They are still working. Owner says it is working great on a 20 foot antenna hanging out his window. You can go crazy and change all the caps but at the end of the day you have to do what the customer wants. If he wanted to spend 300 then sure change all of them and all the wiring. In his case he said make it work and make it safe. Is it as sensitive as it could be? Probably not but he isn't listening to shortwave from around the world, he is listening to local radio. There is noting on shortwave bands other than the god channels and i would sooner slit my wrists.

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What good will that be if radios don't go that low? I know someone that did it for 20+ years and never got caught and he ran 24/7. I still wouldn't take the chance myself as I am licensed for ham radio so getting popped for piracy would say goodbye to my ham license. My low poser stuff is strictly for testing equipment.

Don't know.

Mine looks like 95% of real repair benches. The only ones I saw that were clean were shops that were not busy hence plenty of time to clean up every day. The last year I was at the shop I was at for 20 years started to look pretty clean in the last year I was there because most days I was done by 3PM but couldn't leave till 6PM even though I wasn't being paid by the hour. The asshole owner made me sweep all the floors as soon as the work was done for the day. Why couldn't I just leave, good question, tried that one day. Told him since I was on comission I was leaving as soon as I was done and he said fine then you won't get paid for the repairs that get picked up when I was not there as it had become my job to write up the order and cash it out.

@@12voltvids lol , I hear ya !

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No because apparantly i have lost interest in the hobby. Most of my ham friends are silent keys. All the guys I used to work on fm TV are all dead, probably from the constant exposure to high power transmitters and microwaves and stuff they inhaled. (Smoke, solvents ect)

@@12voltvids I've seen some good people taken out because of strange sicknesses in this broadcast industry. I work around high power RF so I try to be cautious when working in high RF environments, one afternoon we were working on a 30KW FM transmitter with the exhaust open from the tube cavity with it operating, I got the worst headache in no time, went away after stepping outside, RF exposure is real. Being a millennial most of my friends can't even spell RF or even have a license, so I get discouraged sometimes trying to work strangers on HF cuz most of the time they are 20+ years or more older than me - a few days ago I answered a CQ from a ham 52 years older than me. But I digress, once again great content you post.

