My family got a Hotpoint Console Television in 1958 after my mom went to work so we could get one. My Dad who would take over the television on the weekends for sports didn't want to save for one. We had it till around 1971 when it finally gave up the ghost. Lots of history seen on that tv, Kennedy/Nixon Debate for the 1960 election, Cuban Missile crisis, Kennedy Assassination, Viet Nam War to the moon landings. All seen in shades of gray on that screen.
GE owned Hotpoint. In the mid 50's they started selling Hotpoint branded TV's so as to give their dealers a line of TV's to sell too. They were all GE on the inside.
+armadillo platypus I don't think General Electric in the US ever owned Hotpoint in the UK. I think GE made an agreement with GEC company not to operate in the UK since the names were so similar, so when they bought out Hotpoint they only owned them in North America. Over here Hotpoint appliances were pretty decent quality and shared many parts with GE appliances.
Great video. Yes, Hotpoint was a GE subsidiary at some point, and did a lot of rebranding of GE goods as Hotpoint. I don't know the full story, but I have seen a lot of GE products done up at Hotpoint. These are cool sets.Not just the styling, but the electronics are good as well, and they perform fairly well and reliably. I also like the fact that there was no power transformer in these, making them fairly portable as well.
Love it all, multi part shorter vids, 2 hour epics, rat crap infested all-style-no-substance Philco's and all. Not the first time I've watched this particular video and probably not the last, same goes for the next part.
IT's YOUR channel, post what YOU want if people don't like a video , they don't have to watch it .... simple enough !!!! If memory serves, I believe GE made all the Hotpoint TV's back then .
I love all the videos you do Shango,I watch them all and as soon as you put them out I’m onto them.great content,great enjoyment and from time to time great laughter with your patter!
Sir - just wanted to chime in: Am both into vintage electronics (that's what I came here for at first) but am ABSOLUTELY into the exploration/abandoned stuff too. So I appreciate the whole thing. Been doing vintage electronics restore/rebuild as long as I can remember but also have been real big on urban exploration and abandoned sites; and it's actually really hard to find anyone else who *is* into that stuff.Keep doing what you're doing. And hope you continue to find more interesting stuff -- whether it's a thing or a place. (I wish we had more abandoned places out here, and wish I had more folks who would be willing to adventure into them with me. So I kind of live vicariously through your adventures. :) )
I'm the radio/tv type, but I also enjoy the mine and car repair. Just whish I was a lot younger and in better shape to enjoy the mine exploring. Tanks fer all the videosCarl
My Aunt gave me one of those GE's you talked about, very similiar to this one. I had that thing for ages and it was old when I got it, ran like a champ!
Wow, some people should really stay away from a soldering iron. It's always harder to find an error after someone else tried to find it and added some more. I'm looking forward to see part 2...and by the way...I enjoy the exploring videos as well as the car stuff, I like the vintage TV / radio stuff and even the EOL videos. On my channel I mix totally different topics as well. I try to sort things into playlists but I woundn't want to run several channels only because some people start complaining...I enjoy this channel the way it is. As someone else already said, this is called variety!
Hey man..I love all of the content. I am a ham myself and as for the mine and abandoned property tours I live vicariously through you. Putting all the content together must be a lot of work. Thank you very much for that. Folks like yourself make youtube an interesting place to peruse for all interests. Christopher Netherton VA3NTH
You are very kind when it comes to others rework. I would if said WTF. I will say the inside of the chassis is very clean and would enjoy restoring it. Keep up the good work. 😎
I don't think your videos are boring at all. I love hearing the sound of your voice, it sounds so cool. 😀 The longer the video, the better I reckon. 👍🏻
I'm watching all these videos and I'm Absolutely itching to try to repair an old 1952 marconi TV I picked up. I'm 33 so all this stuffs before my time but I'm excited to have a go. I've bought the schematic. Just been waiting for months because I cant afford the caps for it, I haven't tried to power it up or anything yet, looks all original inside. I guess there's not many people my age this excited to be in the back of an old tube crt.
