"Enough plastic bags to suffocate an orphanage". You make me laugh so often.

When I was a kid at about 12 years old our TV died with a loud pop sound! I knew exactly what happened because a neighbor down the street that was into electronics would blow off capacitors on July 4 because firecrackers were illegal and when someone on July 4th called the police on him they couldn't do anything to him because there was no law against what he was doing! Well my mom said she couldn't get it fixed for quite a while because she didnt have the money! I said I could fix it but she told me that I didnt know how, well I waited till she was gone one day and took the back off the TV and found the capacitor that popped. Luckily I could still read the value and went to Radio Shack and got a new one, soldered it in and turn the TV on and it worked fine. She came home and saw my watching tv she said I thought the tv was broken, I said I told you I can fix it and I did!

I hope you enjoy making these videos as much as we enjoy watching them shango!

Retrobrite that little one. "Suffocate an orphanage..." I giggled.

WOW! ..... I could smell those caps exploding clear over here in Indiana ... LOL.

In 1978 I purchase a used one of these Sears Toshiba monitors and a Sam's Photo Fact for it. I used it as an Apple II Rev. 0 b&w monitor by hacking a RCA line video connection to the video line amplifier circuit. It worked flawlessly for me for 5 years when I replaced it with an Apple III monitor. Thanks for this video!!

Boy that cap popping is some seriously awesome footage slowed-down. Good Job.

Brother, you are bringing back many happy memories of days when we poked 5V logic boards from old process instrumentation with a 240V variac. I lost count of the scorch marks on my workbench. But by God we had fun.

As a kid I watched so much TV on that identical '71/72 Sears set at my grandparents' house ... as mentioned in another post my dad repaired Sears sets back in the day. That set also used to have a smoky plastic screen over the tube, supposedly to enhance contrast. I feel a TON of nostalgia for these TVs, for my dad's work on them, and for how I grew up as a lover of Star Trek watching it on these TVs.

I’m ready to watch that yellow 70’s tv get restored! Thanks for the video! Loved it like always

well, I dunno about disco but that swivel base sears is damn near a computer monitor before computer monitors were a thing.

IDK why but I enjoy watching you restoring crusty tv sets

What a way to start my day off. Love you Shango!

Damn you shango, i was in the middle of painting a door, then this video popped up!

Shango! That 65 zenith roundie was mine! I posted it on my moms page. I took it to etf and donated it. Lol i was laughing so hard. for some reason i have a collection of crt equipment sold them all. Had a great time at etf

When I was a kid, we hat that same tv in the kitchen. I used to watch cartoons while eating breakfast.

That slow mode really looked awesome! Almost as nice as 4th of July fireworks. 👍👍👍

It's always a treat to watch a new and exciting shango video each week. Keep up the great work. :-) ~ This program brought to you by the new *Power Air Fryer Oven* and the *Power Smokeless Grill* ++ and as for those old Crap-acitors that were EOL'd " ... they're officially Crepe-Erased (from existence).

What a trip... thanks for creating this great content

When I worked on my mini Sears TV that had a NP cap I used a big yellow 2uf capacitor as a replacement. Seemed to work since I'm cheap.

What a drama! One of your best videos so far... Cleaning, bulk recaping, poping caps in slow motion! Not to mention few jokes which brings sarcasm to next level. Waiting for part 3... Cheers!

I did up Sony of similar vintage to this same problem all the caps were baked and off the scale. Luckily no open IF coils but someone had previously messed around with the alignment to try and and compensate for the crappy picture it had. Loved the slow motion cap popping. A favorite past time of mine.

I had that 1966 set as a kid. Had the battery pack too. Nice to see one working again. (sort of) Thanks!

