What a cool interesting and very entertaining story about your crystal set adventure and the CBS radio. I hope it wasn't too much a pain in the brass to put together. Well written and very factual.
Cool story! reminds me of my childhood genius moment in the 1980s when I discovered I could make a small DC motor make sound and music when I hooked it up to the headphone jack of a tape recorder.
Great story, as a kid we were pretty resourceful, old dry cells provided zinc and carbon, mason lids were brass or zinc, I saved all kinds of stuff from things I took apart, my 1st crystal radio used a blued razor blade as the detector, it was a cut above if you know what I mean.
Well, I don't think it was "chosen" at all. As I say in the video, it was just assumed that everyone had brass laying around because the instructions' author had brass laying around.
@@collectornet It does make sense for its conductivity due to it's copper content. You are dealing with miniscule voltages. I saw it in a bunch of designs for crystal radios when I looked. Also, the crystal radio comes from a time where brass was much more common.
Brass was probably selected in the article because, brass or bronze was the material of choice in switches, connectors, and sliding contacts. Fortunately, you had the good sense to experiment with a material that was very common in the average household.
Since CBS came out with its own transistor radio I hope NBC Mutual and ABC came out with their own transistor radios. You can listen to WCBS AM 880 WBBM AM 780 and other CBS owned radio stations not TV on your personal CBS radio.
Encyclopaedias, like the Kirby vacuum or Hoover washing machine paid for on the never never, the volumes were proudly displayed by our parents but only read by the children. Where have they all gone. Running wires under the carpet, yep done that to supplement the 24 electrical outlets in my bedroom for all the ham kit and a 30 foot antenna mast my parents found on their return from the Lake district. Thanks for your stories they remind me that my refusal to adopt the 21st century is a sensible strategy for my sanity.
@@collectornet Steel steam pipe and a 240 volt motor to turn it, stayed up in force 9 grew another ten feet on their next vacation. Dad was happy as I received the news wire on teleprinters four hours ahead of the BBC and the weatherfax off NOAA. Now the Internet makes thing to easy. Best from Wirral Nr Liverpool
I remember seeing this encyclopedia crystal radio article around 1968. A year later I was given a Phillips ee20 electronic kit, and my favorite project was the 3 transistor reflex radio. By that stage I was now hooked on anything radio and revisited the encyclopedia crystal radio project. I don't recall any doubts about the need to use " the brass tuner" and just improvised with one of the nickel coated ;metal key strips from the ee20 kit that were used for projects like mores key and electronic organ. It worked just fine 😊
Stan, I have a Phillips ee20 kit, it had spring terminals to link jumpers got it of Christmas late 60's I think, I have it with all my other treasures in the basement. I showed my cousin Adrian how to build a crystal set, he told me just before he died that it was that which got him into radio. I later found out he designed the receivers on recognisance satellites. I think I will build another Xtal set before the BBC shut down Droitwich 98.7Khz UK.
@@WOFFY-qc9te Talking about satalite receivers, I didn't mention but will never forget listening to the Apollo 11 moon landing and Neil Armstrong's famous words on my ee20 radio project.
Mr. collector net, it sounds like your childhood interests were the same as mine. Building up electronic projects, I would savage parts from trash piles in the neighborhood, as well as the local dump. As a last resort, I would order electronic kits and components from Laffette Radio in New York. When we were kids, those encyclopedias were equivalent to the Internet. My elementary school had a premium set and I would spend as much time as I could get away with, pouring through books for ideas.
1956 I was one years old. Adults were confused because the Japanese started making these small radios when they were to big bulky radios. 1967 when I was 12 my grandmother had one like this I repaired. I was a little nerd I fixed old electronics.
That 13.5 volt battery in this particular radio was chosen because the audio amplifier uses a single, class A output stage. More gain and output power is available with the higher voltage and the battery drain could be reduced some as well.
I remember when the CBS nameplate on an older portable radio or record player wasn’t uncommon. I used to have a portable record player with the “Masterworks” label, designed for Columbia, obviously by another electronics company. When I was very young, I remember seeing a portable radio with the actual CBS/Masterworks label, and it was a large radio, too. It had two shortwave bands on it as well and took 4 D cells which made it pretty heavy. It belonged to a relative and didn’t much last past 1970. They DO exist!
