During my 8 years in the US Army back in the 1970's I had two of these little sets. Different brands, of course. The first I purchased in Tokyo, it was brand named Crown, had a built in AM/FM radio came with a detachable 100-110 volt adapter as well as one that took I think it was 9 C cells. That one lasted a long time till one night whilst on arms room guard (duty where they locked you up between the arms room and the issue room with a .45 and 3 rounds of ammo, super booooooring duty and the TV was a life saver. The set smoked and stopped working. I tore into it and found a resistor had burned in half. I think I must have had the power pack set to 100 volts? It was, after all designed for use in Japan, not the USA. So I took the little guy to a TV repair center on Fort Bliss, the fellow there said since the set was never imported into the US, he could not get a schematic and was thus unable to determine which resistor to replace the burned own with. So I took the little guy home, sad that a set that had served me in my bunker in Nam as well as the Arms Room at Fort Bliss, and many times into the field during desert training was gone. Then I had this wild idea to simply bypass the damn resistor, so I stripped a bit of copper wire out of a larger wire and wrapped it around the two pieces that were once joined as a resistor and soldered it in. The little guy came back to life and worked as well as ever. I had a partner who worked with me after hours delivering furniture for Unite Freight Sales out on Montana Avenue in El Paso, he also had another part-time job as a night watchman for a small local airport, keeping watch over the aircraft. When he was over for coffee one day he spotted my little set and made me an offer I could not refuse for the little set. I sold it to him, last I ever saw of it, he had wired it in to his car and mounted it under his dash so he could sit back and enjoy his nights watching tv instead of airplanes parked on the tarmac. Later I found that I really missed the set, so one day I found a Panasonic mini TV that was olive drab in color, looked exactly like a piece of military gear. I purchased it and it came with me into the field many many times, I could sit in my radio teletype rig and watch TV, my wife would pre-cook some hamburgers for me and I would heat the atop a small lantern, stick them back on the bun and squeeze some ketchup from McDonald's. Since my rig was considered classified as I sent and received classified information, I always had it locked, when an officer would come for some reason or another, I could flip the switch on the little OD TV and they had no idea that it was not part of the very complicated configuration of the ANGRC122 Radio Teletype rig.
About 40 years ago when I was an electronics tech. we stopped working on those because of time and dependability issues. In my opinion, you are one of the best technicians out there. I thoroughly enjoy your videos. They say patience is a virtue, I say patience is a vulture waiting to swoop in.
We had one of the Sony portable TV's, used it for years before we dropped it in a box. It sat in the garage for over 20 years before I pulled it out, dusted it off, hooked it up to a power supply and it worked like new. The workmanship was outstanding, truly built to last.
What always amazed me about some early Japanese TVs from the 60s they were already solid state we were still using tubes in our TVs that we made here in the US up until the early to mid 70s
For the non TV repairmen, IF is intermediate frequency. Signals are converter from their native carrier frequency to a predictable/consistent frequency before being sent to the demodulating section.
Even thought you said TIME VAMPIRE I still to this day like the selective deduction reasoning and logic of diagnosing the TV'S and radios you do., Worth the time.
Haven't been on the COVID19 Carnival Cruise but have been on the Noro Carnival Cruise. It caused me to be very "evacuative"...and i got to see what i ate the week before...
Sometimes you just have to walk away and do something else for a while then come back with a fresh take on things and it falls into place for you. Took me a long time to figure that one out.
I am constantly inspired by watching these videos. I've improved my own electronics repair skills just by watching, following, and then going into my shop to fix something. FWIW: My brother had one of these Sony Micro-TVs (the one on the left), and it was the first TV I watched Star Trek on when I was a kid. Provokes great memories, and it shows great diagnostic problem determination skills by Shango066! Keep 'em coming!
Ever work on a Sony 8-301W? Their first transistor set from about 1961, with an 8" screen in a rounded grey metal cabinet on a little chrome stand. Looks like something out of a Jetsons cartoon! I have two of them. I still watch a 1970 Sony 5" 510-U, perched on top of my kitchen microwave.
The old saying is true "The transistors protect the fuse". I remember in early 70's having a 5" Sony Trinitron portable color set purchased from Lafayette Electronics. They were expensive around $450-$500. Memories!
You’re one of the neatest guys around, and so is Radiotvphononut. I like the resurrection of the radios, tv’s and record players, even the 1970’s plastic ones. Better quality plastic then. Like saving classic cars of the 1950’s and 1960’s you do one fantastic job on them, even if they’ve been baking out there in the desert for 45+ years. So much for junk tires, they can sit out there and rot. Keep the good videos coming, I’m a geek of electronics like you and Radiotvphononut. Learned of both of your UA-cam channels in August of 2016, just a week or so after my mom passed away. If I find UA-cam profitable, I may get myself a UA-cam channel and join you guys. I’d like to see you resurrect the unresurrectable electronics. If not, hold onto them for they can be used for spare parts down the road.
