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I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Mr. Carlson is beyond his time..... He doesn't look old enough to have the knowledge that he does about vacuum tube's, and at the same time, to have more than an equal amount about today's technology. I'm 74 years old, been in electronics all my life, and yet I still learn things from his video's. Where was this type of gifted individual when I was in college ??? I had great teachers, but none had the ability to get things across like Mr. Carlson. If only it were possible to go back in time........
Hi Paul. FWIW I love these longer format videos. In a sea of OCD, "5 minutes is an eternity" here on UA-cam, your stuff really stands out as being thoughtful and a good investment of time for the audience.
You're so right! I can't remember the last half-decent film I watched but I'll cling to every minute of these videos. Much respect Mr C - people like you (willing to share knowledge online) have taught me more than schools ever did!
I relly enjoy the rhyth of these videos. I might tone down the repeating sentences a bit as I have watched pretty much all of his videos. Then again if someone only watches one or two it's good to press the important points a bit more. Nothing suits everyone at the same time of course.
I am only 23 years old and working in broadcast engineering, but I think these long form factor videos are wonderful. So full of information and knowledge. Any time I see a new Mr. Carlson's lab video posted I get all giddy and grab some coffee to sit back and watch the whole thing. Thank you Paul for your wonderful service and keep it up!
As I said in another comment, I really like the long form of many of your videos. Thank you for making them. What a nice radio, very pretty. And a superb restoration, such neat wiring, as all your projects are. I never knew the interesting history of Majestic, but according to the Wikipedia article which I just read, an early product they made was the B battery eliminator, which had been designed by William Lear (who later founded Lear Jet). And I never knew they were the second largest manufacturer of radios in the United States, behind RCA, in the late 1920's. They were producing 4,000 radios a day in their Chicago factory and employed 11,000 workers to do that. Over the time from the 30's to the 50's the company had its ups and downs economically and at one time was forced by the court to liquidate and the trustee sold their factory and other assets to Zenith, who used it to expand their business. I believe it was a later version of Majestic that eventually became the US importer of Grundig radios, which became Grundig Majestic! I know there are dealers who sell restored radios (hopefully well restored like you do). But you have been able to find so many non-restored and interesting radios to restore; I am curious how you come up with so many interesting radios? Last, I know you sometimes restore radios for collectors, but do you keep all the radios you own and restore or do you sell them?
I haven't read every single comment, sorry if there are already comments about it, but I honestly think that these kinds of old radio's or this style at least would look very good in a very modern styled living room interior with black and white colors, in my opinion. What a great piece of history. Very nice!
Congratulations!!!!is weird to see a a guy of your age handling very old electronics that reminds me my grandfather he was very good working with the blaupunkt vitrolas
The steps you tool to fully restore this radio just blows me away! You have a passion for this you put more money and time into the radio than its worth. Well done Sir!
@@MrCarlsonsLab Gives me hope I want to learn electronics so bad. I do Marine repair for a living over 21 years and it took a major dump it went down 99% I need to get out of it. But every time I see these old radios for sale they are at give away prices and they are not selling . I dont know what magic ball you have to find people with money but every one I know is broke. I got one of those old school Radio shack labs to build circuits off of ebay its was NOS but I have so much to learn I still dont know how these circuits work. Thanks for the reply
Whoa! A new restoration video from Mr. Carlson's Lab?! Life gets put on hold for the next 1 hour and 33 minutes. Entertaining and educational, very good, very nice, thank you.
Sir, I came across your channel about a year ago, you create content for free and I am not a rich man otherwise I would help out, but you have single handedly reignited my passion for engineering, it is nice i feel like a graduate again, thanks buddy, I share your enthusiasm! Keep up the good work
Absolutely love these long format videos. Exactly as you suggest I grab a bite to eat and a cup of coffee, throw it up on the TV in the lounge and just kick back and enjoy the content!
as a foreigner, with time i learned to understand a big variety of english accents and manners of speaking, i want to point out how clear MC's spoken english is, i always feel like no single sound is skipped, i consider him also a voice talent, among other things
Mr Carlson i appreciate you telling it like it is ..."WOW" tells me me shoddy workmanship ...but you will fix make good ... Then us watching will give (upon completion of your expert self ) a well deserved "WOW" well done Sir
There was nothing good on TV tonight, so I watched the entire "BEAUTIFUL 1940'S Majestic Radio Receiver Restoration" video. Only took a 5-minute beak, in between, to make a cup of tea. I know it was a video from over 3 years ago, but it was still enjoyed.
In my opinion.. u r the best electronic engineer I hve ever come across.. God bless ur incarnation in this time being.. Thank you for the wonderful enlightenment..
