Wow! What a tearful nostalgia that is! For I was a TV technician; for RCA Service Company for 33+ yrs; before GE bought it in 1988. I didn't want to stay; because GE TV's were no where what I was used to. So I quit. And later retired in 1996. Yes, I have fixed a number of those first portable RCA TV's. Wow, I haven't thought about them for a very long time. And I sit here watching one. Wow. I will be 90 yrs old on April 5th and I was hired by RCA in 1953; and I loved it every day. I will take it to my death. Praise Jesus. Thanks kind Sir; for putting that TV on UA-cam.
Shango066= "The cornerstone of every Saturday morning breakfast"! This has become my Saturday morning norm. I used to do this repair crap years ago and got burned out but for some reason I like watching you Twinkledink with those sets. Thanks man! And Happy new year!
I used to work at the old factory building that produced a TV under the name Raytheon power tube under the name Dumont. Back in 1957 the BW TV small portable size costs $250.00 in the US and that equivalent to 3K today. When Hawaii became the US 49th state in 1959, my mother shipped the TV made in USA that called "portable unit" it was 15" Sylvania and she paid closed to $150.00 for the whole paycheck at Navy hospital nurse.
Have yourself a great and safe New Year Shango! We’re all quite psyched, I’m sure, for the installment. Great to see a new vid, you built up some great anticipation. Perhaps directly or not? Fantastic stuff, thank you.
Happy New Years Dan. You didn't miss anything. DeBlasio pushed a button, the ball dropped and a couple unknown bands played. Planet Fitness sponsored it. What a waste of time. I appreciate the time and talent you put into your electronics and mining videos. I know it takes hours to film and edit. I wish you and family a safe and healthy 2022. With some luck things will be looking up in December...
I had one of these but left it at my parents' home, which was sold after they moved to assisted living. Mine worked, but had an intermittent problem that caused the horizontal hold to lose lock when the set was fully warmed up. This TV was a true marvel of miniaturization for the 1950s as the case was hardly larger than the 9" picture tube, and it used large-format tubes!
Nice resurrection. Cool to see that little set play again. Nice find with the cap value too... It's like someone shooting the parts cannon at a malfunctioning car without diagnosing the cause. Unintentionally adding an issue, or an issue on top of an issue that just leads to them giving up.
I made a post in the TV section of antique radios forum a few years back, asking for info on a Zenith that was my grandparents. Cant tell you how many stern sounding responses I got, demanding that I was not to turn it on until I had recapped everything. I told them I had already turned it on w/ a dim bulb and it was running great w/ no issue...wow the comments I got...it was like I had killed the damn pope. It was pretty funny how worked up they all got..
lol a clip from "A Place in the Country" was the last thing I expected to see. thanks Shango for helping us see in the new year, keep watching the skies for chemtrails.... man....
@@UHF43 same in Portugal, cinescopio. Cine comes from cinema wich i think means miving pictures and scopio means a device to see things for example microscopio to see small micro things
I've seen a lot of repair videos and you rank among the top troubleshooters. Always a good learning experience. This is the first time I've seen a TV with such normally low picture tube anode voltage. I am surprised its designed that way. I restored a 17" Philco for a customer and it showed on the schematic as 15KV!!. Anyway it was great seeing how you tackle problems maybe I can get that good one day LOL. I been doing it for 35 years.
Happy New Year, shango! Great stuff! I have several of those RCA sets, so this was very helpful and educational. As you can tell, they’re little monsters to fix!
I always enjoy watching your videos even though I haven't a clue how these tv sets work. I picked this same set 10 years ago and it still worked in 2018 . Still has the little stand to hold it up. I appreciate your passion to bring them back to life. Happy New Year Shango
A capacitor and resistor in series is a snubber circuit, they are used to dampen voltage spikes when switching on and off inductive loads, that blue component must be a all in one solution instead of having to add two separate components.
