I'm 47 and my grandmother used to have a radio covered in a black pvc like wallet like that, your video's are always interesting love the kit builds. You give old things a new lease of life, great stuff
A gorgeous radio with booming sound, and a neat little background story, to boot! It's nice that you were able to retrieve it and get it going once again. Sony evidently designed and built an amazing number of SKU's of radios. I sorely wish they would get back to the business of superior shortwave radios like they built so many years ago.
Good video on the Sony . This is what got me into the radio collecting world , listened to radio stations at the age of 6 , from mainland ( CKLG , CFUN ) here on the Island in the early seventies. Bought radios cheap back then in thrift shops , and had a collection . These were well built radio's in the day , enjoy working on them , keep up the good work !
That's a beauty. SONY's are worth saving. My first Radio was a red and white Sony TR-1820. I found one a few years ago and it is in beautiful condition.
I no you can fix anything ,I would love to see you fix the kinda of radios ,I like to fix and learn on,like a AA5 G.E. 1960 era clock radio,or any 60,s era radio ,I pick these kind of radios to learn on ,because of your videos and a couple others I watch I have fix five or six radios so far.And am a big fan of what ever radios you fix.thanks for your videos and time to help others.
Great video and a very interesting old radio. Makes me sad that so many people will never know how good quality products used to be available and now most things are junk. It used to be that the more you paid, the better the quality. But now it's put out cheap junk, make a much money as you can, sell your product name and run and start making more junk under a new name. Keep making your interesting videos.
Dan E. I love the old tech. It is all repairable. I have a few real nice old pieces to look at this fall as I get back into making videos now that summer is done and the weather turns ugly. More time to spend in the studio.
I bought a similar vintage sony radio, and got it delivered to my mum's address for convenience. Unfortunately the postman put it in the recycling bin and it got recycled on the same day. I got my money back from eBay but it certainly was a bit of a learning curve for me and my mum!
If you saw my rant on Canada post you know my feelings about not only them but fed ex, ups, and DHL as well. They could use a trained monkey and get better results.
@@12voltvids thank you for the fantastic videos, I collect everything Sony but despite going to technical college in the 80s, I am very nervous about making repairs (especially soldering) but you give me the confidence to have a try. Big thumbs up.
A good old radio :-D, and that outer case protected the plastic nicely :-D. I bet a blob of clear epoxy resin would keep that battery post in place. Depends on how far you wish to go with it :-).
zx8401ztv Yes jb weld will fix it nicely. This is as it was when I pulled it out of the drawer. My grandmother just used to put a little block of wood in it to hold the batteries. Back then we didn't have the super glues we have today.
Yes I know. I'll probably mix up some JB Weld and affix the battery terminal some day as I would like to fix that up. This one has been in the family for 56 years.
I was born in 66, my first radio was a small transistor radio that ran on a 9v battery, I had it around 73-75 and it went everywhere with me, small little handheld with the small white earphone, my dad would take it to work with him during the school year, I got it during the summertime, ah memories :)
Unkyjoe's Playhouse I was born in ‘61. Back then, almost everyone had a pocket radio, like cell phones today, boys and girls. I recently stumbled upon two that I had. A cute little Realistic 5 transistor AM radio-the first radio I remember,my mom bought for me.
Aron Gooch The power supply is excellent. Will actually go up to 50 volts but I only had a transformer that outputs around 36-40. I built it with what I had on hand. Transformers are expensive. The old transformer has the original radio shack price sticker on it. That's how old it is.
Nice history of a great radio. Recently found a radio-same model as the first one my mom bought for me.( Realistic 5 transistor). Got me collecting radios,now. That thing may not have much inside, but look at that huge honker of an antenna ❗️Won’t find a chunk of ferrite like that in a modern radio (except maybe a C.Crane radio).
I like the old transistor radios. That one still plays pretty good, considering how old it is. Many of the old vintage transistor radios uses germanium transistors, which I think are not easy to replace these days. NTE make some generic replacements.
Wow!... that wooden Sony is a valuable collector's item... congratulations to the owner for scoring that one. Your Sony is awesome too.. especially since it's a family heirloom and thus priceless.... cool antenna in that set, ... lots of capture area along all that ferrite bar, and the link-coupled external antenna connection is the icing on the AM-DX-listening cake :-).
Yes it is cool. Will be repairing that one next probably as it won't tune anything. Bad caps no doubt. That one goes back to 1956. Speaking of AX DX, I have been playing around with my old Sony XR-A37 AM stereo car radio. As you know car radios are pretty good. Was pulling in signals from all over the place last night including some AM stereo stations. I should make a video of that next time I go hunting for signals. I use a Cushcraft AP8 vertical for the antenna.