My main attraction on here is the electronics but I really enjoy the other stuff as well. Some may piss and moan but they will continue to watch because it's good content. Keep up the great work and much appreciated,,,, all of it. Carl
+skycarl +Shango066 I strongly second your opinion, Carl. I'd have to suss this out using the schematic, DVM, scope, Sencore TVA92, and a few magnums of Lambrusco. If anyone can pull this off, Shango can.
shango066 I'll PM this evening if you'd like. It's a marvelous tool for the front end, and should suffice for older sets. The drive sections are designed for solid state (tripler) equipped sets. I've seen that HP scope in a few of your videos, it will interface nicely. I did not find it to be up to Sencore's usual standards with regards to chroma signal generation, though. It must be connected to their VG91 video generator, and it's specialized interface cable. The generator controls certain sections of the blanking and sweep interface sections. One last item: seems susceptible to noise from CFl's and electronic ballasts. It has both diode and fuse protection. I never had problems with either... I repaired a few circa 2007 "RCA institutional CRT sets" before Christmas, and it provided the signal and voltage substitutions which made the tasks much easier. Vintage sets manufactured between '74 and '08 will prove your acquisition to be a wise move. It bailed my tail out of the fire more than a few time with module problems on Chromacolor II and System III sets. One caution, I may have fried a flyback during a ringing a while back. Use caution when performing that function; I've been gun-shy with that function since! Hope this helps, and please post a video once you begin using it!
Shango, I support your content on both channels, I enjoy all your hobbies, don't feel pressure to change, change only if you want to, after all it's your channel! However, with that said, change in a positive direction is always good, don't be stagnate, but with that said, if your channel is successful and has great growth and your making money off it and having fun, well then you have found a great combination to your success and sticking with it with little change may be the proper recipe! All I'll say is your 5 by 5, good luck in the contest OM, 73's! :)
I watch every video you put online, even if you seem to think it would be boring to watch. They are always entertaining and I still get some interesting information out of them. Don't worry and just do it the way you're used to. We can "adapt" more than you think :) This video DID make me realise I should perhaps be a bit clearer in my own videos about things that seem obvious, like NOT trying to solder to aluminum or always check whether one's dealing with a hot chassis. Maybe I do take for granted the watcher knows what I'm talking about and I shouldn't. I do always warn people that working on TV's is dangerous, what with the high voltage and such. Anyway, good video, instructive AND entertaining :)
Ive mainly worked on cars, but theres similarities between this and autos. When I worked at a Goodyear auto service as a technician, had a car come in that had had a intake gasket replaced at a fairly reputable repair center. Complaint was strong gas smell. Tore it apart, found one of the injectors didnt have any o rings on it.
Your channel is fine as it is, don't change anything. Been working on cars, electronics, and exploring mines and abandoned stuff in the desert since the 1960s. I get it! Keep up the good work.
Hello from France, I really love the way you do when checking and repairing all theses old stuffs in your garden from the beginning. Well done sir ! I keep in touch with your channel !
I like the variety, usually check whatever you upload, and if I don't like it, well, I can just click and go watch something else, it's not hard at all, people. Reading the title of the video is helpful too, since nobody forces you to watch all your subscription feed, or to subscribe for that matter. Also I believe that people like you or me are not making a living out of our channels. Personally, I see mine as a place where I can show people the stuff that I like to do, with no strict particular topic for videos. So if you ask me, just do whatever you want. Not like me or anyone could stop you anyway.
Hotpoint and GE were sorta kinda the same company. I had a hotpoint washer and dryer that had most of the parts inside labeled GE. I once owned one of those sets, I remember the CRT was a 14QP4, think it was a 90 degree deflection. AC/DC hot chassis. Real fun to work on, I didn't know any better back then, I was all of 14 years old fooling around with junk electronics. I agree that the vertical section is tricky, but those old caps were usually 20% tolerance anyway!
i love all the shit you put on your channel its called variety. ill check out your other channel, but i like all the different shit you put up here. you have no idea the shit i have picked up from you. apprecitory valve wide open for all the work you put into your channel!!!
+shango066 Honestly, I don't get into the mining vids, but I just don't watch them. Its your channel, post what you want. I will say I've enjoyed the automotive and household repair vids, and have learned some useful things from them. But certainly the tube type color TV vids are my favorite.
