"The fun never stops at Dave's workshop." That is so true. If I am cross or grumpy or out of sorts, I watch one of your videos and I am content.

Keep the videos coming, very relaxing and enjoyable. And nice to see an old radio brought back to life in terms of the cabinet restoration and circuit restoration.

Great job! Thank you for showing some of the cleaning process as well as drilling down a bit on the alignment process. Looking forward to more!

Thank you David for sharing your knowledge and adventures repairing valve radios. Your camera work especially close up video and editing in my opinion is first class. Your attention to detail which is so important for successful repair work is a real credit to you. A wonderful channel thank you from a fellow Aussie restorer. Cheers.

Great work David. Particularly enjoyed watching the alignment process. Very informative. Now on the wanted list is a frequency counter!

Nice to see one working instead of all the broken ones I have seen. Nice floating dial too, very futuristic. Cheers.

to see someone with the know how to fix these incredible machines is truly a treat. I wish I knew how to fix such things. Keep up the amazing videos. I am now a loyal subscriber.

Awesome David. Mate, it’s so great to see a relative local to me on you tube. I’m on the sunny coast, and value your videos greatly. I have about six or seven sets to restore and you’ve given me much motivation. My background is more in the purely audio/guitar amp world, so am learning about the radio world. Thanks again. Cheers, Dan

Thank you for the very informative video. Lucky find on that antenna coil. I appreciate the extra time and detail on the alignment.

Art deco is my favorite industrial design. Gorgeous curves, no sharp corners. This design and art form was possible thanks to the many new materials that appeared in the early 20th century. Bakelite was the first human made material, invented by the late Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland. (Makes me proud to be Belgian.)

That was great. I was pleased to find a tech like yourself who wasn't in Canada or the USA, not that's there's anything wrong with those gentlemen, they all share their skills but it was nice to find your channel and hear a new voice for a change. I like your delivery and slow explanation to the details of what you're doing. Thank you.

I learn with every one of your videos. Thank you Dave!

Most entertaining Dave, Keep em coming PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As usual Dave you made beautiful job of that radio, the people that once made these radios, would be proud, love your videos, keep it up.

That is a hot radio,super sensitive.A good alignment can really bring old radios back alive, along with parts that are out of tolerance. Good restoration,really enjoy all your videos.

Great looking radio. Deserves pride of place. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and skills.

Oh awesome - one of these just landed on my bench! Looking forward to watching this video as I love your work :-)

Well done ,and you do such an outstanding job on ur radio repairs and restorations ,Enjoy ur video's.

Another great restoration, thanks Dave!

Another great video, David, thoroughly enjoyed watching your sleuthing!

That sustained frequency reminded me of my great grandfathers hearing aid feedback when I was a kid in the 50s.....upset my dog too.

Eres un maestro! Gracias por tu explicación tal detallada. Y otro gran trabajo. Felicidades. Saludos

Not surprised about Disney, they'll do whatever is necessary to protect their property. They're preparing for when their Mickey copyright expires. A saying from Wall Street: "Don't mess with the Mouse".

Catching up on some of your older videos. What an attractive and interesting set! It’s ironic how they used some trickery by reflexing the IF stage as an audio amp to save a tube, yet the set had a power transformer and that fancy worm drive that were costly. My apologies for that USA-made cap (Aerovox, I think) that was bad. Stuff happens. 😎

It has been pointed out to me that I should have adjusted the new aerial coil slug at the 620 (should be 600 for this radio) kHz point to align with the oscillator coil (42:50 in the video), I should have then adjusted the aerial trimmer capacitor at the 1420 (should be 1400 for this radio) kHz point. The original damaged aerial coil was pre-tuned to align with the oscillator at the 600 kHz mark so I should have tuned the replacement coil to the same frequency. If I then adjusted the aerial trimmer capacitor (with the big screwdriver) to align with the oscillator at 1400 kHz the tuning capacitor would follow the oscillator all the way through the tuning range. My thanks to Mr S for pointing that out 👍🙂

In the early 70's before the Cartels took over Mexico, we used to cross the Reo Grande and visit Juarez Mexico, I was stationed at Fort Bliss, which is in El Paso Texas, we lived off base in El Paso at the time. Down there, the artists that sat in booths on the street were selling the infamous black velvet paintings. We picked up a bull fighter, a Mission, and for my children Mickey and Minnie Mouse paintings, and for our leisure room, Buggs Bunny took up residence on one wall. We were still new to border crossings, but as luck would have it, we stowed the paintings in the trunk of my 69 Plymouth and the border patrol never chose our car to search, the folks who visited said if the BP had found them they would have confiscated them because of the Disney problems. My kids still have the paintings, their children and now grand children have them I guess. I think my paintings are still around somewhere although I haven't seen them in years perhaps my daughter, who now lives in my house to care for me in my old age has sold them, she has sold off a lot of things since my wife was taken from me by a nasty form of cancer two years ago

fantastic a new video love mickey radios

I’m guessing most people curse the mouse for chewing up the radio. I thank the mouse for adding interest!