You can fix those (long necked) pot axles by cutting the axle below the (presumably broken) fork and then drilling and tapping for a new piece of rod. You do the same for the replacement rod, and thread the two together with some thread lock. Once that's done, you gently saw a new fork. Have done it. Works really nice, and in some countries, you can even get specific kits for this kind of job, well, used to, i haven't done this in 5 years.
Paul: I just discovered your video series as a plug from one of my favorite YT channels 'AvE'. His format is the complete opposite of yours...He's untidy, has a pirates tongue and tears down tools and electronics. Yet...There is something you both have in common: Teaching. As wildly different as your format and styles are, I fall asleep listening to your videos and I wake up .... smarter. I am really enjoying your video series and find your work quite calming, entertaining and easy to follow along and digest. A sincere thank you for your content and continuance of these informative videos.
Your videos are fascinating even though I don't have a clue what you are doing. I know nothing about electronics. However, your explanations are easy to understand.
I've seen this type repair before, where the lead tech would give summer help, something like these smaller units to repair or practice on. Tell him what to do, what parts needed and where, hence the bloated solder joints. Then quickly test it, while writing a repair ticket. Beautiful work, you've straightened that chassis out nicely.
Paul I can't begin to claim half of your knowledge but as a ham radio guy and a surgeon, I hugely enjoy and appreciate your videos. Your presentation style and teaching method needs bottling and selling. I should know - I teach military combat surgery and it's technical - but you have the ability to put the art in science as it should be. Thanks mate, Tom.
Count me as one fan who appreciates what I think of as your lowest-common-denominator approach-explaining what you're doing for every level of know-how, from the least to the most experienced. The effect in my case is to reinforce long-lost learning and inevitably teach me much I didn't know. The only missing lesson from my point of view is how your family life allows you to spend so much time and money doing what you do (because, of course, I'm envious). Thanks again.
Excellent resto! BTW, that design is a result of the art deco style created by Raymond Lowey. Waterfall furniture, buildings, automobiles, even railroad locomotives were designed with this influential style in mind.
Thank You Mr. Carlson, always great content. Takes me back to the days when I worked on vacuum tube equipment. Makes me yearn to re-live days by gone. Always looking forward to your new videos!!
amazing restoration work ! I have been playing with tube radios for 10 years now always love to see others doing the same , thanks for the videos From Canada
Another fantastic video. My family think I am a bit strange watching rebuilds of older equipment. I explained its not different than someone watching a restoration of an old car and there are whole shows based around that. I just happen to find this type of machine much more interesting. Thank you again for being in depth in explanation and also in trivia!
One of the rare us-radios, which are not looking ugly. Super-video! Thanks for sharing. The unknown element looks for me like a throughput-capacitor or a flash-security-element. Cheerio from Germany.
Your work always inspires me to go the extra mile with all of my projects; electronic or otherwise. Thanks again for all your great work with this channel and with the Patreon channel. Great explanation of the line cord replacement.
Bassman , I quoted you when talking with another ham at an ARC auction, "I promise to do a Paul Carlson level restoration if you sell me your receiver!" de KQ2E
Paul I know you think vids are too long but i would like to see more on every video.and I bet most viewers are with me on this..keep it up Paul your truly a professional .
Wonder how many old radio shows that radio has played??? Burns and Allen, Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly, no telling how many others... Well done Mr Carlson :-)
What a timely video! I'm working on a Zenith set that has a similar output transformer. Now I know what that tap is all about. The Zenith also has a "death" capacitor separating the B- common from the chassis. I have some X1,Y2 caps to use. The set also needs its power switch rewired to be in the hot side of the AC line, and it needs a line cord with a polarized plug.
Excellent restoration Paul... How well you replace and install the components and wires would put the original factory assemblers to shame... Very interesting to watch... 10/10
I did a bunch of radio restorations 25-30 years ago and just recently got back into it with a couple of recent projects on those 1940s type radios. The speakers are definitely more fragile, I had to repair the cones with Elmers glue. One was a Hallicrafters S-53 that had been partially recapped, but they left a bunch that seemed harder to get to. it was tricky to align, and had an oddball 2.075 Mhz IF. The other was a GE Octal All American 5 clock radio. It was pretty much unmolested, but a couple of tubes were bad, the line cord was shot, and it needed recapping. I managed to find replacement tubes and pretty close capacitors out of my own stock. It is still missing a knob for the on-off switch but is otherwise attractive and complete.
Great stuff. That radio wouldn't look out of place in a design museum. Funny enough Techmoan has a recent video featuring an audio analyzer that uses those indicator tubes you revealed at the end.
For those short on time, I found that playing back this video at 1.5 or even 2 x speed works well. You get all the content at a faster rate. Great work Mr Carlson.
