Great to see a young guy like you into the hobby . I am in the UK and much older than you . I started at about your age and have never lost interest in the hobby . Enjoy your interest . You have some great radios there .
working on these boards are easy(usually) the struggle you are having is because of the solder iron you are using. with a good hot iron (or soldering gun like i use) you should not have any issue pulling parts off. heck often times i dont even need to use the sucker as i can pull on the part as i heat up the solder and they pop out right away or after a few tries of going back and forth if your doing something like a electrolytic can. also by the time that radio was made pc boards were quite good.
sup. help heat trasfer to the old solder by adding new flux and solder to the joint. also, you have the idea. feel free to get in there with the soldering iron to reflow the solder and come in behind it with the solder sucker. that is the correct way to do it if you don't have a beefy desoldering station imo. i personally use an unpowered solder sucker with a silicone tip.
Jerry stone my hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb iam thinking about getting my Grms license and mybe my ham license some time
You need a better quality soldering iron and use solder wick coated with liquid flux to automatically suck out the solder. Powered solder sucker’s are the lazy rich mens toys.
Great to see a young guy like you into the hobby . I am in the UK and much older than you . I started at about your age and have never lost interest in the hobby . Enjoy your interest . You have some great radios there .
Jerry stone you are good at restoring antique radios and alignment of antique radios my friend
Jerry stone your antique GE AM CLOCK RADIO is awesome my friend
Just discovered your channel looking forward to watching more radio repairs.
Jerry stone your utube videos are awesome my friend
JERRY! I am a real fan of you; iam doing radio`s also! Greetings from the Netherlands.
Had one of them when I was a kid
I really love these radio restoration type videos you do Jerry. Love to see more from you in the future.
working on these boards are easy(usually) the struggle you are having is because of the solder iron you are using. with a good hot iron (or soldering gun like i use) you should not have any issue pulling parts off. heck often times i dont even need to use the sucker as i can pull on the part as i heat up the solder and they pop out right away or after a few tries of going back and forth if your doing something like a electrolytic can. also by the time that radio was made pc boards were quite good.
sup. help heat trasfer to the old solder by adding new flux and solder to the joint. also, you have the idea. feel free to get in there with the soldering iron to reflow the solder and come in behind it with the solder sucker. that is the correct way to do it if you don't have a beefy desoldering station imo. i personally use an unpowered solder sucker with a silicone tip.
Bad start up practice should use dim bulb and variac, not just isolation transformer and switch on, asking for trouble.
I have a number of these GEs. They were made for a few years in various color combinations.
Jerry stone my hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb iam thinking about getting my Grms license and mybe my ham license some time
Молодец парень я люблю такую тематику раньше техника была с душой 😊 пс привет из России 😂
You need a better quality soldering iron and use solder wick coated with liquid flux to automatically suck out the solder. Powered solder sucker’s are the lazy rich mens toys.
Dont take up acting