I have repaired a cabinet way worse than this one ... on a 1930's bulgarian "Бралтъ" radio. Just soaked the whole cabinet in varnish for a few days. Everything dies and becomes rock solid after it cures. Then just filled the holes sanded and glossed it with varnish again. Worked great! The radio was (and still is now that it was preserved) of a historical imortance to my countrys early radio inustry. So dont throw this one away! Like you said .. it might be rally rare!! :)
For the 88 years this radio in the decrepit condition it's in, with some previous tech.monkeying around in the chassis, and not changing any tubes- this is totally awsome! Nice job!
What an interesting video. I love old radios & electronic equipment. I appreciate your command of the subject, & obvious vast experience. How delightful & utterly fascinating!!!
I LOVE the way you actually diagnose problems and get these sets running on as many original components as possible. I HATE the shotgun capacitor changers. Those caps with the tapered ends are a real trip.
It's amazing how tolerant old radios are to bad capacitors and out of tolerance resistors. I had a 1939 Zenith where just about all of the resistors were 50-200% out of tolerance, and the radio still played! I replaced them all, and it only marginally improved it. That being said, I recently restored a 1940 RCA, and the set didn't work properly (lots of static, sound would cut out) until I replaced every single paper capacitor. But it did 'sort of' work at the beginning... and now it's a fantastic playing set (I thank the 4 6K6's for that)!
With radios like this I usually do a power up with the light bulb to see if anything is coming out of the speaker. If there is something I go directly to changing electrolytics and paper capacitors and work from there to improve its performance. But I like the way you go around this radio trying to figure out what has been done to it and testing its features. Very entertaining and informative.
I have to do that with my 34 Philco table radio. It works okay but I haven't run it in over 10 years till I check all the caps out. As far as I know it's all original, been in my family since at least 1960.
Very cool video, I grew up listening to old radios like that, not particularly that brand, most of ours were some that dad picked up at an auction sale as we didn't have much money, dad was a farmer but when he got the home place from his dad, he also got his dad's bills, he was sued and 1/3 of every dollar he earned on the farm went to the Federal Government to cover his fathers debts. Anyhow, I can recall laying on the floor, and watching the radio as it played our favorite adventure programs, and detective stories. Mom used to listen to her soap operas during her morning chores in the house, and there was pre-school programming for kids as we got dressed and ready to head off to school. Those were some great times to be alive, you used your mind to see what kids not days ignore on television, it built a great imagination and developed your problem solving skills without your even being aware that you were, in fact learning. I recently built myself a little stereo wifi radio set that I have programmed to play the old shows, western stations, mystery theater SUSPENSE and Johnny Dollar. Gunsmoke and Have Gun Will Travel used to be some of my favorites as well as the Cisco Kid and Poncho! One of the stations that I found gave me a thrill to listen to was the AFRTS AFVN network that replays the actual tapes from the radio broadcast to we troops in Vietnam, now that's a trip and a half! Yes the days of watching television have been ruined so badly by the progressives taking over programming so I can no longer stomach the rewriting of our history in programming, in fact about the only programs I watch any more are on MyTV and PBS (for their british comedy shows!) At any rate, thanks a million for the video's it is almost like having a friend stop by for a cup of coffee, like they used to back when I was a cop in a small town in North Dakota.
Wow, slapping a coat of varathane and using that burlap for grill cloth made that radio a hundred times nicer looking! Good to see it singing again. Another first also, actual LIVE spiders inside rather than dead ones.
Nice job man,I didnt think you could bringer back to life,but you fixed her.I never heard of this brand either.My uncle used to repair old T.V.s and radios and I've never seen that model in his little shop.Nice!
My experience is that those dog bone resistors from that era are pretty stable and don't go off value too much even though they might be 90 years old by now.
