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I would love to see a restoration

Hi Paul. Please perform a full restoration on the radio. I'd love to see how well it works afterwards.

Yes, sir. I would love to see a complete restoration. That old thing deserves a little TLC. Really nice job so far.

repairing the long past electronics is my favourite 😊👍

That was a good job by the builder. He would have been proud to present it as his assignment. Put it back together and move on 👍🙂

Paul please restore that beutiful piece of history

Thanks for this video. I'm guessing it's old hat for you by now but for me (having restored a few tube radios) it's still valuable to watch the process. That radio is a very cool find and, like any other tube radio, I think it pays homage to past builders and engineers to do a proper restoration. Maybe it's not worth a bunch of money but these old radios are a statement to the ingenuity of mankind and I feel like they should be treated with as much respect as we can muster. Your whole channel is a testament to that! Thanks again for spreading the knowledge!

Paul, you explain the radio circuitry so effortlessly a lay person can understand. Please perform a full restore.

Excellent job. Pay attention kids and take his classes if you want to be the best. Mr. Carlson is a highly qualified teacher. Take care, Mike, in the USA.

This is a piece of history for the Canadian College of Radio. It should be restored and well publicised into KZfaq for the prosperity. If you dont do it, who would? Yes, it is a small radio, that have no real special thing for itself BUT from being built by a tech. It shows what electronic people needed to do and learn to be accepted into the radio field way back when. This need to be known. Please, restore it ;-)

A great shout-out to RCC, Paul! I took one of their courses in (about) 1964, but that radio was not included! I would very much like it to have been, as I took Electronics for three years in High School (Burnaby Central Senior Secondary) and was much into tube radios, TV maintenance and ham-radio-lite all through h.s. and my first three years at college. During the h.s. course (all three years) we studied DC, AC and tube circuits in each of the years, and built an all-american five as a display with each major circuit on its own 12x18 hardboard card, which slid into a horizontal frame and were connected by banana-plug leads. It worked fine! All my classmates went on to get Masters and PhD's, but I didn't! Still, very much enjoying electronics mainly as a hobby, along with music and astronomy, and had a side job for many years fixing the electronics in electronic accordions (I don't play!) from all tube through the years to very modern, if 2010 is 'modern'! Thanks for the video!

This brings back memories ... I went to RCC and had to build one of these ... 5 tube superhetrodine AM radio ... WOW ...

Thumbs up for the full restoration idea!

Yes, would love to hear it!

Definitely a full restoration! I've been screaming at you all through the video to replace that coupling capacitor before you lose another audio transformer! It would be great to hear your observations on the design as well.

When I went to tech school we had to build a Heathkit VTVM and a black and white television. It was plenty of work and I enjoyed it. I remember seeing the box and bags full of parts for the TV and thinking, this will never work. I used it for years after building it. The Heathkit VTVM served me for years but got destroyed in a magnitude 7 earthquake. That's right, it took an earthquake!

When going through the "short" tests with my tube tester, I like to tap on the glass to see if there is anything intermittent while switching through each test. I have found bad tubes this way that otherwise tested good. Also, thanks again for including a nixie tube piece of gear in every video. Have a great day!

Yes please, complete the restoration, it was interesting so far, Thankyou!

It would be really great to see it restored please go ahead paul.

Yes I would love to hear this one restored

Let this radio have a new lease on life Mr C. It does work as designed 70yrs ago and as you said the builder did a good job so... restoration time. Tubes/valves amaze me at how they were visualized and invented. This was a great video showing the troubleshooting and diagnosis, thanks for another invaluable episode. See ya next time.

I just wanted to say that I enjoy your videos tremendously. I also agree, whoever built this did a fine job just on creating the metal chassis alone.

Thank you Professor Carlson and what a nice build whoever did this. When you think of the 50's you also think of a lot of "art-deco" look of the 20s-30s. Except the 50's was all about tons of chrome on the cars and creative looks for some of the radios. This radio is a well-built, old school, plain jane radio that works (after repaired by you). Thank you for sharing !!!!! PS, yes, restore it !

It definitely deserves to live. Someone put a lot of effort into building this radio and it's earned it's spot on the bench. Make 'r sing again!

another awesome all American five adventure . Mr C is the best

I'm always going to be in favor of full restoration. Nice work troubleshooting the problem.

Man I wish I had some of the test equipment you have......I took an electronics course through the mail from NRI ..... and never messed with electronics after passing the course.....until the Internet happened and I found instructions to build a Marshall 1959 circuit that clones their 100 watt 1969 superlead......I sourced the parts and built the amp and it worked.....there are so many variations of the circuit I built.....you can get like 3 different Marshall amps from the same circuit just from changing some components around....and different years and tones as well.....now I'm learning a lot......I can build a Marshall superlead from memory now......I like your channel

Very clean example of an instructional kit radio from a source that US subscribers like me never heard of.

