This seeeion we repair a badly damaged Westinghouse radio from the early 1920's. Mice have gotten into the radio and chewed up the wiring and the transformer windings.
I always try to imagine how it must have felt magical and almost wizardry to have this “ box” receiving sounds and voices inside peoples homes for the first time
Your videos are so unique. It is a privilege to be able to watch you keep these things alive for future generations. Thank you so much for posting. I'm sure we all feel the same way.
Hello Ron, I love watching your videos and am amazed at your fabricating skills and depth of knowledge! Thank you for posting your work! Cheers - Luther
Another fun video, Ron! Thanks! It just amazes me how you can fix the unfixable (e.g., rebuilding transformers)! Looking forward to the 3” Pilot TV restoration!
isn't it interesting how we've moved from visible tech to invisible technology as society has progressed. I suspect that the emphasis at that time was on elegance rather than functionality.... Watching you work is inspiring! Stay Safe, Ron!
Excellent work and enjoyable vid. Every radio collector should have an RC or RA/DA. They're such a piece of radio history. Crazy that they'll be 100 years old next year. I was fortunate enough to acquire an accessory Vocarola speaker with mine. Not my most listenable set, but pure magic when I play it.
Nice work on that radio. I like how you work on old radios. I myself started under the pandemi to work on old radios most from 40 -50. The oldest I have in my hand is from 1936 most Swedish radios, Keep going with your good work! I look forward for new videos.
But Ron, I remember working with M-cores in the 70's, even 80's. Its a pain to reciprocally (wechselseitig) stuff them in the bobins, but there were machines for that too. They were often used in East Germany and are actually better than the E-I ones in some aspects. While you could reciprocally stuff them too, they were almost always used with an airgap for e.g. a A final stage or a choke in the power supply since there is a DC current going through. Looking again at your first transformer, yeah its not even an M cut... The classical M cut has a closed frame and only the strip that goes into the bobbin is cut on one side. This makes stuffing even worse that your 20's high tech core in retrospect haha...
This is a long time man. Your explanation is great, accurate and purposeful. I hope we Africans have the same equipment you work with. We lack it. Very cool. Have a nice day
Hi Ron its Ashleigh from Australia do you know I have 2 soldering guns the same as yours. They are nearly as old as me. I generally use a very modern Weller heat controlled soldering station but every now and I dig out the soldering guns, they still work as good as every. You like me we are old enough to be innovative and creative. Luv your videos Ashleigh 💖🙌🙌
Hi Ron your tech friend Dave here and I enjoyed your video you're very talented and you have a unique style I got something to work on myself some old zenith transistor ones and a couple of two ones I look forward to your videos all the time I like watching them I hope it's all is well with you and continue to be safe and take care of yourself thank you so much for your video
Nice cabinet condition for a nearly century old radio, and a great job on the transformers! I guess those naughty mice were after the wax that was used extensively in old radio parts, and also maybe something hard to sharpen their teeth on?
I know they used beeswax a lot; wonder if that is the reason the mice go for it? BTW: It seemed the finished radio had distortion. Is that just the speaker or as good as it gets?
@@SpinStar1956 Here in Houston where I live the radio stations are very powerful and I have a long outdoors antenna. I was overdriving the hell out of it!
Glass linger you are good at restoring vintage shortwave receivers and alignment of vintage shortwave receivers and vintage tvs vintage Am Fm radios 📻 my friend 🎉🎉
You're awesome. Please keep doing these. My only recommendation since you're so awesome is maybe decrease the video compression. It's very pixellated when things move.
Thank you Ron Great Job On The The two Transformers. And Beautiful job on the Repairing the Radio. Always is a pleasure to watch your videos. 73 Mal KI7DYM
Nicoloi and George were alive when this very fine radio was designed. It'sa beaut indeed, state of the art. I'd like to see a foreign radio from overseas that predates 1930, if they existed? That would be most interesting, since Marconi was often credited for radio.
Someone "babied" that radio. Just imagine all of the power surges it has "seen" since it was made LOL (Note: this radio will still work after an EMP blast, if you can still make power.)