Count me in as someone who watches everything you put up. I like the vintage electronics, abandoned buildings, covert estate sales, vehicle repairs and EOL videos. I even watch the mine videos even though they aren't my favorites but I still find them interesting and even funny at times. I really enjoyed the video where deep in a mine somewhere you came upon a dead mouse and immediately inserted a few seconds of Deadmau5. I wonder how many people that watched that video actually got that vs how many it just went over their head. I've noticed you have great taste in music also. Must be from all those years working in the club. Anyway just keep doing what you're doing and I'll keep watching you doing what you're doing.
I had a warranty replacement set come by UPS, the box was gouged, ripped and looked weathered and yet somehow the way it was packed it managed to survive, I did take pictures of some minor damage on back, not many would notice and where the box was ripped was right in the spot the remote is in , amazing
interesting points ,if anyone else wants to uncover plasma tv repair try Saankramer Electronic Magazine System ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my m8 got great results with it.
I like the outdoor mins and nature the ham radio videos👍 I wouldn't change a thing keep the awesome vintage electronics coming the videos are great Shang066 thank you Jason Cruz
I watch all parts of your stuff. Not so much the mine videos but definitely all the other ones. People don't have to click on stuff they don't want to watch so I don't see what all the complaining is about. I'd say keep the channel as-is, it is great stuff. I am also a fan of bandersentv, I like his thoroughness but I also like your approach as well.
I don't know why you have people complaining about the content having various subjects on this channel. This is free content, so if they don't want to watch a particular video, don't watch it. Nobody has a gun to their head, forcing them to watch something that doesn't peak their interests. There are lots of channels I'm subscribed to that sometimes has content I'm not interested in watching...I just skip over it. Even the most popular channels have 1-2 uploads a day, so its not like it is filling up my feed with content I don't want to watch to the point where it is obnoxious.
I watch the whole videos, and the following (or preceding) parts as well. This is a great channel, I've learned a lot here. Yikes to the previous "repair"; looks like the kind of thing I get off of ebay. Not only was the packing not very good, but those moving boxes are very light duty, not meant for shipping. I tend to have more problems with the USPS then Fed Ex or UPS. Okay, off to part 2 now.
Many moons ago, I worked as an assistant to a highly experienced Gun Smith. We had a sign on the wall about pricing, I don't recall the exact wording but it was something like Per hour: On our own, 22.00 If you watch 33.33 if you tried to fix it first 100.00 per hour. This is valid pricing, and should be a policy in all work where the art of fixing takes talent and training is expensive.
As an electronic viewer, the other videos aren't an issue at all for me. Just keep them coming, they are interesting and I watch most of them anyway. Worst case, I know how to operate a computer keyboard. Really. Oh, and indeed Hotpoint was simply a secondary market brand of General Electric. When you have competition for your product, why not be one of the competitors???
I've watched all your videos, find them interesting. Just amazing how you can bring stuff back to life! Also subscribed to the mine channel, those are very interesting. I have often spent a lot of time on weekends re-watching your past videos. I've must have watched your Philco Predicta restore about 5 times. You've got a great talent here, and I've learned a lot about electronics from your videos.
In the amateur radio world paralleling a silicon diode on to a selenium rectifier is a common thing. Man selenium rectifiers have a unique smell when they go!
FYI - 7 years later and I am just finishing part 1. Thanks to a fine commenter, I have links to all 4 which I can run in a row. We live in magical times.
nice job on the video I had robbed some tubes form an rca TV that had tube boxes in it but i can't test the tubes. what are those thinks you put on to TVs so you have coaxial connection need one to put on my am/fm radio, I have an rabbit ear antenna that works on FM for it
these were a tough TV, my parents had one, that rolled from one side of a 57 buick to the other, it worked till 1972, heck of a great set.and yes it was made for GE, and I Think a couple of others, the colors were called candy colors,, orange, blue yellow and green,,
Just now watching this older video. Hotpoint is another name for GE. I think I bought a GE dishwasher manual years ago that was also for Hotpoint models. Same company.
