My first transistor radio was for my birthday in 1966. It cost $5.95!!! The family saved for months to get that for me. It was a GE! "Now remember son, no more than thirty minutes a day. You don't want to waste your life and rot your brain do you?"
@videolabguy ""Now remember son, no more than thirty minutes a day. You don't want to waste your life and rot your brain do you?" they invent television for that…..cool story
@@MrRichard57000 , I can imagine some father saying to his wife, while observing the children watching TV, "boy, this sure is a real brain rotter, isn't it?". And the wife replies, " if it ain't, it'll do until the real brain rotter gets here". News flash, decades later: the real brain rotters have finally arrived, they're called smartphones.
I used to go by this plant fairly often. There used to be a huge transistor symbol on the wall of the building, and if I'd have known what I now know about the plant, I'd have tried to see if there were tours. Heck, I might even have applied for a job there! Awesome film that really brings back memories!
Yes, those are American Beauty soldering irons (still in business in Michigan). americanbeautytools.com/Soldering-Irons It would be in 1958 that Carl Weller would submit his first US patent for the Temperature Controlled soldering iron (W60/W100 series and TCP series). After two additional patent submissions the Magnistat design would be used for Grumman’s work on the Lunar Module and Collins for communications gear used in Apollo program.
I have a 30 year old radio shack transistor radio, still works great, even after laying untouched in a box for about 15 years, truly amazing is that it still has that same battery from 15 years ago Try that with a laptop or mobile phone!
Gort Newton sounds like you are a Tump kind of guy. So what do you stand for look for, as a Conservative kind of Guy? Eldridge Cleaver: There is no more neutrality in the world. You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.' Wishing you well. RL
@Gort Newton I WOULDN'T SAY THAT THE WORLD IS HEADED FOR "WAR"- I'D SAY THAT THE WORLD IS HEADED FOR SELF DESTRUCTION!!! ...I JUST WISH THAT I DIDN'T HAVE TO BE HERE TO SEE IT!!!
@Gort Newton gort you described it wonderful,and are absolutely right,100% spot on,,you wonder don't you,these PC propaganda snowflake brainwashed sheep,,those who protest, or those who get there happiness in telling us how to think ,or do,and those with there can of lager,drugs,tattoos, botox,and EastEnders" blissfully happy ",,ahh man,, while mobiles,internet, esp propaganda TV, is available, nearly everywhere in the world,and used as a weapon of,,power, greed, corruption, sleaze,
@Gort Newton sorry gort I have been out,just got back,,,we should"probably pray", that's what we should do,you said,ww3=1999, but gort its now its 2019,
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 That depends on where they are born, as many countries use people as collateral through birth certificates but not all of them. It is easier for some governments to borrow against some people more than others. Here in the USA many are worth more than 250K, but most are not able to use any of this to their advantage. Value of the chemical elements in the body are worth less than a $1. However, there are some parts of the world where people are parted out illegally for a few hundred thousand dollars according to multiple sources. Then again it all depends on what someone considers value, as the right person can be far beyond value to the right person. That is because there are some that can get others anything that they need etc. Some are highly creative, and others of us are great troubleshooters for somethings and problem solvers in other ways. Each is different in skills and abilities, and those abilities vary with time etc.
Regency was located at 7700 Records Street in Indianapolis. They also made VHF-UHF radio scanners as well until 1980 or so. I have several of them. Electra was located in Cumberland just east of Indy. Now everything is stamped out in a sweat shop in China and is disposable. What a shame.
America still leads in innovation and design in electronics ... manufacturing, not so much. Diversity is key to coming up with new ideas. Our 'good days' became better days.
Wow, i have lots of these cool radios and some still work just fine. kinda proves they were built to last with that all steel chassis support construction and air capacitors with no mica insulators, which can collect dust and cause a scratchy noise when trying to tune the radio.
Spray the volume control with contact cleaner. And if you're ambitious, replace the capacitors. Then your radio should play well for a few more decades.
In Australia, to receive radio (and later TV), your household had to have a licence (license), up until 1972. At that time I listened to a 'crystal set' which did not require one. With the proliferation of radios (mainly transistor radios) and their portability, and radios which ceased to work (mainly tube ones) people objected to paying for something which does not work in their house..
