Well thanks for watching, I am certainly no expert in these things but like working on them as I've worked this kind of stuff my whole life. forgotten more than i know.
Good job! It is usually possible to repair a rustling regulator simply by dripping liquid sewing machine oil onto the graphite using a syringe with an injection needle, and without the complex disassembly of the volume control. Good luck to you!
I really like 👍 all these old radios. Pocket radios, table radios, tube type radios, whatever they are, from bygone eras, I like them all. There are very few decent newer day radios, such as from Radio Shack, from about 2000. Too bad their stores 🏬 all became defunct. Radio Shack really stood behind their products, up and until they quit their business 👨💼. That is so sad 😞, when a good place goes. Your friend, Jeff.
Volume controls seem to be the trouble capacitors are expected, I have recapped the front end of my Motorola and left the audio capacitors idles about 6 milliamperes. Works well lots of fun to repair old radios. Keep up the good work!
that thing is made like a big radio only smaller. they made a small tuning capacitor! i was in grammer school when that was new, but i never saw one back then.
that silvertone battery number crosses to a Eveready 226(also called NEDA 1600, Rayovac 1600 or PP4). If you search for any of those, you will find info on it. It's possible that someone still makes a Alkaline equivalent , but installing a modern 9 volt battery(as you already mentioned), is probably the best choice.
Just did two 1963 RCA small portable radios. They both had that same dual cap in one. 100uf value, the same as yours. Same color and pin layout. I actually pulled one pin off the first one because it didn’t tell it was a two in one like a can cap. These take 4 double AA batteries anyway. They both work good but have a bit of distortion on bands above 1200 Hz. Both do the same thing. Below that they are both clear as a bell. I aligned both but didn’t make any difference. I’m thinking maybe tin whiskers on one of the Germanium transistors. All PNP, might figure out how to bias the circuit for silicon transistors.
I think the term you were searching for on the wire insulating sleeves is spaghetti. I typically reuse these when possible. Nice find on the bad cap and good fix on the volume pot. Lot's of people are afraid to take those apart, but I feel it's the best way to get them cleaned up. Just have to take care and be gentle. I've run across those small dual E caps a few times, but not very often. Just a bit of friendly advice on camera shots. I found it's best to limit the visible zooms and movement when you edit the video if at all possible. As you get older, motion sickness increases and us old guys tend to shy away from videos with a lot of camera shot movement. Overall a good video. Keep it up! ... Doug
thank you. I enjoy working on these as a hobby and never fail to learn something new during each video, again thanks. Joel
I knew this was going to be good when I saw the Buckies logo on you t-shirt.
Trying to learn how to fix radios so like to watch your videos
Well thanks for watching, I am certainly no expert in these things but like working on them as I've worked this kind of stuff my whole life. forgotten more than i know.
Good job! It is usually possible to repair a rustling regulator simply by dripping liquid sewing machine oil onto the graphite using a syringe with an injection needle, and without the complex disassembly of the volume control. Good luck to you!
I really like 👍 all these old radios. Pocket radios, table radios, tube type radios, whatever they are, from bygone eras, I like them all. There are very few decent newer day radios, such as from Radio Shack, from about 2000. Too bad their stores 🏬 all became defunct. Radio Shack really stood behind their products, up and until they quit their business 👨💼. That is so sad 😞, when a good place goes. Your friend, Jeff.
Wait till you see my next score. I found a nice surprise.
Volume controls seem to be the trouble capacitors are expected, I have recapped the front end of my Motorola and left the audio capacitors idles about 6 milliamperes. Works well lots of fun to repair old radios. Keep up the good work!
Buen trabajo amigo ! Good job my friend! 👍Beautiful radio!
that thing is made like a big radio only smaller. they made a small tuning capacitor! i was in grammer school when that was new, but i never saw one back then.
that silvertone battery number crosses to a Eveready 226(also called NEDA 1600, Rayovac 1600 or PP4).
If you search for any of those, you will find info on it.
It's possible that someone still makes a Alkaline equivalent , but installing a modern 9 volt battery(as you already mentioned), is probably the best choice.
ناو! ذو أوريجينال باتري إيز ذو بيست ءات أال!
Hi from Athens you are very good !!!!!!!
Hey, thanks!
Just did two 1963 RCA small portable radios. They both had that same dual cap in one. 100uf value, the same as yours. Same color and pin layout. I actually pulled one pin off the first one because it didn’t tell it was a two in one like a can cap. These take 4 double AA batteries anyway. They both work good but have a bit of distortion on bands above 1200 Hz. Both do the same thing. Below that they are both clear as a bell. I aligned both but didn’t make any difference. I’m thinking maybe tin whiskers on one of the Germanium transistors. All PNP, might figure out how to bias the circuit for silicon transistors.
I think the term you were searching for on the wire insulating sleeves is spaghetti. I typically reuse these when possible. Nice find on the bad cap and good fix on the volume pot. Lot's of people are afraid to take those apart, but I feel it's the best way to get them cleaned up. Just have to take care and be gentle. I've run across those small dual E caps a few times, but not very often. Just a bit of friendly advice on camera shots. I found it's best to limit the visible zooms and movement when you edit the video if at all possible. As you get older, motion sickness increases and us old guys tend to shy away from videos with a lot of camera shot movement. Overall a good video. Keep it up! ... Doug
Nice buckey shirt.lol
ترولي، ديس إيز ءا ترو رواديو!
فيري كود رويديو! ترولي ! ريللي!!
Thanks!