@@MikinessAnalog No they wouldn't. What would likely be damaged is wired items. Voltage is generated in a very long wires. Radio itself might not work or work well for several days based on what happened the last time a major CME hit the earth and caused what an EMP blast causes. Perhaps the tube radios would fare worse with their transformers which are very long, though coiled, wires. I don't know. I don't think anyone really does. If there were an EMP or a CME hit the Earth (far more likely than an EMP), the grid would almost certainly have wide spread failures. Local AM stations might not even work. But at night, you could pull in probably from further away than you normally can if there are widespread outages across the nation.
I once recycled electronics for MCC (a Mennonite charity). I feel bad about it now, knowing that retro electronics are so valuable nowadays. I have taken transformers apart. It always amazed me how they could think up such things.
Really Nice job on The transformer. Working with very old radios its like mending a Ford modell T Tanks for The lesson.. PS. Put a lid on The mousehole or made a sign saying "NO Mouse"
Another good job I am just amazed with the amount of knowledge you know about these radios I would like to know 1/10 of what you know I will keep watching I enjoy watching your very very much so have a nice day and I guess I asked you before where are you located God bless
Antique radios are very easy to repair because they are simple circuits, but PARTS can be impossible to replace. I have a Philco #5 (Cathedral top) I need a turning COIL (not variable air capacitor ) for and I'm not willing to pay $3500 for a hand-made one from France. $300 for a #81 tube is bad enough. Eddystone variable air turning capacitors and dials from England are priced like new cars, NOS Hammerlund parts are like buying kidneys. Century-old materials deteriorate, like shellac coil forms and the silk/copper Litz wire on them in the IF transformer cans.
Can you imagine what pure hunger the mice had to motivate them to chew and eat wire insulation to try to survive? May be the idea of modern wire strippers came from them! Hehehe...!
@@glasslinger Deep in the winters here in Michigan the deer get so hungry they come out of the pine forest and chew off and eat the outer jackets of my coax antenna feed lines. I try to feed them whenever I can.
48:35 You can get a brass wire wheel for the dremel to do that. A brass wire wheel will just clean it and not scratch it up the way a stainless steel razor will.
@@phonotical You have to use genuine brass brushes and not brass colored or brass plated aluminum wheels. Glaslinger cleans radio knobs with steel wire wheels.
@@tarstarkusz The sharper and stiffer the better! :) Note that the pressure you press against the wheel significantly affects what the total effect is.
@@macgvrs Right. The primary coils usually are single winding with about 2000 ohm impedance and the secondary is usually a single winding, but center tapped for push pull is also common. Impedance typically 8000-12000 ohms.
Ron, what kind of epoxy would one use to reattach a glass envelope to its metal base? The tube is an nl-617 industrial mercury vapor rectifier with an Edison style threaded base.
Ron.....Concerning those transformers: Besides relying on years of experience that you've developed and we lack...how does one determine the correct one for replacement? And where again did you mention one could order from when needed? Thanks. And great video.
Virtually all the transformers can be replaced with the 1:2 units from Antique Electronics Supply. They have both full transformers and the winding bobbin separate so you can put it on the original core. (1/2 x 1/2 inch bobbin hole)
@@glasslinger I have used the cores from AES but have a problem figuring out the phasing on the secondary side. Both green wires. Just replaced the coils on my Radiola 20 and had to determine the phasing with the set running. How do you determine the phasing?
@@brianamyotte3866 The two output wires (green) can be connected as you wish. The center tap is not used. The output (secondary) is a single center tapped coil.
The trick to good soldering is to have PLENTY of heat FAST. You want the power to get on the joint, heat it to melting, and then get off it quickly. If the iron is marginal, it takes a long time to heat the joint, all the while stressing the plastics and insulation around the connection. The camera lens does make the soldering gun look huge. This is a 125-150 watt gun, not the huge 350 watt job!
That bigger transformer looks very similar to the other one. Would it have come from another old radio made by Westinghouse? But then I have never seen audio transformers with a 2nd tap on the output. I take it then that is not used on this radio and that someone was adapting in a part to fix it? How did you know which wires were on the beginning and end of the primary and which one was the tap on the replacement?
