yes were designed by the Giants made by men just like most everything that was here before colonists ever arrived

what country?

@@aaabbb4755 USA, In Massachusetts.

Hi Tom... any opportunities over there... Im in Kenya...

@@StephenGachara I’m sorry, I couldn’t say; I retired in mid - January 2020, just about the time the initial stories about Covid were starting out of China. Company that I worked for was originally called EMC; they were bought out by Dell @ 6 ~ 7 years ago, now called Dell Technologies.

Lai dzīvo Latvija!

Thanjs for letting us know. I've never seen that logo, which isn't too surprising.

@@altimetras завода нет

Not anymore. The plant survived in WWII, but not in our times.

Until now this factory continues

The old-fashioned way! A masterpiece of engineering!

Yeah but you never touch the chassis until you need to replace a tube,anyways to change a tube you need to unplug it

It has a transformer in the power supply so it wasn't a hot chassis.

@@gameyord7182 Or if the bakelite knob came loose and fell off the brass volume control shaft, you then have 220 V AC exposed for you to touch.

when I rebuild old radio's, I always use polarized molded plugs to avoid the "HOT CHASSIS" problem, the hot side is switched, and the neutral side goes to the chassis, unless the radio has a power transformer, giving line isolation safety.

@@gregoryclemen1870 Greg, I too also replace the line cord with a polarized plug no matter if the radio is hot or transformer driven. It is always good practice to plug any radio under test into an Isolation Transformer to protect yourself and your test equipment. I also use a Dim Bulb Tester just incase the death capacitor is shorted and I also remove the rectifier tube when testing the transformer just because the filter caps are most likely bad. If the transformer tests good then I move on to the IF cans testing resistance, of course with the radio unplugged and the filter caps discharged.

СССР USSR

​@@xfmmihhemhmorc7565 Not USSR.

I was looking though to see if they filled in the space on the corner, behind the curved veneer. That looked to be a potential weak point. They may have and I didn't catch it. I did see some manufacturing methods still used now, such as the veneer glue being heated to seal it on to the backing wood; I've seen the same thing done on furniture restoration videos. Riveting on parts that might have to be changed later? Yep, we definitely do that now as well (but at least rivets can be drilled out/ground off). Our problem these days is tack-welding and glue on parts that might need replacing later. We can get away with lighter materials and automated manufacturing now, just as in the 1930's they were making the best use of the technologies they had then. The big difference between then and now is back then they put some thought into *repairability*, which they outright don't *want* to do now.

@@SenileOtaku ,I agree with you 100%, the only time screws were used to secure parts, was when you bought a "KIT", and those did not come along until the 1950's. even back then, mass production was used to keep up with demand, just like the printed circuit board was used to speed up production, and cut down on rejected radio's, T.V.'s ect.

Completely agree!

People just need to acknowledge that our history was stolen, most of the buildings and infrastructure we use made by the giants; tv and radio existed in the world long before 1700 AD

1936, the rise of fascism and the start of a devastating world war with 10s of thousands killed.

@@Enigma758 way more people were killed/sent into asylums during the last Great Reset of 1900, practically the whole US population was put away or died from war or disease.

@@togowack That's my point, we are better off as time goes on. We forget the barbarism of the past and only remember the warm and fuzzy. But that's not reality, just wishful thinking.

These arent Finnish radios, but Latvian.

The boxes are marked for Helsinki, Finland and Tallin, Estonia.

In Finland you had Salora, whom later pioneered their expertise with mobile phone technology..the rest is history, as they say! #Nokia

USSR

I think you wont find it without that timecode. it came from some online archive, don't remember exactly tho

Latvia

@@SallySallySallySally Thanks

@@SallySallySallySally Would your name be Sally by any chance?.

Yes very likely

Это завод VEF, вы правы. 1936г. До оккупации рашистами оставалось 3 года.

These radios were made in Latvia.

Как раз ВЕФ развалился, когда русские ушли из Латвии. Собственно, как и большинство заводов на постсоветском пространстве. Как русские оттуда уходят почему-то всё разваливается.

@@gukow1 Це все брехня, та путінська пропаганда!

@@user-hb1tt9fq3x СССР прекратил своё существование в 1991. ВЕФ прекратил своё существование в 1999 году. Незалежная Латвия уничтожила этот завод и это исторический факт.

Конечно они. Как и ЧМП, как судостроение в Николаеве, ракетостроение в Днепропетровске, авиастроение, и многое, многое другое. Только всё это в вашей альтернативной реальности. На самом деле всё ровно наоборот.

@@gukow1 Общался я как-то с латышами, и оказалось, что многие латыши, из молодых, как я понял, винят в уничтожении ВЭФа именно СССР. И аргумент у них довольно своеобразный. Из-за СССР VEF потерял свои связи с Западом. Не было бы СССР, он обязательно стал бы чем нибудь вроде Филипса, или Нокии. СССР убил перспективу, короче.

Yep, thanks to the Clinton’s pushing for their entry into the WTO, everyone else will soon lose their future.

@@danielknepper6884 Your comment make my laugh aloud!

even silent films of the early 20th century had music with them (usually played live).