So I found one of those Sony tvs at a pawn shop. After watching this video, I was worried that I bought a shelf queen. I took it apart, checked the fuse it was blown. Why? The uhf dial came apart and had two metal washers floating around in the case. As soon as the next debates happen, I’m watching on my little Sony tv. Thanks Shango. I dig ya!
Funny you brought these out, I've just got my hands on a Bush BN6520 A (late 1970s J. Arthur Rank Radio International special) miniature TV/clock/radio with 4" CRT and built in alarm and sleep functions. :) Never knew they made tiny TV's as far back as mid '60s though, the set on the right is super cool looking.
It seems like I remember a Sears microwave that had a very small TV built in. I always wonder how much shielding it took to not fry the electronics. I had a under the counter small TV with a tuner much like a radio that I could also tune in cell phones sold by GE.
Great vintage Sony set and I'm glad you have the patience to pick at it. I've would of thrown it in the parts bin as soon as I seen someone else had the foil over the fuse. Thanks for your time and effort for posting.
I had one that looked like the first, but was branded CROWN. I purchased it in Tokyo when I was on my way home from Vietnam to be with my wife when our first child was born in 1971. I bought it back to Vietnam and used it to watch AFVN when we were in garrison, it sat under my bunk in the bunker when we were, well out and about, as it were. Great little set. I kept it with me when I came home as well. It had built in AM/FM radio so it was a great little set. One day, as I sat in the Arms Room with a loaded .45 guarding all the arms, I had it on, and a mighty BANG came from inside, the magic smoke filtered up through the top. Took it to the Base TV repair shop, they said it was a blown resistor, however they could not tell the size, and because it was never imported to the US they could not get a schematic. They advised me to throw it. Well I loved that little set, so I simply wrapped a bit of copper wire from one lead of the missing resistor, to the other, and the set came back to life. I was showing it to a fellow who worked part time for me delivering furniture after hours on base, he loved the fact that it had a battery pack you could use when out and about, took a bunch of D cells. Totaled up to 12 volts. I sold it to him and he mounted it under the dash of his Dodge, which he used when he did part time security work for an off base company. It served him well, he was still using it when I left Fort Bliss for Fort Myer, I lost contact with him after that. He wired it directly into his car power so as not to waste money on batteries.
@@abc-ni9uw Wish I still had it, I sold it to another soldier who worked part time after hours as a security guard. He used his private car to patrol some warehouse areas. He mounted the little set under his dash and used it between patrols.
Another great video! I appreciate the amount of time you put into these, I like the fact you don't give up just because it wasn't easy. Even as butchered as this is you breathed some life into it. Great diagnostics again, thanks as always for sharing!
my favorite toy of the summer/fall of '79. i knew it was from the late sixties, but if i knew the true age of it, i would have maybe used it less. ten C duracells would set me back maybe 15.50 or so. i remember having banana splits with my cousin dolores, and watching match game. in san francisco i watched tic tac dough, mork and mindy, and laverne and shirley on it tuesday nights. it took forever to warm up, and would have a little dot for five minutes when shut off. evon stewart said she paid something a little over three hundred for it. it was brand new, with the cord in perfect shape. she didn't have the original box. a sony micro tv was pretty slick to have.
ESR is not the be all/end all of judging capacitors. Too many today assume that ESR being low means it is OK. Well, a shorted cap will have good ESR. Leakage will be ignored by most ESR meters, as will off-value capacitance. ESR meters are the simplest things to make but they won't tell you about many other failure modes. Meters that measure value MAY give you a clue: bad caps will have an elevated capacitance reading. Some will read 200-300 percent overvalue. Most are more subtle. Ideal examination requires something like a Z-meter (Sencore).
Those spade connectors are probably there so the person could use the TV with a 12v lantern battery. Probably way more economical than using C cells. Those big F cells in the lantern batteries are great.
I don't know what it was about that ending.. but it broght back to mind the New Year's Eve special when Shango blew up that nightmare trainwreck that outwardly appeared to be a young woman. With 'some' issues. On a TV. It was genius art is what it was. Not her, but her demise. Thanks Shango - this was brilliant as well
@Louis Reed oh, I know. He's absolutely one of us. btw- haha- "one of us". Besides that, Shango has a shockingly intuitive troubleshooting ability. It's a rarity these days sadly
Best wishes. Stay healthy and be well. Watch the Shango066 videos. I hope you have enough parts and projects to stay entertained during the shut-down. God Bless
Actually, those Ni-Cd battery packs are re-stuffable. There are plenty of places around that specialize in the practice if you don't want to do the job yourself. Those look like standard size C Ni-Cd cells in that pack.
very good work though, but I think, you could have fix this ! The defektive output stage in the vertical and the working horizontal are the most critical stages, that you made working well, the if stage is not critical... The video-driver transistor works as an emitter-follower, every Si-pnp- would work here (BC558 or so..), the GT313 is way to fast as you said, but can produce some VHF-noise if not properly installed. I am glad to see the monitor-part work, though !
