Vintage Toshiba Pencrest Portable Tube Television Analysis

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JCPenney® house brand vintage TV black and white small set
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@Suddenlyits1960 2 жыл бұрын

This tv first appeared in JC Penney's catalog in 1964. It was advertised as "The Penncrest tote-able tv,so light you can fly with it!".It weighs only 15lbs! The ad shows a jetliner in the background. It listed at $88.00 and was shown as only being offered in black that year. Sears also offered a version of this set in 1964 in black,white and gray. It appeared again in their 1965 catalog but was then shown being only available in black.

@KeyboardBuster 2 жыл бұрын

Good morning oh wizard of the cigarette glaze

@waltschannel7465 2 жыл бұрын

Bahahaha!!

@randyr.parker2698 2 жыл бұрын

"It vibrates your ass, it doesn't work you out" Bahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 People continue to buy that crap!

@thunderkunt5416 2 жыл бұрын

The nice build quality of this cute thing makes me wish for a complete cleanup & restoration video 😝😝

@sonnymollet6661 2 жыл бұрын

Another Shangoo master piece, this man explains the diagnosis and resurrects old tv's and radio which other people call junk , his videos are unique with humour and broadcast related facts all thrown in one video

@martinda7446 2 жыл бұрын

Er, he turned it on???

@vancouverman4313 2 жыл бұрын

The people who dismissed the Japanese sets 50 years ago as junk had never opened them up for a look. This is the quality of construction that caught the US automotive and electronics industries with their pants down. This TV just started up 50 years later with just some lubricant sprayed in the controls. The dropping of tariffs was the final coup-de-grace that killed the US consumer electronics industry. The automotive industry being much bigger and valued by government was given time to pull their socks up.

@johnmadow5331 2 жыл бұрын

Before 1964 the Japanese electronic Industry began to Adopt Deming system taken from Bell lap to improve quality. When Japan sponsor 1964 Olympic they designed and build zingaizen or a bullet train and got out of under develop country. Japanese electronics components has different grade for export. The one send to the US is the quality grade as you can see. I had Sanyo colour TV 19" that I brought under Sears for $630.00 electronic tuning in 1981 and it never fail until we got rid of it in 2017.

@Suddenlyits1960 2 жыл бұрын

Doc:”No wonder this circuit failed,it says “made in Japan!” Marty:”What do mean Doc,all the best stuff is made in Japan.”

@vancouverman4313 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnmadow5331 Yes, if the American consumer electronics industry had not ignored Deming they would've survived. Zenith factories were still turning out good stuff as late as the 80s though. A friend of mine bought a US made zenith TV in 1984 and had it until TV switched over around 2011. The only things I had to do to it during 25 years of daily use were replacing one transistor in the remote control receiver and adjusting the color pots on the neck of the picture tube.

@fredfabris7187 2 жыл бұрын

I worked for Nissan in the 80s. The funny thing about cars was that in those days the American cars were more advanced electronically than the Japanese. My impression at the time was that the Japanese killed the big 3 by creating a product that didn’t need as many repairs. The first thing that pops in my head is how US cars leaked oil like crazy (crumby cork and paper gaskets) while the Nissans would be dry with 100k miles. How many sets of valve cover gaskets did you put on your old Chevy? By the late 90s the big three mostly figured it out but lost a big part of the market. Now Nissans are problematic pieces of crap.🤔😂

@n2n8sda 2 жыл бұрын

Toshiba closed their first ever dedicated color tv factory in Japan last october..it had been going nearly 60 years and produced almost 1/4 billion sets!

@craignehring 2 жыл бұрын

wow

@petemiksich5760 2 жыл бұрын

That total no doubt includes their excellent Computer CRT's

@billcosby1908 2 жыл бұрын

Can't tell you how many Toshibas I owned probably like 2 or something

@W1RMD 2 жыл бұрын

@@billcosby1908 What was REALLY in your Jello pudding pops?

@channelsixtysix066 2 жыл бұрын

It's a color television on the outside.