Shango066, most of the time I have no idea what your talking about but love your repair videos. I love the vintage Americana that’s packed in all of these videos. I’m a bachelor, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve passed out watching hours of your videos on the big screen drinking Pabst. Upmost respects to your awesome channel

I searched for chuck norris total gym and I can find this commercial uploaded 12 yrs ago to youtube.. wow they're still selling that thing

Awesome man! Cool to see electronics from the year I was born saved. Loved the capacitor EOL show! I got one of these at a yard sale. It worked for about 3 years in my shop and then the sound quit working. I replaced a cap in the audio board and it worked again. A friend of mine that fell on hard times needed a TV and I let him have it, and he used it for about a year then the picture bulb was too weak to do anything else to it. It made it's way back to me, maybe one day I will get lucky and find a picture bulb. Like you say, they are good novelty televisions. Watchable, that's about it. Cheers! 🍻-Al

I admire your stick-to-it-ness.

Not sure if you will see this, but I really enjoy these videos. Glad you’re still here on KZfaq.

I love how you say "Capaaaaacitors". :)

Your humor is fantastique love the show can't wait for part 3 !!

Great cleanup. Love the slo-mo's on the cap poping.

Good to see you back ..top man love all you do 🙋👏🙌

Nichicon UPW and PW series are my favorite capacitors.

Nice diagnosis with the inductor, I can't wait for the next part to this. I was actually thinking "try composite." When finished maybe you can mod it with AV RCA inputs and a select switch, It would make a great set if it had that. Well like I said, nice that you making progress on this lil fella, I am learning alot here, Good job and thanks again!

Witam i POZDRAWIAM!!rzetelna i dokładna naprawa odbiornika TV czarno -białego z tamtych czasów!Cierpliwość i dokładność napraw daje zawsze dobry efekt!Przy zrywaniu lub wyginaniu się pasów synchronizacji pionowej ,możliwość usterki-tranzystory stopniu pionowym,kondensatory lub rezystor nastawy,poza tym trzeba też sprawdzić ich impulsy!Dobry pokaz Video!!Udanych napraw!

Two thumbs up for the Slow-mo fireworks show.

We've got 240vac here in Thailand, I'll bet that would make a show of those old capacitors. Yea it's a frickin mess but you had fun making it.

Another nice enjoyable long video from you, shango. I just Love your sarcastic humour as it sure brightens up my day, along with your sexy voice. It is a shame you don’t see these small portable sets anymore, I don’t even find any CRT tv’s at the local Tip (Dump) no more...only flat screens with smashed panels now. Looking forward to your next video.....love always, Corinna xoxo

I could feel your frustration after the full recap at 57min's in "I thought the sales man was a hostage and you wanted a chopper!" really enjoyed this one 066

Retro-Bright that yellow Sears TV

Great video, thanks for the free content. I've read that MEK on a wipe can melt the discolored plastic off if you don't want to take the time with retrobrite / peroxide

This is interesting on the process of troubleshooting older televisions. One comment I wanted to mention for future reference. You can use an ohm meter to check the impedance of a speaker if it isn't marked or not sure of the marking. The speaker you mentioned 32ohms; is actually a 3.2 ohm which is why your audio noise in the screen was greater than with an 8ohm speaker. Most common speaker impedance values I've come across are 3.2, 4, 8 and 16 ohms. If there is an actual 32 ohm speaker; that's new to me. Keep the videos coming I enjoy and learn a lot from them.

isnt it amazing when folk left from the mining village they leave their stuff behind. i used to dream about places like that to get electronics , interesting to see these sets again 50 years on, we had the toshiba one and used to watch "the monkeys " and "bananna splits" on it, ah good times

Nice troubleshooting Shango! You are one of ths best! Looks like that open coil cicuit has some negative feedback from the small part of the winding below the center tap. Could be hard to recreate something that would be equivalent. Hopefully you can find the broken wire inside or maybe worst case dewind it and count turns as you go and rewind. You'll need some hyper fine wire I'm sure!

I enjoyed the celebratory capacitor fireworks!

"Enough plastic bags to suffocate an orphanage." That's hilarious dark humor, I almost blew the food I was eating on the TV screen laughing.

Remember as a kid always wanting higher resolution, always wanting the next generation of tv? we just were happy to watch a show! better does not mean happier.