Strange you mention the Elna caps all being bad from this era, '75 onward they have all been good in the equipment I've found them in. And Shango, if you were "smart money" the world would be a much poorer place. Your persistence & determination are what we come to watch, if you can't fix it not many could!
I just recapped a Roberts 6000 portable tape deck and it had a ton of these Elna caps. They were all either open or waaaaayyyyy off value. It's just like Shango was saying I ended up pulling out the Sam's and ordering all of them from mouser.
@@equid0x That's probably what's wrong with the Rheem Roberts eight track I have, it's early 70s vintage, built by Akai. I hope it's not one of the Sanyo ICs that's popped.
@@equid0x It's an interesting turn, the vintage solid state stuff is to electrolytic cap replacement what tube equipment is to paper cap replacement, if not worse. I can remember having tube sets from the 1940s still functioning on most of their original caps in the late 80s and early 90s, but the caps in a lot of S.S stuff from the 60s was already starting to fail by then.
I just had to Subscribe to your channel. Absolutely superb work and great video on getting this Micro portable working. I'm more of an Audio engineer when it comes to electronics but I'm old enough to remember the TV engineer coming round our house when I was young (1978/79)...thanks!!
A few weeks back some of my friends and I were talking about getting one of these in a civics class I have (were all in our mid teens). So instead of doing our work we just looked at them on ebay!
"Is the Corona Virus sweeping across Europe?" ….YES! Bloomberg...what a joke! $500 Million spent for those annoying ads!! How many homeless, etc could that have helped? Well his money I guess he can do what he wants with it.
When the fuse blew because it started failing, the aluminum foil must have worked (for a little while). My parents tell me in the old knob-and-tube houses when they got broiler that would need 20a circuit someone put a penny in the fusebox lol!
I had a 501U (510U?), White and blue plastic with a detachable base that was the battery pack. Carried it everywhere when I was a teen. Sony wanted you to buy an adaptor to attach an external antenna, I hacked a speaker wire with a phone plug into a TV cable splitter for my own adaptor.
I wouldn't consider them hybrids because of the HV rectifiers, anymore than because of the CRT's. Back in the 70's I had a Heathkit/RCA 23" color set that was all solid state except for the CRT and a 3A3GT HV rectifier. I bet Sony used a 25mhz IF because of the low FT of those Germanium transistors in the IF stage.
Ha ha Sony went literal with the tripler...Never seen that before? Thinking about it...Mostly after doubler you went to a tripler and left it there regardless of how many stages...
My daughter tells me that my old Panasonic B&W mini TV like that is out in her storage locker. I thought I had thrown it away many years ago. I picked it up new years ago when I was a soldier, the Crown that I purchased in Tokyo went to hell and the base show said no fix to it. I wrapped the leads where the resistor had blown with wire and it began working again. I sold it to a Staff Sergeant who was working part time after duty as a motorized security guard. He had to furnish his own car, so he plugged the set into this car and mounted it under his dash. It was still working a couple years later when he was transferred. So at any rate I wanted a set to carry with me when we went out to the desert for a couple weeks training problems, the Panasonic came in Olive Drab, that's the one I purchased because it worked fine to toss it in my RATT rig, everyone thought it was some sort of oscilloscope or something, then when the evening came, I would sit in the rig where it was warm, secure (Secret Crypto clearance to open the door!) start my propane lantern and heat up some hamburger patties my wife had prefried for me and watch TV while enjoying my burgers and fries. Even in the 70's there was a way to stay entertained in the boonies if you just knew the tricks of the trade.
I was working part time in the Navy Exchange TV/Radio Repair Shop on Midway Island when these came out (the 5-307 style). I was otherwise in the Navy as an electronics technician working at the transmitter site there. Sony deemed us to be a "service station" and sent a big box of replacement parts for this TV model to stock. Just about everything. Yoke assemblies, individual parts, assembled boards, cabinet parts. But (and this disappointed me) just not quite enough to assemble a complete TV. I bought one myself as they sold for about half price at the Navy Exchange there. At the time, it was considered a very attractive and well built TV. I didn't own it long enough for any of the failure issues to surface.
23:19 turns out my hearing is still in very good shape; went from watching this on a TV to a computer with headphones and now I can hear that distinct high-pitched CRT screech trying to split my cranium 🙃
I remember the Sony micro TV, and it was a portable TV from the 1960’s before iPhone’s and iPad’s. I used to have a JVC portable TV from 1976, but I don’t used it too much anymore.
