I was putting flybacks, CRTs, and plastic fine-tuning gears in CTC25s in 1969-71 as a kid working in a TV store when they were 2-3 years old. RCA designed those things to fail in a cynical effort at planned obsolescence. In a family typically running 8-10 hours a day, the 25AP22A CRT had a life expectancy of about 3 years. The CTC25 was a 1967 model and was trash. People who complain about new televisions that are so cheap just don't realize how good they have it now. The Zeniths of that era were pure quality and Sylvanias were in between and much better than RCA. Sylvania's super sets also had an unbelievably good picture when they were working right.
Makes since. How many Zenith's you've seen with a burned up flyback. As many as I have collected every 10 RCAs to one Zenith flyback failure.. That and cooked PCBs...
@@shawnstthomas4811 We used to get service calls on round tube Zeniths that had been bought in 1964-65 and were 5-6 years old, and it was the first time they had ever been worked on. They were not all that good but many of them were. The set would be full of dust from having run so many hours without the back off. Usually, it was something minor like the thermistor for the degaussing.
I wish these had never "gone out of style" The TV part sucks, it's got way too many parts and uses much too much power, but the form factor and the stereo portion is awesome. I can remember my parents had one of these console stereos (but no TV in it) when I was a small kid in the 70s and it sounded incredible. I used to listen to it all the time. It was AM/FM/Stereo with a record player. They threw it away and replaced it with a cheap tabletop that had an 8-track player, but no record player. The only good about it was it had a headphone jack so I could listen when my parents were watching TV.
The fridge is a GE monitor top - probably from the 30s. Some of them used methyl formate as the refrigerant. Worth saving for sure, when restored they're actually worth some $$$....and they're fairly energy efficient too! Having no defrost cycle really saves on power.
Compu85,They are also extremely reliable refrigerators,many have been in continuous use since new. Even non working they sell for a couple hundred dollars. They even sell reproduction gasket material for the doors. Ive seen early production ones that actually used anhydrous ammonia even though the vast majority used sulfur dioxide or methyl formate. GE finally started using R12 once it became widely commercially available in the 40’s. Monitor tops are extremely popular. Not the era I’m into,but the globe top version is kind of neat looking. My favorite refrigerators are the Philco V handles. I have two of those. They are whisper quiet in operation and as you said very energy efficient as they are well insulated and lack the heating element necessary in auto defrost refrigerators which consumes a lot of power.
That is really an amazing find! I look forward to a future episode in which you take the best of both and make a good one. Don't worry about the record changer. Some of the plastic ones shape up pretty well. I worked on a 1980 Magnavox console with a BSR changer that was plastic but turned out to be like a Sherman tank. Great episode!
@@Suddenlyits1960 Sarnoff's son basically started RCA's downfall, and even then the whole company was going downhill thanks to the CED disk project they'd started in '64. At least, this is my personal opinion
My uncle Gary had that set. He bought it new and kept it for many years. I remember it kind of having a greenish tint to it whenever the space heater kicked in (1930s wiring probably caused it).
I recently happened to find a circa-1969 RCA stereo system with that same Studiomatic record changer (except mine is missing the 45 RPM adapter). It uses the same kind of hinged "floating" cartridge as Zenith's Micro Touch 2G tonearm. The tonearm has a felt pad that rides on the surface of the record to clean it and stabilize the tonearm on warped records. It's actually a really good-quality turntable -- at 78 RPM the platter takes over a minute to come to a stop after you shut it off.
That was our first color TV when I was a kid (Just the TV w/o the Stereo). I do remember that the picture quality was superb compared to various TVs that where in my friends houses. Colors were much more brilliant than your typical Admiral, GE, Philco, at the time. But, yes, the set was prone to having problems. Seems, as I recall, the repair man had to be called every 4 months or so. But, to this day I will say that RCA and Sylvania TV sets from that era had superb picture quality.
I Love your Unusual Vocabulary !! :) A lot of interesting stuff in that garage. The Wurlitzer Organ looked cool, but you are right. Hard to move those things. I like the styling of those cabinets.
I live in Orange county and I saw one of these TVs on FB Marketplace for $100. I was temped to buy it but just don't have space for it. I am so glad you bought them. 😀
That console was from 1967 that was the first color tv my family had. It was a tabletop that my dad fit into an older b&w tv cabinet worked good till 1978 when we got a 21 “ trinitron that lasted 10 years too. The RCA had the tube next to the flyback box would glow cherry red and none of the rca repairmen could diagnose it
You can charge those monitor top refrigerators with R134a or Butane. They use a float to regulate the expansion of the refrigerant. The type of refrigerant is not so critical because of that.