Many radios of this era did not use the chassis as b- voltage. The center tap pf the P transformer is connected to the chassis by a resistor of a few hundred ohms. That makes the chassis 20 volts or so positive, compared to the center tap. That way they can ground the cathodes of the audio tubes and take the negative grid bias voltage from the -20 volt end of the resistor. Many old TV set were designed that way too. You have to see if the filter cap negative sides are chassis grounded or the - voltage tap. I've fixed some radios with loud filter hum because prior repairmen grounded the filter caps to the chassis. Well done.
Nicely done again, thanks for sharing. Interesting how in such bad shape that radio is and it's still able to work, it'll also be interesting to see in part 2 how well it comes alive. Considering how bad that cabinet is your quick repairs to it really makes it look a whole lot better!
I just want to let shango066 that in really enjoy his videos. I find them very informative and entertaining. I'm glad he out there repairing and keeping these old items out of the landfills. Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers sure could build stuff.
It was great timing when this video popped up in my notifications as I had something new from you to watch before I gave my pillow head & my mattress some arse.....because it’s midnight here, past my bedtime. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Since you did all that great work on the cabinet, I would keep it now as it looks fantastic & don’t look like it was attacked by hungry termites anymore! I would love to own it myself. 😀xx
JayBee - & if your referring to my joke about the pillow & mattress thing, it’s a old saying meaning “I’m off to bed”! Gee it must be only Aussies that say it then if you didn’t get it. LOL 😂 Hey, blocking me doesn’t worry me the slightest.....it’s just one less bully I don’t have to deal with on here! 🤣😜
Josh Jones Indeed. Does anyone else notice he sounds like Ben Stein when he was doing the econ teacher roll call in class. I can just imagine shango66 saying "Bueller.....Bueller...."
If some very talented carpenter could recreate the cabinet and along with your electronics expertise...This might be worth having this restored, given it's rarity...
skycarl I will give it a listen. It's on late Saturday night from 10 PM until early Sunday morning at 3 AM if I'm in the eastern time zone and you can hear disco after hours. This is why I got "K-Surf" on my TuneIn app.
HOLY SHIT! Something ended up looking better than when Shango started? A rarity. I just can't say how much I love these videos. Its verging on perverted.
Those spiders are devices, 100% agreed there. (candome Chicago USA) Your commentary is priceless, keep it up. 1500-2000 hours is not much for a tube. (¼ year full time use) Great 49 minute video, thanks.
Phoney - Western Electric - Yeah I enjoy watching his old videos as well, keeps the brain fresh with knowledge of his work....specially when I’m still learning this hobby & yes I have learnt heaps from shango066 too. 😀👌🏻
We've got an old 1930's Murphy set in a similar state to this. All the caps were bad and it wasn't really worth saving but just to get it working, and out of novelty I've just filled it with the cheapest El Crappo Chinese orange dips, some crappy resistors and for now it works ok. It's made a great set for outdoor use in the summer
I have half a clue. You just don't find those kinds of alarms up here. We also don't have roadworthy testing. Our highways are the roadworthy test! Ive seen cars up here from California just blow up on our highways. POSes just won't last up here.
Don't forget carkosnorfulators as well as the ubiquitous rototweebler... Thanks for sharing these vids, I think your judgement calls are what has so far prevented a resurrection fail. Then again, it could just be the skills ;) Don't think I don't remember folk like Gladwin and Philthy... Edit- I'm full of shit, it was the 1965 GE from back in February that I think was about your finest hour on the resurrection game
@Shango066 I first clicked on the video because I thought this was very close to the first tube radio I ever saw in the early 1980s. Turns out it was not the same manufacturer at all. Just looks sort of similar. I remember seeing that McDonald's commercial on TV in the 80s too. This is the first time I've seen it since. That moon guy playing the piano disturbed me as a child. Haha. Excellent video. Please do not hold back on the commentary.
Beautiful job, it looks very nice.. i love to see you bring these old things back to life, and yes the commentary is part of the bigger picture. Don't change a thing! I restore old Rock-Ola Jukeboxes Myself :)
There is just one way to get rid of termites... Put the cabinet in a freezer for a couple of weeks and they are all gone. My dad did that with a very nice antique table 20 years ago and my parents still have that table. And it's still looking great!
