Watched it all and enjoyed it. Now I have a few good questions to ask an old time radio and TV repairman who I admire so much. Thanks. You solder like a champ !

I've been watching your videos for a while and I'm learning with every new one you post. You're a great instructor! I joined the Navy in 1963 and went through sonar school in Key West Fla. when I was 17. As part of our training we had to put together a radio with parts that had been soldered then un-soldered many times, (readied for the next class) and we were lucky if we could pick up a station out of Miami but most could pick up Havana. We learned the basics. I've started watching your old videos and this one was very interesting and informative and I have to keep stopping it and making notes. Some are just general tips you give as your working and some I've scribbled on the schematic of my current project but all are very informative. Thank you so much for educating all of us who are eager to learn and please keep uploading more.

I have a friend who is an expert in rebuilding vacuum tubes in his barn converted to laboratory. It is an amazing operation and all the fellas have lots of experience in the field. I took a course in radio repair long ago and was able to follow the video. Very well done. Thanks.

Such a pleasure to watch a master working. You younger people realize that these guys are who taught us back in the day, I love how he whips that 100 watt Weller soldering gun around. Lots of experience here.

Awesome Video! It takes away some of the mystery of radio repair. Thanks a ton!

great insight of a radio repair thank you from the usa to a uk radio man hope you are still going strong not many of us left now

Hey Soyland, good job on the radio. Reminds me of when I when I was doing TV repair back in the 60's. Retired from Tubo now and just taking it easy.

I have learn a great deal from you,also I never seen anyone solder as fast as you with that big old soldering gun,or the speed you solve problems .I Been solder well over 40 years but you are so much faster than anyone I have ever seen.I will keep watching you and maybe if I am lucky buy a tube radio from you I like the sound better

Whoever you are Glasslinger can I come and spend a few months learning some of your stuff please! I have worked on a few old radios and radiograms from the 30s+ 40s including a Marconi 2 valve set. I know when the old engineers die so will the skills that they have. I want to preserve these skills.

Hello... I like the energy you put into the job! 😊

Great Video glasslinger, I hope you keep making many more videos. Thank you.

Another interesting and informative video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

That hour just flew away. Very enjoyable video. Nice trick to hide the new caps in the old housing. Just got my first 'oldish' radio a few weeks ago. It is from the 1970'ies though so no tubes 😐, but it is a good starters project for me.

Man...I felt like I did the repair with you...Nice Job!

Excellent work! I recently went to repair a 1928 Victrola Radiola but unfortunately found that the interstage tuning coils had shorted out and the variable air caps were destroyed. Amazingly none of the bias and linkage caps were bad. I replaced all but the power supply electrolytics anyway. I ended up scrapping the RF front end and just remaking it into a mono amplifier since it was a lost cause to try to repair. Works great aside from loud 60Hz hum.

I collect old radios. Have re-capped 2 (leaving in place old values I could not source. You gave workarounds... ) Watching your very efficient algorithm will make my next one much faster. THANKS!

Ron Ever since you Told me about the CRC Brakleen, I am Amazed how well It works cleaning switches, Thank you.

glasslinger I really Love your channel. . Please keep posting Specifically, older radio repair if you can. Thank you for all you have uploaded. They are really great!!

Thank you! Best advice I’ve heard in a long time regarding repairing a customer’s vintage electronics 08:23

Thank you for your helpful and in-depth demonstration

Thank you for your insights and your videos. What you do is a lost art. PS: love the outfits 😄

Great lesson = you've given me courage to tackle a newly found Air-Castle. Love your old style sense of humor, the cat holding down the radio, reminded me of Dad...and you're the fastest solderer in the West, or East. Also, no high brow techno-talk. Look forward to more, Subscribed.

well done old man,another radio fit to work till it falls apart .. jeff ..

great job... and I do enjoy your nice videos, thank you

This was a great video! Nicely done. Back in 2006 or so I restored 4 Heathkit HW-30 2 meter AM transceivers but I shotgunned them all. Including teflon wire for interconnections, and all new carbon film resistors. Results were excellent but my reasoning for doing that was that I thought since all the components were getting very old the radio would be a non-stop maintenance headache if I didn't. The radios work perfectly now.