Those transistor radios were nice, use to take it to bed and listening to the Shirelles, Marvelettes, Martha, Vandellas, etc. It was based on germanium, silicon came later. Much better than replacing tubes every few months. The crystal set radios my day designed were great too, no batteries required, super clear with enough power to drive a speaker. We used to build things and worked on cars and stuff. Heathkit had oscilloscopes, HiFi gears, color TVs and even computer kits later on. No more.
No, that's not true. You can still get parts to build that crystal radio, and there are kits to build many different things. Search the Web, you would be amazed at what is available now.
@bruce jones why waste the effort on building a crystal radio with today's talk sucky am talk shows ? all that to listen to " brown eye call in show, how to please your homosexuusll luver". forget it. am radio went to hell in 2003 +/- a year when computers replaced dj's , radio staff and talk shows took over.
2:30 I like how the lady in this scene is "watching" radio, something my parents claimed they did back in the 1930s when "Dick Tracy" was on! By the way, one of the main effects of the transistor radio was to allow teenagers to slip away to listen to the Devil's own music (Rock & Roll) away from the moralizing attitude of their parents!
Consider that 20 years later national semiconductor would be building digital watches and calculators in santa clara and Sunnyvale, in much the same fashion.
My first transistorized radio was an RCA Victor and had 8 transistors on a MW only radio. Nowadays my XHData D 808 is even smaller and probably has hundreds of transistors in those microchips.
Those old radio had a better selectivity which allows me to listen to a weak distant MW station even there is strong signal from a local station near the frequency. Those cheap receivers of today have bad selectivity that receiving distant stations with frequency near the local station is almost impossible.
@@gunlimitedammo3888 I've opened a staggering amount of electronic equipment over the last forty-plus years... but I don't remember ever finding any flux residue anywhere except in prior repair patches. The industry has always solvent-bathed the PC boards before assembly because flux residue collects water and water collects failures.
By the late 1950s, the manufacture of these radios was moving to Japan and fast; I believe the last pocket radio was made in the USA around 1966. It was more cost effective to build expensive equipment in the USA, the kind used by business and the defense sector. Automation is one thing that might bring it back, if the difference in labor costs ends up being less than the cost of shipping. Of course, labor costs have gone up in nearly every country that took over this sort of manufacturing.
@@kylesmithiii6150 In Europe the consequences of lead poisoning have been generally known for centuries, therefore e.g. the type-setters became milk at work to counteract it.
Philco corporation made the first transistor tv. There were also many many Japanese transistor radio models at that time. Ranging from a two transistor to 9 or so, with the most common being six.
That is before the Japanese Radio Scandal - they were selling a '6 transistor' radio (at this time more transistors = higher quality), BUT only 3 were actually working, the other 3 were just soldered to the board and did absolutely nothing!
Not necessarily. Some transistors had one defective junction, of two. Those could be and were used as diodes. But, you are essentially correct in that it was a scandal. I remember the first question I always asked about any transistor product in the 1960s, "How many transistors does it have?" The bigger the number the better - was the basic presumption. Wonder what someone from back then would think of a Pentium processor today? "Oh, somewhere north of a billion transistors." They wouldn't believe you!
Caramba a placa não tinga silk-screen e os componentes eram inseridos na memória nos furos certos sem um layout pra poder olhar...tinga que ter boa memória
The Regent used Germanium or Silicon transistors? The battery was 22.5 V for max gain from just those four transistors - - lot of voltage for those early puny Ge xsistors
I don't believe silicon transistors were practical until the late 1960s, and those early ones were not particularly reliable. Silicon is cheaper than germanium and a well made silicon transistor is less vulnerable to the effects of heat, but it needs to be more highly refined.
@@daleburrell6273 it is a different process, yes. But same principle. You have THT components, which are soldered from the button via wave. in this case it is not a wave but bath.
The third world is fast disappearing. They are getting the jobs we no longer want, and their incomes are skyrocketing. Time for us to wish them well and stop living in the past.
This is why I love the old Radio's. I like to think America was a better place back then. One look at something old and you know allot of pride and hard work went into it.