In 1974 I had a 1950 Plymouth 6 volt positive ground. I went to the local hobby shop and bought a converter 6 to 12 volt. I had to isolate the whole thing so I hung up by some string under the dash then I ended up putting rubber grommets.after that I just started carrying a 12 volt battery in the back floorboard for my 8-track
The whispers ripple down through the ages... about this Shango066... who with a laying of the hands - and application of electricity - resurrects the dead... the decaying... who's parts long since scattered to time... but once a year, one was sacrificed... one HAD to be sacrificed... to the screams... and the glowing torches of the approving, smiling, nodding masses
I used to live next to Sony factory! I love Sony B&W small TV screen that came out in 1965 in the trade show. It was identical to what on this clip. The main issue was even it was cheapest at that time (compared to Western Brand) but my family can not effort it.
I think you would have fixed it quickly if nobody had gotten into it and tried to fix it before you. The aluminum foil on the fuse is a good indicator of that.
Yup! Have to shotgun all of the electrolytics otherwise you'll be replacing most of the transistors (might not even be available) get rid of that durn selenium rectalfire in the power supply ( that was from a 60's vintage Popular Electronics comic of a technicians wife going shopping for parts for him). You haven't seen a packed board until you have worked on a Motorola HT220 walki. That radio drive many techs to drinking, fix one item and break another in the process. Those sets were "mega bucks" for the time period. Mine set me back about $110 back in the late sixties for a kid in high school. The huge alkaline rechargeable battery pack set me back about $30 and was rechargeable but lasted only 3 years.
i have one like the small one, slightly different, case is black vinyl covered, instead of the wood effect, vhf is ok but uhf seems dead, looks a fairly major job to get the uhf tuner out, ... i have a 'monitor' very similar to the larger one, just has video and audio input, no tuner/if parts...
Nice sets. Your symptoms asside from the no power are identical to what i encountered on mine. On my 5-303 i had a bad vertical output transistor. After replacing the transistor i now get a full raster for about 10 min before i start having vertical linearity issues. Sometimes noodling the pots brings it back. I suspect more bad caps (haven't re-capped the whole set yet) and some flaky trim pots.
Could be some out of tolerance resistors as well. On my 5-307UW I replaced the resistors in stages on the deflection board testing after replacing several resistors. With each replacement the raster got a little better.
During my 8 years in the US Army back in the 1970's I had two of these little sets. Different brands, of course. The first I purchased in Tokyo, it was brand named Crown, had a built in AM/FM radio came with a detachable 100-110 volt adapter as well as one that took I think it was 9 C cells. That one lasted a long time till one night whilst on arms room guard (duty where they locked you up between the arms room and the issue room with a .45 and 3 rounds of ammo, super booooooring duty and the TV was a life saver. The set smoked and stopped working. I tore into it and found a resistor had burned in half. I think I must have had the power pack set to 100 volts? It was, after all designed for use in Japan, not the USA. So I took the little guy to a TV repair center on Fort Bliss, the fellow there said since the set was never imported into the US, he could not get a schematic and was thus unable to determine which resistor to replace the burned own with. So I took the little guy home, sad that a set that had served me in my bunker in Nam as well as the Arms Room at Fort Bliss, and many times into the field during desert training was gone. Then I had this wild idea to simply bypass the damn resistor, so I stripped a bit of copper wire out of a larger wire and wrapped it around the two pieces that were once joined as a resistor and soldered it in. The little guy came back to life and worked as well as ever. I had a partner who worked with me after hours delivering furniture for Unite Freight Sales out on Montana Avenue in El Paso, he also had another part-time job as a night watchman for a small local airport, keeping watch over the aircraft. When he was over for coffee one day he spotted my little set and made me an offer I could not refuse for the little set. I sold it to him, last I ever saw of it, he had wired it in to his car and mounted it under his dash so he could sit back and enjoy his nights watching tv instead of airplanes parked on the tarmac. Later I found that I really missed the set, so one day I found a Panasonic mini TV that was olive drab in color, looked exactly like a piece of military gear. I purchased it and it came with me into the field many many times, I could sit in my radio teletype rig and watch TV, my wife would pre-cook some hamburgers for me and I would heat the atop a small lantern, stick them back on the bun and squeeze some ketchup from McDonald's. Since my rig was considered classified as I sent and received classified information, I always had it locked, when an officer would come for some reason or another, I could flip the switch on the little OD TV and they had no idea that it was not part of the very complicated configuration of the ANGRC122 Radio Teletype rig.
It is a nice memories with the air field watching duty...and the days went by very fast...sure you're still longing for those days.
About 40 years ago when I was an electronics tech. we stopped working on those because of time and dependability issues. In my opinion, you are one of the best technicians out there. I thoroughly enjoy your videos. They say patience is a virtue, I say patience is a vulture waiting to swoop in.
Shango is a legend in the southland.
ZULFIQAR pitafi 🇵🇰
We had one of the Sony portable TV's, used it for years before we dropped it in a box. It sat in the garage for over 20 years before I pulled it out, dusted it off, hooked it up to a power supply and it worked like new. The workmanship was outstanding, truly built to last.
His social satire is just as entertaining as his electronic/mechanical skills...
It's definitely part of the show.
Agree.