I love shango hes ace, a lot of people on here (mentioning no names i think you all know who im talking about) do nothing but moan and go on and on about how things were in the old days, it really pisses me off.
justsomeguytoyou - His EOL’s are the surprising ones you don’t expect either. You sit back after watching them & say to yourself, “Wow I wasn’t expecting that” or “Shango, you sure out done yourself again on this one”. ;)
My wife said it should not go in the dumpster. Especially after all the work you put into it. Not really a museum worthy item but definitely would display nice somewhere.
Never seen this radio before, but the cabinet was beat up. My Victor Orthophonic 8-4 Victrola from 1926 is kinda beat up as well. I got it last year, and I did some work on my Victrola and finally got it working. I tried a 78 and it plays really well. And then I used wood stain to smooth out the finish. I made a video demonstrating my Victor 8-4 last year.
Chassis mods look like a 1950's boy scout resurrection project, to earn their Shango badge. (addendum: nice work, if anything just to have a record of one of these rare birds in a working state. Nice job!)
As you know of course but I just wanted to point out that this radio was 35 years old when Elvis came out with "Suspicious Minds" as a number one hit.. Probably not the first time that exact same song flowed through that radio. Love the video and your commentary is priceless!
Looking forward to see part II of this repair. Hopefully the Patterson will not end up in the dumpster. It's rough for sure but you made it already look so much better, would be a shame to throw it away. It's a nice display for sure and it's working. Did you fix the hole in the speaker? Would probably improve the audio quality as well. Keep up the good work!
Did you ever find a home for that 1960s Panasonic TV? your hard to get ahold of now that UA-cam has removed the private message system. please let me know if you need a new home for that Panasonic you showed a while back.
Ever since shango did the video about the junost soviet TV years ago (time flies), I always meant to contact him about if he wants a little portable soviet TV with original packaging, schematic etc. that actually works but could use some love. Now that YT has removed the messaging system entirely ("hey we changed something for the sake of changing something!") I don't even know how to contact him at all, other than public comments which is obviously not ideal... :(
To bad i live on the wrong side of the pound, but if it where not for the shippingcosts here i hawe some more modern stuff i could sent to Both of You Guys, i am not sure if it all is old enough to realy interest Shango (i know the problem hawing ewery room filled with projects in various stages... ;) ), but i think some telecom stuff i hawe might possibly had interest You Rinoa for teardowns.
On the plaque on the front there, the words "ALL-WAVE" has a fairly modern-looking type face. Like it could be from the 1980s or '90s. Very advanced for 1934.
I've always had some luck killing wood-eating bugs, using Xylamon woodworm treatment. It hardens the wood and remains an active poison for any wood bugs even years later. It isn't cheap, but it's very effective
That has to be the most cost effective cabinet job I have seen, that radio looks just acceptable to me. I'd take it from your hands and maybe even leave some cash in it's place if I didn't live on the other side of the world.
It looks like you are making this radio pretty nice. Maybe it can be a keeper. BTW thanks for telling us about your favorite oldies station . I can get it here in Pennsylvania on the internet. Has some great music from my era
Nice job. I'll bet a week in the back of a parked SUV would kill off anything that might still be alive in that cabinet. I'd be looking to restore it even if the chassis were hopeless. We don't have dry-wood termites here; if the wood is wet, it disappears; if not, it's untouched.
The old school “robot/coffin” looking tubes look really cool .. btw, you can get “Chinese” versions of 811A & 572B (vintage 4 pin base, still in use in some old ham radio HF amps), that have the same look as those …
I think I had one of your test devices there. Signal tracer or whatever it was. Friend found one when we were teens and we didn't know what to do with it. I used it for an amplifier of sorts.
We're caught in a trap I can't walk out Because I love you too much, Patterson Why can't you see What you're doing to me When you don't believe a word I say? We can't go on together With shorted caps And we can't build our dreams On shorted caps So, if an old friend I know Stops by to say hello Would I still see shorted caps in my eyes?