Just feed it with your favourite 1950s newsreels off youtube and off you go! :-) (better than the diaper ads and unicorn piss superhealing crud over the air nowadays I'm sure)
Another great vid ,awsome radio, It is in such good shape for its age I learn so much watching your vids its like going to a class ,Your a great teacher keep the vids comming. I will help when I can Thank you Mr.Carlson.
Thank you very much for this in-depth restoration. The device you showed is a feed-through capacitor used to supress hf interference in electronic devices.
Hello Paul. Antique radio speaker reconning is fun. Most older speakers have unusual mounting brackets and most are 3.2ohm. I can carefully cut just the cone out of an 8 ohm newer speaker of the same size that preferably has a wrinkle paper surround and cut out the old torn cone leaving the voice coil in place and put shims then glue the new cone. Works good. I wished I knew how to fold construction paper into a new cone so I don't have to ruin a new speaker. The hard part is making the paper wrinkle edge. The cone is easy. I looked on eBay and paper cones for a typical 5" speaker is $10.00!!!
On those tuning and volume shafts, another trick is to find something like a piece of plastic that is slightly thicker than the slot and wedge it in the slot to very slightly to spread it.
My life at the moment is about photojournalism in the realms of Sea-Doo Fish Pro jet skis - fishing, spearfishing, catch n’ cook - yet when the Mr C bell rings, it all goes electrical
Superb restoration, superb picture and sound ,superb channel . No idea about mystery object but something adjustable so I go some kind of variable choke or capacitor.Brilliant 1.33 viewing all round.
I had those as toys when I was a kid growing up in the sixties.In those days,I got them for free regardless of vintage.That is the first Majestic radio I've ever seen:I have alot of their phonograph records which were made from 1945 to '49.I specialized in TV repair but I got sick of it because of the "something for nothing crowd".I got out of it in 1990 but I got back into the radio side a few months ago.I have a couple of dozen receivers in my collection.Right now I have a circa 1941 Pilot B1,a 1942 Admiral model 4203 and a circa 1939-47 Aetna AA5 AM only set I got for $18 off of ebay.I can't find any info on the set:there is just a tube diagram and the only thing I see as a possible model number(R 1185)isn't listed on the Radio Daze website.I enjoy your vids.I'm 68 years old and radio has been a hobby of mine since the late '50s.I'm somewhat self taught.My first book on the subject was "Everybody's Radio Manual" published by Popular Mechanics back in 1954 but the book is unchanged from 1934.
Thank you for restoring America's works of art... Americans need to repurchase these pieces of Americana... And when I sit in the living room trying out all the lights and listen to an AM radio station with someone talking to us... as two videos which feed all sorts of crazy ideas into people's minds and distract them from thinking... There should be a radio station that just broadcast Paul Harvey over and over again.
Just found your channel. Longtime UD watcher. Love your content. Your shop looks like something out of military repair shop back in the day. I thought for sure when you were rolling the dial at the end you was going to find Wolfman Jack howling out the next record he was getting ready to spin. Thanks for the download.
Great restoration! I find the alignments the most satisfying part, especially with the tuning results that follow! The first thing that popped into my head with the new trivia question was "It's some sort of antenna balun". :D
Today we will be replacing these high tension line power conditioning capacitors, now remember if you take on a project like this, you do so at your own risk. 😂🤣 Love your vids Mr. Carlson!
Hi Don. Just one extra safety step. If the radio was ever to get plugged into a house outlet that was wired incorrectly, the chassis would be closest to the hot line. One end of the external antenna connection connects directly to the chassis, and the other through that safety cap to the jack (Fahnestock clip) on the rear of the radio.
Aaaaahk it was very painful . Heritage value in that it was an exposed component. Radio worth less now. Nothing wrong with it , no reason to replace it imho.
Hi Paul. What a lovely radio and video too. I wish the UK kept hold of its vacuum tube equipment, but all that is around here is silicon and the occasional germanium 😒 also looked like some form of feed through capacitor! 🤔. From Paul her in the uk.
I recently bought a zenith to refurbish. It was 30 bucks. Going through most of the listings for tube radios is "oh we plugged it in and it makes static". Sometimes you wonder how when you see pics of the line cords. Thanks to you I can figure it out and are the reason I broke down and signed up with patreon.
