Thanks Andy, For radio, this is a one of a kind gem. Someone used this radio for many many hours. In the 1920s there were only a few 50KW stations, so this radio would have worked very well. Must have seemed like magic. I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days. Regards Rick
AllAmericanFiveRadio is not only an expert in radio techniques it is also an excellent video editor. Their videoclips shown an exceptional quality and a pedagogy for all kinds of people who whant to learn something new. Thanks for your dedication !!
I have gone to the same flemarket for over 25 years and never found something this cool .This was ment for you . I would offer to buy it ,but I am sure I do not have enough money . Great find !
This little unit put a big smile on my face! So much careful care went in to making such a nice radio, and it is just neat! I like the capacitor approach he used, and the overall compactness is very pleasing.
I recall my father, who was born in 1910 telling me about building such things. He had an old set of Bakelite ear phones he said he used to use with such a system. When I was very young we lived on a farm in North Dakota and had no electricity in our house, or running water for that matter (run to the windmill and fetch a pail of water!) Our entertainment system was an old battery pack radio and the use was rationed so as to conserve that battery pack. We had our shows that we listened to, mom had her soap operas during the day, and we all loved the Lone Ranger, and Suspense, as well as dozens of other programs that used to be available on the AM band back in the 50's. Later we moved to another farm and dad put ours in the Soil Bank, that place had electricity, and the second year there we had saved enough money to purchase our first used floor model television. We could only get two channels but I think there was more entertainment available on those two channels then on the three hundred we get now days. Ah well, just an old fart reminiscing about his youth and the wonderful life we enjoyed in America back then.
Here’s a tip you’ll know Rick but it may help others, when I get a set like this I put a germanium diode across the galena and the whisker connections, I make sure the whisker is not touching the crystal, then I go about adjusting the coil(s) and capacitor(s) knowing that I should get a station. Once I know the tank is good I’ll remove the diode and try the whisker. I’ve found that trying an unknown set can take some time to get to grips with. Have fun. All the best ... Andy
Nice little find there! Always fun to come by home made stuff like that, which is also thoroughly done. Even more interesting that it is built inside an old box for an old Ford ignition coil. Awesome!
Thats the most amazing thing I have seen in a long time, thanks! When you consider those coil boxes were filled with hot tar, whoever made that had to spend a lot of time getting that sticky stuff out of there. I used to restore model A spark coils for an airplane called a Pietenpol, that used a 40 horse model A engine. The boxes I made worked but werent intended for air use. Thanks again that was great!
Hi, I enjoyed watching your crystal set demo video, my Dad showed me ho to make a cristal set when I was 10 years old (1966) and I have had fun messing about with them ever since ! Thanks for the video.
Nice presentation, a specially for book capacitor. I’m a happy owner of my new (old) crystal radio too. It is very fascinating, ”to feel a History” by touching it directly by hand. Thank you, Regards from Voytek
Thanks Ricky, Someone put a lot of thought into constructing this homemade crystal radio set inside of the forward spark coil box. It is really cool finding something like this, you know it was used and highly prized back in the 1920s.
Hi Rick, so you’ve found a RX to complement that one transistor TX hi hi. I guess it’s hard for a lot of folk to imagine just how much joy the guy that built the cat’s whisker radio would have got when he pulled in voices out of the air nearly 100 years ago. We take it for granted that if we build a radio now it’ll work but I imagine back then I imagine that there was still an air of wonderment about music and voices by ‘Wireless.’ 73’s ... Andy
Thanks for sharing that.... It's wonderful to see historical pieces like that which are crafted by hand. Even that Ford logo is really neat. Great find and sharp eye! I would have took the guys word for it being a car coil...
That's an awesome find Rick, thanks for putting that up. What a work of art. The possibility of finding something like this is what makes swap meets and flea markets a bit addictive. Also, it is another proof that a working device can often be made with common of materials. SMT, etc., -need not apply.
To go back in time to the persons living room who built this, and watch the look on their face the first Ike they pulled in a station, back when this was as much wonder as science.
That is a buzz coil box for a Model T to be specific. You can pick up these coils quite easily at auto fleamarkets, but I think the insides are potted with tar so it was probably a messy job to get the original coil out of it. What is the book capacitor made from? Looks like a name plate from something. Very clever.
