You never cease to amaze me shango ... great save … you are a wizard! In the yearly 80’s we used to spend New Year’s Eve in a cabin in the San Miguel’s. The only station we could get was 660 AM and “The Voice of the Navajo Nation”. The station played country music but the Dj’s did the show in “Navajo”. It went something like Navajo language ... Navajo … Navajo ... “Dwight Yaokam” … Navajo … Navajo … Navajo … “Reba MacEntire” and so on. Love the rhythm of the Navajo language.
Finally got to watch your video as I had to work a 8 hour shift at work today! Nice hearing your voice too, shango......as always😀. Specially after a long tiring day I’ve had & it’s good to see these old radios in working order too. 👍🏻
I'm from the UK and absolutely fascinated with your TV and radio salvage/repair/whatever videos. I love seeing this old tech, especially after all these years. I haven't a clue about electronics repair myself so this is just pure self indulgence on my part! Great stuff.
*Fun factor finding::::::* Crosley had at one time the largest Radio Transmitter in the world boasting some 500,000 watts In 1934 Crosley put a 500-kilowatt transmitter on the air, making WLW the station with the world's most powerful radio transmitter for the next five years. The station had dual cooling ponds/fountains gracing the transmitter buildings front lawn. Crosley also made the first refrigerator with shelves in the door aptly named The Shelvador, oh yeah they made a car as well, powered by a not so wonderful engine made from sheet metal. A fallen icon in American industry, the name remain the same only to be "rebadged" onto some product loosely associated with the former company. Great repair Shango066
Still have my RCA AA5 my parents bought me in 1959. It brought me through the whole rock and roll era.........Someday, I'l check the couplate, it will distort at full volume. Maybe when you retire, you can rebuild IF Cans with SMD! Good presentation on checking filament voltages on series strung sets....
I *never* get sick of watching those AA5 repair videos!! Granted, if you've seen one, you've seen 'em all--but there are some slight differences between manufacturers. It's my understanding that the generic AA5 circuit was patented and owned by RCA--and licensed to other electronics companies for decades.
Greetings from Marshall Amplification Senior Service Engineer here in the UK. I always enjoy your videos Shango and look forward to the next one. Regards Dave W.
Just a note of thanks, after watching numerous videos by you and others involving repair of old radio's, I made my first attempt on a fairly old (relatively) 1988 GE Nostalgia radio that was stored away in my 93 year old mom's closet, we were cleaning out to sell her house, she recently went into a nursing home. So I opened her up, all transistor, of course, the Caps were good brand name Japanese but the two large 1000uf 16 volt caps were a bit swollen, and the radio had a lot of hum. So I replaced them with what I had, two 1500uf 16 volt US made caps, the light for the dial was burned out, it was wired directly into the radio, no socket, so I cut the wires, put a 300 Ohm resistor on the 5.5 volt line and added an amber LED. Put the unit back together and NO HUM, the light looks exactly right compared to a known working unit of the same time. So now my wife had a nice radio to listen to her morning AM shows, something she has been wanting for a long time. I tried the FM out (we have no local FM radio here) using a little FM transmitter I built from a kit a few years back for that purpose, it is clear as a bell, but alas it is only MONO but it will work nicely come Christmas when I play MP3's over the transmitter that seems powerful enough to furnish the whole house with nice FM Stereo on any and all FM radios in the house.
Oh wow, used to listen to "K-Tin" when I lived in Arizona. Always looked forward to picking it up as I drove west,as a sign of "You're nearing home", Flagstaff is not far, and then south to Prescott. (later, Glendale). Kentucky is nice, much better fishing, MUCH greener, but I still have dreams of of Arizona.
Great video sir. Nice to see the odd and uncommon failures. Makes me all the wiser if and when it happens to me. Tube testers are great for a baseline...but as you've demonstrated they aren't to do all tell all end all. Gotta burn 'em in sometimes to ensure stability. Thanks Shango!
