A great job done. Very relaxing watching you methodically go through these old sets and put them back to perfect original condition. They need to be preserved for future generations to experience.

It’s a top performer this make and model. I listened to them in the 70’s. I recently purchased a reasonable unit in and did some basic checks. It had been recapped and serviced in the past. The ferrite rod antenna was out of position and the brass station slide clip / guide was sticking. The plastic station window needing adhering further. It’s clear as a bell without an extended antenna or ground wire. Lovely sounds! Good video here in case I need further guidance. Thank you. Enjoyable!

Hello from Shreveport Louisiana USA , Keep up the good work !

Sir I am from India Delhi.A great effort by you .My late father was a very good electronics technician. He made so many radio and stereo amplifier using 6L6 and using e and series valve type tubes radio .To see you channel I feel that I am giving a tribute to my father. Again thanks Sir.

Very cool looking radio. Basic but sounds suprisingly good.

got one of these from my Mom in 1972 for Xmas ,had it for 10+ years

I saw a Murphy badged variant of this in a Paeroa, NZ antique shop last year. Blue accents and rear case.

Hi Dave. It's another thumbs up from me.👍

Without a doubt, my favourite KZfaq channel !

As always David. Love the restorations. Your attention to detail is amazing! Keep up the good work

I have one of these. I got it at a swap meet in Melbourne for $15. I bought it simply because I liked the look of it. It is still on the shelf waiting, but your excellent video has inspired me to move it up the list! Thanks.

One of the last valve radios in production I would say. I think there was a transistor version, but don't know if it was 'all transistor'. For many years, people preferred the rich tone of the valve radios, and this one is, with your thorough examination and repairs, another beauty.

Really nice design! I hope you repair those WESTINGHOUSE letters. They really add to the look of this. Was great seeing you restore it, seemed to have more probllems than average. Love the way you don't give up, makes watching your solution all the more entertaining! Between you and bandersen I have a wealth of youtube entertainment. Thank you for that! Much appreciated! PS look into VinylX, its a great cleaner/restorer and really bring back the color of faded plastics well. (won't do much for dead transformers though).

I do like the nice appearance of this radio and how the bands are displayed. In the last week After much experimenting its my conclusion the Peak Tuning method of IF alignment is the best technique for AM. The AM bandwidth is too narrow to give a good band pass presentation. However when tuning the FM radios One must use a swept 10.7 technique. I will spend the next week cleaning up my workbench and selling a few pieces. Cash cow time! Have a good weekend.

all that AM gorgeousness....

Nice little tube tester. I've got an EICO that I built in 1959. Recently I overhauled and upgraded the circuitry , by replacing resistors that were out of tolerance. Over the years I found The supply transformer have aged a bit making it harder to calibrate, so I field engineered the metering resistor with an adjustable potentiometer. Calibration was verified using standard sample tubes.

GOOD JOB MY FRIEND. I LIKE THIS WORK.

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

You Australians are so silly down there. A radio and boot sale? What an odd combo. ;) Great video.

One more thing-very good video.

Dave, you've picked a handsome radio to restore (once again) and your knack for finding parts is great. Your radio club meets are to be envied. You got a bunch of good folks in your historic radio club and at your boot sales. Also, Dave, forgive me, has anyone mentioned that the 6X4, 6AV6, and 6AQ5 are 7-pin valves? If so please excuse my question. I ask in regards to the shorts indication on pin 9 (unless I misinterpreted what that test means). As always, great restoration. PS: My grandparents worked for a while at GE Supply here in the states and referred to Westinghouse Supply, their competitors, as W. E. Stinghouse. :-)

I've redone raised lettering (if in fact the lettering on the plastic or Bakelite is already raised) by wrapping rubber tape around a flat screwdriver, then I dip the rubber tip in acrylic paint at stamp the raised structure, much like an old printing press. Works great!👍

I learn something on every video. Great job as usual. 73 de KB7ICI

Hard to believe they were still making tube radios in the late 60s.

Suscribed, your videos are very relaxing and educational.

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍beautiful radio and video,thank you.

