I'm an old TV tech and I enjoy your trouble shooting videos immensely. I've restored one of those sets and it's little brother the 9 incher. There was good news and bad news, the good news is it works like it did when new, the bad news is it works like it did when new...
This is a 1956 model. I noticed that the wax paper capacitors were labeled paper "condensers," as that term was often used up until the late-40's or so. These components mentioned might possibly be leftover war-surplus items. Beginning in the early 1950's, the more modern term "capacitor" started to appear. Whoever replaced the selenium rectifier did a pretty smart thing, because when those things go, it really tends to stink things up.
I bet that TV weighs a lot. That's a Frankenstein TV. When that TV was manufactured you had to repair your TV because they were so expensive and you couldn't afford a new one. Even the black and white sets were costly. Watching this reminds of a job I used to have. I work in a place that sold capacitors, tubes and circuits for just about anything you could need them for. I worked filling orders in a huge warehouse that had hundreds of bins.
When we were first wed in 1969, we moved to a neighboring state to find work. We lived in a small apartment and had that exact set, well except the color part of the case was pink. It served us well.
Hi Shango. I am glad you did this video and covered so much. I have the same model and hope to be able to recap and replace out of tolerance part's this year. Thank you for posting this it will be a big help to me. And others. I hope to see you go checking out mines, sometime this year. Take care.
App you've shown all this to shango and like all your or your program are you doing TV sets they like that like that way you will you do that that said look pretty good Harvey Briar view but this stuff bag on and ride chain resistor over the his own then but outside of that and looked really good like you says that for the schmeer and and things like that what you did a good job and that set back to life and though this is you tuber 9889 And this is Anderson gm1992@gmail.com Me and this is Fred hope you never go off they are again but I like what you do For and get Hope you help me to Define a Zenith TV set village and also the comrades to stereo Zenith never In the Motorola Motorola Help me tell me where the gold of find those vintage TV such and stereos My phone number is 14059335533 I'm livin the in the Oklahoma more oaklahoma a my Vitry removed in it in McLean county that's in Oklahoma to but anyway I hope you help me shango 066I really would like to talk with you sometime
It's interesting how breaking from your diagnostic routine can really mess with you. I've found the same to be true with auto repair. If I skip the preliminary stuff it always comes back to bite me.
15:00 - interesting your concern about even "getting close" to those two appealingly yellow-colored aspirin-looking thingies. Always in the back of my mind, I recall my "tween" years in the 60's taking things apart like TVs and radios and poking around inside, unaware of the dangers of latent high voltage in the capacitors or whatever. And i had opened recently used sets, so there was danger there. Somewhere in that time frame i had seen a guy short the yoke to the chassis with a large, long screwdriver (i think it was when my dad brought the set to the TV repair shop), then i realized there was danger inside and was more careful about what i touched within any "Mains" electrical device from then on.
About opening that can - You need to reference Radiotvphononut's video of the Muntz stereo for guidance on the proper shoe to use for maximum efficiency.
Right near the fuse, you missed a wax cap, might want to change it, especially if it's an AC line bypass cap, those pop easily. I'm sure you know that, but it would really stink to put in all that effort and then have a capacitor go bang.
25:00 ha ha, I've cut the "works" from a new, but crushed plastic-bodied fluorescent starter that i had stored under a sink, and replaced the guts from an ancient, inoperative, metal-cased starter, and instead of soldering the new works in, i attached the thin wires to the old starter pin wires with small home-made clips of bent metal, inserted the assembly into into the old metal casing, and voila, the light now works perfectly.
HELP! I love your video! Can you give me any tips on how to get the works out of my 1956 RCA Victor portable TV? I've tried everything I know, which isn't much apparently! 😮 I've removed all screws and tried gently prying off the front cover (which seems attached to the tube and inside components) It comes out about an 1/8 inch then seems to be held up on something. This is a tv from my childhood and would love to restore it. THANK YOU! Doug
I love these videos i just wish youtube existed when I was much younger I used to go around on what we called big garbage day it doesn't exist here anymore but I would take all sorts of things home to take apart had youtube existed back then I would have been able to sell them after I fixed them. Ahh the early years when you were allowed more then 1 bag a week, I sure miss it. Is there a year of tv's that you can't repair? like everything before the 60's or ?
Long before UA-cam existed there were all kinds of books on electronics readily available in many public libraries. Simple viewing won't give you sufficient expertise for electronics repair.
You know shango, i'm wondering why tv manufacturers in the old days never had a button to turn the CRT off completely so there is just sound playing like you can today, to use it as background noise or for the blind sort of thing, that simple button would have trebled the lifespan of the CRT, also shango if you want to get scratches out of CRT's use PEEK metal polish with a dremel soft polishing brush on medium speed.