I have one like that. It has a 5 1/4" speaker and a tone tap on the volume control. It has the best robust sound of all my other table models. It reminds me of Christine the 1958 fury
Great analyses again and repair Shango. You are the absolute Radio and TV expert in resurrecting old tube equipment. Keep those great video's coming. That VHS camera you are using is doing a good job for 480P.
Strangely and coincidentally I'm reading this comment and watching this recommended video merely hours after getting an old Orion CRT TV down from my attic for use with my old games systems. I believe the TV dates back to the very late 90s. Going around the back of the TV now I see - "made in the E.C." and a model number which is "TV450BTX". I'm the UK. As you were, gentlemen... I'll give the TV a Google but would be interested where its origins lay from that era!
Had an "old" Crosley fridge in the hangar. Stupidly reliable. That thing soaked up 40+ years of Arizona heat, and when I left, was still chugging merrily along. It was pretty sandblasted, but it'd still chill a case of Coors.
I agree with your distaste for the NSA. I live about 25 miles south of the data center here in Utah. Most of us are constantly hoping that when the big one hits the Wasatch Front they will drop into a cosmic sink hole and just disappear.
When Shango mentioned Window Rock, I thought immediately of Tony Hillerman's detective mysteries. He passed away in 2008, so sayeth wiki. Rest in peace, Mr Hillerman. You wrote good stuff.
The extensive use of yellow wires may be the result of a wiring job to replace rotted rubber wires. Yellow may have been the only color on hand in the technician's stock. I had to do a complete rewire job on my '46 Zenith console back in the 70s and it was a tedious but rewarding job.
I always look forward to a shango video each week - I get to learn new techniques and "specialized" terms (for objects) I'd not heard of before. Shot in "Shango-Vision". I thought you hated Crosley.
You got a new low res. JVC AKA radiotvphononut special. I haven't seen to many old crosley radios here in the east. Just the far eastern made newer junk ones.
I would like to say a big hello from myself and my husband and we are all the way down south in Melbourne Australia. Firstly I myself would like to say that I have no electrical knowledge or anything yet since hubby introduced me to your channel I have grown eager to learn about electronics and am starting off from the really basics and before even touching a live wire I'm studying the ohms rule of thumb and I'm eager as a beaver. I love your humour and especially your kitty kat star he is just gorgeous. I watch it videos even though I don't understand most of the amazing work you achieve I cannot get enough and poor hubby has to then spend hours explaining answers to my million questions and attempted understanding of outcomes hehehe but mainly both of us are spreading the word the Shango is the way to go and also we love you... Any advice about similar restoration and repair of radios etc called "Glasslinger"?? Love y'all work n if possible wIsh to get details to send a gift of something vintage and electrical your way???
I wonder if this was filmed earlier. I thought I heard reports of snow totals and a reference to Christmas. Usually, though, Shango releases new content shortly after it was filmed. The video quality of the JVC isn't that bad...I'd definitely still keep the camcorder around, especially if it has a built in HD. It's amazing what useful and perfectly usable CE people toss or drop off at Bestbuy or other e-waste facilities. It always bothers me that perfectly useful CE gets melted down and shipped to China. But that's the American culture of disposability; a throw away world. Sure, if it's junk and has no reasonable use, yeah, I'm all for recycling. But I prefer reuse if possible. If this was recently recorded, thanks Shango for demonstrating re-use rather than discard.
Shango, my service provider has come in to the 21st century and provided me with 35mb internet, (before was 2mb) so with this said, im looking forward now to 4k video from you, the tv master.
You must have explored a crystal set in your younger days, have you got one around your place you could show us, perhaps you could do a little video about crystal sets please
Grand Parents gave us each 10 dollars for Christmas wrapped in small box under tree every year. I purchased a Crystal Radio kit when i was 8 in the 1970's. No battery required, best ground was stop hook on old rotary phones. It was pretty cool.
Hey Shango, Im working on an AA5 and its an unidentifiable model. There is a strange part in it maybe a multi resistor thats riveted to the chassis. i think its for the filaments and it gets really hot. I am probably going to have to make my own schematic. love the videos.