It didn't take very long before they improved it a long, long way when they came up with the wave soldering machine. Much faster, and less stressful to the components on the board, and more likely to properly solder every component.
I have been wanting to see close-up footage of a worker hand-stuffing a printed circuit board. I am a bit surprised that one worker could insert so many different components into a board without a silk screen and not make any mistakes.
That was a set-up shot. She was just randomly placing parts. I have restored a Regency TR-1 and know that the transistors are spaced out differently. There is no silk screening on the board, so the women had some sort of guide to place the parts.
Assembling transistor radios in not a gauge of greatness of a nation. Overall the US has never been great given its propensity for war, abhorrent laws relating to abortion, racial segregation, etc. However, the US was certainly a great driver for creating new technologies.
There's no way you could possibly tell from this video... besides, I wouldn't say _deadly_ considering how much time in my poorly ventilated room with my soldering iron plugged in for hours at a time.
Lead is not vaporised and carried in the fumes, it is a heavy metal. Lead is quite dangerous, but those fumes only contain the flux used in those days, which was Rosin, made from the sap of pine trees, and not harmful at all.
Somebody still has to build the 400 burger per minute machines and all the robotics used to build robots. At the very source of manufacturing there is still a need for a person in the loop.
0:40 the transistor seen...being installed...has a metal case. Inside..the actual transistor was a miniature version of the first one invented in 1947...the performance characteristics were so wide...transistors had to be "paired / matched" to get best performance...this was true of SONY radios manufactured early on. I learned this stuff with UA-cam channel "Asianometry"...and other similiar channels. 👍
Simple , STOP all imports for all goods by sea and restrict them to air only and keep only raw materials to sea imports. You will have America great again.
I hate the loss of our manufacturing base as much as any other American, but we're the absolute cause of it all. If we!...we!...we! stop buying...they'll stop selling. John
@@SharkStrikeAC É uma pena, e ainda tem gente que reclama do Brasil.... sei que aqui não somos de 1 mundo , porém devemos dar graças a Deus em relação a muitas outras coisas!
@@gblargg Indeed. I just bought a replacement tip for my iron - it has a 1/64" conical tip. My problem now is that I need a microscope to see the parts I'm trying to solder!
@@Cynthia_Cantrell I spent all my years as a child and teen soldering things without ever learning about flux. It's amazing what it can do with tiny component leads, just brush some flux on, add solder, and it magically avoids bridging, for the most part.
@@gblargg If you like flux, you might like low-temp solder sticks. They make it MUCH easier to remove components easily. It tends to stick to solder mask a bit more than regular solder, but it given how easy it is to remove parts - even with minimal equipment - it's well worth it.
My first calculator was a TI-30 at around $200 which was half the price of a HP-35 then. Damn $400 for the HP-35 then is like $4,000 now! You could buy a calculator with the same functions now for under $10. First transistor rado ever was from TI in 1954!
the iphone of the 60's, then the smartphone , at the beginning such small radio was not for everyone, but if you had it you'd be anywhere with it, then everyone had one to use in the bus, park, school, job... cool vid.
And it did. My Sony was smaller and more stylish than my American transistor radios - something perhaps Steve Jobs would have done. My RCA (I think is was RCA) still had the best sound but it was 4 times larger, not for the pocket.
rca was a good brand until thomson electronics bought it in 1986. i had a rca am/fm radio made in 1970 that sounded great and built solid. rca badge still exists but only as a name now and the quality long gone.
Hour after hour of soldering picture tube connector caps. And work in the Sylvania was a good life ( hot solder in cups at molten temps) don't drop one in your lap. Hi hi. It's a good life. Payed well
We are working at eliminating that person in the loop. We have machines that could learn and simulate human thinking and carry on a normal conversation. We have cars that drives itself, machines repairing other machines and make more machines. A hundred years from now, no one needs to work - only eat and poop.
@kimchee94112 we could even teach that computer clone to fuck off at work, chain smoke camels and tell the boss to fuck off or get zapped with their electrode. wouldn't that be so swell, wally. and golly gee whiz, beaver.
I can't get enough of these old manufacturing video's. Thanks to who uploaded this.
My first transistor radio was for my birthday in 1966. It cost $5.95!!! The family saved for months to get that for me. It was a GE!
