What I think I like most about your channel is that you treat a repair as a repair. You do the diagnostic, you check the components, and you explain the work. It is what it is, and you keep it that way.

This is definitely a testament to the flexibility of tube equipment being able to work even when almost everything is bad. That's one reason why i still like the old tube stuff.

Locktal tubes were designed for mounting in automobile radios, to keep the tubes from vibrating out while the car was moving down the rough roads of the time.

I have always loved the bass, even now when much of my hearing is just a memory, I still use my cell phone to enter my hearing aids and adjust the bass high and lower the highs, however most recently I have been adding more highs just to understand the words and pick up the different instruments in the band. I still love the old Rock and Roll from my youth the 60's and early 70's, especially the tunes that we listened to in Vietnam, brings back the memories of my old Army Buddies, most of who have long since gone on to their reward. I did get a call from one of them last night, just a check in call to see if I had the virus yet or not. We have been in contact since we both got home, and even visited in person a couple of times now, in fact I had plans to visit him in Idaho this summer, but it looks like that will be out of the question now what with the limited contact orders popping up all over the nation. I wish you good health and have fun with the old sets, I know I love watching your repairs, and I have learned a LOT from watching. I have always maintained that if you can learn at least one thing new every day, you will stay younger, and your brain will stay healthy. I asked my doc about that two days ago, his reply, "What the hell? Who knows, if you believe that way, then it will probably help, and we all know it couldn't hurt!" The newspeak from one with the MD behind his name.

I think that old radio is worth rebuilding, they do not build anything that would even come close to the quality of those old radios now days. It is a real piece of history and its amazing that it can work that well as messed up as it is.

Today's folk would wonder how we ever would put up with a radio like this.But if you were in a hunting cabin way out in the sticks and a blizzard penned you in for a few days,this was the only thing playing.(If the power was still on!) And it was beautiful because cabin fever is real. Of course I'm talking about the 50's when communications in this country was spotty. So,nostalgia or not- anybody that can repair these radios is a genius,IMHO Lucky I can solder. Great entertainment.Thumb up

the problem with old radios is they pick up modern broadcasts.

I love radios that are simple and different.,like your three tube Arvin,I have tried to find one I could only find the midget four tube arvin radio,I do have. You find and repair some very cool radios..

My new favorite channel, Love the narration bro.. Subscribed

I really like that old set, I think if it were mine I would do the general rebuild to see how great it worked back when it was sold NEW and everything was where it was designed to be. Of course that's just me, an old fart who loves the old days when everything old was new!

always love watching the heavy hitter radio repair people....if I only knew this much ....

That backward ad part was so random that I shit into my pants while laughing my ass of... x'D

My full respect to you for sharing your mistakes with us too. So we can benefit from you great knowledge and learn together from mistakes. Thank you very much. 👍

this radio seems to operate like an old wooden barn: Everything is half broken, bent and or just missing... and it is still standing and doing it's job, at least most of it.

The 'correct' way would be to order the replacement parts from the manufacturer. Since that is no longer an option the 'right' way is to do whatever you need to do to get it working without using modern parts. There are many 'right' ways to do almost any operation. Those who are complaining has never tried to repair a 50 year old wafer switch! Great videos!

Greetings: Replacing the selenium rectifier: use a silicon diode (1N4007) followed by a 22 mfd 200v electrolytic cap replacing the dropping resistor (cap + toward the diode cathode and - to the first filter cap). Saves heat and no wasted power! Those battery operable radios are usually classified as "farm radios".

Fascinating repair and video - as an artifact, this radio covers at least 3 periods in US history. Someone didn't want to consider life without a radio.

You've done it again! You not only zap the heater but understand and describe why before devising a method to prevent it. Your video's always show something intriguing. Thanks!

Great interesting video, love the night vision view of the tubes.

That radio has the Great Depression written all over it, just by looking at its appearance.

i like how you built the tube adaptor .., i also enjoy your humor , as well as your shows ,,

Somehow, when I first saw that radio, I KNEW it was a battery/AC set. It looks like the last of the 'farm' radios.

amazing seeing parts sold in cents.

You and Mr. Carlson's lab are awesome.

"making this toilet flush again" well said :D

Just me nice to us that had to make in house repairs back in the 70's and 80's. Granted I cut the open cap loose in case it shorted. If I had to use a 1n2005 to 2007 my minimum drop was 47 volts here in South MI.

This great, better than just a blanket swap out restoration. This is the kind of job I can learn from. Real radio tech and practical understanding of the circuitry. So much fun!

Interesting repair video. You are very creative when it comes to getting something fixed. But it's a testament to old radios that even though the components were so far off, it still worked somewhat. Tube equipment is great stuff!

It's very interesting watching these videos. I do guitar tube amp stuff myself, never tried messing with old radios, yet. There's such a huge range of circuits, tubes, etc on those old radios.

shango066 - you're the only one!!! nobody could copy you! Don't worry about the free-riders. They could never replace you!

I like these types of portable radios and it would be interesting to take a bunch of them to a fringe signal area and see how they perform. It's been my experience that, when working right, these battery radios are fairly hot.

Shang, y,ou & radiotvphonenut are my heros

Thanks Shango for the "Don't do it this way" video

I love the early luggage-type radios, but they can be finicky. Occasionally you turn them on and get nothing. Then you need to wiggle the tubes and you're back again. Also tubes are totally unforgiven. You MUST hook-up the batteries correctly or ZAP! They're all toast. I did that twice! You're set is a less common example. Those smaller obscure models are my favorite.

it is practically instant on with the direct heated cathode s, and the solid state rectifier.

Love your vids. Thanks for inspiration. Just fixed up my 50's clock radio.