Looks like a couple of sorry “rescues “ I’ve picked up, and whined and begged someone into recapping them for me ( for a price of course). Hey, we are doing our part for the environment--recycling old radios (and in your case, everything else as well) Good video. Though I cannot work on them myself, I am learning. 📻👍🙂‼️
Whats meant by "D X" you speak of at 50 seconds into the video? I always thought it was a term used bw scanner operators meaning,discovering,looking and listening to stations not known to be in your imediate area that generally now one else knew were "findable"
Many peoole universally use the term DX for "Long Distance".... as the ionosphere at night time works like a gigantic reflector bouncing the longer radio waves sometimes thousands of miles from their origin. Also why many AM stations are required to decrease wattage at night to keep from obliterating local stations sharing the same frequency.
LOL! Thought I was hearing way more noise when you put the original tube back in, then thought I must be hearing things when you just kept plugging along like the noise wasn't there...and then you declared silver mica disease. Must have been an off day.
gotta love your video descriptions...do you make them for fun or do you use popular serch keywords mashed together to increase views? "lima barbed wires for parvo" BTW parvo means stupid in Portuguese
Resolution is great on first impressions, could be a useful bit of e-waste that old JVC lump. What's this about parvo though, don't fancy a dose of that *woof woof*
That camera isnt that bad at all. 480p still looks pretty good as long as it isnt from a chinese potato cam. 480p looks fine on a phone screen, which is how most people watch it. I am using a 1440p computer monitor and it still looks good. But this is youtube, and people are still going to bitch about it not being in 4K.
A Ktnn voice? Yeah, the wailing of those multi-brained methane-breathers is hard to understand. Wait, no, that's the Knn. (C. J. Cherryh) A nuanced repair, this one!
You never cease to amaze me shango ... great save … you are a wizard! In the yearly 80’s we used to spend New Year’s Eve in a cabin in the San Miguel’s. The only station we could get was 660 AM and “The Voice of the Navajo Nation”. The station played country music but the Dj’s did the show in “Navajo”. It went something like Navajo language ... Navajo … Navajo ... “Dwight Yaokam” … Navajo … Navajo … Navajo … “Reba MacEntire” and so on. Love the rhythm of the Navajo language.
I still listen to that
Never heard of energy efficient vacuum tubes. I learn something every day watching Shango066 videos
Finally got to watch your video as I had to work a 8 hour shift at work today!
Nice hearing your voice too, shango......as always😀. Specially after a long tiring day I’ve had & it’s good to see these old radios in working order too. 👍🏻
I'm from the UK and absolutely fascinated with your TV and radio salvage/repair/whatever videos. I love seeing this old tech, especially after all these years. I haven't a clue about electronics repair myself so this is just pure self indulgence on my part! Great stuff.
*Fun factor finding::::::*
Crosley had at one time the largest Radio Transmitter in the world boasting some 500,000 watts
In 1934 Crosley put a 500-kilowatt transmitter on the air, making WLW the station with the world's most powerful radio transmitter for the next five years. The station had dual cooling ponds/fountains gracing the transmitter buildings front lawn.
Crosley also made the first refrigerator with shelves in the door aptly named The Shelvador, oh yeah they made a car as well, powered by a not so wonderful engine made from sheet metal.
A fallen icon in American industry, the name remain the same only to be "rebadged" onto some product loosely associated with the former company.
Great repair Shango066
Do you have any more information about the Crosley car?
I turned on my old Zenith AA5 the other night, and got KOA 850 Denver all the way in TN! I haven’t heard it in years.
Still have my RCA AA5 my parents bought me in 1959. It brought me through the whole rock and roll era.........Someday, I'l check the couplate, it will distort at full volume. Maybe when you retire, you can rebuild IF Cans with SMD! Good presentation on checking filament voltages on series strung sets....
I *never* get sick of watching those AA5 repair videos!! Granted, if you've seen one, you've seen 'em all--but there are some slight differences between manufacturers. It's my understanding that the generic AA5 circuit was patented and owned by RCA--and licensed to other electronics companies for decades.