Why so little subscribers? Amazing channel!

Good work finding a similar antenna coil. Resistance of the coil is mostly about the wire gauge used and the number of turns needed to get the required MW inductance. It wont matter unless there is a required voltage drop to service a tube plate. If so you may need to insert a resistor in series. The resistor will slightly affect resonance across the band. Inductances of MW antenna coils dont radically change from one design to another.

Very nice video. Liked the alligment. And how it ended up.

As a kid growing up in an Irish Ghetto we called a baked potato cooked on a stick in an open fire drum was called a Mickey.

Looks VERY nice!, perhaps a bit of foil glued to the inside of the case where the bulbs are would control the light better. It seems to have a bit of Cord 812 in the design. (that's a famous American automobile from 1937.)

Nice radio,thank you.

Nice job David, I have not come across the Mickey before , a lovely radio...........................................Berni

P.S. Shango066 had done a 📹 video on a Grundig Majestic 3035 radio about 2 years ago, maybe 3. It was a very nice German, wooden 📻 radio(if I'm 👎 not mistaken). It has a very nice glass dial, and a dial light. This radio is of very fine quality, with two VERY complicated dial cord systems, with a clutch system as well. This in turn, also operates an internal "rotary" type of ferrite bar antenna, since it's connected to the dial cord. It is a tube model. I'm guessing about 1948. I'd have to ⌚ watch his video to confirm. He said that had his 💻 computer or 📱 phone crashed, or if he accidentally deleted the photos, all would have been lost. He would NEVER get the dial cord system put back together correctly. QUALITY went in to 📻 radios then. They were 👍 like an heirloom, to be ✋ handed down. It's 👍 like Zenith's saying "Quality goes in before the name goes on".

Great job fixing that radio

The Miniprint caps were a design by Rifa of Sweden and I think I saw a date code of 10/74 on one of them. They're paper covered in some kind of epoxy as far as I know and the epoxy shrinks over time, causing cracks and occasionally spectacular smoke effects or even explosions. The same design was also available as X and Y-rated mains filter caps (PME 271) and if these go, things get nasty! A best-case scenario is "only" some weird fizzling and a big cloud of acrid smoke, worst case is a huge bang, darkness in the house and at least a blown fuse inside the set. They were incredibly common in almost any electronics designed for the common European market and it's wise to replace them if they're older than about 20 years or show signs of cracking.

That set was manufactured by Astor in Stuart St South Melbourne probably by my father who was the Foreman of domestic radio.

Looks very nice - you have some interesting sets in Australia. presumably different dials would have been used for that one, depending on which state it was sold in ? I like the idea of using the signal on the primary side for the alignment - I'll have to try that !

Thanks again Dave for very interesting and informative video. Where did you get your frequency generator from? I like how compact it is.

Now you'll have to get a 1937 Cord in your garage to match it!

Great video ! I started watching your videos and it is good to see good straight forward restorations. What is the model of your signal generator? I need something economical and simple with modulation.

What a Beauty :)

Mice like the taste of beeswax.

o just love old radios

Hi David. I have watched 4 of your radio restorations and I noticed that all of them used fully isolated power transformers. I the UK where I live most tube radios on sale used the series fed heater lines without power transformers as did the USA and Canada. Did Australia make radios like this or were they more safety oriented as series tubes can have live chassis? Just interested. BTW - Brilliant restorations of the cabinets and electronics. Keep up the good work.

Nice work David. I'm curious about the math behind how the antenna coils are wound for a given frequency. They seem very frail. Must be the reason they are wax covered. Camera work and editing is first class. 73 de KB7ICI

Hello David. I love your ‘Dim Bulb Control’ unit. Is that home brew or did you purchase it? I did an internet search for the unit and could not locate it. Let me know and thank you. Martin located form near Chicago.