Shango: your Detrola tube radio video has...wait for it... 17 THOUSAND views! Good for you. Is that the most viewed video u made? Good video. Just watched it again yesterday. :)
Yeah my dad use to drill in me if you going to do it do it right or not at all,in the milatary,take pride in your work ,because your mistakes working on airplanes ,could cost someone their lives,uncles, sam taught me a lot about safety etc.I just never wanted to do a bad job .
I bought just about the identical tv at an antique store. I hooked up a VCR player via a cord attached to the rabbit ear screws. I turned it on and the audio worked great, but the picture wasn't there at all. It was just fuzzy (no picture at all) do you know how I could fix it?
+Sistertubetime Continue to watch the repair series on this set and you will understand how complex it can be. Dont post the same comment on 20 videos or you get tagged as spammer as you have
There are no magic answers, it needs to be recapped and most likely has a host of other issues. Without test equipment and experience its very tough to get it going. No need to apologize to me, youtube automatically manages the messages.
Yeah, you had the one GE that squealed real bad?the cathode voltage was way high. Hot point is made by GE, so you have a GE there I'm guessing here at the beginning of the video. :)
If people don't like the other videos they have the option of not clicking, just don't understand what the problem would be. I would not mind seeing more exploration type vids, old properties, houses, whatever. Never seen anyone bang a tube on the counter like that, what is the point? Checking for weak filaments?
It's sad that that TV will never work. Damn cable companies forcing us to pay for their shitty cable box service, no such thing as radio signal TV anymore.
My family got a Hotpoint Console Television in 1958 after my mom went to work so we could get one. My Dad who would take over the television on the weekends for sports didn't want to save for one. We had it till around 1971 when it finally gave up the ghost. Lots of history seen on that tv, Kennedy/Nixon Debate for the 1960 election, Cuban Missile crisis, Kennedy Assassination, Viet Nam War to the moon landings. All seen in shades of gray on that screen.
I remember my first shock when I was about 4 years old from a TV like that. Somehow it set me up for a career in electricity and electronics.
GE owned Hotpoint. In the mid 50's they started selling Hotpoint branded TV's so as to give their dealers a line of TV's to sell too. They were all GE on the inside.
+armadillo platypus I don't think General Electric in the US ever owned Hotpoint in the UK. I think GE made an agreement with GEC company not to operate in the UK since the names were so similar, so when they bought out Hotpoint they only owned them in North America. Over here Hotpoint appliances were pretty decent quality and shared many parts with GE appliances.
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Great video. Yes, Hotpoint was a GE subsidiary at some point, and did a lot of rebranding of GE goods as Hotpoint. I don't know the full story, but I have seen a lot of GE products done up at Hotpoint.
These are cool sets.Not just the styling, but the electronics are good as well, and they perform fairly well and reliably. I also like the fact that there was no power transformer in these, making them fairly portable as well.
Love it all, multi part shorter vids, 2 hour epics, rat crap infested all-style-no-substance Philco's and all. Not the first time I've watched this particular video and probably not the last, same goes for the next part.
IT's YOUR channel, post what YOU want if people don't like a video , they don't have to watch it .... simple enough !!!! If memory serves, I believe GE made all the Hotpoint TV's back then .
I love all the videos you do Shango,I watch them all and as soon as you put them out I’m onto them.great content,great enjoyment and from time to time great laughter with your patter!
Sir - just wanted to chime in: Am both into vintage electronics (that's what I came here for at first) but am ABSOLUTELY into the exploration/abandoned stuff too. So I appreciate the whole thing. Been doing vintage electronics restore/rebuild as long as I can remember but also have been real big on urban exploration and abandoned sites; and it's actually really hard to find anyone else who *is* into that stuff.Keep doing what you're doing. And hope you continue to find more interesting stuff -- whether it's a thing or a place. (I wish we had more abandoned places out here, and wish I had more folks who would be willing to adventure into them with me. So I kind of live vicariously through your adventures. :) )
I'm the radio/tv type, but I also enjoy the mine and car repair. Just whish I was a lot younger and in better shape to enjoy the mine exploring. Tanks fer all the videosCarl
My Aunt gave me one of those GE's you talked about, very similiar to this one. I had that thing for ages and it was old when I got it, ran like a champ!