Another priceless find. I want those metal storage drawers! I think the GE Monitor top ref was in the era just after Sulfur Dioxide refrigerant was used but if it has a float in the evaporator it might be the stinky stuff. Don't touch the fine tuning knob or the cheap gears will break!
A friend of mine has a late 60’s RCA with that speaker compliment. His console stereo has the 15” oval woofers facing sideways so RCA realized bass is non-directional. Sound decent but not super on the low end. The speaker contacts and clips are known to corrode usually eliminating the tweeters from the circuit. A little emory paper and they come right back to life. Not the highest quality units but sound pleasant.
Made my day when I saw a new video pop up .Thanks Shango! Was hoping to see some Crepe Erase action from at least one of these twins. Guess they turned out to be more like the ugly sisters eh? Bet the sound was really nice with that valve amplifier.
my parents bought one of these used in the early 70s. we 3 boys beat the living shit out of the poor thing over its lifetime. yeah, the tube went out, but the record player and radio kept going for a long time. those speakers sounded fantastic.
Sulfur dioxide refrigerant perhaps. You can replace it, but then the compressors often don’t work as well and fail, as the sulfur dioxide also has decent lubricating qualities IIRC.
The fridge is a DR-1 Monitor Top made by General Electric; looks like a circa 1932 model. It uses SO2 refrigerant. There is a support forum for these fridges if anyone is interested.
I have a CTC-21 stereo console in an Early American style cabinet. Nearly the same on the inside as these, biggest difference being the sound amplifier for the TV part is solid state with a weird IC and big transistor. I junked the Studiomatic changer and grafted in a Dual 1009SK. And yes my fly burned up. The ol' sensor safe RTV silicone trick fixed it.
About 30 years ago when all my hams friend were young they were having a beer blow out on a hill that a friend bought in Maine. They had a color picture tube that was necked.They put a funnel in the neck and used it for a place to urinate, The plan was to leave it in the sun for a long time and turn it into a Slime A Tron! It worked so I'm told:) I'm glad I wasn't there. That was at the facilities of WA1HLR....
They look very similar to the RCA console set my parents had but I think theirs was newer. It had dual tuning knobs (1 VHF and 1 UHF), an ultrasonic remote and a tilt open control door. The radio and record player were identical to the this one. I really don't know what happened to it in the end. My parents likely just had it hauled away around 1982.
Those look like 15x9 inch speakers. I have a set I found and made boxes for. Very efficient and very good bass response. The 15x9s I have are full range dual cone speakers and paired with a 3" cone tweeter. A Delco car stereo got them to play loud so probably high 90s in the SPL range if not higher. I really enjoy high efficiency speakers with lower wattage amps. I have my uncle's EV Aristocrat corner speaker he built from a kit back in the 50s in my dinning room connected to a TOA 903a mixer amp and it is insane how loud it will play. The TOA is perfect for it as I can take stereo in on the line in modules, but the amp it self is a mono mixer amp. My uncle had a Bogen DB20 driving it back in the 50s. I was never able to find the amp so not sure what happened to it. I do have the FM-400 tuner.
I agree on the speakers, they are efficient and cover an amazing frequency range. We have a 1967 RCA console, sans TV, and it rocks the block! The germanium amps are pretty decent push-pull and have been surprisingly reliable. I did replace a few electrolytic condenser cans and remounted the germanium outputs with a thin layer of heat sink grease.
I cant imagine how good they will sound in nice big boxes .... Away from a few bunch of brand and models ... speakers of this era dont have the respect/interest they deserve.
I’m glad that you’re saving two MORE of these console TV’s 📺 from the dump. Color or black and white, it doesn’t matter to me. Skoilie spoibler, that’s so funny 😂!! Few swollen up Ray-O-Vacs in that light, there. You wanna keep these TV’s 📺 away from the copper gods. They will neck the CRT for the copper. I hope 🤞 ya can make your own home museum of these console TV’s. Your friend, Jeff.
Those appear to be from about 1966 or 1967. My parents had a stereo that had that exact same turntable and radio, but didn't have the TV part - just the radio and turntable. The radio part used germanium transistors and tended to fail. That's what happened to ours.
