That was so sad to see that lovely old house been demolished, such a waste!

So much history lost, thank you Shango for saving this small piece of it!

Sick at heart to see all the beautiful hand work in the house destroyed.

Destroying houses that beautiful in design should be a crime. so sad....

Hi there, and welcome to Mr. Shango's lab! Today we are going to be plugging in a rat feces infested tube radio, and seeing if it catches fire.... If you're following along, remember you're doing so at your own risk. Just take care...

Those "Veedol" oil containers are incredibly rare. Likely pre WW2.

Sad to see a old house go down. In my town, you can drive to any newer part and see a row of houses and they all look the same. Some are really close to each other, almost wouldn't be any different than an apartment. Then you can drive to the older parts of town and see immaculate old houses built from the late 1890's to early 1900's and all in really nice shape as their owners realize what they've got. Plus, no two are alike either, they each have a special style all their own. Fun video!

It's always cool when a discovered old electronic item has an interesting story behind it! Saved from the bulldozer at the last moment!

That's a really cool radio. The story behind it is even better. I laughed really hard about that spray magic. That old house was amazing. You won't ever get craftsmanship like that again.

The quality goes in before the name goes on .... Z E N I T H

That was indeed a lovely home. Much attention to detail and craftsmanship

Thank you for videoing that old house. Buildings from that era should be preserved like vintage cars. So sad. Your channel is awesome! 👍

Back in the good old days when a 2x4 was actually a 2x4....

You know your old when you find a Madonna song on Oldies station.

Great rescues. They are tearing down old (100+ year old) houses left and right around where I live (suburb of St.Paul MN). They've been donating many of the old houses to the fire department for practice burns. A few years ago they burnt down a brick 1906 house at the end of my block, and then within a year or two, they burnt down an 1850s all brick farm house with original outbuildings (not common in this area anymore). In the years before that I can recall seeing or hearing about several other old houses. These houses were not abandoned or in great disrepair. Mind you this area was heavily developed between the 1950s to 1980s, so most of the houses around here date between those years. They have since crammed multifamily homes onto the lots those old houses stood.

that was a spectacular old house and a horrable waste of beautiful chraftsmanship. those cabinets were especially georgeous and i scincerely hope someone saved them. that filthy delapidated old house was a remnant of better simpler times and a better america. good job getting what you did. remember yesteryear and dont forget ware you came from, god bless you :~)

Lots of nostalgia there! Veedol motor oil was the private label brand for Flying A gas stations. The last time I saw a Flying A product was the battery in my first car, a '65 Plymouth, It lasted all nine years I had the car. Great video, every time I see an old Zenith product come to life I get a lump in my throat. A great American company killed by cheap foreign crap.

That's plaster, not drywall. I have a 1941 L.A. house, I got it 10 years ago. I found a few extra 2x4's in the garage. They are very heavy and dense, very different than the lumber available now.

It's sad to see an old house like that torn apart. Look at the craftsmanship that went into the construction. My dad built houses for awhile back then and workers took great pride in the work they did. Seeing where a wood worker signed the wall !! I may be wrong but I doubt you'll see that under your new plastic, genuine imitation rock fireplace. I grew up in a house like that and it took a 5 pound hammer to put a nail in in the wall to hang a picture.. Old homes like that are all around LA county. It's nice to see one saved if possible but too many are torn apart and all that beautiful wood will be on its way to Mexico and be turned into a new home... nothing like the one it came from, just old scrap wood nailed together. Great pics, enjoyed every minute... thanks. Glad you were able to save some of it.

I’m so glad you saved what you could. I did construction, and new houses are junk, IMHO. I’m seeing people tear down perfectly good 60’s and ‘70s brick houses for condos!

loved seeing the signature of the carpenter from 1921 in there. People took real pride in thier work. i loved that old kitchen sink. Did you notice that te steps were curved , this whole house was probably a classic art nuevo style. its a shame it had to go. well at least you got the radio from it.

I’m glad where I live, you’re not allowed to tear down a house unless it’s dilapidated beyond repair or completely burnt down, and thankfully that’s only happened a few times

I'm so glad you & your friends got what you could. Thanks for the vid.

Another old relic demolished to build condos. I couldn’t watch the end. The Brady Bunch house may meet a similar fate soon.

I have the same Zenith model. The clock just died on mine and the speaker rattles after it's been on awhile. Thanks for the tip on how to fix the speaker. My Zenith picks up KNX 1070 at night here in Sacramento.