"Now remember son, no more than thirty minutes a day. You don't want to waste your life and rot your brain do you?"
@videolabguy ""Now remember son, no more than thirty minutes a day. You don't want to waste your life and rot your brain do you?"
they invent television for that…..cool story
Tell the same to modern youth regarding their smartphones :)
@ agree...but better social media than main stream media.
@@MrRichard57000 , I can imagine some father saying to his wife, while observing the children watching TV, "boy, this sure is a real brain rotter, isn't it?". And the wife replies, " if it ain't, it'll do until the real brain rotter gets here". News flash, decades later: the real brain rotters have finally arrived, they're called smartphones.
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If I'm not mistaken that's the Regency Royal radio. Which is the first transistor radio ever made. Worth a lot of money today as a collectible.
i have one of these radios they are making. How cool is that? To hold it now, and to see the people who made it. The future is now
You are lucky
I have one too. It still works ... uses a 9 volt battery.
@Gort Newton good call 🤙
What model?
If its the real Regency tr1, its worth 500-3000....
This video brings such a warm feeling to the cockles of my heart. I can almost smell the epoxy board characteristic of old equipment like these.
Electro I AM PRETTY SURE THAT THE PCB'S OF THESE RADIOS WERE MADE WITH BAKELITE RESIN AND NOT EPOXY...
@ungratefulmetalpansy WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?!!
That was before epoxy. Those were phenolic boards. Tan to reddish.
@@daleburrell6273 Phenolic.
I used to go by this plant fairly often. There used to be a huge transistor symbol on the wall of the building, and if I'd have known what I now know about the plant, I'd have tried to see if there were tours. Heck, I might even have applied for a job there! Awesome film that really brings back memories!
I worked in electronic manufacturing for a good portion of my life and it is informative to see how they did it back then.
massive soldering irons
say that to a HAKKO SOLDERING IRON.
Yes, those are American Beauty soldering irons (still in business in Michigan).
americanbeautytools.com/Soldering-Irons
It would be in 1958 that Carl Weller would submit his first US patent for the Temperature Controlled soldering iron (W60/W100 series and TCP series). After two additional patent submissions the Magnistat design would be used for Grumman’s work on the Lunar Module and Collins for communications gear used in Apollo program.
Im assuming that's lead based solder.
@@_ShaDynasty Yes - great stuff. Lead free solder doesn't flow nicely and you can't spot a cold solder joint like you could with tin/lead solder.
because that's what the PROs use!
Incredible assembly line. Bet that AM radio would still work today too.
I have a 30 year old radio shack transistor radio, still works great, even after laying untouched in a box for about 15 years, truly amazing is that it still has that same battery from 15 years ago
Try that with a laptop or mobile phone!
All components and assembly in the USA. There is a reason that so radios from that time still work today.
same in Australia - we had a thriving electronics manufacturing sector at one time..
Gort Newton sounds like you are a Tump kind of guy.
So what do you stand for look for, as a Conservative kind of Guy?
Eldridge Cleaver: There is no more neutrality in the world. You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.'
Wishing you well.
RL
@Gort Newton EVER SEE THE MOVIE "COCOON"?!
...WHERE ARE THE ANTERIANS WHEN YA NEED 'EM-!!
@Gort Newton I WOULDN'T SAY THAT THE WORLD IS HEADED FOR "WAR"- I'D SAY THAT THE WORLD IS HEADED FOR SELF DESTRUCTION!!!
...I JUST WISH THAT I DIDN'T HAVE TO BE HERE TO SEE IT!!!
@Gort Newton gort you described it wonderful,and are absolutely right,100% spot on,,you wonder don't you,these PC propaganda snowflake brainwashed sheep,,those who protest, or those who get there happiness in telling us how to think ,or do,and those with there can of lager,drugs,tattoos, botox,and EastEnders" blissfully happy ",,ahh man,, while mobiles,internet, esp propaganda TV, is available, nearly everywhere in the world,and used as a weapon of,,power, greed, corruption, sleaze,
@Gort Newton sorry gort I have been out,just got back,,,we should"probably pray", that's what we should do,you said,ww3=1999, but gort its now its 2019,
They were good radios to fix.
