As an old,school radio tv repair man (76years old now) what you stated about a tech going into someones home way back then and flipping their TV upside down to service anything in there like that wouldnt have happened. We wouldve had a tube tester and a tube caddy along with screwdrivers and maybe a pair of pliers and if it wasnt a tube they were told it needed to go to the shop for those repairs they wernt done in the home
so the crt was never soldered properly, the dials were all off, and now look it run as new. these old sets have a nice phosphor colors. as you mention the green, this is special for those sets. nice vids as always.
When I repaired a CRT socket, I soldered strands of new wire to the originals to use as leaders / threading aides. That was on a B&W crt, so there were fewer pins to deal with.
glad i scrolled through the comments, I was struggling with a 6sn7 a few years back with a detached base, ended up spiral wrapping some fine gauge copper wire to the original leads to thread back through the base and flowed plenty of solder into them (as shango noted its important to clean up the original wires good, I found scotchbrite and flux works fine. The original cement was mostly marble flour (you can find the rca mixture online) but i found high temp JB weld works just as fine for attaching the base.
Your ressurections are always my favorite. TVs or radios, black and white or color, AM or FM. The process of diagnosing and fixing even the worst garbage you can pull out of the scrap heap is just entertaining to me, thanks for the videos my friend
Seeing the construction of these old tellies helps me understand why my grandparents (and parents!) would unplug all TV sets at night, and often when going out. "Is the TV unplugged?" would be a common shout through the house before going out anywhere.
Sounds like someone had a PYE model 619 (I think it was) or it's equivalent RBM model. Both known for their self immolating properties! Rather like lithium batteries nowadays, you could never trust them to not burst into flames, and you absolutely never left them plugged in and unattended! 🎆✨🔥🔥🔥🙎
Way back in the day I fixed lots of these roundies. Still remember doing what you did with the pix socket because folks couldn't afford to replace an otherwise good crt. It was always the focus pin and they were never soldered well at the factory. I'm sure echos of some of my choice language still haunts the halls of the old shop... even though it's now an auto parts store.
Made with real wood They certainly heat up a room well Mine caught fire .luckly I have a very large open fire place 8 by 6 with a large chimney so I was able to wheel i to the grate and let it burn whilst I watched it burn and cracked open a bottle of single malt whisky and Cuban cigar.Maybe I should have cleaned it before I turned it on for the first time in 45 yrs ?
My parents had one of these when I was growing up. Dad worked tons of hours to afford it. It's last day was in the early 80's, one day we were watching it and the nipple on the picture tube popped for some reason. It was cool to see you get this one working!
BAKED!!!!!!!! A new socket certified repair guru! I can remember the tv repair guys actually changing filter caps in customers homes. Times have indeed changed........................Good job, Shango!
The CRT has much greater dynamic range than the LCD, hence greater color saturation and contrast, the difference is like Kodachrome vs. Ektachrome. But the LCD has no geometric or convergence error, while the CRT has plenty.
Totally agree on the color quality on these old round tube sets, especially the RCA sets. Yes the picture was not the HD like today, but color was beautiful. The reds, and greens on this set are excellent.
I remember those chassis fondly, in 1978 when I started tv repair, many Zenith, RCA, philco, dumont, sylvania, Curtis Mathes, Sears, and soo many more, I can still remember the smell of the tubes and electronics when they were running... All those flyback repairs...so much nostalgia. Best wishes sir..😊
I've had to do that as well on a 1950s Viking B&W that I got a year ago or so and it is a pain in the ass. The plastic base was loose and I could not get any reading on the tube even though the filament lit fine. I wanted to make sure that none of the wires to the pins had broken before troubleshooting the lack of HV, so I desoldered the base then had to put it back on. I did get the HV working (not sure how) and the tube does work. It's old and tired, but it works.
The wire used had to have certain properties. It must match the expansion of the glass, it must wet with the glass and it must not outgas. It should be stable and non reactive as possible too. Tungsten or copper coated tungsten was used and special alloys - a trade name of one Dumet is still used for many glass bonding applications. If you want to see it being done you can watch the nice man in the dress make tubes from scratch. The guy is a genius.
Please continue to do more TVs. Here in the Uk, we never had commercially available colour roundies. As we didn’t get colour until 68/69. The image on that set was amazing for its age. Love this. Remember, Black beauties matter.
The Zenith roundies were the finest quality, IMHO with their hand wired circuits and high quality components. I recently was lucky to acquire a 1964 Zenith chassis 25LC20. CRT is good, did the cataract repair, all the tubes are Zenith branded, and most have 1963 code dates. It actually looks like a low hour set. It is true that these TVs produced a fine color picture- maybe it was Zenith's unique scheme of high level color demodulation, not sure. My set arrived missing the back, so I don't know the model number but that 25LC20 color chassis with it's 26 tubes is a beautiful beast!
I certainly raise my cap to you sir! I could see me trying to put that cap back on that tube.....LOL I could be drunk or strait and that would never happen.... LOL You are THE MAN! - Cheers! 🍻 Al Cox
We had the 25MC36 (SAMS 805-4), one of my first electronic 'training tools' of my teens. It had been my grandparents living room TV. The '36 had a 25" rectangular CRT. One year, maybe I was 9, ours failed Friday before Thanksgiving and the TV repairman had the set on its side with the bottom removed trying to get it going. It left with him and we borrowed something so football that weekend was seen.
