BEAUTIFUL 1940's Majestic Radio Receiver Restoration!
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- Here is a complete electrical restoration of a 1940's Majestic 5A410 radio receiver. Grab a snack, sit back and enjoy!
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My guess at the device at the end is that there's a coil inside that thing, and the two screws are the terminals, so it's some kind of choke.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Mr. Carlson is beyond his time..... He doesn't look old enough to have the knowledge that he does about vacuum tube's, and at the same time, to have more than an equal amount about today's technology. I'm 74 years old, been in electronics all my life, and yet I still learn things from his video's. Where was this type of gifted individual when I was in college ??? I had great teachers, but none had the ability to get things across like Mr. Carlson. If only it were possible to go back in time........
There was nothing good on TV tonight, so I watched the entire "BEAUTIFUL 1940'S Majestic Radio Receiver Restoration" video. Only took a 5-minute beak, in between, to make a cup of tea. I know it was a video from over 3 years ago, but it was still enjoyed.
I am only 23 years old and working in broadcast engineering, but I think these long form factor videos are wonderful. So full of information and knowledge. Any time I see a new Mr. Carlson's lab video posted I get all giddy and grab some coffee to sit back and watch the whole thing. Thank you Paul for your wonderful service and keep it up!
Glad you're enjoying Nicholas!
i must admit, i love the old style of wiring... No PCB... Just everything soldered to eachother :)
I haven't read every single comment, sorry if there are already comments about it, but I honestly think that these kinds of old radio's or this style at least would look very good in a very modern styled living room interior with black and white colors, in my opinion.
What a great piece of history. Very nice!
Mrister Carlsons lab your vintage majestic tube AM radio 📻 from the 1940s is awesome my friend 😅😅😅
Mrister Carlsons lab you are good at restoring vintage radios and alignment of vintage radios 📻 my friend 😅😅😅😅
Hi Paul. FWIW I love these longer format videos. In a sea of OCD, "5 minutes is an eternity" here on TH-cam, your stuff really stands out as being thoughtful and a good investment of time for the audience.
You're so right! I can't remember the last half-decent film I watched but I'll cling to every minute of these videos. Much respect Mr C - people like you (willing to share knowledge online) have taught me more than schools ever did!
lelelelelelel muh ocd Im so quirky!
I relly enjoy the rhyth of these videos. I might tone down the repeating sentences a bit as I have watched pretty much all of his videos. Then again if someone only watches one or two it's good to press the important points a bit more. Nothing suits everyone at the same time of course.
This content is great. I haven't seen all of his vids, but will eventually. I'm starting with the longest ones first tho!
That radio has a real ‘Buck Rogers” vibe.
Hello from the UK, love the channel 👌
Hello Neil!
The steps you tool to fully restore this radio just blows me away! You have a passion for this you put more money and time into the radio than its worth. Well done Sir!
You should see what people offer me for these. Thanks for your kind comment Roger!
@@MrCarlsonsLab Gives me hope I want to learn electronics so bad. I do Marine repair for a living over 21 years and it took a major dump it went down 99% I need to get out of it. But every time I see these old radios for sale they are at give away prices and they are not selling . I dont know what magic ball you have to find people with money but every one I know is broke. I got one of those old school Radio shack labs to build circuits off of ebay its was NOS but I have so much to learn I still dont know how these circuits work. Thanks for the reply
@@MrCarlsonsLab , Bruce Havourd... I could only imagine! LOL Good for BOTH of you!
As I said in another comment, I really like the long form of many of your videos. Thank you for making them.
What a nice radio, very pretty. And a superb restoration, such neat wiring, as all your projects are.
I never knew the interesting history of Majestic, but according to the Wikipedia article which I just read, an early product they made was the B battery eliminator, which had been designed by William Lear (who later founded Lear Jet).
And I never knew they were the second largest manufacturer of radios in the United States, behind RCA, in the late 1920's. They were producing 4,000 radios a day in their Chicago factory and employed 11,000 workers to do that.
Over the time from the 30's to the 50's the company had its ups and downs economically and at one time was forced by the court to liquidate and the trustee sold their factory and other assets to Zenith, who used it to expand their business. I believe it was a later version of Majestic that eventually became the US importer of Grundig radios, which became Grundig Majestic!
I know there are dealers who sell restored radios (hopefully well restored like you do). But you have been able to find so many non-restored and interesting radios to restore; I am curious how you come up with so many interesting radios?
