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Paul I would like to say some Trivia. I am going on 92 yrs old next April. And I began to be an electronic technician in 1952. By going to "DeForest's Training Inc", in Chicago. It was mostly AM and FM. And the first thing we learned; was to build a Multi-Meter. The 2nd was to build an AM radio. And when it worked, I went crazy when I could hear the first station; as I was jumping around the room. Wow!. But sadly, I threw that radio in the garage; when I became a TV technician for RCA, for 33 yrs. Any way, I love what you do Paul. You are truly, one of the "Cut-above's"! Thank you kind Sir.

These restoration videos are the real treat of the channel

I'm watching this video again as I'm restoring a Silvertone 57FM 701 that is very similar. I don't think Westinghouse made my radio, but this video is a great guide to fix mine. Also, I've heard that the domino capacitors that are paper have a white dot in the corner on one of Shango066's restorations, and I have observed that to be true on your radio. The Silvertone doesn't use any domino capacitors with this marking and all of the dominos are in the tuning section anyway. It pays to re-watch your videos multiple times and I find myself doing just that. One thing I enjoy is having your videos running in the background while working on my projects. Sure beats the negativity on other KZfaq click bait videos or Constantly Negative News (CNN). Thanks a million for what you do!

I love the style of this channel. Never stop bringing us content like this!

I love that you make the alignments simple to follow as it can help others with diagnosing a radio. Examples of this: IF alignment (looking for highest signal peak) Oscillator alignment (dial tracking accuracy) Antenna trimming (signal strength)

I don't mind the long videos at all. It is always interesting to check out whatever you are recording. There is always more to learn, and that's why I'm here to start with. This radio was in very good shape to start with, and that is a plus for working on it. It's nice to see that some radios like that are still around that are in generally good condition less the parts replacements, so many have been neglected. There is something to learn from every radio that gets worked on, be that me working at home, or watching you work on them. Keep up the great work but get some rest sometime too!

Mr. C's restorations are the gold standard! Consider the 12K resistor that measures 14K. The set will still "work" with that old resistor - it just won't work as well as it would with a 12K resistor. Many (but NOT all!) of the leaky paper capacitors will still "work" - for a time, anyway - but again, not as well as with good capacitors. The effect of a bad part or two may not be much, but the cumulative effect of many iffy parts can be considerable. Worse, if an old part fails, it can take several much harder to find and expensive parts with it (power transformer, audio output transformer, electrodynamic speaker field, for example.) This is why Mr. Carlson makes it a point to replace ANY part that is "iffy".

You just made my weekend with new content lad. Bloody brilliant. Thank you.

Thank you so very much Paul for this great restoration video. I appreciate all of your videos, but this kind is my absolute favorite. that radio is gorgeous!!🤩 All the best to you from Gene in Tennessee.

Gorge Westinghouse would be very proud! He loved this radio according to my Grand Dad. He was given one these for some kind of production record I think? He did some work to it over the years but it out lived him. He used it everyday! He was not much for TV. He loved Mr Westinghouse and working for Westinghouse was his pride and joy! Anything they built was the best!! We need more employers like Gorge Westinghouse again.

Wow!! Something from the 30's and still way way better than anything being made nowadays.... incredible. I just love to see you dancing around these things... it's comforting to me to see things being fixed and being loved in a way. Most of today's superhero movies aren't nearly as entertaining as one of your videos Paul! What can I say? I just love your content! Many thanks for everything you do. I know it takes a lot of work. Merry Christmas everyone, and let's all hope for a better, peaceful 2024. Cheers

If you want to learn electronics, this is the place to be. Mr Carlson is a great teacher! learning so much from these videos. Another fine restoration!

That's the kind of receiver that will hypnotize me while listening to far off shortwave stations late at night, with only the glow of the dial lights and the magic eye 🙂Something only people like us will understand 😂Anyway, great restoration of a beautiful piece of Canadian radio history Mr. Carlson!

These videos are getting me closer and closer to digging into a couple of old radios I have lying around just waiting to come back to life.

Gorgeous radio!!!

Mentally it must be great to "shake hands" with the technician(s) who built this machine so many years ago!👍🏻 You're both spending time on this circuitry, analyzing it and bringing it to life.