Today everything is disposable ... even the humans.
Sad but true.
There are 8 billion. What value does one have?
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 That depends on where they are born, as many countries use people as collateral through birth certificates but not all of them. It is easier for some governments to borrow against some people more than others. Here in the USA many are worth more than 250K, but most are not able to use any of this to their advantage.
Value of the chemical elements in the body are worth less than a $1. However, there are some parts of the world where people are parted out illegally for a few hundred thousand dollars according to multiple sources.
Then again it all depends on what someone considers value, as the right person can be far beyond value to the right person. That is because there are some that can get others anything that they need etc. Some are highly creative, and others of us are great troubleshooters for somethings and problem solvers in other ways. Each is different in skills and abilities, and those abilities vary with time etc.
Jeez everybody has been trained by the media these days to say Hoooooman instead of people or heaven forbid, the gender specific "Men" and "Women".
@@ErZi-uo7fm it's nothing new at all. people are just finally showing respect to a group of people who have always been with us.
Thank you for sharing, “transistors from Texas” == Texas Instruments.
“Speakers from Illinois” = CTS
Regency was located at 7700 Records Street in Indianapolis. They also made VHF-UHF radio scanners as well until 1980 or so. I have several of them. Electra was located in Cumberland just east of Indy. Now everything is stamped out in a sweat shop in China and is disposable. What a shame.
Made in America! Ah, the good ole days...
In this case"the good ole days" = before the civil Rights act? Stop saying " the good ol days." It's terrible.
America still leads in innovation and design in electronics ... manufacturing, not so much. Diversity is key to coming up with new ideas. Our 'good days' became better days.
Reverse thrust, go back to your klan meeting and don't talk to me.
Приятный голос
@@norvillerodgersspeaks
That for only for blacks.
Wow, i have lots of these cool radios and some still work just fine. kinda proves they were built to last with that all steel chassis support construction and air capacitors with no mica insulators, which can collect dust and cause a scratchy noise when trying to tune the radio.
Spray the volume control with contact cleaner. And if you're ambitious, replace the capacitors. Then your radio should play well for a few more decades.
In Australia, to receive radio (and later TV), your household had to have a licence (license), up until 1972. At that time I listened to a 'crystal set' which did not require one. With the proliferation of radios (mainly transistor radios) and their portability, and radios which ceased to work (mainly tube ones) people objected to paying for something which does not work in their house..
genial collecting old transistors radios it is very interesting to see this movie thank you
Those transistor radios were nice, use to take it to bed and listening to the Shirelles, Marvelettes, Martha, Vandellas, etc. It was based on germanium, silicon came later. Much better than replacing tubes every few months.
The crystal set radios my day designed were great too, no batteries required, super clear with enough power to drive a speaker. We used to build things and worked on cars and stuff. Heathkit had oscilloscopes, HiFi gears, color TVs and even computer kits later on. No more.
kimchee94112 ...that's all stuff from a by-gone era.
No, that's not true. You can still get parts to build that crystal radio, and there are kits to build many different things. Search the Web, you would be amazed at what is available now.
@bruce jones why waste the effort on building a crystal radio with today's talk sucky am talk shows ? all that to listen to " brown eye call in show, how to please your homosexuusll luver". forget it. am radio went to hell in 2003 +/- a year when computers replaced dj's , radio staff and talk shows took over.
2:30 I like how the lady in this scene is "watching" radio, something my parents claimed they did back in the 1930s when "Dick Tracy" was on! By the way, one of the main effects of the transistor radio was to allow teenagers to slip away to listen to the Devil's own music (Rock & Roll) away from the moralizing attitude of their parents!
Consider that 20 years later national semiconductor would be building digital watches and calculators in santa clara and Sunnyvale, in much the same fashion.
Regency TR-1 introduced dec1954 for the princely sum of $49.50
My first transistorized radio was an RCA Victor and had 8 transistors on a MW only radio. Nowadays my XHData D 808 is even smaller and probably has hundreds of transistors in those microchips.
Those old radio had a better selectivity which allows me to listen to a weak distant MW station even there is strong signal from a local station near the frequency. Those cheap receivers of today have bad selectivity that receiving distant stations with frequency near the local station is almost impossible.
