My grandfather was a TV repairman, he could always spot a smokers TV. Interesting how the sticky "fur" grows around the high voltage componets! Mmmmm, yummy.....

I worked on these sets in 1962 at Dayton's in Minneapolis. This was a basic radio-phono combo, priced within everybody's budget. They never excelled in sound quality but were OK in the home. Our shop at the Third Avenue warehouse opened every carton and tested these sets before they went to the customer. We found a good 20% stereo failure rate and repaired them before they went to the customer. From that experience we set up an inspection line next to the shop and all tv, radio and phono were checked out before going to customer. The record changers were a miracle for reliability. We did, however, find a high stereo failure rate among the cartridges. Magnavox chose a different cartridge and problem solved. The clever indexing system always set the tone arm on the record correctly. The next version of this model had an adapter socket to connect an optional stereo FM kit.

At 19:10 it's probably a good thing that you are wearing rubber gloves, because on some vintage equipment the RCA shield is also a *power supply ground* between the preamp and the power amp. I found this out the hard way when I was trying to track down some residual noise issues on a Danelectro guitar amp with a top mounted preamp containing two 12AX7's, and a bottom mounted amplifier and power supply. The umbilical cable connecting the two chassis carried B+ and heater current but didn't include a ground wire, and when I unplugged the RCA cable with one hand my other hand was resting on the amp chassis, so I became the ground return circuits and I got zapped with full B+ right through my chest. Just something to be aware of.

Parents owned identical unit. Sound was awesome for that time period. Lower right corner was the pilot light (red) to tell you it was on, in case you forgot and wanted to shut it off. Another excellent job at troubleshooting and all around fun.

Resistors are futile, you will be resurrected.

I don't shock easily, but when you wiped off the schematic I was astounded.

My aunt bought this model in 1958 and passed it on to me in 1978. The multiplex was an option that one would have to pay extra for at the time. It always has had wonderful sound.

Some of those old Magnavox consoles looked a little cheesy, but this one, despite its modest performance, is really nice looking. It would be worth keeping the guts working just to keep enjoying that cabinet.

That black grease was a perfect addition. It fits the theme, it was reminiscent of the sticky THC resin one has after cleaning out the bottom of a bong bowl..

Seeing that console brings back some disturbing yet memorable memories of my teenaged music experience. A friend of mine in Jr High, Chris had the family's stereo (this model) hooked up to a pair of Peavey Thunder Columns (each containing 6 12" full range speakers, trimmed by brushed silver anodized aluminum panels that every kid would drool over) in an empty spare bedroom. We'd skip school occasionally and go over to his house, sit in that room, smoke pot and listen to our favorite rock bands 'come to life', those speakers and the el84 (6BQ5) output section of that stereo driving them were that good...and LOUD. I wonder if the neighbors ever informed his parents what was going on at times while they were at work. Ahhh memories

I don't know anything about repairing this or the tv sets. I just watch your videos to remember how things used to be. I remember being so happy when the tv repair man arrived! ("We can finally watch stuff again.") And i do remember one occasion when my dad decided to "fix" something in the tv and was knocked back by some major voltage. Luckily the tv set wasn't wrecked! thanks for the videos.

Menthol cigarette glaze is the best. My oldest brother's bedroom literally smelled like crap. It was so bad that I think his farts must have gotten quickly lost in the glaze smell. The walls and ceiling of the living room had a moldy yellow color because my parents smoked. I never picked it up, and I'm glad about that.

Maybe a resistor drifted up in value that's feeding b+ to the FM converter is what makes the oscillator go down in frequency and have poor sensitivity.

Check out that gigantic diamond stylus sticker on that Magnetvox.

Good going Mr Shango, despite the stony path. One of those lighters with the long neck for lighting barbeques held under all those resistors shows the dud ones right away. Brake fluid or Benzol should soften up the idler wheel somewhat. Cheers from Germany

It wouldn't be a genuine 60's piece without the cigarette-infused Patina of Authenticity. With a touch of THC.

