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Fantastic job Rob. Yes , the TRF sounds great. Always had a thing for the old radios, especially picking up the sport stations on a Saturday afternoon as a kid in the 80s. Keep it going.

Love the nail varnish. Looks great.

The volume control in line with the pickup is a throwback to the conversion tone arms and pickups for fitting to wind up machines ( which connected to the Gram input on a seperate Wirless Reciever) ThoseLong playing needles are ok but they won’t play 60 sides. You’re better off using 1 side normal steel needles.i wouldn’t trust my 78 rpm records to them

Very nice.

Perhaps I should look at restoring my DC version now!

Ingenious using that now redundant hole in the motor board as a place to put a needle pot. A brilliant and tidy solution! Its great to see the process of how one of these is bought back to life.

Awesome!!😮👌👌

A great restoration, really enjoyed watching. Now I better get back to my Ferris car radio restoration, more incentive now ! Cheers, Baz

super job

Great stuff!

An excellent and informative video - thank you! Now on to Part 2.....

Lovely job, gorgeous radiogram - and sounding really good too. Amazing!

great work ! i have one in my gram collection th-cam.com/video/Gqib86-2pYk/w-d-xo.html

Notice Hedghog converter. I have one and an Aurora.

Have to say, lovely set, but as you said, its quite filthy inside,

looking forward to the finish. Crunchy rubber wiring usually has my heart sinking. Lots of fiddly rewiring and trying to keep it all looking genuine.

I haven't seen a Baby Belling for years...

Beautiful TV love love love Brazil 🤔💞💕💓❤️

Interesting troubleshooting and repair. 👍👍 Love the Philips PM5544 pattern. TV stations in Australia used to show a variation of that (around the late 1970's) either before their regular programs or prior to ending broadcast each night. The pattern was a rough guide to adjustment of the picture size/position in B&W sets and some early colour models which suffered convergence drift.

Very well done! I am currently working on a late 1940's Zenith 12h092R AM/FM/ 78RPM Phono with the same crappy wires. It s definingly a job to replace them. The Zenith has long 9-wire cables that have 3/4" braiding on them. They had the same bad wires that I had to pull through and replace. That was loads of fun - NOT! Nice work with the capacitor block. We had a US company (Atwater Kent) that used them all the time back the 1930s too! I actually use a propane torch to get them out of the numerous boxes in those sets! Anyway, new subscriber here. Loved the video! Thanks for sharing it!

A real gem a genius at work

Cannot wait for part 2!

great video and i also enjoyed your talk at NARC i watched it last night on there channel

That's beautiful. I have another HMV, which has been hard to identify for me that is. I have found another advertisement so I thought I send a link to see. Mine works and have fitted a hidden socket to plug in a Bluetooth receiver. www.ebay.com.au/itm/264804119766

Nice job and I have like 4 set waiting to replace wire like you are doing I have noticed a lot 1940s sets have that poor rubber wire !

Friends of mine brought something similar to these from The USA one year and used them. Noma also made a talking O gauge plastic railway station.

you remind me so much of a guy in Norwich that use to have a shop called Bits n Pc's but he had a moustache. any relation?

Very interesting, thank you. I have never seen any of those glass resistors before. Funny that you mentioned Shango... he has plugged in radios with mains leads that are crispier than those wires - absolutely terrifying, even if he is using a series bulb.

They certainly squeezed a lot into a very small space in that small cabinet! Bet it got hot in there! At 11.40 is that a bit of warped 78 sculpture I spy on top of your oven 😂

Always wondered why some early resistor were encapsulated in glass. Thanks for showing that. I have tried the old pencil trick to build up a resistance value but that looks like it was tuned over a candle flame🙂.

Fascinating to see how different the components were! I have an Ultra radio from the mid 1930s, and the change around only 5 years later is considerable. Resistors with the colour code ('Body End Dot rather than stripes, though) and discrete capacitors, and a superhet design. So the technology in the 30s was actually progressing at a fast rate.

Always interesting to see the difference between American radios of that era compared to British electronics. What voltage was used in those days in most homes?

if I were to restore such a TV, the first thing I would do would be to check the picture tube

What a beautiful machine ❤

Cool radio

YOU SPED UP CLEANING THE TV HERE. **HOW DID YOU FIND MY FLUX CAPACITOR FROM ""BTTF1,2,3"" AND USE IT TO CLEAN YOUR TV. I TURNED OFF THE FLUX CAPACITOR 40 YEARS AGO. I AM GLAD IT IS STILL WORKING!!** -- MICHAEL J FOX

Looks much better with the dark speaker grill than the original one.

Now after all these years I understand what an Invicta is. You see there was a famous pirate radio station in London called Invicta.

I like it!

looks like same chassis, or at least almost the same as the pye p43 , apart from the painted chassis, pye didnt usually bother

My grandfather designed and built the Athall Radio in Blackpool, 1930's. Have you ever come across one?

I remember as a trainee engineer in the 90s , a Ferguson TX10, stuck together with nicotine 😮, it was vile. Tuner drawer was gunged up big style.

Fun little set, good entry level to radio restoration!

Did it have a input for phono. And your mains at 240 volt. And a new power line have builtin resistance.? American 115 volt had a restive mains line. And the plug had to have it prongs set right as the chassis was hot. Good looking set like to watch.

Your workshop looks fantastic.

Well done Rob great job and I agree there’s something about restoring an old tv, I think it’s the different stages you go through as it slowly comes back to life!

It looks more attractive as a chassis outside that ugly cabinet! Presumably invicta must have been in Kent with a name like that, I've never heard if them!

I was given a tour of their factory by their chief (I think?) designer, Paul Stevens, in the late 90's, and saw these monsters being wired and assembled, along with their guitar based Trident (which I owned), Speed Twin and Velocette amps. Though bass wise, I finally ended up with a Marshall VBA400 half stack, which I inherited from a friend. Love the look of those British racing green car and bike based amps of that TE era! Cool video by the way.

Put an fm tuner with it , very nice. On my HMV and 1950s, Kriesler, I also added a hidden socket to plug in a Bluetooth receiver. Everything works as normal but I have the option for something else. Hate to think cost to mail from UK. I did buy a regeneration kit set from the 6v6 shop and amazingly the tubes got here. Great video.

It looks like a fun radio! I'd like to own one.