I was not expecting a reply but good to hear from you. I am kind of going into this backwards and had broadcast engineering put on me. As dangerous as these little radios are its not quite as bad as replacing a tube in a Harris HT30 that took up a weekend not long ago. That barked a major arc and that was an experienced engineer with me. I taught myself a lot as a kid making simple circuits for my dads model trains and more recent the previous engineers/my Elmers at the station but they have retired or passed away now. I don't have a formal education and just now digging into your courses. If they are anywhere near as good as videos here on youtube then I should learn a lot. Thank you again for doing this a lot of this especially in the broadcast world is a dying breed. I am the only one left within 2-3 hours of here. Oh I am looking at the list of caps you use and ran them through digikey and they are not cheap. This may be answered in patreon I am still learning how to use it but have you thought about buying the stuff you commonly use in bulk and then sell them to us as a kit to get started and then we can refill it as needed online for those of us who haven't built the testers yet to grade our own? I have quite a few grab bags from Amazon but the components themselves are anyones guess. I would also gladly buy the protector circuits you made for your analyzers and other projects where at least the board was made and the SMD components done. I have a tremor in my hands and they are just too small for me to work on. Same for the other devices. If you were to offer them as kits I would throw money at you.
Your videos are great. I have been watching trying to learn about old radios as I have a Metropolitan and want to try and refurbish the radio. I will have to have someone tune it when I finish it. I'm mainly wanting to try just to learn. I think I am going to sign up for your classes since I'm sure that will also improve my knowledge while working on this project.
I’m sure someone has the right answer. It looks like a RF blocking feedthrough. Probably has several inductors allowing DC to pass and capacitors between the inductors to filter out a range of frequencies that are unwanted on the “clean side”. We use something almost identical in MRI systems (smaller and very precision), where the exam room requires a very quiet RF environment so not to disturb the receive signal from the patient (on the order of femto amperes), but still have to feed DC to the data acquisition systems inside the exam room. And it reminds me of a very old RF filters of various sizes we used to use on the crypto RF cages we used in the Navy to test ..... {redacted}. You know. Very serious stuff. Enjoyed this video very much!! Thank you!
Paul, you spread time like butter, and we love to learn how, and love to eat it. (Just build my own version of your Super Probe. Designed a low ripple analogue PSU inside + USB 5V alternative power socket. Works as silence as you.)
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My guess at the device at the end is that there's a coil inside that thing, and the two screws are the terminals, so it's some kind of choke.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Mr. Carlson is beyond his time..... He doesn't look old enough to have the knowledge that he does about vacuum tube's, and at the same time, to have more than an equal amount about today's technology. I'm 74 years old, been in electronics all my life, and yet I still learn things from his video's. Where was this type of gifted individual when I was in college ??? I had great teachers, but none had the ability to get things across like Mr. Carlson. If only it were possible to go back in time........
Hi Paul. FWIW I love these longer format videos. In a sea of OCD, "5 minutes is an eternity" here on UA-cam, your stuff really stands out as being thoughtful and a good investment of time for the audience.
You're so right! I can't remember the last half-decent film I watched but I'll cling to every minute of these videos. Much respect Mr C - people like you (willing to share knowledge online) have taught me more than schools ever did!
lelelelelelel muh ocd Im so quirky!
I relly enjoy the rhyth of these videos. I might tone down the repeating sentences a bit as I have watched pretty much all of his videos. Then again if someone only watches one or two it's good to press the important points a bit more. Nothing suits everyone at the same time of course.
This content is great. I haven't seen all of his vids, but will eventually. I'm starting with the longest ones first tho!
I am only 23 years old and working in broadcast engineering, but I think these long form factor videos are wonderful. So full of information and knowledge. Any time I see a new Mr. Carlson's lab video posted I get all giddy and grab some coffee to sit back and watch the whole thing. Thank you Paul for your wonderful service and keep it up!
Glad you're enjoying Nicholas!
As I said in another comment, I really like the long form of many of your videos. Thank you for making them.
What a nice radio, very pretty. And a superb restoration, such neat wiring, as all your projects are.
I never knew the interesting history of Majestic, but according to the Wikipedia article which I just read, an early product they made was the B battery eliminator, which had been designed by William Lear (who later founded Lear Jet).
And I never knew they were the second largest manufacturer of radios in the United States, behind RCA, in the late 1920's. They were producing 4,000 radios a day in their Chicago factory and employed 11,000 workers to do that.
Over the time from the 30's to the 50's the company had its ups and downs economically and at one time was forced by the court to liquidate and the trustee sold their factory and other assets to Zenith, who used it to expand their business. I believe it was a later version of Majestic that eventually became the US importer of Grundig radios, which became Grundig Majestic!
I know there are dealers who sell restored radios (hopefully well restored like you do). But you have been able to find so many non-restored and interesting radios to restore; I am curious how you come up with so many interesting radios?
Last, I know you sometimes restore radios for collectors, but do you keep all the radios you own and restore or do you sell them?
I haven't read every single comment, sorry if there are already comments about it, but I honestly think that these kinds of old radio's or this style at least would look very good in a very modern styled living room interior with black and white colors, in my opinion.
