The day after “Mr. Carlsons Lab” mentions you on a transistor radio repair, you post 20! Haven’t watched the whole thing yet, but I’m sure the video will be fun as always.
I noticed how Mr. Carlson was both complementary, and also just a wee bit dismissive. Great shout-out nonetheless! Same thought: is it bizarre that the channels we follow seem to follow each other?
Paul Carlson is such a perfectionist, I find him to be a bit annoying at times. That's just me. Shango is the opposite.....just get it working satisfactory and call it good.
@@Robbyinsaintpete I didn't find him to be dismissive at all, and notice he used shango's replacement cap method just touched on the leads to test the thing. Carlson just has that personality that seems condescending, but he is a good guy. He is just trying to keep it accessible to us average folk.
@DeadKoby I like Shango better, I feel like I'm in his backyard with him working on this stuff. Honestly I'm sick of youtube pushing Canadian channels and shadow banning American ones, so when I hear a Canadian or European accent I turn off right away.
What a contrast! Yesterday you get a glowing shout out from electronics royalty Mr Carlson with pristine workshop / lab👍 and you out in a dusty mountain dropping bits of the radios in the dirt and generally needing haz-mat protection from that chemical concoction you made but still getting results and old dead dogs working again. Thank you shango, your videos are always great and mind boggling as to how you work your magic. 😎👍
My votes are: the Wendell West, the one with the jewel on the front, the RCA. I'm almost done watching every video you've made regarding electronics, but I didn't read many of the comments. I didn't know that you were on Patreon, you might want to mention that in your videos OR put it alongside of your banner on your videos. Yes, I signed up. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and repairing items that I did NOT think you'd be able to fix. Congrats on your shout out from Mr. Carlson! Kudos to you! (I know you didn't ask, but some of my favorites are: You, David Tipton, RadioTVPhonoNut, XrayTonyB and others that I've probably forgotten. ) I hope that someone has archived these videos because 50 years from now, it will probably be a very small community of people working on vintage electronics, sadly. One last thing... was the beautiful site in your video in the Sierra Nevadas?
I think my favorites tend to rotate between Shango, RadioTVPhonoNut, and Mr Carlson's Lab. I enjoy both Shango's more blunt sketchy (also entertaining) sort of approach and Mr Carlson's more detailed careful approach, and both have been very educational if you want to learn this stuff. I think RadioTVPhonoNut would fall somewhere in between sketchy and careful. And don't take that harshly, they all are very smart and experienced at what they do. Will also mention others like Jordan Pier, Uncle Doug, and Radio Rescue. Not because they're not as good, but simply because I don't watch their content nearly as much.
Because of Shango I bought a German tube radio, a really large Grundig , and actually took it apart and recapped it and fixed a few things and it works great. I then looked around for other videos and came across M. Caldeira , and his restoration videos are quite spectacular in their thoroughness and explanation of each and every part in those radios and why they were put there !! If you're into radios I really recommend adding him to your subscriptions. ua-cam.com/video/d9V-AC33rUc/v-deo.html
Thanks for taking us out with you, a really interesting selection of radios too, looking forward to seeing some resurrections on these gems. The scenery looks like a Bob Ross painting, I could imagine him saying ‘and over here lives a big old mountain’
Not sure which one I'd pick, but maybe the Orange Federal 1.5 volt, the "Minimal Performer" looks interesting to see what it could do (If anything lol)
This is somehow the exact kind of video I was wishing for. Watching this channel got me into small transistor portables though I discovered the channel with vintage tv stuff. Also yes to RCA but the Sony, Sanyo, and tiny Federal would be interesting choices too.
I have a Elgin radio that my dad had back in the mid 60's that still works just fine, has a Genuine Top Grain Cowhide case, that must of kept it working just fine. I use it in remembered of my dad (RIP) and his life as we were a dairy farmer family, and the radio played in the barn..9 volt, 10 transistors, made in Japan. Heavy for such a small radio.
