Good to see that the automatic rodent suppression system is doing well.

I am japanese.What does the high pressure caution sticker mean is Be careful of high voltage. It's a translation mistake.

Last month I ordered a Seiko watch direct from Japan, it was a very basic army-type watch that they only sell to their domestic market. No date or days,, just the time. Anyway it arrived 5 days after the order was placed, and had a Japanese snack inside along with a coupon for free shipping on my next order :) Gotta love the way they do business.

The cat wants you to open the box already so he can sit in it.

I don’t just come here for the television’s, the chaos and commentary make it absolutely priceless

Even without a personal interest in electronics, the commentary alone makes these videos worth watching. Keep up the good work, sir.

“Look at this list of ingredients here! Do you think that thing (points to cat) was designed to run on all this” Your commentary on the cat food is hilarious,I’m glad the cat came around for his scientifically engineered meal and started all this.

I like the cat feeding part of the video too. a rare glimpse into your life. If the cat likes you You must be OK.

22 year olds here ! Totaly approve ! I love my (still in repair state) old 80's Philips Color CRT !

Coffee and a snarky Shango066 video are time well spent.

Try being in the U.K. where the mains voltage is between 230-240V, you feel that I can tell you!⚡️⚡️☠️☠️

I have a 1963 Marantz Model 10 FM stereo tube tuner (#35 of 100 made), in which each individual solder joint was marked red. This was a very expensive unit and Marantz quality control was second to none. The Japanese admired the company and actually started collecting vintage tube Marantz hi-fi equipment before everybody else in the 1970's..

I was today years old when I learned that Toshiba stands for Tokyo-Shibaura...

Having worked in Japan, knowing their attention to detail, yes someone checked each individual solder joint.

It's always good to see a cat in a video

I scanned that sticker with the Japanese text on it with google lens and got: Since this unit is a high performance TV that uses "Keyed AGC", it is not necessary to adjust "AGC" during installation. Smaller text: if the radio wave is too strong and the screen bends, or if the white part turns gray, turn the "AGC"knob" to the left. If the radio wave is too weak and there is a lot of noise.

The "High Pressure Caution" is actually "Warning - High Voltage" A lot of Asian languages still translate Voltage to Pressure even now.

Hey I get a Cat Video AND an awesome TV unboxing in one!

Japanese-market cars will also often have a mixture of English, Japanese, and universal symbols for dashboard and stereo controls. Sometimes it's because the equivalent Japanese characters won't fit in the space and still be legible, sometimes it's because of the cost of making different plastic molds isn't worth it, sometimes it's an aesthetic choice.

Fairly certain those modulators with comsat on the front were made by R. L. Drake company who made communications receivers and branched out into satellite TV receivers etc. Vintage about 1990.Very well made and ran for years with no problem, channel number set by dip switches, search Drake VM400.

'If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized .... If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance - you can be absolutely certain that what is promoted is not in your best interest. Ian Watson. Sounds like the vaccination program too me.

I collect and repair early SS receivers and have seen alot of those vintage grey electrolytic capacitors. I have an all germanium 1965 Kenwood KT-10 receiver, the first solid state model they made. It has close to 70 of them in it and it works great. It's capacitors were around 2 to 5 ohms esr with a little leakage. The unit tests pretty close to spec. Then another one might need many or all replaced. I think it's mostly down to the conditions it spent it's life in. I was once given a 1966 Lafayette receiver that spent 30 years in a hot humid flea market attic, every single electrolytic cap was wide open, didn't even register as a cap. Most of the resistors were double their value and a small fire sometime in the past melted one of the wiring bundles. I was going to use it for parts but I thought "what parts", so I as a joke I replaced the caps, fixed the wiring and shorted outputs set the bias. I wasn't expecting it to work, but the thing worked. I use it as my computer headphone amp and it sounds pretty good. I've been watching you videos for years and learned alot. Keep up the great videos. Keith

Wow, it looks so surreal to see those Covid news in black and white on a vintage Toshiba screen 😂😂😂

Shango this is why we love your videos so much. No matter what you are jonesing for...you got it covered. Whether it be Politics, World Events, Nicotine Glaze, Wildlife(human or otherwise) or Aviation you the man. Look forward to the next video if we all aren't hiding under our kitchen tables to protect us from the nuclear blast by then.

Wow . . . thanks for the transformer bucking configuration concept! Had NO clue about nor heard about it - until today. Yes, I am a relative noob to electronics. Learning about electronics is why I watch the shangster. Belt that Toshiba picture bulb with the Beltron!

Those air pillows are good for packages when used properly. But this should have been double boxed.

Hi Shango0. Great to see the Japan set working. We had one our Brother in law bought back,in the mid 70's Of course it never picked up any of the two channels we got here in the mountains. : ) It was a console set. Bright picture tube. No internet in those days. All my best.

A perfect Saturday, my birthday and I get my Shango fix. What could be better! .. " could you get out of the way" he says to the cat. I think that kitty needs a recap! Toshiba Pubic 12 with the folding channel selector and child proof picture adjustments!