@@TheTreegodfather Yes, if the control voltage is AC, a reversed polarity diode across the coil if it's fed by DC. Snubber networks are also used between contacts on the output side of the contactor for inductive loads (typ. motors) for the same reason.
Happy New Year Shango066. Even here in upper east Tennessee,those damn jet spew out that mess. I am 61 and I miss the clear sky's we used to have.Since I was a little boy I loved to look at the stars. Thank you for another enjoyable video. All my best.
LOL on keeping everyone happy. I wait all week for your videos.....you be as safe or dangerous as you want. You are my entertainment. As far as i am concerned, its your channel and i am not going to tell you what to do. Keep up the great content. Love it!
I have a rather pristine version of this set that I fully recapped years ago. They are not the best performers with no aluminised tube or DC restoration. That said, they do work good in a moderately lit room. They were intended as a personal TV and sold for around a hundred dollars in 1956, 57.
They were a novelty item back then, a technological triumph when console sets were massive. Had to trade off performance for size. Would have been used in a kitchen or bedroom where viewing quality was not that important.
the "BLUE" cap is a "CAPRESISTER", and that is used for killing inductive spikes across switch/ relay contacts ( it is wired in parallel with the contacts).
THANK YOU! First video I've watched for the new year. I hope you bring everyone many more. Your videos bring me fond memories of my days in highschool electronics class! Thanks again for the memories 🙂
Good Job, Buddy! Entertaining and educational. I very much like that You spared us the safety talk! People who do tube stuff know what to do and there are so many other tube stuff vids around with safety talk that I deem this completely ok. I´ll stick around for more repairs😀
“Keep picture bulb away from children” might not be such bad advice since some parents use it as an electronic babysitter. “See,look how quiet she gets when the Kardashians come on,it makes my job as a mom much so much easier” 😀
That was amazing . So difficult when someone else has played with it . Respect to you Shango . Think I will stick to AA5s !! Have a healthy and happy year and keep em coming . Always a great watch . Best wishes from the UK . AKA , the madhouse.
Enjoyed the troubleshooting - as always. Sorting out an old TV is still an education in electronics, even if it is +60 years old. I appreciated it very much! I really think that "Belting that CRT with the Beltron" (rejuvenate) is something that should have been done - tho. After all, you now have a good picture bulb if it should all go sideways. 73.
You got it running shango. It would have been a good kitchen table set.getting fu__ed up in the evening , having a beer and rolling one up. Looking forward to seeing some more tv repair and old mine vids. Good detective work on this one. You know stuff . Happy new year 👍✌️😎
I have a full restored RCA 8-PT-7031. I love the thing! I can assure you that the picture is crisp, sharp, whites are bright and black are super black! Actually really impressive for a 5kv CRT! My Ion trap moved and has to fix that and the rings. Luckily my yoke cover is solid and intact. I plan to make an .STL so it can be 3D printed like you've mentioned before. The video your getting on your set is god awfle. Nowhere near what is should look like. Same for the other one yo worked on. Just a really bad picture. They should NOT look like this when absolutely perfect. Its a great little TV. It really is! As good as it gets for it's small size!
Happy New Year Shango. For a “turd-burglar”, as you called it; it’s a pretty cool TV ! Since you have 2 of these sets, I’d like to see you fully restore the set. Between the two, one would think you could make one working set with parts to spare. Hopefully that means you’ll have an extra CRT for it. Your a lucky man. You have citrus trees. We don’t have that in South Dakota ! I miss my Grandma’s Orange trees in Texas.
We don't have oranges or grapefruits floating around in Devon Uk either - we just have empty plastic bottles floating around everywhere ;) A happy, healthy and prosperous new year to you.
I look at this "chemtrails" phenomenon (26:53) with jaundiced eye, as I have seen stuff like this in the sky as far back as I can remember, around 1963 or so. These are condensed ice crystals from the exhaust plumes of jet aircraft. Portable, low-budget television sets of the mid-1950's were fairly novel at that time and priced accordingly. It was just as true back then as it is today --- you get what you pay for.