What a great piece of history. Very nice!
Congratulations!!!!is weird to see a a guy of your age handling very old electronics that reminds me my grandfather he was very good working with the blaupunkt vitrolas
The steps you tool to fully restore this radio just blows me away! You have a passion for this you put more money and time into the radio than its worth. Well done Sir!
You should see what people offer me for these. Thanks for your kind comment Roger!
@@MrCarlsonsLab Gives me hope I want to learn electronics so bad. I do Marine repair for a living over 21 years and it took a major dump it went down 99% I need to get out of it. But every time I see these old radios for sale they are at give away prices and they are not selling . I dont know what magic ball you have to find people with money but every one I know is broke. I got one of those old school Radio shack labs to build circuits off of ebay its was NOS but I have so much to learn I still dont know how these circuits work. Thanks for the reply
Whoa! A new restoration video from Mr. Carlson's Lab?! Life gets put on hold for the next 1 hour and 33 minutes. Entertaining and educational, very good, very nice, thank you.
This one looks much more simpler than the receivers from the 30s I saw you repairing before. Another amazing job. Thank you.
This was so enjoyable. Mr. Carlson is a superb teacher.
Sir, I came across your channel about a year ago, you create content for free and I am not a rich man otherwise I would help out, but you have single handedly reignited my passion for engineering, it is nice i feel like a graduate again, thanks buddy, I share your enthusiasm! Keep up the good work
You're welcome Bjorn!
That radio has a real ‘Buck Rogers” vibe.
Hello from the UK, love the channel 👌
Hello Neil!
That radio just looks cool. What a timeless masterpiece.
Always makes my day when a new Mr. Carlson's Lab video pops up. Thanks for that!.
Absolutely love these long format videos. Exactly as you suggest I grab a bite to eat and a cup of coffee, throw it up on the TV in the lounge and just kick back and enjoy the content!
Mr Carlson is a real pro, everything is well thought out and presented in the best way.
Lots of tips and techniques. A great teacher. Thank you.
as a foreigner, with time i learned to understand a big variety of english accents and manners of speaking, i want to point out how clear MC's spoken english is, i always feel like no single sound is skipped, i consider him also a voice talent, among other things
Mr Carlson i appreciate you telling it like it is ..."WOW" tells me me shoddy workmanship ...but you will fix make good ...
Then us watching will give (upon completion of your expert self ) a well deserved
"WOW" well done Sir
Woohoo, new restoration video! Had a really bad day today, but no better way to end it than this! Thank you, Paul!
Mrister Carlsons lab your vintage majestic tube AM radio 📻 from the 1940s is awesome my friend 😅😅😅
There was nothing good on TV tonight, so I watched the entire "BEAUTIFUL 1940'S Majestic Radio Receiver Restoration" video. Only took a 5-minute beak, in between, to make a cup of tea. I know it was a video from over 3 years ago, but it was still enjoyed.
I am impressed with how clear the radio sounds, and all the channels across the band,well done.
These restoration videos are so good, they should be aired television
Mr Carlson you are good at electronics restoration on vintage shortwave radio Receivers and Aliament
In my opinion.. u r the best electronic engineer I hve ever come across.. God bless ur incarnation in this time being..
Thank you for the wonderful enlightenment..
Thank you Fred!
Mrister Carlsons lab you are good at restoring vintage radios and alignment of vintage radios 📻 my friend 😅😅😅😅
I nearly cried when you showed the underneath, it had been butchered.
Fantastic job!
You can fix those (long necked) pot axles by cutting the axle below the (presumably broken) fork and then drilling and tapping for a new piece of rod. You do the same for the replacement rod, and thread the two together with some thread lock. Once that's done, you gently saw a new fork. Have done it. Works really nice, and in some countries, you can even get specific kits for this kind of job, well, used to, i haven't done this in 5 years.
Anyone else feel like going and buying yet another antique radio too work on after watching Mr. Carlson's videos?
Paul: I just discovered your video series as a plug from one of my favorite YT channels 'AvE'. His format is the complete opposite of yours...He's untidy, has a pirates tongue and tears down tools and electronics. Yet...There is something you both have in common: Teaching. As wildly different as your format and styles are, I fall asleep listening to your videos and I wake up .... smarter. I am really enjoying your video series and find your work quite calming, entertaining and easy to follow along and digest. A sincere thank you for your content and continuance of these informative videos.
Thanks for your kind comment David!
Your videos are fascinating even though I don't have a clue what you are doing. I know nothing about electronics. However, your explanations are easy to understand.
I've seen this type repair before, where the lead tech would give summer help, something like these smaller units to repair or practice on. Tell him what to do, what parts needed and where, hence the bloated solder joints. Then quickly test it, while writing a repair ticket.