Build your own meter to service your radio, what race of beings were they selling these sets to. Compare that to today's manuals that take multiple pages with illustrations telling you not to turn things on while underwater.
You are right, power transformer died. Look at 25:27 i can see some sparks at edge of that small internal transformer… stretched wire across bottom edge is shorting to ground. As cloth wires deteriorate wires short out to each other or to ground and that’s how these transformers die... You ought to restore this…It is very rare and it is practically functioning. Blast Cabinet with dry-ice and that’s the right way to clean it up. Or as others suggested, please take the guts and put it into another box. Thanks for great video and thanks for sharing.
I have repaired a cabinet way worse than this one ... on a 1930's bulgarian "Бралтъ" radio. Just soaked the whole cabinet in varnish for a few days. Everything dies and becomes rock solid after it cures. Then just filled the holes sanded and glossed it with varnish again. Worked great! The radio was (and still is now that it was preserved) of a historical imortance to my countrys early radio inustry. So dont throw this one away! Like you said .. it might be rally rare!! :)
For the 88 years this radio in the decrepit condition it's in, with some previous tech.monkeying around in the chassis, and not changing any tubes- this is totally awsome! Nice job!
Imagine how glorious it was when brand new! My late mom was born in 1934.
P.S., love the commentary.
Love your humor, very satisfactory video to watch!
What an interesting video. I love old radios & electronic equipment. I appreciate your command of the subject, & obvious vast experience. How delightful & utterly fascinating!!!
As abused as this radio was and for its age IT STILL WORKS! Good ole' American craftsmanship.
I LOVE the way you actually diagnose problems and get these sets running on as many original components as possible. I HATE the shotgun capacitor changers. Those caps with the tapered ends are a real trip.
It's amazing how tolerant old radios are to bad capacitors and out of tolerance resistors. I had a 1939 Zenith where just about all of the resistors were 50-200% out of tolerance, and the radio still played! I replaced them all, and it only marginally improved it. That being said, I recently restored a 1940 RCA, and the set didn't work properly (lots of static, sound would cut out) until I replaced every single paper capacitor. But it did 'sort of' work at the beginning... and now it's a fantastic playing set (I thank the 4 6K6's for that)!
Good job Shango and your commentary is priceless. Don't ever stop or change your format!!!!!
With radios like this I usually do a power up with the light bulb to see if anything is coming out of the speaker. If there is something I go directly to changing electrolytics and paper capacitors and work from there to improve its performance. But I like the way you go around this radio trying to figure out what has been done to it and testing its features. Very entertaining and informative.
I have to do that with my 34 Philco table radio. It works okay but I haven't run it in over 10 years till I check all the caps out.
As far as I know it's all original, been in my family since at least 1960.
Very cool video, I grew up listening to old radios like that, not particularly that brand, most of ours were some that dad picked up at an auction sale as we didn't have much money, dad was a farmer but when he got the home place from his dad, he also got his dad's bills, he was sued and 1/3 of every dollar he earned on the farm went to the Federal Government to cover his fathers debts. Anyhow, I can recall laying on the floor, and watching the radio as it played our favorite adventure programs, and detective stories. Mom used to listen to her soap operas during her morning chores in the house, and there was pre-school programming for kids as we got dressed and ready to head off to school. Those were some great times to be alive, you used your mind to see what kids not days ignore on television, it built a great imagination and developed your problem solving skills without your even being aware that you were, in fact learning. I recently built myself a little stereo wifi radio set that I have programmed to play the old shows, western stations, mystery theater SUSPENSE and Johnny Dollar. Gunsmoke and Have Gun Will Travel used to be some of my favorites as well as the Cisco Kid and Poncho! One of the stations that I found gave me a thrill to listen to was the AFRTS AFVN network that replays the actual tapes from the radio broadcast to we troops in Vietnam, now that's a trip and a half! Yes the days of watching television have been ruined so badly by the progressives taking over programming so I can no longer stomach the rewriting of our history in programming, in fact about the only programs I watch any more are on MyTV and PBS (for their british comedy shows!) At any rate, thanks a million for the video's it is almost like having a friend stop by for a cup of coffee, like they used to back when I was a cop in a small town in North Dakota.