I wouldn't mind if you did several videos on most all of 'em, but the clock radio, and the jeweled Sanyo would likely be the ones I'd tackle first. Thanks again for the videos, and peace :)
19:30 A radium dial clock, classic. Radioactivity in antiques. During the production of radium dials, many workers who painted clock or instrument dials with radium developed cancer.
Yeah, I read about the Radium Girls awhile back, scary stuff, "After being told that the paint was harmless, the women in each facility ingested deadly amounts of radium after being instructed to "point" their brushes on their lips in order to give them a fine tip"
@@tony--james Yep. Crazy old times. Well I think it's not that harmful unless you mess with the dail and scratch the paint off and ingest or breath the dust in somehow. The radiation isn't that bad. I remember my grandmother used to have such clock too.
Wendell-West and Sanyo with the 'jewel' on the nameplates were my favs here! Fortunately there is still ONE station to check these radios out where you are. It was a nice surprise to hear Paul Carlson of 'Mr. Carlson's Lab' recommend your channel ! You guys both do awesome work, and thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Mr. Carlson’s Lab just recommended your channel!! Awesome, you both offer such great videos. Of course you both do things differently but the end result is your viewers reap the benefit of some really excellent knowledge. Thank you.
We had Candle in Canada for years. It was a brand of Jutan International (JIL), now Citizen Electronics, a division of Circus World Displays, of Niagara Falls, ON. They also own Fluance, Electrohome, First Alert, and a dozen other brands. The Candle stuff was along the lines of Lloyd's, Sound Design, or Longines Symphonette.
That Everyready 9V battery you missed likely wont react in Vinegar. It looks like the old Zinc Carbon battery which has an acidic electrolyte from memory. Was great to see all this fun stuff. I think that RCA is the one I would like to see recovered if possible :)
I had something similar back in the early eighties when I was a young man and traveled extensively throughout the USA as part of my job. It's basically a travel alarm clock with a radio. You could buy those at major airports back in the day. Never had one with a mechanical clock. I have never seen one with a mechanical clock mechanism but I believe they were manufactured somewhere around 1945. Plus or minus a few years. I collect old radios and clocks. I need to find one of these. Before you ask. My oldest clock is a Elgin from 1925. It was a wedding gift to my Grandmother. I restored it 40 years ago. Currently on loan to my sister keeping (almost perfect time) above her fireplace. ps. I allow that because she doesn't use the fireplace.
Portable transistor radio repair in the Mountain Wilderness! Great and relaxing! I wonder what your nighttime DX'ing could be like? Run a 300' random. In the air or along the ground....
I heard that there was a 'Transistor Count' war for a time, they would throw transistors in to the circuit just to up the number. Sometimes using one as a detector rather than a diode.
Hello,its great to show us the collection.I was the russian radioking in germany.The russian radios was very stable.I had over 100 of these.The smallest one was the "Orljonok" and the greatest "leningrad".The best quality radios came from Belarus named VEF 206 and so on.... All the best for you ..rockn roll
I would take it apart stuff new batteries inside that equals what its raring was and seal it up. Sell it, hey there might be a good business model restoring old battery cans like that.
I enjoy watching I was able to fix an old walkie-talkie by watching one of your videos I'm bridge a couple capacitors and found out I had two bad ones so thanks for the tips
How's the reception there at night? I'd like to see the Wendell West, the RCA, the Sony and the RCA restored. Am interested why the Wendell has both a loopstick and telescoping antenna for an AM-only radio.
14:26 This Sanyo is the one you should definitely restore. Apart from the good vibes which almost everyone has noticed about it, it also has a SW band too! The short wave would be the perfect thing to try out in the wilderness as you might be able to get a few channels at the right time of day if you are lucky and yes it also has that nice jewel. :) I also have a soft spot for the radio that is also a wind up clock.
I’m really into old portable radios made in 1950-1980 , I have a huge wooden radio box made in Germany with large panel and cities fm am stations , I like more small portable radios with straight antennas , I have few bunsonic radios on my desk nice little music boxes . Are bunsonics made in Hong Kong ?
