Thank you David :) Appreciate you stopping by :) I wish I had a biscuit joiner when I made it.... I used Dowels.... too much work.. LOL But I just changed that.... order placed because of you.. LOL thanks my friend
Ron - lots of old wire to replace, but you’ll have it behind you in short order. Nice job on the capacitors and demo. Your new chassis stand will be invaluable for this project and upcoming… Hope things continue to move forward as planned. Best, Don
Hi Ron, Love how you demonstrated one of a few techniques of soldering replacement capacitors. It will be very useful to anyone looking in who might be wanting take up the Vintage Radio restoration hobby - such as Lisa for example. I also like the look of your radio chassis bench clamp - a very useful tool. Cheers my friend - will catch you in in the next episode. Best regards from Phil
Phil my friend. Its always good to share these things... its paying it forward !!! Hope all is well on your side of the pond and you are the family are staying healthy. Crazy world we live in. Be well Mate - Ron
Really good clear example of using the coil wire to solder. One thing I like about that Ron is as you mentioned, it is a lot easier to un-solder than hook and pinch. The chassis/cabinet holder looks really handy. Good stuff my friend.
I so appreciate the work and detailing you are doing - wish I could be an extra hand. Great minds, when you don’t have what you need, “just build it”! Love the stand you made, I would’ve done the same thing. Can’t wait for the owner up day. Learned about the pig-tail for connections, never saw that before. Thank you Ron!
This is how I learned from watching others. its a great start - glad you are enjoying.. I am having fun doing this. We'll be powering up before you know it !!
I've been a subscriber for quite some time now and have been repairing tube radios and televisions since I was a teenager and still learn things today. I think you should go the extra mile and locate the foil end on the new caps. I get negative feedback sometimes regarding this but even though I made the same mistake some years back I learned from my mistakes. You’re right about the old brittle rubber insulated wire, most of it will need to be replaced since it will be disturbed in the restoration, and sometimes I will use liquid tape if it’s not too bad.
Ken, thank you for watching. I've watched many videos on the foil side , especially Mr Carlson and there is definitely merit to that process. Can you share how you determine the foil side on caps ? I'd love to hear about your technique.... thanks much
Hi Ron, I’m subscribed to Paul Carlson’s channel myself among you and a couple of other ones. Mr. Carlson is very knowledgeable and intelligent and like you he shows the schematics explaining his reasoning for troubleshooting circuits and repairs needed to be done as per schematics. I use my oscilloscope for finding the foil end of the capacitors; I’m able to find about 90% of them this way. I connect the probe to one end of the capacitor and the ground to the other end of the cap. Looking at the sine wave I’m looking for the smallest sine wave by holding the capacitor with my thumb and finger being careful not to touch the wires. The smallest sine wave is the foil end; you’ll need to reverse polarity on the cap to determine which end is actually the smallest sine wave on your scope. The smallest sine wave will be the foil end which is the black ground wire end from you oscilloscope. You can then mark the capacitor with the black ground lead with a black sharpie or a black dot on the end so it won’t rub off from handling it. For the other 10% higher value capacitors it’s harder to see the change in the sine wave so I use my guitar amp for them, it’s pretty much the same concept except you’re listening for the foil end now. You want the lowest buzzing or hum and the lowest sound will again be your foil end. I use a ¼” male plug with the wires connected to alligator leads; I also use an inexpensive fuzz pedal so I can lower the amplifier volume down but the fuzz pedal is not necessary. Either way just make sure you turn the amplifier off every time before changing the polarity. A solid state amplifier is best for this purpose. Finding the difference between the foil ends is like night and day when using the oscilloscope or the amplifier method and I check the foil ends on all the capacitors that I will be using at the same time to be at the ready. Hope this helps. @@rciancia
This is no party when it comes to component replacement and you end up replacing nearby dried up insulated wires. Do like the chassis stand you made. Fully adjustable and can really hold down your work in the right angle for repair work.
I have been changing all of my components like that for many years. Way back when I worked in the TV shop Sprague capacitor company had a product similar to that coiling method. They were called Sprague Kwikettes. A small coil with solder on them. You would lay the two wires together with this item slipped over the joint and just apply your solder iron. antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=216079
@Gunderman No, I watched the video and enjoyed it, thank you very much! When I see a video title that says #2 I look for #1 so I can watch it first. Just trying to help the man out...why don't you mind your own "incredible" business & STFU!
Forget the radio, that stand is brilliant and the radio is coming along too, thanks Ron 👍🙂
Thank you David :) Appreciate you stopping by :) I wish I had a biscuit joiner when I made it.... I used Dowels.... too much work.. LOL But I just changed that.... order placed because of you.. LOL thanks my friend
@@rciancia My pleasure 😄
Ron - lots of old wire to replace, but you’ll have it behind you in short order. Nice job on the capacitors and demo. Your new chassis stand will be invaluable for this project and upcoming… Hope things continue to move forward as planned. Best, Don
Thanks Don.. lots of old crumbled wire but its all good... thats part of the hobby I suppose :) Hope all is well my friend !! Ron
Hi Ron,
Love how you demonstrated one of a few techniques of soldering replacement capacitors. It will be very useful to anyone looking in who might be wanting take up the Vintage Radio restoration hobby - such as Lisa for example. I also like the look of your radio chassis bench clamp - a very useful tool.