Yes, I had one of those consoles (trash-picked). The amp/record changer worked, but the tuner was dead. About a month later, so were the output transistors on the right channel---back to the curb it went.
@@justsumguy2u Yep, we lost the left channel in ours. Had I known the exact cause, I would have looked for the output transistors and replaced those. But we're talking 30+ years ago and before I studied electrical engineering.
The Hi-Lite CRT is likely orig, should have a 66-xx or 67-xx code date & 274 as mfg ID. As stated RCA CRTs easily identifiable by the moldy looking band around screen perimeter. The yellow/green band happened on Sylvania, GE & Zenith. Sets I serviced in '60s/'70s used Sylvania CRT & often had the Y/G band. The loose tubes appear to be orig to set, with 6DW4 & 6BK4 being mfgd by Sylvania. Check for 312 mfg code, the RCA logo are different from, RCAs own tubes. RCA mfgd tubes of the period often failed within the warranty period(especially 6GH8). Flybacks & HV regulator were inside metal housings to shield from radiation, fire consideration was secondary.
Nice video! It would have been interesting to see what is inside that old high voltage regulated power supply. I have seen some crazy tube voltage regulator circuits which use EL34 tubes etc.
@@nomadradio OK, thanks for information. BTW, I have an old Heathkit O-12 tube oscilloscope which uses 6C4 triode as a shunt regulator. I don't have those tubes and I wonder if it would be possible simply to use a modern zeners as replacement if that tube fails some day. What do you think?
Ahh, the luxury of being an engineer at RCA. Take those speakers, for instance---they didn't contract out for anything, they just told their guys to build it
@@robinsattahip2376 No, but engineers were constantly under pressure by the cost accountants to make things as cheaply as they could---this is especially true of the 60's and later when foreign competition showed up. Engineers hated cutting corners, and were always arguing with the bean counters about it
I love how the CC interpreter gets at least some of your descriptives right! Also: 8:06 that desk lamp looks like nothing I've seen before, with both circular fluorescent and presumably a standard incandescent socket. Looks like a spiral CFL in there. I would definitely have grabbed that.
I'm really interested how the TV audio is routed. I have seen combo units use a switch, ganged to the TV power switch, to connect the TV audio amp directly to the HIFI speakers, and some with a small speaker dedicated to the TV. It would be interesting to see if your combos use the HI FI amp for the TV audio.
Shango,That garage sure had a lot of interesting things in it. Beats the heck out of some of the crappy estate sales I’ve seen lately. Hope you were able to save some of the other stuff in there.
Those speakers are very interesting indeed, probably made by Rola. I know there's a pair of 11" x 15" at the B&M speaker shop I go to, same basket frame and odd shape but it has a rectangular housing over the Alnico magnet instead of just a candome design.
Speaker technology at the top end has come a long way. I'm sure there are expensive speakers half that size with at least equal sound. (not to be negative)
You could sell the record changers, then the cabinets can become aquariums, mini-bars, etc. Long ago I read of equipment some of the larger TV shops would buy to allow fusing a new neck onto dud CRTs but the equipment has surely been scrapped and there's no supply of new neck/gun assemblies. If you really want to restore that "coffin" maybe you could find a used CRT on E-Bay that doesn't have too much gas and too little cathode emission.
"S - R" - maybe Sears and Roebuck sewing machine. The best sound reproduction I have ever heard, bar none, came from my grandfather's 60's era RCA console Radio/Phono combo. Sounded same as, or even better than live performances, ha ha. The crispness was astounding. Gramps' was tube-type not solid state.
Singer used to be a huge corporation. I even think they owned a skyscraper in NYC. They even made projectors for schools. My mother used to have a Singer Sewing machine that did practically everything.
Looking forward to the resurrection videos! Be good to see some life back in those ugly sets then do a great EOL for end of year with them(fireworks, lots of them!)
I used to repair those old electronic organs. I wanted to get into AV gear repair as a teen, but my parents had a music store and wouldn't help me out financially at the time unless I did something related to the store. Even in the late 80s I lost money the few times people actually asked for my services and then the whole thing was pretty well over for good by the mid 90s.
The refrigerant you were wondering about is Sulphur dioxide I have a 1936 ge monitor-top (my grandma's) still purring like a kitten 86 years later S02 is dangerous though.