Oh yes, there were transistor radios under the "CBS" brand, the "Columbia Records" brand (the TR-1000), and as you say other electronics items under the "CBS/Masterworks" brand. And I have a transistor radio under just the "Masterwork" brand, with the CBS logo on it (model M-100).
“But it's concerning now--now that corporations have adopted the neo-liberal belief that their only duty is to shareholders, with no duty at all to society at large.” That is the polar opposite of liberalism. Great video, but that statement was stupid.
You misunderstand me because you don't understand the term I'm using. "Liberalism" as presently used--and as you use it here--has NOTHING to do with neo-liberalism. Do your homework. LEARN what neo-liberal ideology really is.
@@collectornet you’re right. I learned something today. I don’t understand how the current political term liberal, left of the political spectrum, and neoliberalism / classic liberalism (essentially unfettered capitalism/laissez-faire) came about from the same word. It all seems at odds.
Thanks for that. Yes, I guess it helps to remember the root of "liberal" is the same as "liberty." So the Libertarians probably have the most claim to the word "liberal" but most would reject that claim. It is unnecessarily confusing, for sure, and I think the powers-that-be like it that way. There is nothing "liberal" in the way both of our political parties are pursuing war these days. In this and many other ways, the Democrats are no more liberal than the GOP. The classic terms of left vs right seem to apply more accurately in describing positions today. "Liberal" has, I think, become a useless term. And then the term I used here, "neoliberal" is perhaps worse than useless because of the confusion it causes. I have a video on this channel called something like "What Happened to the American Dream?" with a thumbnail saying "Dawn of Neoliberalism" for a more thorough look at it and a better take on just what I find so despicable about this philosophy that has guided every administration in this country since Jimmy Carter.
Your narration is terrific! It is real ( not AI ), informative, witty and never insults your audience! Thank you!
Thank YOU.
What a cool interesting and very entertaining story about your crystal set adventure and the CBS radio. I hope it wasn't too much a pain in the brass to put together. Well written and very factual.
What a wonderful story!
Agreed 100 % I love this person's channel. To go back to those days would be wonderful.
Cool story! reminds me of my childhood genius moment in the 1980s when I discovered I could make a small DC motor make sound and music when I hooked it up to the headphone jack of a tape recorder.
Great story, as a kid we were pretty resourceful, old dry cells provided zinc and carbon, mason lids were brass or zinc, I saved all kinds of stuff from things I took apart, my 1st crystal radio used a blued razor blade as the detector, it was a cut above if you know what I mean.
Brass was probably chosen for it's resistance to corrosion. That's the only reason I can think of.
Well, I don't think it was "chosen" at all. As I say in the video, it was just assumed that everyone had brass laying around because the instructions' author had brass laying around.
@@collectornet It does make sense for its conductivity due to it's copper content. You are dealing with miniscule voltages. I saw it in a bunch of designs for crystal radios when I looked. Also, the crystal radio comes from a time where brass was much more common.
Brass was probably selected in the article because, brass or bronze was the material of choice in switches, connectors, and sliding contacts. Fortunately, you had the good sense to experiment with a material that was very common in the average household.
@collectornet officers in the army were called Brass. It was quite common. Plus, it is the Britannica that used British terms. Brass would be metal
Since CBS came out with its own transistor radio I hope NBC Mutual and ABC came out with their own transistor radios. You can listen to WCBS AM 880 WBBM AM 780 and other CBS owned radio stations not TV on your personal CBS radio.
Encyclopaedias, like the Kirby vacuum or Hoover washing machine paid for on the never never, the volumes were proudly displayed by our parents but only read by the children. Where have they all gone. Running wires under the carpet, yep done that to supplement the 24 electrical outlets in my bedroom for all the ham kit and a 30 foot antenna mast my parents found on their return from the Lake district.
Thanks for your stories they remind me that my refusal to adopt the 21st century is a sensible strategy for my sanity.
A 30-foot antenna mast! Surprise!
@@collectornet Steel steam pipe and a 240 volt motor to turn it, stayed up in force 9 grew another ten feet on their next vacation. Dad was happy as I received the news wire on teleprinters four hours ahead of the BBC and the weatherfax off NOAA. Now the Internet makes thing to easy. Best from Wirral Nr Liverpool
I've been told many times that I have a lot of brass. Now I know what they meant. Thank you.