Ron, is there something in the old insulation that attracts rats & mice, tempting them to eat up the wiring? I guess that after the insulation was eaten, they simply continued chewing on the copper itself (because they had nothing better to do)? Have you already shared _your_ coil winding equipment that you would have used to rewind these transformers if the replacement parts hadn't been available? If not, please share it with us with an explanation of how _you_ use it. A couple of last questions: Is the distortion in the announcers' voices caused by the "high fidelity" horn speaker? Or the design of the radio itself? Would the original owners have used multiple batteries to power the radio or would they (probably) have had AC power supplied to them if in a relatively large city? Also, please go into your Content Creator settings and activate the automatic captioning! There's no need to spend time correcting the auto-caption errors because it's "good enough" for those of us with poor hearing to more easily understand what you're saying.
He did take pictures of wiring before taking apart. The rodent chewed off the wires between where they came out of the winding and attached to the solder connection.
I don’t know about you, but when I take pictures of the wiring before tearing a radio apart it loses the 3-D perspective you need to easily figure out where the wires go when you’re putting it back together. A sketch or wiring diagram is much more useful.
I always try to imagine how it must have felt magical and almost wizardry to have this “ box” receiving sounds and voices inside peoples homes for the first time
ils avaient fait des hauts de forme avec la radio incorporée !
Your videos are so unique. It is a privilege to be able to watch you keep these things alive for future generations. Thank you so much for posting. I'm sure we all feel the same way.
Hello Ron, I love watching your videos and am amazed at your fabricating skills and depth of knowledge! Thank you for posting your work! Cheers - Luther
Best time to enter an attic in the summer, just before sunrise.
Once again, an amazing repair.
Thanks for the video.
Another fun video, Ron! Thanks! It just amazes me how you can fix the unfixable (e.g., rebuilding transformers)! Looking forward to the 3” Pilot TV restoration!
You have the patience of a saint Ron - keep them coming - ATB
Love to watch you work. Thanks for posting.
This has cheered up my Tuesday. Cheers Ron and stay safe.
isn't it interesting how we've moved from visible tech to invisible technology as society has progressed. I suspect that the emphasis at that time was on elegance rather than functionality.... Watching you work is inspiring! Stay Safe, Ron!
A OLD WESTING HOUSE RADOIO RECEIVE FROM THE. 1920S IS KOOL
Another amazing restoration! Thank you for sharing, that set is a beauty. 👏🙂
Excellent work and enjoyable vid. Every radio collector should have an RC or RA/DA. They're such a piece of radio history. Crazy that they'll be 100 years old next year. I was fortunate enough to acquire an accessory Vocarola speaker with mine. Not my most listenable set, but pure magic when I play it.
Nice work on that radio. I like how you work on old radios. I myself started under the pandemi to work on old radios most from 40 -50. The oldest I have in my hand is from 1936 most Swedish radios,
Keep going with your good work! I look forward for new videos.
It is nice see working a man who knows a lot. Respect. Applause.
But Ron, I remember working with M-cores in the 70's, even 80's. Its a pain to reciprocally (wechselseitig) stuff them in the bobins, but there were machines for that too. They were often used in East Germany and are actually better than the E-I ones in some aspects. While you could reciprocally stuff them too, they were almost always used with an airgap for e.g. a A final stage or a choke in the power supply since there is a DC current going through.
Looking again at your first transformer, yeah its not even an M cut... The classical M cut has a closed frame and only the strip that goes into the bobbin is cut on one side. This makes stuffing even worse that your 20's high tech core in retrospect haha...
Thanks from France Lyon! Impossible to stop watching, a wonder travel in the 20's.
Great job, not sure that I would have tackled those transformers. Sounds quite good for it's age.
Thanks for another interesting video, so glad I am not the only one using a digital camera to see where most things go back the way they were.
Absolutely beautiful work! Enjoyed watching!
Fantastic. Thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Nicely done.
This is a long time man. Your explanation is great, accurate and purposeful. I hope we Africans have the same equipment you work with. We lack it. Very cool. Have a nice day
a fantastic looking se Ron and a great restore keep them coming
Guardo sempre con piacere i tuoi video , saluti dall'Italia , Maurizio
What Talent,Great work.Love watching your Video,s
What a wonderful old radio Ron, wonderful job as always!