@@djernairchecks OK, so now we are on the same wavelength. I wouldn't call myself an "elder" in ham radio but I have been licensed since the early 90's. Got my ticket just before they removed the code requirement. Got my license mainly because I knew a few guys that had theirs and tinkering around with fast scan TV and microwaves, and EME (earth moon earth) communicayion and AMSATs ect. I played around mostly in the 50 to 2.4GHz bands. I set up an HF station, but never really did much with it. Some code work early on, and some digital modes like AMTOR and RTTY, Packet ect. Mostly on VHF, 220 and 440 FM bands as well as DMR and Fusion modes. Again only talking with a small group that has become much smaller in the past few years with many going SK. When I was in school, I trained for broadcast TV. That was actually my career goal. When I was in high school I worked at one of the local TV repair shops and learned the basics but it certainly was not my dream job. I was being pressured to go work for the telephone company as my uncle worked there, as did my cousin (my mothers twin sisters oldest daughter was an operator) so the pressure was on to continue the family tradition of joining the phone company. Of course being a know it all teenager I wanted none of that but to keep my mother happy I applied when I was in high school, but didn't get selected because the quota was filled. There was a hiring blitz on between 75 and 80 and I didn't graduate till 81. So that was out. I had an interest in TV production as I had been a voluneer at the local community station since I was 16 in 79, which was the minimum age to work there. I enjoyed it, but was told that if I wanted to get a job there for pay I needed to complete the television production course at BCIT, so I went to school. In the end I did get hired for master control in the summer of 82. My dream job, for 5 bucks an hour! That was better than the no pay I had been getting. After about 7 months on the air I had an equipment failure, 3/4" vtr ate a tape on air, and the backup machine was in the shop. My supervisor called to find out why we were off the air and I explained that the only machine I had to go to air with had 10 feet of tape jammed in it. His response was to ask if I called the engineer. I had paged him but he was out for the night. My supervisor asked if I could carefully try to remove the tape and clean the machine. These units had no top cover as cleaning was part of my job. I unwound the tape and left it on the super's desk as he had asked, cleaned the machine and went back on the air. Thought I did a good deed. BZZT WRONG. I was fired the next day as the engineer was pissed at me, and his head was so far up managements ass that when te talked you could see the station owners lips move. Not only did I get fired I found myself on the broadcast blacklist. The letter of recommendation had a knife sticking out of it and into my back. Paraphrasing it went something like I needed supervision and direction as my zest for learning how the equipment operated had annoyed the engineers on multiple occasions. Anyway where was I going with this... Oh yes, 3 of the other guys I knew that were cameramen and one was an editor did their internship and then landed jobs at a new startup station, where they had what I would call unfulfilling careers in TV. I say that because all 3 of them are dead and were dead around the year 2003. Even the guy that did the music I use for some of my recent openings is now dead. He was an engineer, in broadcast, knew the engineers at the station I worked with went to engineering school with one guy, that's actually how I found out about his music. Anyway around 2003 I was out on Canada day at a local park with my kids. Being in the production business I had my betacam out taking home videos. This guy walks up to me and asked who I was shooting for seeing I had a big camera. I told him I was just there with my kids for the festivities. (mine were young 3 and 5 at the time) He told me he was a retired engineer from CKVU TV. Well that was the station that the guys I had worked with in 1980 ended up so I dropped a few names, and then the guy started telling me that all 3 were dead. He pointed at the B/W viewfinder on the camera and said "That killed them, XRays from professional monitors" The 2 cameramen had brain tumors. The field cameraman had one behind his right eye, and t he studio cameraman had one in his forhead right where the monitor would be closest. The editor died of pancreatic cancer. 3 people I knew all working in TV all dead by the age of 40. To make things even scarier my neighbour's son worked for Pixar as a computer animator. His name is in the credits of Finding Nemo, Toy Story and Cars. He worked very long hours sitting in front of large silicon graphics professional 21" CRT monitors. These were something like 20 grand each. and he had several. He also died from internal cancers as have many others that were on his team. He was only in his mid 30's when he passed. His mother gave me his laser disk player and laser disk collection. Lived up the street. I remember him driving his car around with the PIXAR license plate frame (that's on his mothers car now). She is also convinced that radiation from all the CRT monitors got him. There is no love lost between me and CRT monitors even though I di have a small one just displaying the time over my bench. The consumer CRT sets were not bad, as they had to pass the cosmetics and radiation emitting device regulations. The same could not be said for monitors produced for industrial applications. They could crank the crap out of the EHT (and they did) to get a very sharp picture and that resulted in xray production that would never have been permitted on consumer TVs. So, is there a link. I think so. I don't buy into cell phones, and 5G cellular as being bad, but hogh level RF from a transmitter site, and all the xray exposure in TV stations definitely. 4 people I know from the same industry with rare cancers? Actually 5, my business partner died of leukemia. He ran the tape duplicating part of the operation. I would shoot and edit our corporate videos, and Gordie would sit in his garage with 25 VCRs and 25 small 14" TVs and run off copies all day. Many of the productions required 3 or 4000 copies as they were being send out as product demos so he would be sitting in his garage changing 25 tapes every 10 minutes and checking each and every one on all these little cheap TVs all stacked up on shelving in his garage. He would have been in there probably 8 hours a day every day. I had my bank of monitors in the edit suite too, but I was there for perhaps 4 or 5 hours a week in front of them.

You got lucky because 8mm uses metal tape that basically needs to be physically ground off the head. You had mild contamination because a clog would never clean that way. The metal particles literally weld themselves to the heads.

High end brands like linn also used switch mode.

Sure is. Thats the limit the owner put on it. Not everyone changes every capacitor. Actually it's the amateurs and crooks that do. I guess if you are a good salesman you can blow sugar up your customers ass and tell them how wonderful it will sound. That only works with the uneducated. Those that know won't buy in. About 10 years ago a customer brought me an amp to recap and after hearing it he brought it back to have the old caps put back in because he did not like the new sharp as a needle sound. He was used to and performed the sound the original caps provided. I did leave a few in the low voltage regulator circuit (they measured bad esr) but all the coupling caps went back in and he loved the sound. New caps, even the audio grade, have totally different characters than vintage. They might spec the same but due to the chemicals used in the electrolytic they sound different. Subtle but different and someone with a good ear can hear this.

