Shango is apparantly starting an ASMR channel as he gently caresses the carpet.

My grandmother had this *exact* TV in her kitchen when I was a kid. I can remember watching Atlanta Braves games on it in the early and mid-'70s while she'd cook dinner.

Sony was obsessed with making TV's as small as possible in the 1960's. I can just see the draftsmen doing the PC board layout, using a micrometer to measure a hand full of parts for their component models. In the mid 1970's, Sony's sets were already having electrolytic capacitor problems. I remember when I was in the military in Tech School, the base commander caught wind of my TV/radio repair talents, so immediately got all his repair business. He had one of those 5" Sony TVs from 1964 he wanted repaired, when I saw it, I said "no thanks!". Those were pure misery to work on the way they had all the components and PC boards jammed together. To be sure the set was properly fixed, you really needed to replace every electrolytic cap.

Shango, just wanted to pass along to you that today I passed my Extra exam. Your videos have been a big inspiration. Have fun on Field Day!

Toshiba made some bad ass stuff . . picked up from the local dump shop here in Oz , a 70's suitcase style record player , with a short wave radio included . . can be battery operated too , taking that baby out bush

It’s nice to see someone fixing old TVs. It’s obviously not a growing trade, but it’s neat to see someone out doing it. There will always be a need out there for at least one guy to know his way around a CRT

Your TV Service Bench Carpet is , Sensual ... But not too far from Innocence

Fondling that carpet got a lot of laughter out of me. Also, the interior of that tripler compartment-- as fresh as the day it was made -- was really nice.

Love these videos. I spent a good portion of my early teen nerd years poking around old tube TV s that people wanted to get rid of and building tube radio kits. Never really knew what I was doing, but I knew what not to touch and playing with high voltage arcs sure was cool.

Although you brought the television indoors, the birds are watching the repairs from the window sill.🐤

This guy is Supernatural with his knowledge and abilities regarding old televisions, etc. I look at the insides of those old sets and my brain hurts. Hats off to you sir. Well done. I just found your channel and subscribed. I am hoping to find start to finish TV repair vids. Love seeing old things brought back to life.

I have been self diagnosing my own CRT problem though watching videos by you and others with experience. (I have zero electrical / electronics background) and I was getting hung up on the best place to order parts. I tried a few places but kept hitting a wall. That little clip of you ordering parts at 25:00 made all the difference in the world! It finally "clicked" on how to order the correct part and helped me locate everything I needed from Digi-Key. I placed the order a few hours ago and they shipped it the same day! AMAZING. Thank you for posting this! ATTENTION: To all those champing at the bit to provide me with unsolicited warnings that I can critically / fatally injure myself... I got it. I understand. You don't need to waste the keystrokes replying here.

Really, i can't wait t'il you finished this project. I really like your videos. Keep History alive!

nice little set. i remember my grandma had one in the 70s and she used to take it to family reunions and stuff, prob just to show off that she had a portable tv. lol The digi-key is just like mouser site, lots of details and options to go through. it always takes me forever to find what im looking for. And you are right about buy the newer values being cheaper , those older values will cost you an arm and a leg. they have some killer deals if you buy 1000-2000 parts at a time... i guess you could repackage and resell but who has time for all that. Cant wait to see the guts of this tv!

We had Sears/Toshiba TVs back then. My brother worked for Sears back then so he got them with an employee discount. They had a terrible problem with electrolytics going bad. It made upkeep very expensive. Replace one and two more would fail. Replace those and get ready for more failing. The only caps that were worse were those awful plastic ones from Sanyo. Both companies designed great products but their bad caps sent them to early graves. After the 3rd or 4th trip to the repair shop people just gave up on them. We also had a Wards (Airline) set very similar to this made by Sharp. It lasted for many years. Most of the Sharp gear sold by Wards was OK for years. Sears had a spotty record after they switched from Arvin to Asian suppliers. Stuff from Hong Kong was especially questionable. This is probably a very rare survivor. The rest probably got dumped on the curb back in the 60s.