Another great video !!

Wow! Very nice! 😯👌👆🙏

Great work

Good job excellent video

Very enjoyable. Thank you.

Didn´t understand anything of what his doing but pretty interesting to watch!!

Excellent!! I'm bidding for one of these as we speak. I normally check/find all schematics or service info beforehand, but shouldn't be hard to get!! Glenn. P.S. I'm surprised those square-ended resistors had failed !!

Great to see what's inside one of these radios. I have the same model and was lucky enough to buy it in good working order. I'm surprised you didn't show off the extent of the volume as they play quite loud. Also has a great bottom end bass. Nice video!!

The “window” of the radio 📻 was real glass. You also put quarters in to “pay” for the song, as to speak. One ☝️ of these radio style jukeboxes were at each table of the restaurant.

That Westinghouse lettering on the case can be replaced by getting model railway plastic raised lettering and gluing it into position. Have a look for "Slater's finescale lettering". Theres different sizes and fonts for the scales and railway companies.

Well done, thx!

Another great video David! Thanks for sharing! One comment I have about the perspex polishing: I have had luck using Brasso and a cotton rag wheel on a rotary tool at a low setting. I have used it on watch crystals and on record player dust covers. You have to be careful to move the wheel around so you don't burn a hole, but using a low rotation speed mitigates the risk. This is probably cheaper than using headlamp kits? In any case, if you want to try it, I would recommend testing it out on scrap first to get a feel for it.

Thanks for testing that 6x4 - it seems to go bad taking the transformer with it. Would be great to replace with 2+2 1n4007 + 100ohm resistor in the common cathodes. 2 1n4007 in series would be better than 1 for some margin. will save the transformer in the long run

Very well done..Would love to see the Signal range o it's pickup of the bands..

Thanks Dave for your time and efforts . Is it called a vacuum tube or valve Americans are damn right 🤣

Try adding some grease (lightly) between the dial needle and the Treadway and that should loosen it up!

I like this radio, too. I name it the “telephone” radio 📻 by its shape, because it looks like a version could have been made with an actual telephone ☎️ built in. Yes, has a dial cord restringing diagram. Just don’t lose it. I’d enclose it back inside the radio 📻. This would be another living room radio 📻, but it looks like it’s designed for kitchen use, also by its shape. The only pitiful part is it getting filled with grease. I forgot to tell ya that I like the sound of the static between stations. I hate most modern radio 📻, which takes away the sound, as well as crackling. These are the history sounds of radio. I think 🤔 the dial face on this radio is glass. You are sure one ☝️ great 👍 repair man at these. I like how complex these radios look 👀 on the inside. Looks like all metal parts, including the dial cord pulley. Try to free the dial cord pulley on a modern radio 📻. It will flex 💪, and probably break, since it’s plastic. I tried to free one ☝️ in a modern Thomas reproduction radio with success, but it looks like the circuitry of this radio had gotten wet, like it’s been through a few Arizona monsoon seasons. The downfall was that I broke the on/off switch when I tried to free it. Yes, a junky plastic Chinese radio, but I liked it because it looks like a mini jukebox, seen in restaurants styled to look like ones ☝️ from the 1950’s and 1960’s. Theirs was real metal for the case, but wasn’t an actual radio. They had buttons to press, numbers and letters, for example K2 or J5 to select the song

Nice!

When you were testing the ht. and plate voltages you used a DVM. Sets from earlier times were serviced using meters with relatively low impedence such as 10 or 20k ohms/volt. The makers took this into account when giving test voltages. Try re-testing this set with a vintage meter and you may see a difference.

David - I've lost track of the number of jobs I have watched you complete. You make me smile when you keep saying "I'm not sure what is going on here" - this is clearly one of your stock phrases even when you probably do know what is going on. Do you have a clip where you explain all your test equipment and the way it all works together. Obviously you have added to it as you have gone along as I see some pieces of equipment in some clips that were not there in others.