Nice job on the restoration Ron! Also thanks for the explanation on fuse specifications. I always thought a 1/2A fuse would blow there at 1/2A. I didn't know it would take a 1/2A continuously and only blow when reached approx 50% higher current value. Tom

If I just had watched your videos 20 years ago. My uncle had an Admiral 'Transoceanic' 1960's tube radio. I barely understood what it did. I think he got the radio as a payment from a traveler visiting the port. Please keep posting more videos sys.

Thanks for a new video, I really enjoy watching!

I try to use the old caps like you say here when I cap the guitar amps I work on. It really keeps the original look.

great radio repair keep up the very good work

I learned so much from this. You are very skilled and should be selling instructional videos and writing books. I liked how you used the signal generator. Maybe a video on the uses of a signal generator?? Thanks Again.

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Very nice, it's always a pleasure watching and learning from your videos. One of the things I always look for when buying old electrical stuff is a good original line cord though. So long as they're in good condition and not handled roughly they serve just fine. I'd have left that asbestos in there too :)

Great, well worth the video time spent, thanks tom

i love your videos...they really relax me and I get some great tips.

I learn from every video you post - thankyou

Very enjoyable watch....as always!

This old man is really good.

You made that simple and fast, good Job.

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I always cover the speaker with piece of cardboard. learned that after I put my thumb through it.

You apparently have done this for years....I read some comments on here on how you are being rough with the parts, but most of the hobbyist today do this for fun, and not for a living... back in the day a repairman would make 10 calls a day and would do exactly what you do in the video, you must of worked in the field doing this stuff... I remember our TV repairman came out to replace the power switch on TV... he threw parts and tubes around and into his tube case and thought nothing of it... Nice video!

I enjoyed the video very much thank you. Great hints and tips for troubleshooting. Very useful. Curious what the next video will be about. Kind regards Paul.

I was thinking about this vide when i red about another project when a guy built in a RaspberryPie micro PC card in an old radio chassi. This must bee the ideal combination, one needs only the intestines and another, like most people (at least here in my country) wants only the chassi and other visible parts to fill with modern tecnic. It´s good to see that there is still people who salvage even the intestines in thos old radios in working condition. Personally i concidering about building a replica of the chassi so i had to re watching this video again for inspiration! Since i want the same feeling as the original (but i dont vant to destroy real items of historical interst.).

Very interesting and enjoyable. London calling...

I have a similar wavetek audio sig gen to yours, good machine,I have some spare 703 op amps for it too.

That doesn't appear to be a AA5 radio, as I don't think they started making them until the mid-40's or so. I suspect that the tube filaments are wired in parallel, hooked up to that transformer. Looks like you've done this a few times, as you make it look this task look so easy! I am aware that radios of that era often didn't have the standard 455 kHz IF. Excellent video, thanks for sharing!

Really enjoyed watching

great vid. learned alot. im restoring a.northern electric 2 tube intercom .

Much respect and since I've found your channel I'm trying to catch up on old vlogs. Keep on truck'n. I like your style but why not wear a apron to save some of your clothes you must go through a lot of wardrobe.

Nice. I noticed you don't worry about "J hooking" the new components and don't seem to have any issues. Saves time not to have to do that. I suppose having a hot enough soldering gun helps. I have a Weller too. Good dependable guns.

It's so good to see no advertising on your videos

You are the smartest dude when it comes to old radios!!! Can you help me in restoring mine????

Those old caps are usually covered/sealed with beeswax. You can sit it in a tin in the oven and heat it till the beeswax runs and wipe it off the paper to read the value. I do that and rebuild/repack the cap with new cap and fill with beeswax to look like the original.

Thanks for that, good to see an old-timer who knows his radios. K5ZN

you are very professional..