Now this is what I call a video! Out in nature, a clear river, mountains and analyzing radios! I wonder what that radio station was, recognized several of the songs, sounds like a great station to listen to all day. I like the Wendell West and RCA Victor radios, those would be good candidates for full repair.
Little packages of Optimism. There is a tall office block a few miles from me dating from the same period, which has the look of an up ended transistor radio from about 1962. The building always makes me smile too.
Awesome location to relax repairing radios, of course! Btw, I have my theory regarding the Duracell leaks: I think it's the pressure that the battery holder spring applies to the battery bottom terminal that helps a lot to compromise the sealing, although they have been seek to leak while unused in their package.
The videos I enjoy seeing the most are, 1 Tube TV restoration and 2, Tube or transistor radio restoration. But whatever the subject, as soon as I am notified of a new post, I just have to come and watch! Complements from Chris.
Hi shango066, are these beautiful rock peaks weathered limestone or granite? Panashiba :) panasonic+toshiba - reminds me 90's in central and eastern Europe countries where in each dollar store and flea market Panasoanic radio cassette players made of pure chinesium were sold.
@euroscart that’s a shame I fell asleep twice watching it and never made past the RCA Victor. I love these videos but I watch them late in the evening and Shango’s soothing rants just send me off to dreamland lol
45:07 Isn't that true. It always seems the best stations are always off in the distance. We do have a local oldies station (740 WDGY) that has a pretty good library with some local DJs except their sound quality went to hell after they went to IBOC HD. It's not just the limited 5kHz frequency response or increased hiss I'm complaining about, but more about a clipping like distortion on the high end. Sounds like it's a clipper in the audio processing chain or ringing from the steep 5kHz low pass filters. It makes them almost unlistenable on radios with a wide IF bandwidth or audio frequency response that extends beyond ~4.8kHz (which probably wouldn't be a problem for most of those little portables), but on decent home tuners, better tube radios, good portables... you'll hear it.
Hey ive got an old multiband radio that makes a bad squealing sound if i turn the volume up too high any clue what to look for? Seems to work ok but volume has to stay low. Thanks. Its one of those xgr brand air/wb/cb/pb/tv-1/ fm things from the 80s.
The AITC 14 transistor one in the box had a 9 V battery in it all corroded you missed that one buddy, I am not a transistor man but I love watching your videos I find them very interesting keep up the good work. 🇦🇺
Where is my airplane ASMR??? Wow, that's a nice spot. One ATC as 8 transistors and the other 14? I would like to see the RCA Victor come back to life (Baby come back - Player)🎶!!! In fact I like to see most of them come back, your repair and revival video's are inspiring, you've inspired me to build my own repair shop, Thanks to you Shango066 and your great content... Thank you!
Sets like that Federal orange one are quite rare I think. A Superhet Receiver that runs on just one and a half Volts must have been a bit awkward to design. I hope that there will be a Video where you get this going in a place where there is more Medium Wave reception to be had.
The RCA radio needs help but I'm sure that a separate resurrection video on it is in order! The fish are dancing in the water to the song " Take Your Time (Do It Right)" by the S.O.S. Band coming out of the Zenith! This video also has " Carefree Highway" by Gordon Lightfoot , "Where Did Our Love Go" by Soft Cell, "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel and for extra credit, the very hard to hear ( near the end of the video) is "Never Gonna Give You Up "by Rick Astley . Possibly "Hold The Line" by Toto at the very end. Yeah so no copyright infringement here. LOL Great show and tell with some " on the fly" resurrections Shango!!!
"it's Spring" and is posted in August. My man has a backlog of videos. LOL Half of the time I'm lost but i just dig the old electronics Shango features.
I received a 6 transistor radio for Christmas back in 1959 which was an AFCO in a leather case with earphone included. Talked to someone from this company and my radio was one of the first they imported to the states from Japan. AFCO was not the manufacturer, just an import company. My transistor radio was still working this year, and used three batteries that were half the size of a double AA battery. Of course you may be aware of AFCO.