You will need that slug in the aerial coil otherwise it won’t resonate at the bottom end of the band. Looks like a little theory is necessary. The slug is tuned at the low frequency end and the trimmer cap at the top of the band.

Watched loads of your video's now,different supplies then the power switches and bulb gone and then a new signal generator.i like the look of that signal generator myself were did you get it from?.

عزيزي. David ارجو ان تكون بخير وبصحة جيده انني اتابع جميع الفديو الذي تشرح بها جهاز الراديو القديمة كما اشكرك على هذا العمل الجميل الذي يذكرنا بالماضي و راديو الماضي شكرا العراق بغداد الجلبي

To remount the coil on the speaker how about a pop rivet gun? I picked one up years ago it came with a few hundred rivets and I have perhaps used a dozen over the years. For projects like that it would be ideal.

Hi David, nice restoration on the Astor Mickey - I also have one to restore - what did you do to clean up the white cabinet? Regards Mike R

Hi David. I don’t know how many plates in that transformer core you ground off but that shouldn’t be done. There is an oxide insulating layer on one side of each plate to insulate one from the other. This is to reduce eddy currents in the core, which is also why it’s a core of a whole lot of thin plates and not a solid iron core. Eddy currents means loss and heating of the core itself from those currents.

I don't recommend the center tap bass boost that is often wired in permanent on the HMV amplifiers and mini Realistic amps, It can saturate with high level sources and if source is weak ie 20 track LP the sound degrades just past the center point giving nasal midrange, I have de loudness a HMV Rhapsody radio gram and all my mini amplifiers, much more even response throughout the vol control range

What kind of signal generator do you use? The video was nice. Thanks

Thanks sir I want to buy like this tube tester where I found

What did the machine do that you put the core of the antenna in? If there is no "off" ... maybe a cord switch would suffice?

Never have I heard of fiber ⚙ gears for a 1940's, or 1950's radio. I think they were made of a fiber material, because 👎no one usually was turning the 📻 radio tuning 👌 knob, as if "Station 🏄 Surfing". It was also cheaper, and you didn't have to worry about ⚙ gear wear. I think these fiber gears were available, directly from the manufacturer, such as if one 👎 did fail. Today, you can probably find a much sturdier plastic ⚙ gear. Metal ones might be too expensive, or hard to find. It would be a major ➕ plus, if ALL these old 📻 radios had a dial string diagram, in order to restring the dial string.

I like Kellogg's Raisin Bran, even though many years ago I cracked a tooth on one of the hard raisins. 😖

Ferrite rod + coil maybe a good replacement for the aerial coil

oh ASTOR!!!! now that is a name to conjure...

*_BRAVO DAVIDE*_🤗

Martin, located from near Chicago. [correcting for a typo]

feliz ano novo mestre, saude e paz..............mestre este deu trabalho para ajustar as bobinas, mas voce é bom mesmo parabens tenho todas as perguntas possiveis, mas numa outra ocasião as faço ......abraços brasileiros ao amigo

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Don’t tune the slug at the top end of the band. You do it at the bottom end. The trimmer is to be adjusted at the top end.

B plus on my GPM was 2.5 volts

Your radios don't seem to suffer from silver mica migration, it must be the climate.

All you could say about mouse activity in a "Mickey" radio is....... *Awwwww rats!* LOL😁

As usual the restoration was meticulous and expertly done, but: a) the grille cloth is dirty and b) there is no way to turn it off. WTF?

r.i.p headphone users.

I forgot to tell ya that this radio 📻 looks much like 👍 a 1947 Firestone 🔥 model, but I’m not sure 🤔 if the case is steel on this one ☝️. The Firestone 🔥 radio 📻 that Shango066 was doing, had “Firestone 🔥 Tire And Rubber Company”, on the label, on the back of it. It must have been some sort of freebie, or at a reduced price, if ya went in to purchase a new set of Firestone fire 🔥 tires. That’s my guess. I’m not sure if this radio 📻, and the Firestone 🔥 one ☝️, both had the fiber gear ⚙️. If so, it was probably made out of this fiber-like material, because the manufacturer 👨 assumed that the tuning knob would not see much use. In other words, it was like 👍 a “set it and forget it” radio 📻. This eliminated the fear of gear ⚙️ wear. Unless you’re a “station surfer” 🏄‍♀️, then ya would go through more gears ⚙️. Both this radio 📻, and the Firestone 🔥 have dial lights 💡. Your friend, Jeff.

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