Man, does this make me homesick for Saturday mornings at my grandparent's house. After a breakfast of eggs "over easy", home fries, and Maglio Sausage from any ol' "Acme" Market, located all around Philly, Gene London, and the "Cartoon Corners General Store" would be "crankin" on the Zenith 24MC32. That was "round one"..... At the beginning of "round two", Bugs Bunny would be screwing with Elmer and Daffy, and a plate of homemade oatmeal cookies would be delivered by my grandmother. I'm fairly certain that the cookies were a bribe, to get control of the TV set back, so that my she could watch the "Al Alberts Showcase", at 11:00 AM..... ("Showcase", was an hour of kids tap dancing, singing show tunes, and doing magic tricks; envision the Ted Mack Amateur Hour on Quaalude) In 1970, Lancelot Link - Secret Chimp, premiered, and Saturday mornings became GLORIOUS!!!! By 1972, it was decided that children's television, as a whole, would need to become "more educationally driven", and by 1976, Wile E. Coyote, Genius, was teaching calculus to 5 year olds... It was at that very moment that our world forgot that the most important aspect of the meaning of life was "enjoyment". By the year 2020, every prediction by H.G. Wells, George Orwell, and Rod Serling would come to fruition, and the entirety of the United States would be fenced-in, (think "Escape from New York"), with the majority of the nation's populous residing on the "inside" of the fence...
ME TOO! - kind of. We had Scrapple & no color TV. Did march around cocktail table during Bugs Bunny, Road Runners show's open. lol I was on Gene London show once with class. =) Friends Dad worked there. What's this "Lancelot Link - Secret Chimp"? looked it up ~ Oh w0w, Never heard of it. Must have been outside playing, missed that Cool Intel! 'Evolution Revolution' Reminds me of Red Rose Tea - Still drink it today [because] of that Band, (commercial)! So right about 'predictions' 'Hollywood', (CIA) seamed to have The Future ALL 'figured out' - secret\ special tools then, are everyday now. Cartoons & Kids shows Were Educational! Now, WARRING Bratty Trolls. (don't watch, just imagine) *Cheers ~- **
@@Oldbmwr100rs ; and I'd have learned math the right way, and at the right time. Parochial school students were once victims of a system that placed little value on learning math and science.
I did years earlier a crt socket refit, similar like you. It was my hungarian made set called Kékes from the mid 60s. If I remember, the crt was polish made, suffered from loose socket and solder joints. I figured out, the puzzle solves much easier when the leads are extended a little, with thin copper wires soldered, and fit the wires remote from the tube. As I see, the socket in your case has enough space for 2 wires soldered, too. As all the wires fitted, it was easy to pull those through. Also applied some 2pack epoxy between the glass and the bakelite to prevent it from wobbling.
Wow, man that set takes me back. The very first color set I ever saw looked exactly like that. I was young, just beginning to date young ladies, and I had met this cute little gal, she was sweet as hell, her folks were military, the dad was in Nam and mom and the two girls came to live in our home town while he served. We never got serious, just a bit of petting as young kids do, but they had this color set. I had never seen color TV before and her mom said I could come over and watch Disney's Wonderful World of Color with them one Sunday evening. What a trip man all those colors it was simply AMAZING! A year later I began to date her older sister, now she got damn serious about shit, man it was the year of love and we got deep into that but this is indeed another story. I often wonder what happened to those gals...
I also like the depth of field on the roundies. Something like a stadium shot, you really get a holographic effect. Best seen in person. The color resolution and subtlety helps make up for ntsc resolution. Roundies are just so nice to watch.
I have that exact Wellar soldering iron! My first iron, given to me by my dad in the mid 90s. I still use it frequently to this day, and only replaced the tip once.
On occasion I've had projects with a very difficult repair. I commiserate and admire that you have the tenacity to perform such unique repairs. Great Job!
When I was a kid, it was a thrill to see a color TV, but of course most people cranked the color all the way up, or misadjusted the tint, so people were green or red most of the time until I learned how to adjust the controls. Good job on that TV, and more power to you. I'd much rather stick to my 1920s and 1930s radios, where 600 volts is the high voltage!
So cool watching you fix these old sets. I wish we had an analog channel 6 here. I’d like to have one that carries the news on it. When analog was still the norm, I had a car radio adaptor that tuned in Channels 2 thru 13 on it. I had 30 mile commutes to work, nice to be able to listen to the local news on my way home from our local ABC, or CBS station. Couldn’t listen to NBC or FOX, as those are both UHF.
Loved this resurrection on a Zenith color set. They were bulletproof TV's no matter what my grandfather and dad said. They liked Admiral and RCA sets. Put an antenna on the roof. Make sure it lights up at night with a red colored beacon so those damn airplanes don't hit it!🗼🛩;-) ! This fourth of July is going to be noisy so get a good set of earplugs too!
If antenna tower is shorter than 200 feet it may not need FAA lights, but it depends on antenna tower location so it may need lights anyway. I don't know where shango is relative to airports, flight lines but I do sometimes hear small aircraft flying over his place.
