1958 Emerson 1268 Portable TV AM Radio Analysis
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Interesting vintage television set to be made working again with built in AM radio set first of 3 parts making working again beautiful kitchen grease trap entertainment system with lots of leaky wax capacitors and modifications / shango066
I took Radio TV back in the eighties and I was about in my early twenties and there were a few metal portable sets I worked on. The instructor told me those don't last very long because they're compact and can't get rid of heat very well. I was a beginner and it was a lot for a beginner to figure those out.
I picked up a set similar to this at a flea market. Got it cheap because all the knobs were missing. When I took it apart I found all of the knobs it an old brown paper lunch sack inside. Someone had removed them to protect them.
Ahhh! I love that feeling!
I have that set as well from a flea market. It fired right up minus the wonky vertical.
so you donate it to shango ? how was your yoke coil ?
This is fascinating! Electronics from my era (I'm 80). Takes me back. Looking fwd to your AM & TV repair videos!
I’ve learned more from this man and Bob Anderson then anyone else on the internet. Much appreciated you both
Merry Christmas
Agreed on this! The best 2 vintage electronics You Tubers!
Shango, your inspections/diagnoses are never boring…
Merry Christmas 🎄/ Happy New Year 🎉
Thank you.
Fascinating resurrection and looking forward to the following parts.
Can't wait for part 2!
You have a great channel!
I think this would be a great learning opportunity for me and doing this in parts will be so beneficial to me I have a similar set and need to learn how to get it going. Many thanks Shango.
Once it is going we can get our crape commercials to watch. thanks Mike
I love these long videos. Watch them from start to finish i including this one. You mentioned "boring" while checking components. Not at all! Lots of us geeks out here love ur videos pal. Merry Christmas
My grandmother had a B&W zenith tv from the 70's and she only watched it for two hours a day .
It was only used for the afternoon and evening News broadcasts and Some other variety shows. She was in bed by 9 PM . The only reason the tv was retired was because we bought her a small color TV in the late 80's and she had that until her death .
Her little B&W tv had very little hours and my father just took it to the curb outside our house.
:-(
Thank you for yet another great year of learning and laughing along with you.
Viewer since 2018.
You know its gonna be good when the green sweater comes out. Love it. Merry Christmas Shango.
I was thinking it would go back in trash at the begining of the video. Now I'm actually looking forward to the next videos!
32:32 as a child, I learned that it is not possible to repair RF cans because they are magic, and that there is no one in the world who is alout to du repairs on it, so it will bey brocken for ever!
What you learned is wrong
Interesting. I did not realize that Emerson was a company that far back. Thanks, Mr. Shango066.
Greetings from Cape Town. Only the best….
Yep Yep , I remember these sets well. There were a few companies making sets like this. ...GE, Admiral , Hotpoint and so many department store brands as well. I do remember seeing these on the street for garbage pick-up every week. I guess they were considered low cost portables and were discarded after 5 or 6 years of use. Its really great that your picture tube is as good as it is! There were always silvery or very dull when we use to get them in our shop for repair. WHY did everyone remove the tuner shield and throw it away ???? Yopu gonna have a real project on your hands . Thank you for these videos . Happy Holidays Buddy !!!
Love the videos. Take care and happy holidays..
3:45
Guilty as charged, can't say i never popped tubes and light bulbs as a kid 😂
Seems like that compressed air nozzle would be a prime candidate for 99% isopropanol being drawn in to the air stream via a bottle and small tube (Bernoulli effect).
It'd give things a really good cleaning without the dangers of the previous pressure washer adventures.
Merry Christmas!
Wow crusty.
Merry christmas Shango and thanks for the video.
Very nice Television, Merry Christmas Shango
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Merry Christmas Shango. Thanks for all the interesting and entertaining videos.
I remember a few of those coming in as a donation to our electronics class in HS. This was back in the late 70's. Even then they were looked upon as ancient.
Merry Christmas Mr Shango
Inacroiler Nikki Haley bird-brain die skeleton?