It pretty much resembles a soviet TV called Zarya (Заря), although it was twice bigger. The funny thing about it is that it had hot chassis, and it could electrocute to death if you touch the metal case)).
most tvs in the uk had 'live' chassis, and many radios , but rarely had external metal case, i have one that does , Ekco TMB272, but uses a proper double wound mains transformer, luckily
@@andygozzo72 Near every Czechoslovak B/W TV had live chassis. But they were always in plastic or wooden case. Metal case would require 3 pin plug because it had to be grounded.
We had chemtrails coughids floods and recappers gone wild. Very entertaining. Great little diagnosis. Pity the picture was so crap. Some repairs are like that.
1:09:10 The cap with a resistor in series is, if I recall well, a 'spark killer', to be put over switching contacts, probably when loaded inductively. (Quench - ark )
Occasionally my dad brings up having one of these portable B&W’s he had to share with my aunt back in the day. It got handed down when my grandparents got the new color set for their bedroom, he’d hear them watching the Ed Sullivan show on.
Have a Happy and higher minded New Year Shango. I have two of these sets. One is virgin and works very well . The other set needs resurrected and recapped. Hopefully I won't make the same mistake as the last person did that worked on your set.
1:09:26 That is commonly known as a "snubber", and is exactly that. A cap and a resistor in series. They are used in switching power supplies and just as you said, across relay contacts that control AC.
silicone~ did think of that~ rare parts trying to turn to soil are hard to find, disappointed the picture quality with so many tubes, thanks for posting this Shango066~
I don't know how I found it - but I got a replacement 17HP4 with good readings for my Firestone set. The old one had the heater burned out - so I'm a little nervous about flipping it on. Do the sets that are with a power transformer all in parallel? (I'm trying to guess what could blow the heater out and make sure it doesn't happen again. Wouldn't that suck?) - Sorry dumb question, of course I can see the schematic and the voltage seems right around 6v - have you ever seen a blown heater on a CRT?
Just like all countries are in on the C-19 thing, they are all doing the chemtrails also. And in California, Harp is being used to cut off your precipitation. Our leaders are not very nice people. Great video! These small sets are a pain in the ass to work on enough without someone else's botch job. I've found these picture tubes to test good as well, almost new, but they are not bright. And by the way, the few I have worked on now I did manage to get back together... LOL You just got to have a good sledgehammer.... LOL Cheers Shango! 🍻 -Al
@1:09:23 that’s an arc snubber cap/resistor network used for absorbing the arc across switch and relay contacts to keep them from pitting. That ain’t ‘sposda be in there!
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That video is the perfect example of everything wrong in the modern world.
@@tarstarkusz Because of us English folk?
Ahh Michael Buble die bubon boo blue bubble blur
@@shango066 Glad to see you've got your sense of humour back, can you OD on grapefruits? Sod bubbly Michael, have a great new year.
Oh that's a trip lol
It's incredible Shango can get any quality electronic repair done in such a chemtrail-filled atmosphere.
chemtrails do technically exist as some aircraft _still_ use leaded gasoline.
He watches for any unwanted sparks that might ignite the aluminum aerosols, though. Kinda keeps one eye on the work and the other between blinks.
Yeah, like 80% Nitrogen, gotta get someone to fix that!
Wow! What a tearful nostalgia that is! For I was a TV technician; for RCA Service Company for 33+ yrs; before GE bought it in 1988. I didn't want to stay; because GE TV's were no where what I was used to. So I quit. And later retired in 1996.
Yes, I have fixed a number of those first portable RCA TV's. Wow, I haven't thought about them for a very long time. And I sit here watching one. Wow. I will be 90 yrs old on April 5th and I was hired by RCA in 1953; and I loved it every day. I will take it to my death. Praise Jesus.