Wow, some people should really stay away from a soldering iron. It's always harder to find an error after someone else tried to find it and added some more. I'm looking forward to see part 2...and by the way...I enjoy the exploring videos as well as the car stuff, I like the vintage TV / radio stuff and even the EOL videos. On my channel I mix totally different topics as well. I try to sort things into playlists but I woundn't want to run several channels only because some people start complaining...I enjoy this channel the way it is. As someone else already said, this is called variety!
Hey man..I love all of the content. I am a ham myself and as for the mine and abandoned property tours I live vicariously through you. Putting all the content together must be a lot of work. Thank you very much for that. Folks like yourself make youtube an interesting place to peruse for all interests.
Christopher Netherton
VA3NTH
You are very kind when it comes to others rework. I would if said WTF. I will say the inside of the chassis is very clean and would enjoy restoring it. Keep up the good work. 😎
I don't think your videos are boring at all. I love hearing the sound of your voice, it sounds so cool. 😀
The longer the video, the better I reckon. 👍🏻
I'm watching all these videos and I'm Absolutely itching to try to repair an old 1952 marconi TV I picked up. I'm 33 so all this stuffs before my time but I'm excited to have a go. I've bought the schematic. Just been waiting for months because I cant afford the caps for it, I haven't tried to power it up or anything yet, looks all original inside. I guess there's not many people my age this excited to be in the back of an old tube crt.
TV, valve bulbs, head torches, differential gears, capacitors, over flying Cessna's, desert, radio, rickety ladders, long wire, 30kV, riot helmet, EOL, LA, IF, RF, mFd, fireworks, won't work, might work, vacumn bulbs, love, it, all.
My main attraction on here is the electronics but I really enjoy the other stuff as well. Some may piss and moan but they will continue to watch because it's good content. Keep up the great work and much appreciated,,,, all of it.
Carl
+skycarl +Shango066 I strongly second your opinion, Carl. I'd have to suss this out using the schematic, DVM, scope, Sencore TVA92, and a few magnums of Lambrusco. If anyone can pull this off, Shango can.
+AMStationEngineer I just picked up a tva92 but it looks like it wont work as a stand alone unit. What can you tell me about it?
shango066 I'll PM this evening if you'd like. It's a marvelous tool for the front end, and should suffice for older sets. The drive sections are designed for solid state (tripler) equipped sets. I've seen that HP scope in a few of your videos, it will interface nicely. I did not find it to be up to Sencore's usual standards with regards to chroma signal generation, though.
It must be connected to their VG91 video generator, and it's specialized interface cable. The generator controls certain sections of the blanking and sweep interface sections. One last item: seems susceptible to noise from CFl's and electronic ballasts.
It has both diode and fuse protection. I never had problems with either...
I repaired a few circa 2007 "RCA institutional CRT sets" before Christmas, and it provided the signal and voltage substitutions which made the tasks much easier. Vintage sets manufactured between '74 and '08 will prove your acquisition to be a wise move. It bailed my tail out of the fire more than a few time with module problems on Chromacolor II and System III sets. One caution, I may have fried a flyback during a ringing a while back. Use caution when performing that function; I've been gun-shy with that function since!
Hope this helps, and please post a video once you begin using it!
Yea hit me up.
Shango, I support your content on both channels, I enjoy all your hobbies, don't feel pressure to change, change only if you want to, after all it's your channel! However, with that said, change in a positive direction is always good, don't be stagnate, but with that said, if your channel is successful and has great growth and your making money off it and having fun, well then you have found a great combination to your success and sticking with it with little change may be the proper recipe! All I'll say is your 5 by 5, good luck in the contest OM, 73's! :)
I can coexist just just fine. Mine shafts, Old mine camps, Cars or old TV"s and radios, It's all good!
I enjoy watching all your stuff, I like the do it yourself - can do thing. I look forward to part two, take care.
I enjoy ALL of your videos but since my love is vintage electronics, I get the most out of the repair videos.
I watch every video you put online, even if you seem to think it would be boring to watch. They are always entertaining and I still get some interesting information out of them. Don't worry and just do it the way you're used to. We can "adapt" more than you think :)
This video DID make me realise I should perhaps be a bit clearer in my own videos about things that seem obvious, like NOT trying to solder to aluminum or always check whether one's dealing with a hot chassis.
