It's incredible that the remains of that speaker sound as good as it does..

That's my kind of salvage operation, smashing a plastic box with a digital electronic device inside to retrieve the power cord and a capacitor. 👍 Did I mention that I like making engineers cry.

I like the idea of wasting as much of telemarketers time as possible. Let them get under their quota or get paid less for harassing people at home. 👍

Neat radio. Your commentary on motorcycles and the risk involved pretty much sums up my feelings on them as well..Never been into motorcycles and don’t understand the appeal,especially given the immense risk. I bought my DeSoto from a guy who was a Quadriplegic. He told me he decided to buy a motorcycle against his wife’s protests and got hit on the freeway 4 days after owning it and now is wheelchair bound for the rest of his life and has to have a caretaker. I know a woman who’s boyfriend was also killed on the freeway driving one to work. As you said,it’s an entirely voluntary risk for the “enjoyment” of riding something where your entire body is exposed going 70-80mph down the freeway alongside cars and trucks,some weighing several tons,many piloted by idiots distracted by their smartphones.

Not as complex as a TV, but I really enjoy watching the Shango method applied to the kind of things I can work on too. I always pick up something useful and am always entertained. Thanks man.

Loved the Intro. Never saw a Bendix radio.

Shango,The outside of your radio once looked like the inside and was green marbled. Catalin unfortunately oxidizes,and is very sensitive to humidity and temperature and darkens. The case also becomes brittle when exposed to heat. You can restore it by using plastic polish.

Oooh, nice Bendix! This cabinet is technically Catalin, some have polished that up, it’s oxidized, is a beautiful green marble style. Last I saw a restored example, they had a $1500 price tag, and they got it. Great stuff!

I am surprised she dropped the F bomb!

Yeah, you tuned that up really nicely and I was impressed with the sound considering that speaker looked like it had been through the wars and just low level work. It always surprises me how old radios (when AM mattered) can do the sound justice.

In Bulgarian Bendix got the meaning of that mechanism that connects starter motor shaft with engine's flywheel in your car.

Bendix or Bendix/King were the most common brand for NAV/COM radios in light general aviation airplanes for many years.

I never expected it to work right away. Especially with that leaky cap with the split down the center. Nice.

Nothing but the best

It’s not Bakelite - it’s Catalin! That’s what makes it so valuable.

It was neat hearing you mention Bendix Brakes. My dad was a Tool & Die Maker and then worked in Layout & Design at one of their big factories that became Allied Signal.

Nice radio! The extremely careful disassembly of the coffee maker to get the line cap made me smile and chuckle! I've done similar myself!

Bendix also made washing machines, In the early 60s my family was the only one in the street with a gas-powered washing machine - I kid you not.

Such finesse. Such a light touch on disassembly

shango i see you found the right tool for the job , fantastic for C.B. work .

Cool! I just got a tube set for my AA5 14X by RCA. Can't wait to pop them in and see if my rework worked.

It is a small small world lol. I made a video on a Bendix radio yesterday that I am trying to bring back to life. Great video Shangoo.

Very nice Bendix Catalan radio. I actually have one of these in my antique Radio collection. But what is interesting is the chassis in my Catalan radio uses octal bass tubes 50L6 35Z5, etc yours is a very nice example of a nice clean cabinet although the green mobilisation has oxidized

That's a nice radio right there! At last year's SCARS radio auction, one sold for around 6-800$ if memory serves.

Nice to see something made in my home town of Baltimore! I recall working on a Bendix B&W TV that had a metal cone CRT. Of course it had gone to air.

Bravo! Blue Gloved Devil, another great repair.Thanks!

I like your disassembly methods of cheap consumer garbage like that coffee maker

An intact Catalin is one heck of a find! Regarding the Mica domino caps, more recently I've found while they may still work, they've usually drifted in value and become lossy. I do live in a humid climate so that may have a lot to do with it. I now test all of them in the radios I do, both for leakage, capacitance, and most importantly D value. Comparing to a new mica cap really makes you realize how bad some of them get. Replacing these aging caps(especially ones used in tuned circuits) really helps performance in a lot of cases. I always enjoy your videos, thank you for the quality edutainment!