Got to love those old tube type color TVs, when they are working good, they have a nice picture. Zenith built the best back in the day, they lasted for years. I have an old Zenith Trans Oceanic radio, a model Royal 3000 - 1 that still works good, one transistor has been replaced, the rest looks like original parts. From what I have figured out, it was from 1964, it has the 12 volt power jack on the side. The year before did not have the power jack. It looks all beat up looking and the front covers are missing, but it still works.
I have several Zenith's in my modest collection and just got through w/a 8s463 restore; that and a 5s(?) tabletop ....Any way EXCELLENT TONES and way off the charts! My only concern is their use & method of elevated grounding through the heater circuts no less (that aren't even connected to each other). Makes me think they were practicing VOO DOO back in the day...but still.... can't argue with success.
An old roundie color TV with a strong CRT these days is a rare bird, indeed! It must have been a royal pain in the neck to get those extremely delicate wires to go through those pins when installing the replacement connector for that picture tube. Seeing these sets sure brings back a lot of childhood memories!
I have a gun assembly from a Magnavox combo I went to Long Island to pick up. Seller necked it getting it out of the house. Tried to hide it. E-bay purchase. Wish I could have saved the Admiral in trade for the guns and socket. It sits on a shelf and I like it there just fine. Great work and again I'm surprised how well that set works with little extra work. To the owner I wish them many hours of oldie show viewing pleasure. Plus they have Shango066 magic in their set. God Bless
Its funny cause I had a 66 and 64 zenith and the 1966 version had a diode go bad, that gear cracked, the crt read really bad on my bk tester but worked great and was really strong and a the little tiny disc capacitor .0022 shorted in the vertical circuit. Also the 1966 version had a bad bulb socket for the dial and it burned up one of the two filament fuse and made it look like the line transformer burned up. I ran a wire from the tubes that still lit up to the tubes that were out and not only did that line transformer power all the tubes form the good side but when that bulb wire shorted again, it lit up all the tubes and the saftey pin I used like a filament and still didn't hurt the transformer. The color de-mod. .18 cap failed on it and i fixed that and made the whole tv work again including the bad line fuses. The 1964 version of that set had a bad CRT and every tube cap everything was original and never had an issue. like rebuilt the crt and a perfect working set.
It looks so cool how you are watching the corona virus news,,on a 55 year old roundie colour tv,,,with only a couple of shorted diodes to replace,,,and readjust the vertical and horizontal holds,,along with the 3 colours,,red,green,blue. Looks real nice with the valve tubes glowing inside. Might want to clean the dust off the tube valves and the rest to prevent it from overheating too much.
Great video. Since you had a hard time prying those wires through the pins of the CRT socket, I would like to share this tip. Make those wires 'longer' with fine strands of copper wire, about 5" to 10" long. Just solder these strands to each CRT wire. Now you can watch inside the socket, while you can easily feed the wires into the corresponding holes. Once the strands are in, you can pull them through from the other side.
Shango066, your comment about the beautiful color the RCA 19", 70 degree deflection angle "roundie" CRTs had was quite true. I had a CTC-10 with the CYP22A CRT (no bonded faceplace) and the colors where gorgeous, especially the red. The rectangular CRTs were noticeably faded in comparison. Of course, if you moved anything metal in the room, you had to do a manual deguass but, that was the way things were then before the built-in deguasser.
Great job Shango!! I watched this for the second time and your work still impresses me. Especially on Zenith. I'm from the Chicago area and Zenith around here was an institution. Carry on.
Bravo pour votre pertinence, je suis vos restaurations d'anciens téléviseurs avec intérêts étant moi aussi dans cette même passions. C'est super 👍👍 Christophe
I grew up with a 1978, 25-inch floor console TV Zenith in the 1980s when Zenith was one of the kings of television. The thing weigh a ton but it was a workhorse of a set. My folks had that set for about 35 years!
Somebody who is good with a router can make a new top for it, or carefully sand the existing top. You have got it so it can be made to look like new. Wonderful job.
Back in the day I saw two round color TV sets and of the two, the owners apparently didn't know how to set the colors? I remember a football game where I thought the green grass was going to spill out of the TV as green drive was set way too high. Same thing with another where the guy must have liked red? It looked like it was about to bleed on his rug! Thanks for posting. I had no idea that they could produce a good picture?
What a nice set! I'm in the Netherlands and the only color roundie we had was a Philips 21KX100A from 1963 and it was a prototype. Never actually been sold. I happen to have one, it is also at my youtube channel. I love these old US roundies, but they are impossible to find over here unfortunately...
I recently picked up a Packard Bell roundie 98c7e. Tube tests good and has no sign of high hour usage just like yours. I usually mess with much newer TVs and monitors but this video is encouraging me.
Yes the chassis looked oddly similar to a ct16... not that I have a whole lot of experience but I can read a schematic ok. Well so far I found one gassy high voltage rectifier in the flyback cage. I’m still a little mystified by the swivel chassis and haven’t quite worked up the balls to perform « instant capacitor reforming » yet.
I can see why the owner wants it, that's a fine quality set. Nice job on reattaching the CRT socket, that definitely took some patience. I'm looking forward to your traditional 4th of July EOL
Thanks so much for this presentation. As always it was informative and fun to watch, you go through the process of diagnosticating! Great job on saving the CRT- the whole set is a treasure. BTW- the new camera really does "up your game"!
I found it funny when you said about turning the TV upside down to access the bottom and doing that on their rug. The upside down part is for nomal use in upside down land of Australia. Nice old telly by the way.