Maybe I do take for granted the watcher knows what I'm talking about and I shouldn't. I do always warn people that working on TV's is dangerous, what with the high voltage and such.
Anyway, good video, instructive AND entertaining :)
I like all the videos, car repairs, vintage electronics, ham radio and outdoors stuff...greetings from Germany
I like your exploration videos! Whoever does like those videos doesn't have to watch them! Trish
Ive mainly worked on cars, but theres similarities between this and autos. When I worked at a Goodyear auto service as a technician, had a car come in that had had a intake gasket replaced at a fairly reputable repair center. Complaint was strong gas smell. Tore it apart, found one of the injectors didnt have any o rings on it.
Your channel is fine as it is, don't change anything. Been working on cars, electronics, and exploring mines and abandoned stuff in the desert since the 1960s. I get it! Keep up the good work.
Im here for the vintage stuff, but i still watch the other videos to help your numbers man, gotta help keep this channel alive after all.
I don't understand anything you're doing, but still love your videos.
Hello from France, I really love the way you do when checking and repairing all theses old stuffs in your garden from the beginning. Well done sir ! I keep in touch with your channel !
I like the variety, usually check whatever you upload, and if I don't like it, well, I can just click and go watch something else, it's not hard at all, people. Reading the title of the video is helpful too, since nobody forces you to watch all your subscription feed, or to subscribe for that matter.
Also I believe that people like you or me are not making a living out of our channels. Personally, I see mine as a place where I can show people the stuff that I like to do, with no strict particular topic for videos.
So if you ask me, just do whatever you want. Not like me or anyone could stop you anyway.
Hotpoint and GE were sorta kinda the same company. I had a hotpoint washer and dryer that had most of the parts inside labeled GE.
I once owned one of those sets, I remember the CRT was a 14QP4, think it was a 90 degree deflection. AC/DC hot chassis. Real fun to work on, I didn't know any better back then, I was all of 14 years old fooling around with junk electronics. I agree that the vertical section is tricky, but those old caps were usually 20% tolerance anyway!
i love all the shit you put on your channel its called variety. ill check out your other channel, but i like all the different shit you put up here. you have no idea the shit i have picked up from you.
apprecitory valve wide open for all the work you put into your channel!!!
+Tony Fleetwood Thanks man, Im gonna start posting most of it here again. Ill keep the other as a backup.
+shango066 Whats your other channel?
+shango066 Honestly, I don't get into the mining vids, but I just don't watch them. Its your channel, post what you want. I will say I've enjoyed the automotive and household repair vids, and have learned some useful things from them. But certainly the tube type color TV vids are my favorite.
same here I love watching him repair old tube televisions
That TV looks like a TV we had in our kitchen when I was little. my mom let us watch TV while she was making dinner!
say TV 5 times fast
That's a Hotpoint alright, the chassis is super hot!
Count me in as someone who watches everything you put up. I like the vintage electronics, abandoned buildings, covert estate sales, vehicle repairs and EOL videos. I even watch the mine videos even though they aren't my favorites but I still find them interesting and even funny at times. I really enjoyed the video where deep in a mine somewhere you came upon a dead mouse and immediately inserted a few seconds of Deadmau5. I wonder how many people that watched that video actually got that vs how many it just went over their head. I've noticed you have great taste in music also. Must be from all those years working in the club. Anyway just keep doing what you're doing and I'll keep watching you doing what you're doing.
I see you're a big fan of the United Parcel Smashers.
I had a warranty replacement set come by UPS, the box was gouged, ripped and looked weathered and yet somehow the way it was packed it managed to survive, I did take pictures of some minor damage on back, not many would notice and where the box was ripped was right in the spot the remote is in , amazing
interesting points ,if anyone else wants to uncover
plasma tv repair
try Saankramer Electronic Magazine System ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my m8 got great results with it.
Rare moments, when shango opens up something and remains speechless...
I like the outdoor mins and nature the ham radio videos👍 I wouldn't change a thing keep the awesome vintage electronics coming the videos are great Shang066 thank you
Jason Cruz
as a former mechanic, i can appreciate polishing a turd. i have shined many, some i owned and many i didn't.