Hi!)greetings my friend!All your videos warm the soul, it is impossible to break away from them))this is very, very interesting👍👍👍👍
Greetings from Marshall Amplification Senior Service Engineer here in the UK.
I always enjoy your videos Shango and look forward to the next one.
Regards
Dave W.
Oh Marshall, very nice!
Just a note of thanks, after watching numerous videos by you and others involving repair of old radio's, I made my first attempt on a fairly old (relatively) 1988 GE Nostalgia radio that was stored away in my 93 year old mom's closet, we were cleaning out to sell her house, she recently went into a nursing home. So I opened her up, all transistor, of course, the Caps were good brand name Japanese but the two large 1000uf 16 volt caps were a bit swollen, and the radio had a lot of hum. So I replaced them with what I had, two 1500uf 16 volt US made caps, the light for the dial was burned out, it was wired directly into the radio, no socket, so I cut the wires, put a 300 Ohm resistor on the 5.5 volt line and added an amber LED. Put the unit back together and NO HUM, the light looks exactly right compared to a known working unit of the same time. So now my wife had a nice radio to listen to her morning AM shows, something she has been wanting for a long time. I tried the FM out (we have no local FM radio here) using a little FM transmitter I built from a kit a few years back for that purpose, it is clear as a bell, but alas it is only MONO but it will work nicely come Christmas when I play MP3's over the transmitter that seems powerful enough to furnish the whole house with nice FM Stereo on any and all FM radios in the house.
Oh wow, used to listen to "K-Tin" when I lived in Arizona. Always looked forward to picking it up as I drove west,as a sign of "You're nearing home", Flagstaff is not far, and then south to Prescott. (later, Glendale).
Kentucky is nice, much better fishing, MUCH greener, but I still have dreams of of Arizona.
That's a stylish little radio. Would look amazing all cleaned up.
Radio is excellent and when you search the momentum of the radio stations like rain. My greetings to you are a great man
Great video sir. Nice to see the odd and uncommon failures. Makes me all the wiser if and when it happens to me. Tube testers are great for a baseline...but as you've demonstrated they aren't to do all tell all end all. Gotta burn 'em in sometimes to ensure stability. Thanks Shango!
Mike Savage, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh good AM radio
I love the American 5 radios, can't get enough. Thanks Shango, and I agree 100% with Jay Man
Yes, Crosley would use one color. I had one with all yellow wiring.
radiotvphononut - Wouldn’t that make it so confusing wondering what wire was what!
My Crosley was all yellow wire also.
I have yet to add a Crosley to the collection. Never came a cross one at a reasonable price, 45 years now
Not really corinna, as all those feed wires are yellow actually psychologically and by visual inspection, you know where you stand more.
What a classic. Very fitting to play oldies on that one!
I have one like that. It has a 5 1/4" speaker and a tone tap on the volume control. It has the best robust sound of all my other table models. It reminds me of Christine the 1958 fury
Great analyses again and repair Shango. You are the absolute Radio and TV expert in resurrecting old tube equipment. Keep those great video's coming. That VHS camera you are using is doing a good job for 480P.
He's been watching those Purge movies again
That's pretty good just replacing an oscillator tube and the caps seems to have done the trick alright another AA5 comes to life great video.
Old crosley = good
new crosley = worth the garbage can.
Electro Potato I didn’t know Orion still existed I haven’t seen an Orion tv in a loooong time.....
Sadly some people ruin the name of good companys for profit
Strangely and coincidentally I'm reading this comment and watching this recommended video merely hours after getting an old Orion CRT TV down from my attic for use with my old games systems. I believe the TV dates back to the very late 90s. Going around the back of the TV now I see - "made in the E.C." and a model number which is "TV450BTX". I'm the UK. As you were, gentlemen...
I'll give the TV a Google but would be interested where its origins lay from that era!
Had an "old" Crosley fridge in the hangar. Stupidly reliable. That thing soaked up 40+ years of Arizona heat, and when I left, was still chugging merrily along. It was pretty sandblasted, but it'd still chill a case of Coors.
It is a shame that very little these days is made to last like that.
The resolution is fine.
