REPAIRING A CROSLEY BANDBOX jr ANTIQUE RADIO
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- This session we will see what it takes to get an old mid 1920's Crosley bandbox jr. radio to work. The junior version of this radio is a lot smaller than the full size bandbox and is MUCH rarer, thus a lot more collectible. It has a serious mechanical problem that will frustrate most people that try this restoration.
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I love your content! Please never stop! 💜
thanks again for the rush of recent videos. lovely!
You're a genius Ron. 99% of radio collectors would give up on that pot metal issue. Great work. Your such an inspiration with your determined approach. Thank you. By the way, I always liked that model Crosley. Treat yourself to the matching speaker. They often come up on eBay. I heard they often have the dreaded pot-metal issues too, but I'm sure that won't stop you!
Really enjoyed your output over the past few weeks,thanks a lot
Sorry Ron, you're not allowed to croak... We all need you! Thank you for all you do.
Your technical knowledge is amazing and outstanding!!! You are an encyclopedia of electronic knowledge and I hope you will continue to dazzle us with more restorations!!! Thank you!!!
49:00 - It's a sobering thought that everyone who designed, engineered, assembled, sold, bought (with the exception of yourself) this radio, and each and every component within, and probably the very companies involved, are dead. Yet this device, their brainchild, still exists and still works. I am reminded of a great toast: "To distant friends... though they are far away, we recognize them with our glasses."
Nice observation. I bet they never thought their work would last so long and I bet they would be pleased.
Solid state may be regarded as state of the art but a valve set is a work of art.
Ron, you are the Audie Murphy of radio restoration. When you want to take that hill, you take it, letting nothing stop you!
The most beautiful work I have ever seen done on devices so rich in history. My heartfelt congratulations, I follow you from Italy and I don't miss a single of your shots. I envy you for the beautiful radios you find
You sir are a magician of the vintage radio world, well done! Love your videos.
“Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into
are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing
for long years.
And for this reason, some old things are lovely
warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.”
― D.H. Lawrence
What range of skills! Using a lathe to fix the radio - none of that 3D printer mucking about!
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Love all your projects, Ron! Happy to see more of them now we are all in lockdown. I'll be starting to work on my own Electronic Breaker very soon. Keep up the great work!
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All your videos are good....but this one is really good!
An even more interesting video this time, Ron, with the lathe work and milling - so absorbing watching your practical expertise. But the thing that struck me was the amount of engineering that went into the construction of the tuning condenser - so many brackets, bushes, bearings, shafts, unique grub screws, etc. (not to mention the dodgy pot metal), needed to create a component that would be so simply made nowadays. This has been an aspect of most of the old radios that you have repaired in your TH-cam videos - I mean the sheer 'clunkiness' of their physical construction. Fascinating how engineering progress and plastics have changed the world!
Labor was a lot cheaper back then, even correcting for the inflation. While those old radios were very complicated for what they were, take a look at the insides of a CD drive or old VCR. The idea that these are made by the millions is totally unreal!
Thanks for all the rapid fire videos lately Ron!
Impressive machining and great editing made your work easy for me to follow. Very entertaining Ron.
another great job Ron
Can we please have a tour of your radio collection
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Thanks Ron, I agree with Dr. TeddyMMM - please - no croaking !! I think you're awesome and I so enjoy all of your videos - - talk about a wide ranging skill set - - seen you make tubes, seen you make various parts from scratch - - not to mention the repairs of broken parts often employing JB Weld - - all that and then you make the electronic repairs seem as easy as rolling of of bed - fantastic!
Your patience with a problem like this is just amazing. Most probably I would've given up with this tuning cap.
I like the way you started to say "variable capacitor" and then remembered this is an old-time set and corrected yourself to "tuning condenser" instead. :)
I think, looking in old radios and seeing the plates of tuning caps was the very first thing that got me in electronics.... even before I saw a tube glow.
Another great video. May I ask, please, if you’re willing to share the schematic for your bench battery-eliminator ?
I can watch you all day , you’re simply genius when come to real electronics , thanks for shearing your gift with us !
Bravo! Excellent save with the epoxy and wood sticks!!
Brilliant repair! That tuning condenser , i think that the problem is the infamous ZAMAK. The problem with zamak is that some iron gaps, contained in the zinc of which the zamak is mainly composed, oxidize, and destroy the zamak from the inside making it swollen. I had this problem in an Akai reel-to-reel tape recorder. Some cams made of zamak had disintegrated.
Engineering the tuning gear support and resolving the tuning capacitor was the best.
You did a phenomenal job on the machined part which replaced the failed pot metal fitting. Love watching your videos - thanks for sharing.
