I say, that is the shortest 50 minute video I have ever watched!! I was very impressed with the layout especially the precursor to PCBs.

What a pleasure to watch and learn so much while the master craftsman is at work. Thanks Don for the video. Looking forward for your next episode…👍

Thank you for the video can't wait for part 2

Really looking forward to the next episode of this fabulous wireless set 👍

Super!

Very nice. I don’t know why we just can’t sell consoles. Just watching David doing a field coil from a STC! Twice the pleasure! Nice Sansui BTW.

Well, that plug took a bit of MacGuyvering to get fixed! And indeed that chassis looks very comfortable to work on. Great job so far and I'm looking forward to the next video!

Hi Don, I’m very excited to see the radio coming back to life again, can’t wait for the next video. Awesome start so far to part 1, all the best for the next chapter.

Enjoyed your video look forward to part 2.

Good on ya mate, You are the MAN!

What an interesting radio and another great video. The storytelling seems affortless to us viewers but that's down to the skill of the storyteller and the work you put in. Thank you! A Merry Christmas to you and the missus. 🎄🥂

Very interesting set Don, your mate will be well pleased. Great build quality as well-must have cost a pretty penny (or cent!) back in 1936! Looking forward to the next instalment-hope the heat isn't too oppressive, here in Cork we're just out of a coldish snap-freezing by night, with today being a balmy 11 degrees!

Coming along, Don! 👍

I love this video Don. Really cool old radio. I'm looking forward to the next installment. Happy Holidays to you and yours. All the best from Gene in Tennessee.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Pommie land. Great Video Don. I like the way you work in a logical progression and are not afraid to admit that you admit to puzzling finds. Great to watch. I'm currently strugging with a Hallicrafters S20 communication receiver. Sent anEmail to David today so may get some ideas from him soon! All the best Lynton G4XCQ

As you say Don, an unusually well organised and neat chassis for this period. Those hand wound resistors were an interesting touch. I kind of like the change they made to the facia to give it a bit of character. I'm sure you'll have this up and running in no time. Seasons Greetins from Scotland.

Another great video Don, I'm sure you will nail the rest of the repair, just a bit of patience & stay away from super glue,LOL ! This gives me the incentive to keep rolling with my Breville restore too. Cheers Mate 😃

i wish manufactures bring these back with today s technology of course

Both yours and Dave Tiptons vids dropped in today and the radios look almost identical! That tag board assembly in yours reminds me of a lot of home made british stuff. At least you didn't have to rewind the field coil on the speaker like Dave did!

Excellent work Don. Lucky to have that field coil speaker working. I'm really struggling with one in my Hallicrafters S20. Watch your fingers on that 6F6 they run really hot! Cheers Lynton G4XCQ

Hi Don & a very merry Christmas to you. Thank you for the video - one small suggestion; if I remember the cct diagram correctly, the tone control cap is in the plate of the 6F6, returning via the tone pot to ground. In this position they have a hard life & if they short, you are down a tone pot also:( Thanx again.

nice Sansui amp too

Hi Don, You must be right that the trim under the knobs is added. I'm thinking that the large tuning knob was left off when they added a piece of trim there wasn't enough length on the control. Rich

Any idea what type of wood has been used on the cabinet? Its real unusual and nice at the same time. Adds to the uniqueness

Nice going there Don. I have had the 'pleasure' of working on a few STC radios from the late 30s and yours is the cleanest and best laid out one I've seen. That huge capacitor was unusual, I expected it to have a high capacitance and voltage. It is high for a non polarised one I guess. What happened to the front of the radio cabinet? that is weird, is it a different chassis and the holes were out or something? As you once said to me... "you'll have this working in no time" 😉

Well so far don it's looking really good :-D The bi carb and super glue was very handy. I really like the massive chassis layout, You can get your sausages in there without swearing lol :-D It's a shame that some pillock bent the toaster rack. It looks like a no stress job, that's great :-D

Hi Don. I can confirm that this is a model 530. "53" being the chassis number, and the "0" being the cabinet style. I have a model 680, which is a slightly earlier model (late 1935 to early 1936) that uses the same cabinet design.

Really nice work Don!