Not really, maybe it was at its time, but not for today's standards, it's a SD camera.
Looks perfectly fine for 480, I can see plenty of detail. Honestly I don't see the point of going above 480 for much things on youtube.
720 and above looks better but there is nothing you wont be able to make out or see at 480p just fine.
An unchinese Crosley!!! A sign of quality!!!
I agree with your distaste for the NSA. I live about 25 miles south of the data center here in Utah. Most of us are constantly hoping that when the big one hits the Wasatch Front they will drop into a cosmic sink hole and just disappear.
Nicely done Shango, thanks for sharing!
Great radios when everything works. I have one of these, and even a farm radio version.
When Shango mentioned Window Rock, I thought immediately of Tony Hillerman's detective mysteries. He passed away in 2008, so sayeth wiki. Rest in peace, Mr Hillerman. You wrote good stuff.
The extensive use of yellow wires may be the result of a wiring job to replace rotted rubber wires. Yellow may have been the only color on hand in the technician's stock. I had to do a complete rewire job on my '46 Zenith console back in the 70s and it was a tedious but rewarding job.
I would have that front bezel rechromed if it was my radio. The chrome would look so cool!!!
your videos are great lovit it you call tubes bulbs
I always look forward to a shango video each week - I get to learn new techniques and "specialized" terms (for objects) I'd not heard of before.
Shot in "Shango-Vision".
I thought you hated Crosley.
You got a new low res. JVC AKA radiotvphononut special. I haven't seen to many old crosley radios here in the east. Just the far eastern made newer junk ones.
I would like to say a big hello from myself and my husband and we are all the way down south in Melbourne Australia. Firstly I myself would like to say that I have no electrical knowledge or anything yet since hubby introduced me to your channel I have grown eager to learn about electronics and am starting off from the really basics and before even touching a live wire I'm studying the ohms rule of thumb and I'm eager as a beaver. I love your humour and especially your kitty kat star he is just gorgeous. I watch it videos even though I don't understand most of the amazing work you achieve I cannot get enough and poor hubby has to then spend hours explaining answers to my million questions and attempted understanding of outcomes hehehe but mainly both of us are spreading the word the Shango is the way to go and also we love you... Any advice about similar restoration and repair of radios etc called "Glasslinger"?? Love y'all work n if possible wIsh to get details to send a gift of something vintage and electrical your way???
I wonder if this was filmed earlier. I thought I heard reports of snow totals and a reference to Christmas. Usually, though, Shango releases new content shortly after it was filmed.
The video quality of the JVC isn't that bad...I'd definitely still keep the camcorder around, especially if it has a built in HD. It's amazing what useful and perfectly usable CE people toss or drop off at Bestbuy or other e-waste facilities.
It always bothers me that perfectly useful CE gets melted down and shipped to China. But that's the American culture of disposability; a throw away world.
Sure, if it's junk and has no reasonable use, yeah, I'm all for recycling. But I prefer reuse if possible.
If this was recently recorded, thanks Shango for demonstrating re-use rather than discard.
Think you’re right. There was some audio on Nintendo being a company to watch in 2018
Shango, my service provider has come in to the 21st century and provided me with 35mb internet, (before was 2mb) so with this said, im looking forward now to 4k video from you, the tv master.
4k streams at 50 so you need like 100 and im not sure YT will feed you true 4k unless you pay for YT Red
I’ve got one with a different case but similar and it works
You must have explored a crystal set in your younger days, have you got one around your place you could show us, perhaps you could do a little video about crystal sets please
No caps to replace, tubes to go bad or silver mica disease in a crystal radio!
Grand Parents gave us each 10 dollars for Christmas wrapped in small box under tree every year. I purchased a Crystal Radio kit when i was 8 in the 1970's. No battery required, best ground was stop hook on old rotary phones. It was pretty cool.
that's one cared for radio.
Hey Shango, Im working on an AA5 and its an unidentifiable model. There is a strange part in it maybe a multi resistor thats riveted to the chassis.
i think its for the filaments and it gets really hot. I am probably going to have to make my own schematic. love the videos.