When in doubt stroke the furry table

I never worked on that particular model but, was familiar with the Japanese solid state and tube sets. Toshiba was one of the better manufacturers. The Japanese reused their pocket transistor radio experience with the earlier TVs (note all of the germanium transistors, cheap electrolytic caps, and dog bone style carbon film resistors). I like how well Toshiba kept the power consumption low on that set. I would imagine that set could run off of AC line power, 12Vdc car power, and probably a battery pack consisting of 8 D cell carbon-zinc batteries (they didn't have Alkaline batteries in that day). One of the common sales pitches at the time was, showing someone at the beach enjoying the ball game, in reality though, the screen would wash out in the sun.

That's some snazzy marketing there "SOLID STATE/ transistorized"! I like the valve tripler, haven't seen one of those in the flesh yet.

Back in the '70s I knew a tech who sometimes threw a rug on the hood of his car for a house call work bench.

lmao about that carpet stroking an its making the dog go crazy epic man

That rug really tied the video together...

If that TV made golf so much more interesting to watch, bring it to Canada and put on a curling game!

I'ld Just like to say I really love your videos. The carpet has elevated them to a totally new level of excellent.

That TV will take a "magic carpet ride", she'll turn out great!

I have a set just like that made by singer co. and i do have the external battery charger pack with it, it was at my brothers house, one of the sets we had as kids, not sure if it works yet though, but another portable we dug up did work pretty good, only thing mine is missing is the actual battery, but every thing else is with it, i may wanna try it some time, the first set i just plugged in it took about 10 min. then it came on, these have not been run since we were kids, but i took a chance and plugged in one set, but not the singer set, ever hear of a tv made by them, as i know that co. makes sewing machines but when we got these sets out i was surprised they made tv's too. they are cool little sets, i watch The Flintstones cartoon on the first set i tried and ran it a few times no Issues, the singer not sure yet to try, but might. as here i still use the older CRT sets.

The US electronics industry could see the limitations with germanium transistors as early as 1953 and saw silicon as the future. There were 2 different types of Germanium: point contact (which were very tidious to build and could lose connection under high vibration) and diffused junction types. Point contact quickly became obsolete after the diffused manufacturing process was worked out. The problem with the diffused junction types is, the juntion un-diffuses after a number of years, especially if operated at high junction temperature. So, diffused germanium transistors can actually go bad just setting on the shelf. The Japanese we're slow to switch over to silicon, probably because they put so much effort into the development and manufacture of germanium. They had to "reinvent the wheel" so to speak. The only transistor technology they could get their hands on in the 1950's, was basic overview information derived from US tech journals. Also, germanium transistor manufacture was easier build from a company startup point of view than silicon.

Loving shangos classic green jumper

Can't wait for the next videos! I think I've seen those types of old Japanese electrolytics before too. But only a handful of times. I saw a lot of sets like this 20 years ago.

The first filter you want on digikey is to select only in stock parts

Yeah, I spend an hour putting together DigiKey orders. Their new filtering system is actually much better than the old one. Checking the "in stock" items box can cut the results list way down. I also use first class mail for shipping since components are usually light (under 13oz package) so costs under $5 to ship and is often faster than the more expensive rates.

Digi-Key website is an even bigger pain in the ass to use than Mouser-lol, great video.

Sometimes we can have a long workday and it's hard to think right and say what we want to say. The best thing to do is go inside get a snack and a glass of water then go to bed and sleep for 9 hours straight. You will feel a lot better

Love your videos! Can you do a quick video sometime on how your CRT tester works, and perhaps talk about the rejuvinate process?

Transistorized solid state (has vacuum tubes soldered in place) makes me wonder: Was there ever a liquid state or gaseous state TV? If not, why mention it being solid?

Fascinating , in many spectrums, Most likely why I like your show. ,

Sears used Toshiba for many of their Sears branded electronics.

I never knew a person had to have so much knowledge on all this. A guy could make a livable wage on Television or Radio repair.

Wow very cool design, thanks again for your work!

Man that is one decked out TELEVISION SERVICE CART. Plush and posh Designer carpeting. They don't make 'em like they used to!