I watch all the all your videos 1st and second part... I'm learning a lot great job...
Good video as always. I watched it to the end, and am starting part 2 now!
Great video.I enjoy watching you repair stuff.I for one watch all your videos. Looking forward to part 2.
I watch all parts of your stuff. Not so much the mine videos but definitely all the other ones. People don't have to click on stuff they don't want to watch so I don't see what all the complaining is about. I'd say keep the channel as-is, it is great stuff. I am also a fan of bandersentv, I like his thoroughness but I also like your approach as well.
I literally LOVE all this "mood" talking :)
Don't Change A Thing.......I love the Electronics. and i love the Car stuff
Can't wait for part two shango, very interesting!
Love your videos, thank you so much, I generally watch all the way through too .... don't want to miss anything :) Richard, London UK
I like all of your videos. The car repair videos are very interesting, as well as the mine videos.
I think I've watch every single electronics video on this channel, also enjoy the trips topickup the tvs, so keep it up!.
I don't know why you have people complaining about the content having various subjects on this channel. This is free content, so if they don't want to watch a particular video, don't watch it. Nobody has a gun to their head, forcing them to watch something that doesn't peak their interests. There are lots of channels I'm subscribed to that sometimes has content I'm not interested in watching...I just skip over it. Even the most popular channels have 1-2 uploads a day, so its not like it is filling up my feed with content I don't want to watch to the point where it is obnoxious.
I watch the whole videos, and the following (or preceding) parts as well. This is a great channel, I've learned a lot here.
Yikes to the previous "repair"; looks like the kind of thing I get off of ebay.
Not only was the packing not very good, but those moving boxes are very light duty, not meant for shipping.
I tend to have more problems with the USPS then Fed Ex or UPS.
Okay, off to part 2 now.
Great packing job!!!!!
Many moons ago, I worked as an assistant to a highly experienced Gun Smith. We had a sign on the wall about pricing, I don't recall the exact wording but it was something like Per hour: On our own, 22.00 If you watch 33.33 if you tried to fix it first 100.00 per hour. This is valid pricing, and should be a policy in all work where the art of fixing takes talent and training is expensive.
Those TV's look so cool inside!!!Great video!!!!!
As an electronic viewer, the other videos aren't an issue at all for me. Just keep them coming, they are interesting and I watch most of them anyway. Worst case, I know how to operate a computer keyboard. Really.
Oh, and indeed Hotpoint was simply a secondary market brand of General Electric. When you have competition for your product, why not be one of the competitors???
My first electronic repair as a 13 year old was a Motorola TV that looked very similar to that Hotpoint/GE...
I've watched all your videos, find them interesting. Just amazing how you can bring stuff back to life! Also subscribed to the mine channel, those are very interesting. I have often spent a lot of time on weekends re-watching your past videos. I've must have watched your Philco Predicta restore about 5 times. You've got a great talent here, and I've learned a lot about electronics from your videos.
I will watch both parts in full
In the amateur radio world paralleling a silicon diode on to a selenium rectifier is a common thing. Man selenium rectifiers have a unique smell when they go!
FYI - 7 years later and I am just finishing part 1. Thanks to a fine commenter, I have links to all 4 which I can run in a row. We live in magical times.
I watch all your videos.
Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/GMiV8ix2-MM/v-deo.html
Part 3: ua-cam.com/video/sjAQIqxO910/v-deo.html
Part 4: ua-cam.com/video/-ndVB-wCZEA/v-deo.html
nice job on the video I had robbed some tubes form an rca TV that had tube boxes in it but i can't test the tubes. what are those thinks you put on to TVs so you have coaxial connection need one to put on my am/fm radio, I have an rabbit ear antenna that works on FM for it
Your mine videos are awesome. Already suscribed to your 2nd channel. Also love your car videos. Keep them coming.
Hotpoint is GE mate, Just like with the appliances they make. Mostly all the same parts!
these were a tough TV, my parents had one, that rolled from one side of a 57 buick to the other, it worked till 1972, heck of a great set.and yes it was made for GE, and I Think a couple of others, the colors were called candy colors,, orange, blue yellow and green,,
Just now watching this older video. Hotpoint is another name for GE. I think I bought a GE dishwasher manual years ago that was also for Hotpoint models. Same company.