Jabs for joints..... LOL There must be something about a shot so effective that you have to pay people to take them. Very cool television I think. I like that modulation rack. Good ideas! Cheers to you buddy! 🍻 -Al

Its fun watching tv with Shango.

@19:25 - No matter how sarcastic or sardonic you may be, you never cease to make things relatable to the average non-repair guy. My wife does not agree. She thinks you're dry. She never listens long enough for the humor to hit her.

Actually I'm impressed with the voltage dropping method. I'd forgotten you'd could do that.

Nice Set I have a little color Toshiba tv from 1978 it is a nice little set !

Another awesome video Shango. Thank you.

I know I saw others commenting on this, but it's actually very common for Japanese products to contain English text. They actually take mandatory English classes in school (although I'm not sure exactly when this process started.) English is considered cool or trendy, and a lot of basic words are known to the general population. In fact, it's very common for video games (in the original Japanese release) to be sprinkled with random English terms to this day.

Nice little set. Quite amazing to see a fully tube based set from the '70. In Europe most 1968 year and onward sets are all transistorized.

Reminds me of my 12 inch XAM TV I had as a kid. Good video. Amazing it survived shipping.

Why is the text on the cabinet in English? Because it's cheaper when the company decides to export the set - all they'd have to do in that case is change the stick-on labels and the supply voltage. For one, huge companies, like Toshiba, would have had a much larger market outside Japan - they sold sets all over the world. For another, I can imagine that having a set with English markings would be seen as more "modern" in Japan at the time, as opposed to the ancient hieroglyphs.

Another young collector here, just so you know we're around

Awesome, not only a vintage television, but a vintage JDM television! Glad to see it.

Grat video as usual. Nice setup with the buck transformer

Great video as always Dr Shanego

"All you had to do was follow the damn filament curcuit CJ!"

I love your content. Keep it up, and stay safe!

Good afternoon I like all your videos very excellent

Thanks for the video Shango.

Kitties and electronics….dang fine video Shango ! Greetings from South Dakota. I love your commentary, keep up the good work.

the content was spot on for this video

fantastic video to watch on youtube thank you take care.

Oh man! That news will just get more depressing uggh but anyhow nice video! This is better than the news watching you revive/repair tv and radios!

I love your meowmix. He deserves the camera time.

That is awesome what you did with the transformer I never knew you could do that....very cool

"Passed the inspection" might actually mean something in Japan. Possibly not like China Inspector 3.

you know that dog "His Master's Voice " well you have the cat version .. nothing looks bad with your new mascotte

The kitty-analysis & feed portion of this video makes it an instant classic in my books, up there with the Philthy Ford, fly-zapper-vision and all. At least you can make more use of NTSC-J sets than we can in the UK. Who knows, if I ever hit the big bucks I may well look you up to send over a Trinitron KV1360U that doesn't really work. Has a raster but nothing else currently. I best not mark it "fragile" though else the shadow mask will end up tangled with the grids.

I had my first TV that was almost identical to this. Had it in my bedroom. I was so happy. Watched Solid Gold

Cats love your voice. Thats normal with all calm people

Years ago, a friend who grew up in the 80s and still got to experience soviet tv told me that the fact color tvs were so expensive there did not bother people that much since there was hardly anything except propaganda to watch anyways. Having quit watching tv myself around 2005, your snippets of cable news make it perfectly clear what he meant, back then I did not really get it. If there were no way to watch old movies/series on them, restoring tvs today would be a very odd hobby - hours of tedious troubleshooting only to be rewarded with content that makes you want to throw a brick at the damn thing instantly. Love your commentary, keep up the good work!

I'd heard of the bucking xformer concept, but never seen it or heard it explained that clearly. Will be going back to that segment after a bit. I have a bunch of hi amperage 12 volt xformers that should work well.

Here's another idea for sane content to display on your repair TV sets: Find a Laptop with an S-Video output and just play some Radio-TV-Phononut KZfaq Playlist on it, of course full screen. It might be a bit of a challenge to find a laptop that is old enough to have S-Video but new enough to not choke on KZfaq video playback. But it only has to do 480p, so that should help. Or you could use a modern computer and use some kind of hdmi-to-composite converter, I guess that would be easier to pull off. You could also play videos of cute kittens, or even straight up info wars (not from YT of course), although that might get you banned for defying the narrative. Well, my favorite would still be if you would put your own repair videos on a hardware video player with composite or s-video output and would feed that into your professional modulator.

The back has english probably because they shipped a similar model to USA, Canada. Cheaper to print different labels than make different plastic molds.

@2:22 - plate had a scrumptious sky raisin! Step on those packing bubbles and you'll be walking on imported air!

I agree with you completely on the gray caps, either all are ok, or all are bad, that's what I have found on Japanese color and BW sets.

Kudos to you Sir ~ For Having the Patience to fix and Collect these Electronic Relics! --I have a few Myself - mostly in parts - Have an Old CRAIG R-T-R tape recorder for you in parts ( Interested??)

Well I learned me something today alright, great tip 'bucking transformer'...cheers.

I agree with on propaganda news a load of lies.