What would be cool is if you could use the amp and speakers in one of these remove the crt a d related guts, install a modern 20 inch or 24 inch flatscreen inside the cabinet, and take the left and right audio out from the flat screen with av patch cords and connect them into the left and right inputs of the original amp, and boy oh boy i bet the sound would be phenominal.
I have a 1950s Olympic Hi-Fi Stereo with black and white television and tuner and a record player that pulls out of the cabinet it was at my grandmas house for around 50 years I got it after she passed at age 97 ten years ago and it still looks new just wondering what you know about this Olympic cabinet studio and television system
The TV in the reference material looks a LOT like the one that I first viewed color TV on. I was dating a young lady who's father was a soldier serving in Vietnam. He was from my home town, so dropped his wife and 4 children off before shipping over, must have been 1967 or so. She invited me over to watch The wonderful world of Color (Disney!) and I was amazed at the brilliant color. I ended up dating her older sister for a couple of months some time later but that TV was, for me a wonderful experience. Wonder what happened to those girls...
ok.... 1st time to see this video, very interesting. I am wondering if you are going to repurpose these as TV sets again or simply gut them and make something else out of them?? Tubes bring me back to the good ol' days myself. I did get one of these units from a yard sale - gutted it - the record player - the 8 track unit and replaced the TV tube with a flat screen after a bit of remounting needs. I put in a graffic EQ unit in the 8-track area... and the extra amp (with tuner and CD player) and surround sound went into the player side. The surround sound speakers were mounted ext. around the room....thus didn't need the internal speakers - I was lucky to have two color organs (Radio shack 70's era) and mounted them in place of the speakers!! I envy you got two of the same style....pretty cool!!
I was putting flybacks, CRTs, and plastic fine-tuning gears in CTC25s in 1969-71 as a kid working in a TV store when they were 2-3 years old. RCA designed those things to fail in a cynical effort at planned obsolescence. In a family typically running 8-10 hours a day, the 25AP22A CRT had a life expectancy of about 3 years. The CTC25 was a 1967 model and was trash. People who complain about new televisions that are so cheap just don't realize how good they have it now. The Zeniths of that era were pure quality and Sylvanias were in between and much better than RCA. Sylvania's super sets also had an unbelievably good picture when they were working right.
Makes since. How many Zenith's you've seen with a burned up flyback. As many as I have collected every 10 RCAs to one Zenith flyback failure.. That and cooked PCBs...
Good comment. The big 3 in Detroit had the same business model in the 70’s and 80’s.
Planned burn out. Exactly opposite of the Zenith Corp "quality goes in..." philosophy
@@shawnstthomas4811 We used to get service calls on round tube Zeniths that had been bought in 1964-65 and were 5-6 years old, and it was the first time they had ever been worked on. They were not all that good but many of them were. The set would be full of dust from having run so many hours without the back off. Usually, it was something minor like the thermistor for the degaussing.
I wish these had never "gone out of style" The TV part sucks, it's got way too many parts and uses much too much power, but the form factor and the stereo portion is awesome.
I can remember my parents had one of these console stereos (but no TV in it) when I was a small kid in the 70s and it sounded incredible. I used to listen to it all the time. It was AM/FM/Stereo with a record player.
They threw it away and replaced it with a cheap tabletop that had an 8-track player, but no record player. The only good about it was it had a headphone jack so I could listen when my parents were watching TV.
those 2 sets take the words "Baked" "Necked" "High Hour" to a level not often seen on one Shango Video!!!
Don't forget "Roached"!
@@will89687 I was just about to add that!!👍
Very similar to the 1967 RCA color console that my parents bought new two months after I was born - that I still have!
The fridge is a GE monitor top - probably from the 30s. Some of them used methyl formate as the refrigerant. Worth saving for sure, when restored they're actually worth some $$$....and they're fairly energy efficient too! Having no defrost cycle really saves on power.
They also used sulfer dioxide.....god help you if yours leaked.
@@F40PH-2CAT . Ouch. Glad that isn't used anymore
Maybe that's what was leaking out of Aunt Bee's freezer lol...
Compu85,They are also extremely reliable refrigerators,many have been in continuous use since new. Even non working they sell for a couple hundred dollars. They even sell reproduction gasket material for the doors.
Ive seen early production ones that actually used anhydrous ammonia even though the vast majority used sulfur dioxide or methyl formate. GE finally started using R12 once it became widely commercially available in the 40’s.