In the close-up shots of the tuning condenser vanes adjustments, I couldn't take my eyes away from the cracks in the metal and thought to myself, "Oh that's going to be a problem later." Turns out it was sooner than later :)
Very good camera management. It increases the focus on the job. Thus makes this video very compelling. Thx!
Another excellent restoration ron, that's definitely what you call an engineering solution!.
thanks nice machining job on that condenser tuning assembly.
I am “open-jaw” stunned with how good this channel is! Very impressive at the very least! Thanks! I have two old radios and a wire recorder that has been waiting years in my house. I now have the desire to get it done!
Brilliant Ron I Love Your Work
Bless Up Earthling
I love watching your channel, as a novice radio restorer it's just blows my mind what you can do. Thank you.
Awesome Masterwork.
Please stay safe, much love. ❤️
Wow that was awesome. It is neat that you have your own machine shop. I have some machining background. I'm trying to learn how to repair radios. I am an Extra Class ham radio operator and that is what sparked my interest in electronics and radios. I just found you today.
Thank you so much for sharing your expertise! I learn a great deal from each of your videos.
Amazing work on both the radio and video! Thanks for sharing with us all!
Beautiful job. Awesome machining skills, Great restoration!
Beautiful Radio ❤❤❤❤
I’ve restored/repaired a few radios in my life. Nevertheless, I’m nowhere near your level of expertise. I would do some things differently, but above all....I very much believe anybody can learn something from anybody else. I have learned several things from your videos! Thanks for taking the time to share! It is very appreciated!
Very nice repair. You sure put your amazing skills to good use.
Nice radio. Execllent work on the condenser. Seems like you can make anything! Thank you!
G'day Ron. Your an man of many talents.
Who would of thought you needed a lathe to fix this baby? But there you go Ron worked his magic again!👍🏻📻🎼
I am very entertained by your videos. They take me so far back in time. Back to the 1930’s, although I was born in 1970. Just turned 50 on my birthday 🎂 on June 5th. You’re a very interesting person, taking the time on all these radios 📻 and radio restorations. I’m a geek 🤓 for all old radios like these. I liked the little Westinghouse refrigerator radio and the really nice 👍 wooden armchair radio. Nothing could fit the house 🏡 any better. Really hate all these junky Chinese radios of today. There are a great 👍 many radios of yours I like, as well. I found it very interesting when you were trying to build a homemade battery pack. To no avail, it seemed, until ya found one very thin wire was wired to a wrong terminal. I understand the frustration, though. I’ve been there with those kinds of things. Think 🤔 ya re routed the wire, making your hard earnings come to life. Keep these really great videos coming. They’re so good 😊 that I’ll probably be watching them until I die.
Happy Birthday! I turned 72 on June 5.
Enjoyable video, Ron, thanks. I liked your design of the gear mount.
great job Ron! Excellent reparation in the tandem capacitor!
Quite amazing to restore hundred year old radio requiring more mechanical work than radio engineering which has been done so professionally. I wonder how this man is having milling and leth machine and working on it to make required gears and. the job of repairing gang is challenging one which is also made to perfection, hat's off to this man.
Just imagine how many people have had their hands on that in seeing what was involved to try to fix it and could not be bothered I'm surprised it wasn't dismantled as a parts unit a long time ago great work enjoy your watching your videos keep up the good work
The radio could have sat in someone's attic for 50 years untouched!
Ron, thanks for another great video! Please keep the videos coming.
Thank you for sharing your craft..
Great combination of machining and electronics. Thumbs up!
That's just such an odd radio... so unlike the ones I think of from the 30s-40s. Nice solution on the broken tuner knob.
I think that you are not simple technician but electronic magician . I feel so happy when I watch yours videos. Good luck.
This is a common problem with these. Pot metal degradation has a few of these sitting in my workshop while being ignored for a few years. This is a fantastic video of the process. You have a lot of patience, Ron. I'm more of a curse and grunt person. I wish I had the machining abilities you possess. You're amazing! I'm fine with the electronics and cabinet restoration, but this is way above my abilities! I'm in awe!
Thats one of the better radioes i have ever seen... Good work as always. Show us your collection plees
Awesome video. I enjoy your channel a lot. I'm just getting started with old radio repair. I just completed a restoration of a Hallicrafters S-38B.
Every time I see tuning condenser repairs I thank the person that invented varicap tuning :)
Another great video. At 23:28 you managed to trigger google on my phone to adjust the volume lol. I watched that bit 3 times and it did each time.😂
C'est toujours un plaisir de voir ton travail sur TH-cam, merci beaucoup. =)
Great to see you work on this lovely old radio. I reminds me of a biscuit tin radio.