Someone must have been listening to Chicago area radio stations, I saw the buttons marked for WGN /720 and WBBM / 780 Khz, BUT, you changed 720 to a new station ID, WGM when you relabeled that button 😂😂😂

Mrister Carlsons your antique Westinghouse model 785 tube radio from 1939 is awesome my friend

omg , a new Mr C video , this truly is the best Xmas ever

Another hig/quality restoration video, 1 hour and 46 minutes!!! that must have taken a lot of your time to produce, thanks for taking the time. Is very educational and entretaining.

HAH! Every time you bring one of these "oldies" back to life, I always think about the Frakenstein shows "It's ALIVE!!!".....gosh darnit - nothing like making many people smile with the life of an older radio.....great work Mr. Carlson!!!

That model hits on every appeal you want in an antique radio. The size. The cabneit.The dial. The eye tube. Good performance. Sneak in a Bluetooth on the volume pot and call it a wrap. Beautiful ❤

Dad told me his father bought a radio in the late 20’s or early 30’s. He said there was a card with the paperwork a little larger than a postcard. He said every large AM station in the eastern US was listed on just one side of the card. He heard about Pearl Harbor on that radio.

I have more recently started getting into this, doing my own stuff, and this is by far the best and most complete video I’ve seen addressing the subject.

I have an early 40's Zenith antique radio (in large cabinet), that I've owned since 1982. After seeing this video and being an electronic tech anyway, its time to bring it back to life. Thanks so much, Paul.

The longer the video, the better it is! I always have your videos in the background while working on something in my house. I put them back to back and often fall asleep when they are still on :) 😍😍

For me, the longer the video, the more knowledge gained. Beautiful radio. My grandfather had an RCA. Very large with a 12" speaker. It had SW1, SW2, & SW3 buttons. I used to spend hours tuning the dial. Thanks Paul, the end of the video really brought back some fond memories.

Thanks for another great video👍 You ought to get a medal/award 🥇 and a cheque $$ from the Westinghouse Co. for this video. It's gold 🪙

Im not gonna lie Mr Carlson, I know very little about what you do in your videos (though i do try to understand). Regardless, I always come back to your longer videos as a sorta sleep-aid lol. Your sound setup is phenomenal and im never awoken by something that is much louder than the rest of the video. Much appreciated 👍

You are a master of a dying art. I find that a shame. So much knowledge is being lost. As always thank you for your insight…. You are an excellent teacher . God bless you and keep these coming!

Yes! A new video! So exciting I always look forward to new videos!

The truth is you are a time traveler. You went back to 1939, bought this radio from a dealer, and then brought it back to today. This is the only viable explanation for the pristine condition of the case.

Such a beautiful, beautiful radio. Thank you!!

1:46:26 of goodness 😊 I really want to watch this now but I’m gonna have to save it for later when it can have my full attention. Merry Christmas ya’ll and thanks for all the awesome content this year, Paul 🤩

That is a gorgeous looking and working radio. I thoroughly enjoyed as you worked through its restoration. Thank you for making these videos.

Soooooo Awesome Thank you Mr. Carlson

Knowing nothing on electronics ive never had an instructor teach so plainly the terminology to understand the processes to trouble shoot and repairs... If nothing else just listening through the terminolgy to gain some knowledge has been as vaulble of an instructer Ive ever come across. I may not be ready to restore in a day, a week, or month, But listening to Mr Carlsons lab i feel maybe someday I might be able to achieve a restore and also the some understanding into electronics< also it was quite interesting to learn just how electronic the human body is with the ability to effect static, and resistance, and so forth. Thnks Mr Carlson

I really enjoy when you work on the older gear. I cut my teeth early on in my career on tube circuits. Old recievers led me to an amatuer radio hobby that is never boring. They only thing keeping me from having a bunch of tube gear is space. So I enjoy seeing your shop and all of its treasures. Thanks for a very interesting/entertaining watch. 😎

It sure is nice to see such an artist do his craft. Very nice!

Old radio shows like, Mae West and Charlie McCarthy 1939. 👌 Thanks Mr. Carlson.