@p1nesap 2 жыл бұрын

"It vibrates her ass, it doesn't work you out." Thanks for the laugh. Awesome episode.

@norcal715 2 жыл бұрын

Toshiba made excellent, well built products until the late 90's/early 2000's

@scratchpad7954 2 жыл бұрын

I agree; I have two 13-inch color CRT TV/VCR models (completely transistorized with the sole exception of the display because they were built in 2003) that still mostly work! The VCR on the white one went out some time ago (I think a plastic piece broke off inside the mechanism) and the VCR on the black model shakes and shudders and the picture fills with interference lines when the picture tube tries to warm up (I think it has to do with the converter box I use on it - yes, both models are analog and so need a converter box to watch TV on them.), but other than that, they still work. I recently replaced the white one with a TCL Roku TV (plenty new enough to be a DTV ready set).

@defaultuserid1559 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, we had one of these in the same color too. My mom had it in the kitchen and it ran every day from 6 AM to 6 PM. When it got thrown out the picture tube was completely shot. I remember replacing the Horizontal output tube but that was about it.

@donoester6744 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another interesting video - love them and the commentary! Absolutely hilarious and absurd commercials. If it wasn't for YT recommending you ages ago I would have never ventured into this, but thanks to you, I bought a Bang & Olufsen 17" Capri 606 TV from 1959. And restored it to fully work. At 4:26 it looks like resistors in parallel with inductors, where the inductors is wound ontop of the resistor. Similar parts are in my TV as well (Philips part).

@mustang-hovercraft 2 жыл бұрын

Whilst I have a love of vintage electronics, I'm mainly here for when Shango066 goes off on one! 😂👍

@larrygenedavis 2 жыл бұрын

Where's the blamulance and the airplanes? I miss the sound effects .

@ronaldspencer547 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderfully designed set. All the components connected together with few wires and no printed circuit boards!

@alphabeets 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love this. Shango is a GOAT genius, skillfully fixes old TVs so that we can all watch inane broadcasts. I love this channel.

@albear972 2 жыл бұрын

That was a cute TV indeed! And very, very clean too. You may be right; it looks to be from the early 70's. And really, it is insane that Japanese built products were considered garbage compared to a Philco. And that was a pretty danged good picture it produced.

@bookerol 2 жыл бұрын

Such a clean old TV. Never thought I would like the looks of a RED TV, but I do like it!

@muscledcowboy 2 жыл бұрын

i love your comments when the commercials are on the old devices

@jimmyday9536 2 жыл бұрын

Shango, you have a wonderful sense of humor! Perhaps there's hope yet for California!

@joelbrown9780 2 жыл бұрын

Growing up, we had a 1970 Penncrest (Matsushita) color set and it lasted 9 years before the original Zenith CRT quit. Japanese products had come a long way by that time.

@stevencarlson5422 2 жыл бұрын

cool tv for sure, this by far has been one of the funniest shango066 vid so far with the shaking but commercial just got a good laugh for sure

@ObsessionoftheMonth 2 жыл бұрын

when you mentioned that japanese stuff from this era was considered inferior. my experience with japanese radios is that they are almost all very well made. I think we were bamboozled by American manufacturers.

@russellhltn1396 2 жыл бұрын

Japanese quality was post-war, thanks to Dr. Deming who was sent over to Japan at the request of General Douglas MacArthur who was tasked with rebuilding Japan. It took over a decade for Americans to realize that their experience with Japan's pre-war quality was no longer valid.

@bmpk4954 2 жыл бұрын

Japan makes high quality electronics. I've looked at the build quality of my modern Luxman L550 hifi amp and it's incredible.

@martinda7446 2 жыл бұрын

Luxman have always been built with an extraordinary style and quality, for 60 years. I've serviced hundreds and every one was special in some way.

@rafaelgruber6133 2 жыл бұрын

These "silver like" caps are called styroflex and I've never seen one go bad...