Is that mold in the re-stuffed capacitor?
Shango: your Detrola tube radio video has...wait for it... 17 THOUSAND views! Good for you. Is that the most viewed video u made? Good video. Just watched it again yesterday. :)
Awesome airplane channel!
That's tungsten boil off baby :-)
Great video as always, cheers Shango
Yeah my dad use to drill in me if you going to do it do it right or not at all,in the milatary,take pride in your work ,because your mistakes working on airplanes ,could cost someone their lives,uncles, sam taught me a lot about safety etc.I just never wanted to do a bad job .
What exactly are these TVs used for? No disrespect of course. Do yo know of the GE all transistor portable tr-805?
love your videos
Like anyone watches every video in their subscriptions anyway lol. If ya don't like it don't watch it simple enough.
I put fragile stickers on everything I ship these days. It helps a lot.
I mainly come here for the radio/TV repairing. But I also enjoy the mine tours.
I thought Hotpoint was a subsidiary of GE at one point?
+Pete Ciallella Hotpoint was GE's lower price line of appliances and TVs.
+Pete Ciallella hotpoint was a subsidiary of GE from 1912 to 2014.
"this needs to go these are notorious for leaking or shorting" What are you referring to?
I figured out your arabic branding, and subsequently found a forum you post on.
+Godfrey Poon ohh? I ditched all forums years ago youtube is so much better for electronics repair
Ah, I think it might have been a pretty old post. If I recall correctly, it was a ham radio forum.
Which is amusing... "ham"... arabic...
Super clean, considering it's age.
I have a General Electric CRT TV from the 50s and I am looking for someone to restore it for me? Is this a service you provide?
United parcels smashers
It's funny how you hate on ups! lol. they ARE rough. Thanks for the great videos!
hotpoint was a washing machine brand in England!!
I bought just about the identical tv at an antique store. I hooked up a VCR player via a cord attached to the rabbit ear screws. I turned it on and the audio worked great, but the picture wasn't there at all. It was just fuzzy (no picture at all) do you know how I could fix it?
+Sistertubetime Continue to watch the repair series on this set and you will understand how complex it can be. Dont post the same comment on 20 videos or you get tagged as spammer as you have
+shango066 Sorry, I've just been trying to find someone who can help me. Very sorry if I commented the same thing on more then one of your videos.
There are no magic answers, it needs to be recapped and most likely has a host of other issues. Without test equipment and experience its very tough to get it going. No need to apologize to me, youtube automatically manages the messages.
My parents had one that looked like that in the 60's except it was orange instead of the blue.
Wasn't Hotpoint a lower end brand of appliances from GE anyways? I didn't know they made tv/radio equipment.
Yeah, you had the one GE that squealed real bad?the cathode voltage was way high. Hot point is made by GE, so you have a GE there I'm guessing here at the beginning of the video. :)
Where do you find these for buying? I'm interested in these too
Did the person use a plumber's torch to solder?
If people don't like the other videos they have the option of not clicking, just don't understand what the problem would be. I would not mind seeing more exploration type vids, old properties, houses, whatever.
Never seen anyone bang a tube on the counter like that, what is the point? Checking for weak filaments?
+ZenithClarity1969 Usually it clears the shorts out, whiskers or whatever causes the shorts
The old Hotpoint ad jingle said “look for the Hotpoint diff’rence!” But this Hotpoint is apparently no different from a GE model!
TV...TV...TV..too bad there's nothing on them !!
How's the 'paper' going to help, if you drop it ?
I just restored a GE 14T010 and the chassis is literally identical to this.
I'd be interesting to see an old Telefunken TV restored.
Good stuff.
Hi I work for hotpoint uk and ge used to make stuff for us I belive. 😁
When you said the whole chassis was hot my jaw dropped. That is an electrocution hazard.
Natural selection my friend. :)
It's sad that that TV will never work. Damn cable companies forcing us to pay for their shitty cable box service, no such thing as radio signal TV anymore.
i love both parts XD