Excellent video and awesome to see it still works today! :) On Google searching the coil pack, it appears to be an ignition coil from a Model A or Model T Ford. Someone in more recent times has actually made a clock from one of those coil packs picclick.ca/Ford-Model-T-coil-clock-120917848717.html#&gid=1&pid=1
You may be interested, this Crystal set works and a 100 year old radio that works videos. Thanks Crystal Radio Set, It Works! Demo ua-cam.com/video/LMsi9OaOXwk/v-deo.html Atwater Kent 10 Signal Flow and Circuit End to End 100 Years ua-cam.com/video/wQ8djN15F48/v-deo.html
Thanks Andy,
For radio, this is a one of a kind gem. Someone used this radio for many many hours. In the 1920s there were only a few 50KW stations, so this radio would have worked very well. Must have seemed like magic.
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
Regards
Rick
Have a good many old tube radios. Amazing they still working.
Keep adding to your collection.
What a treat to see this and the ingenious repurposing of a high tension coil.
A friend had just asked me to find him a crystal radio. The next weekend at the Flea Market there it was. And it is a Beauty.
AllAmericanFiveRadio is not only an expert in radio techniques it is also an excellent video editor. Their videoclips shown an exceptional quality and a pedagogy for all kinds of people who whant to learn something new.
Thanks for your dedication !!
I have gone to the same flemarket for over 25 years and never found something this cool .This was ment for you . I would offer to buy it ,but I am sure I do not have enough money . Great find !
Fantastic!! Thank you for sharing it with us.
I was really surprised to find this at the fleamarket. Whoever put this together did a really good job. Thanks.
That's pretty neat, crystal sets have always fascinated me
Wow, what a WONDERFUL find.
This little unit put a big smile on my face! So much careful care went in to making such a nice radio, and it is just neat! I like the capacitor approach he used, and the overall compactness is very pleasing.
Incredible piece of workmanship! Thank you for sharing!
I recall my father, who was born in 1910 telling me about building such things. He had an old set of Bakelite ear phones he said he used to use with such a system. When I was very young we lived on a farm in North Dakota and had no electricity in our house, or running water for that matter (run to the windmill and fetch a pail of water!) Our entertainment system was an old battery pack radio and the use was rationed so as to conserve that battery pack. We had our shows that we listened to, mom had her soap operas during the day, and we all loved the Lone Ranger, and Suspense, as well as dozens of other programs that used to be available on the AM band back in the 50's. Later we moved to another farm and dad put ours in the Soil Bank, that place had electricity, and the second year there we had saved enough money to purchase our first used floor model television. We could only get two channels but I think there was more entertainment available on those two channels then on the three hundred we get now days. Ah well, just an old fart reminiscing about his youth and the wonderful life we enjoyed in America back then.
THANK YOU!
Rick you always come up with interesting thing Thanks
Here’s a tip you’ll know Rick but it may help others, when I get a set like this I put a germanium diode across the galena and the whisker connections, I make sure the whisker is not touching the crystal, then I go about adjusting the coil(s) and capacitor(s) knowing that I should get a station. Once I know the tank is good I’ll remove the diode and try the whisker. I’ve found that trying an unknown set can take some time to get to grips with. Have fun.
All the best ... Andy
Beautiful radio, thank you! :-)
Nice little find there! Always fun to come by home made stuff like that, which is also thoroughly done. Even more interesting that it is built inside an old box for an old Ford ignition coil. Awesome!
What a find! That capacitor is like the tuning and loading capacitor in a modern VHF tube broadcast transmitter, except it's a bit smaller.
Thanks K7SJA
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
That was an early and a popular way of making variable capacitors. Corsley used them in many of their 1920s tube radios.
Hi Excellent video Thanks.
Thats the most amazing thing I have seen in a long time, thanks! When you consider those coil boxes were filled with hot tar, whoever made that had to spend a lot of time getting that sticky stuff out of there. I used to restore model A spark coils for an airplane called a Pietenpol, that used a 40 horse model A engine. The boxes I made worked but werent intended for air use. Thanks again that was great!
Wow very nice find. Thank you for showing this history
All the best Richard
Hi, I enjoyed watching your crystal set demo video, my Dad showed me ho to make a cristal set
when I was 10 years old (1966) and I have had fun messing about with them ever since !
