My grandparents had one of these on their kitchen table for 30 years. It eventually and inevitably stopped. My grandfather tried to fix it, and had it working, but an intermittent issue caused it to stop again during cleaning and he moved it to the basement. I took it in 2005 after he passed away, knowing that I'd be able to fix it someday. Fast forward to three weeks ago; I began the journey, knowing it was the switches that were the issue. I spent the last three weeks completely disassembling it to the point where I was holding the contacts of each of the switches in my hand, polishing them with chrome polish, and reassembled everything. Immediately came back to life. This was a very clever and well-made radio, but it took completely disassembling it and putting it back together to learn why. Everything I did I could've done with 1/10th the work had I known the tricks. I plan to surprise my Dad for his birthday here soon by getting it finished and shipping it to him. The schedule is a little tight, so it may take an extra week, but it's worth it. EDIT: driving it from TX to OH when we meet for the Dayton Hamvention this year...ran into FM issues...donor radio had what I needed. Shango066, keep 'em coming. You're a very talented guy and I am thoroughly enjoying these. I might even start a new channel myself; I deleted my old one for "personal and political reasons"...I had 9K subs at the time.

Great touch with the squirrel in between the radio analyses. Great fix. Träge is slow in German.

Very cool, I have always like the Grundig products. Several years ago I purchased a little Grundig pocket AM/FM/Shortwave radio to play with. She has digital tuning, and of course, is no longer made in Germany, to my dismay. I loved the little set, then one day my good wife of 50 years, who I have never been able to say no to, asked to use it. So I let her have it for a year, then when we went South, I took it back to use on the road. Well she had kept the blasted thing in her kitchen and it was covered with so damn much grease that it took me hours of cleaning to get her back into some semblance of her once great beauty, and when we returned from Arizona that next spring, I fixed her up another little transistor radio so she could listen to the local news on, and my little Grundig now lives in the case she came in, in one of the overhead in our RV.

Of course its a colossal PITA to drag the o-scope outside just to troubleshoot the power supply on a chassis, but I must say I'da loved to see that current inrush on a long time base!

I continue to say you are totally amazing. Added to the electronics is your video and editing skills. Keep it up. thanks

'Tabs that push down' for reference or bin or whatever, usually called piano keys. Enjoyed this one.

Fantastic SW reception with no external antenna.

Great job on the video again! I always enjoy these longer videos. I prefer them. Plus the way you go about your diagnosis and repairs are helpful to me, and they're fun to watch.

Max Grundig was a genius. Exceptional quality radios. Hope here in europe the analog signal persists. Thank you shango. Good work as always.

Nice demonstration and thanks for the time you gave us in the troubleshooting techniques you have shown us very well. I never thought that the difference between a fast fuse and a delayed one (traege) would have allowed the radio to operate so easily.

How wonderful!! wow, how many years, I worked a lot with stereos like that, at the time it was tube, but it is much better than today, I am delighted to see such a beautiful HI-FI.

Hi Shango!I am german and i didn't knew that that this radios were sold in the u.s.as well. So it made me happy ,that this repair turned successfull and that you gave finally a"thumbs up" for this old device. By the way,i am also a happy owner of some of this old stuff ,brands like Grundig,Saba,Telefunken or Mende. Today my main interest is in the area of modular synthesis,especially the euro-rack format devices. I know that these things are totally different from each other,but when you remember the effect,when you tune a little bit beside the main frequencie of a single side band station,you get some gender transforming effects on the outcoming signal,for me,as a child it was fascinating....but it was lofi. How about the situation of am-Radio in the States? Because here in Europe they have shutdown already a lot of stations in this area...

Oh hello friend shango, boa noite, eu aqui relembrando os seus vídeos, bom shango, esse Radio Grundig é uma maravilha, adoro radios & gabinetes valvulados,, por outro lado amigo shango, adorei ver o esquilinho, acho muito bonitinho,, por isso que gosto de seus vídeos,, ah! sim e você é um ótimo técnico Oh hello friend shango, good night, I'm here remembering your videos, good shango, this Radio Grundig is wonderful, I love radios & valve cabinets,, on the other hand friend shango, I loved seeing the little squirrel, I think it's very cute,, that's why I like your videos,, ah! yes and you are a great technician

I picked up one of these in good condition, FM works but no SW that I could tell. Doesn't look like it has ever been serviced. Has record player. Thank you for giving me an idea on how to work on it.

flink is fast, (in German) they may have fitted the wrong fuse. Shango, your filing system is awesome ! Interesting stringed switch. Love your wildlife outside your house garden workshop. Great fix.