Thanks for that story! Your spot on in your little history lesson of yesteryear because I can relate to it!!!
Thanks for sharing this!
do not hold back on the commentary..it is one of the reasons i enjoy your channel..and btw..you are absolutely correct on the horn alarms...
i think because poor people depend or need their cars more where as rich people just have insurance or can buy new ones easier if stolen.
No. Classic cars are the best cars. Chevrolet Caprice Classic... for example... A nice car.
Wow, slapping a coat of varathane and using that burlap for grill cloth made that radio a hundred times nicer looking! Good to see it singing again. Another first also, actual LIVE spiders inside rather than dead ones.
Nice job man,I didnt think you could bringer back to life,but you fixed her.I never heard of this brand either.My uncle used to repair old T.V.s and radios and I've never seen that model in his little shop.Nice!
your commentary cracks me up. very entertaining. keep it up.
I miss Retrochad. He was the first retro tech channel I subbed to way back when.
what happen to him
Nice to see you do some early radio projects again. Looking forward to part 2 on the Patterson.
My experience is that those dog bone resistors from that era are pretty stable and don't go off value too much even though they might be 90 years old by now.
Many radios of this era did not use the chassis as b- voltage. The center tap pf the P transformer is connected to the chassis by a resistor of a few hundred ohms. That makes the chassis 20 volts or so positive, compared to the center tap. That way they can ground the cathodes of the audio tubes and take the negative grid bias voltage from the -20 volt end of the resistor. Many old TV set were designed that way too. You have to see if the filter cap negative sides are chassis grounded or the - voltage tap. I've fixed some radios with loud filter hum because prior repairmen grounded the filter caps to the chassis.
Well done.
Astonishing restore! Amazing work done prior to you getting it! Burlap bags are ecologically sound!
Nicely done again, thanks for sharing. Interesting how in such bad shape that radio is and it's still able to work, it'll also be interesting to see in part 2 how well it comes alive.
Considering how bad that cabinet is your quick repairs to it really makes it look a whole lot better!
This set is so industrial and looks like the factory work was carefully done. Heavy Metal!
Those aluminum tube covers with holes in them reminds me of old ladies hair curlers.
Dear Shango066, What a nice job you did on this radio. You are so very talented. Have a great day my friend.
I just want to let shango066 that in really enjoy his videos. I find them very informative and entertaining. I'm glad he out there repairing and keeping these old items out of the landfills. Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers sure could build stuff.
It was great timing when this video popped up in my notifications as I had something new from you to watch before I gave my pillow head & my mattress some arse.....because it’s midnight here, past my bedtime. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Since you did all that great work on the cabinet, I would keep it now as it looks fantastic & don’t look like it was attacked by hungry termites anymore!
I would love to own it myself. 😀xx
Corinna T Roberts76 I am jealous of your pillow.. lol
Paul Gardner - LOL
JayBee - seriously, your comment makes no sense to me! 😂
JayBee - & if your referring to my joke about the pillow & mattress thing, it’s a old saying meaning “I’m off to bed”! Gee it must be only Aussies that say it then if you didn’t get it. LOL 😂 Hey, blocking me doesn’t worry me the slightest.....it’s just one less bully I don’t have to deal with on here! 🤣😜
@Ace Feeley I agree. 100% rototweebulator OEM Dickhead.
You definitely a miracle worker. I thought you might not get it operating, WRONG! Great job.
Jim Burns he could make a coconut play LA oldies...
No, dont keep the commentary down... Finally some one i agree with.
His commentary is the main reason I like to watch.
Agreed. His asides are icing on the cake. Great stuff Shango, keep up the good work!
damn straight brother. too many phony baloghny bull ship mother puckers out there ;~)
Josh Jones
Indeed. Does anyone else notice he sounds like
Ben Stein when he was doing the econ teacher roll call in class.
