As the owner of a 1965 Rambler - I thank you for giving life back to this radio! Also - MUCH respect to all you folks that know what on earth you're doing!
Man the '63 Rambler, do I remember that well. There was a jeweler here in town who purchased on brand new in '63, he drove that old car till he died back in 06! By the time he passed on, you could see him coming from a mile away from the oil that poured out the tail pipe, but being in South Dakota, one of the last "free" states when it comes to pollution, nobody cared! When I was a boy in the '60's I used to love "upgrading my car radio. Back then Stereo was just becoming a thing, Hi FI was still the thing to have, and having a front and rear speaker was the "IN" thing. So it was that I found a radio out of a Chrysler Imperial, it was the REAL DEAL man, had motorized tuning so when you pushed a button a small electric motor would advance the needle and tune the radio to the right frequency. I had to take a hack saw to the dash on my 1950 Ford Custom to fit it in, but fit it I did, I ran two large speakers on the back deck, mounted beneath the cardboard insert and punched holes so the sound could escape. When Dad bought the for me, (my FIRST car) for $25.00 it had been in a front end collision, so my best friend and I made a trip to the city dump and found a front clip, we took it off the wreck at the dump and replaced the front end of my pretty little gray Ford with a black front clip and hood. Really didn't turn out that bad, then, since the front seat was trashed by the old man (first owner) who had it, I took out the front seat and replaced it with a front seat taken out of (wait for it!) Rambler Station Wagon. You see, the Rambler had an innovative idea and had a fold down seat rest on the front bench seat, so when folded down, I had a full size bed! Man with that hifi radio, the fold down seat and a gallon of tap beer (purchased by a bootlegger I knew) we could party hearty anywhere. TO enhance the car, we painted the inside of the two dome lights (one on each door pillar in that model, with a red fingernail polish, and my buddy poured a half bottle of Jade East men's after shave down the defroster, so the smell was positively putrid till we had smoked about a carton of Marlboro in the car. Ah yes, she was quite a party wagon, and truly enhanced my young sex education, which was, as it should be, left to the youth of America to learn through experimentation.
Motorola had one of best electronic engineering department in our country. When I serviced those car radios the 2SA72 transistor was always the problem component that failed back in the 70 s.
25:48 I remember that dial coverage... years ago my family lived in Sun Valley, then, later Saugus. In Sun Valley I was about 10 in '67 and listened mainly to what was then KHJ 930 and KRLA 1110 ... the AM rock stations back then. In the area I lived in then KMPC at 710 was the strongest on the AM dial.... whenever I would make a little crystal set, KMPC always came in loud and clear :-)..... good memories.
Shango, I had a customer bring in a 64 Rambler Ambassador for some electrical work, and it did have this same identical radio in it. Added an FM section to it, otherwise didn't need much. Good call on the model year.
The Aurora FMC. It's a self contained tuner on a board just slightly larger than a postage stamp which uses the AM oscillator as a reference and breaks into the detector when in FM mode.
It baffles me the amount of people that don't get the point of your channel. It's about diagnosising not shot gunning caps anybody can shot gun a radio/tv etc figuring out what is really wrong is the challenge and you do it very well!
That girl was not keeping it gangsta. You're right about the automatic capacitor replacement epidemic---in a set of this vintage, germanium transistors are more suspect than failed electrolytics.
Shango066 you are a damn good teacher. It takes talent to coherently vocalize your diagnosis process, and logically work through the problem. You would've been my favorite High School shop teacher. The capacitor lesson was also a great point. If you just start replacing good parts (as a noob) you stand a better chance at creating a whole new problem where none previously existed. Love the radio and TV stuff....but the mine exploration is F-ing terrifying! Claustrophobia has me yelling at the screen. Can't wait for more. Peace
That's a cool dial lamp replacement with the LEDs. That set is overall cool.. I like the shape of it's cabinet. That would make a nice vintage battery-powered portable boom-box project installed in a nice homebrew outer cabinet with built-in batteries and telescoping whip antenna. :-)
Several years ago I built a 1972 Ford car radio into a wood cabinet, with internal speaker, batteries and a whip antenna. To keep the whip tracking along across the dial, I made a little coupler-shaft that extends the RF amp's input trimmer-capacitor adjustment to a knob on the back of the wood cabinet... works great. :-) The current draw for that particular set is only about 200 milliamps with the volume all the way down and just a little more at comfortable listening level and is ideal for a homebrew project like that. I wonder what that Rambler set draws...
