I have two of these, that I've completely restored. One is original bakelite dark cherry brown and the other was painted green by Grundig. One has a brown glass tuning scale and the other has a green glass tuning scale. They both sound fantastic. The rectifier, as identified on the back cover, is not a tube, but a selenium rectifier, which I replaced with diode resistor combinations.
Grundig always made amazing radios with minimal number of tube envelopes. This one is going to be much less of a headache compared to the larger ones with the piano-key switches. In those dust would filter down between the keys and foul the switches. Also the switch contacts would get dirty and need a complete switch disassembly to clean. Also the switch bakelite would carbon-track across the B+ switching contacts. And let's not forget the dim and expensive eye tubes. One of the eye tubes even had an audio preamp pentode in it! It cost like $45 thirty years ago, now probably not available any more. The coil adjustments would freeze up too. Count your blessings.
This receiver was obviously built during the postwar West German _Wirtschaftswunder._ That nation really pulled itself up by the bootstraps after its people cleared their streets from the rubble of the war. The quality of these radios is *excellent.*
The paint on that is factory---it was common practice to paint bakelite sets different colors. Grundig never cheaped out on the speaker, and it's the main reason why they sound so good
My laptop is tied into my tv and I use the audio out jacks on the tv to send the audio to a big grundig console stereo which also serves as the tv stand. The sound from the 4 el84's in push pull is fantastic.
I really like how they used teh fuse as the 110/220V selector link. As another commenter mentioned, this radio was originally white from the factory. the knob trim, the nameplate has the links between letters painted, and the back masonite is white as well.
You're correct. The white paint is from the factory. You can find the same at old Philips Philetta Radios which had a bakelite cabinet that was either left brown or painted white, depending on the design option.
Love the videos even though I don't know anything about electronics. I have no idea what you are talking about half the time, but your videos are fascinating to me.
Hello shango066, i live in Germany & the capacitor's in the german Radios are nearly all bad ! I dont measure them i just replace it all exept vor the ERO-FOL II, the yellow & green drobs vorm VALVO, PHILIPS etc. ( i call them " Käsekondensatoren " ) because the yellow ones look like liddle pieces of chees ! And the ceramic ones with hi capacity from SIEMENS form the 30s and 40s are also mostly good !
Great video! Unusually... calm. Great comments from seriously knowledgeable people. Am I the only one to notice Shango066's unusual inner-peace and absence of sarcasm, negativity, and near-anger? Odd. Very odd. Makes me nervous. What's goin' on here, anyways?
This sucker is going for big bucks on the bay. Very nice little radio... looks like the bezel is supposed to be white and they painted the rest of it to match you could probably tell there in person but on the video it looks like the whole thing was repainted...
I could not get my head around a 3-tube AM/FM set... It turns out it uses the ECC85 as AM converter as well- only Grundig could do something like that! But then they always were a bit unconventional, who remembers the TVs in the 70's with the thyristor horizontal output stage?! Brave men would quake in their boots if one of those came in with no raster....
Yes many service techs hated the thyristor/SCR based horizontal circuits, RCA really liked them, and introduced it to the mass market with the CTC-40 sets in 1969.
6BM8 is a triode/pentode, so it has BOTH audio stages. No rectifier tube, so must use a Si diode or a selenium rectum fryer. I can see the diodes near that output IF transformer for the AM and FM detectors.
There is selenium rectifier E250C85. Tube EBF89 contains another 2 diodes, there are used as AM detector and for AGC and the small germanium diodes are for FM demodulator.
Shango, I sold those 85s and they were offered in two colors white and dark brown. notice the color of the knobs match the cabinet. Same with dark brown model.
Back in the day in Europe radio usage fee was part of the electric bill. People were charged based in the number of tubes in the radio. Therefore the multisection tubes in order to reduce the count. The radios were registered upon purchase on buyer name and address.