Dear Paul, From what sounds you managed, I was impressed. Please do restore it. It is a sweet thing, seemingly made with great care and attention. The maker will never thank you unless he is a centenarian, but I will! Best wishes from George in Herefordshire.

Paul: Definitely restore! If it's working this well now, think how well it will work when fully restored and aligned :-)

Nice to see Roberson screws holding the back panel in place. A great Canadian invention.

AS all things worth building, are worth maintaining, and yes Sir this fits into that category most definitely.

Excellent Shango style resurrection, Prof Carlson👍 Yes, pls restore, it is such a rare set.

A full restoration would be great to see Paul, love to see it's final performance.Very neat little radio ! Cheers from Oz Baz

I would appreciate seeing a restoration on this rare radio, thank you.

There is just something satisfying when you've worked on an old radio or amp and those first sounds start coming through the speaker.

Yes restore it. And if possible maybe find it a home in a museum for others to enjoy also. What a wonderful kit radio.

Yes Paul, please repair this home made radio. I can't get enough of watching you bring these old tube type radios back to life. Thanks, Gene from Tennessee.

I love the idea of restoring someone's old class project just in general, so I vote yes, absolutely. And it's obviously hard to tell across youtube, but it sounded to me like it had pretty good tone, so I'd kind of like to hear how good a job they did at that part, too! Also it reminds me of one of the old computers I built which had a rather similar if larger plywood outer case so that's pleasing to me. It's like "hey! I recognise this style of construction! I _did_ it!" xD

It seems like a great little radio receiver that deserves a complete restoration.

I built a pair of large speaker boxes in the late 50's and used what looks like the very same grill cloth.

Lets restore that thing! I love the hand made look, and classic feel of someones hard work. Thank you for bringing it back to life.

Well, since you already had began with it... Just go all the way. Thanks for this very didactic video.

I personally think it would be amazing to see that unique radio fully restored back to the original creator’s finished product. It’s so rustic yet polished! Great video!

OMG ! all of that test equipment in your opening shot - amazing.

Every old radio deserves a face lift. Please restore it so that it can go back on the shelf with a smile on its face.

If I’d were you I’d would restore the radio, it’s always nice to see made in Canada electronics being restored instead of going to the dump or being recycled, love your ideas and videos on electronic repair and keep up the good work, thanks again, Mr. Carlson. I’ve been in electronics since 1980.

Thank you so very kindly for sharing anything you choose. My Uncle John of Blessed Memory used to make all kinds of Chrystal Radio sets from round cylindrical Oatmeal containers, and other things. He was born in the 1910's. Listening to short wave radio from all around the world during cold winter nights was a favourite pastime.

Thanks for the video. Watching this is nostalgic for me. In the early 70s I took a Bell and Howell home study electronics coarse in which I built a multimeter and an oscilloscope that involved utilizing vacuum tubes and transistors. I ended up welding as a career, but was always able to repair my own welding machines as well as a few for other people. Now being retired, I find myself helping others with automotive electrical and recently fixed a mig welder for my grandson. So the coarse has served me well. I have always been fascinated with radio theory. I subscribed to your channel today.

Go to a full restoration, Paul. I Love the Way It comes to life

Always good to see another restoration and to see how far out of specifications each component has drifted with age.

A piece of history needs a full restoration! Would love to have one like it, but my 100+ radios are taking up a lot of space already! Good Job Mr.C and enjoyed the vid; tnx

As others have said, would love to see a full restoration. Particularly interested in hearing the before and after audio quality.

What a good teacher! Thanks to KZfaq!

@MrCarlsonsLab I would love a repair of an early RCA Theremin. Primarily due to the elegance of the minimal design and a lovely look at how it works. Thanks.

Hello Paul...what I liked about this video is the use of 'basic' troubleshooting methodology, (remember your 'old time' bench you were going to set up)? Plus you didn't even use a schematic. I agree with others about a 'full restoration'...time consuming for you...but so beneficial for us.

Been waiting for another one of these. It all goes over my head, but it fascinates me. Awesome.

Yes, please do the full restoration on this. It is a good example of an old 5 tuber radio and it has a nice cabinet too. Finally, that big speaker should produce some really nice sound.

Do it the guy that built it up in the first place, he's rooting for it!

Restoration is definitely the answer for this radio

Also appreciate your attention to detail conserning safety .