Right on.... and definitely, car radios with their RF amps in the front-end can definitely pull in the weak stations, especially when hooked up to a nice long-wire antenna and a good ground connection.
We use penny's grandpa stuff too that pitney's humble sides behind the moment a copper battery terminal which I remember what happened to be a sham out of the batteries
Reminds me of the AJAX 8 transistor radios that my parents bought me and my sister when we were kids in the 60s, listening to radio Caroline and Luxembourg, I found, by accident, that by selecting a Sw.frequency on a 40s cabinet radio that I had, I could block the MW frequency in her room next to mine, and replace her music with a annoying high pitched tone, which was useful if she Pissed me off. Later bought a second hand Shaub Lorenz, now that had some guts in it and volume.
I just got a deal on an old boombox with am fm... realistic brand... I fired it up and the radio sounded excellent and I listed to it for bout 20 min... then today I turned it on and it sounded like the stations weren't coming in near as strong but I grabbed one and went about my business and in a couple of minutes it sopped working... powers is on but the am and fm are not pulling down any stations??? what could that be... it's like a capacitor or another component failed??? or what ever captures the signal failed??? can you point me in a direction to look at.. thanks
Did you get around to fixing the battery contact and faulty volume control in the sony TR6080 ? it looked like a decent radio in 2017, a little clean of the grill with a tooth brush would make it fresher.
No I haven't done anything with it since this video. It is still in the same drawer it has been in since I put it back after shooting this one. Some day I will bring this one out again and glue that battery compartment back together.
nice video grab some step down power transformer and voltage regulator for your radio power supply run your radio on that supply... it should work fine without noise
I want to ask you if the tuner cleaner and lub.Will work on that volume knobs ,I bought a fan a while back from radio shack ,I didn't no if I should have bought just a tuner cleaner or a tuner cleaner with a pub in it ,I have a seventh or older I want to no if I can use my cleaner and lubricant on it.
jpdesroc I built it. The condensed build is on my channel and the full 3 hour component level build is available to patreon users. Look for am stereo transmitter build. I built it only a few weeks ago. Was a kit I got off ebay. Range is about 1/2 block with piece of wire for antenna. It is a Motorola C-QUAM compatable stereo transmitter. I will be showing off some of my other am stereo radios receiving signals from it in future videos.
XXEllieXX The video of that power supply build Is on my channel. The regulator module came from banggood.com it is basically a transformer, bridge rectifier and capacitor plus a fan and the dc-dc buck regulator module. Works fantastic. See the video of the construction and read all the negative comments on my construction techniques by those that wrote a comment before seeing the finished project.
Kennynva T. Correct. Actually they used even less than that. About 1/3. Only a .2 volt junction drop as opposed to .6 for silicon which means that as the batteries run down they will work until the voltage is lower.
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Coool!! Dave, And I my dad had one that was the same model but black, And I was born in 67
I'm working on a Sony TR3550
Enjoy your video as much for the family history you relate as the cleaning and tune up !
Thanks so very much.
I'm 47 and my grandmother used to have a radio covered in a black pvc like wallet like that, your video's are always interesting love the kit builds. You give old things a new lease of life, great stuff
Beautiful. Sony made a gem of a radio. It will go on working for ever.
Wow credit goes to grandmother well maintain this radio and hats of sony for such a good quality product
A gorgeous radio with booming sound, and a neat little background story, to boot! It's nice that you were able to retrieve it and get it going once again. Sony evidently designed and built an amazing number of SKU's of radios. I sorely wish they would get back to the business of superior shortwave radios like they built so many years ago.
What a good radio, very well built, high quality, with a beautiful design.
Good video on the Sony . This is what got me into the radio collecting world , listened to radio stations at the age of 6 , from mainland ( CKLG , CFUN ) here on the Island in the early seventies. Bought radios cheap back then in thrift shops , and had a collection . These were well built radio's in the day , enjoy working on them , keep up the good work !
That's a beauty. SONY's are worth saving. My first Radio was a red and white Sony TR-1820. I found one a few years ago and it is in beautiful condition.
I wish it was mine. I have a Sony transistor 6 myself.
I no you can fix anything ,I would love to see you fix the kinda of radios ,I like to fix and learn on,like a AA5 G.E. 1960 era clock radio,or any 60,s era radio ,I pick these kind of radios to learn on ,because of your videos and a couple others I watch I have fix five or six radios so far.And am a big fan of what ever radios you fix.thanks for your videos and time to help others.