This might be the FIRST time I've seen you shotgun capacitors. Nice!

Great video Shango always fun to watch.

I wonder if Toshiba/Sears used the label "SOLID STATE/transistorized" because they expected that integrated circuits would start appearing in consumer equipment within a few years. I have to admit that some of the components in Japanese electronics of the 1960s through the early 1970s were really cute! I loved those three little high voltage tripler diodes. Sanyo made nice looking germanium transistors that were shrink-wrapped in pastel blue or green. The resistors were often of a miniature dogbone style.

Fala amigo. Eu ja quis uma TV com este desenho era uma Standard Electric mas a minha família não tinha o dinheiro para comprar e hoje tenho 63 anos doente e ainda não estou aposentado mas a esperança é a ultima que morre. Forte abraço e boa sorte na reparação desta TV porque ela é uma relíquia! Rio de Janeiro Brazil

I believe your "wolf" is a mourning dove! ;)

My great grand aunt gave me a 1984 black and white slyvaina and it works and my grandpa has a rca xl 100 and it works we never ed seen it work

Hey Shango, you know when you have those filter lists on DigiKey and other sites, you can hold the Ctrl key and click several different options in one list, if you like. For example, you can select 10 different voltages at the same time if you want. Or select 20, 21, and 22uF at the same time.

I had the Sears tv it lasted for years and then it started to do what the one your repairing !

Swag carpet yo . Need dat dank Shagg from 1974. haha

Perfect section of carpet to add to my carpet lined shower. Just pick Panasonic electrolytics from Digikey. They are pretty much the best. FM series for low ESR circuits and the EB for ultra long life if there is room for their slightly larger size.

Yay a shango066 video to brighten my day! and a Sears Rocky Dennis style TV...

I tweebulated the thingy and my fridge slapped me. If that's what I was trying to do, I did it.

I'm impressed it works as well as it did being mostly original and 53 years later.

I thought that TV service table was your old dirty jacket lol.

i used the old schematics back then,loved the on paper indicators of the parts layouts etc e5c.i used to get sams photofacts too..

You can select several criteria in the digikey filters by holding down the Shift Key and clicking them. For example, when looking for 15V minimum, you click 15,20,25,35. That will give more results. Also in some filters you can enter min and max values in the fields below

Very good video. I really hope for some 1 hour plus video soon;)

I find using ranges of values when searching helps a lot. Say you're after a 16uF@16V. Old cap tolerances were wide. Searching for between 10-20uF and 16-50V would show you a lot more choices, and you just pick an appropriate one.

I worked in a TV shop in ElCerrito, CA in the very early 80's. We DID make our own carpeted rolling carts. All of the test equipment looks familiar though. It was Sencore City in there.

Gotta rub that carpet real good, to invoke the spirits of all televisions that were fixed over it.

21:24 Looks like one of those over the air TV subscription channels from the early 1980's

I'm thinking about going to Digi-Key for some caps for my 1989 Macintosh Portable that still won't turn on after the battery was rebuilt.

I'm sure you triggered someone with your special gray TV carpet, This world is nuts right now.

Lately I first press "like" and then watch your videos ;-) I like it in advance. Surprisingly, there are always some dislikes. I would really like to hear WHY someone disliked such good content? It's interesting, funny and educational... Recommended to Sheldon Cooper to understand essence of sarcasm ;-) Cheers

I like the upside down look of this tv.

If you hold the Ctrl key, you can select multiple values at DigiKey.

I have no idea, why this video is not tagged as Educative, but instead, description says Funny. Even i learned that rubbing TV servicing carpet makes that pleasant sound...

I came here for the tv repair but I stayed for the sexy bench carpet ;)

I haven't used the search engine on Digi Key lately, but I found that the one on Mouser is somewhat frustrating to use sometimes since it displays items that are not in stock, or require large volume buys, like 5000 units. To make matter easier I usually go by capacitor value in uf. then a range of voltage, pick lead style, then let it search. I don't worry about brand names, other then Lelon, the rest are usually reputable brands like Panasonic, Rubicon, Nichicon, or United Chemicon, just pick out the style that works best, for the lowest price. If it's a choice between 85 degree or 105 degree, of different makes, but the price is the same, go for the 105 degree, ditto for ESR, or voltage. It never hurts a project using a better rated cap if it will still fit. Another thing, if you can use a non polarized cap to do the same job, and it's inexpensive, go for it, sometimes it makes sense to replace the small value electrolytics, under 5 uf, with those.