You did that plug base the hard way, my friend. You were supposed to solder some fine gauge magnet wire to each lead and pull it through. Then pull that out when you solder it.
Nice camera action bud . Looks like a few drinks were spilled on that oldie. Mom n Pop had a similar set . Still worked in the 80s . Having fun watching these oldies being rejuvenated . 📺😷
Great video, as I have a very similar (working) Zenith with a strong CRT...likely the same chassis as this unit. I'll attest to the great color that these Zeniths can still produce.
Bravo! A lesser person would consider junking the tube. It paid off repairing it instead. thank you! That was another great video! I hope you have a great 4th of July as well!
For all original capacitors, this set is quite watchable! The colors as you mentioned are very vivid. I hope the new owner refinishes the cabinet and maybe change out those suspect capacitors and have a beautiful piece of usable antique TV to display. That one is a keeper! No doggy bed!
GENIAL INCREIBLE la conservacion del CINESCOPIO se ve mucho mejor que las mugres pantallas que no sirven, excelentisimo amigo buena reparacion, ponle WD 40 al sintonizador para que entre bien el canal 3 FELICIDADES👏👏👍👍🙂🙂
My family bought a TV like that right around the same year brand new. I remember the colors being bad Vibrant. Never I don't remember it ever being fixed in 16 years. Parents passed away and it was so big I didn't want to move it. Probably still working to this day.
Jesus christ, I am so terrified of loss of vertical deflection that even knowing that its in service mode, I still near have hysterics when I see it. A crt I once owned suffered loss of vertical deflection which resulted it in the destruction of the crt, a giant burn mark across the entire width of the screen. I still have not recovered fully from this traumatic incident.
I turned a 5" B&W set into a crude oscilloscope a while back. That concerns me as well. So far, I have managed to keep it from burning a line in the screen.
@@deanagoes2791 Well it can't be undone. When you see it cooked in there you'll have a certain feeling. Not a good one. Always a tannish tint in that spot. Eventually your brain makes it kind of disappear. Kind of....
@@deanagoes2791 sooo careless about this crap that i dont know what are you doing on this comment section...maybe watch something else? kitchen vicdeos? lawnmowers?whatever?
I would sell my butt to get my hands on one of those TVs (in a functional state, of course). Such a shame that I live in France and that there are a lot fewer people interested in restoring old TV's than in the US.
If only we could replace all the bogus "news" content with Shango vids... They are among the few things left that help me keep my sanity, though that is rapidly diminishing with each passing day.
The solution is simple: stop watching news. I accidentally caught a newscast on the tv while in a waiting room recently. I can’t believe people still watch that garbage.
As an old,school radio tv repair man (76years old now) what you stated about a tech going into someones home way back then and flipping their TV upside down to service anything in there like that wouldnt have happened. We wouldve had a tube tester and a tube caddy along with screwdrivers and maybe a pair of pliers and if it wasnt a tube they were told it needed to go to the shop for those repairs they wernt done in the home
so the crt was never soldered properly, the dials were all off, and now look it run as new.
these old sets have a nice phosphor colors. as you mention the green, this is special for those sets.
nice vids as always.
Zenith...."The quality goes in before the name goes on"
That's true!
Yes
When I repaired a CRT socket, I soldered strands of new wire to the originals to use as leaders / threading aides. That was on a B&W crt, so there were fewer pins to deal with.
that would have worked
I was thinking the same thing but wanted to check the comments first. 👍👌✌
glad i scrolled through the comments, I was struggling with a 6sn7 a few years back with a detached base, ended up spiral wrapping some fine gauge copper wire to the original leads to thread back through the base and flowed plenty of solder into them (as shango noted its important to clean up the original wires good, I found scotchbrite and flux works fine. The original cement was mostly marble flour (you can find the rca mixture online) but i found high temp JB weld works just as fine for attaching the base.
I just wanted to add the very same comment. Thanks for doing it already ;)
bandersentv did this same trick on one of his videos
Your ressurections are always my favorite. TVs or radios, black and white or color, AM or FM. The process of diagnosing and fixing even the worst garbage you can pull out of the scrap heap is just entertaining to me, thanks for the videos my friend
Seeing the construction of these old tellies helps me understand why my grandparents (and parents!) would unplug all TV sets at night, and often when going out. "Is the TV unplugged?" would be a common shout through the house before going out anywhere.
Sounds like my parents. But instead turn off the power strip
Sounds like someone had a PYE model 619 (I think it was) or it's equivalent RBM model. Both known for their self immolating properties!
Rather like lithium batteries nowadays, you could never trust them to not burst into flames, and you absolutely never left them plugged in and unattended! 🎆✨🔥🔥🔥🙎
Way back in the day I fixed lots of these roundies. Still remember doing what you did with the pix socket because folks couldn't afford to replace an otherwise good crt. It was always the focus pin and they were never soldered well at the factory. I'm sure echos of some of my choice language still haunts the halls of the old shop... even though it's now an auto parts store.
SHANGO: Here's the focus pin.
FOCUS PIN: *goes out of focus*
Look who it is
Hey, Brad. Glad to see you on the best trouble-shooter on UA-cam ever channel. I wonder if Uncle Doug is here as well :D.
Hey Brad! How's it going? Glad to see you drop in.