Monitor tops are extremely popular. Not the era I’m into,but the globe top version is kind of neat looking. My favorite refrigerators are the Philco V handles. I have two of those. They are whisper quiet in operation and as you said very energy efficient as they are well insulated and lack the heating element necessary in auto defrost refrigerators which consumes a lot of power.
i would LOVE to have that fridge in my garage to keep the beers cool
That is really an amazing find! I look forward to a future episode in which you take the best of both and make a good one. Don't worry about the record changer. Some of the plastic ones shape up pretty well. I worked on a 1980 Magnavox console with a BSR changer that was plastic but turned out to be like a Sherman tank. Great episode!
The SHANGO Time Machine took us back to the era when RCA earned it's nick name. Radio Kraporation of America.
RCA’s quality did take a nosedive in the later sixties. Some of their portable turntables and radios were cheaply made too.
@@Suddenlyits1960 Sarnoff's son basically started RCA's downfall, and even then the whole company was going downhill thanks to the CED disk project they'd started in '64. At least, this is my personal opinion
Really Crappy Appliance (RCA)
Another epic video. Time to annoy my mother with shangos voice for half a hour
“Watch me”….
Lol, man I love those TV combo units. Shango to the rescue! Epic.
We had a combo TV Radio Record Unit when i was a kid in the late 1960s early 70s, great memories.
Great mid-century vibe from these consoles. I hope they stay TV sets. Look forward to seeing more.
This is quite a garage. Would love to poke around there - it has everything.
My uncle Gary had that set. He bought it new and kept it for many years. I remember it kind of having a greenish tint to it whenever the space heater kicked in (1930s wiring probably caused it).
I recently happened to find a circa-1969 RCA stereo system with that same Studiomatic record changer (except mine is missing the 45 RPM adapter). It uses the same kind of hinged "floating" cartridge as Zenith's Micro Touch 2G tonearm. The tonearm has a felt pad that rides on the surface of the record to clean it and stabilize the tonearm on warped records. It's actually a really good-quality turntable -- at 78 RPM the platter takes over a minute to come to a stop after you shut it off.
@VWestlife,does your RCA have the smoke tinted head shell?
@@Suddenlyits1960 Yes, it does.
I owned 1 of those VM reel to reels. Repaired a lot of them when working for a school system..They sound great.
That was our first color TV when I was a kid (Just the TV w/o the Stereo). I do remember that the picture quality was superb compared to various TVs that where in my friends houses. Colors were much more brilliant than your typical Admiral, GE, Philco, at the time. But, yes, the set was prone to having problems. Seems, as I recall, the repair man had to be called every 4 months or so. But, to this day I will say that RCA and Sylvania TV sets from that era had superb picture quality.
Gotta say it I love them old rca sets
Great video
Nice history lesson on tvs I have not seen learn something new every weekend looking forward to resurrection Nice video thanks Mike
Those old (monitor top) Fridge/freezer, from the late 20's 30's used 2 types of refrigerants. Sulfur Dioxide & Methyl Formate.😉
Excellent Katie Hobbs impression, Shango! 9:32
I Love your Unusual Vocabulary !! :) A lot of interesting stuff in that garage. The Wurlitzer Organ looked cool, but you are right. Hard to move those things. I like the styling of those cabinets.
Thanks!
Congrats on 70k subs! 🔥
I live in Orange county and I saw one of these TVs on FB Marketplace for $100. I was temped to buy it but just don't have space for it. I am so glad you bought them. 😀
That console was from 1967 that was the first color tv my family had. It was a tabletop that my dad fit into an older b&w tv cabinet worked good till 1978 when we got a 21 “ trinitron that lasted 10 years too. The RCA had the tube next to the flyback box would glow cherry red and none of the rca repairmen could diagnose it
We had one when I was a small child. We watched Elvis' 1968 come back special on it.
You can charge those monitor top refrigerators with R134a or Butane. They use a float to regulate the expansion of the refrigerant. The type of refrigerant is not so critical because of that.
Singer still produces the foot powered machines overseas.
Another priceless find. I want those metal storage drawers! I think the GE Monitor top ref was in the era just after Sulfur Dioxide refrigerant was used but if it has a float in the evaporator it might be the stinky stuff. Don't touch the fine tuning knob or the cheap gears will break!
I bet they sound awesome with those 3 way speakers.
So beautiful those consoles!