Another job well done! It seems Australian radios do seem to eat a lot of transformers. Here in the USofA, our 1960s sets were typically 117V hot chassis with a whole zoo of different problems and they really liked to give the unwary a nasty bite! However, I was wondering. Since the voltages on the schematic were determined in the 1960s based upon a meter with a loading of 20K ohms per volt, wouldn't readings taken with the modern digital meter at 11M ohms read high? Did you consider using the analog meter to take the readings with the proper loading on the circuit under test?

$45 for an AWA B15 is a bit much. These are very common as AWA priced them low and made large numbers out of obsolete parts, and had enough parts and demand to keep going until 1972. The are basically the Volkswagen beetle of valve radios - cheap and simple. Typical of AWA, it uses a 6BE6 converter. Other Australian brands eg Kriesler used the 6AN7/A which gives a performance edge - a bit more sensitivity and less noise in noisy locations or with weaker stations. The B15 lacks a few other refinements common in other brands and other AWA models as well. Note that if you use a digital multimeter, voltage readings will be a bit high. The voltages marked on valve circuits are typically not design centre values, they allow for the circuit loading imposed by an analogue multimeter, usually 20kohm/V unless stated otherwise. Once you put modern parts in, you drop the resale value, as another collector/restorer won't trust it. Lots of modern parts are the hallmark of an amateur restorer. Use period-correct professional grade NOS/NIB electros and polyester. They are usually still good, though might not meet original specs. The only critical part regarding leakage is the audio grid coupling cap. The 6BA6 IF valve is a trap for amateur restorers, depending on who made the 6BA6 (not necessarily AWA/AWV even if it has AWV written on it). If the set was used for years on end permanently tuned to the ABC (strong local station), the gain may be low due to AGC action allowing a cathode interface layer to go high resistance - but emission will test normal in a typical basic valve tester. Then if it goes gassy, gain rises - it may rise enough to make the set unstable.

I just bought one of these, I hope the transformer is ok, if not its toast.

Hey Mr. Tipton, re. the short on 9, does the selector refer to valve pins? If so, the short on 9 would be misleading - these valves only have 7 pins. This, of course doesn't explain the lack of short on pin 9 for one of the 6X4's! It would explain explain ignoring pin4 - it's one of the heater pins - low resistance expected here. Of course I could be missing something? Thanks for another very good video

It looks like a Mondrian painting.

I'm surprised that Westinghouse would re-badge an AWA radio that's obviously customized for the Australian market. Did they have much of a presence over there in the 1960s? I've always thought of them as an American company; they made a some AA5 radios of a similar shape here, but I'm sure they got around. My TV is branded Westinghouse, but it's probably made by a Chinese company; the original Westinghouse must have gotten out of consumer electronics a long time ago. It's interesting the way that set had what appears to be multiple bands, but after watching for a while, I'm assuming that it's just AM, with markings on each "band" for the local areas listed. That's one thing we never had here in the USA; the only local customizing of radios and TVs here was with dealer or user installed cards or decals and the adjustment of presets and stop points for sets that had them (especially TVs with remote control).

I have this exact radio, and have been playing with it. At 13.30 you 'sprayed' the tone and volume control. Mine crackles; is that why you sprayed them? And with what? Great informative video and great detail too.

I see that the radio shows 7 different bands. Are there that many broadcast standards in Australia and Tasmania that account for the frequency descriptions on the dial face? Inquiring Yank mind in Texas would like to know.

6AQ5-I have never seen a radio that uses this tube in the US. However, just about every smaller TV of the early 1960s used one for its audio output. Also, transformers seem to be much more common in Australian radios than ones in the US. The type of radio shown in this video would almost certainly be series string with no transformer in the US. Possibly this is due to the lower AC supply voltage in the us.

I heard the name of this radio before ,what country made it ,also did the made a American version I love the way the transformer is build seems.better then a u.s. Made one.easyer to change one.

They make a new verson of the headlight cleaner that has only one bottle and i think it works better

What is the voltage on the speaker coil during allignment? 1 till 2 Volts? Is this correct? Thank you

Stringing a new dial is the job I dislike the most.

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Radiola=Philips!