Thanks for the video.
Thanks
Thanks togst
For radio, this is a one of a kind gem. Someone used this radio for many many hours.
Thanks very much for the information and great idea!
Rick
Nice presentation, a specially for book
capacitor. I’m a happy owner of my
new (old) crystal radio too. It is very
fascinating, ”to feel a History” by
touching it directly by hand.
Thank you,
Regards from Voytek
Thanks
Thanks Ricky,
Someone put a lot of thought into constructing this homemade crystal radio set inside of the forward spark coil box. It is really cool finding something like this, you know it was used and highly prized back in the 1920s.
AllAmericanFiveRadio absolutely amazing to go to that trouble just for am radio guess 100$ was a lot of money for a set early 20s
It would have been the coils for a ford model T or A I have two of them.
@@dylanlepert232 Thanks for the information.
Hi Rick, so you’ve found a RX to complement that one transistor TX hi hi. I guess it’s hard for a lot of folk to imagine just how much joy the guy that built the cat’s whisker radio would have got when he pulled in voices out of the air nearly 100 years ago. We take it for granted that if we build a radio now it’ll work but I imagine back then I imagine that there was still an air of wonderment about music and voices by ‘Wireless.’ 73’s ... Andy
Thanks nckeller
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days. It is like having a time machine.
Thanks for sharing that.... It's wonderful to see historical pieces like that which are crafted by hand. Even that Ford logo is really neat. Great find and sharp eye! I would have took the guys word for it being a car coil...
Thanks mrvesteraas, I did find the information.
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
It’s been 7 years. 😃 Did you get it to play?
That's an awesome find Rick, thanks for putting that up. What a work of art. The possibility of finding something like this is what makes swap meets and flea markets a bit addictive. Also, it is another proof that a working device can often be made with common of materials. SMT, etc., -need not apply.
Thanks tuberlook1
I almost did not go to the flea market that Sunday. I'm glad I decided to walk around the flea market and not to fast also.
Make it work! ;-) Very nice find.
Thanks guerramar
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
Thanks Pwaak
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
Thanks barn5923
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
thanks skycarl
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
Thanks togst
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
Thanks hmpeter
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
Thanks johnallenrichter
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
What a cool find there. Hope you put it on the isolation transformer before firing it up ;) j/k
Can't wait to hear it.
Thanks coolbluelights
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
Thanks tuberlook1
Thanks 2N3055A
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
I did make a stereo mono, input output, universal impedance matching doohickey.
The galena may not be good. But I may give it a try.
Thanks AMStationEngineer
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
To go back in time to the persons living room who built this, and watch the look on their face the first Ike they pulled in a station, back when this was as much wonder as science.
Thanks SpeakerFreak95
Thanks cny02253
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
That is a buzz coil box for a Model T to be specific. You can pick up these coils quite easily at auto fleamarkets, but I think the insides are potted with tar so it was probably a messy job to get the original coil out of it. What is the book capacitor made from? Looks like a name plate from something. Very clever.
The book capacitor is home made also, from two pieces of flat metal.
It goes to show that a lot of "antique" dealers and flea market dealers really have no clue with most of what their selling.
Yes.
How awesome is that?
Thank you.
Thanks PoofDuddy
Excellent video and awesome to see it still works today! :) On Google searching the coil pack, it appears to be an ignition coil from a Model A or Model T Ford. Someone in more recent times has actually made a clock from one of those coil packs picclick.ca/Ford-Model-T-coil-clock-120917848717.html#&gid=1&pid=1
Does it work
YES
Just goes to show the level of pride people used to take even in d i y projects in those days..thanks.
Yes it does. Thank you, and your welcome.
Maybe it was built by Henry Ford.
omg
You may be interested, this Crystal set works and a 100 year old radio that works videos. Thanks
Crystal Radio Set, It Works! Demo
ua-cam.com/video/LMsi9OaOXwk/v-deo.html
Atwater Kent 10 Signal Flow and Circuit End to End 100 Years
ua-cam.com/video/wQ8djN15F48/v-deo.html
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
Thanks StackJones1
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.
I did get it to play and I'll put that video up in a few days.