Awsome vid, can't wait for part 3. Thank yo for sharing

It's impressive you got this to display any image at all. Good work!

i do know sears was using sanyo well into the 80's since i have a sanyo made betamax vcr made by sanyo for sears. i had found that out cause i needed to change a belt and found sanyo labeled on the inside

The yellowing/browning of the cases of old electronics, when not cigarette smoke related are usually the result of bromine. Bromine compounds are inserted into the plastic during the manufacturing process as a flame retardant. Bromine is the great escape artist of elements, it will find a way out of whatever you put it in. Thanks for the good work!

Tricky little set. Loved the unexpected cap EOL's

You should collect another bag of those old electrolytics and send them to the hydraulic press channel! They have some super pro high speed cameras, and they love to blow up stuff!

Hello, great troubleshooting as usual. My guess is that if it’s only the tap to ground vs. the whole coil, either a successful repair will be made to the original, or with the little component tester, you will find the inductance and maybe sub something from a multi band scrap radio or something. Luckily only a primary is used. I’m willing to bet almost anything close will work, just to complete the circuit. It might not be perfect, but who knows. We’ll stay tuned to see what’s devised. Take care.

Great video! Peroxide gel/saran wrap trick works great getting the yellow back to white on that Sanyo. It worked on my yellowed Commodore 64 case.

Please, please, please, blow up some bumblebee capacitors in a future video! I want to see the guitar people come unhinged at the destruction of one of these "magical" components. By the way, exploding bumblebee capacitors are REAL. I found this out the hard way with the first All-American Five radio that I attempted to restore when I was about 13. The capacitor was across the 35W4 rectifier. When that capacitor shorted out, it went off *like a firecracker* and a carbon resistor was cremated, making for plenty of smoke.

It's about time that recapping was recognised as a superpower!

I was told that the value stated on Japanese caps from that era would be a minimum value and were often quite a bit more.

Mr. Clean magic erasers are good for getting plastic white again. But you can test in a spot that you will not see if you think it might mess up the plastic.

Thank you for tonights entertainment shango, you're a beautiful man

is "smoking caps" legal in commifornia, medicinal of course?

Super slow mode cap popping , my favorite video of the week!

I really enjoyed the video and cant wait for part 3.

Nice going. I was predicting it was a shorted voltage regulator transistor that was letting too much AC hum though.

Usually the only vintage Sears TVs i see are Sanyo and Toshiba, but sometimes see the newer 1990s stuff made by JVC and RCA.

That's proving to be a tough one. Hopefully your microsurgery comes through! Can't let all those nice, new caps go to waste. At the beginning of the video when you showed that 1970 TV on the swivel base. If home computers of the late 70's, early 80's were popular in 1970, that TV looked like it would make a good monitor. Sort of looks like one, even the base on it makes it look like a computer monitor.

Thanks for the videos. Carl

I had the same Sears set in 9 inch version. It had open electrolytic 3 MFD coupling cap from hozontal phase to the sync circuit and had to clean the tuner. That was my first 12volt battery set. The set worked perfect at the beach I built.my first jump-started unit before commercial jump starters hit the market. I had many pairs of holy jeans due to battery acid. They were so holy that the pope would have blessedme

Awesome video, as always!

No classic green jacket ? 😑 Love the video thanks very much.

I miss Japernise build quolity. Built well & for mainternace. Intresting to see how they became dominat on eletronic devices in the begining.

At 22:20, to avoid a "strike", +shango066 edited out the part where the Ajax White Knight appears from nowhere on his white stallion, then mimics the final moments of "Touch Me", by The Doors... (Nearly everyone who is 50+ is aware of the anectote of the group's "borrowing" the last four notes of the song)

26:11 That's exactly the same way one of the power filter caps failed in a Marshall guitar amp I used to have. Same exact sound and nasty smelling smoke too.

"I don't see any adjustment to tweak the crepes..." LOOOOOOOOOLLLL!!!!!

Another great video. Love the capacitor popping session. Focus you f%@#.