Great video and a very interesting old radio. Makes me sad that so many people will never know how good quality products used to be available and now most things are junk. It used to be that the more you paid, the better the quality. But now it's put out cheap junk, make a much money as you can, sell your product name and run and start making more junk under a new name. Keep making your interesting videos.
Dan E.
I love the old tech. It is all repairable. I have a few real nice old pieces to look at this fall as I get back into making videos now that summer is done and the weather turns ugly. More time to spend in the studio.
I bought a similar vintage sony radio, and got it delivered to my mum's address for convenience.
Unfortunately the postman put it in the recycling bin and it got recycled on the same day.
I got my money back from eBay but it certainly was a bit of a learning curve for me and my mum!
If you saw my rant on Canada post you know my feelings about not only them but fed ex, ups, and DHL as well. They could use a trained monkey and get better results.
@@12voltvids thank you for the fantastic videos, I collect everything Sony but despite going to technical college in the 80s, I am very nervous about making repairs (especially soldering) but you give me the confidence to have a try. Big thumbs up.
Thanks for showing the radios 📻 it’s nice 👍 to old radios 📻 being fixed and not trashing them
Yes I like the old gear. I have an old Halicrafters to look at too. Very old, from the 30's
A good old radio :-D, and that outer case protected the plastic nicely :-D.
I bet a blob of clear epoxy resin would keep that battery post in place.
Depends on how far you wish to go with it :-).
zx8401ztv
Yes jb weld will fix it nicely. This is as it was when I pulled it out of the drawer. My grandmother just used to put a little block of wood in it to hold the batteries. Back then we didn't have the super glues we have today.
Yes I know. I'll probably mix up some JB Weld and affix the battery terminal some day as I would like to fix that up. This one has been in the family for 56 years.
I was born in 66, my first radio was a small transistor radio that ran on a 9v battery, I had it around 73-75 and it went everywhere with me, small little handheld with the small white earphone, my dad would take it to work with him during the school year, I got it during the summertime, ah memories :)
Unkyjoe's Playhouse I was born in ‘61. Back then, almost everyone had a pocket radio, like cell phones today, boys and girls.
I recently stumbled upon two that I had.
A cute little Realistic 5 transistor AM radio-the first radio I remember,my mom bought for me.
Very cool radio and am tempted to get one of those power supply modules to modernize an old power supply I have.
Aron Gooch
The power supply is excellent. Will actually go up to 50 volts but I only had a transformer that outputs around 36-40. I built it with what I had on hand. Transformers are expensive. The old transformer has the original radio shack price sticker on it. That's how old it is.
Nice history of a great radio.
Recently found a radio-same model as the first one my mom bought for me.( Realistic 5 transistor).
Got me collecting radios,now.
That thing may not have much inside, but look at that huge honker of an antenna ❗️Won’t find a chunk of ferrite like that in a modern radio (except maybe a C.Crane radio).
Awesome radio. That radio could tell some history
I like the old transistor radios. That one still plays pretty good, considering how old it is. Many of the old vintage transistor radios uses germanium transistors, which I think are not easy to replace these days. NTE make some generic replacements.
I like it when someone has a story of times past.
That dirty volume control is an improvement over CNN.
Those are fun to mess with. Hey radio, the world was a much nicer place 35 years ago.
Those radios from that time then had good quality. They could certainly work for more than 30 years.
Wow!... that wooden Sony is a valuable collector's item... congratulations to the owner for scoring that one.
Your Sony is awesome too.. especially since it's a family heirloom and thus priceless.... cool antenna in that set, ... lots of capture area along all that ferrite bar, and the link-coupled external antenna connection is the icing on the AM-DX-listening cake :-).
Yes it is cool. Will be repairing that one next probably as it won't tune anything. Bad caps no doubt. That one goes back to 1956.
Speaking of AX DX, I have been playing around with my old Sony XR-A37 AM stereo car radio. As you know car radios are pretty good. Was pulling in signals from all over the place last night including some AM stereo stations. I should make a video of that next time I go hunting for signals. I use a Cushcraft AP8 vertical for the antenna.
Right on.... and definitely, car radios with their RF amps in the front-end can definitely pull in the weak stations, especially when hooked up to a nice long-wire antenna and a good ground connection.
We use penny's grandpa stuff too that pitney's humble sides behind the moment a copper battery terminal which I remember what happened to be a sham out of the batteries
That's when good radios were made to last like the power supply you made
Reminds me of the AJAX 8 transistor radios
that my parents bought me and my sister
when we were kids in the 60s, listening to
radio Caroline and Luxembourg, I found,
by accident, that by selecting a Sw.frequency
on a 40s cabinet radio that I had, I could block
the MW frequency in her room next to mine, and
replace her music with a annoying high pitched
tone, which was useful if she Pissed me off.
