Shango, i'm living in Germany and i'm quite familiar with these German Radio-Sets, so I know the weakest points. But first I have to say: if you get this set running, you can expect a really good sound from it. Normally the Output-Transformers are very well build with 0,35mm (or 0,0138 inches, sorry we're metric) core-laminates, made of "Trafoblech IV", that's grain-oriented silicon-iron. Nothing very special today, but simply the best you could get in the 50's and 60's. The Speakers are "Isophon"-Speakers, a well known and highly regarded german Brand in this era -this wasn't crap. The Tweeters are HM10, but I can't say what type these Full-Ranges are. I see all the Paper-Caps in your Video and it shakes me a bit. Unluckily these are ERO 100's -or as we say here "Zahnpasta-Kondensatoren" ("Toothpaste-Caps") cause of the brittle-whitish moulding-compound. They are all leaky today and really have to go, especially in the output-stages and at all grids. The same for the smaller Electrolytics. The Speaker-Output connectors are the two on the right side on the back of the chassis. These are DIN-Type Speaker connectors, very common here in Germany from the late 50's until the early 80's. You have these with the 3 holes (the plug has only one thicker flat prong and one smaller round pin), so the plug could inserted in two directions, in one direction the internal Speaker were switched off, in the other not. So there is a Switch in these Sockets, and this switch has a very common problem, cause the contacts are silver plated -and now totally corroded after 5 Decades. So I would really say: figure these switches out and short the contacts so you get a proper connection between the Speakers and the Output-stages. If the ECC85 in the FM-Tunes is weak or toasted, maybe you can find a 6AQ8 -it's the only equivalent type. But I know these are not common in the US and hard to find. A last hint: check the B+ voltage. All these Sets used selenium-rectifiers in the power-supply and they often get weak and dropping the B+ voltage. Two types are common: the "Flachgleichrichter" made by Siemens (a flat, rectangular rectifier in a shiny aluminum-casing) or the "Rundfunk-Gleichrichter" made by AEG in a black metal-can like a Electrolytic. Hope this will help a bit. Fell free to ask if you would.

I can’t believe that the guy actually played along with that on the phone. Priceless!! I’m sad to see WEV going. I sure hope that they don’t go through with the budget cuts and take it down.

These German radios were a staple of 80's garage sales. So many brands, yet all the same.

I used to live in LA thirty years ago and there actually were naked people walking around on Hollywood Blvd from time to time. Some things don't change.

What a cool console! I would love love LOVE to have one of these. I especially love those peg legs! The little bit at the end was HILARIOUS!

You have no idea how much time I am willing to spend watching someone fix an 89 year old radio.

Can't wait for the next video, these vintage radios and TVs are absolutely fascinating.

I'm dying laughing, that you finally got a phone solicitor to talk back gibberish with you!😁

These old German radios all used an output transformer with two secondaries, one for the speaker and the other for inverse negative feedback. That is why they sound so superior to most American radios of the time.

Shortwave was my window to the US when I lived in Central Europe. That was back in the Iron Curtain, pre internet days. My grandchildren have never heard of it.

Thanks for doing these videos. I am 67 and have been dabbling around radios last couple of years, always wanted to, have time now. I'm learning a lot of trouble shooting from you and enjoy your humor very much. Glad you did the German radio.I have about 15 of them. Fixed a couple. Would love to see you take the wax off the I.F.s and see what you can do. Fun watching you use giant caps, and get the smoke out of resistors, etc. Keep up the good work. Thanks

It is not Normandy (French) but Norde (North) Mende (after Otto Herman Mende) and was a company founded by Otto's son in 1947 as Norddeutsche Mende-Rundfunk GmbH and shortened to NordMende. It became one of the major brands in the 50s and 60s in Germany. A friend's wife who moved here from England had one of these, maybe the exact model, if memory serves.

Could just be the coolest old radio/phono unit I’ve ever seen, amazing lighting!

That turntable is exactly the same type as in one in the Grundig console, we had when I was a kid in The Netherlands. Interesting it works with one output tube, no push pull.

Shango, that red album is AWESOME ! I’d love to own it. It’s got Earnest Tubb & Hank Williams Sr. As for the radio...I wish California wasn’t so far from the Midwest, that’d be an awesome radio to own as well. Dang, you find the most kick-butt, old-school audio gear. Keep cranking out your great (and educational) videos. Look forward to each new one you drop on KZfaq. Two thumbs up !

you can hear the warm sound just by looking at it.

The repair estimate looks like it was for a Denon DRA-375RD One thing to prolong the life of these German radios, is to set the voltage selector to 145 instead of 120 or 110. The tubes aren't driven as hard. Usually the voltage selector on these is 110-120-145-220-240... not sure where in the world 145 VAC power supply would exist, but it serves a purpose as mentioned above.

Sorry for jason cruzing, but you definitely have to recap german radios of this era. I am german and those "Wima"-capacitors are nicknamed "Knallbonbons" (in english "firecrackers") for a reason. The yellow tar/wax capacitors are crap as well. The Styroflex(mylar) and the tubular ceramic ones are mil-spec and not to worry about. I use a nordmende parsifal tabletop radio (more or less the same as yours) as a daily driver in my kitchen. It has the original greencone alnico speakers in it and that thing REALLY shakes the house. Its insanely loud with those high efficiency speakers and the maxed out (310Volts) el84s. The only drawback is the old German FM band it tunes (88-100MHz).