I just started binge watching your KZfaq videos and I've been blown away by your knowledge and deadpan humor. The deep dive resurrections on TVs and radios I remember from my youth, sitting on the display floor at Korvettes or JC Penny stores, are fantastic. What throwback memories! One noteworthy TV we had was a "modern style" Curtis Mathes 25 inch console in a cabinet wrapped in faux leather with chrome trim...late 70s vintage and I remember that thing arcing with a frightening snap that would light up the wall behind it 2 or 3 times a day! Our TVs were always an experiment in brutal use as they were on nearly 20 hours a day every day. I never saw my Dad move so fast as when he had to drive to Sears and replace the living room TV once it had given up the ghost. It was like a death in the family. We watched so much TV in my house growing up my best friend used to refer to me as a "vidiot". The TV repair man with his tool case with the mirror inside the lid was like a family member...always making house calls. Bravo for bringing these temperamental electronic antiques back to life!

He’s right. These bring money now after service. They’re cool units. And they sound nice.

This was a common record player in my town. I used to repair stuff in the customers home. It was made around the time that the 5U4GB rectifier was changed to a 6CA4 for the rest of tube life at Magnavox.

I've experienced this with old carbon resistors.... after they get some time, they heat up and go to close to infinity resistance. Let it cool off, it starts working.

The super hard rubber wheels can be softened slightly with pb blaster. The thick joke got me.

That is a gorgeous mid century consolette!! I especially love how the front of it looks!!

Since the 6P14P are getting more and more expencive, i started using 6P15P (Svetlana makes them as SV83) and they sound good. They are dirt cheap and the exact same tube. The only catch is that it doesn't have internally conected g3 with cathode. I connect it externally, and if a customer wants the original tube, they can just plug it in without concequences.

That was my first "stereo receiver", before I got one for real. The two were interlinked in a way, as I used a good EL84 from the Magnavox, and used it to replace a gassy EL84 in the Eico.

You know exactly what you’re doing- I appreciate it. I like old devices, too. Not only new technology is high developed. It is interesting to know about the knowledge they had these time.

It looks beautiful. What a nightmare with those resistors, LOL. Great repair job.

Granny smoked the finest Marlboros and ate only the best Pralines for 60 years.

We just bought one of those from goodwill for 20 bux, works great my dad was so pleased.

I used to work on record players, including the wind-up 78rpm Victrolas. My go-to grease was Vaseline, it seemed just right for the job.

Shango, You make me laugh so much. I don't even work on electronics very much but I find your humor hilarious and entertaining. You are one of my top 5 KZfaqrs out there!

I love the look of this unit. It's a beautiful style.

For rubber wheel, try to seek for a flat belt (the ones from tape decks) that fits snugly. You can use a thim film of contact cement around the rubber tire prior installation. I was suggested this trick for a rubber tire from a JVC deck that is "unobtainable". I used some small belts around them ... it worked for me.

"Always lubricate the shaft"

Believe it or not this was the first console I obtained when I was about 12-13. A fishing buddy of my Dad's repaired electronics and took it to get working for me. A week later his wife threw him out and threw all his stuff in the yard in the rain. The Magnavox cabinet was toast.

I like the Marlboro commercial with the cigarette infused stereo. These things were well built back in the day! Nice 👍 job with the grease to quiet down the turntable! It’s nice and clean under the main chassis!

We had one of these in our home (1960's). Listened to my first Beatles albums on it. 😁

I think this is the first repair I’ve seen you do that didn’t require at least one cap change.

Sometimes lightly sanding those hardened rubber tires, then using lighter fluid on them will expose some fresh rubber and give better performance. Good video, gave me a few good chuckles!

The echo of disgust when your gloves came back yellowish black even caught my cat's attention. Eeeew! Nice to see tubes in there and it's always good to see a sixty year old speaker with a functional cone and a reasonably intact grille.

Stores that sold belt kits and new tires (square 'O' rings essentially) used to sell a rubber renew liquid. It smelled awful and worked 50% of the time. Useful if we had a cheap customer that did not want to pony up for a full replacement work (additional hours due to having to disassemble stuff to get belts out, etc.) - I'm amazed that you are doing customer repairs though for other people, while lying down in your driveway... that's pretty ghetto :D Mind you, I would not haul that thing into my living room either. Not in that condition. Cheers,

Superbe unit and in very nice condition. These gems deserve to be preserved. Hoping it finds a good home that will fully restore it and enjoys for several decade more. Great job and your videos are very entertaining. Love your sarcasm! 😝

You can tune the quadrature slug on that coil to bring the tuner numbers back into alignment. Tune it slowly and it'll sound just like you're moving the tuner. Repeat until they sync.