Public broadcasting (TV and Radio) has a yearly budget of 8000 000 000 Euro, no typo. Half of it is going into pensions. They argument you pay for the possibility to consume, and that this is necessary for the society at all. Judgement of the constitutional court is expected for autumn.
i have some telefunken and grundig radios all with their original electrolitics and no leakage...grundig or siemens branded electrolitics are extremely reliable
I have learned well proper testing is the key to change electrolytics and capacitors don't solve every situation and problem, what I find very cool it's how you test things how you go over every component how you troubleshoot
Yet another fantastic and educational video, with the usual touch of sarcasam =) Excellent point about the paper caps. I had an epiphany when you mentioned the state of failures between capacitor types. You are absolutely right about that. I'd rather have opens than shorts any day. Perhaps those should be called EOL and not ERO craps. ';^)
Nice little radio. It reminds me of the Aristona SA1020U I restored for my channel. I removed the paint with copious amounts of acetone (Bakelite is impervious to acetone as long as you don't leave it on for days). They used to paint brown Bakelite radios white, to give it a slightly more "modern" look (white Bakelite was difficult to make and it often turned out more ivory than white color). By the way, Aristona was actually another brand name for what was essentially a Philips appliance. It seems Philips was embroiled in a copyright problem with their brand name in some other (European) countries. They also competed with their own house-brand, rather than leaving their market open to outside competitors (Like Unilever does with detergents produced by them (e.g. "Tide" or "Dash", etc.)) I think Grundig did the same with "Saba" and/or "Nordmende" Some paint jobs, technically speaking, are really well-executed. It's a shame though, they did that... since the Bakelite underneath often looks stunning, in spite of or because of the paint-layer. Thanks for sharing your video
philips had several other brands, here in the uk 'stella' and 'mullard' were fairly common and they also bought the 'cossor' name from the original company in the late 50's , i also have a 'siera' sa1001u
You can get yourself a radio transmitter to play music through radios without Bluetooth. I'm currently using an FM MHZ transmitter without using Bluetooth technology through my radio. They work on any radio with FM frequency. They transmit radio signals through open stations to play audio.
would love to get so many AM stations here. The government have given up on AM radio in England and want to kill FM as well. Those wavelengths are too tempting to sell off to the highest bidder.
This cathode voltage is not high for this tube (ECL82). You can search this tube at r-type dot org. Its typical control grid to cathode voltage is between -12.5 V and -16 V. In my ultra-linear amp I run them at -22 V.
I once was really into this stuff. This is a nice little one, there are some witch are a mess, not made for maintenance. BRD made had better parts, GDR made parts faded much more. BRD made sometimes still work decent. At some point I abandoned Radios, and made a stereo tube amp.
i have a Pye P117 'piper AM FM' that has the same valve/tube line up, apart from it has a EZ80/6V4 rectifier instead of that selenium type, has a 'live' chassis, the mains transformer only powers the heaters, circuit is very strange in that the ECC85 is a frequency changer on both AM and FM, with the section of the ECC85 thats used as a RF amp on FM is also a 'reflexed' 10.7mhz IF.
i've just found the schematic for the 220v only version online and the circuit looks very similar if not identical/almost identical to the Pye, and also has 'live' chassis , you can get it here elektrotanya.com/grundig_musikgeraet_85_musikgerat_sch.pdf/download.html
i'm going to keep a look out on ebay for one as it look a nice and interesting radio...my Pye unfortunately doesnt work too good, poor sensitivity, i've heard its quite normal for them ..
i have a similar 3 tube radio i just restored...it is only 3 tubes and it has 3 bands fm mw and lw...it has only one tuning capacitor...althought the components are extremely high quality like grundig always used, the circuit design is disgusting...for example if you put a new tube in the audio output and the rest of the tubes all well worn the radio starts oscillating immediately...all worn tubes or all new tubes...it is an extremely awkward circuit...for example the volume control controls the voltage to the preamp stage, not the actual audio signal....the radio has no agc and you have stations so loud you have to hear with the volume all the way down and other all the way up......contrary to all the other 99% grundig model wich were state of the art spare no expense this is a cheap nasty radio but very preety and with good quality parts
Dual system tubes (dual triode, or triode + pentode) were produced and used all over Europe from 50s. So it's not specific to Grundig. You can find them in Philips and many others european brands.
