CONVERTING ZENITH FARM RADIO TO AC OPERATION

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CONVERTING ZENITH FARM RADIO TO AC OPERATION

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This session we take a beautiful Zenith farm radio that is originally run off of a 6 volt storage battery and change it to work off of standard 120 volt 60 cycle AC. The radio had several other problems to fix also.

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@DumahBrazorf Жыл бұрын

Great to see Ron back in action.

@johanneshartman4618 Жыл бұрын

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Berean Literal Bible because to us the wrestling is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. King James Bible For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. New King James Version For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. New American Standard Bible For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. NASB 1995 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. NASB 1977 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Legacy Standard Bible For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Amplified Bible For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places. Christian Standard Bible For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens. Holman Christian Standard Bible For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens. American Standard Version For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because your fight has not been with flesh and blood, but with Principalities and The Rulers and The Powers of this dark world and with wicked spirits which are under Heaven. Contemporary English Version We are not fighting against humans. We are fighting against forces and authorities and against rulers of darkness and powers in the spiritual world. Douay-Rheims Bible For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places. English Revised Version For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. GOD'S WORD® Translation This is not a wrestling match against a human opponent. We are wrestling with rulers, authorities, the powers who govern this world of darkness, and spiritual forces that control evil in the heavenly world. Good News Translation For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age. International Standard Version For our struggle is not against human opponents, but against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers in the darkness around us, and evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realm. Literal Standard Version because our wrestling is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual [forces] of evil in the heavenly [places]; Majority Standard Bible For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. New American Bible For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens. NET Bible For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens. New Revised Standard Version For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. New Heart English Bible For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world's rulers of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Webster's Bible Translation For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Weymouth New Testament For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare. World English Bible For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Young's Literal Translation because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places; Additional Translations ...

@buildstoys Жыл бұрын

Nice to see another video Ron and interesting to see a conversion like this done.

@stangaloski4208 Жыл бұрын

Made my night! Stayed up to 1am just to watch. Shouldn't be so camera shy. Show your beautiful self to the world with that beautiful radio!

@josephconsoli4128 Жыл бұрын

Great to see you again Ron! You're repair vids are the best. So informative and I'm always amazed at your talents with electronics. It's interesting that chassis is one of the few farm sets from the '30's that has a constant dial lamp that I have seen. By the way Ron, it looks like the repro knobs are the correct one for Zenith models with that chassis. They were Bakelite with and octagonal design. A departure from the typical wooden type. The wood "pinch" knobs would be incorrect.

@xnavynuc Жыл бұрын

Ron, the problems you encounter may make the repairs more frustrating for you, but they’re great learning experiences for many of us (plus, your reactions are always entertaining)!

@brucepickess8097 Жыл бұрын

I did notice on this one that he didn't hold back on the expletives, frustration level raised a notch or two.😖🇬🇧

@johnsampson1096 Жыл бұрын

Salutes, Ron. Another interesting and informative video! I have a 1953 Chevy Car radio that someone converted to work off of 120 volts. The transformer gets warm, but the radio plays fine. I have it near my electronic work bench as a reminder of my first car a 53 Chevrolet I purchased in 1966 for 75 bucks. The radio speaker was mounted in a chrome dash, and boy, it sounded good...........

@deanagoes2791 Жыл бұрын

Glad to see Ron in action again.

@brianbloom1799 Жыл бұрын

Ron You sir are A Amazing man so Talented.I wish I had a 1/3 of your Electronic Knowledge.

@ShadowsOnTheScreen Жыл бұрын

The ease in which you swapped out so much of that radio really shows off your incredible skill set. Mad respect!

@geofftaylor8913 Жыл бұрын

It’s always a treat when your videos pop up!

@longhaired1954 Жыл бұрын

How did you get started ,and how long have you been doing radio repairs ? You make it look so easy. Thanks for another great video. Would enjoy hearing about your electronis history.

@frankowalker4662 Жыл бұрын

What a gorgeous looking radio. At $55 you got a bargain. 👍 Nice repair and conversion job.

@qzorn4440 Жыл бұрын

This looks like a... Zenith Model 4-B-131 Tombstone Farm Radio (1936)? Popular shows... Jack Benny Program; Rudy Vallee Show; Gangbusters; Fibber McGee & Molly; Lowell Thomas News Ron, please make a video on how you got started in electronics and your background jobs. Such as, making vacuum tubes. I think many people would enjoy the story. 😎 Great repair video.

@billmyke746 Жыл бұрын

That would be very interesting, should he choose to do so.

@hestheMaster Жыл бұрын

It is a model 4-B-131

@qzorn4440 Жыл бұрын

@@hestheMaster Thanks.