Thanks, Paul. I wouldn't mind hearing how well the radio could sound.

That is a very unique radio, looks neater then a lot of factory radios for sure!

Hello Paul. Like you said, you don’t see too many of these radios anymore. I think this would make a great restoration, and to bring this radio back to life.

I'd like to see it restored to working order. Having such few tubes, it would be interesting to hear the sound quality that comes out of a Radio of that design. It reminds me of a 1935 Detrola Radio I have that only has I think 3 tubes and a rectifier that I had restored once, but it fell out of the car seat onto the floorboard and has had a loud hum since. A friend looked up the design and said it was a Grid leakage detector type receiver.

All Paul's videos demonstrate the benefits of having a properly prepared work area, with the necessary test gear in the right place and room on and around the bench to manoeuvre safely, with minimum risk of injury or damage. Says the bloke who's just been rebuilding a Racal on the kitchen table!

Restore this radio, this is a piece of history.

Hi Paul! Again, you presented a very nice video. And yes, let's do a complete restoration and alignment of the radio! Concerning this trouble-shooting part of the video, when at first there is absolutely no sound to be heard, I have found that the very first thing to check is the reliability of the speakers. How many times do we find a broken speaker wire in the cone? You never mentioned the integrity of the speaker first. Then, secondly, one should check the continuity of the audio transformer. If there is an open winding, sometimes we can unwrap the paper and reattach the transformer windings. When fixable, one does not have to fish around in the junk box or buy a new transformer, thus, saving a little time and money. I hope this gives you some more ideas for your approach to trouble-shooting older radios.

I love your videos. You are like the Einstein of electronics. Thanks for all your teaching and information.

i ALWAYS ENJOY YOUR FULL RESTORATIONS. dO THIS ONE TOO.

Love to see a restore, and your analysis of the construction

I'd love to see a full restoration of this thing!

I would like to see a restoration because this radio seems more simple to understand with your explanation. Thanks for the video.

Mr. Carlson, where did you obtain so much Excellent Electronics Knowledge Please? From a RCC School maybe? I am in the USA and NOT Familiar with RCC.

A full restoration would be great! 👍

I would love to see this radio restored.

Yes, please restore this radio. Thamks!

Because of its simplicity, I would say put it back on the shelf, but when I use to do repairs, once I got into something, I couldn't do that. Once I started, I had to finish it. But that's just me. Great video.

Good ole RCC. Graduated from there myself 20 years ago. In the Computer Network Engineering program though. Still have and use my RCC issue multimeter all the time.

You've gotten the hard part done, restore it to it's former glory and give it a second life.

Yes please do a full restoration. Thank you!

I'd imagine whomever built this receiver did it as a final in a " build your own AM radio " with parts given by the instructor at RCC and you had to build the cabinet and be proficient in the soldering and electronics design with a given schematic also given out by the school's instructor. Think the student probably got an A for it if it indeed worked! Or maybe it was used in the classroom as a "find the fault " radio. You had to do what Paul did and investigate the problem and fix it. It 's so old we know after Paul's going over it that time had not be kind to it's electronic parts.That Radio College of Canada intact dial face is worth $$$ alone to a collector BTW. Aside from any backstory this was indeed a great video to watch and I hope it gets a full restoration one day. Instructor quality repair on your lab work on it Paul!

A very neat and tidy project.

Yes please, it is a nice little radio, with not so many parts and it is allready pulled out of the case. Also a nice history. So it would be good to have it restored

I see these old radios as patients lying on an operating table…so my suggestion is yes, of course, always go for a full restoration and save its life! Rob

another great vid Paul. Such a lovely course build, I think it deserves a restoration to a working example...

This needs to be fully restored.

I'd like to see it restored . Looks like a straight forward and somewhat easy one .

2:05 - It DOES have a very 'home-brew' look to it. especially the off-center dial!

Your a good teacher. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m for restoration for simple fact that it was hand built by someone a long time ago. A tribute to the days of hand built and that individual and his dreams…

I attended RETS RadioElectronics Television Schools in Upper Darby back in 1961. Part one of the course was basic electricity, basic electronics, Radio and TV. We built an all American 5 AM radio as the final requirement phase 1.

A full restoration is always Good !!

I very much prefer these types of repair videos. Watching antique radios come back to life is so interesting for me. Repair of test equipment and more modern electronics is not so appealing.

Love to see a restoration

Count my vote for full restoration. I'd even say finish the case too.

I think it would be nice to see a full restoration Paul.

Please, please restore this beautiful radio. 😊

Nice video on troubleshooting. I think that this one should go back into the shelf. Move onto the next radio.