I've restored a Murphy A40C last year, one of the best pre war radios in the world, took me 8 months to do it and your videos where a big inspiration. Works better than when it was new and its in daily use :)

Wow! I have the exact same model, except it's the 1941 model, the 785A. But looks identical except the finish on mine is very worn and all the knobs are missing. It took me awhile with a signal generator to figure out which position on the rightmost bandswitch knob is for each band. I have the schematics and alignment guides but haven't attempted to do a realighment. I bought it at a farmer's garage sale in the '80s. I replaced the magic eye and it worked well in Toronto. My problem is that here in Israel where I am there are no AM stations to speak of for me to test the medium wave band. So I bought an AM transmitter (couple of milliwatts)that will transmit in the BC band from an input from a phone and it is still working and sounds marvelous! I don't know if anyone switched out the capacitors but I used the old light bulb trick to turn it on the first time and all seemed well. I will watch this video with great interest!

That was very enjoyable I am quite sick with bronchitis (great just hours before the celebration :( and I wanted to watch something -your channel is always my favorite! Happy New Year Mr.Carlson.

Enjoyed that , I love those magic eyes! You can’t beat a valve radio, thanks for showing us this project.

Thank you for bringing this beautiful radio back to useful life. Also, you are an excellent instructor.

A sign of a smart and experienced tradesman is they always remove the hardest to get to fasteners first. It's not something always taught.

Thanks for doing another old AM radio restore. Very informative. I have several old radios id love to get working on. This is probably what most of us are working on besides tube guitar amps.

Very pretty radio. Nice performer. Beautiful. Love the performance of that 3-6-9 on the shortwave band. Wow!

I’m 63 now since I was a young boy I love to mess around with radios etc. never learned the trade. Due to lack of education? Misfortune.. but I enjoy watching this man incredible talent understand the why ??

I am glad to see you back with a full restoration video. Thank you sir.

What a beautiful radio, expertly restored!

Paul, for your consideration: Once about 54 years ago I was working on a 1939 General Electric shortwave/broadcast receiver with a detached speaker, configured much like this Westinghouse unit in the video. @56:23 It also had the output transformer remotely attached to the frame of the electromagnet speaker as does your radio. What I DIDN'T know at the time (but quickly found out) was that the output transformer primary center-tap (push-pull 6F6Gs, as I recall) was shorted to the speaker frame (transformer failure, NOT a deliberate design). I had my right arm casually resting against the speaker frame to my right, and reached over with my left hand to twist one of the bare control shafts on the chassis. I received a 300-volt shock--and most dangerously--straight across my chest. The only things that saved me, I suppose, was my youth and that it wasn't my time to go! Since then, I always check the voltage from the speaker frame to chassis ground with a trusted meter before I work on ANYTHING else on the radio, even to this day. Tough lesson to learn! Thanks for your great restoration videos, and I look forward to more in the future.

This is what I've been waiting for!!! And I finally got an Variac! And old RCA TV repair model

The wizard weaves his magic again! Such talented and informative work. Thanks, Mr. Carlson!

Love your videos! What a treat to watch this radio restoration!

It must be the accent. In the US those ties go "zip" when you clap them down. In Canadian I guess they go "zap".

Every time I fall away from amateur radio (KM5RT) another one of your fine videos comes out. I've done some minor repairs to tube gear, and some fairly heavy repairs to older transistor gear for many years. Thanks for sharing, you keep me active!

Wow this is one of the best restoration videos I have seen. I learned a lot from watching this thank you Mr. Carlson.

Mrister Carlsons lab your utube videos are awesome my friend

Beautiful Thanks excellent work!

Very nice radio, Paul. You find the greatest condition radios. Beautiful cabinet woodwork and speaker cloth. Does that "City News Vancouver / Calgary station" have a transmitter in the mountains to serve both cities?

Wow, thank you Professor Carlson for this restoration, what a gem. And when you think about what the world was going through when this radio was built back in 1939, its part of history. Think of what they were listening to out of that speaker back ii the day, fantastic and thank you!!

Neat old receiver! Lovely job getting it going again!

Mr Carlsons lab i wish you and your wife a merry Christmas 🎅 and a happy new year 🎄 🤶 my friend

You sir are a enciclopedia of electronics! Thanks for sharing!

Mrister Carlsons lab you are good at restoring antique radios and alignment of antique radios and antique tvs sets my friend

Bravo!

