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Get a camera mount please!

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I need someone to repair my old RCA tube radio. I think it's a 1941, RCA T28 . Can you do it, or do you know someone that can ?

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Love the video Ronnie. Glad you were able to use and enjoy the music reels. Long live the 60s and 70s 🍻🎉hey take one of those blank reels and sing for us 😎

Love watching you diagnose these old electronics. At work I've got a bunch of emergency exit lights with side spot lights, they are about 10 years old and the spot lights are starting to come on all the time. They should only come on during power outage. Long story short, Lithonia is no help, and there are no schematics available. I've been told replace the battery and if that doesn't work replace the unit. I decided to replace the 2 caps and they work correctly now. 😁

Glad ya grabbed this. It doesn't need to go to the dump 🙄. Your friend, Jeff.

Loved it mate. These videos are fast becoming my favourite part of my Sundays/Mondays. Regards

Add a golden LED , to that golden throat! Come on people!!

X capacitors do not have many legitimate uses in these old sets as X safety caps are designed to fail into dead shorts. When used properly an X cap will be used in conjunction with a fuse so that if the capacitor fails the fuse or circuit breaker trips and then the entire circuit is "dead" to the user. With cross the line caps people online will tell you to use "safety caps" >because< they are worried about a normal cap shorting (not all caps will short when they fail) so choosing one that is designed to have that failure mode is a big no-no. Y-caps OTOH, are designed to short as "opens" and those are the ones you'll want for cross the line caps if deviating from the original circuit design for cross the line filtering. In circuit as a bypass cap, most of these sets will not care what kind of capacitor is employed as long as the value is ballpark close (wide margin of error). A lot of house calls back in the day were accomplished with just having .01, .05, and .1 caps to choose from in the tube caddy. Throw in whatever is closest to what was there and call it a day. Where cap values & types really need to be specific is in the front end (RF or OSC stages) where really-stable mica caps are often called for and where using something of the wrong type or value will cause the set to be unstable (the channel drifting across the dial and/or stations being in the wrong place).

You did good Ronnie. This thing was messed up in almost every way. JB Plastic Bonder to the rescue!

I’m becoming a big fan of the JB Weld plastic binder. My wife busted the hinges on her laptop PC, she thought it was junk. I used the goop to glue the chunks of the original plastic parts that held the metal hinges. Dang thing works just fine again. She’s happy she didn’t have to re-do all her program loads.

May I suggest that you always clean the tuner with contact cleaner unless it spent its life in a clean room. Smoke, cooking oil smoke, normal pollution, oxidation, etc, changes values. It makes a difference. Nice job saving a survivor!

I have been loving my radio. Listen to it everyday!!! Thank you again❤❤

It's really cool

Wasn’t “golden throat” a nickname they used to call Don Henley?…. This is a nice looking radio and seems to pick up a lot of stations. …maybe needs that one valve swapped out?…

Hi there, nice little radio The intermittent crackling (~43min) kinda sounds like silver mica disise to me. And the if cans shure look like the ones that suffer from that problem. Anyways, keep the videos coming 👍

Ive got a Zenith justv like that one on tge 2nd shelf, second from right. Sounds good. Took me 3 days to get it aligned.

Thanks Ronnie! I really dig the old am radios. Nice job gettin’ her back in shape.

@13:14 doesn't even sound that bad.... hm?

I always like to test the tubes before I do anything else when restoring a radio. I like to look for shorts and gas in the tubes which can cause serious problems to an otherwise restorable unit. I don't worry so much about emission or transconductance as the radio will tell you that. I've done enough radio restorations to know that 99 out 100 of the old paper caps are electrically leaky and need to be replaced along with some of the resistors that have gone out of tolerance. I have somewhere around 10,000 tubes and once in a while I have to buy a tube. The 12SQ7 and the 12AV6 are used in most AA5 and AA6 radios. Those 2 tubes along with 35Z5, 35W4, 35L6, 50L6, 35C5 and 50C5 are good tubes to keep in stock. Leaving the old caps in any piece of electronic equipment is just a ticking time bomb. I wouldn't worry about using the safety cap. If the radio works, who cares.