Some justice, the SOB who designed that impossible to work on circuit board design is almost certainly dead. That's a great way to replace an old electrolytic.
Oh man you’re going to hate me but when I was a kid us kids in the neighborhood would go through our parents boxes of spare vacuum tubes as everyone thought they needed a ton of spare tubes to save money on having to hire a tv repairman, well we’d have vacuum tube wars where we’d throw vacuum tubes at each other and enjoy the glorious pop the tubes would make when they’d hit the sidewalks and road surfaces of our battle grounds.
I found a nearly identical-looking set yesterday: a model "C4P" made by Canadian GE, which appears to be uncommon considering I couldn't find any reference to it on the Internet! Unfortunately, someone picked out all of the tubes (except for the CRT of course) and only two of the sockets are marked. I'm wondering... could anyone help me with a tube list with the corresponding sockets? I'm hoping it will be similar if not the same as this 14T014 unit.
For all you guys that love capacitors you know some of the oil filed ones i have found the name of a capacitor that i had to do some deep diging to find the name the name is merson i cant remember if this is the correct spelling for for this cap but deforrest crossly use them in the 20s and 30s
Possibly poor regulation somewhere causing objects to appear to move, could be H.T. that's going up and down ? Is the whole picture swelling and contracting ? if so then it will be H.T.variance.
shango066 Ha! I can see how the subtly can escape many... ;) Good stuff, bud. My electronics ability on the scale compared to yours is quite low, but I enjoyed what I've seen of your stuff and actually learned some things. I've only done the most basic of things - heck, just added some LEDs to the meters of my Carver TFM-15 amps and built a couple mono tube amp kits. I like soldering. Heh... I may be on par with, say, a chef in training who only cooks the rue every night. But I 'get' your humor and just swimming in a sea of information, you're bound to get wet so... Let's see...how many more analogies can I make... :P Anyway, I'm disabled (wheelchair bound) and live alone with two feline creatures so I like finding things like this. It makes me feel like I'm hanging out and actually I think I would enjoy just chilling in your shop and asking questions from time to time. I think, if I'm right in my observations, that you like talking about this stuff a lot and I just don't think I would ever get tired of hearing it. Actually...I have a question for you about the tube amps I built. Can I just shoot you a PM or whatever with a schematic attached? My question involves an optional capacitor that I asked about in several other forums but nobody really knew what it did. So of course...I stuck it in... ;) Didn't quite notice the difference but... Hey...I can point at it and grunt. So would you mind a newbie question? :D
Your name for those EL Nemco caps literally made my day.
That's the same GE my Aunt gave me when I was 15 yrs. old, loved having a TV in my bedroom!
I'm an old TV tech and I enjoy your trouble shooting videos immensely. I've restored one of those sets and it's little brother the 9 incher. There was good news and bad news, the good news is it works like it did when new, the bad news is it works like it did when new...
This is a 1956 model. I noticed that the wax paper capacitors were labeled paper "condensers," as that term was often used up until the late-40's or so. These components mentioned might possibly be leftover war-surplus items. Beginning in the early 1950's, the more modern term "capacitor" started to appear. Whoever replaced the selenium rectifier did a pretty smart thing, because when those things go, it really tends to stink things up.
+Ken Seabury
Yes, we still say _kondensator_, in my native language.
It's great to see your salvation/restorations! The narration is both very informative and "effervescent"! Thank You!
Awesome job re-stuffing the can of the electrolytic ! I have not seen it done before.
I bet that TV weighs a lot. That's a Frankenstein TV. When that TV was manufactured you had to repair your TV because they were so expensive and you couldn't afford a new one. Even the black and white sets were costly. Watching this reminds of a job I used to have. I work in a place that sold capacitors, tubes and circuits for just about anything you could need them for. I worked filling orders in a huge warehouse that had hundreds of bins.
When we were first wed in 1969, we moved to a neighboring state to find work. We lived in a small apartment and had that exact set, well except the color part of the case was pink. It served us well.
I was in GE factory making television in the 80s.
Hi Shango. I am glad you did this video and covered so much. I have the same model and hope to be able to recap and replace out of tolerance part's this year. Thank you for posting this it will be a big help to me. And others. I hope to see you go checking out mines, sometime this year. Take care.