Last, I know you sometimes restore radios for collectors, but do you keep all the radios you own and restore or do you sell them?
Paul, you're fortunate to be near so many radio stations. I live in a crappy little town in far north CA. surrounded be huge redwood trees, and mountains, so I only get 1 AM and 1 FM station hear!
Hi Ted. If you put up an external antenna for your radio's, you will probably receive a lot of stations.
Old school way if it is a build-in ferrite antenna: wind a thin wire around the antenna, a few tens of turns, and connect one side to ground, and one side to an aerial well isolated.
Be carefully with the original wires/coil on the ferrite.
Anyone else feel like going and buying yet another antique radio too work on after watching Mr. Carlson's videos?
Congratulations!!!!is weird to see a a guy of your age handling very old electronics that reminds me my grandfather he was very good working with the blaupunkt vitrolas
Whoa! A new restoration video from Mr. Carlson's Lab?! Life gets put on hold for the next 1 hour and 33 minutes. Entertaining and educational, very good, very nice, thank you.
the shortest 1 and a half hour videos you can find on the web
I thought radio alignment was far more complicated, however, you’ve simplified the process
That's just gorgeous...looks like something Hercule Poirot might have owned :)
Paul: I just discovered your video series as a plug from one of my favorite YT channels 'AvE'. His format is the complete opposite of yours...He's untidy, has a pirates tongue and tears down tools and electronics. Yet...There is something you both have in common: Teaching. As wildly different as your format and styles are, I fall asleep listening to your videos and I wake up .... smarter. I am really enjoying your video series and find your work quite calming, entertaining and easy to follow along and digest. A sincere thank you for your content and continuance of these informative videos.
Thanks for your kind comment David!
Amazing design and conservation!
Sir, I came across your channel about a year ago, you create content for free and I am not a rich man otherwise I would help out, but you have single handedly reignited my passion for engineering, it is nice i feel like a graduate again, thanks buddy, I share your enthusiasm! Keep up the good work
You're welcome Bjorn!
Mr Carlson you are good at electronics restoration on vintage shortwave radio Receivers and Aliament
Mr Carlson your vintage Majestic radio Receiver with broadcast band from the 1940s is cool Good for DXing at night and day
Thank you for restoring America's works of art...
Americans need to repurchase these pieces of Americana...
And when I sit in the living room trying out all the lights and listen to an AM radio station with someone talking to us...
as two videos which feed all sorts of crazy ideas into people's minds and distract them from thinking...
There should be a radio station that just broadcast Paul Harvey over and over again.
Mr Carlson i appreciate you telling it like it is ..."WOW" tells me me shoddy workmanship ...but you will fix make good ...
Then us watching will give (upon completion of your expert self ) a well deserved
"WOW" well done Sir
Wonderful restoration and such an educational video, thank you!!
Also, love the trivia questions.
I'm a bit emotional, but I've almost cried when I first saw this Tube Tester. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life.
Think what the present generation misses out on... so much of the beauty of life!
When I was growing up I built a knight kit tube tester, e.g. gen and etc.
The mains line cord removal was so satisfying.
Aaaaahk it was very painful . Heritage value in that it was an exposed component. Radio worth less now. Nothing wrong with it , no reason to replace it imho.
I loved your tube tester
That radio just looks cool. What a timeless masterpiece.
These restoration videos are so good, they should be aired television
Excellent resto! BTW, that design is a result of the art deco style created by Raymond Lowey. Waterfall furniture, buildings, automobiles, even railroad locomotives were designed with this influential style in mind.
Count me as one fan who appreciates what I think of as your lowest-common-denominator approach-explaining what you're doing for every level of know-how, from the least to the most experienced. The effect in my case is to reinforce long-lost learning and inevitably teach me much I didn't know.
The only missing lesson from my point of view is how your family life allows you to spend so much time and money doing what you do (because, of course, I'm envious).
Thanks again.
On those tuning and volume shafts, another trick is to find something like a piece of plastic that is slightly thicker than the slot and wedge it in the slot to very slightly to spread it.
You can fix those (long necked) pot axles by cutting the axle below the (presumably broken) fork and then drilling and tapping for a new piece of rod. You do the same for the replacement rod, and thread the two together with some thread lock. Once that's done, you gently saw a new fork. Have done it. Works really nice, and in some countries, you can even get specific kits for this kind of job, well, used to, i haven't done this in 5 years.