I have watched many of your videos. I really like the fact that you DIAGNOSE problems, rather than shotgun parts. Of course some "known bad" parts should always be considered for replacement. But, I'm with you, not all caps need be replaced. I also like the fact that you actually do most of the work "on-camera" rather than going into lengthy chats about what you have done "off camera". I just wish I had the sophisticated diagnostic gear you have. I got some basic tools, such as a few very good tube testers, several multimeters, a small cap checker, etc. But I sure wish I had the big CRT tester and alignment signal generators you have. Sigh!
My dad had a 1961 Rambler back in the day. He was a junior high school history teacher and used it to commute to work in it. He sold it (still in operation) to some hippies in 1970 for $80. I saw it parked in San Francisco seven years later.
*AWESOME* video, Shango! I always look forward to your new vintage electronics repair videos--I always learn something. It's *very important* to obtain a baseline operating condition on any vintage radio or TV set before monkeying around with the caps, but I would *closely* visually inspect the capacitors in the power-supply circuit and *test them* before energizing the chassis. I see that this car radio came off of the assembly line shortly before the CONELRAD markings came off of AM radio dials. (I feel very sorry and empathize for the young lady at the door of that apartment, and know what it's like to be dumped like that. I hope she's okay.)
That poor girl got her heart broken. Been there that many times & it still happens & hurts now. God, you have more excitement & fun in your neighbourhood! All I get is my neighbour swearing at her kid all the time in her backyard & it echoes into my house! Good to see you got the radio working & love you Shango, cheers Corinna xx P.S I only watch your videos on your channel, no chinesebot whatever for me. LOL
I agree on the capacitor thing, I've got plenty of old electronics and I've NEVER changed a capacitor. There's only one thing I ever came across that actually needs new caps. Still does it's job though, just hums.
The one thing that Engineers did not take into consideration with those old sets, kids using the cars as, well meeting centers with young ladies before they got their Drivers License. Dad used to get so pissed off at me when I sat in the car and jumper the aux to power then turned on the radio so we could have some music while we, well, explored each others bodies and such in the old ford parked alongside the house, out of view of the windows. Then when dad wanted to go uptown the battery would be dead and he would have to dig out the battery charger and hook it to the car as the sweat would form on his forehead, his hands reaching for the pack of cigarettes that was EMPTY, his hip pocket was missing the half pint of whiskey that lived there as it too had gone dry. Of course I had taken his last pack of smokes for my own use and the whiskey was out in my shack to be consumed by my buddies and I that night.
Love re-watching some of your stuff, especially the old radio's. I heard you were expecting snow in the mountains, we just got 7 friggin inches of the white shit last night, expecting another 3 inches overnight tonight, and it isn't EVEN HALLOWEEN YET! Very early for snow here in South Dakota, I hate to see what winter has in store for us this year. Thanks a million for the videos, just curious, I sent you a couple jpeg's of how to read those old domino capacitors I found in an old Air Force Electronics Manual, it shows how to tell if they are paper or mica by one of the dots.
Johnny P My street is like that too! It pisses me off when they have to do it early hours of the morning or late at night while I'm trying to sleep. Grrr
Nice repair! It will work even better with the correct impedance car antenna (and ground plane) and the trimmer adjusted. The Motorola radio looks great - wonder what the Rambler looks like...
Agree with you on the replacing the caps as not being a "cure all". But while working on something I think it's not a bad idea to replace old electrolytics as preventative maintenance.
Great job and thank you for creating these videos. I grew up in Rambler land and remember this type of radio, I would have been 14 years old in 1964... What was the loud bump when turning on the radio if it wasn't the speaker? That one still has me scratching my head.