Just a absolutely beautiful spot for a repair video! Those Duracell batteries use to be really good but their quality has dwindled to junk as they leak like a British car.
Awesome video, love the location! I'm fairly certain the orange Federal radio was made by Panasonic. I had several small Panasonic pocket radios, one of which was a twin to the Fed, except it was red.
I've had wall clocks with Duracells in them and the battery leaked & corroded the terminals, yet the clock was still working fine and keeping time. Yet, somehow, the C batteries I have in an old Mint-In-Box Lloyds cassette recorder from 1970 have not only remained perfectly intact, they still remain usable and register 1.5v on my meter, despite being 50 years old.
Looks like San Gorgonio peak. Why would a transistor radio need a thermistor? At 29:30, it reminds me of an old Alka-Seltzer commercial, _"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is."_
Comment on which one you would like to see working and I will do a separate repair video on it.
The RCA made in the USA
The Sony one because I have the same one
The RCA radio, Fiesta radio, and the Sony radio!
Knowing nothing of 'worth the try' - North American, cause of switches - 'high\low' & 'man\auto'. for _what & why_
Definitely the RCA Victor one
Hey Shango, Mr Carlson's Lab gave you a nice shout out yesterday, thought you'd like to know.
Awesome oh, I should have time to catch up on videos today
The day after “Mr. Carlsons Lab” mentions you on a transistor radio repair, you post 20! Haven’t watched the whole thing yet, but I’m sure the video will be fun as always.
I noticed how Mr. Carlson was both complementary, and also just a wee bit dismissive. Great shout-out nonetheless! Same thought: is it bizarre that the channels we follow seem to follow each other?
Paul Carlson is such a perfectionist, I find him to be a bit annoying at times. That's just me. Shango is the opposite.....just get it working satisfactory and call it good.
@@Robbyinsaintpete I didn't find him to be dismissive at all, and notice he used shango's replacement cap method just touched on the leads to test the thing. Carlson just has that personality that seems condescending, but he is a good guy. He is just trying to keep it accessible to us average folk.
@@seanobrien7169 he used terms like "little things" to describe Shango's video..
@DeadKoby I like Shango better, I feel like I'm in his backyard with him working on this stuff. Honestly I'm sick of youtube pushing Canadian channels and shadow banning American ones, so when I hear a Canadian or European accent I turn off right away.
What a contrast! Yesterday you get a glowing shout out from electronics royalty Mr Carlson with pristine workshop / lab👍 and you out in a dusty mountain dropping bits of the radios in the dirt and generally needing haz-mat protection from that chemical concoction you made but still getting results and old dead dogs working again. Thank you shango, your videos are always great and mind boggling as to how you work your magic. 😎👍
My votes are: the Wendell West, the one with the jewel on the front, the RCA. I'm almost done watching every video you've made regarding electronics, but I didn't read many of the comments. I didn't know that you were on Patreon, you might want to mention that in your videos OR put it alongside of your banner on your videos. Yes, I signed up. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and repairing items that I did NOT think you'd be able to fix. Congrats on your shout out from Mr. Carlson! Kudos to you! (I know you didn't ask, but some of my favorites are: You, David Tipton, RadioTVPhonoNut, XrayTonyB and others that I've probably forgotten. ) I hope that someone has archived these videos because 50 years from now, it will probably be a very small community of people working on vintage electronics, sadly. One last thing... was the beautiful site in your video in the Sierra Nevadas?
Check out Uncle Doug. Guitar amps mostly, but the channel is very worth watching even if it aint your thing.
@@seanobrien7169 thank you, I'll check it out!
I think my favorites tend to rotate between Shango, RadioTVPhonoNut, and Mr Carlson's Lab. I enjoy both Shango's more blunt sketchy (also entertaining) sort of approach and Mr Carlson's more detailed careful approach, and both have been very educational if you want to learn this stuff. I think RadioTVPhonoNut would fall somewhere in between sketchy and careful. And don't take that harshly, they all are very smart and experienced at what they do. Will also mention others like Jordan Pier, Uncle Doug, and Radio Rescue. Not because they're not as good, but simply because I don't watch their content nearly as much.