I can just imagine shango66 saying "Bueller.....Bueller...."
watershed44 b
If some very talented carpenter could recreate the cabinet and along with your electronics expertise...This might be worth having this restored, given it's rarity...
Ya I was kind of thinking he should have sent the cabinet out to be restored. He didn't go bad but it wasn't professional.
ngl, if i had this id toss the cabinet out.
It is a very attractive set. I love the dark stain finish, I am ecstatic about part two.
It's in the trash now
I've been enjoying " disco Saturday nite" via computer on KSURF. Actually I listen to it all the time. Good station.
skycarl I will give it a listen. It's on late Saturday night from 10 PM until early Sunday morning at 3 AM if I'm in the eastern time zone and you can hear disco after hours. This is why I got "K-Surf" on my TuneIn app.
Well as others may have said, this is tonight's bedtime entertainment sorted, this is better than 120 sky channels.
HOLY SHIT! Something ended up looking better than when Shango started? A rarity.
I just can't say how much I love these videos. Its verging on perverted.
(Well it certainly looked better from 6 feet away)
You done a pretty good job on the severely damaged console.
Looks promising for the radio's future.
been looking for a good oldies station thumbs up
20:18 I actually took some tubes from a smashed up tv in the forest. Most of them actually survived the initial drop and years of weather exposure.
Those spiders are devices, 100% agreed there. (candome Chicago USA) Your commentary is priceless, keep it up. 1500-2000 hours is not much for a tube. (¼ year full time use) Great 49 minute video, thanks.
I was just watching one of your old videos when this popped up.
Chase The Man - Same, I was watching a old RCA tv restore video of his.
Phoney - Western Electric - Yeah I enjoy watching his old videos as well, keeps the brain fresh with knowledge of his work....specially when I’m still learning this hobby & yes I have learnt heaps from shango066 too. 😀👌🏻
We've got an old 1930's Murphy set in a similar state to this. All the caps were bad and it wasn't really worth saving but just to get it working, and out of novelty I've just filled it with the cheapest El Crappo Chinese orange dips, some crappy resistors and for now it works ok. It's made a great set for outdoor use in the summer
Nice video Shango! Love to hear the improvement after recapping.
WOW !! You are the man, thank-you very much for posting this. You are really one very smart cookie.
The world will never know where the car alarm rant might have ended up. Also, I'm going to have to remember the word "rototwibulates". :D
Do you want those speakers? They need a good home it's just I'm not really excited about packing and shipping I really hate that. Reach out to me
You mean those ones from another video a while back? I'll email you. Thanks.
I have half a clue. You just don't find those kinds of alarms up here. We also don't have roadworthy testing. Our highways are the roadworthy test! Ive seen cars up here from California just blow up on our highways. POSes just won't last up here.
Don't forget carkosnorfulators as well as the ubiquitous rototweebler... Thanks for sharing these vids, I think your judgement calls are what has so far prevented a resurrection fail. Then again, it could just be the skills ;) Don't think I don't remember folk like Gladwin and Philthy... Edit- I'm full of shit, it was the 1965 GE from back in February that I think was about your finest hour on the resurrection game
I could listen to shango066 rant all day long.
Made my day. Bit of Retrochad!
Great job..I'm sure the radio will still be around and working for its 100th birthday in 2034!
Someone could make a new cabinet using the old one as a template so it would better if it went to someone instead of a dumper.
Looks good as is after the touch up.
With laser scanning you could cad cam make a new cabinet out of any wood..or. for that matter a wide range of plastics or even carbon fiber!!!
@Shango066 I first clicked on the video because I thought this was very close to the first tube radio I ever saw in the early 1980s. Turns out it was not the same manufacturer at all. Just looks sort of similar. I remember seeing that McDonald's commercial on TV in the 80s too. This is the first time I've seen it since. That moon guy playing the piano disturbed me as a child. Haha. Excellent video. Please do not hold back on the commentary.
Beautiful job, it looks very nice.. i love to see you bring these old things back to life, and yes the commentary is part of the bigger picture. Don't change a thing!