@@xsc1000 yep, but compactrons seem to have far more 'elements' squashed in them, we never had them here in the uk, nearest was the eabc80, triple diode triode,
I assume they mean tuned circuits, and that they count any antenna slugs, the image-rejection filter, the oscillator and the primary and secondary of every IF transformer. I still don't see how they get a total of 17 in that little set, but you know how they counted transistors, including diodes and spares, in the 1960s.
Those ERO caps are about as bad as the American wax papers. They seemed to be more reliable for a much longer period of time but these days they seem to be dropping like flies.
One might be able to remove the paint from the cabinet by soaking it in old school soap (containing sodium hydroxide) water for some time. Test resistance first...
I f the cabinet is actually Bakelite, you can coat it with oven cleaner and let it sit 24 hours in a plastic bag to remove the paint without damaging the Bakelite
cool lil tadio if you don't like the colour just let ot back in the sun and it'll peel off that our poyr some coke/monster on it and it'll do the same thing, also a radio? huh guess all the poltics things are over, it should be imple just "that was this band and now onto this band og by the way you should go vote for this guy and now onto this track"
Btw. Shango066, just in case you want to emphasize your "kick of german radios" a little bit by pronouncing them correctly: The "U" is actually pronounced like the "OU" in "you" or the "OO" in "food". Just that this vowel is short rather then long like in those two english examples. The way you pronounce them resembles the german word "grantig" which means "grumpy" ^^
wait a min, did that tube say made in great britain? wow a british tube, inside a german radio that is in the usa, that's more traveled then a insert funny joke here
It is german radio built for export to US. I think the british tube is just a replacement of the original german one - as power amplifier tube it fails first. These tubes were produced all over Europe.
These Ero100 (Paper), the Blue Wax and in other Radios like Nordmende the brown Wima Wax are always junk. Not worth Checking. Also beware of the Electrolytic on the Audio Output Tube. In my Grundig 3033 it shorted and caused a burnt Resistor and a shorted EL84 (6BQ5 ?) The white Color on the Cabinet is Original.
Well no matter how good you will make this Radio (I have followed you a long time and I quite admire all you do) and I know this Radio will be better than new, music on LA radio stations sucks. Music in LA once was unbelievable. Uncle T, Brother John, Paraquat Pete once offered LA a great variety of music. Now it’s Muzak and it sucks. It will always suck. So there is no need to stick to the 9 seconds of play because who the hell can stand more than 9 seconds on LA radio. It only gets worse out of LA. Try the market in VA, NC and about 10 other southern states. It’s god talk and god shouting round the clock. Praise the lord. 🙄
Found a Schematic wich is Similar to the Majesic 85 the german Pendant is Musikgerät 85 (wich translates: Music device). www.nvhr.nl/gfgf/schema.asp?Merk=Grundig&Zoeken=exact&isSubmitted=yes 85.144.192.2/nvhr/zip/Grundig_85.zip
If you meant 550 kHz, they would use the same tuning capacitor for the Europe model and North America (export model), and MW in Europe starts at 510 kHz, with 9 kHz channel spacing.
Toronto, Ontario has had a commercial AM station broadcasting at 530 kHz for many years now. It might be one of the only in North America below 540 kHz. In the 90s, it was Hip-Hop 530, but now it is ethnic multi-language.
i woulnt trust 1950s and older electrolytics. 1960s and newer check them for leakage at rated voltage and replace the bad ones. if i was fixing them for resale id might change them all, but for my own use, id leave the good ones alone
I have an Grundig RC100 amplifier from the 70s somewhere in house, it is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. They do not sound that awful, but it is in fact so ugly I got it for free.
Warning sarcasm alert!!! Oh come on Shango everybody knows the only thing that goes wrong in electronic devices is the electrolytics, especially in the ones with the old tube-type transistor ic's...
I have two of these, that I've completely restored. One is original bakelite dark cherry brown and the other was painted green by Grundig. One has a brown glass tuning scale and the other has a green glass tuning scale. They both sound fantastic. The rectifier, as identified on the back cover, is not a tube, but a selenium rectifier, which I replaced with diode resistor combinations.