Love your sarcastic disdain.

Glad this channel is getting deep... Respect and Congrats Shango. I spent years, before the 'Net', thinking that all this would be lost.... Like Paper and typing.

The man on the phone as actually understood what you were telling him, "not to call back" let's see if is smart enough to tell his colleagues lol! Great work love your comedy video's, what a nice way to learn. Merry Christmas!

Thankyou shango for the time announcement on Shortwave, I so miss hearing it as we don’t have shortwave anymore here in Australia. 😃👍🏻

Caruso = Enrico Caruso, an Italian operatic tenor, the end of the video is priceless :-)

Looking forward to part 2. Loved the nonsense at the end :D

Shame about WWV, I hope they reconsider. I'm sure others have said this, but I think this idea of putting all of our communications needs on the 'net and relying solely on it is going to come back and bite us in the ass one day. Radio for all it's faults is still there when the communications grid goes down, the internet...not so much...

Can't wait till you replace the capacingtons in the normandie sterlington. those el84's tubingtons keep you nice and wormingtons. 😊

I had a very similar model as a child. Stable and sounded great. The automatic changer mechanism was very similar to V-M (might have been). A cousin brought a MPX decoder back from Germany and we set it up. Wow. Serious channel separation and very little high-frequency distortion.

You should make a separate video with those phone calls (the one at the end of the video here) :D Was quite hilarious to hear the guy there actually reply to you with gibberish too lol

Funny video. That guy at the end was doing the same thing back.

8:00 - That tuner interface reminds me sooo much of my Granddad's Majestic Grundig console!

This is one of those new-fangled sets with the hidden, all-metal picture bulb; this explains the “no raster” symptom. 😝

I've had those tubular capacitors fail once or twice was working on a 1960s Philips radio and in the output stage one of these types was breaking down and causing issues so wouldn't mind betting its that 300pf 'Roast Delcious' capacitor as you called it..made my day hearing that. Always enjoy your videos Shango 👍

I really enjoy watching you do your thing.. Its been yrs. , I've bern following you

Do more of this calls Sir, I was dying so bad. Look like both of you were having a seizure contest !!!!!!. Im starting to do that here too, got tired of this calls. Lets burn their time.

thx shango hope u have a merry christmas!!!

I would have happily watched this entire video to conclusion in one sitting. Eagerly awaiting part 2

I love that red columbia record

Love that tuneing eye tube design :)

This is really cool merry Christmas.

What a cute little radio! top shelf video shango great stuff. nothing beats the glow of real bulbs much better than horrible leds

Those old uncoated 78s actually sound a little better on an acoustic phonograph, the hiss isn't quite as overpowering.

Love your phone blehrblahblahblzz - priceless !

This looks like a very nice project, watching out for part 2.

Very cool radio, you have a great talent for fixing vintage Electronics🤠

A diamond in the rough! You may want to keep it after you get it fully functional......Would be great for Christmas carols!!

Great video. I really hate to see WWV go away, its always been there as long as I can remember.

Nice video Shango. Love the phone call at the end. :D

Welcome to the valve tapper and wiggler show!

Thanks for the great content, Shango. Cheers.

That leaky cap was biasing the output tube into class A2!

Cool video. The analysis was interesting... it's entertaining to watch you figure it out... The FLIR stuff was great... the stuff with the 72 rpm records was cool and funny... and 45:20 had me nearly spit taking my coffee. Very funny.

WWV Fort Collins is what we used in the Navy to synchronize our equipment to also.

"Won't go on" is what I told my mechanic when my car not go.

Bizarrely I often listen to your repair videos sat in bed late at night here in the UK but you made me chuckle for ages with the line: "I'll get along somehow - Sounds kinda miserable." Thanks - made me laugh!!!

love ur videos man i learn so much from u an would like to learn more in person about older tube radios an tvs an other things i really look up to u

thanks for covering a european radio, trying to get a feel for common issues, but being in a former soviet block country its more Tesla than grundig etc (yes tesla tube radios not the US car maker) and long repair videos work for me just dont turn into Mr Shangos lab...

Amazing the phono worked as is, with no service, even with the "bump" in the idler wheel, speed is almost right on, Asia sounds good!😊 I believe that record changer was made by P.E. (Perpetuum-Ebner). I have seen these before in a few German consoles I've had in the past.

13:00 Decode that!!! 😁😁😁 Too bad about WWV going away. 45:49 You found a fellow gibberish speaker! Will that be a thing like Klingon, where if you announce in court that you speak Gibberish, the court will have to appoint a translator? 🤣 Nice job as always! All the best!

Make your vids as long as you like Shango, you'll have no complaints here! Why won't the tuner work with the valve pin adapter in place? Great ending btw.