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I can not wait until the next 2 (or more) parts. Keep up the great work Shango.
Merry Christmas shango,
I just cleaned out evidence of a mouse nest from a Boss GT-6 Guitar Effects Processor (I wondered how the heck they got in and realized the only way in and out is from under the wah-wah pedal), but your TVs make the stuff I clean look brand new.
That scanner makes a great pdf. Your doing good work for your younger friend. Merry Christmas 🎄28:29 - Someone went to great lengths to keep that Emerson working. Fascinating 😊
Looks like it's going to be a good 3-part series. 👍
Thank you very much for uploading on christmas
Heck yea! Hope you have a good Christmas / New Years! Thank you for all the content this year, its been a blast!
A very merry Christmas Shango and thanks for all the great content.
Cool project, looking forward to the next installments.
Very interesting! I have almost the same set but in a television-only version. Yours is quite interesting with the AM radio option and the 3V filament tubes used for it. I will look forward to the parts 2 and 3 resurrection videos! Mine has a lot of white ceramic covered paper caps in it, I got it working as-is but I want to recap and properly restore it when I get a chance!
Excellent as usual. Thank you. All the best for the holidays. Love your channel
Merry Christmas Shango, thanks for the video!
looks fun, happy holidays!
I had a model very close to this that was all colored as the reddish band in this one. Grandparents gave it to me when I was ~ 11yo. Never thought I'd see it again.
When I was in school, I had to walk by the town dump every day. I almost always went to look for stuff being thrown out, it was rare for me to not find something decent with some salvageable parts. Over the years there must have been many dozens of these things thrown out. As I recall, they all had series tubes and were usually baked pretty good. I stopped bothering with them.
It wouldn't be a Christmas weekend without shango and some 50s tubage. But, this time sick in bed with covid. Still, better than being stuck at the in-laws!
My Aunt gave me her Turqoise and white GE portable when I was 11 yrs. old, used it for many years, a bit heavy for a 'portable' but to be expected back then in 1965.
Awesome job you done in 2023 & hope 2024 is another great year & thanks for the wonderful videos Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you & your family. -73's
Here's wishing the DynaScan tube tester a Merry Christmas and a re-calibration.
I don't know what this is all about but I sure enjoy it.
A lot.
3d print knobs is great why i bought a sweet one off ebay returned
I would assume the CRT is turned off when using the radio or record player,
so the two 3V fillament valves in the radio would be swiched in and the 6V CRT fillament switched out. (?)
Merry Christmas Shango and everyone watching.
This will be a very interesting series, looking forward to it..👍
Haha that PCB at 17:43 looks like the inside of an ashtray! :D
@0:39 - Ah, the 50's American cars. "When the chrome was thick and the women were straight" - Michael Savage.
much respect sir, happy holidays thanks for the tutorials
my favourite nerd started his career with an Emerson TV. He just had to make sure it was tuned to channel 3...
The .22 cartridge was featured in a Darwin Award as a truck headlight fuse replacement.
I have made the purest of 'Green !! '....cheers.
Merry Christmas🎅 Leo 73
The 22 magnum comment caused me to lose control of my bowels.
I was watching your other video the 1947 resurrection. The car alarm is called The ghetto 5000. Your right i see cars like that in Philadelphia. Great learning videos shango066!
Its not just a handle,its also a protractor!
This TV set would be a great candidate for the Lady Kenmore washing machine you repaired. Just use the delicate cycle.
Merry Christmas shango
Seiner Street relax mcdevelies?
Love your videos
Weren't the Philco sets much slimmer at the time?
Nice tv, i wish i had one of those still
Marry Christmas I really like your tv
An astro spoiler mobargo flusher?
1:44 Radio-TV-Phono.... NUT!
NUT! Say it! Nut!
A tip of the cap to the drive through comedy bit by Stevens and Grdnic...
31:09 😂
5:15 “on the budget side” - that would be par for the course for a British TV set of the same era! Including mains dropper resistor with different tappings for different voltages!