@doneisenhuth408 Жыл бұрын

Always enjoyable watching you work your magic on these old sets. Hope this finds you well Ron.

@ronroberts34 Жыл бұрын

Great to see you back. You are a very important part of the KZfaq Electronic community. Love your contribution.

@300poundbassman Жыл бұрын

Great to see ya back. We miss you!!Great radio 📻!!!!

@luviskol Жыл бұрын

Famous last words - "I thought it was going to be easy...."

@michaellichter4091 Жыл бұрын

A very successful conversion, now the radio works with mains voltage, very nice.

@km5lb11 Жыл бұрын

Also a lot of people who had the 6-volt farm radios would have a Windcharger wind machine on the farm to keep the battery charged.

@FrankMakesStuff 11 ай бұрын

This video has EVERYTHING I love to see in a Glasslinger video! Beautiful radio, super-sleuthing troubleshooting (with accompanying cuss words) and visits from The Supervisor, who is only too happy to come in and share what's on her mind. I love this stuff, thanks again for sharing!

@eugenetheodore2956 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful radio Ron. Although I don't have the knowledge to do a conversion like this I always enjoy your videos...keep them coming!

@davidstacy8314 Жыл бұрын

Hi Ron your tech friend Dave another amazing video you do such good work you do good professional work I like your style can't wait to see another may God keep you safe and bless you always your friend a thank you

@Super8Rescue Жыл бұрын

Oh Ron, you spoil me. It's too late here to watch tonight, so I will enjoy this with my morning tea. stay safe my friend. xx

@renatobordin1601 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Ron, I have a 39 Philips made in North America that needs the same mod, those dam vibrators are nasty. Love your fuse arrangement and the switch cleaner port trick, I will remember that.

@salossi Жыл бұрын

I really love & enjoy all your work - and your massive knowledge - with one exception...: your soldering... I might be wrong, maybe it's hard to tell from the perspective of my laptops screen, but a LOT of these solderjoints look like proper cold joints to me, e.g. those at the fuse @13:20... And, a fuse, that is not properly installed with a fuse holder, is probably carrying mains and is "glued" to a switch looks fuckin dangerous to me...

@geoff825 Жыл бұрын

Great to see you back!

@bblod4896 Жыл бұрын

Nice work Ron, glad to see you back on the saddle.

@jimwolsiffer4397 Жыл бұрын

Awesome work Ron! Glad to see you posting , always look forward to your projects!

@NigelDixon1952 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for a great video, Ron, you do some fantastic work. I'm in the UK and lived on a small farm along with my family in Yorkshire. I was about 4, but at the time we'd just moved there and didn't have mains electricity. It would have been 1954. Some of my early memories are of a man turning up every week in a Morris Minor van, and replacing the wet battery of our radio. So, it seems we had farm radios in England too! Happy days!

@hestheMaster Жыл бұрын

Another Zenith farm radio conversion . This is a model 4-B-131 with chassis 5406. Not an easy radio to work on since rodents got to an IF transformer! Ron's cat loves supervising. Restoring it with new replacement caps and properly measured resistors would be next but it would make a very long video. Another excellent conversion to AC power Ron.

@suzakule Жыл бұрын

Why not! we cats rule the entire universe, you just don't know it yet!

@hestheMaster Жыл бұрын

@@suzakule Totally allergic to them !

@suzakule Жыл бұрын

@@hestheMaster that's just another way to rule over you! HA HA HA HA! 🐱

@robschertler8099 Жыл бұрын

That was just one crazy repair job 😮

@davidportch8837 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful cabinet, great radio..as ever, many thank for sharing Ron... really enjoyed this as I do all your videos...

@rustymotor Жыл бұрын

I sure wish I had some of your valuable knowledge working with radios, I come from industrial electronics and process instrument trade background but RF circuits are a mystery to me. Also working knowledge around tube circuits is a vanishing art, a friend of mine who is getting on a bit in years is a former military radio and radar technician and has helped me in restoring an old tube radio set.

@Greg-et2dp Жыл бұрын

Glass radio cabinet looks like new thats awesome my friend 😅😅😊🎉🎉

@chrisingle5839 Жыл бұрын

I have an old Silvertone something like that. It is a combination 110V or Battery. When I restored it a few years ago, I fixed the vibrator part too. I simply wanted to understand how that part worked. Kinda fun to run it on battery when the power is out!

@antoniogabrieldesena Жыл бұрын

📻 Excellent maintenance from the past to the future.😊

@davidandrews8566 Жыл бұрын

Nice job Ron a treat to watch

@Greg-et2dp Жыл бұрын

Glass linger you are good at restoring vintage shortwave receivers and alignment of vintage shortwave receivers my friend 😅😅😊

@richardsmith7783 Жыл бұрын

O my God, Welcome back Miss. I hope you know we the people missed toy so much!