@@ixionn563 Ignacio Baquedano it's good . spanish version
Because of Shango I bought a German tube radio, a really large Grundig , and actually took it apart and recapped it and fixed a few things and it works great. I then looked around for other videos and came across M. Caldeira , and his restoration videos are quite spectacular in their thoroughness and explanation of each and every part in those radios and why they were put there !! If you're into radios I really recommend adding him to your subscriptions. ua-cam.com/video/d9V-AC33rUc/v-deo.html
Thanks for taking us out with you, a really interesting selection of radios too, looking forward to seeing some resurrections on these gems.
The scenery looks like a Bob Ross painting, I could imagine him saying ‘and over here lives a big old mountain’
"think of the bong you could make out of that." Fuckin wheezing laughing hard at that one. Zenith radio.
Or a moonshine still.
Not sure which one I'd pick, but maybe the Orange Federal 1.5 volt, the "Minimal Performer" looks interesting to see what it could do (If anything lol)
The batteries cleaned up very nicely!!! Love your videos and humor! :) Thank you for sharing!
That oldies station is kicking! to go from Rick Astley to Toto, it doesn't get much better than that!
And we got "Rick rolled" right at the end.
Nice tranquil spot for repairs. No bambulance & airplanes to break your concentration
I proper pissed my sides at the bong reference
Same! LOL!
"Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down..." How appropriate.
This is somehow the exact kind of video I was wishing for. Watching this channel got me into small transistor portables though I discovered the channel with vintage tv stuff. Also yes to RCA but the Sony, Sanyo, and tiny Federal would be interesting choices too.
I have a Elgin radio that my dad had back in the mid 60's that still works just fine, has a Genuine Top Grain Cowhide case, that must of kept it working just fine. I use it in remembered of my dad (RIP) and his life as we were a dairy farmer family, and the radio played in the barn..9 volt, 10 transistors, made in Japan. Heavy for such a small radio.
The sound of the water is soothing my tinnitus. Love it.
@@daleburrell6273 It surely is. And I can tell you tinnitus after sudden deafness is not a joke. It has driven me to the edge of suicide.
I would really like to see you try the one radio that only requires one battery
I've seen these mountains on several episodes of Star Trek DS9 and Voyager.
"Here's a vintage transistor radio. It has TEN transistors.
Nine of which are diodes."
You have incredible sense of humor!! Love your vids!!
Man that place looks amazing, and that water is crystal clear. Does your buddy own the land or just the mining lease (or whatever)?
Yeah, that's beautiful. Could stare at that blue mineral water all day.
I wouldn't mind if you did several videos on most all of 'em, but the clock radio, and the jeweled Sanyo would likely be the ones I'd tackle first. Thanks again for the videos, and peace :)
Great location. Would love to repair this stuff with a view like this
19:30 A radium dial clock, classic.
Radioactivity in antiques. During the production of radium dials, many workers who painted clock or instrument dials with radium developed cancer.
Yeah, I read about the Radium Girls awhile back, scary stuff, "After being told that the paint was harmless, the women in each facility ingested deadly amounts of radium after being instructed to "point" their brushes on their lips in order to give them a fine tip"
@@tony--james Mrpete222 otherwise known as Tubalcain mentions them frequently and did a pretty good video on them.
@@tony--james Yep. Crazy old times. Well I think it's not that harmful unless you mess with the dail and scratch the paint off and ingest or breath the dust in somehow. The radiation isn't that bad. I remember my grandmother used to have such clock too.
Beautiful venue Shang! What a peaceful place to do analysis on old transistor radios. Thanks for another cool video.
I bought myself one ☝️ of those Sanyo’s, and my brother one ☝️back in 1983. This video takes me back in time. I was visiting my mom in Eureka, Alaska.
19:35 Would be curious to see how radioactive those glow in the dark phosphors are on the clock. Got a Geiger counter?
