Cheers David. Glad you enjoyed it.

Hi. Yes these chassis were pretty good, although the output tranny seems to be a bit of a weak point. Nice little piece of family history though.

I hope so! Working on yours next. I just squeezed this one in as a favour

@Donno308 that one has family history , I'm glad You got it working for the owner.🍺👍

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it!

Cheers Mack. Today I'm trying to get the MG up on ramps to work out where the oil leak is coming from. Not so easy - it's too low. And it's 38 degrees outside ... but I only get one weekend a week.

Glad you enjoyed it! I just bought a NZ Columbia radio so that will be coming up soon. Cheers from across the ditch

⁠Most old valve radios ended up in cow sheds cockies used to reacon cows always produced more milk with them blaring away.

@@philblick4955 Yes, a lot of them ended up that way. I've even seen console radios sawn in half and used to keep the cows happy.

Hi. I've heard that too but I've never tried it. I should grab a couple from Jaycar to keep as spares. These HMV chassis are notorious for open circuit output transformers.

Hi Stephen, I did most of this one at night. The lights attract all kind of bugs but the flies are pretty active as the weather warms up. It's getting hot now. 40 degrees C today, and it's not even Summer yet! Filming here is always difficult: we live near the airport so there are always planes flying over. They seem to know when I turn on the camera lol. Then there's the train line a block away with a freight train every half an hour or so. Then there's barking dogs and the neighbours getting drunk & singing karaoke. Add chickens to the mix and it becomes downright impossible! The next radio is a 1930's STC brand console. I don't own this one either - it's a job for a friend, but it promises to be interesting. I just hope I can get it working!

@@Donno308 Oh mate I feel your frustration. I live in a terraced row among many so I have several households no more than 30 mtrs from my workshop so barking dogs, wailing cats and dysfunctional neighbours are a pain. Summer is the best time for me to film as I can start at around 4am knowing I have a couple of hours before you hear the crescendo of coughing, farting and toilet flushings from adjacent properties (ha ha). All the best mate.

Thanks mate. Glad you enjoyed it.

Hi Andrew, Yes, it's bloody hot! We had a 20 hour power outage over Thursday & Friday during the worst of the fire. The fault wasn't fire related but there were no available resources to fix it. Anyway all sorted now and I think they're getting on top of the fire at last. One of my work colleagues is a volunteer firefighter so I guess he'll have a story or two. The Gnangara pine forest used to be on the semi-rural outskirts of Perth but is now surrounded by suburbia. The suburban sprawl is relentless and so are the developers, doing dodgy deals to get their hands on land that really shouldn't be turned into suburbs. And this is the result. Anyway I've been busy with the MG today. I've got it up on stands and I've been pressure cleaning the underside to try to pinpoint the oil leak which, as we all know, is a fundamental part of the design. Cheers

Hi Don. I wish I could send you some of the misserable weather we're having here. The humidity has been around 90% all day with that fine misty rain. Fortunately it's not too hot. I should send it back up to Qld and David! The power came back on just after 10am. It sounded like there were a lot of emergency services, 3 choppers were circling until after 11.00pm. So someone must have gone into a major pole. The leaks sound very familar. I had an Austin 1800 as my 2nd car. Really confortable, more so than my friends LTD and with more space inside. BUT, it ate the rubber universal joints like there was no tomorrow and of course leaked oil like a sieve. Keep cool,, I'm sure the heat will head this way eventually.

Hi James Yes I've seen David do that. I always keep the input signal low to avoid the AGC messing things up but I might try it that way next time.

I have to admit I don't like to mess with the RF tracking.

Hi Dave Hard to tell now. My guess is that the OPT went open and the owner took this to be a power surge. Or a power surge finished off the OPT which was already on the way out. Power surges were common in the 80's and the power supplier paid out a lot of money to consumers for damaged appliances.

Sounds interesting!

Yes it's a problem when you get leaky filter caps. The radio just hums the tune and you can't hear the words. It makes the news less alarming though...

@@Donno308 LOL

Hi Phil. Yes, it's a His Masters Voice model 61-51. They are a nice little chassis. My guess is that he got it from a radio that had been dropped, hence the bent mains transformer, fixed it up and put it in that cabinet. The front panel is Masonite, which isn't very strong and tends to delaminate so it would have taken some time & care to cut the speaker grille with his initials.

Hi Neil. You guessed right!

@@Donno308 Cheers!

@@neilforbes416 old style radios are making a comeback in a modern way

Hi Juanma and greetings from Australia! Glad you're enjoying my channel. To answer your question, I use a small screwdriver form a set of "jeweler's screwdrivers" (about 1mm) and wrap the component lead around that. I use small pliers to push the coil snugly against the handle then pull the screwdriver out and re-insert it into the coil from the other direction and, holding the little coil with my thumbnail, bend the wire to come off in line with the coil or at whatever angle I want . It sounds complicated but it only takes a few seconds. I'll show it in my next video. Cheers

Hi, Yes I think Australia (and New Zealand) may be unique in having station callsigns marked on radio dials. Every overseas radio I have seen has frequencies or wavelengths marked on the dials, and, on short wave receivers, countries. In this case though, the chassis is from the 1950's and, as far as I can tell, has its original dial. I think there is a clue in the fact that the dial cord had been incorrectly installed so that the pointer ran in the reverse direction. In that case, none of the station markings would line up. On checking I realised that the stations that had been stuck on the dial were in reverse order to the way they would normally appear. So it seems that rather than re-stringing the dial cord, he just typed out the main stations and stuck them on in the appropriate places. Cheers

Hi Tim I ended up attaching the ground wire to the chassis. I only left it off at first in case there was any earth leakage through those old capacitors. When that happens it can trip the RCD breaker to the house and my wife gets upset.

Thanks for the tip. I'll keep that in mind.

Hi John. Yes. thinking about it later I realised that was probably what happened. My guess is that, having re-strung the dial, he discovered that the pointer ran the wrong way, so stuck the station callsigns on the front. I checked and they are in reverse order to what appears on the dial glass so that pretty much proves the point.

@@Donno308 👍

Hi Stuart. Yes, I think it was just an ordinary mica cap. I've also noticed these HMV chassis often have O.C output transformers. It must have been a design flaw.

I think it was the fact that they encapsulated them in pitch. This prevented the moisture from escaping. I've found the same even with their TV sets.

Hi. No, the chickens kept quiet this time. The roosters had to go as the neighbors were complaining. They were duly invited to dinner at a friend's place.

yes 100%

Sure is.

Yes, I didn't want to risk it. My guess is that the chassis came from a set that had been dropped.

Hi Steve. No, not till I've finished cleaning the carburetors on the MG.