Sometimes changing or cleaning the potentiometers fix more problems than changing capacitors. I have a 5inch Broksonic that had a very crappy picture, wouldn't lock the vertical and it was just some corroded pots.

Really like the 60Hz-Flashes in the slo-mo-blowups! Wonder how it would look like with rect-o-fied mains smoothed by a, lets say, 5.000 mF cap and a choke.

Thanks shango066 for the capacitor info and the scans for the 920U!!!!! I know I have my work cut out for me but I would rather shotgun all the caps instead of shot gunning all of the transistors! Now time to order parts and then hope for the best! We'll be standing by for video #3. Hopefully the microsurgery will be successful, my nightmares used to be the old General Electric PE series of walki talkies used by public safety. The channel elements were an absolute nightmare to recrystal since they were smaller than Motorola channel elements in the MX 300 line of portables. Bring on the Optivisor and hope the hands don't shake too much.

Did I really get this right? They are selling a diamond for 40.000 bucks on teleshopping? Who would be that crazy to to this?!? Can‘t get over it... great work Shango :-)

Check out that old selenium rectal fire ( old comic joke from popular electronics of the '60's) my Sony had a bad one and replacing it with a modern rectifier ( 1N4007 ?) cured the AC issue. You probably lready know that if they let out the magic smoke it should not be inhaled, very bad for ones health and smells like Sh!t. Also those old phelonic PC boards are known for having traces that lift off and split from the circuit board. Hard to trace many times, re check the joints for all the caps you replaced. Love these videos, I know they are a PITA to produce but they are appreciated.

Star Wars special effects master, the ozone is strong with this one.

the gold caps remind me of old german frako caps, they always shorted...

That capacitor popping was pure art.

That's some cool pyrotechnics,Love it:)

YES ! A new Shango video ! Time for a soda and some popcorn ! Great videos you do Shango ! The 8 bit guy (has a KZfaq channel) has a process for getting rid of the yellowing of cases like that disco TV. Check out his channel for more info on that. You decide if that’s a process you want to try when getting electronics cases looking better. He does it to old MAC computers.

I read that cryogenic treated caps offer unsurpassed sound reproduction with tangy fresh hi's and the creamiest mid-range response with in command smokey shadow-boxed bass.

The yellow plastic can be brightened like brand new with the bleaching gel for use in hair salons. Apply the gel, wrap in plastic kitchen foil so it won't dry out, expose to bright sunlight for a couple of hours (all sides evenly). You'll be amazed about the result.

51:00 in and I think you have some kind of ground reference issue somewhere. I'm betting one of those boards has a dirty socket on the ground or something? Loose ground terminal?

New part video - exploding old caps ;)

If your D to A converter has a composite video output, I would use it to provide a stable external H/V lock for your 'scope. That may provide an easier time tracking down your ac ripple path out of your power supply. Also, with the converter off of the VHF input, I would inject the comp video into the sync separator (thru a cap) to see if bypassing the IF shows more stability.

Hook up a 70's pong 'tennis' console to it . . the height of retro cool

I like the computer monitor look to the Sears TV.

Shango, would you pick around in a 70's Apple computer monitor? I'd love to hear your comments on non-TV CRT tech from around three disco-y beige era

When you started with the circle pattern I did see the ripple similar to filter hum rolling through the image. At 28:28 you can see it rolling upward.

Good stuff as always and now I want to order Crepe Erase Who knew?

grazie per il video, buon lavoro

Removing color damage is actually really easy. A guy known as "8-Bit Guy" has a KZfaq channel in which he restores old computers from the 80s. Well, they often have color damage. He uses a simple process called "RetroBrighting," in which salon conditioner is brushed onto the plastic, and it's set out in the sun. I'll be damned, but it works. He also has a process in which he dunks the parts in water. Check it out.

Jolly good show. You ought'a blow those caps in the dark.

That cap thing should be its own video. That was great.

Neat little set the Sony schematic dude has. Compact sony design, probably a pain to pull apart!