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Ahh great job mate… you can’t beat the sound of an old AM valve receiver must get mine in the bench and get them working

Nice restoration Frank, at least you had a schematic diagram for it.

Excellent job Frank, great interesting video to watch. Thank you for schematic too, must put more on my "Drive" for everyone ! Cheers

Great resurrection Frank. This hobby requires detective work and sometimes luck. Look forward to your next video cheers

I always hate to see radios like this especially with wires hanging everywhere. I would never have even taken on a job like that so kudos to you Frank you did an amazing step by step job.

I think that you have done a fantastic job on this radio. Well done.

Well done Frank, a great resurrection 😁

Good Show

You have gotten to be quite the sleuth when it comes to putting things right into a partially complete radio. You might be able to claim you can fix everything but stupid. My hats off to you Frank.

Howdy there partner. Nice simple set of solutions to the solid state version of a three speed record player. Scrabble anyone?

Nice little player. I remember these kind of players from when I had a repair shop aeons ago. They used an extra winding on the motor field winding as a transformer to power the amplifier. Ingenious

Nice fix and sounds good. Love your music choices 😁

Nice little player Frank, I must chase up some of those cartridges, need a couple very soon. Top Vid as always !🙂

What really surprises me Frank is how many people want their old radio repaired rather than go out and buy a new one. And its obvious most people in Australia do take very good care of their radios. My question is are new radios that expensive in Australia? That's great you got this one to work so well. My first major transistor radio was a Zenith 1000 oceanic that had broadcast and 5 SW positions. It was made in 1957 and I got that one to work with a minimum of work. th-cam.com/video/YFk7Km6kh6U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Nukp7rgPxkzE4EA7

Thanks Frank, love the funky red circuit board 😁

Good Show

Yeah Frank, we say shits and giggles here also but for some reason I cleaned it up a tad. I see that the American manufacturers aren’t the only ones raising their transistor count up for a selling point. That radio is only a 7-transistor radio because TX4 is a diode since the base and collector are wired together making it a diode. Thanks for sharing the video and the prints. The radio does sound nice and definitely a keeper!

Surprisingly it works like a champ! Recapping it will make it last forever. The engineering design was excellent. Didn't need the center tap supply.

Why only 360p?

I have been given a 150 C in a nice bakelite case. How did you get the knobs off ? Don't want to wreck them .

Interesting and cheap radio Frank, 3 different style tube bases and no on/off switch, whatever the model is, this Aristone is a very poor-quality, low-grade radio but nevertheless it would be in order to repair. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Frank, another great fix 😁

Never seen one of these radios or that fancy red valve Frank. It certainly sounded good after the caps plus only 1 IF ! Would need a good antenna back in the day I'm assuming. Very interesting video !👍

Pretty nice job Frank. Always good to have a fairly easy one.

Never saw an aluminum encased Loktal tube before. The maroon colored jobby, an EF50/VR91 which were used quite a bit back then. Surprised after a tube pin and socket cleaning it works! New caps really fixed it. Too bad it must have an on/off switch on the line cord, one IF transformer , and find a long wire for an antenna. Real cheap design for sure Frank. Known as "city" radios.

Thank you frank for a nice video. I discovered the pigtails on most modern caps and others are tin plated steel. I guess it’s a fraction cheaper but makes the wire difficult to bend. I have read reports on the uk vintage radio forum of these leads corroding. Ironic the inside of the cap will last for ever and the leads rust through!,

its good to know the basics . thanks for the video frank.

Thanks Frank 😀

Thanks for doing the segment on volume pots, it’ll be a big help.

I always thought the reason they are called pots is because at times they can drive you potty. Very enjoyable video.

Good little vid on pot part replacing . More important is testing it to see if you were successful at doing it.

Great video for the newbies Frank.

That came up really well good job. Where did you get the repro dial from? I acquired one of these recently and it has been recapped and is working. The dial markings have flowed down thr glass with time not helped by someone trying to clean the rear of the glass.! . There is still rubber wire to replace. The HT is higher than the manual shows at 225 volts but that seems about right for a 6v6 These are a most impressive set and the sound is good lots of bass. They were expensive , according to radiomuseum 27 pounds in 1948. Also the converter valve doesn’t look like a ech35. At one point you did replace it with a red one. The ech35 has double the conversion gain of a 6j8 or 6k8. They are all pin compatible though.

I can't believe that radio left the factory with no on/off switch, perhaps whoever changed those 3 capacitors had to change the volume pot. For a seventy-year-old radio it's in pristine condition.

Thanks Frank, that radio is as old as me 😁

Another one bites the dust. Thumbs up from me. 👍

Nice one Frank. I haven't seen this model with that valve lineup. I reckon it was a Friday & use up what valves are left !😁

Good one Frank. Looks like a highly collectible toaster instead of a radio BTW.

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Thanks Frank, at least you found out that everything else was OK 😁

Looks like you had a case of a jumper wire gone AWOL, that’s what I call bridging the gap.

Some American radio have a jumper plate between two terminals to go from the loop antenna to a longwire but this is very odd otherwise. Follow the wires until they end!

It's funny how the silliest of things can trip anyone up.

Any chance you could do a video on changing a volume control?

European tube gear is so weird.

I think that's the smallest tuner I've seen so far on your radios Frank; those permeability tuners can have their advantages, and the radio/MP3 sounds great. What, Trigger's not into commercials?

You oughta get hold of one of the late Tony Maher's B battery supplies. Very quiet and delivers the goods, runs on only 6 AA batteries.

Nice fix and adaption, loved the hat. Thanks Frank 😁

Roy Rogers brings a new meaning to the word recapping. I think you did a banger of a job with this one Frank. All puns intended. LOL

I definatly want one of those hats Frank, can wear it in workshop to stop any intruders ! Good vid mate, I like those Philips radios but some have dodgy IF Cans, which I have found out. Cheers