13:08 from the restoration channels I've watched, apparently boiling rubber parts for some time in just plain water (not sure how long, probably depends on the overall volume of the rubber) can bring some life back into those parts. I agree that reproduction rubber parts would be the best option

There used to be a thing called rubber rejuvenator we used in the 90s on offset printing presses to extend the life of the rollers on the press. Not sure what it was chemically.

I have one identical to this one (1ST226K) that also had similar multiple resistor failures, two in the amp and two in the tuner. As with this one, I believe I already had one dead channel and then the other one went I had no sound at all. The two in the amp were at the 12AX7 tube, but I can't remember about the ones in the tuner, as this was at least 15 years ago! Although they could very well be the same as this ones as this one. Still works fairly well, although there's a lot of fm drift, and the turntable speed is slow even with a new drive wheel. This one seems to work a little better than mine does...I'm a bit jealous!

The nicotine paste is part of the charm.

The voice of music make restoration idler tires for vintage turn tables.

Nice work master shango066 Magnavox products were generally built well. The turntable was very decent with its automatic record size sense, a mechanical marvel really. I bet that unit cost a small fortune back in the 60's

If you can find automotive “belt dressing” (it’s a little hard to find no a days) it will bring a hard wheel back a bit. Certainly makes it sticky and gets more traction.

those earlier cabinets are so much better than the ones 12 years later

Oh how I just love shango infused videos

Love your Canadian content on music. Cool unit.

Gotta love it. For a change, no caps need replacing but a bunch of resistors do.

This video sure brought back memories!! Hours as a kid playing the Beach Boys, Mamas and Papas, Elton John, CCR and the Beatles on one as a kid. An uncle of mine, James Rosenbalm, was an engineer at Magnavox in Jefferson City, TN in the 1960s. I think he had a hand in the design of this series of stereos. I know he had some amplifier and oscillator patents with Magnavox but I don't know the details. He was also big into ham radio. James died in 1985 and my father 3 years ago so I have no way to find out any details of exactly what he did. But I do remember that as a child in the late 60s and early 70s we had this exact model as did another uncle on dad's side. I think my aunt may still have it. Sadly it's probably loaded with cigarette tar as they both were heavy smokers. Lung cancer got him in 2009 at 81 and she suffers from Emphysema and COPD at 84. No surprises there... As a lifelong none smoker I used to hate to go to their house because it stunk so bad and then you stink after the visit.

"What goes up must come down" I see what you did there Marlboro Country Wow and Flutter man

Look so cool this stereo console say hello from Romania 🇹🇩🇹🇩

I love mid 20th century furniture. Restored consoles can fetch a great return, and its easy to fit a Bluetooth adapter without cosmetic changes.

Thanks for the upload. It made me feel warm inside. Bless

OMG the first TV my parent bought when we first moved to california was that Quasar cabinet tv. I still have fond memories of playing NES on it.

that set was definitely a "smoker's choice"!

I always look for your videos, I love them.

The balance control is under the bass, treble, or loudness. It is like my grandmother's hi-fi the differences between them is the hi-fi had an fm only radio (why because am was first out), the stereo controls were on the same side as the record player, no tape option, and the balance controller was between bass and treble sound instead of left and right.

nice unit, and it seems to work. nice find

I have a 60s AstroSonic. Works good. Record player is seized up. They usually are still good and working.

That was one of the more entertaining vids I've watched from you yet I think. Generally the content is far better than blankly staring at mainstream tele... which is why I don't even one 1 tv set, plenty of radios though. Haha cigarette infused glaze and paste and pralines 😅 lots of your phrases crack me up. So do many of your techniques of diagnosis, even though I know what you're up to before you explain

beautifull exemplar, very good conservation. I am an admirer of these devices

I've restored some similar turntables, BSR ones. I generally use sewing machine oil on the drive will bearing and rubber renew on the rubber

those little birds sound ,very happy indeed with this project. ;-)

My grandparents had that console! I used to play it as a kid. It sounded great, even when they played polka records on it.