I was expecting that woman to ask Shango what is his favorite breakfast fish 😄
A friend of mine has a late 60’s RCA with that speaker compliment. His console stereo has the 15” oval woofers facing sideways so RCA realized bass is non-directional. Sound decent but not super on the low end. The speaker contacts and clips are known to corrode usually eliminating the tweeters from the circuit. A little emory paper and they come right back to life. Not the highest quality units but sound pleasant.
Sulfur Dioxide is the refrigerant. They were called GE Monitor Top they were made during the 1930s
I remember getting two 15×9's from a radio console that was sitting outside around 27 years ago. Very efficient speakers
Made my day when I saw a new video pop up .Thanks Shango!
Was hoping to see some Crepe Erase action from at least one of these twins. Guess they turned out to be more like the ugly sisters eh? Bet the sound was really nice with that valve amplifier.
my parents bought one of these used in the early 70s. we 3 boys beat the living shit out of the poor thing over its lifetime. yeah, the tube went out, but the record player and radio kept going for a long time. those speakers sounded fantastic.
The stereo portion probably sounds excellent. These sets rock.
Sulfur dioxide refrigerant perhaps. You can replace it, but then the compressors often don’t work as well and fail, as the sulfur dioxide also has decent lubricating qualities IIRC.
The fridge is a DR-1 Monitor Top made by General Electric; looks like a circa 1932 model. It uses SO2 refrigerant. There is a support forum for these fridges if anyone is interested.
I have a CTC-21 stereo console in an Early American style cabinet. Nearly the same on the inside as these, biggest difference being the sound amplifier for the TV part is solid state with a weird IC and big transistor. I junked the Studiomatic changer and grafted in a Dual 1009SK. And yes my fly burned up. The ol' sensor safe RTV silicone trick fixed it.
About 30 years ago when all my hams friend were young they were having a beer blow out on a hill that a friend bought in Maine. They had a color picture tube that was necked.They put a funnel in the neck and used it for a place to urinate, The plan was to leave it in the sun for a long time and turn it into a Slime A Tron! It worked so I'm told:) I'm glad I wasn't there. That was at the facilities of WA1HLR....
Guessing these sets were in the multipurpose rooms at the retirement home. Probably playing 18 hours a day, tuned to CBS
They look very similar to the RCA console set my parents had but I think theirs was newer. It had dual tuning knobs (1 VHF and 1 UHF), an ultrasonic remote and a tilt open control door. The radio and record player were identical to the this one. I really don't know what happened to it in the end. My parents likely just had it hauled away around 1982.
Shango, sulfur dioxide is the refrigerant you were thinking of...
Those look like 15x9 inch speakers. I have a set I found and made boxes for. Very efficient and very good bass response. The 15x9s I have are full range dual cone speakers and paired with a 3" cone tweeter. A Delco car stereo got them to play loud so probably high 90s in the SPL range if not higher. I really enjoy high efficiency speakers with lower wattage amps. I have my uncle's EV Aristocrat corner speaker he built from a kit back in the 50s in my dinning room connected to a TOA 903a mixer amp and it is insane how loud it will play. The TOA is perfect for it as I can take stereo in on the line in modules, but the amp it self is a mono mixer amp. My uncle had a Bogen DB20 driving it back in the 50s. I was never able to find the amp so not sure what happened to it. I do have the FM-400 tuner.
I agree on the speakers, they are efficient and cover an amazing frequency range. We have a 1967 RCA console, sans TV, and it rocks the block! The germanium amps are pretty decent push-pull and have been surprisingly reliable. I did replace a few electrolytic condenser cans and remounted the germanium outputs with a thin layer of heat sink grease.
I cant imagine how good they will sound in nice big boxes .... Away from a few bunch of brand and models ... speakers of this era dont have the respect/interest they deserve.
I’m glad that you’re saving two MORE of these console TV’s 📺 from the dump. Color or black and white, it doesn’t matter to me. Skoilie spoibler, that’s so funny 😂!! Few swollen up Ray-O-Vacs in that light, there. You wanna keep these TV’s 📺 away from the copper gods. They will neck the CRT for the copper. I hope 🤞 ya can make your own home museum of these console TV’s. Your friend, Jeff.
People do buy those old organs these days to get the rotating (mechanical) speakers in them. They are like a miniature Leslie.
That's not a refrigerator. It's a model of the Capitol Records Building!
Those appear to be from about 1966 or 1967. My parents had a stereo that had that exact same turntable and radio, but didn't have the TV part - just the radio and turntable. The radio part used germanium transistors and tended to fail. That's what happened to ours.