That is a cool radio. Lol at people who complain that you replace capacitors and stuff.. haha! who the hell cares. It works again!

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I have one of those radios too. The dial lights up the same way that one does. Mine must have been made after the one you have, it uses a 35W4 rectifier tube instead of the 35Z5. The radio I have was used as a stage prop by the drama department where I work at. They found another radio they liked better so they replaced it and gave me that one. It works good after doing a little work to it.

Are there Rivnuts that size would work? JBWeld is good but I’ve used Rivnuts but not that small.

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That is a real cool looking one!

tore it apart because facebook told him all the caps need replacing , I get that from a few electronics forums I'm on there too , computers, tvs, radios , there's always some bozo (or a few) that suggests shotgunning caps to cure all problems without any actual troubleshooting. a LOT of people just give up when it doesnt work

Nice Clock! Have you ever thought about restoring one to the point of like painting it completely different colours and maybe put leds inside to light it up? I would buy a restored lit up clock like that showing how cool the inside is but its still retro. Not rgb leds but some warm ambient light or something? Maybe that sounds trashy but I like it when people put their own spin on old stuff..

Up in smoke, dude.

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Great video ron thanks for the tips !

The railroad sticker would suggest that this clock will keep great time. My understanding is the ‘railroad’ watches were great quality as they had to keep good time, so the trains don’t crash into each other. …..would you consider some shoe polish on the timber?….

Ronnie, I always said you were the reel deal 😂 your on fire man 🔥

I'm hoping someone who repairs clocks will appreciate this info/trivia: Clockmakers/repair personnel recently showed up in two different shows that I saw: Season 1 of the series "Grimm," features a (supernatural) character that repairs clocks/watches for a living; and of all people Shirley Temple starred in "The Terrible Clockman," where an evil sorcerer puts a spell on a town that stops time, and creates havoc with a recently built clock-man-turned-robot. (Story was based on a Jules Verne book).

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It amazes me that someone 140 years ago could make such precise small parts like these clocks. So impressive.

Ron, Just had a thought... While you were working on this clock, and looking for a date, made me think about all these treasures you work with, wether it be clock, radio, pinball machice, or video arcade eltrofied amusement machine :) ... You put your hands on it, so for historical purposes why not put a tag/label with your name and date on them to show you kept this peace alive. I think it would be awesome to come across them later and see Ron, Joe, and Donnie Lyons on some stuff! :) Love what you all do!

I'd cover the damage (only) with solid stain. It's not patina. Or Civil War damage.

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Always be careful with mainsprings that aren't in a barrel, if ya must completely disassemble the clock movement. All mainsprings require some degree of caution ⚠️, because mainsprings in barrels still can spring out of the barrel. Your friend, Jeff.

I have this clock without the alarm, it has the exact same case as this one. I have been wanting to clean and get it working properly so this video is very helpful. Thank you.

Someone use a scrub or wire brush. And strong chemicals. That is why .the metal looks like that.

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Ronnie probably already knows this, but for the benefit of new players to the clock repair community, for 8 day clocks you need to have the pendulum adjusted just a bit fast when it is fully wound as it will gradually slow down a bit as the spring expands. This is an iterative process, you make an adjustment, run it until the next rewind, adjust again until you get it where you want it. Most people rewind their 8 day clocks weekly, I rewind mine at 5 days to have less of a fast/slow run change. You could rewind daily to make it tighter, but that's a lot like work.

Ah dialectric grease, is there anything you can't do? :-) I have a (smaller) tube in my tool chest at all times

NOW!!! You know if you turn the clock upside-down, the clock goes backwards!!!! 🙂

Death capacitor is specifically for ground hum issues put a .01 1000 volt mica capacitor