@@davehebert3403 This should be awsome
Those old roundie’s really make a good picture and a good heat source to warm up to on cold evenings.
They're rough on the electric bills, though.
Made with real wood They certainly heat up a room well Mine caught fire .luckly I have a very large open fire place 8 by 6 with a large chimney so I was able to wheel i to the grate and let it burn whilst I watched it burn and cracked open a bottle of single malt whisky and Cuban cigar.Maybe I should have cleaned it before I turned it on for the first time in 45 yrs ?
My parents had one of these when I was growing up. Dad worked tons of hours to afford it. It's last day was in the early 80's, one day we were watching it and the nipple on the picture tube popped for some reason. It was cool to see you get this one working!
That TV saw the Moon landing! And new I Dream Of Jeannie episodes!
BAKED!!!!!!!! A new socket certified repair guru! I can remember the tv repair guys actually changing filter caps in customers homes. Times have indeed changed........................Good job, Shango!
I re-capped my marriage. Everything is fine now. She didn’t even know there was an issue. Magic.
Make sure you adjust the horizontal hold. And focus while you’re at it.
I re-capped my marriage and later found out the fly back was bad. Still waiting for parts.
If it was my wife, I'd give her the good old Fonzie jukebox fixomatic touch
No kidding. My uncle used to have that TV. I'd watch The Dating Game and Dark Shadows with my cousin on that TV in 1969...
CHUCK WOOLERY!
I got more suits than Jacoby and Meyers (watched till the end, good show)
t:Ralph Zenith
I watched American Bandstand...Roller Derby Girls and Stock car races.
One of my aunts had the same model set. I remember messing with that little control panel as a kid :)
These sure did have great color back then, surprised how good the picture looks. Better than most lcd tvs
The CRT has much greater dynamic range than the LCD, hence greater color saturation and contrast, the difference is like Kodachrome vs. Ektachrome. But the LCD has no geometric or convergence error, while the CRT has plenty.
Totally agree on the color quality on these old round tube sets, especially the RCA sets. Yes the picture was not the HD like today, but color was beautiful. The reds, and greens on this set are excellent.
It’s even got the shango logo knobs. This tv is wicked awesome
Awesome picture on that TV. I would watch it any day. I miss the CRT TV's,I'm tired of all these wife screen TV's.
I remember those chassis fondly, in 1978 when I started tv repair, many Zenith, RCA, philco, dumont, sylvania, Curtis Mathes, Sears, and soo many more, I can still remember the smell of the tubes and electronics when they were running...
All those flyback repairs...so much nostalgia.
Best wishes sir..😊
I've had to do that as well on a 1950s Viking B&W that I got a year ago or so and it is a pain in the ass. The plastic base was loose and I could not get any reading on the tube even though the filament lit fine. I wanted to make sure that none of the wires to the pins had broken before troubleshooting the lack of HV, so I desoldered the base then had to put it back on. I did get the HV working (not sure how) and the tube does work. It's old and tired, but it works.
The wire used had to have certain properties. It must match the expansion of the glass, it must wet with the glass and it must not outgas. It should be stable and non reactive as possible too. Tungsten or copper coated tungsten was used and special alloys - a trade name of one Dumet is still used for many glass bonding applications. If you want to see it being done you can watch the nice man in the dress make tubes from scratch. The guy is a genius.
'Kovar'
Yeah that's Glasslinger . He's on the youtube also.👍
Please continue to do more TVs. Here in the Uk, we never had commercially available colour roundies. As we didn’t get colour until 68/69. The image on that set was amazing for its age. Love this.
Remember, Black beauties matter.
same in germany. thos old sets also have a large diameter, such a thing was a true luxury. love the idea of the roundies. rgds
The Zenith roundies were the finest quality, IMHO with their hand wired circuits and high quality components. I recently was lucky to acquire a 1964 Zenith chassis 25LC20. CRT is good, did the cataract repair, all the tubes are Zenith branded, and most have 1963 code dates. It actually looks like a low hour set. It is true that these TVs produced a fine color picture- maybe it was Zenith's unique scheme of high level color demodulation, not sure. My set arrived missing the back, so I don't know the model number but that 25LC20 color chassis with it's 26 tubes is a beautiful beast!
I had the 1964 edition of that set and mine everything but the CRT was perfect and working. That was a well made set
Love it!! the mask on the controls!! You are a genius!! Wish we had you in the UK! you could make a fortune with your skills!!
I certainly raise my cap to you sir! I could see me trying to
put that cap back on that tube.....LOL I could be drunk or
strait and that would never happen.... LOL You are THE MAN!
- Cheers! 🍻 Al Cox
We had the 25MC36 (SAMS 805-4), one of my first electronic 'training tools' of my teens. It had been my grandparents living room TV. The '36 had a 25" rectangular CRT. One year, maybe I was 9, ours failed Friday before Thanksgiving and the TV repairman had the set on its side with the bottom removed trying to get it going. It left with him and we borrowed something so football that weekend was seen.
“I bet it’ll get channel 6”. I think this line is in every Shango TV resurrection video. LOL. Amazing video!
Man, does this make me homesick for Saturday mornings at my grandparent's house. After a breakfast of eggs "over easy", home fries, and Maglio Sausage from any ol' "Acme" Market, located all around Philly, Gene London, and the "Cartoon Corners General Store" would be "crankin" on the Zenith 24MC32. That was "round one".....