The phonograph and the trimmers on top of the chassis have a Phillips about them. Ive seen sets that looked like this that had the same dial and pushbuttons but a tube chassis instead, that may explain why this has the Conelrad markings on the dial, saves money. I have mixed feelings about German sets to be honest, they sound all right, but are a pain to work, and the cabinets were often made out of junky particleboard, even ones from the mid 1950s. One thing I never liked was the fact that they used the bandswitch assembly to turn the set on and off, which over time causes the contacts in the band switch to wear and become flaky, they should have arranged the power switch to operate independently from the rest.

and you get a thumbs up for fixing it

Oh olá shango, boa tarde velho amigo de guerra Okay shango estou vendo novamente o seu vídeo do radio Grundig... e esse é um ótimo radio heim? shango, ah sim adorei ter visto o esquilinho no seu vídeo, eu shango assisto mais os seus vídeos, e vejo também o vídeo do glaslinger, más gosto de ver os seus Ok grande amigo, uma boa tarde e ótimo trabalho . Oh hello shango good afternoon old friend of war Okay shango I'm watching your Grundig radio video again... and this is a great radio huh? shango, oh yes I loved seeing the little squirrel in your video, I shango watch your videos more, and I also watch the glaslinger video, but I like watching yours Ok great friend, good afternoon and great job.

great job as always that is really freaky christmas in november weird . but this sounds great they certainly do not make stuff like this anymore thank you for sharing this

nice piece of early modern radios from Grundig. Until now it's my favorite brand in receivers. Panasonic right after :D

For any newer types - fuses will (usually) have a T for time delay of F for fast clearly marked. Edit: There are many types of delay fuse, but you can count on them reliably taking 10x current for a millisecond or two, at least, they will carry double rated current for ages - make sure you use correct fuse if sensitive to overcurrent.

Interesting to see the old selenium raggedifier still alive and kicking. These don't exactly have the most stellar reputation for long-term reliability, and the nasty stench they can give off when dying actually earned them their German nickname among techs.

good job my freind iam not surprised that you did not find the schematic for it i have an newer models for grundig and i could not find them as well so i do like you did or in other way i re build the circuit if the damage is big so thanks for posting this video and god bless you

Little squirrelly -whurley came by in his curly- whurley !

Enjoy your videos, I though you lived in the USA it sounded more like Mexico! lol I though the FCC had a ruling that all USA com's had to be in English oh yea that was before we went liberal. 73 Leo

Little squirrely whirly came by in his curly wurly

Great job there!These FRAKO capacitors tend to go bad, I had to totally recap my Blaupunkt tv because they were all bad to the last of them.

great,like watch a movie. unlike most other ytber that fix camera on spot that makes video boring.

Great video on this cool radio. Performs pretty good!

Sweet, nice walk through and repair, as always THUMBS up

allways like ur videos man i have learned alot from u so far

love your video's you can learn a lot, the same chassis is in my ks 742 gb model with a huge woofer and tweeter arrangement kind of makes up for the lack of audio power. though small amp's were considered normal back then.

Works well. Nice work!

Oh! olá shango velho amigo,, oh shango, legal o som Grundig que você arrumou, e esse é um belo som,, ah! sim shango, gostei também do esquilinho, vi ele com as mãozinhas comendo a comidinha,, adoro esse bichinho!, gosto também da 🐱 oncinha que você tem em casa,, eu vi ela no outro vídeo seu,, o vídeo do Radio Philco valvulado,, más enfim, adoro os seus vídeos Oh! hello shango old friend, oh shango, the Grundig sound you created is cool, and that's a beautiful sound, ah! Yes shango, I also liked the little squirrel, I saw him with his little hands eating the food, I love this little animal! I also like the 🐱 leopard you have at home, I saw her in your other video, the Radio Philco tube video ,,

It just goes to show what you can diagnose/fix with a decent multimeter---sometimes that's the only diagnostic tool you need. 10 amps spike on startup is pretty scary.

great vid wildlife and showing how long ago this was recorded with christmas music even though its near the end of feb!

I have a similar Grundig amp with similar symptoms gathering dust. Speakers are usually 5 Ohms. and Germanium transistors.

For the 315mA fuse ( träge is slow ) Germanium output transistors AD series. That is a Zener diode at 9:54

That's cool to see Australia on the station selector.

I like how you put this under the Category of Comedy......lol

A lot of high-quality electronics came off the assembly line out of postwar West Germany. This unit looks like it might have come out of around the end of the CONELRAD era, 1962-63 or so.

"Kind of like a Toyota accelerator pedal."

Yes, the stations play Christmas music the day after Halloween

Solid state German consoles seem to be rare in the USA. Personally, I've only worked on one (a Telefunken from the early '70's).