He mentioned silicone. Some people use hot glue, but I don't recommend it, as it softens with heat. Silicone is non absorbent and is heat resistant. Every time I apply some kind of glue to the components, I avoid putting it to the leads. Hope that helps you.

Silicone is what is used these days.

@@RobsonWilliam82 thanks, what kind of silicone? Like do you have a link for what you use or name

@@chickenfoundation9323 No links because I just buy it at the hardware store. Just regular down silicone. Not bathtub caulk, that generally has anti bacterial additives that could become conductive. Just regular silicone rubber like you would use on an aquarium.

These days interference is out the the window. Led inverters cause lots. Those fancy rope lights that everyone has as decorations create tons of interference. I'm talking the ones where you can have chasing lights that are all connected by a bus and controller that fires the leds. Thats a constant high speed data stream that controls the leds. You thought plaama tv was bad, well the new oled is almost. Sure they don't radiate as much as old plasma but they spill make a racket that interfere with radio. Am and shortwave radio is pretty much on the way out so protecting from interference is not a priority. I remember back when if you owned a shortwave radio people branded you a communist. That was the paranoia of the 60s.

Just remember the Japanese made the best most reliable products. NOT!

@@12voltvids I can still remember the first Sony TV i had to try and repair with only a circuit diagram (Schematic) it was like a rats nest of components jammed into to way to little space, no way could you see which number it was. All the brands were the same, if you saw a capacitor made by Panasonic chances are it was faulty. Today they make very little in Japan and outsource production to other makers who use the cheapest parts possible. I have just replaced the backlights in my neighbours Panasonic TV, made by Vestel in Turkey Despite the badge it was no better than the junk sold in the supermarkets.

Led inverter cause plenty if noise.

It already has a standard fuse. I have seen many where it is just bypassed.The idea behind the thermal fuse is if someone is driving the crap out of it the resistor will heat up and the thermal fuse will open and kill the power. By pass it and it will just keep going until the the power supply dynamites itself and then you have blown transistors, burnt up transformers and a bunch of carnage. The power supply looks simple but those little transformers that i took the glue off are critical, If not wound exactly correct the new transistors will blow as soon as it is powered up. By blow I mean blow. The plastic is separated from the base. There is malice in that palace.

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Don't look at me i didn't delete it.

@@12voltvids yeah, I know you didn't delete it. In my last comment I had put in a comment about youtube AI automods probably deleting it and then of course the automods deleted both comments, including the one about the AI automods.

You must have missed it. Yes the door has to be open when the front is snapped on unless you want to make it a manual eject (hold the door open) machine

@12voltvids Mr. Volts ⚡️On review l did indeed missed this Crucial reassembly mandate. Thks.

There are fewer and fewer wanting to touch any of this stuff and I can hardly blame them.

@@12voltvids It looks daunting but I appreciate the knowledge being passed.

It probably will.. customer called me back to say how well it works. Money well spent.

Looks great to me

Asbestos was only really used as wire insulation for appliance power cords (like toasters, electric space heaters, clothes irons etc) and maybe curtain burner power cords. In 30s US radios they're either magnet wire like motors/transformers use, cotton or various early attempts at rubber wire (these are usually the worst, they get rock hard and then shatter into tiny flakes if disturbed). This is like saying "transformers contain PCBs, you can check it with the EPA." Sure, that's true for certain eras of power grid transformers but in an antique radio from the 20s or 30s that's just fear mongering and not true at all. The old timey radio transformers are potted in things like wax or run of the mill tar.

Yip asbestos was used alot in old electronics.

I do have a tube tester. Also an old sig gen but I wouldn't trust it as it hasn't been turned on since 1969. Its only guaranteed to misaligned stuff

@@12voltvids Got ya maybe you find a newer one to work with. Awesome job as always. -Cheers!

Tips are cheap

What wax. They are removed.

@12voltvids Well, you know what they say, if you gotta ask ....

Screen spline works perfectly for stuerpimple.