I had a 65 rambler classic 770, it was a rust bucket but I got it running, someone also put a cheap LED in the display lamp, I've seen some no transformer sets use bulb as basically a fuse also. My radio was missing unfortunately.
I had a 1963 AMC Ambassador which had this same Motorola radio. Mine worked well but the tuner eventually went dead on it, so I tapped a line in jack to play nicely compressed mp3 audio into it. of course the car is long gone now - but interestingly enough this car had an alternator rated I believe 35 amps or was it 55? I forget.. But it was a true alternator with a voltage regulator produced by : Motorola! The voltage regulator transistor on it was a Motorola and it was Gold plated/colored just like the one on that Motorola AM Radio. The Voltage Reg on the alternator was bad and I couldn't source a replacement so simply updated it to a random Bosch alternator that more or less fit in place of the original Motorola Alternator. That AM Radio sounded good and pulled in distant stations with ease and sounded good too!
it's not the generator that's noisy, it's the ignition system... there's even a resistor in the disturbitor in many cars, if you bridge it the radio is MUCH noisier... I thought it was for like... limiting current for the spark plug but I guess it also reduces noise in the radio
Am Radio - were you able fix your your AM radio for the ford fairmont car? Your correct i was wrong to always say it's the capacitors I like how you check everything and your videos teach me a lot and what I learned is there could be other issues as well
Just a quick note the radio. for the 1963 Rambler was the same radio that fit the 1964 and the 1965 Ramblers so, it could of started life in a 1964, then got stuck in a 1963
Often wondered why Motorola and Delco (not familiar with Ford/Philco or Mopar) car radios used a class A output stage. Just a matter of available current and circuit simplicity? I recall when Delco switched to class B, they also went to bridged designs that required a floating ground to each speaker - but output power was doubled, and that 3db did seem to make a difference. Oh, and my rant is this boner to slap LED lighting into anything and everything vintage. UGH! "Oh, look at my silver face PIoneer with the ultra bright pink / green / purple lighting". Egads, if my eyes rolled any harder, I'd see my brains.
A nice interlude with a "Days of Our Lives" reality soap opera. Looked like Section 8 housing to me, so lots of broken-hearted folks going to miss Obama and the gravy train. SNIFF! Back to radio's, given the hard to obtain and high cost of Germanium transistors today, 45 plus years down the road of their demise from new designs...isn't it practical to consider re-biasing the circuits for their Silicon equivalents? I know it could be a lot of work, but the option is tossing this stuff on the scrap pile.
What happened to weekly videos fixing tv,s radio show cars what ever happened to the 1992 ford explore you changed the lock on and did you fix the am radio for your for ford fairmont car- would like to see video exploring the mins and desert find tv,s
Nashes & Ramblers, LMAO! Such weird cars! Always driven slow by old farts in the 1960s if I remember correctly. Like Buicks in more recent decades. In the 1970s I inherited a Javelin from my aunt. I called it "the Nash Rambler"! I threw a stereo in & we hippies smoked & tripped our brains out in the thing!
Thats not a radio! It's a tank with a tuning dial glued to the front of it, damn they don't make things this strong anymore. I can see a couple of broken traces on that board at 14:40
there is a video arround showing a piece of fresh wood sounding when touching a powerful radio antenna. isnt this something you really want to do with KNX 50KW antenna?
Maybe a silly question, but maybe not, I've always wondered why we use silicon transistors instead of germanium transistors. I mean half the voltage drop should theoretically mean that they are more efficient, as less voltage is dropped as heat?