App you've shown all this to shango and like all your or your program are you doing TV sets they like that like that way you will you do that that said look pretty good Harvey Briar view but this stuff bag on and ride chain resistor over the his own then but outside of that and looked really good like you says that for the schmeer and and things like that what you did a good job and that set back to life and though this is you tuber 9889 And this is Anderson gm1992@gmail.com Me and this is Fred hope you never go off they are again but I like what you do For and get Hope you help me to Define a Zenith TV set village and also the comrades to stereo Zenith never In the Motorola Motorola Help me tell me where the gold of find those vintage TV such and stereos My phone number is 14059335533 I'm livin the in the Oklahoma more oaklahoma a my Vitry removed in it in McLean county that's in Oklahoma to but anyway I hope you help me shango 066I really would like to talk with you sometime
“Mines”??
That’s the coolest way to check caps I’ve learned quite a bit by watching you you tha man brother man 😁
It's interesting how breaking from your diagnostic routine can really mess with you. I've found the same to be true with auto repair. If I skip the preliminary stuff it always comes back to bite me.
15:00 - interesting your concern about even "getting close" to those two appealingly yellow-colored aspirin-looking thingies. Always in the back of my mind, I recall my "tween" years in the 60's taking things apart like TVs and radios and poking around inside, unaware of the dangers of latent high voltage in the capacitors or whatever. And i had opened recently used sets, so there was danger there. Somewhere in that time frame i had seen a guy short the yoke to the chassis with a large, long screwdriver (i think it was when my dad brought the set to the TV repair shop), then i realized there was danger inside and was more careful about what i touched within any "Mains" electrical device from then on.
About opening that can - You need to reference Radiotvphononut's video of the Muntz stereo for guidance on the proper shoe to use for maximum efficiency.
I can send you the rubrics in Latin for that.
I had a 1968 Portacolor set which only needed minor work. I wish I had kept it.
I like the style of that set.
Wow.. Midnite Edition Shango! A great video....
Right near the fuse, you missed a wax cap, might want to change it, especially if it's an AC line bypass cap, those pop easily. I'm sure you know that, but it would really stink to put in all that effort and then have a capacitor go bang.
The vertical buzz is 60Hz, not 30Hz ;)
25:00 ha ha, I've cut the "works" from a new, but crushed plastic-bodied fluorescent starter that i had stored under a sink, and replaced the guts from an ancient, inoperative, metal-cased starter, and instead of soldering the new works in, i attached the thin wires to the old starter pin wires with small home-made clips of bent metal, inserted the assembly into into the old metal casing, and voila, the light now works perfectly.
HELP! I love your video! Can you give me any tips on how to get the works out of my 1956 RCA Victor portable TV? I've tried everything I know, which isn't much apparently! 😮 I've removed all screws and tried gently prying off the front cover (which seems attached to the tube and inside components) It comes out about an 1/8 inch then seems to be held up on something. This is a tv from my childhood and would love to restore it. THANK YOU! Doug
In addition to the IEC tubes being junk, the Raytheon tubes from the mid 60's through the 70's imported from Japan were pure junk too.
They were great looking TV's!!Great video!!!
26:07 tubing cutter, great idea. ha i probably would have done it with a razor knife. And wow, fancy tubing cutter.
I could live on what this guy spends on capacitors
Ironically enough, he scrounges half of them from old tv boards and CFL light bulb driver boards. LOL
Dam that high pitch squeal almost ripped my ear drums out as had it on max volume dam my ears
Especially when using iPhone lightning earphones which are super loud lol
I love these videos i just wish youtube existed when I was much younger I used to go around on what we called big garbage day it doesn't exist here anymore but I would take all sorts of things home to take apart had youtube existed back then I would have been able to sell them after I fixed them. Ahh the early years when you were allowed more then 1 bag a week, I sure miss it. Is there a year of tv's that you can't repair? like everything before the 60's or ?
Long before UA-cam existed there were all kinds of books on electronics readily available in many public libraries. Simple viewing won't give you sufficient expertise for electronics repair.
You know shango, i'm wondering why tv manufacturers in the old days never had a button to turn the CRT off completely so there is just sound playing like you can today, to use it as background noise or for the blind sort of thing, that simple button would have trebled the lifespan of the CRT, also shango if you want to get scratches out of CRT's use PEEK metal polish with a dremel soft polishing brush on medium speed.
Overdriving? Did you increase the dropping resistor yet?
The field rate is 60 Hz, not 30 Hz. The frame rate is 30 but there are 2 fields per frame so the field rate is 60Hz.
Let's be gratefully modern components are superior more lightweight and compact.
Some justice, the SOB who designed that impossible to work on circuit board design is almost certainly dead.
That's a great way to replace an old electrolytic.