@vintageradios7790 2 жыл бұрын

Misread Toshiba TV I can tell you dates back to about 1966 1967 very well-made and very very reliable. We did not see these come to the repair shop often and when they did it was because the antenna rods were broken or the tuner knob had broken

@Nick2011881 2 жыл бұрын

12:34 Anybody noticed that when shango said "its hard to get it in the hole" and then the guy on the TV said "amando, amando" in spanish which means "loving, loving", perfect timing!

@Rev22-21 2 жыл бұрын

I sometimes have that problem too.

@jonathaneastwood2927 2 жыл бұрын

Put some hair around it.

@johnchildress6717 2 жыл бұрын

You have to finger the tubes longer.

@ShadowsOnTheScreen 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Shango. I learn a lot watching your instructional vids.

@christopherhulse8385 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful TV set, and a color cabinet that won't fade easily like a white one which yellows with age.

@michaeldeloatch7461 2 жыл бұрын

What a gorgeous set that would have been an adornment to my childhood bedroom instead of the Silvertone BW tube portable that warped my brain. It's fun watching you get this old gear going and listening to your commentary on the passing scene. But to confess, I really check back to see what's up on channel 6.

@AdamSWL 2 жыл бұрын

This guy is just amazing! Fixes old TV so we can watch people twerking electrically! Thanks Shango66 and please show more American inanity with your added flair.

@gyost8147 2 жыл бұрын

Nice little TV. JC Penney's once had a good reputation and good customer service. Interesting background story (only cash/no credit for many years and shared stock/profit with employees).

@Musicradio77Network 2 жыл бұрын

It can be used for a video game console. You can install your Atari 2600, NES, SNES and Sega Genesis to play your game on this good old Penncrest TV.

@PrinceOfFALLEN 2 жыл бұрын

Your commentary on those old people commercials were hilarious 😂

@jeffadams5510 2 жыл бұрын

We have the same commercials here in the midwest. Not unlikely to see all of those over a dozen times each just watching a few hours of television on the weekends........smdh

@pcno2832 2 жыл бұрын

19:14 "And, while the nail alone will make a nice tasty broth, it never hurts to add some barley, a few potatoes and maybe even a few chunks of beef."

@Suddenlyits1960 2 жыл бұрын

Shango,I did some research and the first year this television appeared in the JC Penney’s catalog was 1964! It cost $88 and was only available in Black that year. The catalog/model number that year was X855-0626A. They advertised it as the “Penncrest Tote-able tv.”“It’s so light you can fly with it”. The ad shows a jet in flight in the background. Only weighed 15lbs! Apparently it was offered in colors in 65. Sears also offered a version of this set in 1964 available in black, white and gray. Catalog states “from Japan”. Last sears catalog I find it in is 1965 and then available only in black.

@waltschannel7465 2 жыл бұрын

Those infomercials were freaking awesome! Shake that thang!! 🤣

@maxs.3238 2 жыл бұрын

14:10 Ah I see, shango has finally found the 'window egg' setting on the vg91

@UDX-340 2 жыл бұрын

You got 2 good laughs out of me this time.nice work as always.

@stevehead365 2 жыл бұрын

The credit card scammers are not much fun anymore. Well made tv, could've watched coneheads before you fixed it.

@CoreyDeWalt 2 жыл бұрын

I thought jiggle excercises were disproven in the 80s lol. That commercial was hilarious.

@cjmarsh504 2 жыл бұрын

18:01 😂😂😂😂😂 Shango066 are one of my favorites when it comes to electronics!🤣🤣🤣 that Toshiba is great.

@NerdyMeathead 2 жыл бұрын

I'd say the polyester faired well that it's only starting to short at 60 years

@westelaudio943 2 жыл бұрын

Polystyrene it is. They normally don't go bad, only from overheating.

@theyoutubetestchannel 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid Japan stuff was called junk . Now China stuff is called junk . I bought some Nortive shoes the other day and they are made in Chine . They are actually of good quality

@EngineeringVignettes 2 жыл бұрын

China manufactures product to the standard that the purchaser wants.. if they are asked to make junk then they make junk.