Yes, I had one of those consoles (trash-picked). The amp/record changer worked, but the tuner was dead. About a month later, so were the output transistors on the right channel---back to the curb it went.
@@justsumguy2u Yep, we lost the left channel in ours. Had I known the exact cause, I would have looked for the output transistors and replaced those. But we're talking 30+ years ago and before I studied electrical engineering.
I think the refrigerant used in those old Monitor Tops was sulfur dioxide
Some of they monitor tops also used Methyl Formate.
Go get 'em Shango.
The Hi-Lite CRT is likely orig, should have a 66-xx or 67-xx code date & 274 as mfg ID. As stated RCA CRTs easily identifiable by the moldy looking band around screen perimeter. The yellow/green band happened on Sylvania, GE & Zenith. Sets I serviced in '60s/'70s used Sylvania CRT & often had the Y/G band.
The loose tubes appear to be orig to set, with 6DW4 & 6BK4 being mfgd by Sylvania. Check for 312 mfg code, the RCA logo are different from, RCAs own tubes. RCA mfgd tubes of the period often failed within the warranty period(especially 6GH8). Flybacks & HV regulator were inside metal housings to shield from radiation, fire consideration was secondary.
The old refrigerator's used sulphur dioxide for a refrigerant.
0:40
Her: "They could not lift it"
Shango066 : "Watch me"
I expected that woman to ask you if you've seen moose and squirrel.
The refridgerator nis a "Monitor Top", probably a G.E.
😂 "Watch me" 0:45
Nice video!
It would have been interesting to see what is inside that old high voltage regulated power supply. I have seen some crazy tube voltage regulator circuits which use EL34 tubes etc.
HV regulation was by a shunt element. Tube type 6BK4 was a wacky triode that accomplished this.
@@nomadradio OK, thanks for information. BTW, I have an old Heathkit O-12 tube oscilloscope which uses 6C4 triode as a shunt regulator. I don't have those tubes and I wonder if it would be possible simply to use a modern zeners as replacement if that tube fails some day. What do you think?
Ahh, the luxury of being an engineer at RCA. Take those speakers, for instance---they didn't contract out for anything, they just told their guys to build it
So were the flybacks, CRTs and plastic fine tuning gears really designed to fail???????????????
@@robinsattahip2376 No, but engineers were constantly under pressure by the cost accountants to make things as cheaply as they could---this is especially true of the 60's and later when foreign competition showed up. Engineers hated cutting corners, and were always arguing with the bean counters about it
@@justsumguy2u Thank you that was interesting.
that was a Vintage The Voice of Music tape-o-matic reel to reel deck! :O
I love how the CC interpreter gets at least some of your descriptives right!
Also: 8:06 that desk lamp looks like nothing I've seen before, with both circular fluorescent and presumably a standard incandescent socket. Looks like a spiral CFL in there. I would definitely have grabbed that.
Would be nice if you can switch lamps. Have white bright light in the morning and warm white light at night from one lamp
6:45 - I would love to find that IBM...what we learned on in school. Think its a Model C
I'm really interested how the TV audio is routed. I have seen combo units use a switch, ganged to the TV power switch, to connect the TV audio amp directly to the HIFI speakers, and some with a small speaker dedicated to the TV. It would be interesting to see if your combos use the HI FI amp for the TV audio.
That reel to reel recorder could be a VM 710A
The jibberish is strong with this one
Shango,That garage sure had a lot of interesting things in it. Beats the heck out of some of the crappy estate sales I’ve seen lately. Hope you were able to save some of the other stuff in there.
5:21 is a White rotary 40s 50s job in an older treadle cabinet
6:31 my favorite saying. Lol.
For the GE monitor top fridge-Sulphur dioxide.
Hi-Lite were the new ones and Colorama the factory rebuilds iirc.
I remember repairing these.
Those speakers are very interesting indeed, probably made by Rola. I know there's a pair of 11" x 15" at the B&M speaker shop I go to, same basket frame and odd shape but it has a rectangular housing over the Alnico magnet instead of just a candome design.
Speaker technology at the top end has come a long way. I'm sure there are expensive speakers half that size with at least equal sound. (not to be negative)
You could sell the record changers, then the cabinets can become aquariums, mini-bars, etc. Long ago I read of equipment some of the larger TV shops would buy to allow fusing a new neck onto dud CRTs but the equipment has surely been scrapped and there's no supply of new neck/gun assemblies. If you really want to restore that "coffin" maybe you could find a used CRT on E-Bay that doesn't have too much gas and too little cathode emission.