I love the older tube radios. I can remember looking thru the back panel on a radio that my grandmother had. Just watching the tubes warming up and starting to glow brings back memories from my childhood. I would love to have a console radio to listen to. My parents gave me a 1950's jukebox and the day after I got it home the paper capacitors shorted out. A guy down in Georgia who repairs them sold me a parts kit and I spent many hours desoldering and soldering in new caps, resistors, etc. and it worked!

Would be cool, upon testing, to hear FDR's "...this day lives in infamy..." speech through the noise of this speaker.

What a radio! Love the restorations! I can't wait for your next project! Best tech. on KZfaq.

I like the total restoration better than just a fix. Maybe one day you can go over how to clean potentiometers I have a unit where a few need to be cleaned and that would be very helpful.

Mr Carlsons lab your utube videos are awesome my friend

That was an awesome restoration.I just love these old radio's they were built to last.

Got a hankering for a wooden cased technics receiver. Father Christmas don't fail me now!

Time travel is a funny thing, just going back and bringing a radio back could have world changing events on your version of the present day!😂

Respected sir this old radio is 2 years junior to me in point of age .thank you very much for keeping this world fresh. 86 is ending after 4 days . 5 march1938

Great restoration, what a beauty! Nice to see station names on the dial, not that common on US radio's :)

Beautiful restoration. It looks and sounds like the radios that I remember as a kid in the 50's. Along with being an electronics expert, you must have steady hands and patience to work in tight spaces with a lot of components and wires. Do you sell these radios after restoring them? What a prize it would be to own one. Such a wonderful video. Thank you.

What a beautiful radio! All you need now is a "Little Orphan Annie" secret decoder pen. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thanks for sharing your wonderful projects with us.

It's always nice to see the demonsrations to support the theory for things like the foil lead of the capacitor. Things learned many years ago at tech school and serving me well in my dotage. recently restored a 1939 Zenith 7S363 for a friend.

Good job on a classic radio

Thank you for this educational and very entertaining video. I enjoyed watching you work and explain the process as you went through the restoration. As you tuned the shortwave bands, I imagined a family in the early 1940's sitting around that same radio, scanning exactly as you had, searching for war news from the BBC late at night. I love old time radio programming, and the old receivers as well. Excellent video!

Excellent video, just the right combination of including/excluding details and explanations. Thanks for adding the extra video showing the eye tube in action 😁😁

Big fan of your idk how I found u but luv every vid I have seen keep up the great work

I totally agree on your alignment comment. It was set from the factory. Should never be retouched unless someone has twiddled.

You have a nice voice intonation. This is one video I enjoyed hearing as I did watching❤

I love these longer videos...so much information to learn...thank you Paul!

This is great, I've been able to fix some old equipment with your teachings. I've got an old tube radio, and some scopes in the line-up too now.

You always give so much detail and tips on electronics. Thanks

Really enjoyed this video, thank you Paul. Beautiful specimen, wonderful to see it restored.

A video on fuses would be great. That is a very nice-looking radio, and your repairs are top-notch. With these old electronics, where there's smoke, there's fire. 🤣

It's always a pleasure to see your new videos, always a happy surprise. I can't think of anything better to do on a Saturday night.... which is on me, yeah, but still :)

Those white dots are likely due to drywall/paint specs falling off of the walls. Just being near a wall will produce those dots over time. White is the most common wall paint color so that is why you see it so often.

Gee, Paul..that's a time capsule. good work.

absolutely wonderful Paul

That was a great mod on the 6E5 eyetube in relation to the AVC line. Love the fact you used your restored vintage test equipment to align the receiver. This was a very cool restoration video Paul.

What a born teacher, one of the teachers we loved when we were in school. My husband wonders if his uncle, whom he never met, Irad Rafuse (Bell Labs) was like Mr. Carlson. What is sure is that Mr. Carlson is a gifted person and one of our great Canadians. Happy New Year Mr. Carlson.

The WLW giant transmitter is 15 minutes from my house. If I recall, West Chester, Ohio’s elevation is quite high, which is why they installed the transmitter at that location. When I moved here from New Jersey, I was surprised that the Voice Of America radio facility had such a massive web of antennas (it’s one block away from the WLW antenna).

Remember when things came with schematics? Today it's a warning label that any attempt to open or repair is punishable by death! How far we have come.... That's why I LOVE old things to restore!