@knifeswitch5973 Жыл бұрын

Ron’s back! ❤

@coltronex Жыл бұрын

Enjoyable repair Ron

@garyk.8674 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for what you do. May you repair many more radios

@ronroberts34 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant Ron, thoroughly enjoyed that. You are a freaking genius.

@mikewurlitzer5217 Жыл бұрын

Love those old Zenith radios especially the ones with the Magic Eye and about 57 knobs. Surprised you would drill/hammer on that with the tubes still installed.

@timhull8664 Жыл бұрын

Hi Ron.. nice to see you back again.. we dont see you often enough.. Great video..

@sheep1ewe Жыл бұрын

Thank You Ron for presenting us another excellent video! Top class as usual! 👌👍

@brianbloom1799 Жыл бұрын

She's a Beautiful Cat Ron, Me and my wife ,and Baby girl 30 pound Tabby, Means everything to us, She is our Child. God Bless

@jtmiller3782 Жыл бұрын

Great video. It turned into a near restoration. Picked up some valuable information. Thanks for the education. JT

@chrishernandez2371 Жыл бұрын

Always nice to you watch your videos

@tordlingvall899 4 ай бұрын

Nice to see your work! The soldering gun impressed me. Bougt a chinese Weller solder gun only 160 W and it is slow. And your screwdrivers remember me about 50 th my father have the same. Here in sweden many radios are lokal. Not so much US made but some Marconi stuff from England. Keep going with your good work! You inspired me a lot.

@EddieVfgi 6 ай бұрын

OUTSTANDING, UNBELIEVABLE thanks, I loved it.

@sr633 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for a great video Ron ! I miss our go to repair whiz Mr.Finkbeiner who passed last year.

@petercool Жыл бұрын

HELLO MR GLASSLINGER HAVE NOT SEEN YOU ON FOR SOME TIME NICE TO SEE YOU A GINE YOU DO FANTASTIC WORK BY FROM AUSTRALIA

@miketurnner1351 Жыл бұрын

Good day sweetheart? Its great to see you back with a new video. I watched all of your other one so much i think i wore them out lol lol My Nephew made his crystal radio Thanks to you of encouraging him. .....If you know of anyone i could send the picture of the BIG tube i have so they can show it to you, That would be great. God Bless Miss and Have a beautiful day....

@Greg-et2dp Жыл бұрын

Glass linger your vintage zenith farm shortwave receiver is awesome my friend 😅😅😅😅

@girleylucindagoncalvesluci558 Жыл бұрын

Eu sou do Brasil, gostei muito do vídeo. Que lindo rádio. Parabéns.

@ionzaharia5078 Жыл бұрын

Absolutly genius , you are one of a kaind in electronics , thank you for sharing you knolege with us ! I’m glad that you start posting againe !

@melvinstewart7266 Жыл бұрын

Ron u must be a genius. Love your videos you must have been doing this all of your life . Good work

@edmaster3147 Жыл бұрын

Just as easy as that, though it is never easy you make it look easy enough. Thanks for the great vid :)

@thomthumbe 10 ай бұрын

I prefer to un-solder, remove the old component lead completely, then wrap for a strong physical bond and then re-solder the original joint. To each his/her own. But the work and process done by Glassinger herein is superb, and interesting to watch! Very appreciated!! I’ve watched much of the video catalog!

@glasslinger 10 ай бұрын

At one time I was in the radio-tv repair business and VERY QUICKLY found that time spent per job was the determining factor of making a profit or not. You make up as many shortcuts as possible to cut the time down to minimum possible while doing a reliable job.

@thomthumbe 10 ай бұрын

@@glasslinger - I agree completely. Since I don’t fix anything for anyone besides myself, my comment is from a completely different realm. Even then, your style is highly admired by many folks, including myself!

@Greg-et2dp Жыл бұрын

Glass linger your utube videos are awesome my friend 😅😅😅

@joejeweller7614 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for another great video. More please!

@georgeallen8860 Жыл бұрын

good girl ron nice to see you back

@billmcdonald2436 11 ай бұрын

That thing was riddled with issues. Thanks for the video Ron!

@Greg-et2dp Жыл бұрын

Glass linger your dress 👗 you ware a awesome my friend 😊😊😊

@shubhankarnath9364 Жыл бұрын

Very skilled work 'glasslinger'. A treat to watch!

@AlexAlex-ei7zf Жыл бұрын

дед, рад тебя видеть. лет 6 тебя на смотрел.

@Ale.K7 Жыл бұрын

Gorgeous radio, great video!

@shortwaverPL Жыл бұрын

BRILLIANT!