That's probably the coolest bed I've seen lol

Can't wait for the particleboard 10 year guarantee shitheap that will replace this fine old home.

Glad you saved this old radio and it sounds great!!

My house was built in 1926, Dutch Colonial (it actually looks like the house in the late 70's Amityville Horror movie except mine is 2 1/2 story as opposed to a full three story) I love these old houses. Although mine has a few drawbacks I suppose, no ceiling lights in the living room, floor lamps are the solution in my case. Also no framed exterior walls, just two layers of brick (the exterior is standard brick and the inner layer of brick is the old I think 6x6 clay brick) with plaster applied over the inner layer for the interior finish not too much insulation factor there, lol. Nine foot ceilings, mahogany staircase and oak floors. Also it just dawned on me what this channel reminds me of! It is the Roadkill of old electronics!! LOL. Great save!!

Sad about the old home being demolished. Too bad nobody could have bought it and moved it to another location. They don't make them that way anymore.

Always cool to see those old Zenith clock radios. Never seen one like that one.

I'm so glad the workers let you look around.

Sometimes i have applied a same sized piece of plastic over the sticker/tube layout chart , and taped it on with masking tape to temporarily allow for cleaning of the cabinet. Works okay as long as you do not leave it wet for a long period of time. Great story about the house and artifacts man!!

That is the home of a man who was a perfectionist and did EVERYTHING himself.

When I was a lad, our fathers and mothers used to farm out we children to work on their brothers or sisters farms when we were done on ours. Such chores that needed more body power like working cattle and haying, as well as harvest time we male children were on the move from farm to farm as were our fathers in many cases. One spring, I was sent to my uncles place, he had a large ranch situated in a deep valley between the two grand rivers in South Dakota. The land was very dark black and would gown anything that happened to drop a seed. His ranch land was wide. and open with a large dam in the middle that was well stocked with fish taken by net from the Grand Rivers and transported to the dam in the back of his cattle truck with a stock tank in the bed. We halped with that chore as well. I loved being on their place despite the nasty habit of the prairie rattle snakes of showing up in their yard and about the farm buildings as well as out in the pastures and around the large damn. Mom's sister was the wife of this uncle, and she was a very cool lady. They had 3 kids, one the eldest was a couple months younger then I the rest were abut ten years apart, the youngest at that time was a babe in arms. My aunt knew I was smoking, a secret from my parents, I thought, so when I arrived she took me aside in the kitchen and told me that she didn't want me helping my self to her cigarettes as both she and her giant of a husband smoked steadily. So she gave me a pack of PellMell's unfiltered every morning with breakfast and I made that last all day. Well I worked my young ass off that particular spring as we got the seeds planted in the fields, worked the young calves castrating the males and dehorning the lot as well as vaccinating them lot for various deseases as required by the State so when I was packing up to go home that summer she brought me a nice tube radio set that they had used in the bedroom but recently replaced it with a more modern clock radio, and I took it home. Best damn radio I have ever owned and I had it up till I got married and moved to a neighboring State seeking work. It was a Zenith as well, it was the only radio I never took apart or screwed with because it always worked and I loved the warm sound of a tube set with quality components and speaker. Ah sadly my aunt and uncle have left this cruel world many moons ago, their kids, well 2 of their kids are still alive, the youngest took his own life after loosing the only job he ever had some 40 years from the day he got it thanks to a new owner who "just didn't like the guy!" We live in a right to works state so my cousin was without any options and I guess he had enough. I miss him, he was a cool kid, in fact all their kids were cool even though a bit on the wild side. The one that is my age is still around but I rarely ever see him, his wife comes by from time to time, she grew up with us and was my friend before she wed him, they lost a son in an drug deal gone wrong, he was the first murdered in our small village by a drug dealers wife using an AR-15. I attended the funeral, it was a very sad day indeed. Life goes on, and it appears that so do I. Sorry for rambling.

I admire that you love history so much. most people just toss anything older then 4 years in the trash.

We lost a couple 100 year old movie theatres in my city thanks to progress. We documented everything we could but its a real shame to see them fall.

Nice old Zenith radio. I guess they were the top of the line back then. Makes me sick to my stomach that the cabinets got destroyed...

Been through a lot and turns right on, Zenith! The quality goes in before the name goes on.

haha...I love that you used latex gloves through the entire video until the part where you're using a mystery cleaner. :D

That horrendous "music" being received by the old Zenith @ 7:27 just seems downright disrespectful to it. Oy.

just finished work, cup of tea ready & this is the 1st vid in my feed. happy monday!

