Years ago, my mother, now 96 and going strong in the nursing home, bought a modern copy of that sort of set, she loved it however it developed a hum so she replaced it and put the set in a box. When I cleaned her house out to sell it after she went into the home, I found it and repaired the hum by replacing a cap. The set basically had a transistor radio chase mounted in the case hooked to a large speaker to give better quality. It had a lite dial but the bulb was gone so I replaced it with an amber LED and a resistor, not she is working once more but mom doesn't have room for it in the home so it sits on a table in my dinning room. Before my wife passed away I used a small FM transmitter hooked to an MP3 player and played Christmas music through the set. Alas, those days are now long past. My youngest daughter has moved in with me and keeps the house for me now and that radio get's dusted once in awhile. I am considering replacing the works with one of the WIFI radio sets I build using ESP32's and V1053 decoders with a small amplifier. I know mom would like a small version of that set and I am planning on building one for her this week.

It amazes me that an 80+ year old radio set is in that good untouched condition. I doubt in 80 years time. No modern electronics will be around

What a beautiful piece! You don’t see them this untouched very often these days.... which is a shame😢

Like so many areas, there are no AM radio station worth listening to. Bryan, you need a little AM transmitter to provide a signal that can be used and tolerated! Good video.

Love that N.R.A decal on the rear of the chassis. Be nice to find some of those for restoration.

You and shango are my favorite channels. I love the commentary

It still blows my mind how dangerous some of the battery operated sets were, especially considering you have a battery with over 100 volts that was designed to be replaced by the user. I can just think of how many people got zapped...

Loving the modern blue crosley cruiser case being used as a tool box in the background

That's a cool battery set. Good job getting it going again. Too bad AM radio programming isn't better these days. Our local talk radio has been off the air for a few months now. I'm sure the company that owns it doesn't even know.

I can verify what you say about WMER's audio as at night they often make it to my place in Crump, Tennessee. They sound pretty overdriven. I get WMOX often as well. I think its pretty cool that you have the old battery radio running again.

Your knowledge of electronics is outstanding !! Keep the videos coming !!

80 year Radio it's playing, that's how electronics where built, sold

Great radio and repair!!! It woulda been kind of neat if you hogged the guts from the caps and restuffed with the new ones so they still looked original though....but glad you got it resurrected none the less.

I have never seen a speaker like that. Very interesting. Thanks for the video.

Very nice clean looking set. This must have been stored in a cool dry place as everything looks good the chassis looks clean no rust. Very nice display please. And a great job getting it going again. If the truth be known that radio has not played in the last 70 years.

This Crosley radio is from the 1930’s and it was one of those “Great Depression” radios from that time period.

Very good find!!!! Good job on the restoration

Hey Radio that is a neat radio! Amazing how they made speakers back then!

Cool find. Remember “Winchester Cathedral”?

Some manuals have instructions for adjusting that type of magnetic speaker, which I believe involves unsoldering the center joint between the wire "rod" and the center of the speaker, then adjusting the armature to be half way between the magnetic poles, then resoldering the speaker in place on the "rod". It will never sound that great, though, which is why they invented dynamic speakers. That said, I believe in keeping radios as original as possible, even if they're not the best design, so I'd keep the original speaker even if adjusting it doesn't improve the sound much. If you want a better speaker, you can always find a newer radio that has one. I'm glad you didn't stick a dynamic speaker with transformer in this one.

It's a shame that there's not much music on AM these days, just mostly talk shows.

Nice trick with that paper towel on the speaker. Thanks

The 3 gang tuning is a plus.Cool old radio.

it still amazes me that you still haven't post shangos gift yet.

I have one similar to that one. Now I know to look for. Good video.

"It needs a recap". Jeez it's a repair/troubleshoot video you can learn from. Anyone can recap something and film but what do you gain? Cool video. I have a 1938 5T-3 RCA I plan on getting around to. Just need a couple parts/tubes. Someone figured an 82 was a good replacement for an 80...hmmm

That is a genuine true Crosley radio with ALL AMERICAN parts. No Chinese BS in this radio!!!and no ejaculate either!!!!

FYI. Notice there is a white sticker with a blue Eagle on it near the antenna terminal strips. That sticker is marked NRA. That represents President Roosevelt's National Recovery Act from back in the days of the depression in the 1930s. Just thought I would point that out

I actually have an old Coronado battery radio from 1937 that when I got it someone tried to wire an AC power cord to the antenna terminal and thankfully there was a capacitor there otherwise the antenna coil would of gotten fried. The radio I have uses 2 volt tubes so I rigged up a battery pack using 2 “D” cells and a couple of diodes in series to drop the 3 volts down to 2 volts.

So could the screws on the the speaker adjust it so its less distorted?

Thanks.

What’s the underlayment on that battery eliminator? Particle board?

schematic shows that bad resistor is about 1.2k The parts values used in old radios were not the "standard" values sold today in the 10%, 5%, and 1% series. The standard value series is based on each value falling into a specific range, the old values weren't and a 30pf capacitor could actually be a higher value than a 35pf when they were tested!

That speaker was incredibly shrill, especially with the wrong capacitor. The tissue paper really helped a lot.

The center cutout in that grill looks quite phallic!

That turned out quite well. Crosley battery sets were ok, but they were definitely not on par with something like a Zenith. I like the paper towel between cone and basket, that's an old-timer's trick. I've received many a radio with a warped cone that had cotton wedged in there....and it did the trick

A circuit board is not too hard to design . Also less than 1.4 volts ( 1.25 or 1.35 v ) for the smaller battery tubes is ok. 2 protection diodes in series across filament inside radio + fuse to save the tubes is a good idea

Did you have any concern that your resistance sub box would have enough wattage capability?

When are you going to add some new videos?

You can install a low power LED as a dial light with its own on off switch

A proper rebuilt of this clusterfuck power supply with a properly designed PCB and Heatsinks and terminals will do wonders.

Those flexohm resistors are problematic. They open up like an umbrella

That radio 📻 is about as portable as it gets. That’s the advantage of it being battery 🔋 operated. It sounds like 👍 the speaker 🔊 has some sort of magnet 🧲. I’d rather see ya 👋 add this radio 📻 to your collection. As well as your shop, ya can also turn it into your “Radio Museum”, so it can serve both purposes. That’s a pretty nice 👍 radio 📻. Your friend, Jeff.

Do some of the radio's you work on contain asbestos

That speaker sounds like a squawkbox

I've seen these on sale. But, on the back was written: made in China. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

So the radio works but where is the programming it used to receive.. wouldn't that be cool.. EG tune into the war news

All religion stations on am

Would have been a shorter video if the Electrolytic's & Wax CAPs had been changed sooner!