Cheers my friend - will catch you in in the next episode.
Best regards from Phil
Phil my friend. Its always good to share these things... its paying it forward !!! Hope all is well on your side of the pond and you are the family are staying healthy. Crazy world we live in. Be well Mate - Ron
Really good clear example of using the coil wire to solder. One thing I like about that Ron is as you mentioned, it is a lot easier to un-solder than hook and pinch. The chassis/cabinet holder looks really handy.
Good stuff my friend.
Thanks Pal... This is how I learned and it serves me well.. There are many ways to do it, but its cool. Hope all is well
Really nice job on the chassis holder Ron, that works great. Nice work you're doing as always my friend!
Thank you Gregg !!!! It's the little things that add up :)
I so appreciate the work and detailing you are doing - wish I could be an extra hand. Great minds, when you don’t have what you need, “just build it”! Love the stand you made, I would’ve done the same thing. Can’t wait for the owner up day. Learned about the pig-tail for connections, never saw that before. Thank you Ron!
This is how I learned from watching others. its a great start - glad you are enjoying.. I am having fun doing this. We'll be powering up before you know it !!
I've been a subscriber for quite some time now and have been repairing tube radios and televisions since I was a teenager and still learn things today. I think you should go the extra mile and locate the foil end on the new caps. I get negative feedback sometimes regarding this but even though I made the same mistake some years back I learned from my mistakes. You’re right about the old brittle rubber insulated wire, most of it will need to be replaced since it will be disturbed in the restoration, and sometimes I will use liquid tape if it’s not too bad.
Ken, thank you for watching. I've watched many videos on the foil side , especially Mr Carlson and there is definitely merit to that process. Can you share how you determine the foil side on caps ? I'd love to hear about your technique.... thanks much
Hi Ron,
I’m subscribed to Paul Carlson’s channel myself among you and a couple of other ones. Mr. Carlson is very knowledgeable and intelligent and like you he shows the schematics explaining his reasoning for troubleshooting circuits and repairs needed to be done as per schematics.
I use my oscilloscope for finding the foil end of the capacitors; I’m able to find about 90% of them this way. I connect the probe to one end of the capacitor and the ground to the other end of the cap. Looking at the sine wave I’m looking for the smallest sine wave by holding the capacitor with my thumb and finger being careful not to touch the wires. The smallest sine wave is the foil end; you’ll need to reverse polarity on the cap to determine which end is actually the smallest sine wave on your scope. The smallest sine wave will be the foil end which is the black ground wire end from you oscilloscope. You can then mark the capacitor with the black ground lead with a black sharpie or a black dot on the end so it won’t rub off from handling it.
For the other 10% higher value capacitors it’s harder to see the change in the sine wave so I use my guitar amp for them, it’s pretty much the same concept except you’re listening for the foil end now. You want the lowest buzzing or hum and the lowest sound will again be your foil end.
I use a ¼” male plug with the wires connected to alligator leads; I also use an inexpensive fuzz pedal so I can lower the amplifier volume down but the fuzz pedal is not necessary. Either way just make sure you turn the amplifier off every time before changing the polarity. A solid state amplifier is best for this purpose.
Finding the difference between the foil ends is like night and day when using the oscilloscope or the amplifier method and I check the foil ends on all the capacitors that I will be using at the same time to be at the ready.
Hope this helps.
@@rciancia
@@kenf8563 - This is very helpful indeed, thank you Ken !!! I will give it a shot for sure. I appreciate the detail my friend !!
This is no party when it comes to component replacement and you end up replacing nearby
dried up insulated wires. Do like the chassis stand you made. Fully adjustable and can
really hold down your work in the right angle for repair work.
Thanks Steve. I was not going to work on this until I built something to hold it properly - it's too valuable for me to damage it.
I bet that will be a great sounding radio when done.
Did you finish the other radio project with the homemade wood case?
Bill, that video is being produced now.. I am juggling two projects at the same time.. I am making good progress there to :) Thank you my friend
@@rciancia You will never beat Doug, he does 10 projects at once....LOL
I have been changing all of my components like that for many years. Way back when I worked in the TV shop Sprague capacitor company had a product similar to that coiling method. They were called Sprague Kwikettes. A small coil with solder on them. You would lay the two wires together with this item slipped over the joint and just apply your solder iron. antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=216079
Your title says "Episode 2"...Come-on man.
I see Episode 1..... :)
@Gunderman - LOL All good...
@Gunderman No, I watched the video and enjoyed it, thank you very much! When I see a video title that says #2 I look for #1 so I can watch it first. Just trying to help the man out...why don't you mind your own "incredible" business & STFU!