@godfreypoon5148 2 жыл бұрын

What you see inside that set is pride in one's workmanship. The Japanese were pretty big on it.

@EOL0815 2 жыл бұрын

This was a real shorty one😆 - I love your long videos👍👍👍

@BlueSkyScholar 2 жыл бұрын

Writing letters... from the days when it was cheaper than a 1 minute fone call.

@theyjustwantyourmoney4539 2 жыл бұрын

I honestly can't believe I used to watch such a TV set in the 80s

@ryan61384 2 жыл бұрын

"Geez it's hard to get it into the hole" is what she said.

@Synthematix 2 жыл бұрын

What a brilliantly built old black and white set this is, love it fella. Top quality set think these were made around 1974

@Suddenlyits1960 2 жыл бұрын

Jc Penney’s catalog as well as Sears show it being offered from 1964-1965.

@frankowalker4662 2 жыл бұрын

That's a stylish little TV.

@justsumguy2u 2 жыл бұрын

I was shocked that it's an all-tube set; just by looking at it, I would've guessed maybe late 70's-early 80's, all transistor/IC's

@EngineeringVignettes 2 жыл бұрын

Toshiba using up and clearing out their stock of old tubes and using newer tech passives. It makes for a pretty resilient set.

@AaronSmart.online 2 жыл бұрын

Looks mid-late '60s to me - the styling, typography, metal chassis, total absence of PCBs or wet aluminium caps, UHF tuner stuck on the top as an afterthought. No way this could be from the '80s!

@justsumguy2u 2 жыл бұрын

@@AaronSmart.online No, I'm talking about if you just saw the outside of it and had no idea what was inside....like if you saw it on display

@AaronSmart.online 2 жыл бұрын

@@justsumguy2u I was talking about both the inside and outside, totally '60s

@dougbrowning82 2 жыл бұрын

@@AaronSmart.online Gotta be 1964 or 65. UHF tuner added wherever it would fit to comply with the then new "all channels act".

@Rev22-21 2 жыл бұрын

Agree on the clean design. Wish they were all that well laid out.. Nice job...simple...to the point 👉

@hestheMaster 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing job on this vintage B&W Penncrest. PowerFitElite twerkulator pad . Jiggling the fat so you don't have to.

@sting1111 2 жыл бұрын

That is a beautiful set!

@tgheretford 2 жыл бұрын

Electrodes and fitness workouts sounds like the next craze that Twitch streamers will catch on to.

@roberthickey1465 2 жыл бұрын

I got ya nuts right here (with the appropriate brooklyn accent) :)

@boazrefaely1205 2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos. This is my favorite field since I was born.. Greeting from Israel🍻

@bonemar66 2 жыл бұрын

They invented a wet/dry shop vac for your underpants. Maybe you can invent one with different attachments... like one that *is* underpants. Shango Nite Pantz. And they're machine washable!

@kenzingzong6704 2 жыл бұрын

I love your videos. Gonna keep it sweet and short :)

@Gr8Success 2 жыл бұрын

shango66 uploads i watch ... and i don''t even know anything about electronics but i like to see the form factor of the old electronics and of course his comedy :))

@bobe.3719 2 жыл бұрын

I'm having difficulty writing this comment due to the tears in my eyes and pain in my ribs from laughing so hard at your response to the robocaller. I have no idea what happened in this video after that.

@theDaftman 2 жыл бұрын

that clarifier pump advert is just taking the Wee!!!

@williamstevens7090 2 жыл бұрын

Toshiba made nice and stylish am/fm radios in the 1960s. That name is short for Tōkyō Shibaura Denki KK, Tokyo Shibaura Electric Company, Ltd.

@kkteutsch6416 2 жыл бұрын

Toshiba, Nec, Sharp, Mitsubishi, Jvc, Panasonic makes nice and reliable produts still today .

@waltschannel7465 2 жыл бұрын

Ýow! I got triggered. When the VISA message happened, I instinctively stopped the video. 😄 cool set! Metal chassis. Nice shape. With that color cabinet, I could totally get my wife into vintage TV!