Nicely done. There are fewer and fewer people who can fix radios of this era and keep them out of the dump!
Glasslinger has a new video! I'm on board for the full learning experiance.
I LOVE YOUR KANAL ! YOU HAVE AN BIG SPECTRUM OF SKILL AND KNOWLEDGES, AND ....WISDOM :-)
Very modular. I dig what the designer did.
It always amazes me to see a 100-year-old device come to life.
What a good job 🙂
Wonderful to watch, the core, the jacketed paper cap. and lead based solder, recovered ephemera.
What a wonderful repair job, and a lovely looking radio set.
Exciting 20s Westinghouse resto, thanks.
G-R-E-A-T !!!! Thanks for sharing your huge knowledge!.
Hi Ron its Ashleigh from Australia do you know I have 2 soldering guns the same as yours. They are nearly as old as me. I generally use a very modern Weller heat controlled soldering station but every now and I dig out the soldering guns, they still work as good as every. You like me we are old enough to be innovative and creative. Luv your videos Ashleigh 💖🙌🙌
Hi Ron your tech friend Dave here and I enjoyed your video you're very talented and you have a unique style I got something to work on myself some old zenith transistor ones and a couple of two ones I look forward to your videos all the time I like watching them I hope it's all is well with you and continue to be safe and take care of yourself thank you so much for your video
hello mr GLASSLINGER its nice to see you back have not seen you on i love watching your shows and seening fixing old radios iam from australia
Glass linger your vintage Westinghouse from the 1920s tubes AM radio 📻 is awesome my friend 🎉🎉🎉
Fair Play Buddy I Took Transformers Apart As A Kid But Never Put One Back Together !
Bless Up❇
Nice cabinet condition for a nearly century old radio, and a great job on the transformers! I guess those naughty mice were after the wax that was used extensively in old radio parts, and also maybe something hard to sharpen their teeth on?
Actually they were radio hating mice that wanted to do harm to the set! :)
I know they used beeswax a lot; wonder if that is the reason the mice go for it?
BTW: It seemed the finished radio had distortion. Is that just the speaker or as good as it gets?
@@SpinStar1956 Here in Houston where I live the radio stations are very powerful and I have a long outdoors antenna. I was overdriving the hell out of it!
Nice job building the two transformers, Ron, and stuffing the cap. I have some 4uF block caps to rebuild which were a struggle to open.
You make it look easy, which shows your skill.
Glass linger you are good at restoring vintage shortwave receivers and alignment of vintage shortwave receivers and vintage tvs vintage Am Fm radios 📻 my friend 🎉🎉
He still is the master…👍👍
Your drawing has great depth of field. Easy to see where things go.
You're awesome. Please keep doing these. My only recommendation since you're so awesome is maybe decrease the video compression. It's very pixellated when things move.
Thank you Ron Great Job On The The two Transformers. And Beautiful job on the Repairing the Radio. Always is a pleasure to watch your videos. 73 Mal KI7DYM
Здоровья вам великий мастер!
Great job, as usual, Ron,thanks for sharing
Good to see you at this point in back in time friend
You make look too easy! Your a Master at your Hobbie!
great work
Great video. I love these old radios. Great to see you! Hi to Miss Kitty 😺
Very nice tube type 👍 radio 📻 !! Did ya say 1949. I know ya can fix the major internal damage. Your friend, Jeff.
About 1923 or thereabouts.
@@glasslinger "Where in the hell did it go?
All right, i'll go get another one"
LMAO, been there done that & then questioned my own sanity XD
So much fun, thank you!
Nicoloi and George were alive when this very fine radio was designed. It'sa beaut indeed, state of the art.
I'd like to see a foreign radio from overseas that predates 1930, if they existed? That would be most interesting, since Marconi was often credited for radio.
Had a few repairs, from the 1960's era carbon composition resistors in there.
Enjoyed this one a lot! Thank you
Someone "babied" that radio.
Just imagine all of the power surges it has "seen" since it was made LOL
(Note: this radio will still work after an EMP blast, if you can still make power.)
so will most radios.