At the beginning of "round two", Bugs Bunny would be screwing with Elmer and Daffy, and a plate of homemade oatmeal cookies would be delivered by my grandmother. I'm fairly certain that the cookies were a bribe, to get control of the TV set back, so that my she could watch the "Al Alberts Showcase", at 11:00 AM..... ("Showcase", was an hour of kids tap dancing, singing show tunes, and doing magic tricks; envision the Ted Mack Amateur Hour on Quaalude)
In 1970, Lancelot Link - Secret Chimp, premiered, and Saturday mornings became GLORIOUS!!!! By 1972, it was decided that children's television, as a whole, would need to become "more educationally driven", and by 1976, Wile E. Coyote, Genius, was teaching calculus to 5 year olds... It was at that very moment that our world forgot that the most important aspect of the meaning of life was "enjoyment". By the year 2020, every prediction by H.G. Wells, George Orwell, and Rod Serling would come to fruition, and the entirety of the United States would be fenced-in, (think "Escape from New York"), with the majority of the nation's populous residing on the "inside" of the fence...
ME TOO! - kind of. We had Scrapple & no color TV. Did march around cocktail table during Bugs Bunny, Road Runners show's open. lol I was on Gene London show once with class. =) Friends Dad worked there.
What's this "Lancelot Link - Secret Chimp"? looked it up ~ Oh w0w, Never heard of it.
Must have been outside playing, missed that Cool Intel!
'Evolution Revolution' Reminds me of Red Rose Tea - Still drink it today [because] of that Band, (commercial)!
So right about 'predictions' 'Hollywood', (CIA) seamed to have The Future ALL 'figured out' - secret\ special tools then, are everyday now.
Cartoons & Kids shows Were Educational! Now, WARRING Bratty Trolls. (don't watch, just imagine) *Cheers ~- **
I like the idea of Wiley having a mathematics show for kids, that would have made it more interesting.
@@Oldbmwr100rs ; and I'd have learned math the right way, and at the right time. Parochial school students were once victims of a system that placed little value on learning math and science.
I did years earlier a crt socket refit, similar like you. It was my hungarian made set called Kékes from the mid 60s. If I remember, the crt was polish made, suffered from loose socket and solder joints. I figured out, the puzzle solves much easier when the leads are extended a little, with thin copper wires soldered, and fit the wires remote from the tube. As I see, the socket in your case has enough space for 2 wires soldered, too. As all the wires fitted, it was easy to pull those through. Also applied some 2pack epoxy between the glass and the bakelite to prevent it from wobbling.
Wow, man that set takes me back. The very first color set I ever saw looked exactly like that. I was young, just beginning to date young ladies, and I had met this cute little gal, she was sweet as hell, her folks were military, the dad was in Nam and mom and the two girls came to live in our home town while he served. We never got serious, just a bit of petting as young kids do, but they had this color set. I had never seen color TV before and her mom said I could come over and watch Disney's Wonderful World of Color with them one Sunday evening. What a trip man all those colors it was simply AMAZING! A year later I began to date her older sister, now she got damn serious about shit, man it was the year of love and we got deep into that but this is indeed another story. I often wonder what happened to those gals...
Picture was magnificent for me...Close ups excellent. movement smooth. Colours excellent.
Motion is no trouble for analog CRT sets. No effort at all for that technology.
I also like the depth of field on the roundies. Something like a stadium shot, you really get a holographic effect. Best seen in person.
The color resolution and subtlety helps make up for ntsc resolution.
Roundies are just so nice to watch.
I have that exact Wellar soldering iron! My first iron, given to me by my dad in the mid 90s.
I still use it frequently to this day, and only replaced the tip once.
On occasion I've had projects with a very difficult repair. I commiserate and admire that you have the tenacity to perform such unique repairs. Great Job!
Nice job Shango66! The roundie lives to fight another day! I see what you mean about the greens, they really twerk up nice! Love your video's :)
VERY GOOD MY FRIEND, GOOD JOB, I LIKE IT. REPAIR TVS AND SHORT WAVE RADIOS.
When I was a kid, it was a thrill to see a color TV, but of course most people cranked the color all the way up, or misadjusted the tint, so people were green or red most of the time until I learned how to adjust the controls. Good job on that TV, and more power to you. I'd much rather stick to my 1920s and 1930s radios, where 600 volts is the high voltage!
So cool watching you fix these old sets. I wish we had an analog channel 6 here. I’d like to have one that carries the news on it. When analog was still the norm, I had a car radio adaptor that tuned in Channels 2 thru 13 on it. I had 30 mile commutes to work, nice to be able to listen to the local news on my way home from our local ABC, or CBS station. Couldn’t listen to NBC or FOX, as those are both UHF.
Great repair video. Learning from you, Bought an old table radio from 74’ dead selenium rectifier. Still working it. Stay safe.
Loved this resurrection on a Zenith color set. They were bulletproof TV's no matter what my grandfather and dad said. They liked Admiral and RCA sets.
Put an antenna on the roof. Make sure it lights up at night with a red colored beacon so those damn airplanes don't hit it!🗼🛩;-) !
This fourth of July is going to be noisy so get a good set of earplugs too!