For the quality/production value of your videos Eric, I’m hoping your channel takes off. Great job, truly
I remember seeing this encyclopedia crystal radio article around 1968. A year later I was given a Phillips ee20 electronic kit, and my favorite project was the 3 transistor reflex radio. By that stage I was now hooked on anything radio and revisited the encyclopedia crystal radio project. I don't recall any doubts about the need to use " the brass tuner" and just improvised with one of the nickel coated ;metal key strips from the ee20 kit that were used for projects like mores key and electronic organ. It worked just fine 😊
Stan, I have a Phillips ee20 kit, it had spring terminals to link jumpers got it of Christmas late 60's I think, I have it with all my other treasures in the basement. I showed my cousin Adrian how to build a crystal set, he told me just before he died that it was that which got him into radio. I later found out he designed the receivers on recognisance satellites. I think I will build another Xtal set before the BBC shut down Droitwich 98.7Khz UK.
@@WOFFY-qc9te Talking about satalite receivers, I didn't mention but will never forget listening to the Apollo 11 moon landing and Neil Armstrong's famous words on my ee20 radio project.
Mr. collector net, it sounds like your childhood interests were the same as mine. Building up electronic projects, I would savage parts from trash piles in the neighborhood, as well as the local dump. As a last resort, I would order electronic kits and components from Laffette Radio in New York.
When we were kids, those encyclopedias were equivalent to the Internet. My elementary school had a premium set and I would spend as much time as I could get away with, pouring through books for ideas.
1956 I was one years old. Adults were confused because the Japanese started making these small radios when they were to big bulky radios. 1967 when I was 12 my grandmother had one like this I repaired. I was a little nerd I fixed old electronics.
That 13.5 volt battery in this particular radio was chosen because the audio amplifier uses a single, class A output stage. More gain and output power is available with the higher voltage and the battery drain could be reduced some as well.
I remember when the CBS nameplate on an older portable radio or record player wasn’t uncommon. I used to have a portable record player with the “Masterworks” label, designed for Columbia, obviously by another electronics company. When I was very young, I remember seeing a portable radio with the actual CBS/Masterworks label, and it was a large radio, too. It had two shortwave bands on it as well and took 4 D cells which made it pretty heavy. It belonged to a relative and didn’t much last past 1970. They DO exist!
Oh yes, there were transistor radios under the "CBS" brand, the "Columbia Records" brand (the TR-1000), and as you say other electronics items under the "CBS/Masterworks" brand. And I have a transistor radio under just the "Masterwork" brand, with the CBS logo on it (model M-100).
nice
Should have looked for “Brasso”….😅!
Have a great day!
brass
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I think you might have ended up with a tanned fanny!
Any bloodshed cutting up the tin can?
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I went back out to the world ........wiser.
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“But it's concerning now--now that corporations have adopted the neo-liberal belief that their only duty is to shareholders, with no duty at all to society at large.” That is the polar opposite of liberalism. Great video, but that statement was stupid.
You misunderstand me because you don't understand the term I'm using. "Liberalism" as presently used--and as you use it here--has NOTHING to do with neo-liberalism. Do your homework. LEARN what neo-liberal ideology really is.
@@collectornet you’re right. I learned something today. I don’t understand how the current political term liberal, left of the political spectrum, and neoliberalism / classic liberalism (essentially unfettered capitalism/laissez-faire) came about from the same word. It all seems at odds.
Thanks for that. Yes, I guess it helps to remember the root of "liberal" is the same as "liberty." So the Libertarians probably have the most claim to the word "liberal" but most would reject that claim. It is unnecessarily confusing, for sure, and I think the powers-that-be like it that way. There is nothing "liberal" in the way both of our political parties are pursuing war these days. In this and many other ways, the Democrats are no more liberal than the GOP. The classic terms of left vs right seem to apply more accurately in describing positions today. "Liberal" has, I think, become a useless term. And then the term I used here, "neoliberal" is perhaps worse than useless because of the confusion it causes. I have a video on this channel called something like "What Happened to the American Dream?" with a thumbnail saying "Dawn of Neoliberalism" for a more thorough look at it and a better take on just what I find so despicable about this philosophy that has guided every administration in this country since Jimmy Carter.