Eram rádios bons de consertar.
Hoje tudo é descartável...até os seres humanos.
0:55 That explains why all the old transistor radios I've taken apart have had an unbelievable amount of flux scum on them
I have news: that's not flux scum.
(ahem)
It's actually wax, which was used to hold some parts in place while they were being hand-soldered.
There is also wax
@@gunlimitedammo3888 I've opened a staggering amount of electronic equipment over the last forty-plus years... but I don't remember ever finding any flux residue anywhere except in prior repair patches. The industry has always solvent-bathed the PC boards before assembly because flux residue collects water and water collects failures.
Regency radios. Probably with leather cases and battery compartments made from glued celluloid tubes. Emersons were great, too.
By the late 1950s, the manufacture of these radios was moving to Japan and fast; I believe the last pocket radio was made in the USA around 1966. It was more cost effective to build expensive equipment in the USA, the kind used by business and the defense sector. Automation is one thing that might bring it back, if the difference in labor costs ends up being less than the cost of shipping. Of course, labor costs have gone up in nearly every country that took over this sort of manufacturing.
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in 1950's, old way handmade the radio was heavy weight because of thick lead and steel
It would be interesting to know, how many of the workers there were aware that the all-present solder contains lead.
They probably knew. It didn’t bother them; they probably smoked while driving their cars running on leaded fuel to their houses lined with asbestos.
They probably were even convinced that smoking was good for their health. I saw ads to this effect.
@@kylesmithiii6150 In Europe the consequences of lead poisoning have been generally known for centuries, therefore e.g. the type-setters became milk at work to counteract it.
@@kylesmithiii6150 SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE COMMUNIST-!!!
@Bernie Wright NO, THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID A LOT MORE OFTEN- BECAUSE IT'S THE TRUTH!!!
one of those puppies cost damn near $500 in 1955 money ($50) which was probably at least a week's wages
Probably an inappropriate word but this Doc is Beautiful.
Philco corporation made the first transistor tv.
There were also many many Japanese transistor radio models at that time. Ranging from a two transistor to 9 or so, with the most common being six.
That is before the Japanese Radio Scandal - they were selling a '6 transistor' radio (at this time more transistors = higher quality), BUT only 3 were actually working, the other 3 were just soldered to the board and did absolutely nothing!
Not necessarily. Some transistors had one defective junction, of two. Those could be and were used as diodes. But, you are essentially correct in that it was a scandal. I remember the first question I always asked about any transistor product in the 1960s, "How many transistors does it have?" The bigger the number the better - was the basic presumption. Wonder what someone from back then would think of a Pentium processor today? "Oh, somewhere north of a billion transistors." They wouldn't believe you!
After 11 years, youtube recommended this to me
60 years later
villain smart phone killed all other electronics
Caramba a placa não tinga silk-screen e os componentes eram inseridos na memória nos furos certos sem um layout pra poder olhar...tinga que ter boa memória
The transistor did for electronics what the gasoline engine did for the motor car
The Regent used Germanium or Silicon transistors? The battery was 22.5 V for max gain from just those four transistors - - lot of voltage for those early puny Ge xsistors
I don't believe silicon transistors were practical until the late 1960s, and those early ones were not particularly reliable. Silicon is cheaper than germanium and a well made silicon transistor is less vulnerable to the effects of heat, but it needs to be more highly refined.
Amazing work and labor.. quality handmade. 👍
My first radio was a Palladium with cassette deck and was given by my aunt in 1993.
That one operator inserting ALL the through holes without any silk screen........ that's going to change very soon.
...I SUPPOSE THAT AFTER YOU'VE ASSEMBLED ENOUGH OF THEM- YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHERE EVERY PART GOES FROM MEMORY!!!
0:54 wave soldering...
...ACTUALLY, NO- "WAVE SOLDERING" IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT PROCESS-!!!
@@daleburrell6273 it is a different process, yes. But same principle. You have THT components, which are soldered from the button via wave. in this case it is not a wave but bath.
when everything was made and assembled in the USA, now just bought here
+Bob Billings
Don't live in the past, we're post-industrial now. Give the third world a chance.
and that's why we have lost our middle class. no thanks, we are on our way to third world since many and rising are not affording imports now.