Very entertaining, Shango, a super video, very much enjoyed....

We owned one of these when they were new. Filter capacitor in the power supply failed a couple of times. 😎

You should try working on the Aussie sets Shango! My mum has a Kriesler multi sonic hifi 3 way radio gram with electrostatic tweeters. When she bought it in 1965ish, it was state of the art. Separate power supply but the tubes were mounted on the main guts upside down underneath the power switches and volume and treble bass etc? This meant that the heat had no where to go and over a Jurassic period of time it just died. The components were well done. The sad thing is that it could be restored but we don't have the technicians here to do it. I tried to at least spray the pots with deoxit but the tubes have had it along with the caps and everything else. I plugged a modern turntable into it using a preamp before it died and boy did it sound great. Push pull. 10 watts per channel sounded like 100 watts. It was a kicker. I'm gonna hold onto it cos Australia is having a bit of a valve or tube as you call them revival. Me personally I'm a valve man born in 1961 so I grew up with all this stuff. Now I own 3 new valve amplifiers a Primaluna HP is in my bedroom. I love it. All point to point wiring and no PCBs. I own a Leak Stereo 20 too. It needs work and I found a tech who can restore it. Cheers and keep the videos coming and have a nice soothing cigarette. Andrew from OZ. i

Great repair and fault finding.

This is one ☝️ of the best record players I’ve seen on your channel. Big driver cones. I can’t tell if this is tube type just yet. It’s almost 😅 like 👍 an Astro Sonic. I sure like 👍 your RPM Calculator setup there. I don’t know if the cartridge is magnetic 🧲. I like 👍 that motorboard. It even has a fan. Your friend, Jeff.

It’s better to keep the original decor of a house rather than turn it into an all white bleached house with ikea cabinets, drawers, and book shelves.

As usual, awesome!

You are loosing some bass due to going past 1/3rd on the volume control as the loudness contour gets lessened around that point. If the tuner was working top notch, there would probably be more bass as you wouldn't need to go wide open on the volume. Interesting on the resistors as I've never seen them fail like that in operation, just normally drift upwards. I bet if you connected an old late 80s Delco car stereo to those speakers it would be shaking the ground with bass! I built a set of speakers using drivers from an old RCA tube console which are 15x9 and the bass they can put out is insane with lower wattage stuff.

Those turntables always sound like flinstone wheels

Wow! We had this exact model when I was a kid. Listened to a lotta baseball games on that console.

Lew Soloff sounded a bit inebriated with his solo 'cause of that bad idler tire.

8:56 Hey! I just bought this record today! Great video as always.

I love these Maganavoxes, at least how they look. I have worked on a couple, including one extremely similar to this.

Take some fine grit sandpaper (420 grit works well) and lightly rub the edge of that rubber wheel with it. The surface of the rubber tends to get glazed. I tried it on an old phono I had and it works great.

looks nice sum one keep it in good nick well on the out side any way :)

I love that Magnavox consolette... if I were closer to you, I'd take that in a heartbeat!

That Magnavox looks mint.

really beautiful stereo.

05:45 I'm so screaming "put it on Stereo for phono! No, not Tape... STEREO!". But I'll just have to wait until you figure it out. :)

Hey Shango thanks for the video

Thank you Shango!

Shango Time 👍👍

I'll bet this video makes Shango, and everyone else watching, glad that they're not in-home service techs working on console TV's and stereos every day!

I've had Terry's Rubber Rollers do a couple of Dual turntable idlers for me. $30 a piece, but worth it.

We had on of those new back in the day, mine did boom.

Cool piece Great vid

Beautiful record player

Just spin the tire in a drill and run a file or hacksaw blade in the center to cut a groove. Add an oring to the groove and it will work like new.

If you aren't so far away I would buy it, but I'd buy it for the amp. Great video, ty.

The reason why it took it a little bit is because the tubes need to warm up before you hear anything. We are so used to turning something on and there it is. Back then the tubes had to warm up when you turned it on.

Cigarette glaze!. This is Marlboro country!. I so love you're color commentary!. I laugh my but off every time!. When you do color commentary on you're videos