Later bought a second hand Shaub Lorenz,
now that had some guts in it and volume.
I Remember Listening To WDGY AM 1130
Then I Switched To FM 97.1 KTCR Then
I Started Listening To K102 FM
I just got a deal on an old boombox with am fm... realistic brand... I fired it up and the radio sounded excellent and I listed to it for bout 20 min... then today I turned it on and it sounded like the stations weren't coming in near as strong but I grabbed one and went about my business and in a couple of minutes it sopped working... powers is on but the am and fm are not pulling down any stations??? what could that be... it's like a capacitor or another component failed???
or what ever captures the signal failed??? can you point me in a direction to look at.. thanks
Did you get around to fixing the battery contact and faulty volume control in the sony TR6080 ?
it looked like a decent radio in 2017, a little clean of the grill with a tooth brush would make it fresher.
No I haven't done anything with it since this video. It is still in the same drawer it has been in since I put it back after shooting this one. Some day I will bring this one out again and glue that battery compartment back together.
Nice video
Instablaster...
nice video grab some step down power transformer and voltage regulator for your radio power supply run your radio on that supply... it should work fine without noise
Will work fine on batteries too. Going to fix that battery case some day.
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wow. those are interesting to check out.
It sounds very good. You're probably getting the hash from the display.
neat little 📻
Is that a switching power supply, if so would be better to use an analogue transformer supply, its quieter.
It is all I have. Normally this would run on batteries.
I see that this particular AM receiver has the old CONELRAD markings on the dial.
@@BigEightiesNewWave We can probably both agree that we're glad the unthinkable didn't happen. Thank God!
I want to ask you if the tuner cleaner and lub.Will work on that volume knobs ,I bought a fan a while back from radio shack ,I didn't no if I should have bought just a tuner cleaner or a tuner cleaner with a pub in it ,I have a seventh or older I want to no if I can use my cleaner and lubricant on it.
I have a windsor transistor radio that is motorboating and volume not working until turn it all the way
Can you give more info about your in house AM transmitter ?? Anything bought or built by yourself ?
jpdesroc
I built it. The condensed build is on my channel and the full 3 hour component level build is available to patreon users.
Look for am stereo transmitter build. I built it only a few weeks ago. Was a kit I got off ebay. Range is about 1/2 block with piece of wire for antenna.
It is a Motorola C-QUAM compatable stereo transmitter. I will be showing off some of my other am stereo radios receiving signals from it in future videos.
Thanks !
Thanks loved this video.
hi love all videos where can i get the power supply kit from that you built
XXEllieXX
The video of that power supply build Is on my channel. The regulator module came from banggood.com it is basically a transformer, bridge rectifier and capacitor plus a fan and the dc-dc buck regulator module. Works fantastic. See the video of the construction and read all the negative comments on my construction techniques by those that wrote a comment before seeing the finished project.
Home made power supply, use arduino may be.
what kind of stuff to clean that volume control?
Nutrol? or Deoxit D5?
I have sony radio model 6R-24 8 transister, but cutted cable wire how to repair it, plz help im so sad for this, i will be thankful to you
1-Bring out both ends of copper wire & connect them, put around insulation tape. 2- find electronic s hobiest
Plus batteries lasted longer because germanium transistors used only half the power to run...
Kennynva T.
Correct. Actually they used even less than that. About 1/3. Only a .2 volt junction drop as opposed to .6 for silicon which means that as the batteries run down they will work until the voltage is lower.
How come You Can't Tune In AM Stations?
Not Too Many People Listen To AM Or FM
Radio Cause They Like Playing Music Via
Mp3.
I listen to am and FM radio all the time.
also the station indicator light is not illuminated as it was nor the fm stereo indicator lights.
There are no dial lights on this radio.
12voltvids I know . sorry for the confusion. I was asking you about the boom box I was having trouble with.
Why Didn't You Put 3v C Cells In it?
Because i didn't have any on hand that's why.
Year I was born .
Good
CKWX super country!
Had to listen for the cash call.
what kind of power supply is that?
I made that power supply a few weeks ago.
Build is here:
th-cam.com/video/I2UpBzpB9FU/w-d-xo.html
here, you will get a proper & details understanding about these cute little devices:
th-cam.com/video/Cw2AjcczHg4/w-d-xo.html
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12:45...HAHA!!
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