The third world is fast disappearing. They are getting the jobs we no longer want, and their incomes are skyrocketing. Time for us to wish them well and stop living in the past.
It's not disappearing, it's reappearing here
+Landrew0 Got to detroit or toldeo. Its nothing but the 3rd world.
Wonderful fumes from that solder bath. Those were the days ....
This is why I love the old Radio's. I like to think America was a better place back then. One look at something old and you know allot of pride and hard work went into it.
Sure, it was nice if you weren't gay, black, or a woman.
QUE MARAVILHA DE DOCUMENTÁRIO!!!!
The Regency tr1 was the first mass-produced portable transistor radio. Is that what these radios are perhaps?
Yes it's the Regency model , the world's first production pocket transistor radio.
That solder bath looks pretty dope!
It didn't take very long before they improved it a long, long way when they came up with the wave soldering machine. Much faster, and less stressful to the components on the board, and more likely to properly solder every component.
Very interresting !
Those HUGE soldering Irons !
not really. women were just smaller back then
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?!!
0:52 Wait a minute, the board doesn't have to be preheated before soldering, doesn't it cause thermal shock?🤔
I have been wanting to see close-up footage of a worker hand-stuffing a printed circuit board. I am a bit surprised that one worker could insert so many different components into a board without a silk screen and not make any mistakes.
klafong1 THAT'S THE RESULT OF A LOT OF PRACTICE.
That was a set-up shot. She was just randomly placing parts. I have restored a Regency TR-1 and know that the transistors are spaced out differently. There is no silk screening on the board, so the women had some sort of guide to place the parts.
@@joebidwell9428 YOU'RE PROBABLY RIGHT-I THOUGHT THAT WAS AN AWFUL LOT OF TRANSISTORS CONCENTRATED IN SUCH A SMALL SPACE-!!
Awesome video
So nice to see America at her greatest!
Assembling transistor radios in not a gauge of greatness of a nation. Overall the US has never been great given its propensity for war, abhorrent laws relating to abortion, racial segregation, etc. However, the US was certainly a great driver for creating new technologies.
So very nice working❤❤🙏
Solder fumes are deadly , no fume exstraction here.
There's no way you could possibly tell from this video... besides, I wouldn't say _deadly_ considering how much time in my poorly ventilated room with my soldering iron plugged in for hours at a time.
Deadly? Perhaps you could explain by what mechanism they are deadly?
Dambuster Lead, and thereof.
Lead is not vaporised and carried in the fumes, it is a heavy metal. Lead is quite dangerous, but those fumes only contain the flux used in those days, which was Rosin, made from the sap of pine trees, and not harmful at all.
Love this
Beautiful
What, every part made in the US? What a concept.
Somebody still has to build the 400 burger per minute machines and all the robotics used to build robots. At the very source of manufacturing there is still a need for a person in the loop.
@fenechc Frito-Lay is in Texas ;-)
Nice I like the Radios 😊
I like turtles and trains
"Crazy how compact technology is getting lately fred, they can't possibly get smaller then this!"
Those soldering irons are so huge, how do they make those tiny little connections?
2right4words flow soldering...
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@@VulcanHestan9 I understand that, I meant when they have to use the soldering irons themselves
0:40 the transistor seen...being installed...has a metal case. Inside..the actual transistor was a miniature version of the first one invented in 1947...the performance characteristics were so wide...transistors had to be "paired / matched" to get best performance...this was true of SONY radios manufactured early on.
I learned this stuff with UA-cam channel "Asianometry"...and other similiar channels.
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within 3-4 yr these radios were being made in Hong Kong
Quem enventou o miserável do CMD,?
Very good video.......😉
We want the 80's back at Radioshack
Simple , STOP all imports for all goods by sea and restrict them to air only and keep only raw materials to sea imports. You will have America great again.
Old is gold
Amazing
С праздником радио друзья радиолюбители!!!
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Transistor radio being manufactured
So cool
all the parts came from the US too? :*( how things have changed...
Could not understand the soldering technic @ 00:54
Its a lake of hot solder (estaño) and when the circuit down in it is solder the pins of copper.