Germanium transistors are not very reliable nowadays. Sometimes the germanium crystal will grow inside the can and short to the case, and sometimes even a tin whisker inside the case will short them out.
older fabric or graphite paper speaker cones,their response and smoothness can be increased by painting on rubber cement to each surface,I did so with a pair of utah coax 3 ways,,celesta is what I remember on the inside labels,even the bass suspension was fabric,,use a fan to chase the damn fumes,,nasty stuff,I had those utahs working from '71 till the mid 90s,finally crapped out * intalled pyle 10''' drivers in the same cabinets. a pic of them got a lot of music outa these things thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images2/1/0511/16/vintage-utah-celesta-c8jc-coaxial_1_b5f7791fd0e81915525d02554c9f9388.jpg
I got years of use with my improvisations grygory,, the receiver I used was a pioneer 35 wpc 200 buck unit, and a panasonic vintage low powered 15 wpc amfm/cassette , but smooooth amfm apparatus that handled the fireworks of tchaikovskys symphony # 7 really well,,bass that shook the damn house, the sound curtain they made in handling celesta,cymbals,so clear you could point almost see the instrument position in the orchestra pit,,or stage,really excellent definition,,,neighbors who heard the set up through open doors remarked on how clear sounding my set up was,,
changing caps is future proofing. it might work now, might work for a 1,2 years but since you are at it why not make sure it will work for the next 10....20
As the owner of a 1965 Rambler - I thank you for giving life back to this radio! Also - MUCH respect to all you folks that know what on earth you're doing!
Man the '63 Rambler, do I remember that well. There was a jeweler here in town who purchased on brand new in '63, he drove that old car till he died back in 06! By the time he passed on, you could see him coming from a mile away from the oil that poured out the tail pipe, but being in South Dakota, one of the last "free" states when it comes to pollution, nobody cared! When I was a boy in the '60's I used to love "upgrading my car radio. Back then Stereo was just becoming a thing, Hi FI was still the thing to have, and having a front and rear speaker was the "IN" thing. So it was that I found a radio out of a Chrysler Imperial, it was the REAL DEAL man, had motorized tuning so when you pushed a button a small electric motor would advance the needle and tune the radio to the right frequency. I had to take a hack saw to the dash on my 1950 Ford Custom to fit it in, but fit it I did, I ran two large speakers on the back deck, mounted beneath the cardboard insert and punched holes so the sound could escape. When Dad bought the for me, (my FIRST car) for $25.00 it had been in a front end collision, so my best friend and I made a trip to the city dump and found a front clip, we took it off the wreck at the dump and replaced the front end of my pretty little gray Ford with a black front clip and hood. Really didn't turn out that bad, then, since the front seat was trashed by the old man (first owner) who had it, I took out the front seat and replaced it with a front seat taken out of (wait for it!) Rambler Station Wagon. You see, the Rambler had an innovative idea and had a fold down seat rest on the front bench seat, so when folded down, I had a full size bed! Man with that hifi radio, the fold down seat and a gallon of tap beer (purchased by a bootlegger I knew) we could party hearty anywhere. TO enhance the car, we painted the inside of the two dome lights (one on each door pillar in that model, with a red fingernail polish, and my buddy poured a half bottle of Jade East men's after shave down the defroster, so the smell was positively putrid till we had smoked about a carton of Marlboro in the car. Ah yes, she was quite a party wagon, and truly enhanced my young sex education, which was, as it should be, left to the youth of America to learn through experimentation.
Cool you shared this. I remember the fold down seats in those cars The family had some of them.
Motorola had one of best electronic engineering department in our country. When I serviced those car radios the 2SA72 transistor was always the problem component that failed back in the 70 s.
25:48 I remember that dial coverage... years ago my family lived in Sun Valley, then, later Saugus. In Sun Valley I was about 10 in '67 and listened mainly to what was then KHJ 930 and KRLA 1110 ... the AM rock stations back then. In the area I lived in then KMPC at 710 was the strongest on the AM dial.... whenever I would make a little crystal set, KMPC always came in loud and clear :-)..... good memories.
Good Job Shango 10/10 you truly are the Sherlock Holmes of fixing crapped out old shit....
Shango, I had a customer bring in a 64 Rambler Ambassador for some electrical work, and it did have this same identical radio in it. Added an FM section to it, otherwise didn't need much. Good call on the model year.
How did you add a FM section?
The Aurora FMC. It's a self contained tuner on a board just slightly larger than a postage stamp which uses the AM oscillator as a reference and breaks into the detector when in FM mode.
Justin Rubsam
Wow thanks, thats cool! Never heard about something like that!