My 1976 Montgomery Ward Airline GAI-13106B has that same plug.

i have a similar but different one, como 4gb, controls are rearranged a bit and has lower power output transistors... works brilliantly, also got an almost matching valve/tube variant como d/gb , not so good

German radios sold well in Canada. They were always regarded as superior to American designs for performance and longevity.

Ohhh!!!! yeah!!! Shango esqueci de falar deixe no canal seis, pois adoro as músicas do seu vídeo, adoro o jazz americano que está tocando, adoro ouvir os jazz americanos no seu vídeo, QSL abraços shango velho amigo Ohhh!!!! yeah!!! Shango forgot to mention leave it on channel six because I love the music in your video I love the American jazz you're playing I love listening to American jazz in your video QSL hugs shango old friend

0:10 The changer looks like a Philips.

Getting the time signal on 10 MHz and 15 MHz without an external antenna, sure is good quality.

So it was just the fuse? I wonder why the original blew in the first place. Years ago, I had a teacher whose stereo kept blowing fuses; eventually she noticed a subtle whopping noise that started and got louder as each record was playing; moving the speakers solved that, and the fuse blowing stopped. But this being a console, I'd expect that problem to have already been solved. Anyway, it's a cool radio, must have been when the round pushbuttons had just replaced the "Cheshire cat" piano keys that were so popular on European radios. I saw a 3 piece model similar to this in some cheapo department store around 1974 for $60 or $70; it looked more expensive than anything else there. It must have been some overstock buyout; I doubt they could make money importing this stuff from Germany at those prices.

Nice looking cabinet

Im watching this video on the shango066 youtube channel !!!

The record player is from Philips!

16:26 I was wondering why the voltage had somehow multiplied by 10. Radio shack had the last of the 8 tube mono Grundig models in their 1967 catalog. I think they had one Japanese quasi Cheshire cat tube stereo set in 1968 and nothing but SS after that.

rust on the resistor lead next to sb fuse

Wow, SW from Colorado with no antenna.....

"GDC"?.. I think I used to go out with that guy!

Would have been interesting to see min max on low end of first reservoir.

How can I hookup extra speakers to it. Just want to extend and further the sound

November 16 and only uploading now shangoo ?

What's with those sirens early in the video?

I have a Grundig Hifi Studio RPC 300 An the capacitors short out all the time :(

Can you please tell me how to get the turntable out of that unit...Thanks for your help. Bob A

greetings from germany ;-) nice to see the old Frako Caps, this brand will not produce more

that multiband tuner is neat,does it have EXTERIOR SPEAKERS PLUGS? & can you plug it into an amp?must the ohms match?

My transformer in mine starts melting and smoking everytime i plug it in and i get nothing through the speakers. PLEASE HELP

Snuck in that Underground video lol

so is this farbe or schwarz und weiss?

Can you tell me if there are 2 bulbs to illuminate the dial face from behind and if so what bulb(s) would they be?

my mum has one them radiogrammes bought in 1972. I remembered it being delivered and it look like a coffin being dragged in the house. the trouble with it is that it won't die and my mother still uses it to this day. low end is bit iffy.

Had never heard of a solid state Grundig , what year was it manufactured ?

What's with all the Mexican stations? Trump wouldn't approve of that.

Oh boy, that eclectic build style copied exactly from late tube era German receivers, just with transistors on heatsinks put in place of valves on PCB. They are usually terrible when you actually have to change any component - tracks lift from PCB if you even look at them funny and there is never an access to required part of PCB from behind unless you spend half an hour dismantling the whole chassis.

Germans were slow to cheapen up their ways after going solid state. They still approached building their sets like tube chassis. I wonder what they thought back then when then saw a cheap Korean radio built with one flimsy board.

nice

It’s looks like a Videoton R4900

What's with all the mexican stations there....you'd think you're in mexico city.

“Locarno Knowledge” … not the same enchilada burger borg meister…

Those darn capacitors! Its ALWAYS the capacitors! Replace every one of them asap! I'm joking.

The myth of Vacuum. It's all pressure.

hmm german made means it was built to work last and not fail unless its like 60 years old then it can fail as most german stuff like japan stuff cheapy an crap now but back in the earily days was built to last

The German stuff is so much higher quality all the way around, cabinets are better, components are superior and styling is night and day better looking than american or japanese stuff.

Those Frako capacitors are kinda crappy. I have some NOS Frako caps and they just short out lol :s

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Hmm .. jazz in double 4 time …

Those WIMA capacitors are junk.

good job my freind iam not surprised that you did not find the schematic for it i have an newer models for grundig and i could not find them as well so i do like you did or in other way i re build the circuit if the damage is big so thanks for posting this video and god bless you

good job my freind iam not surprised that you did not find the schematic for it i have an newer models for grundig and i could not find them as well so i do like you did or in other way i re build the circuit if the damage is big so thanks for posting this video and god bless you