Absolutely love these long format videos. Exactly as you suggest I grab a bite to eat and a cup of coffee, throw it up on the TV in the lounge and just kick back and enjoy the content!
His repair is a complete rebuild form the ground up! love it! I would actually like to have a radio made and designed by Mr. Carlson!
Mrister Carlsons lab your utube videos are awesome keep up the good work 👏 🙌 👍 my friend 📻
That is nice looking radio.
That's more than a radio, it's class.
This one looks much more simpler than the receivers from the 30s I saw you repairing before. Another amazing job. Thank you.
Yes, it is a might simpler, and a simple receiver is about the 30's for sure!
Your videos are fascinating even though I don't have a clue what you are doing. I know nothing about electronics. However, your explanations are easy to understand.
So Beautiful
Mr Carlson is a real pro, everything is well thought out and presented in the best way.
Lots of tips and techniques. A great teacher. Thank you.
as a foreigner, with time i learned to understand a big variety of english accents and manners of speaking, i want to point out how clear MC's spoken english is, i always feel like no single sound is skipped, i consider him also a voice talent, among other things
If this radio could take us back in time to the 50's with all the news, music etc.. that would be incredible...
Just feed it with your favourite 1950s newsreels off youtube and off you go! :-) (better than the diaper ads and unicorn piss superhealing crud over the air nowadays I'm sure)
I don't know what that is, but I found one in the Mohave Desert several years ago. Picked it up and it lays in my tool box from my RV
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My life at the moment is about photojournalism in the realms of Sea-Doo Fish Pro jet skis - fishing, spearfishing, catch n’ cook - yet when the Mr C bell rings, it all goes electrical
I nearly cried when you showed the underneath, it had been butchered.
Fantastic job!
I am impressed with how clear the radio sounds, and all the channels across the band,well done.
Hi,Mr.Carltson, very interesting the restoration is a beatiful radio.I like very much the inspection of the components.thanks for share us.
Wonder how many old radio shows that radio has played??? Burns and Allen, Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly, no telling how many others... Well done Mr Carlson :-)
Mr Carlson the radio chassis look like new that's so awesome
This was so enjoyable. Mr. Carlson is a superb teacher.
Respect for you.🙂👍
Fantastic video !
In my opinion.. u r the best electronic engineer I hve ever come across.. God bless ur incarnation in this time being..
Thank you for the wonderful enlightenment..
Thank you Fred!
Good teaching
very interesting mr carlson thank you
I've seen this type repair before, where the lead tech would give summer help, something like these smaller units to repair or practice on. Tell him what to do, what parts needed and where, hence the bloated solder joints. Then quickly test it, while writing a repair ticket.
Beautiful work, you've straightened that chassis out nicely.
This is a great looking radio. Great job restoring it. I think it's better than new now. :)
Always makes my day when a new Mr. Carlson's Lab video pops up. Thanks for that!.
Awesome video, Mr. Carlson !
I Love Allen Bradley. Awesome components.
Great stuff. That radio wouldn't look out of place in a design museum. Funny enough Techmoan has a recent video featuring an audio analyzer that uses those indicator tubes you revealed at the end.
Paul
I can't begin to claim half of your knowledge but as a ham radio guy and a surgeon, I hugely enjoy and appreciate your videos. Your presentation style and teaching method needs bottling and selling. I should know - I teach military combat surgery and it's technical - but you have the ability to put the art in science as it should be. Thanks mate, Tom.
You solved some questions here for me on this one!! The only advice I;ll skip from you is the "Grab a snack", I'm going to the gym to work off the last two years of snacks but other than that it's all great!
If you are a radio tech, you have another reason to do your best work. Mr. Carlson may get ahold of one of the radios that you repaired and be disappointed if you don’t. I have been binge watching these videos. I’m getting the serious urge to get out my portable HF radio and get back on the air, and buy a nice restored AM broadcast radio.
I did a bunch of radio restorations 25-30 years ago and just recently got back into it with a couple of recent projects on those 1940s type radios. The speakers are definitely more fragile, I had to repair the cones with Elmers glue. One was a Hallicrafters S-53 that had been partially recapped, but they left a bunch that seemed harder to get to. it was tricky to align, and had an oddball 2.075 Mhz IF. The other was a GE Octal All American 5 clock radio. It was pretty much unmolested, but a couple of tubes were bad, the line cord was shot, and it needed recapping. I managed to find replacement tubes and pretty close capacitors out of my own stock. It is still missing a knob for the on-off switch but is otherwise attractive and complete.