Oh man you’re going to hate me but when I was a kid us kids in the neighborhood would go through our parents boxes of spare vacuum tubes as everyone thought they needed a ton of spare tubes to save money on having to hire a tv repairman, well we’d have vacuum tube wars where we’d throw vacuum tubes at each other and enjoy the glorious pop the tubes would make when they’d hit the sidewalks and road surfaces of our battle grounds.
What a beautiful TV
i had a few tv's that did that. they were newer though. white stuff did it. something with contrast i guess.
Brilliant repair job. Pity the tube has those scratches.
RODALCO2007 I wondered if you could use car windscreen repair kit ???
Actually, the scratches are in the clear plastic safety screen that's mounted in front of the CRT.
I had the 9" version of this TV the 9T001.
Eu acho o máximo vc colocar p funcionar esses aparelhos antigos.
35:28 It looks like there is one wax jobbie left just above the main filter caps.
I found a nearly identical-looking set yesterday: a model "C4P" made by Canadian GE, which appears to be uncommon considering I couldn't find any reference to it on the Internet! Unfortunately, someone picked out all of the tubes (except for the CRT of course) and only two of the sockets are marked. I'm wondering... could anyone help me with a tube list with the corresponding sockets? I'm hoping it will be similar if not the same as this 14T014 unit.
Did you have any success with it?
GE... Good Enough.
Where did you obtain the Sam's from? None of the site's I've found have Set 310 Folder 4 available.
I have the entire sams set in hard paper. You can buy the pdf off their website for a few bucks
23:00 "not that many caps" ? Seems like changing 14 caps is still quite a bit.
For all you guys that love capacitors you know some of the oil filed ones i have found the name of a capacitor that i had to do some deep diging to find the name the name is merson i cant remember if this is the correct spelling for for this cap but deforrest crossly use them in the 20s and 30s
I would love to give my daughter a tv with the yoke upside down. would make for a great joke.
just make it an upsidedown one man.. them yoga nuts could dig -burn that belly fat. wow. lol
Possibly poor regulation somewhere causing objects to appear to move, could be H.T. that's going up and down ? Is the whole picture swelling and contracting ? if so then it will be H.T.variance.
Everybody dance now! ;) Hehehe... Nice test! :) Cool video, man.
shango066 Ha! I can see how the subtly can escape many... ;) Good stuff, bud. My electronics ability on the scale compared to yours is quite low, but I enjoyed what I've seen of your stuff and actually learned some things. I've only done the most basic of things - heck, just added some LEDs to the meters of my Carver TFM-15 amps and built a couple mono tube amp kits. I like soldering. Heh... I may be on par with, say, a chef in training who only cooks the rue every night. But I 'get' your humor and just swimming in a sea of information, you're bound to get wet so... Let's see...how many more analogies can I make... :P
Anyway, I'm disabled (wheelchair bound) and live alone with two feline creatures so I like finding things like this. It makes me feel like I'm hanging out and actually I think I would enjoy just chilling in your shop and asking questions from time to time. I think, if I'm right in my observations, that you like talking about this stuff a lot and I just don't think I would ever get tired of hearing it. Actually...I have a question for you about the tube amps I built. Can I just shoot you a PM or whatever with a schematic attached? My question involves an optional capacitor that I asked about in several other forums but nobody really knew what it did. So of course...I stuck it in... ;) Didn't quite notice the difference but... Hey...I can point at it and grunt. So would you mind a newbie question? :D
39:18 Electric Avenue! :D
do they still rebuild CRTs ?? you were like the resurrection and the life for this tv. other wise it would have ended up in the dump hehe.
Heheheh..."Elsh!tco" capacitors... yep.
Those and their cousin Cornhole Dubilier. ;-)
4:37 El Shitco Capacitors
when you realize somthing else has been in it : )
Yea, that's haunted me through life but not with electronics.
What a crappy design. I'd be concerned about a metal cabinet in a series set too.
LMAO, a suppository!!
Rick and morty in the background at 5:24!!
Nice job
You have to plug it in to turn it on.
Ok Nike Tesla might disagree. ha
also those dry electrolytics, every one i've seen were bad, very very bad i had one that was 10 mfd and it tested as 90 mfd
it might be worth more inscrap metal.
the audio needs a triple bypass.
you missed a paper cap by the fuse
I think I saw one of them in a Gidget movie ..👱👙👓
Interesting
haha who is jason cruise ? 29:50
A nice test pattern would be less annoying than that goofy cartoon.
hmm, now i know how to make a cheap hi pass filter.
2:20 MY EARS
Jason JJ Cruz is not amused.
Molested by 120volts ac hahahaha 😆