What always amazed me about some early Japanese TVs from the 60s they were already solid state we were still using tubes in our TVs that we made here in the US up until the early to mid 70s
For the non TV repairmen, IF is intermediate frequency. Signals are converter from their native carrier frequency to a predictable/consistent frequency before being sent to the demodulating section.
Even thought you said TIME VAMPIRE I still to this day like the selective deduction reasoning and logic of diagnosing the TV'S and radios you do., Worth the time.
This comment..right here. That's why I love this channel. REAL troubleshooting techniques. 🤓
Haven't been on the COVID19 Carnival Cruise but have been on the Noro Carnival Cruise. It caused me to be very "evacuative"...and i got to see what i ate the week before...
I can't really imagine, but it must have been a miserable experience.
Bought a Samsung B&W Micro TV back in the early 80's? I think. Sold it to a friend years ago and it's still going strong.
I always love the way you give up several times on some of this junk just to get it working in the end.
Keep up the good work. I love the channel!
Sometimes you just have to walk away and do something else for a while then come back with a fresh take on things and it falls into place for you. Took me a long time to figure that one out.
@@69Dartman
Agreed.
There's times I've given up on something, came back later went right to the problem and fixed it.
I am constantly inspired by watching these videos. I've improved my own electronics repair skills just by watching, following, and then going into my shop to fix something. FWIW: My brother had one of these Sony Micro-TVs (the one on the left), and it was the first TV I watched Star Trek on when I was a kid. Provokes great memories, and it shows great diagnostic problem determination skills by Shango066! Keep 'em coming!
I love your groovy way of testing capacitors... so much quicker and calms the aggravation to have music playing
Shango066 has the best channel!! I want a Shango066 T-shirt lol ( with the tri-color Zenith logo)
I second that!
Ever work on a Sony 8-301W? Their first transistor set from about 1961, with an 8" screen in a rounded grey metal cabinet on a little chrome stand. Looks like something out of a Jetsons cartoon! I have two of them.
I still watch a 1970 Sony 5" 510-U, perched on top of my kitchen microwave.
The old saying is true "The transistors protect the fuse". I remember in early 70's having a 5" Sony Trinitron portable color set purchased from Lafayette Electronics. They were expensive around $450-$500. Memories!
I have one on the bookcase next to my desk. Last time I watched it was 25 years ago!
"Our current limiting is this Chinese wire" Ah, the old Shenzen fuse. Keeps you safe and keeps you warm!
oh no
Ahhh, sit down with a beer, some popcorn and a Shango video. Must see TV !
You’re one of the neatest guys around, and so is Radiotvphononut. I like the resurrection of the radios, tv’s and record players, even the 1970’s plastic ones. Better quality plastic then. Like saving classic cars of the 1950’s and 1960’s you do one fantastic job on them, even if they’ve been baking out there in the desert for 45+ years. So much for junk tires, they can sit out there and rot. Keep the good videos coming, I’m a geek of electronics like you and Radiotvphononut. Learned of both of your UA-cam channels in August of 2016, just a week or so after my mom passed away. If I find UA-cam profitable, I may get myself a UA-cam channel and join you guys. I’d like to see you resurrect the unresurrectable electronics. If not, hold onto them for they can be used for spare parts down the road.
So I found one of those Sony tvs at a pawn shop. After watching this video, I was worried that I bought a shelf queen. I took it apart, checked the fuse it was blown. Why? The uhf dial came apart and had two metal washers floating around in the case. As soon as the next debates happen, I’m watching on my little Sony tv. Thanks Shango. I dig ya!
Such a shame that someone twinko-torculated it before you did. I love these early portables
Funny you brought these out, I've just got my hands on a Bush BN6520 A (late 1970s J. Arthur Rank Radio International special) miniature TV/clock/radio with 4" CRT and built in alarm and sleep functions. :) Never knew they made tiny TV's as far back as mid '60s though, the set on the right is super cool looking.
It seems like I remember a Sears microwave that had a very small TV built in. I always wonder how much shielding it took to not fry the electronics. I had a under the counter small TV with a tuner much like a radio that I could also tune in cell phones sold by GE.
Had one of these when I was a boy. Bought it for £2 hahha
Fix (at least) the smaller Sony TV to a composite video monitor! Get rid of the tuner section and install two RCA sockets onto the back of it! 😉
Great repair attempt and the TV works. Very old deac battery cells.
People watched "The Flintstones" on that set.
Saw that pitiful hacked up little thing and you’re talking about all the bad caps and transistors and I thought it was just hopeless. Just amazing!
My god sony were years ahead of anyone else, brill video cant wait till you fix the other one.
Humor drier than a 43-year-old Sanyo electrolytic capacitator. Gotta absolutely love it!
The COVID19 Carnival Cruise, my lemonade shot out of my nose, thanks alot! lol
Barb Chester 😀😂🤣
Lol Geesh
And one of the really sad things is: She has no idea what Sony is talking about.
- and right into your display, as it happened with the TV too.