@@tarstarkusz Only tube / valve radios because transistors would be "zapped".
@@MikinessAnalog No they wouldn't. What would likely be damaged is wired items. Voltage is generated in a very long wires. Radio itself might not work or work well for several days based on what happened the last time a major CME hit the earth and caused what an EMP blast causes.
Perhaps the tube radios would fare worse with their transformers which are very long, though coiled, wires. I don't know. I don't think anyone really does.
If there were an EMP or a CME hit the Earth (far more likely than an EMP), the grid would almost certainly have wide spread failures. Local AM stations might not even work. But at night, you could pull in probably from further away than you normally can if there are widespread outages across the nation.
Oui mais très bientôt le numérique va faire dis paraitre la magie de ces longueurs d'ondes !
Excelente trabalho !
I once recycled electronics for MCC (a Mennonite charity). I feel bad about it now, knowing that retro electronics are so valuable nowadays. I have taken transformers apart. It always amazed me how they could think up such things.
Glass linger your utube videos are awesome my friend 🎉🎉🎉
Really Nice job on The transformer.
Working with very old radios its like mending a Ford modell T
Tanks for The lesson..
PS. Put a lid on The mousehole or
made a sign saying "NO Mouse"
You make it look so easy, I know its not, Ha! Gotcha, Doc!
Another good job I am just amazed with the amount of knowledge you know about these radios I would like to know 1/10 of what you know I will keep watching I enjoy watching your very very much so have a nice day and I guess I asked you before where are you located God bless
Very cool ...
very Cool Ron!
Antique radios are very easy to repair because they are simple circuits, but PARTS can be impossible to replace. I have a Philco #5 (Cathedral top) I need a turning COIL (not variable air capacitor ) for and I'm not willing to pay $3500 for a hand-made one from France. $300 for a #81 tube is bad enough. Eddystone variable air turning capacitors and dials from England are priced like new cars, NOS Hammerlund parts are like buying kidneys. Century-old materials deteriorate, like shellac coil forms and the silk/copper Litz wire on them in the IF transformer cans.
Westing mouse radio
You are the best,greetings from cold Amsterdam
I don’t think they were idiots back in the 20s they had a reason for doing what they did. Also we have learned a lot these past 100 years
GREAT RADIAX REPAIR.
Лайк неглядя великому мастеру! Super!
that new hair colour goes well with you dress
Better than the old worn out rat hair color it naturally is at my age! Getting old sucks!
Can you imagine what pure hunger the mice had to motivate them to chew and eat wire insulation to try to survive? May be the idea of modern wire strippers came from them! Hehehe...!
Maybe I need to keep a mouse on a string to use as a wire stripper! :)
@@glasslinger Deep in the winters here in Michigan the deer get so hungry they come out of the pine forest and chew off and eat the outer jackets of my coax antenna feed lines. I try to feed them whenever I can.
Another Ron special! Don't forget to plug the critter hole!
No, that gives it its authenticity & cred
Bravo
Indeed
48:35 You can get a brass wire wheel for the dremel to do that. A brass wire wheel will just clean it and not scratch it up the way a stainless steel razor will.
Depends how stiff the brush is, if it's short 'hairs' it'll scratch it to fuck
@@phonotical You have to use genuine brass brushes and not brass colored or brass plated aluminum wheels.
Glaslinger cleans radio knobs with steel wire wheels.
@@tarstarkusz The sharper and stiffer the better! :) Note that the pressure you press against the wheel significantly affects what the total effect is.
@@glasslinger I looked in horror the first time I saw you do it, but you can't argue with the results. You obviously know what you're doing with that.
excellent job !
I didn't understand the circuit with 3 tubes, 1 is the mixer, 1 amp, 3rd ??
how's your kitty doing? Haven't seen him in awhile
Great job on that old radio. Just wondering how you knew which transformers to use. I assume the impedances have to be right to work properly.
The transformers are fairly standard so just about any of them will work fine. Biggest problem is the size, trying to find units that will fit.
@@glasslinger So those are just audio transformers of a certain vintage?