Grundig always made amazing radios with minimal number of tube envelopes. This one is going to be much less of a headache compared to the larger ones with the piano-key switches. In those dust would filter down between the keys and foul the switches. Also the switch contacts would get dirty and need a complete switch disassembly to clean. Also the switch bakelite would carbon-track across the B+ switching contacts. And let's not forget the dim and expensive eye tubes. One of the eye tubes even had an audio preamp pentode in it! It cost like $45 thirty years ago, now probably not available any more. The coil adjustments would freeze up too. Count your blessings.
This receiver was obviously built during the postwar West German _Wirtschaftswunder._ That nation really pulled itself up by the bootstraps after its people cleared their streets from the rubble of the war. The quality of these radios is *excellent.*
9:27. The cars, just what I needed. R.I.P Benjamin orr. 😢
he died in 2000 not 2018
The paint on that is factory---it was common practice to paint bakelite sets different colors. Grundig never cheaped out on the speaker, and it's the main reason why they sound so good
justsomeguytoyou philips did the same thing too. Now that i think about it, many European brans did it
maybe it was green but has discoloured to 'cream' like over the years?
Fantastic! And easy to understand your English. Congratulations from Brazil!
We always marveled at the Grundig radios in England in the '60's when i was growing up....always known for great quality then. Cool video, thanks!
Nice radio, sounds great! Ya, those caps are a problem. Changed them on my Hammerlunds.
My laptop is tied into my tv and I use the audio out jacks on the tv to send the audio to a big grundig console stereo which also serves as the tv stand. The sound from the 4 el84's in push pull is fantastic.
I really like how they used teh fuse as the 110/220V selector link. As another commenter mentioned, this radio was originally white from the factory. the knob trim, the nameplate has the links between letters painted, and the back masonite is white as well.
I think they were originally White. They were painted white at the factory, over the Brown Bakelite :)
You're correct. The white paint is from the factory. You can find the same at old Philips Philetta Radios which had a bakelite cabinet that was either left brown or painted white, depending on the design option.
Eu preciso encontrar um locutor de rádio do Estado de São Paulo o nome que ele usa como locutor é Andorinha
O nome dele é Andorinha
You filmed this with a phone? Which phone?
Love the videos even though I don't know anything about electronics. I have no idea what you are talking about half the time, but your videos are fascinating to me.
Hello shango066, i live in Germany & the capacitor's in the german Radios are nearly all bad ! I dont measure them i just replace it all exept vor the ERO-FOL II, the yellow & green drobs vorm VALVO, PHILIPS etc. ( i call them " Käsekondensatoren " ) because the yellow ones look like liddle pieces of chees ! And the ceramic ones with hi capacity from SIEMENS form the 30s and 40s are also mostly good !
White knobs, white back, that’s factory paint
Great video! Unusually... calm. Great comments from seriously knowledgeable people. Am I the only one to notice Shango066's unusual inner-peace and absence of sarcasm, negativity, and near-anger? Odd. Very odd. Makes me nervous. What's goin' on here, anyways?
Damn, sounds better than my four speaker radio from the 90's even if it needs a little repair!
Shango is the smartest man I don't know.
This sucker is going for big bucks on the bay. Very nice little radio... looks like the bezel is supposed to be white and they painted the rest of it to match you could probably tell there in person but on the video it looks like the whole thing was repainted...
You are right about the intelligence test with these German radios...
That radio sounds good thanks for letting us see it great work.
I could not get my head around a 3-tube AM/FM set... It turns out it uses the ECC85 as AM converter as well- only Grundig could do something like that! But then they always were a bit unconventional, who remembers the TVs in the 70's with the thyristor horizontal output stage?! Brave men would quake in their boots if one of those came in with no raster....
The radio works and sounds astoundingly good for how simple it is.
Alright shango... sounds like an interesting challenge to bring to your audience!
Yes many service techs hated the thyristor/SCR based horizontal circuits, RCA really liked them, and introduced it to the mass market with the CTC-40 sets in 1969.
Thanks, I'll have to look that up!
there was a Pye P117 using the same idea and almost the same valve line up, just it had an EZ80 rectifier instead of a selenium..