It baffles me the amount of people that don't get the point of your channel. It's about diagnosising not shot gunning caps anybody can shot gun a radio/tv etc figuring out what is really wrong is the challenge and you do it very well!
That girl was not keeping it gangsta. You're right about the automatic capacitor replacement epidemic---in a set of this vintage, germanium transistors are more suspect than failed electrolytics.
Shango066 you are a damn good teacher.
It takes talent to coherently vocalize your diagnosis process, and logically work through the problem. You would've been my favorite High School shop teacher.
The capacitor lesson was also a great point. If you just start replacing good parts (as a noob) you stand a better chance at creating a whole new problem where none previously existed.
Love the radio and TV stuff....but the mine exploration is F-ing terrifying! Claustrophobia has me yelling at the screen. Can't wait for more.
Peace
I had a 63 Rambler Ambassador with AM radio. AMC advertised they had the first transistorized car radio. I believe they called it "Instant On."
That's a cool dial lamp replacement with the LEDs. That set is overall cool.. I like the shape of it's cabinet. That would make a nice vintage battery-powered portable boom-box project installed in a nice homebrew outer cabinet with built-in batteries and telescoping whip antenna. :-)
Several years ago I built a 1972 Ford car radio into a wood cabinet, with internal speaker, batteries and a whip antenna. To keep the whip tracking along across the dial, I made a little coupler-shaft that extends the RF amp's input trimmer-capacitor adjustment to a knob on the back of the wood cabinet... works great. :-) The current draw for that particular set is only about 200 milliamps with the volume all the way down and just a little more at comfortable listening level and is ideal for a homebrew project like that. I wonder what that Rambler set draws...
You are never quite sure what you will see when viewing Shango066 and that's how we like it. LOL Keep up the good work sir.
Love the 640-1240 kc Conelrad indicators.
My Sonomatic doesn't have them so that puts it after the Conelrad era
I have watched many of your videos. I really like the fact that you DIAGNOSE problems, rather than shotgun parts. Of course some "known bad" parts should always be considered for replacement. But, I'm with you, not all caps need be replaced. I also like the fact that you actually do most of the work "on-camera" rather than going into lengthy chats about what you have done "off camera". I just wish I had the sophisticated diagnostic gear you have. I got some basic tools, such as a few very good tube testers, several multimeters, a small cap checker, etc. But I sure wish I had the big CRT tester and alignment signal generators you have. Sigh!
My dad had a 1961 Rambler back in the day. He was a junior high school history teacher and used it to commute to work in it. He sold it (still in operation) to some hippies in 1970 for $80. I saw it parked in San Francisco seven years later.
Great radio analyses and repair.
*AWESOME* video, Shango! I always look forward to your new vintage electronics repair videos--I always learn something. It's *very important* to obtain a baseline operating condition on any vintage radio or TV set before monkeying around with the caps, but I would *closely* visually inspect the capacitors in the power-supply circuit and *test them* before energizing the chassis. I see that this car radio came off of the assembly line shortly before the CONELRAD markings came off of AM radio dials.
(I feel very sorry and empathize for the young lady at the door of that apartment, and know what it's like to be dumped like that. I hope she's okay.)
That poor girl got her heart broken. Been there that many times & it still happens & hurts now. God, you have more excitement & fun in your neighbourhood! All I get is my neighbour swearing at her kid all the time in her backyard & it echoes into my house! Good to see you got the radio working & love you Shango, cheers Corinna xx
P.S I only watch your videos on your channel, no chinesebot whatever for me. LOL
***** yeah true because he wasn't going to let her in.
yes Shango is awesome keep the videos coming I wait for your videos. 73
My Grandfathers 62 Rambler was the first Car I remember ever riding in, the Radio must have been similar!
Great educational and entertaining looking at old radio technology like this.
I love watching what you do, shango066!
As usual, good repair, good rant. Can hear KNX up here in Portland. lol
I agree on the capacitor thing, I've got plenty of old electronics and I've NEVER changed a capacitor. There's only one thing I ever came across that actually needs new caps. Still does it's job though, just hums.
I have an old valve radio with old caps and is worked fine but they have been changed as they aren't the best an they are really leaky.
