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Nice job Seth. Love those AM/FM radios. The Bluetooth helps bring it into the modern age.

very nice Mr. Radio, looks and sounds great 👍

Cute radio.

I love the early/mid-1950's green on that set you worked on, and the BT/auxiliary input is always a good choice. Thank you for this video, Seth!

Ok, don't leave us hanging. What you get for a car?

I noticed at 1:23 you had a neon light flicker. I get that on my equipment. What is the cause and can it be fixed?

Very nice again! Do a turntable if you can! I like when people repair those!

I'm curious if you ever convert the power circuit to make the chassis neutral and add a polarized plug to eliminate the "hot chassis" state?

Westinghouse H-130 from the 1940's. And that blonde finish is the most awesome finish on it. Especially any post war piece. You did awesome on it, Seth.

I gutted a paper electrolytic and used it as a coil form for a crystal set. The wax holds the wire in place

I have two of those radios and I can tell you for a fact that that radio was not in a warm spot. THOSE CAPS SUCK they melt like crazy and in both of my sets I had wax sitting on the bottom of the cabinet just from them melting from use. I don't know if its the tubes that melted them or what but the new caps ran nice and cold after replacement.

very nice unit Mr. Radio and I like the Les Baxter music at the end 👍

Westinghouse model H-130. One of the best looking blonde wood radios they made in the post war era 1940s. There was a Bakelite cabinet version called H-122 with same schematic. The radio phonograph version was the H-122A and the Bakelite cabinet sat in a cubby in front of the record player. Weird stuff as the record player cabinet was wood!

IDK why you don't have more subs. You don't show 'the process' (endless de-soldering and soldering) but get right to the performance. Seems to me that most people who watch these types of videos would appreciate that approach, preferring instead to marvel at the strange alchemy of bending and shaping electrons to do work? I know I do! So, keep at it Mr Radio. Some of us appreciate what you do!

I like how they spelled out Amplitude Modulation & Frequency Modulation on the dial in script style text rather than just AM & FM.

Where do you purchase the wall wart transformers you use for bluetooth?

I just bought one of those on an auction today. Cost me $396.00 dollars. But I am missing the prop. Mine was sold by the Gambles hardware stores. Your rig is missing the drum that would be behind the speed controller and prop. The pivoting lever on top was for the brake. The wire or cord went down through the middle to the ground so you could lock the brake.

Great collection! Your home could be a mini radio museum itself! 😂

If the power goes off while playing a record then you wind up with a scratched record with result in a click every time the scratch comes round.

Is there a an AUX input.

Hey! I dropped that one off!!!!

I didn't know there was FM that early very neat!

Thank you for teaching us how to do alignment. I've always wondered how it is done. Thanks again!

Love the hobby now! Did it for a living and hated it! My outdated EET skills help 36 years later! Thanks for sharing!

very nice Mr. Radio 👍

You're the man, Seth! Always bringing old radios back to life. Even with Bluetooth, they still sound awesome. Thank you.

Seth likes 80s music! 😀

At the bottom of the dial I see 'FM". Is there a indicator light for that ?

Ah yes. I have been hearing that more myself in recent years.... "Shut up, Old Fart." 🤟🤣

So that's what you call those flies. Always wondered whenever I was on the West Coast. The things I learn from you. Nice repair job. I'm surprised Westinghouse didn't try to find a few DeForest tubes to throw in there, too.

The Sprague plastic caps with the yellow lettering are paper caps and 100% guaranteed to be leaky.

I have one I found in pieces. I think I might have most of the important pieces. Yours is the second one I've seen. I'll try to work on mine before the end of the year.

13:45 Starter solenoid for the old car?

Funny that you mentioned "Round-'em-up" flies. Now I know what they're called! We have them in Oregon, flying around in little squares in the middle of the room. Very unusual radio, haven't seen it before. Well done

Hobby Lobby has some woodworking tools that would let you sharpen up the details on top of the cabinet, Seth. The tools are in the plastic model kit area of the store, usually.

Well it almost kicked your butt Seth but you came out getting it looking and working nice again.

Nice job on this Westinghouse, Seth. I've got a couple of Westinghouse radios that use a 6Y6 as an output tube. On one radio, someone had substituted a single 6F6 and on the other radio someone had substituted two 6L6's as output tubes. Those tubes were not in a push pull configuration, but were in parallel. Neither of those tubes are proper substitutes for a 6Y6 but they worked somewhat. I'm sure the radios are happier with the correct 6Y6 tubes in their rightful place. - Thomas

That’s a neat radio. 1947 is very early for FM. I can’t imagine much being on that band at the time. Those domino capacitors always looked cool (unless they were cracking open).

I love the color of the wood on this set.

The tv looks like it's all blue

AA5 radios where always cheap. The materials may be different but the methods are the same.

5:30 you could easily be killed by electric shock stopping or putting your heart out if rhythm. Very dangerous fully charged larger capacitor. Be careful!

I recently obtained one of these but it’s completely gutted of all hardware. Is it even possible to try to hunt down parts? Or is there a way to custom rebuild it? I don’t really know where to begin.

Nice! You don’t see Motorola stuff very often.

Disclaimer: Nobody was harmed in the making of this video.

I understand the reasons for replacing the paper the caps and those electrolytics. I notice you barely ever check the resistors. Are they usually that reliable?

That set's A cell is what was called a "balanced" battery. It was 1.5 longer than a standard D cell. The idea was for both the A and B to wear out more evenly, roughly wearing out at the same time.

When i was a kid vacuum tube stuff was still common finds in trash and garage sales. I wish I had the foresight to keep some.

I love this one, Seth. Thank you for the restoration on it, both mechanical and cosmetic. And the addition for auxiliary input for Bluetooth is awesome as always too!

oh yes, but OUR tubes are the tubiest.