Those ero caps are known to leak... they should be all replaced... greetings from austria
yep, they're horrid, i have a few radios that had them in, they were all bad in all....
6BM8 is a triode/pentode, so it has BOTH audio stages. No rectifier tube, so must use a Si diode or a selenium rectum fryer. I can see the diodes near that output IF transformer for the AM and FM detectors.
There is selenium rectifier E250C85. Tube EBF89 contains another 2 diodes, there are used as AM detector and for AGC and the small germanium diodes are for FM demodulator.
Shango, I sold those 85s and they were offered in two colors white and dark brown. notice the color of the knobs match the cabinet. Same with dark brown model.
Back in the day in Europe radio usage fee was part of the electric bill. People were charged based in the number of tubes in the radio. Therefore the multisection tubes in order to reduce the count. The radios were registered upon purchase on buyer name and address.
They changed to a rigid tax, every household has to pay 17,50 Euro per month now in Germany. Communism is coming.
Had no idea. Reminds me of the window tax
Reminds me that here in the U.S. some cities would tax your house by the number of closets, thus the popularity of the stand alone wardrobe closets.
Public broadcasting (TV and Radio) has a yearly budget of 8000 000 000 Euro, no typo. Half of it is going into pensions. They argument you pay for the possibility to consume, and that this is necessary for the society at all. Judgement of the constitutional court is expected for autumn.
In Czech republic you pay only if you have radio or TV, so no every household has to pay.
i have some telefunken and grundig radios all with their original electrolitics and no leakage...grundig or siemens branded electrolitics are extremely reliable
Good sound! simple design.
I have learned well proper testing is the key to change electrolytics and capacitors don't solve every situation and problem, what I find very cool it's how you test things how you go over every component how you troubleshoot
marvin gaye,,heard it through the grapevine,great tune
Yet another fantastic and educational video, with the usual touch of sarcasam =) Excellent point about the paper caps. I had an epiphany when you mentioned the state of failures between capacitor types. You are absolutely right about that. I'd rather have opens than shorts any day. Perhaps those should be called EOL and not ERO craps. ';^)
Nice little radio. It reminds me of the Aristona SA1020U I restored for my channel. I removed the paint with copious amounts of acetone (Bakelite is impervious to acetone as long as you don't leave it on for days). They used to paint brown Bakelite radios white, to give it a slightly more "modern" look (white Bakelite was difficult to make and it often turned out more ivory than white color). By the way, Aristona was actually another brand name for what was essentially a Philips appliance. It seems Philips was embroiled in a copyright problem with their brand name in some other (European) countries. They also competed with their own house-brand, rather than leaving their market open to outside competitors (Like Unilever does with detergents produced by them (e.g. "Tide" or "Dash", etc.))
I think Grundig did the same with "Saba" and/or "Nordmende"
Some paint jobs, technically speaking, are really well-executed. It's a shame though, they did that... since the Bakelite underneath often looks stunning, in spite of or because of the paint-layer.
Thanks for sharing your video
philips had several other brands, here in the uk 'stella' and 'mullard' were fairly common and they also bought the 'cossor' name from the original company in the late 50's , i also have a 'siera' sa1001u
Are you working on the Sears metropolitan dump TV set? I want to see the resurrection of it. Hope to see it soon!
You can get yourself a radio transmitter to play music through radios without Bluetooth. I'm currently using an FM MHZ transmitter without using Bluetooth technology through my radio. They work on any radio with FM frequency. They transmit radio signals through open stations to play audio.
Thanks for sharing.
Nice radio
Wow, crusty fuse, probably a modern replacement with chrome that easily corroded.
Good healthy sound to this unit!
Oh , yes the cars
would love to get so many AM stations here. The government have given up on AM radio in England and want to kill FM as well. Those wavelengths are too tempting to sell off to the highest bidder.
Dual 110/220 volt Nice
I have replaced dozens of those ero paper caps with the black goo on the ends, all of them have tested bad.
great video
I have a few of these, they're really good!
The wax/paper caps also like to become bombs and damage eardrums!