Wendell-West and Sanyo with the 'jewel' on the nameplates were my favs here!
Fortunately there is still ONE station to check these radios out where you are.
It was a nice surprise to hear Paul Carlson of 'Mr. Carlson's Lab' recommend your channel !
You guys both do awesome work, and thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Mr. Carlson’s Lab just recommended your channel!! Awesome, you both offer such great videos. Of course you both do things differently but the end result is your viewers reap the benefit of some really excellent knowledge. Thank you.
We had Candle in Canada for years. It was a brand of Jutan International (JIL), now Citizen Electronics, a division of Circus World Displays, of Niagara Falls, ON. They also own Fluance, Electrohome, First Alert, and a dozen other brands. The Candle stuff was along the lines of Lloyd's, Sound Design, or Longines Symphonette.
Congratualation shango....beautiful banorama ..amazing persoective of water Nd spring ...
🏵 Be happy🏵
Shango066, Mr. Carlson and Peter at TRX are my favorite channels. All very different from each other, but all are amazing.
Check out Mister Radio
That Everyready 9V battery you missed likely wont react in Vinegar. It looks like the old Zinc Carbon battery which has an acidic electrolyte from memory.
Was great to see all this fun stuff. I think that RCA is the one I would like to see recovered if possible :)
I quite like the look of the “North American” clock radio, mostly because of how bizarre it is.
I had something similar back in the early eighties when I was a young man and traveled extensively throughout the USA as part of my job. It's basically a travel alarm clock with a radio. You could buy those at major airports back in the day. Never had one with a mechanical clock. I have never seen one with a mechanical clock mechanism but I believe they were manufactured somewhere around 1945. Plus or minus a few years. I collect old radios and clocks. I need to find one of these. Before you ask. My oldest clock is a Elgin from 1925. It was a wedding gift to my Grandmother. I restored it 40 years ago. Currently on loan to my sister keeping (almost perfect time) above her fireplace.
ps. I allow that because she doesn't use the fireplace.
Same I want one now but only if it is an actual mechanical clock and not something like an old car had.
I love the designs of old radios
I love your videos, Shango. Always a wonderful and rewarding trip down memory lane!
Those Duracells are definitely not Y2K compliant!
Portable transistor radio repair in the Mountain Wilderness! Great and relaxing! I wonder what your nighttime DX'ing could be like? Run a 300' random. In the air or along the ground....
FYI - you received a shout out and recommendation from Mr. Carlson lab channel.
Ricky from IBM, Ret.
Hi from the UK, I had one of those sanyo pocket sets (1st one shown) back in the early 80's when I was a kid, nice to see one again.
47:33 and he closes us out with a fringe "Rick Roll" alignment .....🤣🤣🤣
Can’t wait for the repairs! Bring it ! Thanks For making videos .
Do you still have your Geiger counter? Wonder if that's Radium in that clock face?
Nah those are transistor radio, well beyond undark Age.
Radium turns orange when old so no.
@@cipherthedemonlord8057 no evidence found in my research to support this statement.
Hi Shango. Cool spot you picked out.All my very best.
Great video! look forward to your videos fixing some of these radios.
I heard that there was a 'Transistor Count' war for a time, they would throw transistors in to the circuit just to up the number. Sometimes using one as a detector rather than a diode.
Hello,its great to show us the collection.I was the russian radioking in germany.The russian radios was very stable.I had over 100 of these.The smallest one was the "Orljonok" and the greatest "leningrad".The best quality radios came from Belarus named VEF 206 and so on.... All the best for you ..rockn roll
what a beautiful place to stay...n you got really good treasure of radios out there.
I didn’t come from Carson’s Lab, but did see you mentioned on it!
17:56 That's a really old Energizer 9-volt battery. I haven't seen that Energizer logo design since the '80s or '90s.
I would take it apart stuff new batteries inside that equals what its raring was and seal it up. Sell it, hey there might be a good business model restoring old battery cans like that.