State of the art circa 1966.
Great vintage Sony set and I'm glad you have the patience to pick at it. I've would of thrown it in the parts bin as soon as I seen someone else had the foil over the fuse. Thanks for your time and effort for posting.
Thank you again! I love the vintage Sony stuff and I cut my teeth messing around with these. Thank you for showing how to do it right!
I had one that looked like the first, but was branded CROWN. I purchased it in Tokyo when I was on my way home from Vietnam to be with my wife when our first child was born in 1971. I bought it back to Vietnam and used it to watch AFVN when we were in garrison, it sat under my bunk in the bunker when we were, well out and about, as it were. Great little set. I kept it with me when I came home as well. It had built in AM/FM radio so it was a great little set. One day, as I sat in the Arms Room with a loaded .45 guarding all the arms, I had it on, and a mighty BANG came from inside, the magic smoke filtered up through the top. Took it to the Base TV repair shop, they said it was a blown resistor, however they could not tell the size, and because it was never imported to the US they could not get a schematic. They advised me to throw it. Well I loved that little set, so I simply wrapped a bit of copper wire from one lead of the missing resistor, to the other, and the set came back to life. I was showing it to a fellow who worked part time for me delivering furniture after hours on base, he loved the fact that it had a battery pack you could use when out and about, took a bunch of D cells. Totaled up to 12 volts. I sold it to him and he mounted it under the dash of his Dodge, which he used when he did part time security work for an off base company. It served him well, he was still using it when I left Fort Bliss for Fort Myer, I lost contact with him after that. He wired it directly into his car power so as not to waste money on batteries.
So your kid is almost 50 give them the TV for memorise if you still have it
Cool story!
@@abc-ni9uw Wish I still had it, I sold it to another soldier who worked part time after hours as a security guard. He used his private car to patrol some warehouse areas. He mounted the little set under his dash and used it between patrols.
Another great video! I appreciate the amount of time you put into these, I like the fact you don't give up just because it wasn't easy. Even as butchered as this is you breathed some life into it. Great diagnostics again, thanks as always for sharing!
my favorite toy of the summer/fall of '79. i knew it was from the late sixties, but if i knew the true age of it, i would have maybe used it less. ten C duracells would set me back maybe 15.50 or so. i remember having banana splits with my cousin dolores, and watching match game. in san francisco i watched tic tac dough, mork and mindy, and laverne and shirley on it tuesday nights. it took forever to warm up, and would have a little dot for five minutes when shut off. evon stewart said she paid something a little over three hundred for it. it was brand new, with the cord in perfect shape. she didn't have the original box. a sony micro tv was pretty slick to have.
ESR is not the be all/end all of judging capacitors. Too many today assume that ESR being low means it is OK.
Well, a shorted cap will have good ESR. Leakage will be ignored by most ESR meters, as will off-value capacitance. ESR meters are the simplest things to make but they won't tell you about many other failure modes. Meters that measure value MAY give you a clue: bad caps will have an elevated capacitance reading. Some will read 200-300 percent overvalue. Most are more subtle. Ideal examination requires something like a Z-meter (Sencore).
Kitchen tv sets is what I called em as a kid my mom always had one on top of the fridge
Owned both of these models when I was a kid. They lasted about 6 months each and then died. Nice video Shango066. Take care.
Jesus, how many junk calls do you get?
Those spade connectors are probably there so the person could use the TV with a 12v lantern battery. Probably way more economical than using C cells. Those big F cells in the lantern batteries are great.
You should have told that lady on the phone that you want to go visit some rich persons holding corporation in the Cayman Islands.
I don't know what it was about that ending.. but it broght back to mind the New Year's Eve special when Shango blew up that nightmare trainwreck that outwardly appeared to be a young woman. With 'some' issues. On a TV. It was genius art is what it was. Not her, but her demise. Thanks Shango - this was brilliant as well
@Louis Reed oh, I know. He's absolutely one of us. btw- haha- "one of us". Besides that, Shango has a shockingly intuitive troubleshooting ability. It's a rarity these days sadly
Cheers from one of Italy's RED ZONES :DD
Best wishes. Stay healthy and be well. Watch the Shango066 videos. I hope you have enough parts and projects to stay entertained during the shut-down. God Bless
@@johnnytacokleinschmidt515 I do other kind of projects but as long as we're able to get to work I think I'll be busy enough :)
Anyway thank you!
A year later and still in the red zone
“Battery is not replaceable” ... Are we already in the Apple World ?
if that was made by Crapple, you'd have to throw it away after 6 years, because it's no longer supported
@@Mike1614b 6 year? that's a lot....
My kids will be lucky to get that long out of me haha
Actually, those Ni-Cd battery packs are re-stuffable. There are plenty of places around that specialize in the practice if you don't want to do the job yourself. Those look like standard size C Ni-Cd cells in that pack.