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I believe he is talking about the electrolytics. Those are usually fine. But the paper ones are always bad. They leak and short.
brilliant video as always
Well if it's that russian transister
Makes that Radio Work
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The one thing that Engineers did not take into consideration with those old sets, kids using the cars as, well meeting centers with young ladies before they got their Drivers License. Dad used to get so pissed off at me when I sat in the car and jumper the aux to power then turned on the radio so we could have some music while we, well, explored each others bodies and such in the old ford parked alongside the house, out of view of the windows. Then when dad wanted to go uptown the battery would be dead and he would have to dig out the battery charger and hook it to the car as the sweat would form on his forehead, his hands reaching for the pack of cigarettes that was EMPTY, his hip pocket was missing the half pint of whiskey that lived there as it too had gone dry. Of course I had taken his last pack of smokes for my own use and the whiskey was out in my shack to be consumed by my buddies and I that night.
Love re-watching some of your stuff, especially the old radio's. I heard you were expecting snow in the mountains, we just got 7 friggin inches of the white shit last night, expecting another 3 inches overnight tonight, and it isn't EVEN HALLOWEEN YET! Very early for snow here in South Dakota, I hate to see what winter has in store for us this year. Thanks a million for the videos, just curious, I sent you a couple jpeg's of how to read those old domino capacitors I found in an old Air Force Electronics Manual, it shows how to tell if they are paper or mica by one of the dots.
you ARE awesome. very enjoyable edu
LOL, yes Shango, you _are_ awesome! ;)
ShysterLawyer Too right he is! Shango066 is awesome & gorgeous.
Haaaa, I'll have to leave the gorgeous part to your discretion.
ShysterLawyer Haha, yeah it does sounds better coming from a female then a male. LOL 😂
Nice bit of troubleshooting there ;-)
This video is full of gold, LMAO. I feel bad for the crying woman, but the commentary, lmao.
nice way to start off my monday! happy MLK day!
Jay Bee Yuck, hate milk. Lactose intolerant.
Corinna Roberts wouldn't that give you the shits lol
allan mitchell Nah it just makes me vomit so I drink soy milk instead because it doesn't come back up.
Jay Bee Your gross & no I don't swallow. LMFAO
You dirty boy.
I've got the car meant for this radio. got to get to mine eventually. failure in audio amp stage
LOL "Hey you with the annoying friggin horn! Use your cell phone!"
*cell phone rings
Johnny P My street is like that too! It pisses me off when they have to do it early hours of the morning or late at night while I'm trying to sleep. Grrr
nice that led backlight bulb replacement looks perfect in there lol...
Tony Fleetwood I was reading the comments to see if anyone else noticed the LED replacement bulb. 👍 😆
Nice repair! It will work even better with the correct impedance car antenna (and ground plane) and the trimmer adjusted. The Motorola radio looks great - wonder what the Rambler looks like...
Agree with you on the replacing the caps as not being a "cure all". But while working on something I think it's not a bad idea to replace old electrolytics as preventative maintenance.
Great job and thank you for creating these videos. I grew up in Rambler land and remember this type of radio, I would have been 14 years old in 1964...
What was the loud bump when turning on the radio if it wasn't the speaker? That one still has me scratching my head.
Motorola made a quality product back in the 60's.
lol... you ARE awesome. great job. i am inspired
yes you are mate keep up the great videos
Thank for the video! Like!
Shango, how did you get the name Shango?
I was wondering the same thing
There was a Kojak episode where he traces his perp from the stations preselected on an old car radio 😁
I had a 65 rambler classic 770, it was a rust bucket but I got it running, someone also put a cheap LED in the display lamp, I've seen some no transformer sets use bulb as basically a fuse also. My radio was missing unfortunately.
I want to go back to the 1960's.
That radio is far from worthless. 60s stock car radios are in high demand just as other parts from them are.