Good to know about the one volt heaters, I've got a AC DC RCA with 7 pin miniature tubes that I blindly pulled out to reset them with the power on. Thanks for creating this video

very nice vintage radio I like vintage stuff like that- that game is called operation

Night Vision ~ That's Kool ! I would have never thought about that ~ Now I'll question more. = ]

Great video!! I like the looks of the new tubes.

shango you are pure awsomeness

Nice repair. I never cared much for Loktal's but have repaired a couple of Philco's that were all Loktal. Having different bases meant that you had to buy only certain tubes from said maker.

I like your honesty when you let the smoke out..lol...

Wow that's a radio??? If you turn it on will you hear Churchill speaking???Lol- wouldn't that be Trippy ??? Did you know that everything that is broadcast will eventually travel way out into.outer space??? No more weed gummy worms for me tonight & How the frig did I get here watching this??? But I'm fascinated! !! Can't take my eyes away -I think its that guys voice!!!

i think shango066 videos are an unbelievable xmas gift! =)

fantastic vdeo shango, bob here in uk

I know that this is an old video, but if it hasn’t been said, Radio Doctors was in downtown Milwaukee.

No sell by date on these videos. All useful stuff

The "outside foil" end of the cap is the shielded side. This side was meant to be connected to the ground, (or lower potential end) in order to reduce hum in the set. Unfortunately modern replacements don't always mark this end so it is impossible to tell which lead is shielded without testing it first.

Beleza. Esse é um clássico! Rio Brasil

I really enjoyed the video.

Now I know how I killed my hallicrafters TW1000. Thank you for the wonderful details.

The locking tubes were first designed for car radios, to keep the tubes from jiggling lose from the vibration of the car.

The caps marked "Micamold Radio Corp." were cheap when they were manufactured.

just in time for Christmas music

I never understood why Radio Disney is AM. Kids don't listen to the radio let alone AM

Just noticing the phone number on the repair tag you showed.

Those "Micamold" cap's were junk on the day they left the factory.

What's with the random german commercial?

Enjoyed this and your other videos Shango. What do you do with junk like this afterwards?

Was wondering when I saw this video posted under KZfaq video, I always watch your vids only on your channel. Seems like this particular vid is popular as a mix.

That is actually a silicon rectifier. My old Heathkit CD-1 colour bar and dot generator has two of them in it.

Very old nice radio. Never seen one like that before either considering it looks like a box wrapped in 50's or 60's wallpaper. LOL

0:23:45 Ron Lyons of Joe's Pinball Channel, is fixing Clocks and an occasional Radio. restoring a 1946 Bendix AA6, gives 'Props to our Venerable Host, here: "..as Shango would say, this Cap is BAAaaked."

You 're smart and funny as Hell!!

nice cute old radio

28:04 what the...

I think its a good idea to keep the original capacitors in there and series new ones in to keep the purists happy. If they get upset take your new ones out and solder the leads of the old ones back and show how it does all original 😆. I'm a realistic purist but some people are just ridiculous about it

I'm just wondering what guys are going to to with these wonderful old tube radios when the Am signal is Digitized?

SO......... The repair you did was on par with all the other repairs that have been done. In some 35 years from now an someone else gets thi and it’s not working correctly he is going to be amazed at the repairs done.

Dionne Warwick!!!!

If you're re-tubing, replace that bodge with the tube rectifier! The output tube should be a 3Q5, the 1Q5 is a 100ma filament, the 3Q5 is a 50ma filament. IE: The 1Q5 is like a 3Q5, but with the two sections of the filament in parallel (3Q5 has a center tapped filament.

I know you guys have a lot of stations where you are but it seems like the sensitivity really went up. Too bad you have people stealing your content. Jerkville keeps pumping them out.

good vid shango066

Love the cluster F. What do you think about making a video about foxhole radios?

I'm not understanding the repair techniques here---it actually takes more time and effort to engineer a work-around then it does to just install the correct parts.

470M = 470K ohms. Interesting and good to know. Thanks!

18:11 literally ROTFLMMFAO

The game is called Operation!

Way cool video! One of those Delco tubes looks like it overheated as the plate had a bluish tinge to it.

I want to buy it and replace all those parts. I feel sorry for it.

you didn't happen to get that from the TRW swap meet?

These video thief's are ridiculous, cant they steal some less intelligent videos instead? like some pop music videos or something? Anyway, great vid shango, old and out of tolerance, and still kicks, almost like some sort of unstoppable behemoth!

Someone butchered that thing, sad, hate cleaning up other people's mess. That radio is worth fixing correctly.

What's cool,is cool!

Previous tech may have sprayed the volpot generously, and it picked up old lube, oozed out and dried.

Let me know if you need any of those tubes..... I have a lot of them! I'd recap it!

Can you image getting a new variable capacitor for $1.39?!

So you're saying the capacitors have turned into resistors and the resistors have turned into capacitors so why wouldn't it work?

Cali traffic broadcast 😊

I'm going to rebuild oid radios and sell them. is there any way I could make them safer?

this thing is a true lemon xD

It sounded better with the higher filament voltages. Maybe the last repair person didn't care if the tubes were decimated in short order. Cap replacement would have been an expensive job and the customer might have said no, but a 'quick and dirty' repair would have rang the cash register. Were there really unscrupulous techs back in the day, or was this one just stupid?

cool radio

@shango066 why dont you create a radio station taht broadcasts royalty free music that you can use?

in a lot of cases the resistors going high wont make a jot of difference, especially a grid to ground on an output or preamp valve/tube.. those 'dogbones' are usually 20% tolerance or even higher anyway..

takes care of 95% of what ??????? i need to know. nice job with a charlie foxtrot set.

Dirty pot. Or warm out.

Excellent video but why is your videos listed under comedy instead of electronic or other options?