Oh and merry christmas shango, hope you have a wonderful time

this channel should be so mutch bigger! i dont have any radios or tvs. but its damn intersting

This is a keeper! Once working fully, I bet it would sound awesome. AM already sounds great. I'm surprised the turntable actually worked on it (well, mostly working.)

I have one here ! Mine has a dual 1004 turntable vs the Telefunken that yours has. The amp is stereo single ended. I need to do some research capping and fix the slipping fm tuner string. I love this set.

You actually got through to the man on the phone at the end. Seemed like a relatively well mannered conversation.

Imagine there's no shortwave It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today... Aha-ah... Imagine there's no AM It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too Imagine all the people Living life in peace... You... You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join Shango And the world will be as one Imagine no FM I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world... You... You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join Shango And the world will live as one

Love your videos.... I once got a copyright strike on a video of a guitar pedal I built playing Black Sabbath riffs through it... LOL

Roasted doggie bone capacitors...yummy! I never heard of caps of that kind, only resistors. Loved the video & funny phone call, and the way the guy was doing what you were.

Hi. The Nordmende turntable with the auto spindle must be used with the arm. But to use the arm you must lift it up about an inch in order to unlock it and swing it over the top of the disk.

"Don't be sticking your hands in that." ~ Shango066

yeah!! shango adorei gostei da última música que tocou no pick-up você é um ótimo técnico shango, por outro lado adoro os seus vídeos seu amigo Ricardo salles Franz gunart

I remember that place in Lomita amazing

One of these days i will get one of those German radios. I like the way they look and they almost always have FM.

Watched all 3 parts of this. Good stuff! I've got a Telefunken Allegro 5183W that I've had in 3 shops, and it still doesn't perform properly. Wish I could send it to you. I know it's one of the later ones in the Telefunken line and doesn't have the quality of the Nordmende. But it's a beautiful cabinet, for what that's worth.

That sucks about WWV. That was my first exposure to short wave radio as a kid. And back then we actually set watches and clocks to it. Now I find it’s helpful to figure out if the problem is the radio or all the interference from modern devices. Oh well. Like farts in the wind so go the complaints of older generations.

All the audio companies made stereo consoles in the late 50's, all you have to do is add the stereo! Isn't like buying a car with automatic transmission, and all you have to do is remove the clutch and add a torque converter and a bunch of pumps? I admit that I was intrigued enough to read the entire wiki article on "stereo" and it's quite fascinating. Sound engineers began in the late 1800's to make electrified audio more directional and stimulating, mostly pushed along by the movie companies and finally to consumers about 75 years later.

wow you really do read comments

Actually, the record player is from Telefunken.

I like it. Same year as me!

Nice ending

Shango: wants FM tuner to work. *gets radio working* Shango: "no no no... shut up you will copyright me"

Also, those old 78's were recorded acoustically. That's why they sounded so low-fi. Until maybe the 1930's. That's when they used electronic microphones. The Columbia was probably acoustically recorded

Nordmende originally from Bremen, Germany, is a trademark owned by Technicolor SA. Nordmende was historically renowned as a major consumer electronics brand for high quality televisions and domestic appliances. The brand is now manufactured and distributed under licence in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Turkey and Italy.

39:00 Please explain why we still call them phones? Aren't they a pocket computer/tricorder with a phone as a built in peripheral? Give them more sensors so they can do more awesome stuff vs charging more money for the same thing every year. So much more they could do.

Caruso. Probably named for the famous tenor Enrico Caruso.

Thanks for shareing

Great video. Sounds good even pre-repair. It would be cool if you could tweak the 78 speed record player to work better.

Great 👍 one at 9:14. Your friend, Jeff.

Sometimes the external speaker socket switch can oxidate and make poor connection. (the square part of connector)

1:21 oh man, I feel so bad for that person who thinks Voice of America is for justice. Sadly no, we very much are the baddies.

I had this as a kid, only bigger wooden chest. I hated it lol. The fm never worked when i got it from my grandoparents. To load records you have to lift the bracket up first. It can load a number of records and play them automatically. I can still smell the record player

The external speakers are the 'pin and paddle' two pin DIN connectors to the right of the chassis

"Shango066" Incorrect measurements are caused by the absence of the second EL84 lamp. In this circuit, one autobias cathode resistance is set for two lamps. Therefore, there must always be two lamps.

Tube test extender socket? hah! no chassis flips required.. have to hunt a set of these down...

Cool RPM app you have there Shango. That white button on the TT senses the 10" record size. The lever near the tonearm support senses the 12" records. No trigger means 7" records.

Works well

Nooooo I loved WWV I'll record it a lot now!

Wish I had a stereo tube set like that

Funny fact: many of these radios would shut off B+ tot he FM section when not on FM. Another funny fact: those ECC85's did not like to be running with heaters on but plate voltage off. The cathodes would get "cathode interface resistance" and act like there was a built-in 2.2K resistor in the cathode lead. So one often finds those tubes completely dead, especially on radios out in the boondocks with no FM stations.

I like VALVO tubes!

Thanks for this, Shango - looking forward to the next part! For what it's worth, I have a small box of tubes I believe are mostly for radio/tv... can I send them to you? I think I have several of those 6AQ8 and other t/p 9-pins that could work for that FM tuner.