I enjoy watching I was able to fix an old walkie-talkie by watching one of your videos I'm bridge a couple capacitors and found out I had two bad ones so thanks for the tips
I was expecting you to pull out a Regency TR1! Great video.
How's the reception there at night? I'd like to see the Wendell West, the RCA, the Sony and the RCA restored. Am interested why the Wendell has both a loopstick and telescoping antenna for an AM-only radio.
14:26 This Sanyo is the one you should definitely restore. Apart from the good vibes which almost everyone has noticed about it, it also has a SW band too! The short wave would be the perfect thing to try out in the wilderness as you might be able to get a few channels at the right time of day if you are lucky and yes it also has that nice jewel. :)
I also have a soft spot for the radio that is also a wind up clock.
What was the call of the oldies station? Couldn't work it out...
Why are there three speaker wires on the RCA Victor radio? (6:41)
I really like your videos, especially the ones with old tvs !!
I’m really into old portable radios made in 1950-1980 , I have a huge wooden radio box made in Germany with large panel and cities fm am stations , I like more small portable radios with straight antennas , I have few bunsonic radios on my desk nice little music boxes . Are bunsonics made in Hong Kong ?
@shango066 what is your favourite battery brand for using in old electronics?
I'm Interested in that centre tapped speaker in the Rca.... Stepped up in size for direct coupling for a push pull tube amplifier...
Now this is what I call a video! Out in nature, a clear river, mountains and analyzing radios! I wonder what that radio station was, recognized several of the songs, sounds like a great station to listen to all day. I like the Wendell West and RCA Victor radios, those would be good candidates for full repair.
Little packages of Optimism. There is a tall office block a few miles from me dating from the same period, which has the look of an up ended transistor radio from about 1962. The building always makes me smile too.
Awesome location to relax repairing radios, of course!
Btw, I have my theory regarding the Duracell leaks: I think it's the pressure that the battery holder spring applies to the battery bottom terminal that helps a lot to compromise the sealing, although they have been seek to leak while unused in their package.
The SANYOs are my favourites.
Nice having a music station on am that plays good music like SOS Band.
Memories ! Thanks so much !
The videos I enjoy seeing the most are, 1 Tube TV restoration and 2, Tube or transistor radio restoration. But whatever the subject, as soon as I am notified of a new post, I just have to come and watch! Complements from Chris.
Mr. Carlson sent me!
9:00 Along with a lm386 amplifier circuit that little speaker would make a nice mini guitar amp
Great video. What types of Jfets did these radios use?
Hi shango066, are these beautiful rock peaks weathered limestone or granite? Panashiba :) panasonic+toshiba - reminds me 90's in central and eastern Europe countries where in each dollar store and flea market Panasoanic radio cassette players made of pure chinesium were sold.
Meanwhile, I bought a Super 8mm camera last used in May 1986, and it had four working Duracell batteries in it.
Gold V on green background I think is a Viceroy. Cool video. I hope ya snagged that bong thing.
Shango. I really enjoyed this one. I needed a good watch. Thanks! I vote for the RCA
Beautiful place! And cool radios!
What % acidity was the vinegar? Just curious.
Where did the video of the Philco 41-225 go? I’d like to see the no name 10 transistor resurrected myself, I like that green and gold design on it
@euroscart that’s a shame I fell asleep twice watching it and never made past the RCA Victor. I love these videos but I watch them late in the evening and Shango’s soothing rants just send me off to dreamland lol
Wow, beautiful place
Does the jewel on the sanyo light up?
I love watching you repair these radio's I find these very entertaining I don't mind how long the videos are you keep doing what you do 👍
45:07 Isn't that true. It always seems the best stations are always off in the distance. We do have a local oldies station (740 WDGY) that has a pretty good library with some local DJs except their sound quality went to hell after they went to IBOC HD. It's not just the limited 5kHz frequency response or increased hiss I'm complaining about, but more about a clipping like distortion on the high end. Sounds like it's a clipper in the audio processing chain or ringing from the steep 5kHz low pass filters. It makes them almost unlistenable on radios with a wide IF bandwidth or audio frequency response that extends beyond ~4.8kHz (which probably wouldn't be a problem for most of those little portables), but on decent home tuners, better tube radios, good portables... you'll hear it.