This cathode voltage is not high for this tube (ECL82). You can search this tube at r-type dot org. Its typical control grid to cathode voltage is between -12.5 V and -16 V. In my ultra-linear amp I run them at -22 V.
I once was really into this stuff. This is a nice little one, there are some witch are a mess, not made for maintenance. BRD made had better parts, GDR made parts faded much more. BRD made sometimes still work decent. At some point I abandoned Radios, and made a stereo tube amp.
What would be a good schematics to replicate? Have you ever try to replicate a radio from scratch???
I would love to hear you make a video on your thoughts on the world today ... I think it would be interesting ... 1:49
Given the white grill and back, I think the white paint is original.
Replace paper beats replace electrolytic. Scissors beats paper. 😮. All kidding aside, totally agree!
I believe those capacitors are "ERD" brand, which is earth in German. Maybe it was some kind of envoronmental paper capacitor?
No, it is "ero", a brand known for leaking capacitors. Change EVERY Ero in your Radio to save the tubes!
I hate restringing dial cords with a passion. I always keep a spool of 60 Lb test fishing line on hand. The fishing line lasts a lifetime
Cool video and funny
Slightly off topic - can anyone tell me what the song is between 2:30 and 2:32? Cheers. BTW it's not Bruno Mars - Finesse.
Answer my own question - How Long - Charlie Puth
Please do an old Nordmende or SABA Tuberadio sometime😊
I have three chineesium Grundigs and an actual German Telefunken
Grundig did not produce in China, at least not until the 80s I think. In the 60s they produced a lot of the more affordable devices in portugal
Shango066 I totally agree on the caps have had more leaky paper caps verses electrolyte caps
I love GRUNDING too bad there is no flat screen TV made by GRUNDING in the US
i have a Pye P117 'piper AM FM' that has the same valve/tube line up, apart from it has a EZ80/6V4 rectifier instead of that selenium type, has a 'live' chassis, the mains transformer only powers the heaters, circuit is very strange in that the ECC85 is a frequency changer on both AM and FM, with the section of the ECC85 thats used as a RF amp on FM is also a 'reflexed' 10.7mhz IF.
i've just found the schematic for the 220v only version online and the circuit looks very similar if not identical/almost identical to the Pye, and also has 'live' chassis , you can get it here elektrotanya.com/grundig_musikgeraet_85_musikgerat_sch.pdf/download.html
i'm going to keep a look out on ebay for one as it look a nice and interesting radio...my Pye unfortunately doesnt work too good, poor sensitivity, i've heard its quite normal for them ..
anbesol,good for cap pain,
i have a similar 3 tube radio i just restored...it is only 3 tubes and it has 3 bands fm mw and lw...it has only one tuning capacitor...althought the components are extremely high quality like grundig always used, the circuit design is disgusting...for example if you put a new tube in the audio output and the rest of the tubes all well worn the radio starts oscillating immediately...all worn tubes or all new tubes...it is an extremely awkward circuit...for example the volume control controls the voltage to the preamp stage, not the actual audio signal....the radio has no agc and you have stations so loud you have to hear with the volume all the way down and other all the way up......contrary to all the other 99% grundig model wich were state of the art spare no expense this is a cheap nasty radio but very preety and with good quality parts
Grundig seems to have had the "Compactron" thing down pat before GE even thought of the name.
Dual system tubes (dual triode, or triode + pentode) were produced and used all over Europe from 50s. So it's not specific to Grundig. You can find them in Philips and many others european brands.
@@xsc1000 yep, but compactrons seem to have far more 'elements' squashed in them, we never had them here in the uk, nearest was the eabc80, triple diode triode,
What does it mean "fm 10 circuits" "am 7 circuits"?
I assume they mean tuned circuits, and that they count any antenna slugs, the image-rejection filter, the oscillator and the primary and secondary of every IF transformer. I still don't see how they get a total of 17 in that little set, but you know how they counted transistors, including diodes and spares, in the 1960s.
@@pcno2832 yep, number of tuned circuits
Those ERO caps are about as bad as the American wax papers. They seemed to be more reliable for a much longer period of time but these days they seem to be dropping like flies.