A bit of plumbers tape wrapped around the stripped screw might be good enough. Nice radio, not seen in the UK, as a kid, I remember Bendix washing machines and of course the gear on starter motors.

Where are my reparations, I need my reparations! 3 million!

Yep grandkids, there was a time when cheap low end household goods were made in USA. In fact USA even used to export them all over the world. Not anymore grandkids!

One of the best intros yet

Your video helped me big time. I checked my line voteage cap.and it super super bad. I believe a cap out of a microwave power supply will work fine.

Thank you for making us this video!

Just watching you mess with the telemarketer makes my day.

I just love the disassembly procedures with a claw hammer.

Another great Saturday morning video and watching and enjoying Shango. No crape erase commercials Nice scam into I get them all the time. Thanks

Looks like a transition period between regular octal and miniature tubes by the looks of the chassis holes where the sockets are mounted: big holes with small sockets. For the stripped screw on the trimmer, I wonder if you took the screw out, inserted some heavy thread and then put the screw back in if it would be tight enough to hold it.

Thanks for the tip on Spam calls. Easty typical AA5 tube AM radio repair.

Want to see what the cab looks like in minty condition? Do a search and pull up the Bendix 526-C on Radio Museum. It also makes it clear to see how the cabinet is assembled in two pieces. Really nice and unusual.

Growing up, car mechanics always referred to the "Bendix" not engaging when having starter problems. Catalin cabinets in good shape bring big bucks, so be careful not to crack it - (it's easy to do).

The sweet sound of tubes

9 out of 10 general aviation aircraft that fly over your house are carrying a at least one Bendix/King communications radio in it.

Surely did not expect to witness a EOL on coffee maker via hammer during this repair video.

Been through a similar text fest with the like. Accurate research theirs before and polite response would've been mine. Had a Bendix or three over the years. World of wonders this one.

Take a piece of small thin metal lead trimmed off a new cap, bend it into a 'L' shape. Put it in the stripped out hole and reinsert the trimmer screw. It will cut threads into the lead as well as the existing threads, allowing you to adjust the screw for peak. Easy Peasie.

Oh man, what a hilarious start 😂

Like it! Great performer.

Bendix used to make the brakes on most bicycles that had coaster brakes instead of hand breaks. They had the sort of lever on the back wheel that had a clamp around the frame to hold the brake in place and it was stamped BENDIX on the lever sort of dealy. Oh and back in the 50's and 60's the spring deal on a starter motor that engaged the flywheel was referred to as the "Bendix" of the starter. Ah for the good old days. Back when a smoke was a smoke and a man was a man, when if you complained of a pain, your buddy told you that you just didn't have enough whiskey that day!

that radio has a very hot tuner now!

Stirling, Lockheed and Bendix I remember in the UK for vehicle brakes.

love the intro

I laughed like crazy when the lady said to go screw yourself.

Holy crap, thats CATALIN!! Hang onto that set

They were good radios. A lot of them are still running with not much done to them over the years. I have the cabinet type radio that I need to go through.

When it comes to telemarketers, i generally answer the phone saying, "Its done-but theres blood EVERYWHERE! I'll never get it out of the carpet..." 😂

Time is money. If they're going to take up my time trying to sell me something, they need to pay me. Right on! And it's wonderful there is a new video! 👍👍

the "CATLIN" case radios bring big bucks!!!!!

"I don't want a pickle. Just want to ride on my motorsickle."

My Schwinn bikes always had the Bendix brakes😎👍

Had a co-worker who's pelvis was crushed in a motor cycle wreck. He was in pain every day for the rest of his life (nerve damage) and is no longer with us now for related reasons. Good man, he was an EMT. I knew him later when he was a statistician.

That thing being plug and play almost felt like a magic trick.

Love it intro great

I wonder if the base section was made of a different material. Easier and cheaper to fabricate? Or less fragile than the Catalan upper?

It's hammer time! Polish that cabinet and I bet the marbling will become much more obvious.

I don't know Shango, those new electric unicycles are seemingly far more dangerous to stand on and they go fast! Some can go as fast as 55 Mph and they must wear a helmet but usually don't. Shelf queen fixed the right way, by the Shango method.

Very entertaining video

That Bendix radio is not bakelite it's Catalin. If it were in more original condition it would command some serious coin.