I had those as toys when I was a kid growing up in the sixties.In those days,I got them for free regardless of vintage.That is the first Majestic radio I've ever seen:I have alot of their phonograph records which were made from 1945 to '49.I specialized in TV repair but I got sick of it because of the "something for nothing crowd".I got out of it in 1990 but I got back into the radio side a few months ago.I have a couple of dozen receivers in my collection.Right now I have a circa 1941 Pilot B1,a 1942 Admiral model 4203 and a circa 1939-47 Aetna AA5 AM only set I got for $18 off of ebay.I can't find any info on the set:there is just a tube diagram and the only thing I see as a possible model number(R 1185)isn't listed on the Radio Daze website.I enjoy your vids.I'm 68 years old and radio has been a hobby of mine since the late '50s.I'm somewhat self taught.My first book on the subject was "Everybody's Radio Manual" published by Popular Mechanics back in 1954 but the book is unchanged from 1934.
Awesome job mr Carlson big thumbs up 👍
What a nice radio Paul,,,, and another bundle of information thrown in as well. Thanks again pal.
Happy to share Carl!
what a contrast between the beautiful condition on the outside and the horrorshow underneath this radio
Are you old enough to remember the public tube-testers in many stores? If your radio or TV broke, you'd take the tubes to the store, test them on a simplified machine for consumer use and buy new ones if needed. Many people probably missed the HV rectifier in its cage and the hard-to-see tuner tuner tubes.
Damn I'm old to remember those.
Hi Robin, I do remember. And I own one as well.
Dude this is so enjoyable
Woohoo, new restoration video! Had a really bad day today, but no better way to end it than this! Thank you, Paul!
Looking good Paul. 73
very nice radio love the style of it and nice colour thanks.
Excellent as usual. Thank you.
Today we will be replacing these high tension line power conditioning capacitors, now remember if you take on a project like this, you do so at your own risk. 😂🤣 Love your vids Mr. Carlson!
Another fantastic video. My family think I am a bit strange watching rebuilds of older equipment. I explained its not different than someone watching a restoration of an old car and there are whole shows based around that. I just happen to find this type of machine much more interesting. Thank you again for being in depth in explanation and also in trivia!
A lesson in restoring an old radio, and how to speak Canadian. Good stuff.
Hi Paul- thank you for all your teaching ! io have a gilfan 5 that has already been repaired but has a tube that needs replacing.i have learned alot.
One of the rare us-radios, which are not looking ugly. Super-video! Thanks for sharing.
The unknown element looks for me like a throughput-capacitor or a flash-security-element.
Cheerio from Germany.
Always excellent Paul !!!
Hello Paul. Antique radio speaker reconning is fun. Most older speakers have unusual mounting brackets and most are 3.2ohm. I can carefully cut just the cone out of an 8 ohm newer speaker of the same size that preferably has a wrinkle paper surround and cut out the old torn cone leaving the voice coil in place and put shims then glue the new cone. Works good. I wished I knew how to fold construction paper into a new cone so I don't have to ruin a new speaker. The hard part is making the paper wrinkle edge. The cone is easy. I looked on eBay and paper cones for a typical 5" speaker is $10.00!!!
amazing restoration work ! I have been playing with tube radios for 10 years now always love to see others doing the same , thanks for the videos From Canada
Glad you're enjoying the video's Rob!
93 minutes of Mr. Carlson's Lab 🤗 better than Avenger: Endgame. Let's get some popcorn and enjoy the show. 😃🍿
I like when you get vintage stuff to work on.
Yay a new restoration video....! Can't wait... First thing to watch once back home from work 😁
Another fascinating and educational video in nice long format. I soak these up like a sponge :-) Cheers
Paul I know you think vids are too long but i would like to see more on every video.and I bet most viewers are with me on this..keep it up Paul your truly a professional .
Really great work as always.
That is nuts!
Another first class restoration video to professional standards. I learn such a lot when I watch these - sure I'm not alone in that! Nice one Paul.
It's awesome that someone actually knows this stuff.
I cant even get a decent police scanner because everything went to digital and that's even more complicated.
Wow... that trivia answer was amazingly timely... I'd not long watched a video on Techmoan's channel about an IN-9 based spectrum analyzer by "Mr Nixie" How cool!
I saw that one, too!
Love your videos! I'm still getting use to the way you pronounce solder. You are the only person I've ever heard pronounce the L in solder. Not nitpicking. It's just me. Lol!