@MichaelOfRohan Жыл бұрын

Good to see you ron! Hope alls well!

@eddiekilby Жыл бұрын

Another outstanding job 👍👍👍👍

@OKokOKokOK.420 Жыл бұрын

Ron, you are 'The Best'

@miketurnner1351 10 ай бұрын

Hello Miss ? i just wanted to stop and say hello and hope you are doing good, We the people loves and miss you! Take care and be safe hugsss

@delircorrea248 Жыл бұрын

Ele fez a troca da. Chave Power do receptor. Trocou filtros e recuperação da fiação. Esses rádios antigos sempre dão muito trabalho.

@bahramsoroush2228 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this educational video.

@chuck0mx Жыл бұрын

Juat... very cool. The radio is in a very good "shape".

@Greg-et2dp Жыл бұрын

Glass linger iam going to san Diego CALIFORNIA in October 19-23 2023 for five days with my cousin and his wife we are flying there my friend 😅😅😅

@lewiskhan9825 Жыл бұрын

Great video Ron!

@hotpuppy1 Жыл бұрын

I would have left it original and just built a 6 volt power supply if I wanted it to operate. AC radios are a dime a dozen but working battery radios are harder to find.

@JamesEncliffe Жыл бұрын

Exactly! A once fine radio in good original condition has now lost all authenticity and performs rather poorly. Shame.

@ShadowsOnTheScreen Жыл бұрын

@@JamesEncliffe shame on you. He took a refinished radio with multiple failed components that virtually nobody in their right mind would want to mess with, and made it useful again.

@rodan2alcubo 8 ай бұрын

Nice videos Ron, i enjoy watching and learn a bit... Waves from Argentina my Friend 😊

@shanefluhr6454 Жыл бұрын

Wow that radio is impressive I've got one like it it needs to be refinished

@ThomasBussmann Жыл бұрын

🤣"Junk" ... this was one of the funniest episodes I have watched on this channel... and - btw - being able to recognize in a second what is "junk" is so cool. 😀

@timhull8664 Жыл бұрын

Also, you can tell when Someone knows what they are doing, when they chop out a load of wires with no colour coding and then they solder in a load of new wires with no colour coding!

@zx8401ztv Жыл бұрын

What Ron doesn't know, isn't worth knowing.

@firenbubble Жыл бұрын

Ça fait toujours plaisir de voir une de tes vidéos =]

@ГарикШариков Ай бұрын

привет из Минска

@delircorrea248 Жыл бұрын

Os seus vídeos sumiram, agora voltou novamente, acho. Muito bom seus vídeos.

@Thomas-yr9ln 7 ай бұрын

I love your videos and hope you will make many more.

@olradguy Жыл бұрын

And now you know why i won't pay a lot for old radios, mice chews, open transformers, crumbly rubber wires, bad caps, ripped up speakers, hack job past repairs. ☹️

@nestoraccastelli3950 Жыл бұрын

Great !!! The Best of the best. !!!

@dz-abouttechnique1849 11 ай бұрын

Excellent video! 👍

@delircorrea248 Жыл бұрын

Eu sou técnico em eletrônica, e sei muito bem as dificuldades que é trabalhar nesse ramo. Principalmente aqui no Brasil. Nos E.U.A as dificuldades não são muitas. Aqui no Brasil um osciloscopio custa o preço de um carro semi-novo.

@suzakule Жыл бұрын

there was still a bit of 60hz hum in the audio, not sure if it was from the lights in the shop, or not enough filter caps :(

@jockoharpo2622 Жыл бұрын

It's a tombstone type radio! It's BOOOOOtiful!

@andygoldensixties4201 Жыл бұрын

this job is art, congrats

@apl175 Жыл бұрын

"Ultimately I got some job like converting a DC set into an AC set, and it was very hard to keep the hum from going through the system, and I didn't build it quite right. I shouldn't have bitten that one off, but I didn't know. " - R. P. Feynman from the Chapter One 'He Fixes Radios by Thinking!' of the memoir Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman

@6581william Жыл бұрын

I think you are doing what I wanted to do. Well, updating the power section. I want to remove a really old amp section of a radio, but didn't know if it would affect the tuning. Tips would be welcome. 1942 floor radio. TY Take care.

@glasslinger Жыл бұрын

The speaker of the old radio is not capable of any better sound than the original amp can produce. Thus, putting a better amp is useless, and destroys the value of the radio as an antique.

@6581william Жыл бұрын

Not sure there is a speaker problem. Have not heard the radio since the seller removed all of the tubes. Supposedly, the radio is very common (little value) Zenith 10S669 or possible a GE L-916. Even so, with your info, I'm now torn. Thank you for your thoughts and timely repsonses. Good day.