I had a 1963 AMC Ambassador which had this same Motorola radio. Mine worked well but the tuner eventually went dead on it, so I tapped a line in jack to play nicely compressed mp3 audio into it. of course the car is long gone now - but interestingly enough this car had an alternator rated I believe 35 amps or was it 55? I forget.. But it was a true alternator with a voltage regulator produced by : Motorola! The voltage regulator transistor on it was a Motorola and it was Gold plated/colored just like the one on that Motorola AM Radio. The Voltage Reg on the alternator was bad and I couldn't source a replacement so simply updated it to a random Bosch alternator that more or less fit in place of the original Motorola Alternator. That AM Radio sounded good and pulled in distant stations with ease and sounded good too!
21:18 I was just searching for a replacement GT313 for my German tube tv..what a small world.
it's not the generator that's noisy, it's the ignition system... there's even a resistor in the disturbitor in many cars, if you bridge it the radio is MUCH noisier... I thought it was for like... limiting current for the spark plug but I guess it also reduces noise in the radio
17:47 Nice work!... that transistor looks cool, like a little flying saucer... even more cool at 21:05.... Russian technology is totally awesome. :-)
The Tranpacitor was the culprit. I always replace all Tranpacitors... LOL
I thought it was the fetzer valve, or the muffler bearings.
Dennis Hill ... or you can repair the transistor, by refilling it with new germanium fluid.
Man Shango. That transistor must have had a bad internal capacitor. Just kidding :)
All my best.
Bobby
The CCCP Transistors do it again now you know if a germanium transistor lets go replace it with a germanium transistor from the CCCP.
Am Radio - were you able fix your your AM radio for the ford fairmont car? Your correct i was wrong to always say it's the capacitors I like how you check everything and your videos teach me a lot and what I learned is there could be other issues as well
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hey shango066 could you do an eol on one of those tv's that have the dvd and vhs player built in? and do something unique with it?
EZ way to set antenna trimmer - go to high end of band - even if no station is present - tweak for maximum noise.
Radio may have been an after market add on, or replacement for radio that was original.
Radio made in januari car made in december 0:58
I quite enjoy that something a little different, I am a Donald Trump supporter as well
thanks
when you said your ausome , i put a like lol
Just a quick note the radio. for the 1963 Rambler was the same radio that fit the 1964 and the 1965 Ramblers so, it could of started life in a 1964, then got stuck in a 1963
I always suspect bad transistors when something doesn't work. But I am not right many times
Nice gloves shango066
ab5ni I have a box of those gloves under my kitchen sink. LOL
They are great for cleaning etc.
I have a 1985 Chrysler radio I want to have repaired for my lebaron. Do you repair these radios as well? Doing a restore.
Jason Cruz seriously dislikes this video.
LA. city of a thousand stories...
We can always send Trump, over to apartment 24
to straighten things out....
Never never use Fire Service unless it is a life and
death emergency, Fire Departments are not for Jokes.
we actually have an old rambler ambassador XD
Keep it,old AMCs were better than a lot of people realized
@@johnchildress6717 well my dad sold it this year to a collector who is going to restore it
I hate to inherit a mess someone else has been messing with. That makes the job more than twice as hard.
Have you ever worked on a zenith g500 radio?
Often wondered why Motorola and Delco (not familiar with Ford/Philco or Mopar) car radios used a class A output stage. Just a matter of available current and circuit simplicity? I recall when Delco switched to class B, they also went to bridged designs that required a floating ground to each speaker - but output power was doubled, and that 3db did seem to make a difference. Oh, and my rant is this boner to slap LED lighting into anything and everything vintage. UGH! "Oh, look at my silver face PIoneer with the ultra bright pink / green / purple lighting". Egads, if my eyes rolled any harder, I'd see my brains.
Just like the McIntosh amps. Nice way to sully the name and cheapen it, but hey the tubes glow green!
Coodos to you shango 066
Why the odd I.F. frequency on that radio instead of the usual 455Khz ?
many caps were not wax paper, but mylar. heat was the problem, from tubes.
A nice interlude with a "Days of Our Lives" reality soap opera. Looked like Section 8 housing to me, so lots of broken-hearted folks going to miss Obama and the gravy train. SNIFF!