Beautiful work, you've straightened that chassis out nicely.
Amazing design and conservation!
Paul
I can't begin to claim half of your knowledge but as a ham radio guy and a surgeon, I hugely enjoy and appreciate your videos. Your presentation style and teaching method needs bottling and selling. I should know - I teach military combat surgery and it's technical - but you have the ability to put the art in science as it should be. Thanks mate, Tom.
His repair is a complete rebuild form the ground up! love it! I would actually like to have a radio made and designed by Mr. Carlson!
Mr Carlson your vintage Majestic radio Receiver with broadcast band from the 1940s is cool Good for DXing at night and day
Another fascinating and educational video in nice long format. I soak these up like a sponge :-) Cheers
Count me as one fan who appreciates what I think of as your lowest-common-denominator approach-explaining what you're doing for every level of know-how, from the least to the most experienced. The effect in my case is to reinforce long-lost learning and inevitably teach me much I didn't know.
The only missing lesson from my point of view is how your family life allows you to spend so much time and money doing what you do (because, of course, I'm envious).
Thanks again.
I'm a bit emotional, but I've almost cried when I first saw this Tube Tester. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life.
Think what the present generation misses out on... so much of the beauty of life!
When I was growing up I built a knight kit tube tester, e.g. gen and etc.
Hi,Mr.Carltson, very interesting the restoration is a beatiful radio.I like very much the inspection of the components.thanks for share us.
Excellent resto! BTW, that design is a result of the art deco style created by Raymond Lowey. Waterfall furniture, buildings, automobiles, even railroad locomotives were designed with this influential style in mind.
Thank You Mr. Carlson, always great content. Takes me back to the days when I worked on vacuum tube equipment. Makes me yearn to re-live days by gone. Always looking forward to your new videos!!
Thanks for your kind comment Steve!
amazing restoration work ! I have been playing with tube radios for 10 years now always love to see others doing the same , thanks for the videos From Canada
Glad you're enjoying the video's Rob!
Another fantastic video. My family think I am a bit strange watching rebuilds of older equipment. I explained its not different than someone watching a restoration of an old car and there are whole shows based around that. I just happen to find this type of machine much more interesting. Thank you again for being in depth in explanation and also in trivia!
Wonderful restoration and such an educational video, thank you!!
Also, love the trivia questions.
What a nice radio Paul,,,, and another bundle of information thrown in as well. Thanks again pal.
Happy to share Carl!
Another great informative and detailed restoration video by the Amazing Mr. Paul Carlson! Thank You!
One of the rare us-radios, which are not looking ugly. Super-video! Thanks for sharing.
The unknown element looks for me like a throughput-capacitor or a flash-security-element.
Cheerio from Germany.
Hi Paul...This was so enjoyable. A great teacher. Thank you. Looks like old High-current diode..
Hi Paul- thank you for all your teaching ! io have a gilfan 5 that has already been repaired but has a tube that needs replacing.i have learned alot.
This is a great looking radio. Great job restoring it. I think it's better than new now. :)
Your work always inspires me to go the extra mile with all of my projects; electronic or otherwise. Thanks again for all your great work with this channel and with the Patreon channel. Great explanation of the line cord replacement.
You're very welcome Mr Bassman.
Bassman , I quoted you when talking with another ham at an ARC auction, "I promise to do a Paul Carlson level restoration if you sell me your receiver!" de KQ2E
Paul I know you think vids are too long but i would like to see more on every video.and I bet most viewers are with me on this..keep it up Paul your truly a professional .
Wonder how many old radio shows that radio has played??? Burns and Allen, Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly, no telling how many others... Well done Mr Carlson :-)
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, experience, and projects with us.
What a timely video! I'm working on a Zenith set that has a similar output transformer. Now I know what that tap is all about. The Zenith also has a "death" capacitor separating the B- common from the chassis. I have some X1,Y2 caps to use. The set also needs its power switch rewired to be in the hot side of the AC line, and it needs a line cord with a polarized plug.
Beautiful restore, thank you so much for taking pride in your work and doing the job right. I LOVE that tube tester by the way!
Thanks Devin. It (the tube tester) needs a resto too, you will see the tester being restored in a future video.
Excellent restoration Paul... How well you replace and install the components and wires would put the original factory assemblers to shame... Very interesting to watch... 10/10
Awesome video, Mr. Carlson !