Canned ohm voltage divider
Short and sweet!
Great job i love hour videous
Yes they have all yellow wires. I have one like this
Great video.
Looks like a couple of sorry “rescues “ I’ve picked up, and whined and begged someone into recapping them for me ( for a price of course).
Hey, we are doing our part for the environment--recycling old radios (and in your case, everything else as well)
Good video.
Though I cannot work on them myself, I am learning.
📻👍🙂‼️
I was hoping it would be a Crosley cruiser.
jdslyman - Hahahaha True. 😂
Never seen that Union Made IBEW label on a radio before, I just see those on light fixtures.
Crosley made decent products way back now it's not the same technic about how you bring back this old products cool
Boilerplate fire Rosaline there Dairy Bar crying or developer flyer while bleach together
I have a crosley 56TV 0 am radio tubes are warm but no sound. I'm a newbie to repairing electronics any helpful tips or links to get me started thanks
Nice job again sir
Hello love the videos.i was wondering do you do customer work? I have a 1930s zelton console radio.thanks
Very beutiful radio,It's hard to find in china!
Camera ain't bad for the price!
Whats meant by "D X" you speak of at 50 seconds into the video? I always thought it was a term used bw scanner operators meaning,discovering,looking and listening to stations not known to be in your imediate area that generally now one else knew were "findable"
@ss boot--"DX" means listening to distant radio stations. It's a good way of finding out how sensitive your radio is.
Many peoole universally use the term DX for "Long Distance".... as the ionosphere at night time works like a gigantic reflector bouncing the longer radio waves sometimes thousands of miles from their origin. Also why many AM stations are required to decrease wattage at night to keep from obliterating local stations sharing the same frequency.
You can get DX on AM, FM, shortwave, or TV.
resolution is good enough
That camera is better than what they make today.
LOL! Thought I was hearing way more noise when you put the original tube back in, then thought I must be hearing things when you just kept plugging along like the noise wasn't there...and then you declared silver mica disease. Must have been an off day.
do you think someone rewired it and goofed it up? thanks for sharing man!
I bet these old radios get a thrill being manipulated by you in ways they never imagined they could be.
What's Shango006's favorite oldies station?
John Simms - K-Surf 1260 LA Oldies.
gotta love your video descriptions...do you make them for fun or do you use popular serch keywords mashed together to increase views?
"lima barbed wires for parvo" BTW parvo means stupid in Portuguese
Resolution is great on first impressions, could be a useful bit of e-waste that old JVC lump. What's this about parvo though, don't fancy a dose of that *woof woof*
Correction to my last transmission, that JVC camera is squirly hiss-tastic!
The resolution wasn’t bad.
cool
That camera isnt that bad at all. 480p still looks pretty good as long as it isnt from a chinese potato cam. 480p looks fine on a phone screen, which is how most people watch it. I am using a 1440p computer monitor and it still looks good. But this is youtube, and people are still going to bitch about it not being in 4K.
Wrap your cameras in tinfoil lol
A Ktnn voice? Yeah, the wailing of those multi-brained methane-breathers is hard to understand. Wait, no, that's the Knn. (C. J. Cherryh)
A nuanced repair, this one!
Based and NSApilled
Wow I never knew radio could get STD it probably got it from that weather nut
Ah, yes, the oscillator Bitcoin! That ought to be worth $5000 or so, right?! Energy Star tubes. Hahaha😂
Check out these old radios > th-cam.com/video/38O_pVdS0iQ/w-d-xo.html
It's like 21 minutes of reading a low resolution pdf
Donate your vehicle to heritage for the blind...........I didn't realize blind people drive cars...........
I changed this bitcoin for another bitcoin....hahahaha
NSA datacenter 😜
Throw that camera back in the trash
Those horrible IF transformers again!!! Hope there is no smd !!!
Yous guys are just jealous of radiotvphononut,because the stuff he forgot yous will never know.Give him a break.
ah yes the bit coin clearly good investment and adverts are still around
1:35
It is not low resolution for me, the only thing my 17 year old computer can stream is 360p.
#bitcoin