Hey ive got an old multiband radio that makes a bad squealing sound if i turn the volume up too high any clue what to look for? Seems to work ok but volume has to stay low. Thanks. Its one of those xgr brand air/wb/cb/pb/tv-1/ fm things from the 80s.
Check the capacitors, and replace the dead ones.
@@Loundre3 hey thanks i checked them with a ohm meter but i dont have a way to fully check em
Mr. Carlson sent me, and i'm glad!
The AITC 14 transistor one in the box had a 9 V battery in it all corroded you missed that one buddy,
I am not a transistor man but I love watching your videos I find them very interesting keep up the good work. 🇦🇺
Where is my airplane ASMR???
Wow, that's a nice spot.
One ATC as 8 transistors and the other 14?
I would like to see the RCA Victor come back to life (Baby come back - Player)🎶!!!
In fact I like to see most of them come back, your repair and revival video's are inspiring, you've inspired me to build my own repair shop, Thanks to you Shango066 and your great content...
Thank you!
Sets like that Federal orange one are quite rare I think.
A Superhet Receiver that runs on just one and a half Volts must have been a bit awkward to design.
I hope that there will be a Video where you get this going in a place where there is more Medium Wave reception to be had.
The RCA radio needs help but I'm sure that a separate resurrection video on it is in order! The fish are dancing in the
water to the song " Take Your Time (Do It Right)" by the S.O.S. Band coming out of the Zenith!
This video also has " Carefree Highway" by Gordon Lightfoot , "Where Did Our Love Go" by Soft Cell,
"We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel and for extra credit, the very hard to hear ( near the end of the video) is
"Never Gonna Give You Up "by Rick Astley . Possibly "Hold The Line" by Toto at the very end.
Yeah so no copyright infringement here. LOL Great show and tell with some " on the fly" resurrections Shango!!!
"it's Spring" and is posted in August. My man has a backlog of videos. LOL Half of the time I'm lost but i just dig the old electronics Shango features.
I received a 6 transistor radio for Christmas back in 1959 which was an AFCO in a leather case with earphone included. Talked to someone from this company and my radio was one of the first they imported to the states from Japan. AFCO was not the manufacturer, just an import company. My transistor radio was still working this year, and used three batteries that were half the size of a double AA battery. Of course you may be aware of AFCO.
Just a absolutely beautiful spot for a repair video! Those Duracell batteries use to be really good but their quality has dwindled to junk as they leak like a British car.
Best shop I've ever seen.
Awesome video, love the location! I'm fairly certain the orange Federal radio was made by Panasonic. I had several small Panasonic pocket radios, one of which was a twin to the Fed, except it was red.
Awesome place to do radio analysis.
Helluva view out there! Thanks for the little walk around. Need some blasting noise in the background at a mine?
This a commercial for Energizer or ANY other battery brand other than Duracell. Man what shit batteries those Duracells are.
Had the energizer leak in the packet brand new.
BEST batteries I ever had were the cheapies that Walmart used to sell years ago. Ran forever and NEVER leaked.
I've had wall clocks with Duracells in them and the battery leaked & corroded the terminals, yet the clock was still working fine and keeping time. Yet, somehow, the C batteries I have in an old Mint-In-Box Lloyds cassette recorder from 1970 have not only remained perfectly intact, they still remain usable and register 1.5v on my meter, despite being 50 years old.
They sure don't make 'em like they used to!
very impressive channel, didn't know people are still doing those pocket radios
Looks like San Gorgonio peak. Why would a transistor radio need a thermistor? At 29:30, it reminds me of an old Alka-Seltzer commercial, _"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is."_
How much per metric ton do you charge for radios?
Duracells leak before dollar store batteries will. Think about that for a minute. Great video as usual.
What a gorgeous location