23:35 The tuning capacitor? Call it "Bill" 'cause it's *"Shortin'"!* (Shorten) LOL😁

Very interesting watching this. I have an STC 536 chassis in a cabinet which is the same as the one you called "Butt Ugly" (which came up nicely in the end). The valves in it are 6J8, 6U7, 6B6, 6V6 and 5Y3 which are different to the one's in your STC 536. Also your chassis is somewhat larger than the 536 I have. I believe mine is a 536B. When working on mine I found a lot of discrepancies to the circuit diagram which I downloaded from Radio Museum. Out of interest what chassis did your "butt ugly" cabinet have? (sorry for calling it that but it's the only way of identifying it 🤣) Looking forward to the next part in this resto.

easy wireless to work on 450 if

Hello from Hobart. The speaker plug is a UX -5 valve base, the same sort used on an 807, the base you took the pin from is UX-6 probably off a 57 or 58 IF pentode. A word of caution though using Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate mixed with Ethyl Cyanacrilate…that mixture still contains Sodium Ions, effectively charge carriers….and i that was one of the field ciol connections in thr pi filter at 450v…Yikes..you could get track-over. Sodium ions and 450v straight of the cathode of a 5V4 don’t mix well. Oh, and something else to help when the cyanacrilate sticks your fingers to the bench or to each oher….have a dropper bottle of acetone handy, it not obly dissolves the cyanacrylate polymer but seems to react and terminate polymerize the monomer too. On my bench there ate two polyproplyene dropper bottles, (scavaged from swarzkopf hair dyeing kits), one with metho and one with acrtone. Odd radio for 1936, I would have expected a UX based valve lineup, something like 6A7 pentagrid, 57/58 if, 75/6B7 det /AF ans a 42 for the output. Look as if here they were trying the very first octal valves. A 6F6 in the output is a pain in the bum because those are so bloody rare compared to 6V6’s. I reckon I have at least 150 6V6GT’s, a few, six or seven 6V6G’s and maybe two or three 6F6’s…one is in a metal can like your rectifier there and one if the others is in a Shouldered G bulb. I can ,t imagine the two are that different and I’d be very strongly tempted to alter it for a 6V6 by changing either the screen dropper, cathode resistor or speaker transformer after consultong the datasheets for both valves…becausr 6V6’s are still literally everywhere. I have a very interesting Stromberg - Carlson here a big cabinet model like this, it is choc-full of UX based valves….a damn pain to get back into a socket up the back of the chassis behind an IF can because the thick and thin pins ain’t that different…guess that is why Octal was developed, just get the valve over the socket and the end of the keyway into the centre socket hole, them spin till it drops and you know it is “good to go” to push it down. Bloody UX sockets, particularly the cheap micenol ones….crack!..Oops, got thise thicker heater pins in the wrong place! This Stromberg-Carlson has a three-gang tuning, a 57 tuned RF, a 6A7 pentagrid, but wait for it…it has TWO IF strips! Two more 57’s, one in each strip and two 6B7S’, one for each strip…one whole strip dies the AGC and the other for the AF!. the output stage is odd too, it has a 6A7 dual triode phase splitter folloved by a class A-B pair of 2A3’s…oh and I just about forgot, it has a 6E7? Magic-Eye hanging off the second AGC strip! This must have beentheir absolute top of the line radio…I rescued it from a scrap metal yard about 20 years ago. Sadly the dial glass was snashed to bits. The cabinet and speaker are OK, but that missing dial glass is a show stopper. There are so many valves in the chassis, someone has put an octal based GZ32 rectifier in there, I suspect it replaces an 83, a very rare mercury vapor version of the famous 80. All in all it is a very unusual Aussie radio, Inshould pull my finger out of my bum and do something conclusive with it as the chassis dOes basically work despite all the old paper caos underneath!

Well Don, all I can say is you ratbag! Today was going to be my last day in the workshop before Christmas and what do I find when I came in for my lunch? A must watch video from you. And, AND a video from Dave Tipton too! Well that's my afternoon gone as I can't not watch both of you. Only joking, always great to see a video from you mate and to be honest it's brass monkey weather to be in the workshop here in the UK. An enjoyable watch as always. Best wishes of the season to you and yours Don.

100 f huh? get some ac unit mate

Don you a great person, but please don't talk about the weather I'm in northern hemisphere and its cold. When your cold I'll rub you about my great weather. This is a great intro a Radio console in its prewar living room as seen around the world, however I miss your politically incorrect scantily clad women images. Why is it that it's prevalent on the island (Sorry continent) of Australia versus the lack of politically incorrect images from Island of Caldeira? Question, how do we get that great tech to get a bit more Vivacious, this could cause a jump in his subscribers too Sorry Guys..a little jocularity helps the world go around.