Bloody excellent video!

Great video thanks for sharing

I wonder if that Beitman's book has a schematic for a Herbert H. Horn Tiffany Tone Model 73 C ( a small medium console radio made probably around 1937 or so) radio? It does have a magic green eye and a very impressive Dial Face design with a glass cover instead of plastic. I am in need of such for the repair of my radio as it hasn't been played for many years. The veneer needs some help but the cabinet is in fairly good shape and amazingly the original grill cloth appears like it is new with no tears or stains on the cloth. This is a rare radio and one that is not even listed in the radiomuseum site listings for Tiffany Tone radios.

amazing job!!!!

great video, I wish you were my neighbor

I haven't found any new videos from you lately I miss your videos ,hope you will make lots more.

I've got an old radio that I'm repairing. Thanks for your help. I'll let you know how it goes. The case is broken so I'll probably build a plexiglass box to show off the tubes.

i am indian. like your knowledge experianc best and expert person

I work on commercial radio gear and I have piles of old tube type 2-way radios in my storage. Most all of them work fine while others are DOA.

Very good video, well explain.

Nice work. :-)

Excelent video !!!

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Interessante video e ottimo lavoro ,thank you

A lot of older British Radio and TV sets used brass screws and I used to save my bees wax capacitors to use the wax on the end of my screwdriver to help remove and refit them. I still have my AVO 160 valve tester.

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Thanks!!! It's a Zenith 10-S-153. All five knobs are missing. Can you help me with that? Also, theold cloth covered power cord is a dry, rotted and frayes. I'd like to start there and see if I can get it fired up. Thanks again for your time!!!

This lady is awesome

I have decided to bin all my old radios after viewing this

repair vs restore is a big difference.

A cloth cord is pretty and all that other stuff, but a polarized plug leading to ground on the chassis would have been a safer setup

so, just wondering why you were drilling into the new volume control? Were you making an access to shoot in some contact cleaner?

As always excellent video. So descriptive and clear. I am presently working on tube type Fisher preamp! Changing out most of the paper caps. Mr Carlson made a video identifying the foil end from the core. I can't see the difference. Is it important? Thanks for the great video.

You know what you are doing!

Thank you for sharing.

My father worked with those asbestos plates, but they made it wet before handling it cutting or wrapping around hot/cold tubes.

Good Job !

Hi: What’s your thought on polarized plugs and/or adding a ground to the chassis on radios and other electronic equipment of this era. Cheers, Mark

Where did you get your tube clamp?

lovely video! one question, what happend with the volue control after you drilled that hole inside ots metal can?

Do the compasitors have to go a serton way round

Very educational... but if you say "OK?" one more time, I'm going to explode.

tell us where you hook up the generator and is it RF, Audio, what?

Reminds me of an old Coronado AM/SW radio I am working on except the tubes are not marked on the chasis..strange because a slightly later model AM/SW I restored had the tubes stamped on the chasis.

I would recommend non-chlorinated brake cleaner... it does not attack plastics. The others (and carb cleaners) usually contain acetone.

hi i have a goplana valve radio . 4 bands all working expect MW any idea what it could be, please .would like your help . the bands are fm lw and sw

Glasslinger Eu gostei de todos os radios, só uma pergunta esse que você está fazendo você o vende? pois gosto só dos antigos

I really enjoy your videos...they're great. Where did you attach the signal generator lead?

I got a 40s tube radio out of a skip last week. casing was no good.Took chassi out cleaned it all up and it was all working. I picked Tokyo up on LW.It was like the scetch from Tony handcock on the ham radio 😂. I much rather see the workings out the casing. O and that smell

you ever consider building a small Faraday cage for your camera? and some of that crackle sounds like the IF cans may have bad mica caps in them.

you are extremly good in repairing..

very good job thank you

Great video! As always I might add :) I noticed you didn't shrink the heat-shrink tubing, or maybe it was hot enough that it did by itself and I just didn't see ?