That radio work's well for its age ,job well done

19:36 this song just keeps following me everywhere,I was repairing my sony tc k22 cassette deck,put in some tape laying around pressed play,and hear the exact same guitar solo.

My late grandmothers house was built in 1878 got torn down 2013 bought it in 1997 it had all kinds of signatures from people who had did work throughout the years in closets, and in the transition spaces between additions.

Sad video...thanks for sharing the resurrection with us though!

Sad to see many things i'd want go to waste. You did great

Glad I was able to save the darkroom equipment

I'm glad you saved those old pumps. I would have pulled those stairway supports just to save that beautiful old wood.

Not all houses of that vintage are being torn down everywhere. My maternal grandparent's home in Southwestern Washington State (30 minutes south of Olympia) that was originally built in 1921, is one that is still standing. My grandparents were hardworking folk of modest means, who bought it in 1924; Grandma had it extensively remodeled to a level she could afford in the mid-70s, and they lived there until Grandma passed in 1988, and Grandpa passed in 1989. My late mother and her brothers sold the place in 1991, and in the years since, viewing the property from Google Maps, it's obvious that it has been radically renovated, yet you can still see some original exterior features from its original construction. In recent years, my mother expressed an unfulfilled desire to go back and see her childhood home, as I do now, but I'm not sure how even I would accept seeing it with all the changes. Hard to believe that it has a current estimated value of nearly $300K!

Those enlargers bring back memories! I was so very much into that stuff, but couldn't afford most of the good equipment.

Sad to see am old house like this go...and looks like there was nothing wrong with it. That bed construction was something special too! Glad you could save these vintage oil cabinets and some other good stuff. That radio still works fine, you just can't kill a Zenith! Too bad a corner broke off the cabinet, could be repainted otherwise.

Great horders estate sale in North Hollywood. I thought of you when I saw it today, Lots of vintage Electronics, Nice Black and White Admiral TV So much stuff it's overwhelming. It's open at 8am tomorrow and Monday. Its on a dead end street one block east of Vineland off Oxnard Blvd..

You can remove the Telechron rotor from the clock and heat it on a ~100w light bulb for a moment, then feed it some very light oil around the gear shaft, when the rotor cools down, it should suck the oil in. Repeat this a few times until it has enough oil. This method doesn't save all rotors (some are just too worn or gummed up), but it's worth a try.

I like the stairs and those cabinets

Very interesting video. Although Interesting, the house was sad. Thanks for filming.

I bet the Zenith engineers never envisioned the kind of crap that would come out of their speakers in the 21st Century. It's not music, that's for sure.

Haha Mr. Shango's lab. Cleaning toilets with cola and screwdrivers, and spraying radios in the bathtub.

Totally amazing! Thanks to your efforts shango66, this Zenith Radio will live on for another 50 Years!

Wonderful fined, thank you for sharing even though it made me sick... beautiful craftsmanship

Hello Shango love your video's your work I'm here keeping it real I never left I enjoy the restoration of TV's radios the min video cool

Thank you for saving this radio. I hate to see these old radios get destroyed. And for the condition it was in, you did a very good job of restoring it. People say destroying these things is the best thing to do with these, but I would keep this radio with me, as this radio lasted 60 years! The radios you get from Walmart are cheaply made and will probably have a 10 year lifespan at best. Once again, thank you for saving this radio!

All the soot and dirt on it gives me a huge Fallout vibe

that hide under the stares wood work is beautiful wood work. I would begs to get that. Timeless wood work done by some unknown carpenter

it always amazes me what people or companies just destroy and throw away. they'll prob build some stick house that'll get blown over in the next storms, or earthquakes(forgot u live in da zone) . Nice finds, and glad you saved some of that kool old stuff! And a great video as always.

This kept coming up on my recommendations I just had to watch it

first time i see you cleaning something. Nice!

this video just gave me a great idea on how to not get the tube schematic wet while washing the radio (-:

Fantastic. Thanks for posting this

Radium dial... and it cleaned up very nice!

Old radio repair _and_ urban exploration in a single video. Nice one! BTW, I bet that a rub down with fine grade wet and dry sandpaper followed by a polish with cutting compound would do wonders for the top of that Zenith radio.

What a shame. All that lovely gear and house bulldozed! Thankfully people like us fight to keep this stuff going in a throw away society.

It kinda sad to see a house like that be torn down. You are right with the fact that this house is being torn down to make room for over population , and it will more than likely will be replaced by a modern day artificial house. Anything modern to me is fake, or "It's all style and no substance."

