you moved the tube it sounds like you were trying to listen to AM on SSB.
Even though this is a resurrection, I think it would still be wise to measure the resistances of the ballast just in case it breaks you can replace them with ceramic resistors.
Yes, measure them before they burn open. I would also like go see if he would experiment replacing them with a few microfarad nonpolarized film capacitors to reduce the heat generated in the case.
Let's just see in 80 years if a modern radio of today can be fixed by installing a 6Q7 tube and tapping it....somehow I doubt it.....
You know when you are right, you're right!!
Very entertaining and some good music to top it! Just as good as your 1934 Patterson all-wave repair and the subsequent Alec Costandinos` Romeo and Juliet excursion ;-) I am gobsmacked by the amazing sound quality..
Grisby -Grunow was out of Chicago... went belly up in 1937...
I'm in need of a CTC15 (D) Chassis...but these are unobtainable in Germany and shipping from the USA would be very expensive...if anybody would be willing to deal with international shipping at all. I recently got a RCA 14F616MU Roundie which might be the only one existing in Germany at all. This TV was imported by the Telefunken company in 1964 to study it. Color Television was introduced in 1967 so this RCA TV probably played a role in development of the PAL technology. Would love to bring it back to life but the TV has been heavily modified and is missing the whole video section circuit board. I will do a video on the RCA TV soon if you're interested.
AudioMobil You could make that work. Have to get someone to help you out. Roundies are tough to find these days. You'll need a converter too. This will be NTSC. Not sure but you are PAL or something? God Bless
@@johnnytacokleinschmidt515 They are really hard too find, especially since they were never sold in Germany. We are PAL, but it looks like the TV has been converted from NTSC, but the main video circuit board is missing. They changed the transformer, so it runs on 220V and the tuner has been replaced with a custom made VHF / UHF tuner. Everything was really experimental on this TV since we did not have color TV broadcasts until 1967. I hope to find someone who knows these TVs well enough to make it work again, even if this would mean to convert it back to NTSC. This shouldn't be a problem, since many older DVD players or VHS recorders can do NTSC, Secam or PAL and might be used as a converter.
AudioMobil Best wishes. I hope you can get it functioning again. And I bet someone might send you a video board. Stay in touch and God Bless.
I remember when I first heard what was on 23:50 40+ years ago. My how times have changed!
It was “Baby Face” by A Wing & A Prayer Fife and Drum Corps, a disco remake of a 1920’s early jazz standard. I heard it over the weekend at the 11PM hour.
Disco was just a beat pattern, but it's *all* soul. Soul is the $#*+!!
I’d much rather listen to disco Saturday night than a Democratic debate!
I'd rather listen to mumble-joik-disco than *ANY* "politician".
Nice Emerson radio. It has a bad tube connection so it squeals! Now you got it working and boy it sounds great even with the hole in the speaker. The warm glow of victory!
I am amazed of the sound quality this radio has. Even with that giant hole in the speaker.
22:55 shout out to YT's number one disco and capacitor non-blowing proponent, not Jason JJ Cruz but none other than our mentor... (maybe)
Yes! I heard it on my TuneIn app over the weekend which was around 10:30PM or 11:00PM eastern.
That will make a good looking and performing radio.You should clean up the chassis and cabinet,including the grill cloth and knobs,sounds good.Save it in memory of the retired DJ. from LA.I enjoy watching your channel.Fix that speaker cone.
Its comment! Great video ctc 11 chassis is real rare I found one onec...
Did like how the thumping of the disco would make the 10Kw CCA AM 10D cabinet vibrate!!!The mod transformer and reactor vibrating from the audio going thru them-5Kw audio!Now at the SW station I am presently 125Kw of audio in the older GE transmitters.Sounds like a speaker is in the transformer vault!Mod blocker caps acting as electrostatic speakers!
Thanks for the NA tip, lots of cool info.
Ha that was awesome how they had took the time to stamp the tube number on the socket but you couldn't see it because of all the dust and cadmium :)
I owned a radio similar to this set. It was an Emerson BF204 that was in a older Emerson cabinet; a Emerson B131. The chassis was made in 1938, and the cabinet was made in 1936. Both models have similar chassis. The cabinet that your chassis was in is definitely the wrong cabinet. The proper cabinet will have a squared dial with curved sides. If you like a replacement ballast tube (the old time resistor you were describing with the octal base) they are available on the web. One source is Vacuum Tubes LLC. Sadly, I had to auction my set off because of money problems.
Wow...this thing has a great tone!
22:52 Babyface sung by by Wing and A Prayer (1975) yeah, sad that I know this
K surf is an epic station
sounds remarkably good considering the condition !