@norcal715 2 жыл бұрын

I love how he handled it, I laughed so loud. I had to stop the video back it up and show my wife how to deal with telemarketers. I am going to try that in the future.

@douro20 2 жыл бұрын

I believe the old JCPenney distribution center in KC still has the old Penney's logo on it. Personally I'm surprised this set isn't a series-string set. Personally I've never heard of polystyrene capacitors shrinking as they age; they are very popular with people who build tube hi-fi amps.

@red_ford23 2 жыл бұрын

yep it does. Reppin' KC

@eDoc2020 2 жыл бұрын

I thought this TV was series-string. At least I didn't notice any power transformer.

@LMacNeill 2 жыл бұрын

This TV is exactly why Japan took over the small B&W TV market from the late '60s / early '70s onward. The American manufacturers truly did not give a shit about that market, and built total crap for it as a result. They wanted to sell big 25" color consoles, and to hell with the portable B&W market -- just sell 'em junk; they won't know any better. Well... We did know better. And we bought literally millions of small, portable B&W TVs from Japan because they built them like this TV here. They were sold under American department-store brand names like JC Penney, Sears, K-Mart, etc., but they were all built in Japan and they all ran for years with no issues.

@wackyworldofwindios3476 2 жыл бұрын

Good morning shango066. RIP kitty cat.

@justincase3880 2 жыл бұрын

Hey cool .. a new Shango video …

@whitelion7976 Жыл бұрын

I have a decent amount of portable TV sets most are black and white. I started when I accidentally found a Telefunken during a rubble clearing at a house. So now I have more than 20 as well several wooden TV sets.

@phononut 2 жыл бұрын

It's adorable!❤

@williammitchem8274 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I think Shango could build a interocitor...... Great video...

@JohnAudioTech 2 жыл бұрын

The round clear capacitors are probably polystyrene which have good temperature stability, low dialectric absorption, low leakage, ect. They didn't transfer over to the surface mount world because PS can't handle the heat from soldering processes.

@zx8401ztv 2 жыл бұрын

I tend to think of them in quality radios, very stable and worth the pennies :-D

@classiccomputers6211 2 жыл бұрын

I have occasionally found them in the sweep circuits of Japanese-made sets much like the subject of this video. The big problem with them is the extreme temperature sensitivity - had one set redplating the horizontal output tube because a polystyrene coupling cap in the oscillator circuit had melted from the heat of the tubes and shorted!

@westelaudio943 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, also known as Styroflex caps, possibly German made? Seen a lot in (west) German radios. They are usully very reliable, but a nightmare to solder. Maybe someone shorted 'em through overheating while soldering components nearby. The normally don't go bad on their own so Shango's statement surprised me a bit.

@randyc8171 2 жыл бұрын

JC Penney specialized in selling bright colored items. I have a Red Penncrest sewing machine.

@1956kirk 2 жыл бұрын

That set was made in late 1964 and into 65. Sears also sold it with Sears branding. They came in Red, Beige, and black. I think it was Toshiba's answer to the Admiral playmate 11.

@TeslaTales59 2 жыл бұрын

nice work as always. I answer all calls to waste their time too.

@gravedigr12 2 жыл бұрын

Its funny I remember the Way I found Shango066 was some old timers were talking about how you could re juvinate an old TV tube by blasting it with power and I wanted to see that and shango066 was the only one with a video on the subject I have a great respect for what you do shango066

@steviebboy69 2 жыл бұрын

The TV has quite a nice picture actually, That vibration thing was funny imagine the sight of someone with a huge arse, it reminds me of those belts you would see years ago.

@pcno2832 2 жыл бұрын

It looks very well made, but those interconnects with individual lug-connectors make me nervous; it would be very easy to put them back with the wires switched.

@avtransfersUK 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely video

@SoddingaboutSi 2 жыл бұрын

Never seen an Egg pattern on a TV pattern generator before! Nice TV.