I did a bunch of radio restorations 25-30 years ago and just recently got back into it with a couple of recent projects on those 1940s type radios. The speakers are definitely more fragile, I had to repair the cones with Elmers glue. One was a Hallicrafters S-53 that had been partially recapped, but they left a bunch that seemed harder to get to. it was tricky to align, and had an oddball 2.075 Mhz IF. The other was a GE Octal All American 5 clock radio. It was pretty much unmolested, but a couple of tubes were bad, the line cord was shot, and it needed recapping. I managed to find replacement tubes and pretty close capacitors out of my own stock. It is still missing a knob for the on-off switch but is otherwise attractive and complete.
Great stuff. That radio wouldn't look out of place in a design museum. Funny enough Techmoan has a recent video featuring an audio analyzer that uses those indicator tubes you revealed at the end.
Awesome job mr Carlson big thumbs up 👍
For those short on time, I found that playing back this video at 1.5 or even 2 x speed works well. You get all the content at a faster rate. Great work Mr Carlson.
What a beautiful radio! Excellent restoration and alignment. Well Done!
Great job on such a nice looking old radio. I wish modern stuff looked that good.
Brilliant Paul. Best channel on youtube!!
If this radio could take us back in time to the 50's with all the news, music etc.. that would be incredible...
Just feed it with your favourite 1950s newsreels off youtube and off you go! :-) (better than the diaper ads and unicorn piss superhealing crud over the air nowadays I'm sure)
Another first class restoration video to professional standards. I learn such a lot when I watch these - sure I'm not alone in that! Nice one Paul.
PERFECT AS ALWAYS !!👍👍 And a feed threw capacitor / condenser one use is to block RF noise
Another great vid ,awsome radio, It is in such good shape for its age I learn so much watching your vids its like going to a class ,Your a great teacher keep the vids comming. I will help when I can Thank you Mr.Carlson.
Thank you very much for this in-depth restoration. The device you showed is a feed-through capacitor used to supress hf interference in electronic devices.
Hello Paul. Antique radio speaker reconning is fun. Most older speakers have unusual mounting brackets and most are 3.2ohm. I can carefully cut just the cone out of an 8 ohm newer speaker of the same size that preferably has a wrinkle paper surround and cut out the old torn cone leaving the voice coil in place and put shims then glue the new cone. Works good. I wished I knew how to fold construction paper into a new cone so I don't have to ruin a new speaker. The hard part is making the paper wrinkle edge. The cone is easy. I looked on eBay and paper cones for a typical 5" speaker is $10.00!!!
On those tuning and volume shafts, another trick is to find something like a piece of plastic that is slightly thicker than the slot and wedge it in the slot to very slightly to spread it.
Your restorations are so in-depth it's amazing.
*Awesome work!*
Thanks John, glad you enjoyed!
My life at the moment is about photojournalism in the realms of Sea-Doo Fish Pro jet skis - fishing, spearfishing, catch n’ cook - yet when the Mr C bell rings, it all goes electrical
Mr Carlson the radio chassis look like new that's so awesome
Superb restoration, superb picture and sound ,superb channel . No idea about mystery object but something adjustable so I go some kind of variable choke or capacitor.Brilliant 1.33 viewing all round.
Thanks for your kind comment Harry!
Fantastic video !
Mrister Carlsons lab your utube videos are awesome keep up the good work 👏 🙌 👍 my friend 📻
I had those as toys when I was a kid growing up in the sixties.In those days,I got them for free regardless of vintage.That is the first Majestic radio I've ever seen:I have alot of their phonograph records which were made from 1945 to '49.I specialized in TV repair but I got sick of it because of the "something for nothing crowd".I got out of it in 1990 but I got back into the radio side a few months ago.I have a couple of dozen receivers in my collection.Right now I have a circa 1941 Pilot B1,a 1942 Admiral model 4203 and a circa 1939-47 Aetna AA5 AM only set I got for $18 off of ebay.I can't find any info on the set:there is just a tube diagram and the only thing I see as a possible model number(R 1185)isn't listed on the Radio Daze website.I enjoy your vids.I'm 68 years old and radio has been a hobby of mine since the late '50s.I'm somewhat self taught.My first book on the subject was "Everybody's Radio Manual" published by Popular Mechanics back in 1954 but the book is unchanged from 1934.
As always a fine restoration. You make it look so easy. Thanks for another fine job Friend...Vic
Everything in this video 'shout out loud': "care, safety and perfection". Nice and a nice awesome radio too!
Another great and informative video from the Bob Ross of vintage electronics! Thanks very much!
Thank you for restoring America's works of art...
Americans need to repurchase these pieces of Americana...
And when I sit in the living room trying out all the lights and listen to an AM radio station with someone talking to us...
as two videos which feed all sorts of crazy ideas into people's minds and distract them from thinking...
There should be a radio station that just broadcast Paul Harvey over and over again.
Just found your channel. Longtime UD watcher. Love your content. Your shop looks like something out of military repair shop back in the day.