Thanks kind Sir; for putting that TV on UA-cam.
shango066 subtle humour is superb. It's a shame only 62.1K subscribers understand.
Shango066= "The cornerstone of every Saturday morning breakfast"! This has become my Saturday morning norm. I used to do this repair crap years ago and got burned out but for some reason I like watching you Twinkledink with those sets. Thanks man! And Happy new year!
Those are some nice water crystal trails, just like cirrus clouds. That's some nice orange sunsets there. 🌞☀
I used to work at the old factory building that produced a TV under the name Raytheon power tube under the name Dumont. Back in 1957 the BW TV small portable size costs $250.00 in the US and that equivalent to 3K today. When Hawaii became the US 49th state in 1959, my mother shipped the TV made in USA that called "portable unit" it was 15" Sylvania and she paid closed to $150.00 for the whole paycheck at Navy hospital nurse.
Happy New Orbit of the earth round the sun. Thank You for the priceless knowledge you share, spiked with cynicism and many drops of fun.
Have yourself a great and safe New Year Shango! We’re all quite psyched, I’m sure, for the installment. Great to see a new vid, you built up some great anticipation. Perhaps directly or not? Fantastic stuff, thank you.
Happy New Years Dan. You didn't miss anything. DeBlasio pushed a button, the ball dropped and a couple unknown bands played. Planet Fitness sponsored it. What a waste of time. I appreciate the time and talent you put into your electronics and mining videos. I know it takes hours to film and edit. I wish you and family a safe and healthy 2022. With some luck things will be looking up in December...
You never give up. An extremely admirable trait. Dr. Shang. The Tube Doctor of forgotten technology. Hats off to ya!
I had one of these but left it at my parents' home, which was sold after they moved to assisted living. Mine worked, but had an intermittent problem that caused the horizontal hold to lose lock when the set was fully warmed up. This TV was a true marvel of miniaturization for the 1950s as the case was hardly larger than the 9" picture tube, and it used large-format tubes!
You have the patience of a saint! You keep steadfastly plugging along where I would have just red-bricked the thing and walked away.
Nice resurrection. Cool to see that little set play again.
Nice find with the cap value too... It's like someone shooting the parts cannon at a malfunctioning car without diagnosing the cause. Unintentionally adding an issue, or an issue on top of an issue that just leads to them giving up.
I made a post in the TV section of antique radios forum a few years back, asking for info on a Zenith that was my grandparents. Cant tell you how many stern sounding responses I got, demanding that I was not to turn it on until I had recapped everything. I told them I had already turned it on w/ a dim bulb and it was running great w/ no issue...wow the comments I got...it was like I had killed the damn pope. It was pretty funny how worked up they all got..
lol a clip from "A Place in the Country" was the last thing I expected to see. thanks Shango for helping us see in the new year, keep watching the skies for chemtrails.... man....
SHANGO!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!! off to a great start with another awesome resurrection
Always a great video!!!...
Thanks Shangoo...
for keeping up our
edu-macation!!!...
In Poland we call CRT of a TV or monitor a Kineskop. Don't change it.
In Spain it was also common the word "cinescopio", probably a loan from Italian.
@@UHF43 same in Portugal, cinescopio. Cine comes from cinema wich i think means miving pictures and scopio means a device to see things for example microscopio to see small micro things
good to know :)
In Czech we call it "obrazovka". This is more close to picture bulb :-)
Hmm, and in the English, a kinescope is a recording of a live TV broadcast taken from the TV set. Probably same root word/words
I've seen a lot of repair videos and you rank among the top troubleshooters. Always a good learning experience. This is the first time I've seen a TV with such normally low picture tube anode voltage. I am surprised its designed that way. I restored a 17" Philco for a customer and it showed on the schematic as 15KV!!. Anyway it was great seeing how you tackle problems maybe I can get that good one day LOL. I been doing it for 35 years.
Happy New Year, shango!
Great stuff! I have several of those RCA sets, so this was very helpful and educational.