My parents bought a Toshiba in the late 80s, It was a Japanese chassis and I think a Singapore tube, it was assembled at their plant in Nashville and it refused to die, they kept it as their main TV until 2009 when they got an LCD. The only real annoyance with it was it didn't have composite video inputs.

That cat food made us hurl and turn a shade of monochrome.

Shame the knobs got broken in shipping.. nice little set, I cant remember anymore but you used to be able to build a little box that used an rf modulator out of a vcr or something that you could retune to convert the japanese RF frequency to standard US spec... maybe some schematics floating around on the net but these days its probably easier just to bypass the tuner with composite video unless you are really trying to use some old computer or game or something.

ive seen the red dot on solder joint thing a tonne on old japanese stuff here in the UK. always imagined some poor fella (or fellette) with a wee red marker in a QA factory dabbing it all day every day. Made me sad tbo, that a persons work could be so dire.

Aztec in the 80's did the red mark inspection on every solder joint on their switching power supplies. Good quality stuff except Aztec used RIFA across the line caps. Bang, smoke, stink!

I too like to step the voltage down on my older electronics. Mainly my radios from the 1930s that have the little dinky power transformers which run hot as hell. I'll use a 20-30Ω 25W chassis mount power resistor, applying PC thermal paste really helps spread the heat.

That's a nice little cat you have there. Considering that the TV has English all over it, it must of been a special TV made for American military personnel living in Japan.

Overnight TV's from japan? getting fancy there ! !

27:00 No... Not cringe worthy. Just the way things are done during testing and research and teaching! Good job!

Nice job

What a shame. That tv lasted all this time until the shipping co. Threw it around like a football and busted the knobs. On the flew occasions when I shipped something I packed it VERY well and I wrote on the box in large letters. " smash me bust me" I need to collect the insurance. Nothing was ever damaged. Go figure???.

Well I did learn a little bit about canned cat food. 🐈 today.

I've often caught CJ watching your videos at the workshops we go to.

Mr. Shango066, you Definitely MUST have another channel commentig the commenters. I bet you hit 100.000 viewers in a week. Perhaps even you can run for president, hahaha

that set kicks ass for how old it is. no caps needed

Is that perhaps a hotel TV for the Japanese market?

Que buena imagen para ser una TV de blanco y negro y de válvulas ELECTRÓNICAS, estas si son TVS y duran muchos años 👍👍👏

24:15 You should try a different connection, connecting primary and secondary in series and then going to mains. Primary will receive lower voltage and the voltage reduction will also be lower. Also decreases flux in the transformer, lowering losses. This combination I often prefer to use with 250V on mains, which makes traditional 230/24V transformers a bit warm because of higher flux when pushing 250V onto 230V winding.

Love your cat "photo bombs!" 😄

In Kalifornia they got Jaberjointus. The joints for jabs program.

Japanese channels 1,2 and 3 are in the FM band (their FM band is roughly 70-90mhz). Ch 1 video is 91.25, Ch 2 is 97.25 and Ch 3 is 103.25mhz

Maybe high pressure refers to high voltage seeing it's on the HV rectifier box...

Hello from 🇬🇧 You still doing the Covid thing over there, or is it an old video ? Over here we have transitioned into WW3 Live in fear

Interesting.... Here in Brazil in 90´s many japanese-brazilian people went to work in Japan for many years and back to Brazil with eletronics (normally radios, game consoles, CD players) many of them in 100VAC so they buy transformer adapters,since brazilian home power lines in some cities may be 127 or 220VAC 60Hz. Also our Digital TV standard is based on Japanese standard (ISDB-T), the diffrence is the video and audio codecs (mp4 and AAC+ here). Altough our language is portuguese, is quite common many eletronics are legends or menus configurable in english.

The condition is still comparatively good, the last TV I had in the mail had a broken picture tube :-(

It is expensive just for the shipping cost from Japan to America. It could cost twice more than the cost of TV (regarding of condition) plus packing and shipping that not included service fee for cost of repairing. I used to buy a part for car from Japan to install it in America.

Well DAYUM ! I didn’t know ma homie Carl Johnson was into vintage Japanese TV sets ! :O

My kitties love Mixed Grill too,

Thanks Dan, you continue to kill this shit!

I do temporary 'experimental' 120vac hookups the same way, Shango066, I am not afraid of 120vac, working with it since I was a pre-teen! 😀 I do insulate and make safer, after I first test to see if what I'm doing will work. Nothing wrong with a temporary hookup, when you are there with it, and no little kids around to get into it. 🙂

The text being molded in English is maybe due to shared molds between export and domestic models. Molds are expensive to manufacture, and the export market probably much larger.

Bump it on the rejuv! Might extend it for years of occcasional cowboy movies

Your Buck/Boost idea using a Mains Transformer is interesting. While Average Level A.G.C. was o.k. for an A.M. Radio when it came to Television Sets where the video was sent using an A.M. Carrier we needed the A.G.C. to be controlled by an accurate representation of the signal strength or the contrast range of the picture would be reduced and thus Keyed A.G.C. was born.

I think "High pressure" refers to high voltage