My experience with seleniums (as they were prevalent in Polish radios/TVs, I very rarely seen rectifier tubes) is that they fail short, for enough time that whole room stinks for another week, then yes, they become open. There was a big problem with some Russian TVs where selenium rectifier started to fry and ignited flammable board material, you can imagine the rest;)

It's always heartbreaking when they tear down one of those Beautiful Craftsman style homes. CORRECTION, Spanish Style house with Craftsman style cabinetry...

Unreal how they could just trash all of that. I helped demolish an old house once but we saved everything in it that could be saved and used somewhere else clear down to the frame. I spent weeks pulling nails from old studs and joists after school with a crowbar and a hammer.

Zenith man, they really are something else

Great Save! Such a shame whoever bought that property is probably just looking to make a flip an could care less about the real value of the house. Anything new won't even compare to the quality of the old.

29:44 Should'a grabbed the dovetail router guide. 29:55 Air compressor & tank. Router table. 29:57 Table saw, radial arm saw. The day may come when you want to restore cabinets. You can probably get good money for the oil dispensers. People who restore old cars frequently like to have accoutrements in their showplace garages.

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Just think of all the holidays spent in that old house.

That oil could be used a lube for chain saw bars. Too bad about them tearing that house down to build Condomminimums or Afartments! I hope you grabbed the wire spool, good for a long wire antenna in the desert!

good save of the zenith. house was a craftsman-style - very high quality workmanship and materials. brickwork on the chimney was first rate, as was all the woodwork. roof was terra cotta tile - guaranteed to last the lifetime of the building (and it did...). garage workshop had a 10" radial arm saw, 10" belt-drive table saw and - of course - a home electronic shop. air compressor looked to be a 70's speedaire - very nice. seeing everything go to waste and the building razed makes me almost ill, especially if it gets replaced by section 8 prefab cracker boxes or a cheap strip mall. suppose neighborhood had already gone to hell, tho.

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My grandfather drove over 1,000,000 miles in his Tucker using high Zinc Veedoo-Real talk!!

Cool house with cool stuff in, damn shame it got demolished :(

Love to give that radio a good home love that radio

Five years later it’s 2023 what’s there now can’t be anything like what was removed. Seeing those old hi-boy oil dispensers was something I saw in an old friends repair shop. Many things that are nice about the place is quality which was as good when installed, can’t say that about stuff that’s 2 years old.

What a home - from back when they were big enough to have hobbies in. It's a shame people buy these old homes just to tear them down. I doubt people building homes today would care enough or have enough pride in their work to have signed their name on it.

Those beakers and measuring vials are for measuring developer for photographs. It always surprises me how much punishment these machines can take and still work. Why can't they make stuff like this today. Planned obsolescence I guess.

My hair stood up @ 28:32, when the bucket took out those tanks of refrigerant....

Too bad they didn’t just restore that old house.

It was virtually all women who painted the radium on the hands and hour markers. They had pointed artist brushes... and they liked to keep wetting the tip of the brush in their mouth to keep it pointy. Little did they know. Well, they found out some years later

lol ... Mr Shango's lab!

This reminds me of my grandfathers house in El Segundo back in the day. I think it was on Sepulveda back in the 70's. It was sort of a mission style I guess. With a separate concrete pool (12 feet on the deep end) and a detached 2 car garage with a guest house above. He was modest middle class, but owned a couple of machine shops.

Nice save on those items, neat Zenith too. You were right, came right back to life. Just a waste tearing that old house down. No OSB, Chinese drywall, or PVC in the 1920's...

"The Quality Goes In Before The Name Goes On"

Interesting segment.Autosol might bring up the cabinet and the bandspread cover.Internally the radio is quite good! Pity they had to knock down an old house.Thanks.

Yes, likely is Radium on the clock hands at 11:22. I have confirmed it in many vintage clock radios of that era. Quite common to see in antique shops, if you actually check - and I do just for fun. Radium is known to put off secondary "daughter" particles via the small amount of Radon gas which is generated through it's decay over many years. The slight contamination is not a huge amount but is detectable on a sensitive enough geiger counter w/pancake probe. It can coat interior surfaces and even outside of chassis on old alarm clocks, etc. It's smart to wear gloves because it can be hard to wash off skin and should not be ingested, obviously. And yes, it's the same Radon gas which is found in many abandoned mines/basements if they have poor ventilation/air flow. Google for the "decay chain of radium" and you will see all the isotope stages as it breaks down over time.

I like your videos!