Back to radio's, given the hard to obtain and high cost of Germanium transistors today, 45 plus years down the road of their demise from new designs...isn't it practical to consider re-biasing the circuits for their Silicon equivalents? I know it could be a lot of work, but the option is tossing this stuff on the scrap pile.
What happened to weekly videos fixing tv,s radio show cars what ever happened to the 1992 ford explore you changed the lock on and did you fix the am radio for your for ford fairmont car- would like to see video exploring the mins and desert find tv,s
Where do you get the schematic?
I have the same pen right in front of me
Nashes & Ramblers, LMAO! Such weird cars! Always driven slow by old farts
in the 1960s if I remember correctly. Like Buicks in more recent decades.
In the 1970s I inherited a Javelin from my aunt. I called it "the Nash Rambler"!
I threw a stereo in & we hippies smoked & tripped our brains out in the thing!
I had a73 AMX Javelin G4 paint.I miss it so much.Had some fun with it. It got a lot of attention,would smoke 350 Camaro. Glad you enjoyed yours.
Thats not a radio!
It's a tank with a tuning dial glued to the front of it,
damn they don't make things this strong anymore.
I can see a couple of broken traces on that board at 14:40
there is a video arround showing a piece of fresh wood sounding when touching a powerful radio antenna. isnt this something you really want to do with KNX 50KW antenna?
Maybe a silly question, but maybe not, I've always wondered why we use silicon transistors instead of germanium transistors. I mean half the voltage drop should theoretically mean that they are more efficient, as less voltage is dropped as heat?
They are fairly unstable, very temperature sensitive but yea the low voltage drop they can work fairly well with just a few volts
Oh, youtube comments. *grabs popcorn*
Luke Den Hartog Yum, popcorn. 🍿
ungratefulmetalpansy nah popcorn is cheaper.
ungratefulmetalpansy Didn't you know that the loudest ones are the biggest know it all's around!
Why don't you use a current limited bench supply rather than a sla gel battery?
yey mr fix it mr shango 066 !!!!!!!!!!! yey !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Russian transistor brings to life a radio speaking of Trump getting in via the Russians.. Illuminati confirmed.
The Russian transistor even looks like a little spaceship... alien technology exchange program confirmed.
I'll listen to 640 KFI.
what is it with the transistors?
Germanium transistors are not very reliable nowadays. Sometimes the germanium crystal will grow inside the can and short to the case, and sometimes even a tin whisker inside the case will short them out.
I hate Chinabot1206.
older fabric or graphite paper speaker cones,their response and smoothness can be increased by painting on rubber cement to each surface,I did so with a pair of utah coax 3 ways,,celesta is what I remember on the inside labels,even the bass suspension was fabric,,use a fan to chase the damn fumes,,nasty stuff,I had those utahs working from '71 till the mid 90s,finally crapped out * intalled pyle 10''' drivers in the same cabinets. a pic of them got a lot of music outa these things thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images2/1/0511/16/vintage-utah-celesta-c8jc-coaxial_1_b5f7791fd0e81915525d02554c9f9388.jpg
Tom Kelly
Wouldn't that tend to deaden the sound?
I got years of use with my improvisations grygory,, the receiver I used was a pioneer 35 wpc 200 buck unit, and a panasonic vintage low powered 15 wpc amfm/cassette , but smooooth amfm apparatus that handled the fireworks
of tchaikovskys symphony # 7 really well,,bass that shook the damn house, the sound curtain they made in handling celesta,cymbals,so clear you could point almost see the instrument position in the orchestra pit,,or stage,really excellent definition,,,neighbors who heard the set up through open doors remarked on how clear sounding my set up was,,
this might b a dumb ? can a am car radio be turn into a fm radio....jusa wondering ....
Buen trabajo pero las memorias mecanicas nunca son exactas👍
So much camera movement that I got dizzy...
Trump with the squeeze box.... hilarious....
Soviet transistors much chosen superior over transistor from west which have of design of quality low.
I would be curious to know what an "Obama phone" is.
changing caps is future proofing. it might work now, might work for a 1,2 years but since you are at it why not make sure it will work for the next 10....20
I bet it's you'r tuner