@upliftingsiren4946 2 жыл бұрын

I like your vids they help learn more about televisions and tube radios and such since i myself like vintage audio but i rally dont know much in the way of diagnostics and these legit help me learn things btw whats your favorite company for audio products

@Nick215NY 2 жыл бұрын

I like this TV. I think it's a cool, attractive TV.

@martinda7446 2 жыл бұрын

Goddam that's a beauty.

@Joetechlincolns 2 жыл бұрын

I think I woukd be extremely impressed if I received a handwritten letter. Last time I got one was after My father died around 10 years ago. Maybe I should send a few and see what happens. Lol

@palipixel 2 жыл бұрын

Jaaayzus Dan, I know a few people who spend hundreds a month on confiscatory cable TV fees, and still can't find anything as fun or funny as some of your videos. There are also people putting out 'Shango' bait pieces for sale at the TRW swap meet, hoping to meet their favorite KZfaq celebrity. Can't really blame them. Good Show, and Carry On!

@arthureverett8220 2 жыл бұрын

If this set has no UHF tuner, It was made in the early 60s or late 50s. The crt looks very strong

@AaronSmart.online 2 жыл бұрын

It's on the top of the set

@teacfan1080 2 жыл бұрын

Nice little TV, performs pretty good without doing anything to it other than lubing pots. It seems that these little unknown networks (this) seem to have the weirdest commercials. I think there was a product a couple decades ago or so that had a person hookup electrodes to their tummy. A battery pack sent an electrical pulse and caused muscles to contract while they just stood there. Getting a workout without working out.

@TheTreegodfather 2 жыл бұрын

Subscription earned.

@derofromdown-under2832 2 жыл бұрын

They were polystyrene capacitors, not polyester... 10/10 for the vid

@F40PH-2CAT 2 жыл бұрын

>use tool to diagnose problem in tv >tv diagnoses problem in tool Are we in Rand McNally?

@johnnytacokleinschmidt515 2 жыл бұрын

18:03 Don't you remember the vibrators with the big leather straps and quarter or half horsepower motors? Motorized exercise bikes. I remember seeing them in the 1970's as a kid. Gimmicks....

@johnnytacokleinschmidt515 2 жыл бұрын

I actually thought you might have suggested the one lady get two of them....

@fireantsarestrange 2 жыл бұрын

The commercials ... lol

@FrikiObsoleto 2 жыл бұрын

I've found a similar model dropped in the street in white colour but the circuitry is more complicated.

@randyab9go188 2 жыл бұрын

From the type of construction, the style of components, and the lack of printed circuit boards I would place the date of manufacture 1964 to 1967. By that time all but Zenith went to printed circuit boards. Urban legend has it that zenith stuck with point-to-point wiring for do long because they didn't want to spend the money to convert the assembly line to printed circuit board construction. RCA & General Electric where some of the first manufacturers to jump on printed circuit construction bandwagon. Zenith quality was no joke. Built like a brick outhouse.

@gavincurtis 2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of those exotic burgundy designer B/W TVs on Wheel of Fortune for $5324.

@DavenHiskey 2 жыл бұрын

GREAT SCOTT 1.21 GIGAWHATTS!

@tedrobinson372 2 жыл бұрын

No pcb! All point to point wiring. What a well built set! Cool. Unfortunately there are no Loktals. The music is Chopin's Minute Waltz.

@EngineeringVignettes 2 жыл бұрын

Loctals are a plague upon humanity... kind of like locusts. Only worse.

@martinda7446 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately? I don't get it. 😼

@tedrobinson372 2 жыл бұрын

Because I love loktals!

@martinda7446 2 жыл бұрын

@@tedrobinson372 Blimey you are on your own.

@tedrobinson372 2 жыл бұрын

@@martinda7446 I have a number of receivers including pre WWII FM receivers where the loktals is used as the local oscillator/1st detector. The loktal does not suffer the dielectric loss of the bakelite octal socket and oscilator drift is much less than an octal tube. The Philco high frequency loktals were ahead if their time and only matched by the RCA acorns. Also the Philco FM1000 loktal was the first synchronous (quad) FM detector. I think they have has a bad rap