Vintage Toshiba Pencrest Portable Tube Television Analysis
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This tv first appeared in JC Penney's catalog in 1964. It was advertised as "The Penncrest tote-able tv,so light you can fly with it!".It weighs only 15lbs! The ad shows a jetliner in the background. It listed at $88.00 and was shown as only being offered in black that year. Sears also offered a version of this set in 1964 in black,white and gray. It appeared again in their 1965 catalog but was then shown being only available in black.
The nice build quality of this cute thing makes me wish for a complete cleanup & restoration video 😝😝
Another Shangoo master piece, this man explains the diagnosis and resurrects old tv's and radio which other people call junk , his videos are unique with humour and broadcast related facts all thrown in one video
Er, he turned it on???
Good morning oh wizard of the cigarette glaze
Bahahaha!!
Toshiba closed their first ever dedicated color tv factory in Japan last october..it had been going nearly 60 years and produced almost 1/4 billion sets!
wow
That total no doubt includes their excellent Computer CRT's
Can't tell you how many Toshibas I owned probably like 2 or something
@@billcosby1908 What was REALLY in your Jello pudding pops?
"It vibrates her ass, it doesn't work you out." Thanks for the laugh. Awesome episode.
Whilst I have a love of vintage electronics, I'm mainly here for when Shango066 goes off on one! 😂👍
Toshiba made excellent, well built products until the late 90's/early 2000's
I agree; I have two 13-inch color CRT TV/VCR models (completely transistorized with the sole exception of the display because they were built in 2003) that still mostly work! The VCR on the white one went out some time ago (I think a plastic piece broke off inside the mechanism) and the VCR on the black model shakes and shudders and the picture fills with interference lines when the picture tube tries to warm up (I think it has to do with the converter box I use on it - yes, both models are analog and so need a converter box to watch TV on them.), but other than that, they still work. I recently replaced the white one with a TCL Roku TV (plenty new enough to be a DTV ready set).
The people who dismissed the Japanese sets 50 years ago as junk had never opened them up for a look. This is the quality of construction that caught the US automotive and electronics industries with their pants down. This TV just started up 50 years later with just some lubricant sprayed in the controls. The dropping of tariffs was the final coup-de-grace that killed the US consumer electronics industry. The automotive industry being much bigger and valued by government was given time to pull their socks up.
Before 1964 the Japanese electronic Industry began to Adopt Deming system taken from Bell lap to improve quality. When Japan sponsor 1964 Olympic they designed and build zingaizen or a bullet train and got out of under develop country. Japanese electronics components has different grade for export. The one send to the US is the quality grade as you can see. I had Sanyo colour TV 19" that I brought under Sears for $630.00 electronic tuning in 1981 and it never fail until we got rid of it in 2017.
Doc:”No wonder this circuit failed,it says “made in Japan!”
Marty:”What do mean Doc,all the best stuff is made in Japan.”
@@johnmadow5331 Yes, if the American consumer electronics industry had not ignored Deming they would've survived. Zenith factories were still turning out good stuff as late as the 80s though. A friend of mine bought a US made zenith TV in 1984 and had it until TV switched over around 2011. The only things I had to do to it during 25 years of daily use were replacing one transistor in the remote control receiver and adjusting the color pots on the neck of the picture tube.
I worked for Nissan in the 80s. The funny thing about cars was that in those days the American cars were more advanced electronically than the Japanese. My impression at the time was that the Japanese killed the big 3 by creating a product that didn’t need as many repairs. The first thing that pops in my head is how US cars leaked oil like crazy (crumby cork and paper gaskets) while the Nissans would be dry with 100k miles. How many sets of valve cover gaskets did you put on your old Chevy? By the late 90s the big three mostly figured it out but lost a big part of the market. Now Nissans are problematic pieces of crap.🤔😂
Thanks for another interesting video - love them and the commentary! Absolutely hilarious and absurd commercials. If it wasn't for YT recommending you ages ago I would have never ventured into this, but thanks to you, I bought a Bang & Olufsen 17" Capri 606 TV from 1959. And restored it to fully work.
At 4:26 it looks like resistors in parallel with inductors, where the inductors is wound ontop of the resistor. Similar parts are in my TV as well (Philips part).