Ron you are a great man, love watching all your vids much respect .
Wow! You fix radios that most other people would not even try. Thanks. CAL
Another brilliant repair!
You did a great job on the gear housing it lined up perfect!
Bandbox junior! I thought it was gonna be a guitar amp! D'oh! But no, hey Ron excellent video! And that tuning gear mod - absolutely superb - Wow!
Tremendous work. Well done.
Loving these video's thank you 🙂👍🏽
just the best work i seen
Thanks for your videos Mr. Glasslinger
Amazing video. Thank you for sharing!
Superb work!
No foolin' around. Just gettin' 'er done!
I always jump my sons case for wasting so much time on the internet watching dumb videos as he's always in the rabbit hole. All I can say now is.... I can't jump his case anymore. I find myself watching one after the next... Uhhhgggg. Thanks Ron. I love blowing my weekend watching one after the next.
I am using a cheap 1947 aa5 as a practical radio in the sched, works great
The cause is the casting was poisoned with tin and/or lead causing internal corrosion usually because the foundry handled both sometimes in the same "pot".
Well, that's the whole point of pot metal, isn't it?
"What metal is this?".... "whatever old scrap is in the pot!"
This makes sense because you can find some of the radios that have no swelling at all of the metal. They got made with a good batch!
@@glasslinger The effects didn't start to surface until 15-20+ years down the road, very slow process makes it hard to troubleshoot.
It wasn't until the 50's that it was figured out, WWII material shortages, they were casting lead, tin and zinc whatever was available in the same equipment and those castings rapidly deteriorated, held together long enough to win the war at least.
The damage was done diecast "pot metal" would be branded as terrible. With proper hygiene modern Zinc pressure castings are of great quality and last a long time.
@@edgeeffect And that's why they fell apart... but not until it was out of warranty.
You do amazing work
Nice radio. It should go somewhere prominent on display instead of in the attic. Problem with dying with a bunch of toys is that the heir may not have the appreciation and just toss all that "OLD JUNK" in the trash. Seen it a lot.
Great work. Cheers!
Very cool, sure wish I had your machine tools. I haven't had access to anything like that since I stopped working on guns and began playing with electrons. Still have a couple guns although I never use them for anything, sure I take them with me when I enter the big cities where shit happens quite regularly but that is more or less a pacifier for old cops like myself. Thanks a million for the videos, I enjoy the hell out of learning from you!
I cannot help wondering how many radios you have left in that attic of your. Thanks for sharing stay safe regards Chris
must be stacked to the rafters
We love to see all of all your radio collections
It would be crazy if the dude who originally designed this radio was alive to watch this guy fix it.
Great video! Pls keep posting !
Wowm great job. I was realy wondering how you'd fix that clip. Was expecting some JB weld, but no on that place. the machined part was simply genious ! thanks for sharing !
Ron, this was a very interesting repair! If you ever want to try to make your own castings for small parts, Micro-Mark has some very low melting temperature alloys. If memory serves, we're talking about ~160°F to melt _or_ something that will melt with a propane torch. They've also got the molding materials too. (I don't get anything from them for this "ad," but am just a happy customer.)
You are owsome .. the best !!
Great job legend techition thanks for video
A very good job, as usually.
Incredibile job, you're so skill! 🤗
ah... the old pot metal cancer...older akai R2R have the same problem with their control knobs ... pot metal cams disintegrate...you truly are a jack of all trades
I'm always amazed how someone came up with controling electricity with mechanical parts. I remember having an old tube radio given to me by grandfather. It was playing away one day in my old tool shed when smoke started to accompany the music, that was the end of that. You were lucky to drill small hole in the nylon bush anywhere near centre as tool post appeared to be fowlling the drill chuck, anyway all went well.
Look into a microwave receiver or transmitter, where open or closed spaces of various sizes and bends as wave-guides create electrical components such as resistors and capacitors - then it really appears to be magic ... begin to realize I only have a mediocre understanding !! LOL
On a serious note though Ron I love the part you machined for the dial. It's a far better solution than the original design and will last for years to come, unlike the original pot metal fittings. Regarding pot metal castings, I'm not sure whether this would have been useful in this particular instance but I've found encapsulating pot metal parts in resin works quite well. It has the effect of both filling the cracks and stabilising the part against failure. Ideally the viscosity of the uncured resin needs to be low enough so that it flows properly into all of the little crevices of the part but once it's set, you can then file/ream out the resin for where screws need to go etc.
Great work.
Nice job, although I couldn't help but chuckle every time he mentioned shafts! :D
great job on such old radiio
Great job on the tuning capacitor! I thought you were going to have to design a digital AM tuner!!!