I restore old Rock-Ola Jukeboxes Myself :)
You did another nice job to save some history Shango! Nice!!
I also did a video the other day and the device didn't work at the end... but these kind of videos are as interesting just the same, great work =)
Nice video. You should build a vacuum tube volt meter with the instructions provided, for posterity's sake.
The usual shango066 superior technical ability, got it to work & made it look good. Didn't think you'd give up, looking forward to the sequel.
Fascinating old technology
Awesome video, on a classic radio!
That is amazing, one broken wire and a new paint job.
There is just one way to get rid of termites... Put the cabinet in a freezer for a couple of weeks and they are all gone. My dad did that with a very nice antique table 20 years ago and my parents still have that table. And it's still looking great!
I've been restoring radios for years , the cabinet is restorable
I like shango066, he is the real deal, no bull shit. Wish he was my neighbor.
Craig Nehring - Same.
I love shango hes ace, a lot of people on here (mentioning no names i think you all know who im talking about) do nothing but moan and go on and on about how things were in the old days, it really pisses me off.
He might startle you with the ocassional EOL, but nothing to worry about---he always has the hose nearby
justsomeguytoyou - His EOL’s are the surprising ones you don’t expect either. You sit back after watching them & say to yourself, “Wow I wasn’t expecting that” or “Shango, you sure out done yourself again on this one”. ;)
Just don't be living downwind when he's EOL-ing.
That radio looks fantastic. It's flaws give it a lot of character.
My wife said it should not go in the dumpster. Especially after all the work you put into it. Not really a museum worthy item but definitely would display nice somewhere.
Thanks for another enjoyable video, I like your rants
Never seen this radio before, but the cabinet was beat up. My Victor Orthophonic 8-4 Victrola from 1926 is kinda beat up as well. I got it last year, and I did some work on my Victrola and finally got it working. I tried a 78 and it plays really well. And then I used wood stain to smooth out the finish. I made a video demonstrating my Victor 8-4 last year.
Amazing how that radio keeps playing without a single working capacitor left...
Active termites are no longer in that cabinet. All that frass is dry, indicating no more activity.
Another great and entertaining video "sat·is·fac·to·ry"
Nice job on the burlap!
Nicely done!! I love the new speaker grill cloth most of all. The old Varathane was a nice touch as well. Some people's kids, though. 😱
You knowledge impresses us all!
Burlap grille cloth! Gotta love it! It's a keeper!!!!
Love these vintage radios. If they could talk im sure they could tell us some juicy stories. Some may be haunted. 😳 😁
Chassis mods look like a 1950's boy scout resurrection project, to earn their Shango badge. (addendum: nice work, if anything just to have a record of one of these rare birds in a working state. Nice job!)
As you know of course but I just wanted to point out that this radio was 35 years old when Elvis came out with "Suspicious Minds" as a number one hit.. Probably not the first time that exact same song flowed through that radio. Love the video and your commentary is priceless!
Police Dog Elvis wasn't even born when this radio was manufactured!
HughTVDX
The radio was made the year before Frank Sinatra appeared on the Major Bowes amateur hour show!
Great wildlife documentary, also loved the asbestos awareness and rototweebulation content. Very satcifadory.
Looking forward to see part II of this repair. Hopefully the Patterson will not end up in the dumpster. It's rough for sure but you made it already look so much better, would be a shame to throw it away. It's a nice display for sure and it's working. Did you fix the hole in the speaker? Would probably improve the audio quality as well. Keep up the good work!
Not half bad looking! Nice one!
Neat! I was just thinking. I wonder if Buzz would like to take a crack at rebuilding the cabinet. He did the unknown radio and it came out great.
Did you ever find a home for that 1960s Panasonic TV? your hard to get ahold of now that UA-cam has removed the private message system.
please let me know if you need a new home for that Panasonic you showed a while back.