AND ANDROID
Thanks Shango, you make my week more enjoyable.
very good work though, but I think, you could have fix this ! The defektive output stage in the vertical and the working horizontal are the most critical stages, that you made working well, the if stage is not critical... The video-driver transistor works as an emitter-follower, every Si-pnp- would work here (BC558 or so..), the GT313 is way to fast as you said, but can produce some VHF-noise if not properly installed. I am glad to see the monitor-part work, though !
Thanks, Shango! This is the only way to catch up on the debates.
Strange you mention the Elna caps all being bad from this era, '75 onward they have all been good in the equipment I've found them in. And Shango, if you were "smart money" the world would be a much poorer place. Your persistence & determination are what we come to watch, if you can't fix it not many could!
I just recapped a Roberts 6000 portable tape deck and it had a ton of these Elna caps. They were all either open or waaaaayyyyy off value. It's just like Shango was saying I ended up pulling out the Sam's and ordering all of them from mouser.
Give them another 10 years and they will fail the same way.
@@equid0x That's probably what's wrong with the Rheem Roberts eight track I have, it's early 70s vintage, built by Akai. I hope it's not one of the Sanyo ICs that's popped.
@@a.fritzbecker8986 Probably the caps. My deck was completely dead before recapping.
@@equid0x It's an interesting turn, the vintage solid state stuff is to electrolytic cap replacement what tube equipment is to paper cap replacement, if not worse. I can remember having tube sets from the 1940s still functioning on most of their original caps in the late 80s and early 90s, but the caps in a lot of S.S stuff from the 60s was already starting to fail by then.
Im waiting for his coming film:)
"The covid 19 catastrophic cruise" Directed by Shango 066
from Sony Pictures Entertainment Co.
I enjoy watching you work on theses old units.
I just had to Subscribe to your channel. Absolutely superb work and great video on getting this Micro portable working. I'm more of an Audio engineer when it comes to electronics but I'm old enough to remember the TV engineer coming round our house when I was young (1978/79)...thanks!!
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yes it's an interesting troubleshooting.
Even if at the end the image wasn't good enough.
Thanks for this vid.
Can we PLEASE go BACK to the 70's?
boy i would like to tx some funny tv signals and have them bad boys be my displays. how much? of course i want it gone over and all old caps, replaced
Small picture? Naaa, you see everyone struggling to watch media on their smart phones, they'll be blind in no time flat........
I have worked on these years ago. What he says is 100% correct.
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Me too! I don’t know what it is.
The triumphant return of Mrs. Miller. Nice capacitated tweebulation.
A few weeks back some of my friends and I were talking about getting one of these in a civics class I have (were all in our mid teens). So instead of doing our work we just looked at them on ebay!
"Is the Corona Virus sweeping across Europe?" ….YES! Bloomberg...what a joke! $500 Million spent for those annoying ads!! How many homeless, etc could that have helped? Well his money I guess he can do what he wants with it.
GREAT Performance by Sony and Shango! . . . Who to vote for; You decide. = ]
When the fuse blew because it started failing, the aluminum foil must have worked (for a little while). My parents tell me in the old knob-and-tube houses when they got broiler that would need 20a circuit someone put a penny in the fusebox lol!
I thought I heard MRS MILLER screaming to Eol this one! Another worth while troubleshooting tutorial. Thank You..........
Well done Sir!You (just about) got a picture on it.
Awesome. Restoration. Video
I had a 501U (510U?), White and blue plastic with a detachable base that was the battery pack. Carried it everywhere when I was a teen. Sony wanted you to buy an adaptor to attach an external antenna, I hacked a speaker wire with a phone plug into a TV cable splitter for my own adaptor.
I wouldn't consider them hybrids because of the HV rectifiers, anymore than because of the CRT's. Back in the 70's I had a Heathkit/RCA 23" color set that was all solid state except for the CRT and a 3A3GT HV rectifier.
I bet Sony used a 25mhz IF because of the low FT of those Germanium transistors in the IF stage.
Ha ha Sony went literal with the tripler...Never seen that before? Thinking about it...Mostly after doubler you went to a tripler and left it there regardless of how many stages...
Upgrade the fuse covered in foil for a .22cal round .
Gotta love some mrs miller in the morning
My daughter tells me that my old Panasonic B&W mini TV like that is out in her storage locker. I thought I had thrown it away many years ago. I picked it up new years ago when I was a soldier, the Crown that I purchased in Tokyo went to hell and the base show said no fix to it. I wrapped the leads where the resistor had blown with wire and it began working again. I sold it to a Staff Sergeant who was working part time after duty as a motorized security guard. He had to furnish his own car, so he plugged the set into this car and mounted it under his dash. It was still working a couple years later when he was transferred. So at any rate I wanted a set to carry with me when we went out to the desert for a couple weeks training problems, the Panasonic came in Olive Drab, that's the one I purchased because it worked fine to toss it in my RATT rig, everyone thought it was some sort of oscilloscope or something, then when the evening came, I would sit in the rig where it was warm, secure (Secret Crypto clearance to open the door!) start my propane lantern and heat up some hamburger patties my wife had prefried for me and watch TV while enjoying my burgers and fries. Even in the 70's there was a way to stay entertained in the boonies if you just knew the tricks of the trade.