I knew it couldn't be later than 1967, RCA's logo changed to the block letter one in 1968.
"S - R" - maybe Sears and Roebuck sewing machine. The best sound reproduction I have ever heard, bar none, came from my grandfather's 60's era RCA console Radio/Phono combo. Sounded same as, or even better than live performances, ha ha. The crispness was astounding. Gramps' was tube-type not solid state.
I was waiting for the "baked!! baked!! baked!!" 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Yes it’s a singer sewing machine, there’s a few antique store’s in my area that sells them
MY PARENTS FIRST COLOR SET IN 1968. IT WAS A METAL BOX ON A METAL TV CART.
Wait a minute I saw an ad that said if you own one of those Singer sewing machines, you can retire now....
Really? From what I hear they're plentiful. A lot were saved, so while old, they're not that rare.
Singer used to be a huge corporation. I even think they owned a skyscraper in NYC. They even made projectors for schools. My mother used to have a Singer Sewing machine that did practically everything.
Love to see what the Radio Shack Digitizer was.
Looking forward to the resurrection videos! Be good to see some life back in those ugly sets then do a great EOL for end of year with them(fireworks, lots of them!)
11:39 I believe speakers are 9"x15" oval low frequency drivers.
Good morning!
I used to repair those old electronic organs. I wanted to get into AV gear repair as a teen, but my parents had a music store and wouldn't help me out financially at the time unless I did something related to the store. Even in the late 80s I lost money the few times people actually asked for my services and then the whole thing was pretty well over for good by the mid 90s.
Iv had tons of let downs also...im 51...even if i do the same EXACT things as other guys....i never get the same good results😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨
A perfect Fallout reenactment!
The refrigerant you were wondering about is Sulphur dioxide I have a 1936 ge monitor-top (my grandma's) still purring like a kitten 86 years later S02 is dangerous though.
Interesting speaker line up, it would be interesting to feed them from a high quality HiFi amp to see what they can do.
What would be cool is if you could use the amp and speakers in one of these remove the crt a d related guts, install a modern 20 inch or 24 inch flatscreen inside the cabinet, and take the left and right audio out from the flat screen with av patch cords and connect them into the left and right inputs of the original amp, and boy oh boy i bet the sound would be phenominal.
3:20 GE Monitor Top.
It uses sulphur dioxide or methyl formate.
I have a 1950s Olympic Hi-Fi Stereo with black and white television and tuner and a record player that pulls out of the cabinet it was at my grandmas house for around 50 years I got it after she passed at age 97 ten years ago and it still looks new just wondering what you know about this Olympic cabinet studio and television system
Had to have been pre-1968 to have the meatball logo right?
Shango's the only other person I know of who's fluent in inspired glossalalia (spontaneous sillybabbles mit der foolishments). 😄
These were very nice pieces of furniture and I miss the smell they omitted when they were on !
0:48 never underestimate a mans addiction
The TV in the reference material looks a LOT like the one that I first viewed color TV on. I was dating a young lady who's father was a soldier serving in Vietnam. He was from my home town, so dropped his wife and 4 children off before shipping over, must have been 1967 or so. She invited me over to watch The wonderful world of Color (Disney!) and I was amazed at the brilliant color. I ended up dating her older sister for a couple of months some time later but that TV was, for me a wonderful experience. Wonder what happened to those girls...
Do your parents have a TV Marty ? Yes we have… two of them
Oh, honey, he's teasing you. Nobody has two television sets.
Hope you can get one too work, would be nice.
Thought there was a video where someone was using canned air dusters as refrigerant for those early fridges.
ok.... 1st time to see this video, very interesting. I am wondering if you are going to repurpose these as TV sets again or simply gut them and make something else out of them?? Tubes bring me back to the good ol' days myself. I did get one of these units from a yard sale - gutted it - the record player - the 8 track unit and replaced the TV tube with a flat screen after a bit of remounting needs. I put in a graffic EQ unit in the 8-track area... and the extra amp (with tuner and CD player) and surround sound went into the player side. The surround sound speakers were mounted ext. around the room....thus didn't need the internal speakers - I was lucky to have two color organs (Radio shack 70's era) and mounted them in place of the speakers!! I envy you got two of the same style....pretty cool!!