As you can tell, they’re little monsters to fix!
When the picture tube checked good on the Red TV I cheered like I was at a football game!
I always enjoy watching your videos even though I haven't a clue how these tv sets work.
I picked this same set 10 years ago and it still worked in 2018 . Still has the little stand to hold it up.
I appreciate your passion to bring them back to life.
Happy New Year Shango
A capacitor and resistor in series is a snubber circuit, they are used to dampen voltage spikes when switching on and off inductive loads, that blue component must be a all in one solution instead of having to add two separate components.
Exactly correct. We use those all the time in industrial automation across relay coils.
@@TheTreegodfather Yes, if the control voltage is AC, a reversed polarity diode across the coil if it's fed by DC. Snubber networks are also used between contacts on the output side of the contactor for inductive loads (typ. motors) for the same reason.
Would like to know if replacing it with the proper capacitor would improve the video quality
Bloody hell, even today's broadcasts can look 1950s through that thing. SPLENDID.
Happy New Year Shango066. Even here in upper east Tennessee,those damn jet spew out that mess. I am 61 and I miss the clear sky's we used to have.Since I was a little boy I loved to look at the stars. Thank you for another enjoyable video. All my best.
Excellent all the way around... especially your inimitable, valued, respectable commentary. Happy New Year and keep up the great work. ❤ honesty.
Shango have a safe happy and healthy New Year to you your family and your audience
You poking around high voltage is a good way to make a snuff film. 🙂
I've seen him get zapped twice in one video. Not dead yet.
“Focus…please?” is a more polite version of AvE’s infamous phrase.
I love watching your vids. Dry humor and expertise!
Happy new year.. people need to make this year better by not living in government induced fear. Nice fix and diagnosis as always btw..
Shango Saturday - Great start to the new year 👍
Happy and better New Year 2022 to you from Stig Österberg in Dalsbruk, Finland.
Happy new year! I'm impressed that he uploaded this so quickly after recording
LOL on keeping everyone happy. I wait all week for your videos.....you be as safe or dangerous as you want. You are my entertainment. As far as i am concerned, its your channel and i am not going to tell you what to do. Keep up the great content. Love it!
I have a rather pristine version of this set that I fully recapped years ago. They are not the best performers with no aluminised tube or DC restoration. That said, they do work good in a moderately lit room. They were intended as a personal TV and sold for around a hundred dollars in 1956, 57.
That sounds like a lot of money in '50s dollars but, I guess, it was cutting edge tech back then.
I wonder how many were thrown out the window.
I wanted to do this with the GE Portacolor I had.
I really hated that set.
@@daleburrell6273 It belonged to my stepfather. He let me use it then he sold it later. It had something like 1mm dot pitch on a 12 inch crt.
They were a novelty item back then, a technological triumph when console sets were massive. Had to trade off performance for size. Would have been used in a kitchen or bedroom where viewing quality was not that important.
That is hot exhaust from the engines.I remember this from my childhood.
the "BLUE" cap is a "CAPRESISTER", and that is used for killing inductive spikes across switch/ relay contacts ( it is wired in parallel with the contacts).
Also used as a bleeder in some circuits
@@Synthematix , that is true, I have seen that also!!!
THANK YOU! First video I've watched for the new year. I hope you bring everyone many more.
Your videos bring me fond memories of my days in highschool electronics class!
Thanks again for the memories 🙂
Happy new year 2022, greetings from Berlin, Germany. You have a lot of water in your garden! Jo
Good Job, Buddy! Entertaining and educational. I very much like that You spared us the safety talk! People who do tube stuff know what to do and there are so many other tube stuff vids around with safety talk that I deem this completely ok.
I´ll stick around for more repairs😀
“Keep picture bulb away from children” might not be such bad advice since some parents use it as an electronic babysitter. “See,look how quiet she gets when the Kardashians come on,it makes my job as a mom much so much easier” 😀
At last something decent to watch !! Happy new year !!