Ever since shango did the video about the junost soviet TV years ago (time flies), I always meant to contact him about if he wants a little portable soviet TV with original packaging, schematic etc. that actually works but could use some love. Now that YT has removed the messaging system entirely ("hey we changed something for the sake of changing something!") I don't even know how to contact him at all, other than public comments which is obviously not ideal... :(
well, i'd gladly accept a soviet television if you cant get it to Shango. :D
i can also always be contacted on twitter at RinoaSG.
look at the channel info page
your About tab for this channel doesnt provide any email, however i just realized your mine exploration channel does. at least i think its yours.
To bad i live on the wrong side of the pound, but if it where not for the shippingcosts here i hawe some more modern stuff i could sent to Both of You Guys, i am not sure if it all is old enough to realy interest Shango (i know the problem hawing ewery room filled with projects in various stages... ;) ), but i think some telecom stuff i hawe might possibly had interest You Rinoa for teardowns.
For a banged up old radio, your refurb looks pretty good.
Cabinet is in better shape than the old radio I have been working on. Wood putty and the right stains would make that radio look better.
On the plaque on the front there, the words "ALL-WAVE" has a fairly modern-looking type face. Like it could be from the 1980s or '90s. Very advanced for 1934.
I've always had some luck killing wood-eating bugs, using Xylamon woodworm treatment. It hardens the wood and remains an active poison for any wood bugs even years later. It isn't cheap, but it's very effective
That has to be the most cost effective cabinet job I have seen, that radio looks just acceptable to me.
I'd take it from your hands and maybe even leave some cash in it's place if I didn't live on the other side of the world.
Another great interesting video. Glad you will be doing a follow up! Thanks!
Awesome job!
Beautiful cabinet, even in this condition.
It looks like you are making this radio pretty nice. Maybe it can be a keeper. BTW thanks for telling us about your favorite oldies station . I can get it here in Pennsylvania on the internet. Has some great music from my era
Nice job. I'll bet a week in the back of a parked SUV would kill off anything that might still be alive in that cabinet. I'd be looking to restore it even if the chassis were hopeless. We don't have dry-wood termites here; if the wood is wet, it disappears; if not, it's untouched.
The old school “robot/coffin” looking tubes look really cool .. btw, you can get “Chinese” versions of 811A & 572B (vintage 4 pin base, still in use in some old ham radio HF amps), that have the same look as those …
You polished a Turd,good job:)
After all the work of recapping it I would just keep it great work 73sir
I'm sure pilots at the nearby airfield go out of their way to fly over whenever shango066 starts recording.
I think I had one of your test devices there. Signal tracer or whatever it was.
Friend found one when we were teens and we didn't know what to do with it.
I used it for an amplifier of sorts.
Thought I was watching retroRODALchadCO2007 for a moment there. Hope retrochad is doing well, I really learned a lot from his videos.
The some of postage stamp capacitors may be RF bypass.
We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, Patterson
Why can't you see
What you're doing to me
When you don't believe a word I say?
We can't go on together
With shorted caps
And we can't build our dreams
On shorted caps
So, if an old friend I know
Stops by to say hello
Would I still see shorted caps in my eyes?
Yet another excellent vid! That radio was a "Clyde Foster".. CF for short. Lol. Good job!
Ohh! Hello amigo shango, nossa meu amigo o Radio ficou lindo! adorei. shango, ficou otimo!!
Never had a doubt. All hail the king!
Build your own meter to service your radio, what race of beings were they selling these sets to. Compare that to today's manuals that take multiple pages with illustrations telling you not to turn things on while underwater.
And of course at least 6 languages.
My favorite from my TV manual was "Dont leave beside open window during rain storm"
Always like the six legged radios from that time period. For fun check thise resistors too...especially 250Kohm ones...
You are right, power transformer died. Look at 25:27 i can see some sparks at edge of that small internal transformer… stretched wire across bottom edge is shorting to ground. As cloth wires deteriorate wires short out to each other or to ground and that’s how these transformers die... You ought to restore this…It is very rare and it is practically functioning. Blast Cabinet with dry-ice and that’s the right way to clean it up. Or as others suggested, please take the guts and put it into another box. Thanks for great video and thanks for sharing.