Did you find it?
respect from Montenegro MNE
I was working part time in the Navy Exchange TV/Radio Repair Shop on Midway Island when these came out (the 5-307 style). I was otherwise in the Navy as an electronics technician working at the transmitter site there. Sony deemed us to be a "service station" and sent a big box of replacement parts for this TV model to stock. Just about everything. Yoke assemblies, individual parts, assembled boards, cabinet parts. But (and this disappointed me) just not quite enough to assemble a complete TV. I bought one myself as they sold for about half price at the Navy Exchange there. At the time, it was considered a very attractive and well built TV. I didn't own it long enough for any of the failure issues to surface.
23:19 turns out my hearing is still in very good shape; went from watching this on a TV to a computer with headphones and now I can hear that distinct high-pitched CRT screech trying to split my cranium 🙃
I remember the Sony micro TV, and it was a portable TV from the 1960’s before iPhone’s and iPad’s. I used to have a JVC portable TV from 1976, but I don’t used it too much anymore.
MTN Productions Plural nouns aren't spelled with Apostrophes.
Can you figure this out?? Why do I like to watch your channel so much do I have a mental problem??😜
@shango066 how can i get in contact with you about donating something to the channel
Loved the spam call trolling!!
I still have the micro tv that belonged to my father, original comes with a plastic cover that protects the entire front
Little Big Town “Mmmm Motorboatin ! “. Somebody has really tortured this thing !
Just made my day s66
Major RetroChad mode usage today. Lol
Nate Newman What happened to RetroChad?
Helps him stay in that special place..... I think...
best channel ever!
Shango I have the antenna plug jack you plug into the jack on the TV, complexity built well
Heeerrreeeee is manifesting.....The entertainment value is priceless!
In 1974 I had a 1950 Plymouth 6 volt positive ground. I went to the local hobby shop and bought a converter 6 to 12 volt. I had to isolate the whole thing so I hung up by some string under the dash then I ended up putting rubber grommets.after that I just started carrying a 12 volt battery in the back floorboard for my 8-track
The whispers ripple down through the ages... about this Shango066... who with a laying of the hands - and application of electricity - resurrects the dead... the decaying... who's parts long since scattered to time... but once a year, one was sacrificed... one HAD to be sacrificed... to the screams... and the glowing torches of the approving, smiling, nodding masses
I used to live next to Sony factory! I love Sony B&W small TV screen that came out in 1965 in the trade show. It was identical to what on this clip. The main issue was even it was cheapest at that time (compared to Western Brand) but my family can not effort it.
I think you would have fixed it quickly if nobody had gotten into it and tried to fix it before you. The aluminum foil on the fuse is a good indicator of that.
My father bought a used one like the one on the right he had in the early 80s at a yard sale
Wow nice look straigh from early james bond
Yup! Have to shotgun all of the electrolytics otherwise you'll be replacing most of the transistors (might not even be available) get rid of that durn selenium rectalfire in the power supply ( that was from a 60's vintage Popular Electronics comic of a technicians wife going shopping for parts for him).
You haven't seen a packed board until you have worked on a Motorola HT220 walki. That radio drive many techs to drinking, fix one item and break another in the process.
Those sets were "mega bucks" for the time period. Mine set me back about $110 back in the late sixties for a kid in high school. The huge alkaline rechargeable battery pack set me back about $30 and was rechargeable but lasted only 3 years.
Who I have the pleasure to speak with ? .... "This is Sony" .... "Hello Sony !" ...... LOL
This is like watching The Forensic Files
i have one like the small one, slightly different, case is black vinyl covered, instead of the wood effect, vhf is ok but uhf seems dead, looks a fairly major job to get the uhf tuner out, ... i have a 'monitor' very similar to the larger one, just has video and audio input, no tuner/if parts...
the battery holder on my small one takes removable standard C cells, the nicad pack mustve been an alternative option...
Nice sets. Your symptoms asside from the no power are identical to what i encountered on mine. On my 5-303 i had a bad vertical output transistor. After replacing the transistor i now get a full raster for about 10 min before i start having vertical linearity issues. Sometimes noodling the pots brings it back. I suspect more bad caps (haven't re-capped the whole set yet) and some flaky trim pots.
Could be some out of tolerance resistors as well.
On my 5-307UW I replaced the resistors in stages on the deflection board testing after replacing several resistors. With each replacement the raster got a little better.
I just saw that black Sony at a local junk shop for 50 dollars!
This is the perfect way to watch the debates.
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You install surplus Russian transistors and Bernie appears on the screen!
Good one
Haha
Danish
Ironically the Russians don't believe much in Communism so much anymore, but Bernie does.