@@macgvrs Right. The primary coils usually are single winding with about 2000 ohm impedance and the secondary is usually a single winding, but center tapped for push pull is also common. Impedance typically 8000-12000 ohms.
Ron, what kind of epoxy would one use to reattach a glass envelope to its metal base? The tube is an nl-617 industrial mercury vapor rectifier with an Edison style threaded base.
I asked Mr Carlson about that and he suggested JB WELD. There's another YT site called BLUEGLOW ELECTRONICS Sep 8 2020 BG295 with more info.
Respect !!!
Wow! 2 Transformers side by side, instead of positioned at right angles to each other. Is there something one is missing?
Very nice👌👌
Beauty.
nu am vazut asa vechi ,foarte interesant
Nice job
I think that is a vintage EMF radiation emitter instead of a radio.
Ron.....Concerning those transformers: Besides relying on years of experience that you've developed and we lack...how does one determine the correct one for replacement? And where again did you mention one could order from when needed? Thanks. And great video.
Virtually all the transformers can be replaced with the 1:2 units from Antique Electronics Supply. They have both full transformers and the winding bobbin separate so you can put it on the original core. (1/2 x 1/2 inch bobbin hole)
@@glasslinger I have used the cores from AES but have a problem figuring out the phasing on the secondary side. Both green wires. Just replaced the coils on my Radiola 20 and had to determine the phasing with the set running. How do you determine the phasing?
@@brianamyotte3866 The two output wires (green) can be connected as you wish. The center tap is not used. The output (secondary) is a single center tapped coil.
@@glasslinger Thankyou and do enjoy your videos. I always learn something.
Its amazing, How easy you solder with that big Gun.
The trick to good soldering is to have PLENTY of heat FAST. You want the power to get on the joint, heat it to melting, and then get off it quickly. If the iron is marginal, it takes a long time to heat the joint, all the while stressing the plastics and insulation around the connection. The camera lens does make the soldering gun look huge. This is a 125-150 watt gun, not the huge 350 watt job!
That bigger transformer looks very similar to the other one. Would it have come from another old radio made by Westinghouse? But then I have never seen audio transformers with a 2nd tap on the output. I take it then that is not used on this radio and that someone was adapting in a part to fix it? How did you know which wires were on the beginning and end of the primary and which one was the tap on the replacement?
Ron, is there something in the old insulation that attracts rats & mice, tempting them to eat up the wiring? I guess that after the insulation was eaten, they simply continued chewing on the copper itself (because they had nothing better to do)?
Have you already shared _your_ coil winding equipment that you would have used to rewind these transformers if the replacement parts hadn't been available? If not, please share it with us with an explanation of how _you_ use it.
A couple of last questions: Is the distortion in the announcers' voices caused by the "high fidelity" horn speaker? Or the design of the radio itself? Would the original owners have used multiple batteries to power the radio or would they (probably) have had AC power supplied to them if in a relatively large city?
Also, please go into your Content Creator settings and activate the automatic captioning! There's no need to spend time correcting the auto-caption errors because it's "good enough" for those of us with poor hearing to more easily understand what you're saying.
Take picture with camera will help to make easy working on the circuit that without schematic diagram.
He did take pictures of wiring before taking apart. The rodent chewed off the wires between where they came out of the winding and attached to the solder connection.
I don’t know about you, but when I take pictures of the wiring before tearing a radio apart it loses the 3-D perspective you need to easily figure out where the wires go when you’re putting it back together. A sketch or wiring diagram is much more useful.
@@mrbyamile6973 Yes, with a camera we don't need to use the memory capacity in our brain to remember that wires or something else.
Where the hell did that go ? i havent been anywhere is my life story too.. keep up the great work
A radio of this type is currently on eBay, original condition, for $449.00
I got one for $113
@@Audion I just got one for $127. The one I repaired in the video was not mine.
@@Audion does it work?
@@montysonful yes it does. 👍
@@glasslinger the prices on RA/DA have really fallen over the past year.
saludos desde chile! te admiro mucho! me encantan tus videos, bendiciones!
Cool...cheers.
I think I saw that screw driver in a Dr. Seuss book.
How did you know which was the primary on the replacement one you put on the bigger transformer?