Nice tv 🎉. This set has the same features as the Emerson 1232. I do believe they were both marketed as "port-o-rama"sets, but the major differences being the 1232 uses a 8 inch picture tube and was considerably smaller. It was also a power transformer set.
I had one of those. Ran quite warm.
the handle became a compass like the ones you use to make perfect circles
Stunning TV
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I’m about 10 days older than this TV…
Condition is somewhat similar..
Any end of the year EOL’s in our future 💥
My family once had an RCA B@W set about that size. It was a red metal set, had the controls under a flip up door on the top right hand side. I don't think the RCA was a 'hot chassis' set, it probably had a power transformer.
WOW. If you don't do anything else with that set, SAVE THE CRT!!!. Good replacement CRTs are as rare as hen's teeth today!
Wow, UA-cam has really FSCK'ed this video with TON'S of ads
so, at an antique store in my town there is a 70$ zenith vacuum tube tv and it looks to have all its parts. should I get it?
The cathode power impacts the current it can pass. So the 25V tube can pass probably like 5x more current than the 12V one. But the plate dissipation isn't always directly correlated to the cathode heater power.
That's why for example 19W 6L6GC's have only a 6W heater. Meanwhile a horizontal output tube like an 15W EL500 has a 9W heater. The EL500 is rated for 440mA max cathode current, but the 6L6GC is only around 200mA... If you try to use a 6L6GC at 440mA of pulsed cathode current, the cathode emissive coating will literally be ripped off the cathode tube.
I wonder if there was a design flaw with the original horiz output and there was a service bulletin to replace it with that?
I wonder if grease gets sucked up by the high voltage quicker than cigarette smoke. Maybe that could account for the chassis premature aging.
Nice tv 🎉
The black growing Steve where these easy school you need evelies?
The metal cup around the cathode (Wehnelt cylinder) might not be discolored, but the neck seems to have a lot of metal evaporated on the glass around the pins. Looks like very high hour. Maybe it is gassy, and that gives a false reading on the tester?
Your tube tester is too reality based. Looking forward to the series.
I have a 1956 RCA metal portable. It has a power transformer. But the CRT was like new. My theory is that the portables were not as heavily used.
Huh, a series string hot chassis set with RCA phono input and speaker output referenced to chassis ground?!
I wonder if the TV set was modified to death. The mods worked, kinda, sorta, and then it was retired.
Heinrich Barkhausen discovered that a slow, smooth increase of a magnetic field applied to a piece of ferromagnetic material, such as iron, causes it to become magnetized, not continuously but in minute steps. also could be a German dog locked in his home ... barking & barking .
Part 4: Proper decontamination and proper disposal per haz-mat protocols.
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Love it! Let's do it!
Is it possible some of that dirt in the set is part of the plastic decomposing, like some type of oil substance?
Yep, I'd check that tube tester. I can't believe all of those tubes are bad like that.
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GOTTA LOVE THEM MUSHROOMS!
It would be cool if you could use a 3-D printer to make the part for the centering magnets!
Brakeclean or Terminal cleaner could be an option to remove the crud. I know you don't like cleaning, but at least both products evaporate quickly.
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Not too keen on the headphone socket mounted on the chassis. 120V applied to the viewer's head could be unpleasant. It's a typical modification by those who don't know what they're doing with live chassis radio and TV sets.
Is there a way to contact you for vintage TV repair?
50's plastics have become a major problem. The technology was in its infancy and they did not stand the test of time. My 50's spinet piano is now useless because the plastic pieces connecting the hammers to the keys have disintegrated. Replacements are available but installing them is very delicate, tedious, risky and time-consuming since there are 88 of them.
It's as old as I am.
Maybe an enterprising teenager did this retrofit to get a bedroom set from grandma’s old broken tv
Granda was tired of this cheap kitchen set being always broken
" need to blow this thing off " LoL thats what she said
17:03 Emerson throughout their history outsourced the vast majority of their products and re-branded them with their name. They indeed were (& are) the lowest budget products on the market for a reason. It doesn't surprise me the things your going to un-earth on this set.😊