Nice Emerson radio resurrection there, Shango066! I believe that's about a 1938-'39 model Emerson, which would most likely have been in a bakelite cabinet, originally, that was probably broken from a drop, long ago. I'll be darned if it doesn't fit nicely in that Grunow cabinet though! If ever you decide to "adopt out" this radio, I'm interested!😊
Ha! I have a bunch of those Olsen capacitors I got from an Ebay auction with a bunch of other good stuff. They are a ceramic body, paper in oil type. They seem to hold up ok!
That's a really nice radio Shango. I had to come back and look at it again. If I could, I'd give you a like each time. I really wish I had that radio. I would'nt restore it. Why would I? Thank you very much for sharing that beautiful radio and also some of your local AM culture. 73 OM
Why don't you adopt it
@@shango066 Oh, I'd love to Mr Shango.. but it's a long drive. Which I'd do if it were springtime in Michigan. If you want to sell it, I'd love to buy it from you but you'd have to ship it of course. I'll paypal u the money. What say you, Shango Man?
@@n8nkqrp595 you can have it minus the tube. Cover the shipping. You are aware of the condition right? Which is poor no knobs needs to be restored cosmetically
@@shango066 Yep. I want it exactly as it is. I'll install tubes. I assume you have paypal.. just let me know what you want for it. I don't know if YT lets you see my (and I yours) email addy but if not, look on QRZ.com and enter my callsign if you want mine. I'll look for yours and see if i can find it. That radio is beautiful just the way it is. Like i said - I can't explain it. That radio did something to me Shango. It's weird
@@shango066 I just emailed you Shango re: the sweet old radio. Thanks!
Thumbs up!
After hearing it for the last two to three weeks, “Disco Saturday Night” is now automated without a host. Mike Johnson has been the host of “Disco Saturday Night” during the past two months, and as of mid to late March, Mike Johnson did his final show for the time being until the show went automated. Mike Johnson has not done this show for a few weeks, but no word on what he is going to bring him back. He might be staying home during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Instead of listening to “Disco Saturday Night” without a host, I decided that I had enough, so I went to WEBE’s “Webe 108” and listen to “Studio 108” every Saturday night at 7pm which is way better than “Disco Saturday Night” and you can hear the same songs that “Disco Saturday Night” played, along with many of them that are not being played on this show including J-Lo’s “Waiting for Tonight”, Los Del Rio’s “Macarena”, Chubby Checker’s “The Twist”, Isley Brothers’ “Shout”, Kris Kross’ “Jump”, Marcia Griffith’s “Electric Slide”, and DJ Casper’s “Cha Cha Slide”. But it does have commercials during each hour rather than hearing commercial free that “K-Surf” was on during “Disco Saturday Night”, but “Studio 108” on “Webe 108” is a completely different show, and I have not heard it in such a long time.
15:17 Sounds like the background radio chatter from the original Star Wars.
And from the police radio from the movie THX1138 "I think I ran over a wookiee back there on the expressway."
Wow it really does.
Well, that radio doesn't seem to mind disco music signals coursing through its circuitry. Reminds me of the video you did on restoring a full size console type radio that you played a LONG disco tune on some time ago. That "Baby Face" tune near the end...I have a 78rpm from 1949 by Art Mooney and his Orch. on MGM Records with that same title. Radio sounds pretty good though!
Nice that it wasn't so hard to get working again. I don't think a lot of people realize just how much work it is to properly replace the parts that need it, clean it up, and maybe refinish the cabinet. I'm not a restoration guy at all. I just want things to work well, and look half decent again.
Very cool of you, Sir.
In one of your videos, you had K-Surf on and they played the whole version of "Romeo and Juliet".
Yep! That song was by Alec R Constandinos which was heard on his Hoffman’s radio console from the 1930’s after restoration with “radiotvphononut” as his cameo. Funny! I used to have the album.
I have a emerson alarm clock from around 1985 it works well I think this radio might be a case of 2 junk radios to make one good radio so I think the case came from a radio with junk chassis and the the chassis came from a broken case because the chassis dosent look like it fits well in that case
I just learned that I'm a poor person
There was a period of time when I had to listen to disco 8Hrs a day-40hrs a week at a Wash DC top 40 station!Some songs were OK others could drive you mad!The disco station you have actually would be OK.
Like. sounds good
Let that Warrior alone, it sounds great and looks good.
I have a emerson alarm clock from 1985 it has am fm radio everything works
I haven't heard that in years CTC
That's why i like the AA5 design. There simple but they work.
That last song sounds like the Osmonds, if memory serves.