Wow, we had one of these in the same color too. My mom had it in the kitchen and it ran every day from 6 AM to 6 PM. When it got thrown out the picture tube was completely shot. I remember replacing the Horizontal output tube but that was about it.
Gotta love this. Shango is a GOAT genius, skillfully fixes old TVs so that we can all watch inane broadcasts. I love this channel.
Such a clean old TV. Never thought I would like the looks of a RED TV, but I do like it!
Wonderfully designed set. All the components connected together with few wires and no printed circuit boards!
It's a color television on the outside.
i love your comments when the commercials are on the old devices
"It vibrates your ass, it doesn't work you out"
Bahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
People continue to buy that crap!
Shango, you have a wonderful sense of humor! Perhaps there's hope yet for California!
That was a cute TV indeed! And very, very clean too. You may be right; it looks to be from the early 70's. And really, it is insane that Japanese built products were considered garbage compared to a Philco. And that was a pretty danged good picture it produced.
Where's the blamulance and the airplanes? I miss the sound effects .
Growing up, we had a 1970 Penncrest (Matsushita) color set and it lasted 9 years before the original Zenith CRT quit. Japanese products had come a long way by that time.
cool tv for sure, this by far has been one of the funniest shango066 vid so far with the shaking but commercial just got a good laugh for sure
Misread Toshiba TV I can tell you dates back to about 1966 1967 very well-made and very very reliable. We did not see these come to the repair shop often and when they did it was because the antenna rods were broken or the tuner knob had broken
Beautiful TV set, and a color cabinet that won't fade easily like a white one which yellows with age.
This guy is just amazing!
Fixes old TV so we can watch people twerking electrically!
Thanks Shango66 and please show more American inanity with your added flair.
Japan makes high quality electronics. I've looked at the build quality of my modern Luxman L550 hifi amp and it's incredible.
Luxman have always been built with an extraordinary style and quality, for 60 years. I've serviced hundreds and every one was special in some way.
Electrodes and fitness workouts sounds like the next craze that Twitch streamers will catch on to.
Thank you Shango. I learn a lot watching your instructional vids.
Shango,I did some research and the first year this television appeared in the JC Penney’s catalog was 1964! It cost $88 and was only available in Black that year. The catalog/model number that year was X855-0626A. They advertised it as the “Penncrest Tote-able tv.”“It’s so light you can fly with it”. The ad shows a jet in flight in the background.
Only weighed 15lbs! Apparently it was offered in colors in 65. Sears also offered a version of this set in 1964 available in black, white and gray. Catalog states “from Japan”. Last sears catalog I find it in is 1965 and then available only in black.
12:34 Anybody noticed that when shango said "its hard to get it in the hole" and then the guy on the TV said "amando, amando" in spanish which means "loving, loving", perfect timing!
I sometimes have that problem too.
Put some hair around it.
You have to finger the tubes longer.
These "silver like" caps are called styroflex and I've never seen one go bad...
19:14 "And, while the nail alone will make a nice tasty broth, it never hurts to add some barley, a few potatoes and maybe even a few chunks of beef."
I honestly can't believe I used to watch such a TV set in the 80s
I thought jiggle excercises were disproven in the 80s lol. That commercial was hilarious.
We have the same commercials here in the midwest. Not unlikely to see all of those over a dozen times each just watching a few hours of television on the weekends........smdh
14:10
Ah I see, shango has finally found the 'window egg' setting on the vg91
You got 2 good laughs out of me this time.nice work as always.
Nice little TV. JC Penney's once had a good reputation and good customer service. Interesting background story (only cash/no credit for many years and shared stock/profit with employees).
It can be used for a video game console. You can install your Atari 2600, NES, SNES and Sega Genesis to play your game on this good old Penncrest TV.
when you mentioned that japanese stuff from this era was considered inferior. my experience with japanese radios is that they are almost all very well made. I think we were bamboozled by American manufacturers.
Japanese quality was post-war, thanks to Dr. Deming who was sent over to Japan at the request of General Douglas MacArthur who was tasked with rebuilding Japan. It took over a decade for Americans to realize that their experience with Japan's pre-war quality was no longer valid.