@@gowreyes8876 got it. Thanks. ,👍
I hate the loss of our manufacturing base as much as any other American, but we're the absolute cause of it all. If we!...we!...we! stop buying...they'll stop selling.
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IT'S NOT ALWAYS THAT SIMPLE- TRADE WARS HAVE A NASTY TENDENCY TO TURN INTO SHOOTING WARS!!!
Now adays they would say " parts from Chi Xieng, and Fu Wang, and Ziong Qwong, and Wee Jang, etc"
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Todo mundo sem EPI e EPC 😅😅 mas recordar também é válido para não cometer os mesmos erros passados! Ótimo vídeo like 🖒
Vapor de chumbo rolando solto..
Infelizmente, essa ainda é a realidade de muitos chineses.
@@SharkStrikeAC É uma pena, e ainda tem gente que reclama do Brasil.... sei que aqui não somos de 1 mundo , porém devemos dar graças a Deus em relação a muitas outras coisas!
Soldering irons the size of rolling pins... I'm so glad things have gotten smaller!
You'd still need them when soldering large metal things together. For normal component leads you can use a small hand soldering iron.
@@gblargg Indeed. I just bought a replacement tip for my iron - it has a 1/64" conical tip. My problem now is that I need a microscope to see the parts I'm trying to solder!
@@Cynthia_Cantrell I spent all my years as a child and teen soldering things without ever learning about flux. It's amazing what it can do with tiny component leads, just brush some flux on, add solder, and it magically avoids bridging, for the most part.
@@gblargg If you like flux, you might like low-temp solder sticks. They make it MUCH easier to remove components easily. It tends to stick to solder mask a bit more than regular solder, but it given how easy it is to remove parts - even with minimal equipment - it's well worth it.
Wow! Convenient!
My first calculator was a TI-30 at around $200 which was half the price of a HP-35 then. Damn $400 for the HP-35 then is like $4,000 now! You could buy a calculator with the same functions now for under $10.
First transistor rado ever was from TI in 1954!
True but it was not commercialized due to being too expensive to make. A bit bigger than the TR-1 too.
interesante y excelente vídeo de la tecnología analógica, tengo algunos aparatos de esa época y me encantan!!!
love to go back in time and buy one of those babys
...I WISH I COULD GO BACK IN TIME FOR AN AWFUL LOT OF REASONS-(!)
Super video
I love made in america.and the video was cool too thanks
the iphone of the 60's, then the smartphone , at the beginning such small radio was not for everyone, but if you had it you'd be anywhere with it, then everyone had one to use in the bus, park, school, job... cool vid.
Model and brand?
And it did. My Sony was smaller and more stylish than my American transistor radios - something perhaps Steve Jobs would have done. My RCA (I think is was RCA) still had the best sound but it was 4 times larger, not for the pocket.
rca was a good brand until thomson electronics bought it in 1986. i had a rca am/fm radio made in 1970 that sounded great and built solid. rca badge still exists but only as a name now and the quality long gone.
Y en donde estan todos esos aparatos ahora? En el fierro viejo, en la basura, en...
They cost about $50 each.
...AND $50 WAS A HECK OF A LOT OF MONEY BACK THEN-!!!
We (as consumers) were also at fault - remember we demanded lower prices and we got them, only if we moved our production off shore.
Hour after hour of soldering picture tube connector caps. And work in the Sylvania was a good life ( hot solder in cups at molten temps) don't drop one in your lap. Hi hi. It's a good life. Payed well
Good useful vidos thank you youtube
Those are some big arse Components.
Peace ✌️ out people 🌍
We are working at eliminating that person in the loop.
We have machines that could learn and simulate human thinking and carry on a normal conversation. We have cars that drives itself, machines repairing other machines and make more machines. A hundred years from now, no one needs to work - only eat and poop.
@kimchee94112 we could even teach that computer clone to fuck off at work, chain smoke camels and tell the boss to fuck off or get zapped with their electrode. wouldn't that be so swell, wally. and golly gee whiz, beaver.
Una epoka hermosa gracias ala tecnología de akellos tiempos existe lo hay hoy en dia
11 years ago!!?