Well it does make golf look really great, I wonder if it could do the same for soccer?

Love the carpet 😍

Made in the same year i was born, looks fresher than me :-D

From a distance, it looks strangely like a VCR/TV combo that went through a sheer-form time-warp.

its always good to keep the table carpet clean of screws etc when placin the bottom of tv like these on it that have pcb boards on the bottom... !

20:35 That rolling/distorted picture reminds me of the RCA KCS-136 tube TV chassis (before shango "re-recapped" it) a while back.

FYI, you can select multiple values in the filters on digikey, so for 800uF I would usually select a bunch of values around it and pick whatever is cheapest.

Damn i wish shango was my neighbour

I just grabbed a rough zenith system 3, my guess is from 1978-ish. No high voltage and I’m afraid the crt may be going out. Decided to take your example and give it a shot, I usually don’t work on trashed sets.

awesome video!!

I’m currently working on an 1983 RCA black and white tv. All that needs to be fixed is the antenna wire and the speaker has to be replaced.

stroking the carpet to much will make a plane show up

If you hold down CTRL when you'r selecting from lists on the Digi-Key website you can select multiple values if you aren't sure what the new rounded value is for a cap.

Every guy needs to lick the carpet once and a while.

Same sentiments on Golf as me. How did you get my Sears Craftsmen Philips Screwdriver?

Please Don't Stroke he Carpet! Ever! It is already corrupted by the runoff from the "Squirtalizer".

Have a very similar 1967 Toshiba B&W portable,that is in a Singer branded cabinet.

Ain't nothin like visual hum.

I think the littlest bird's, are jostling to get the best seats. When the back comes off.🐥

I remember when you could a record HBO and it would be good even with one of those filters

I have a 9" portable Panasonic color set, I thought it had the same AC / 12v connector as your "sears" set, but the pins aren't the same.

Another great diagnostic video Shango. Automotive tech here that started in electronics with gave me a secure job as a auto diagnostic guy. Is that your day job?

In 1966 minimum wage was $1.25 an hour. This TV was 94.95 or 104.95 according to the sears wish book 1966 www.wishbookweb.com/FB/1966_Sears_Christmas_Book/#346/z Get ready to work 76 hours for the cheaper 9" model and 84 hours for the 11" model! Imagine being a student and having to work 2 full-time weeks to earn enough money to buy such a thing before income tax! It's probably closer to a month's salary to buy that tiny TV.

Oh as a side note, I totally hate the on line catalogs for DigiKey or Mouser. I do hope the still have hard copy books available. A thousand times faster than the on line version.

Shango066, Digikey is a great place to purchase top quality (no counterfeit) parts. Any electrolytic cap they stock is good quality. There are 2 different types of electrolytes used, which is why they have -40 to +85 and -55 to +105 Celesius ratings. The specified ripple current is rated at the maximum operating temperature which gives the specified life. End of life occurs when the electrolyte dries out. I highly recommend not buying any capacitor with a voltage rating less than 25 volts if you have the physical space available. Going lower in voltage degrades ESR/ripple current and sometimes life rating. I generally never used the lower temp electrolyte parts, with a small case size, they have a tendency to dry out quickly. If you are doing a junk TV recap, I would also use the lower temp caps.

From the start, use the 'Active' filter on parts status to reduce the number of hits.

Does the carpet match the drapes?

You should try to run this TV from 12V power suply. I think that all picture instability would go away, because main problem is caused by bad electrolytic capacitors in internal power supply.

Oh yeah, that carpet does it for me! I wouldn't need any thing else really just staring at that carpet on the table should suffice for all.

And the rug started it's own #meetoo site!

Nice video category :-)

Thanks for shareing