If antenna tower is shorter than 200 feet it may not need FAA lights, but it depends on antenna tower location so it may need lights anyway. I don't know where shango is relative to airports, flight lines but I do sometimes hear small aircraft flying over his place.
Got to love those old tube type color TVs, when they are working good, they have a nice picture. Zenith built the best back in the day, they lasted for years. I have an old Zenith Trans Oceanic radio, a model Royal 3000 - 1 that still works good, one transistor has been replaced, the rest looks like original parts. From what I have figured out, it was from 1964, it has the 12 volt power jack on the side. The year before did not have the power jack. It looks all beat up looking and the front covers are missing, but it still works.
I have several Zenith's in my modest collection and just got through w/a 8s463 restore; that and a 5s(?) tabletop ....Any way EXCELLENT TONES and way off the charts! My only concern is their use & method of elevated grounding through the heater circuts no less (that aren't even connected to each other). Makes me think they were practicing VOO DOO back in the day...but still.... can't argue with success.
I love this TV Shango066 and the mask!
Did someone say “shadow mask”?
New camera is great. Big audio improvement.
An old roundie color TV with a strong CRT these days is a rare bird, indeed! It must have been a royal pain in the neck to get those extremely delicate wires to go through those pins when installing the replacement connector for that picture tube. Seeing these sets sure brings back a lot of childhood memories!
I have a gun assembly from a Magnavox combo I went to Long Island to pick up. Seller necked it getting it out of the house. Tried to hide it. E-bay purchase. Wish I could have saved the Admiral in trade for the guns and socket. It sits on a shelf and I like it there just fine.
Great work and again I'm surprised how well that set works with little extra work.
To the owner I wish them many hours of oldie show viewing pleasure. Plus they have Shango066 magic in their set. God Bless
oh i patch things like that up before picture tube sockkets. I know the patience involved Good job Shango. I like those old tv sets hahaha
Nice job! What a pain reworking the picture tube pins.
Its funny cause I had a 66 and 64 zenith and the 1966 version had a diode go bad, that gear cracked, the crt read really bad on my bk tester but worked great and was really strong and a the little tiny disc capacitor .0022 shorted in the vertical circuit. Also the 1966 version had a bad bulb socket for the dial and it burned up one of the two filament fuse and made it look like the line transformer burned up. I ran a wire from the tubes that still lit up to the tubes that were out and not only did that line transformer power all the tubes form the good side but when that bulb wire shorted again, it lit up all the tubes and the saftey pin I used like a filament and still didn't hurt the transformer. The color de-mod. .18 cap failed on it and i fixed that and made the whole tv work again including the bad line fuses. The 1964 version of that set had a bad CRT and every tube cap everything was original and never had an issue. like rebuilt the crt and a perfect working set.
It looks so cool how you are watching the corona virus news,,on a 55 year old roundie colour tv,,,with only a couple of shorted diodes to replace,,,and readjust the vertical and horizontal holds,,along with the 3 colours,,red,green,blue.
Looks real nice with the valve tubes glowing inside.
Might want to clean the dust off the tube valves and the rest to prevent it from overheating too much.
Great video. Since you had a hard time prying those wires through the pins of the CRT socket, I would like to share this tip. Make those wires 'longer' with fine strands of copper wire, about 5" to 10" long. Just solder these strands to each CRT wire. Now you can watch inside the socket, while you can easily feed the wires into the corresponding holes. Once the strands are in, you can pull them through from the other side.
Shango066, your comment about the beautiful color the RCA 19", 70 degree deflection angle "roundie" CRTs had was quite true. I had a CTC-10 with the CYP22A CRT (no bonded faceplace) and the colors where gorgeous, especially the red. The rectangular CRTs were noticeably faded in comparison. Of course, if you moved anything metal in the room, you had to do a manual deguass but, that was the way things were then before the built-in deguasser.
THX for the Video,and very good colours for that aged TV set! Im Impressed.
Great job Shango!! I watched this for the second time and your work still impresses me.
Especially on Zenith. I'm from the Chicago area and Zenith around here was an institution. Carry on.
Bravo pour votre pertinence, je suis vos restaurations d'anciens téléviseurs avec intérêts étant moi aussi dans cette même passions.
C'est super 👍👍
Christophe
I grew up with a 1978, 25-inch floor console TV Zenith in the 1980s when Zenith was one of the kings of television. The thing weigh a ton but it was a workhorse of a set. My folks had that set for about 35 years!
Somebody who is good with a router can make a new top for it, or carefully sand the existing top. You have got it so it can be made to look like new. Wonderful job.
First color TV for our family. Watched the moon landing on this model.
Back in the day I saw two round color TV sets and of the two, the owners apparently didn't know how to set the colors? I remember a football game where I thought the green grass was going to spill out of the TV as green drive was set way too high. Same thing with another where the guy must have liked red? It looked like it was about to bleed on his rug! Thanks for posting. I had no idea that they could produce a good picture?
What a nice set! I'm in the Netherlands and the only color roundie we had was a Philips 21KX100A from 1963 and it was a prototype. Never actually been sold. I happen to have one, it is also at my youtube channel. I love these old US roundies, but they are impossible to find over here unfortunately...
I recently picked up a Packard Bell roundie 98c7e. Tube tests good and has no sign of high hour usage just like yours. I usually mess with much newer TVs and monitors but this video is encouraging me.