There was a catalin version -green marbled /black”onyx”. Perhaps the most common catalin radio but still a nice radio to own..

Does the knot create Back EMF ?

Shango, can you show us how to do a dial cord right?

Definitely a catalin set, though one of the more common ones despite still being desirable and collectable. Can be polished to have the original green color though that takes a lot of work and easy to mess it up! Green catalin fades to brown, white fades to yellow/orange, blue also fades to brown. I've got the same set with octal tubes, yours must've been right at the end of the production where they switched to miniature. Interesting it uses a 50B5, not many used that tube before they came out with the 50C5. I believe it was something to do with the initial reliability of it... And the pinouts are different and very much NOT compatible!

I wonder if they are often out of alighnment since they often have bodges. If the people at the shop tried to do an alignment, they would have likely used a cheap signal gen that itself was out of alignment, since a little mom and pop local radio repairman would not have had a frequency meter to check their own equipment. EDIT: The stripped tuning screw supports my theory. They charged the customer for a "tune up" and while they may have gotten it working by changing bad caps, they gave the IF a screw up.

Bendix is a family name - they came here from southern Denmark in the 1840s.

Those scammers are a never-ending source of amusement. I will say either their accents are getting better or they're actually hiring people from North America for their boiler rooms now.

🎵 Powercord came to me... he said I'm all you need 🎶

Good intro.

I too walk around on trash day with a pair of wire cutters to save power cords.

I came for the carefully disassembled coffee maker.

Telemarketers call the radio station all the time. I have to answer the phone when the light comes on. Once in a while, it'll be a listener who wants a song played for them. More often than not, it's a telemarker. I'll answer the phone with the station's branding, but they never hear it because the thing that dials the number doesn't immediately transfer the call. I'll act like it's some contest and once in a while, I'll say they've won a prize (lint in my pocket or some worthless prize). They never call the business line. It's always the listener line. As an aside, we stopped taking requests long ago. People often request songs that don't fit the format or it's a song that we would eventually play anyway. It's not listed in any publically accessible ratings publication, but it does have a good amount of listeners. We discussed the motorcycle thing once years ago. It is a huge risk now, at least around here and we are not anywhere close to the population and traffic density of the LA metro. I think we are the 46th largest metro in the US. Not a lot of people compared to LA. Yet, for the small town I live in, there's several traffic accidents a day. Sometimes two in the same spot in a day.

The chassis is punched for octal tubes... wonder if they used it for more than 1 model :) EDIT, Thanks a lot I just spent the evening getting my 526B up and running, had a obviously bad 35Z5, the speaker is frozen have to work out some mounting for a new one and the transformer. The radio its self dead because of an open 220K plate resistor to the 12SQ7.

That receiver likely originally had war-surplus parts in it. AA5's in good working order are *excellent* AM radios -- just don't play them anywhere near the kitchen or bathroom -- or by the pool. You'd likely get an unpleasant surprise.

20:22 Claw hammer for the win! A much underutilized tool on the repair bench.

Haahas.. great intro!

Haha! poor Coffee maker! The push buttons and the beeper and relays are resuable as is the pump.

Ohhh hallo friend shango Good night

As a private pilot I’m very familiar with Bendix Magnetos.

36:51 You're going for "Basic Driveability." 😆 Cool old radio hums sings and talks. 38:50 I dislike the backwards functioning tuning knob. Probably have to reverse the winding of the tuning string on the tuning knob shaft.

Have a 2spd Bendix kickback hub on my 63 Schwinn typhoon 😛

@shango066 is their a supply issue getting those in usa ? I have a tray full of those X2 safety filter capacitors here new old stock, maybe I could send you some ?

ROFL great intro!

Nice!!! 2 for 1 video!!! Radio repair and coffee maker EOL.😂

0:41 Thats one of the angriest "excuse me?"' I've heard.

That speaker has spoken

0:55 WOW.

Working on a zenith G8005 Trans Oceanic and replaced a leaky domino cap. I think it was a paper cap. My understanding is if it doesn't say aerovox dont trust it.

That scam caller swore, so now you’re demonetized.

23:06 when your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail

The one IF slug looked like it was touching the can.

12:08 here its always a tractor trailer in mass