I HEART FRED MISSMAN!!:-)
Underwriters Laboratory would have a field day with that really safe safe wired radio
There is always a atation with mad piano stuff on it 😳
great! resurrection
I have a fully restored1940 Stromberg Carlson that has the same thumping sound (kind of like a russian woodpecker through a sub woofer) shown at 14:15 just at the lower end of the dial.
Turn up the volume for nostalgia Shango066 Party night
Disco was harmless and that's better than rap.
What is that vertical purple line on your phone screen ?
Screen burn
It is not screen burn, some older samsung phones develop lines like that after drops or other shocks....
Sounds great
How do you determine which lead of a capacitor is attached to the outer foil? That would make a good video!
Mr Carlson has a few videos on that and has a project to determine which side of poly caps etc have the foil outside
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amazing sound for that old bash**rd!
Nice sharezees Shango66.
You are lucky that you have SW radiostations in the US, here in Europe good luck finding one. Sure you can catch some Asian stations in the night, but well...
I was Thinking thats about Like the RCA FADA radio chassis, almost Identical tuning dials on those Radios,but its in The wrong cabnet, but still sounds pretty good for Shape its In, You should find a good Case for it and Restore it as seems like that would be a good Radio for Restoration and nicer Cabnet Plus i bet it will last another 50 years or so with little work done too it. Here I still Listen To disco and Rock and Older country music, from what we Grew up with from the Late 50's to 70's and some 80's mixed in there too. no Mumble rap for me, i'm an oldies/classics type guy, I have lots of it on Tapes and Record Here too, and some on open reel tape too, good stuff. Old tube radios and TVs are best for audio more bass abd cleaner sound, that radio can prove that. So restore it and give it a good home it deserves.
When I was young, Rock ruled. Disco sucked. I'm older now, and appreciate most genres of music. In fact, all, except talking throughout the song.
That was July 1979 when they did a publicity stunt at Komisky Park in Chicago called the “Disco Demolition” and Steve Dahl emceed the event that a lot of people are going to blow up disco records which was kinda sad, and then the crowd went out of control that they decided to cancelled the White Sox game, because of the incident. Not in New York City, because, the city is becoming more rhythm and more upbeat during the last 40 years. Stations like WKTU was “Disco 92” was a dance station, and then WBLS became more R&B and dance, and of course, WRKS when it was “Kiss-FM” did the same. New York City has become a rhythm and urban town for years.
After 50 years rock started to become stale and out-of-ideas sometime in the early 21st century. It'll come back around in another 10 or 20.
Got it working on a Wing & A Prayer..Fife and Drum Corps! ;)
That song was “Baby Face”. I listened to it at around 11:20pm Eastern Time, and we’re in the middle of the night, and people are still sleeping in their beds, and no one listens to “Disco Saturday Night”, but only me, and I was recording this show. I have the full show in my TuneIn app.
In addition, right before “Disco Saturday Night” comes on later at 10pm Eastern, it was snowing.
Indeed, I think it's great that they're actually playing some 'proper' Disco, and not just rubbing the same two ABBA records together for two hours to keep everyone warm..and then calling it a wrap!
To bad that I’m in Britain I would gladly pick it up.
hi I'm interested in the ctc 11 chassis that you showed in the video. how much would shipping to Italy cost?
Don't you do crt videos anymore shango?
Emmerson has throughout its history contracted out multiple companies to do their work and putting their brand on those products from TV's to microwave ovens to radios etc.; as have many other Product Brand companies. It's not uncommon to have an Emmerson that Panasonic, G.E., RCA or the likes that actually built it. Sometimes they do really well....and sometimes they dont. When working for TI we built several thousands of Sharp laptops back in the day. Like they say "there's nothing new under the sun".
Emerson built all there equipment. I know because my parents both work for Emerson. In 1968 Emerson went bankrupt, then other companies built their radios and t.v.s
its funny hearing Morden music though a 1930s radio
Mesmerizing. But i'm not used to low to high frequencies going from right to left.)(Must not have been standardized, yet.
Stable, and decent sounding too! Can't complain too much about that, specially for a holed rotten speaker. Makes me want to get on with my Bush SAC35, but then AM is pretty rubbish over here in the UK & not sure I'd want to spend the money on the missing AC044 just for talk/sport :(
Depending on where you are there's always Caroline on 648!
Dan got a shout out!
You could be "Dan the magical engineering man that keeps the capacitors from blowing". Grunow was a major radio manufacturer in the 30's.....I'm guessing the Emerson's case was broken, so the Grunow got repurposed? It actually sounds quite nice, good tone