That's basically Act c16 no buying or pop pop stir RCA blind Emerald sister Cardinal Pharma Stock Show rubber kill X
Yes the chassis looked oddly similar to a ct16... not that I have a whole lot of experience but I can read a schematic ok. Well so far I found one gassy high voltage rectifier in the flyback cage. I’m still a little mystified by the swivel chassis and haven’t quite worked up the balls to perform « instant capacitor reforming » yet.
I can see why the owner wants it, that's a fine quality set. Nice job on reattaching the CRT socket, that definitely took some patience. I'm looking forward to your traditional 4th of July EOL
Thanks so much for this presentation. As always it was informative and fun to watch, you go through the process of diagnosticating! Great job on saving the CRT- the whole set is a treasure. BTW- the new camera really does "up your game"!
I found it funny when you said about turning the TV upside down to access the bottom and doing that on their rug. The upside down part is for nomal use in upside down land of Australia. Nice old telly by the way.
Hillarious, and a lot of patience in doing that tube socket work, great stuff.
Hey Shango, of all the techie channels I sub to.. Yours is by far my favorite! I really like the TV resurrections and diagnoses
That was an enjoyable repair to watch, neat TV. Nice work.
You did that plug base the hard way, my friend.
You were supposed to solder some fine gauge magnet wire to each lead and pull it through. Then pull that out when you solder it.
Nice camera action bud . Looks like a few drinks were spilled on that oldie. Mom n Pop had a similar set . Still worked in the 80s . Having fun watching these oldies being rejuvenated . 📺😷
The "Protester" slash CHAZ citizen meme... Nailed it !!! LOL
Great video 👍 really enjoyed it. It's amazing how good that picture is. 👍
Great video, as I have a very similar (working) Zenith with a strong CRT...likely the same chassis as this unit. I'll attest to the great color that these Zeniths can still produce.
Love those old chassis, imagine the man the hours to build that ? wow
Amazed you find such stuff still in usable shape. Must be the CA weather
Thanks for another great video ! Nice 4K res. Lovely :)
Bravo! A lesser person would consider junking the tube. It paid off repairing it instead. thank you! That was another great video! I hope you have a great 4th of July as well!
Good job repairing this tv looks great!!
Those Bumblebees were bad when those sets were 5 years old, that's when I worked in a TV store as a teenager.
That isn't a resurrection, that's a ressurection with monkey glands. What a tube! I'd watch that all night, and love it.
For all original capacitors, this set is quite watchable! The colors as you mentioned are very vivid. I hope the new owner refinishes the cabinet and maybe change out those suspect capacitors and have a beautiful piece of usable antique TV to display. That one is a keeper! No doggy bed!
Nice color on that set was worth the effort to fix that plug
I honestly love your new camera and the TV, Shango!
keep up with the nice work , really aprechiate your tv repairs!
yes, another word for the Shango066 Bingo lol
Congratulations for the great restoration!
The digital glitches on a 1965 TV together with the corona topic look pretty bladerunner-ish :-D
Good to see that the tv was kept safe from covid. It would be a real shame to see that thing go out that way, especially right afyer being repaired.
Just got a beautiful picture
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Great job shango66 love watching your videos !!
awesome jobe !!! nice picture on the tube n good sound !!
My family bought a TV like that right around the same year brand new. I remember the colors being bad Vibrant. Never I don't remember it ever being fixed in 16 years. Parents passed away and it was so big I didn't want to move it. Probably still working to this day.
amazing video!!!! thanks for share you perfect work!!!
No recap and brilliant colors -very nice!
I love the color and contrast.
Great video great tv and love the money shot very cool
Jesus christ, I am so terrified of loss of vertical deflection that even knowing that its in service mode, I still near have hysterics when I see it. A crt I once owned suffered loss of vertical deflection which resulted it in the destruction of the crt, a giant burn mark across the entire width of the screen. I still have not recovered fully from this traumatic incident.
I turned a 5" B&W set into a crude oscilloscope a while back. That concerns me as well. So far, I have managed to keep it from burning a line in the screen.
Soo dramatic 😲
@@deanagoes2791 Well it can't be undone. When you see it cooked in there you'll have a certain feeling. Not a good one. Always a tannish tint in that spot. Eventually your brain makes it kind of disappear. Kind of....
@@deanagoes2791 sooo careless about this crap that i dont know what are you doing on this comment section...maybe watch something else? kitchen vicdeos? lawnmowers?whatever?
Maybe you could apply for a government payout for your trauma
I would sell my butt to get my hands on one of those TVs (in a functional state, of course). Such a shame that I live in France and that there are a lot fewer people interested in restoring old TV's than in the US.
You can not bet a Zenith TV ,we have 5 of them !
Good in Radio,s , and Record Players too !!
Those knobs are awesome.
Well, it looks like Shango got a break, it must feel good to have a simple fix once in a while. Good job!
Thanks for every video.
If only we could replace all the bogus "news" content with Shango vids... They are among the few things left that help me keep my sanity, though that is rapidly diminishing with each passing day.
The solution is simple: stop watching news. I accidentally caught a newscast on the tv while in a waiting room recently. I can’t believe people still watch that garbage.
I don’t have access to local channels. Or cable. So I rarely see the news. It is great!
@@DangerousDevilOfficial Nothing on TV worth watching nowadays anyway so you're not missing much.