What a gorgeous set that would have been an adornment to my childhood bedroom instead of the Silvertone BW tube portable that warped my brain.
It's fun watching you get this old gear going and listening to your commentary on the passing scene. But to confess, I really check back to see what's up on channel 6.
Your commentary on those old people commercials were hilarious 😂
Those infomercials were freaking awesome! Shake that thang!! 🤣
"Geez it's hard to get it into the hole" is what she said.
I have a decent amount of portable TV sets most are black and white. I started when I accidentally found a Telefunken during a rubble clearing at a house. So now I have more than 20 as well several wooden TV sets.
This was a real shorty one😆 - I love your long videos👍👍👍
18:01 😂😂😂😂😂 Shango066 are one of my favorites when it comes to electronics!🤣🤣🤣 that Toshiba is great.
Agree on the clean design. Wish they were all that well laid out..
Nice job...simple...to the point 👉
I love your videos. Gonna keep it sweet and short :)
That is a beautiful set!
Writing letters... from the days when it was cheaper than a 1 minute fone call.
I'm having difficulty writing this comment due to the tears in my eyes and pain in my ribs from laughing so hard at your response to the robocaller. I have no idea what happened in this video after that.
That's a stylish little TV.
What you see inside that set is pride in one's workmanship. The Japanese were pretty big on it.
that clarifier pump advert is just taking the Wee!!!
What a brilliantly built old black and white set this is, love it fella. Top quality set think these were made around 1974
Jc Penney’s catalog as well as Sears show it being offered from 1964-1965.
I was shocked that it's an all-tube set; just by looking at it, I would've guessed maybe late 70's-early 80's, all transistor/IC's
Toshiba using up and clearing out their stock of old tubes and using newer tech passives.
It makes for a pretty resilient set.
Looks mid-late '60s to me - the styling, typography, metal chassis, total absence of PCBs or wet aluminium caps, UHF tuner stuck on the top as an afterthought. No way this could be from the '80s!
@@AaronSmart.online No, I'm talking about if you just saw the outside of it and had no idea what was inside....like if you saw it on display
@@justsumguy2u I was talking about both the inside and outside, totally '60s
@@AaronSmart.online Gotta be 1964 or 65. UHF tuner added wherever it would fit to comply with the then new "all channels act".
I'd say the polyester faired well that it's only starting to short at 60 years
Polystyrene it is.
They normally don't go bad, only from overheating.
Amazing job on this vintage B&W Penncrest. PowerFitElite twerkulator pad . Jiggling the fat so you don't have to.
I got ya nuts right here (with the appropriate brooklyn accent) :)
It's adorable!❤
Love your videos. This is my favorite field since I was born..
Greeting from Israel🍻
The round clear capacitors are probably polystyrene which have good temperature stability, low dialectric absorption, low leakage, ect. They didn't transfer over to the surface mount world because PS can't handle the heat from soldering processes.
I tend to think of them in quality radios, very stable and worth the pennies :-D
I have occasionally found them in the sweep circuits of Japanese-made sets much like the subject of this video. The big problem with them is the extreme temperature sensitivity - had one set redplating the horizontal output tube because a polystyrene coupling cap in the oscillator circuit had melted from the heat of the tubes and shorted!
Yep, also known as Styroflex caps, possibly German made? Seen a lot in (west) German radios.
They are usully very reliable, but a nightmare to solder. Maybe someone shorted 'em through overheating while soldering components nearby. The normally don't go bad on their own so Shango's statement surprised me a bit.
The credit card scammers are not much fun anymore. Well made tv, could've watched coneheads before you fixed it.
shango66 uploads i watch ... and i don''t even know anything about electronics but i like to see the form factor of the old electronics and of course his comedy :))
Toshiba made nice and stylish am/fm radios in the 1960s. That name is short for Tōkyō Shibaura Denki KK, Tokyo Shibaura Electric Company, Ltd.
Toshiba, Nec, Sharp, Mitsubishi, Jvc, Panasonic makes nice and reliable produts still today .
That set was made in late 1964 and into 65. Sears also sold it with Sears branding. They came in Red, Beige, and black. I think it was Toshiba's answer to the Admiral playmate 11.