Made in West Germany - 1:01
One might be able to remove the paint from the cabinet by soaking it in old school soap (containing sodium hydroxide) water for some time. Test resistance first...
I thought I heard some old Ray Davies in there.
I f the cabinet is actually Bakelite, you can coat it with oven cleaner and let it sit 24 hours in a plastic bag to remove the paint without damaging the Bakelite
Break down the radio to the cabinet. Oven cleaner will remove the crappy paint safely.
cool lil tadio if you don't like the colour just let ot back in the sun and it'll peel off that our poyr some coke/monster on it and it'll do the same thing,
also a radio? huh guess all the poltics things are over, it should be imple just "that was this band and now onto this band og by the way you should go vote for this guy and now onto this track"
Btw. Shango066, just in case you want to emphasize your "kick of german radios" a little bit by pronouncing them correctly: The "U" is actually pronounced like the "OU" in "you" or the "OO" in "food". Just that this vowel is short rather then long like in those two english examples. The way you pronounce them resembles the german word "grantig" which means "grumpy" ^^
It's proununced "Groondish"
Schematic: 85.144.192.2/nvhr/zip/Grundig_85.zip
to night we were young 8:08
wait a min, did that tube say made in great britain? wow a british tube, inside a german radio that is in the usa, that's more traveled then a insert funny joke here
It is german radio built for export to US. I think the british tube is just a replacement of the original german one - as power amplifier tube it fails first. These tubes were produced all over Europe.
I rather have German made radios
These Ero100 (Paper), the Blue Wax and in other Radios like Nordmende the brown Wima Wax are always junk.
Not worth Checking.
Also beware of the Electrolytic on the Audio Output Tube. In my Grundig 3033 it shorted and caused a burnt Resistor and a shorted EL84 (6BQ5 ?)
The white Color on the Cabinet is Original.
Well no matter how good you will make this Radio (I have followed you a long time and I quite admire all you do) and I know this Radio will be better than new, music on LA radio stations sucks. Music in LA once was unbelievable.
Uncle T, Brother John, Paraquat Pete once offered LA a great variety of music. Now it’s Muzak and it sucks. It will always suck. So there is no need to stick to the 9 seconds of play because who the hell can stand more than 9 seconds on LA radio. It only gets worse out of LA. Try the market in VA, NC and about 10 other southern states. It’s god talk and god shouting round the clock. Praise the lord. 🙄
Found a Schematic wich is Similar to the Majesic 85 the german Pendant is Musikgerät 85 (wich translates: Music device). www.nvhr.nl/gfgf/schema.asp?Merk=Grundig&Zoeken=exact&isSubmitted=yes
85.144.192.2/nvhr/zip/Grundig_85.zip
You can download the diagram of this radio on the archive.org/ just search for grundig 85 and there it is :) its not a perfect scan but readable !.
What's under 55 Mhz?
If you meant 550 kHz, they would use the same tuning capacitor for the Europe model and North America (export model), and MW in Europe starts at 510 kHz, with 9 kHz channel spacing.
Ok. Thank you Lake
Toronto, Ontario has had a commercial AM station broadcasting at 530 kHz for many years now. It might be one of the only in North America below 540 kHz. In the 90s, it was Hip-Hop 530, but now it is ethnic multi-language.
i woulnt trust 1950s and older electrolytics. 1960s and newer check them for leakage at rated voltage and replace the bad ones. if i was fixing them for resale id might change them all, but for my own use, id leave the good ones alone
ERO caps have a bad reputation.
jefferyb304 ERrOr caps lol
Estou procurando um apresentador de programa de rádio do Estado de São Paulo ele tem um nome artístico dele é Andkrima
I have an Grundig RC100 amplifier from the 70s somewhere in house, it is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. They do not sound that awful, but it is in fact so ugly I got it for free.
Grundig? you're going to have to work on a Boston accent around a pricey set like that!
not even 4 tubes
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Warning sarcasm alert!!! Oh come on Shango everybody knows the only thing that goes wrong in electronic devices is the electrolytics, especially in the ones with the old tube-type transistor ic's...
Nice radio