I thought for sure when you were rolling the dial at the end you was going to find Wolfman Jack howling out the next record he was getting ready to spin.
Thanks for the download.
Great restoration! I find the alignments the most satisfying part, especially with the tuning results that follow! The first thing that popped into my head with the new trivia question was "It's some sort of antenna balun". :D
You're a master, big respect from Belgium.
At 58:00 you gave us the finger!! OMG!! Great video Paul, thank you as always!
Very good restoration! Exellent work. Well done sir.
Today we will be replacing these high tension line power conditioning capacitors, now remember if you take on a project like this, you do so at your own risk. 😂🤣 Love your vids Mr. Carlson!
@1:06:39 a rewarding and gratifying moment. Well done Paul. Can you expand on using a safety cap on the antenna... All the best. Don
Hi Don. Just one extra safety step. If the radio was ever to get plugged into a house outlet that was wired incorrectly, the chassis would be closest to the hot line. One end of the external antenna connection connects directly to the chassis, and the other through that safety cap to the jack (Fahnestock clip) on the rear of the radio.
The mains line cord removal was so satisfying.
Aaaaahk it was very painful . Heritage value in that it was an exposed component. Radio worth less now. Nothing wrong with it , no reason to replace it imho.
Hi Paul. What a lovely radio and video too. I wish the UK kept hold of its vacuum tube equipment, but all that is around here is silicon and the occasional germanium 😒 also looked like some form of feed through capacitor! 🤔. From Paul her in the uk.
Thanks for your kind comment Paul!
Could you do a video restoring a Hammarlund SP 600? Or a Collins R 390/390A?
Really love the professional way you do restorations. Absolutely amazing!
They are on my "to do" list.
@@MrCarlsonsLab , Might as well go right to the best of the best! If you can find one and do it right, we'd all love it so much! de KQ2E
I recently bought a zenith to refurbish. It was 30 bucks. Going through most of the listings for tube radios is "oh we plugged it in and it makes static". Sometimes you wonder how when you see pics of the line cords. Thanks to you I can figure it out and are the reason I broke down and signed up with patreon.
Glad to be of assistance James!
I was not expecting a reply but good to hear from you. I am kind of going into this backwards and had broadcast engineering put on me. As dangerous as these little radios are its not quite as bad as replacing a tube in a Harris HT30 that took up a weekend not long ago. That barked a major arc and that was an experienced engineer with me. I taught myself a lot as a kid making simple circuits for my dads model trains and more recent the previous engineers/my Elmers at the station but they have retired or passed away now. I don't have a formal education and just now digging into your courses. If they are anywhere near as good as videos here on youtube then I should learn a lot. Thank you again for doing this a lot of this especially in the broadcast world is a dying breed. I am the only one left within 2-3 hours of here. Oh I am looking at the list of caps you use and ran them through digikey and they are not cheap. This may be answered in patreon I am still learning how to use it but have you thought about buying the stuff you commonly use in bulk and then sell them to us as a kit to get started and then we can refill it as needed online for those of us who haven't built the testers yet to grade our own? I have quite a few grab bags from Amazon but the components themselves are anyones guess. I would also gladly buy the protector circuits you made for your analyzers and other projects where at least the board was made and the SMD components done. I have a tremor in my hands and they are just too small for me to work on. Same for the other devices. If you were to offer them as kits I would throw money at you.
@@JamesHalfHorse Thanks for your input James!
Your videos are great. I have been watching trying to learn about old radios as I have a Metropolitan and want to try and refurbish the radio. I will have to have someone tune it when I finish it. I'm mainly wanting to try just to learn. I think I am going to sign up for your classes since I'm sure that will also improve my knowledge while working on this project.
i must admit, i love the old style of wiring... No PCB... Just everything soldered to eachother :)
I’m sure someone has the right answer. It looks like a RF blocking feedthrough. Probably has several inductors allowing DC to pass and capacitors between the inductors to filter out a range of frequencies that are unwanted on the “clean side”. We use something almost identical in MRI systems (smaller and very precision), where the exam room requires a very quiet RF environment so not to disturb the receive signal from the patient (on the order of femto amperes), but still have to feed DC to the data acquisition systems inside the exam room.
And it reminds me of a very old RF filters of various sizes we used to use on the crypto RF cages we used in the Navy to test ..... {redacted}. You know. Very serious stuff.
Enjoyed this video very much!! Thank you!
Paul, you spread time like butter, and we love to learn how, and love to eat it.
(Just build my own version of your Super Probe. Designed a low ripple analogue PSU inside + USB 5V alternative power socket. Works as silence as you.)
Thanks Paul! Very nice restoration! The component looks like it might be a HV diode of some sort.