When I was a kid Japan stuff was called junk . Now China stuff is called junk . I bought some Nortive shoes the other day and they are made in Chine . They are actually of good quality
China manufactures product to the standard that the purchaser wants.. if they are asked to make junk then they make junk.
Lovely video
Good morning shango066. RIP kitty cat.
JC Penney specialized in selling bright colored items. I have a Red Penncrest sewing machine.
Interesting how the power knob says off-sound instead on vol and how the brightness control isn't on the front.
I like your vids they help learn more about televisions and tube radios and such since i myself like vintage audio but i rally dont know much in the way of diagnostics and these legit help me learn things btw whats your favorite company for audio products
They invented a wet/dry shop vac for your underpants. Maybe you can invent one with different attachments... like one that *is* underpants. Shango Nite Pantz. And they're machine washable!
nice work as always. I answer all calls to waste their time too.
Wow, I think Shango could build a interocitor...... Great video...
18:03 Don't you remember the vibrators with the big leather straps and quarter or half horsepower motors? Motorized exercise bikes. I remember seeing them in the 1970's as a kid. Gimmicks....
I actually thought you might have suggested the one lady get two of them....
where do you get these adverts from lol
Hey cool .. a new Shango video …
I've found a similar model dropped in the street in white colour but the circuitry is more complicated.
I believe the old JCPenney distribution center in KC still has the old Penney's logo on it.
Personally I'm surprised this set isn't a series-string set. Personally I've never heard of polystyrene capacitors shrinking as they age; they are very popular with people who build tube hi-fi amps.
yep it does. Reppin' KC
I thought this TV was series-string. At least I didn't notice any power transformer.
Goddam that's a beauty.
Ýow! I got triggered. When the VISA message happened, I instinctively stopped the video. 😄 cool set! Metal chassis. Nice shape. With that color cabinet, I could totally get my wife into vintage TV!
I love how he handled it, I laughed so loud. I had to stop the video back it up and show my wife how to deal with telemarketers. I am going to try that in the future.
The sound he made while he was on the phone
This TV is exactly why Japan took over the small B&W TV market from the late '60s / early '70s onward. The American manufacturers truly did not give a shit about that market, and built total crap for it as a result. They wanted to sell big 25" color consoles, and to hell with the portable B&W market -- just sell 'em junk; they won't know any better. Well... We did know better. And we bought literally millions of small, portable B&W TVs from Japan because they built them like this TV here. They were sold under American department-store brand names like JC Penney, Sears, K-Mart, etc., but they were all built in Japan and they all ran for years with no issues.
It looks very well made, but those interconnects with individual lug-connectors make me nervous; it would be very easy to put them back with the wires switched.
The TV has quite a nice picture actually, That vibration thing was funny imagine the sight of someone with a huge arse, it reminds me of those belts you would see years ago.
Its funny I remember the
Way I found Shango066 was some old timers were talking about how you could re juvinate an old TV tube by blasting it with power and I wanted to see that and shango066 was the only one with a video on the subject I have a great respect for what you do shango066
Never seen an Egg pattern on a TV pattern generator before! Nice TV.
Subscription earned.
Nice little TV, performs pretty good without doing anything to it other than lubing pots. It seems that these little unknown networks (this) seem to have the weirdest commercials. I think there was a product a couple decades ago or so that had a person hookup electrodes to their tummy. A battery pack sent an electrical pulse and caused muscles to contract while they just stood there. Getting a workout without working out.
I like this TV. I think it's a cool, attractive TV.
So you still get VHF analog TV channels around San Diego ? Here in western Europe it's been all digital since the 2010's.
Reminds me of those exotic burgundy designer B/W TVs on Wheel of Fortune for $5324.
Silver caps are polystyrene ?
If this set has no UHF tuner, It was made in the early 60s or late 50s. The crt looks very strong
It's on the top of the set
Happy Saturday everyone
I live in Columbus Ohio USA and that's the same scam calls I get
that would make a good video seeing inside that test equipment if you had the time/motivation
>use tool to diagnose problem in
tv
>tv diagnoses problem in tool
Are we in Rand McNally?
The commercials ... lol