The bulb force is strong with this one !
That was amazing . So difficult when someone else has played with it . Respect to you Shango . Think I will stick to AA5s !!
Have a healthy and happy year and keep em coming . Always a great watch . Best wishes from the UK . AKA , the madhouse.
dont see many AA5s here in the UK, plenty of what you could call UK4s (uch81, ubf89,ucl82,uy85) 😁
Thanks for all the free entertainment this year. Best wishes to you for a happy new year
Enjoyed the troubleshooting - as always. Sorting out an old TV is still an education in electronics, even if it is +60 years old. I appreciated it very much! I really think that "Belting that CRT with the Beltron" (rejuvenate) is something that should have been done - tho. After all, you now have a good picture bulb if it should all go sideways. 73.
You are the best! Beautiful TV best regards from Italy good job incredible
At this point in California's history, I doubt if even the strongest of chemtrails would make any difference ...
Just love that Shango.
Happy new year shango and thank you for the videos last year.
Great video enjoyed you sure have a lot of grapefruits in your backyard that's what happens in my yard when it rains
Happy New Year 2022 from Croatia, Thanks for interresting content you provide to us.
how something so soft and dim of a picture could've ever sold is amazing
You got it running shango. It would have been a good kitchen table set.getting fu__ed up in the evening , having a beer and rolling one up. Looking forward to seeing some more tv repair and old mine vids. Good detective work on this one. You know stuff . Happy new year 👍✌️😎
Love your videos and your narration, I still work with some old tvs and radios too. it's almost like hanging out with you. Keep the videos coming
Happy new year Shango! I enjoy yours and radiotvphononuts videos.
I have a full restored RCA 8-PT-7031. I love the thing!
I can assure you that the picture is crisp, sharp, whites are bright and black are super black! Actually really impressive for a 5kv CRT! My Ion trap moved and has to fix that and the rings.
Luckily my yoke cover is solid and intact. I plan to make an .STL so it can be 3D printed like you've mentioned before.
The video your getting on your set is god awfle. Nowhere near what is should look like.
Same for the other one yo worked on. Just a really bad picture. They should NOT look like this when absolutely perfect.
Its a great little TV. It really is!
As good as it gets for it's small size!
Happy New Year Shango. For a “turd-burglar”, as you called it; it’s a pretty cool TV !
Since you have 2 of these sets, I’d like to see you fully restore the set. Between the two, one would think you could make one working set with parts to spare. Hopefully that means you’ll have an extra CRT for it.
Your a lucky man. You have citrus trees. We don’t have that in South Dakota ! I miss my Grandma’s Orange trees in Texas.
We don't have oranges or grapefruits floating around in Devon Uk either - we just have empty plastic bottles floating around everywhere ;) A happy, healthy and prosperous new year to you.
@@beamer.electronics how about turdburglars? got any of them floating around?
@@docholliday3150 Not particularly, but we do get burglars that are turds :)
I look at this "chemtrails" phenomenon (26:53) with jaundiced eye, as I have seen stuff like this in the sky as far back as I can remember, around 1963 or so. These are condensed ice crystals from the exhaust plumes of jet aircraft. Portable, low-budget television sets of the mid-1950's were fairly novel at that time and priced accordingly. It was just as true back then as it is today --- you get what you pay for.
Great video. Have a happy new year.
They were really pushing that 1V2 to its limits there. And 9000 volts on a brown Bakelite socket? Amazing.
It pretty much resembles a soviet TV called Zarya (Заря), although it was twice bigger. The funny thing about it is that it had hot chassis, and it could electrocute to death if you touch the metal case)).
In soviet Russia Execution by TV!
220V is much better for electrocution than american 110V :-)
most tvs in the uk had 'live' chassis, and many radios , but rarely had external metal case, i have one that does , Ekco TMB272, but uses a proper double wound mains transformer, luckily
@@andygozzo72 Near every Czechoslovak B/W TV had live chassis. But they were always in plastic or wooden case. Metal case would require 3 pin plug because it had to be grounded.
@@xsc1000 earth tied to neutral? how does that work?
Recapping is the same as rebelling. Internet says to do it and afterwards everything is more broken than before.
Another great video. Happy New Year. From Toronto.CA.
We had chemtrails coughids floods and recappers gone wild. Very entertaining. Great little diagnosis. Pity the picture was so crap. Some repairs are like that.
Happy new year Shango I wish you and to all people very blessed and prosperous year amen . Thanks for sharing 👍
I love your sense of irony.
1:09:10 The cap with a resistor in series is, if I recall well, a 'spark killer', to be put over switching contacts, probably when loaded inductively. (Quench - ark )
Yep, just like in a Halls spark, or even points spark system. The cap is there to save contacts and switches.
Very interesting troubleshooting and one heck of a repair! Thank You! Happy New year!
Happy New Year from Dublin Ireland 🙂🇮🇪☘️
Happy New year from Germany
About time we got some rain.
Occasionally my dad brings up having one of these portable B&W’s he had to share with my aunt back in the day.
It got handed down when my grandparents got the new color set for their bedroom, he’d hear them watching the Ed Sullivan show on.
I agree 100 percent with your ending comments .
@ 26:15 how else are they going to mass spread the coof?
Haha happy new year! The sarcasm is high today, I like it.
Happy New Year, Shango066!
Love the technical term ""Twacked" - Stay safe
Have a Happy and higher minded New Year Shango. I have two of these sets. One is virgin and works very well . The other set needs resurrected and recapped. Hopefully I won't make the same mistake as the last person did that worked on your set.
Mine has a soft picture too, but I think it was inherent in this particular model.
1:09:26 That is commonly known as a "snubber", and is exactly that. A cap and a resistor in series. They are used in switching power supplies and just as you said, across relay contacts that control AC.
silicone~ did think of that~ rare parts trying to turn to soil are hard to find, disappointed the picture quality with so many tubes, thanks for posting this Shango066~
Happy new year and late Merry Christmas keep up the wonderful videos.
1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth
Good work maestro. Hope 2022 is better than 2021!
Sparkle Pony Master play. Cool. Got it👌
This will be like the travler/ zenith from the dump and normande radio I'll watch this over and over
I don't know how I found it - but I got a replacement 17HP4 with good readings for my Firestone set. The old one had the heater burned out - so I'm a little nervous about flipping it on. Do the sets that are with a power transformer all in parallel? (I'm trying to guess what could blow the heater out and make sure it doesn't happen again. Wouldn't that suck?) - Sorry dumb question, of course I can see the schematic and the voltage seems right around 6v - have you ever seen a blown heater on a CRT?
Happy New Year Shango. Awesome set.
Thank you for the video!
timing of "its a good idea" was perfect XD
Happy new year!
Just like all countries are in on the C-19 thing, they are all doing the
chemtrails also. And in California, Harp is being used to cut off your
precipitation. Our leaders are not very nice people. Great video!
These small sets are a pain in the ass to work on enough without
someone else's botch job. I've found these picture tubes to test
good as well, almost new, but they are not bright. And by the way,
the few I have worked on now I did manage to get back together...
LOL You just got to have a good sledgehammer.... LOL
Cheers Shango! 🍻 -Al
Happy new year shango ...keep those videos comming i always enjoy
Brilliant work, as usual.
Screw those masked nurses
I did watch black and white TV till 2005. When I bought my first colour TV...😏
There's 8,000 in hospitals in LA county on a Knife Day! I mean..Nice covidless day.
I like that u don't have all that intro, outro crap on each and every damn upload. Enjoy vintage electronics and you do them very well.
@1:09:23 that’s an arc snubber cap/resistor network used for absorbing the arc across switch and relay contacts to keep them from pitting. That ain’t ‘sposda be in there!