RCA CTC16 Remote Set Resurrection Round Tube Vintage Tv Pt1 CRT Cataract And Analysis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- crt cataract safety lens removal, speaker repair, chassis analysis, this may be the worst set I have ever attempted to make working again. vintage color television in very poor condition to repair
This will be one of the greatest resurrections ever. That chassis is a mess! Can't wait for the next video.
Just replace the caps and it will be fine.
@@Retep4565 Yes, replace the mice craps to caps...
The Fiat ad is from the late 70's and you had some mail from the 2000s which means you've got about 30 years of mouse pee buildup in that cabinet. That's a multi generational mouse hostel.
This video will use up the entire aged urine and faeces cartridge on my smell-o-vision headset.
LMAO!!!
Sorry to hear that your mate died Shango, my condolences.
I know nothing about TVs but this is oddly satisfying.
Same here.
Stan Winston was a treasure. He also let the Florida Antique Wireless Group (FAWG) host their tailgate swao-meets in their parking lot at ESRC three times a year. He was a good man and honest, too. He is certainly missed, already. BTW, it was more like 3 1/2 - 4million tubes!
Never thought I'd giggle at hearing the word "glaze". Oh man, I love it when I hear the one-word declaration: "baked". Excellent video!
That smoke add brings back memories, one of my favorites was the Chesterfield 101's "Just a silly millimeter longer!" Had an add where ladies were smoking this and closing doors on them running into windows and such because they were longer then the 100's
Now you're telling on both our ages.
Radiation king! Boy I spent my youth in front of one.
That sucks that ESRC is done, that’s bad news for resurrectors and vintage ham operators alike
Maybe we could get lucky and somebody is going to keep track of that establishment and let us all know what's going on with the place. Also, the audiophile world would probably be interested in this place as well.
Hell, at the very least, somebody could offer his kids something for the tubes, and they could just sell the building outright or something. I guess time will tell with this situation.
Hopefully they will sell it as a whole lot. Worse thing is it gets sold as commercial real estate and gets demolished!!!
@@bro.weaver1282 The way I see things, somebody that has done business with their Father has to have access to his kids. As far as the electronics world is concerned, we all know that ESRC is a national treasure. This is like hearing that Antique Electronic Supply is going out of business.
Hmmm. The Japanese audio guys would probably be interested in purchasing the place, although we'd probably say adios to all of the audio tubes instantly. All I know is that the owner of ESRC has dealt with a lot of us very fairly over the years. If some electronics folks do purchase the place, I can only imagine what kind of prices we're going to see, and it won't be to our benefit. Truly, this is sad news.
I always fixes and resurrected stuff. I remember back in 2017, I got my 1926 Victor VV 8-4 Orthophonic Victrola at a junk shop in Catskill, NY and it was in really bad shape. The wood veneer was fallen apart, and the spring motor was bad. I cleaned them up, put new grease in double spring barrels, put back together, wind them up, and BAM! The turntable is up to speed, put a 78 RPM record in, place the needle into the record, and it walla! It plays excellent.
Last year, I also got another portable phonograph from the same junk store, and it’s a 1923 Camp-Fone by Health Builders, one of the rarest portable phonographs out there, and it has no model number on there. I cleaned them up, put new grease in, and it has the same problem after I first got it. When I first got my Camp-Fone, the spring motor was in bad shape due to old grease that has been frozen for the last 80 to 90 years. After a few months, I went back to my Camp-Fone, check the spring motor, and what I found that the governor was frozen. That cause the phonograph from running too fast. I have to take those three pieces apart, clean the shaft, put the three pieces back in, put the governor back in, put back together, wind them up, turn on the turntable, put a 78, put the needle into the record, and it plays and works like a champ.
Camp-Fone was one of the rarest brand for a portable phonograph, because it was made by Health Builders Inc. back in 1923, and that company no longer exists. It was founded by Walter Camp who invented football, and also created a series of early exercise records for Health Builders during the 1920’s.
@chris younts So, how do we get in touch with them is my question? Maybe we could do a group-buy on the tubes as well, if we can get in touch with the right people. Either that, or maybe some old, wealthy ham could step up to the plate. I'm thinking about Steve Smith out there in LA, Shango, which would be the Harris Electronics dude. I forgot his call. Would be nice if he purchased the place and allowed us to sort and group-buy the material, or someone like him. Hell, maybe Antique Electronic Supply would be interested?
Thanks for the rodent heads up Shango, unluckily I've just fixed my odour detector in my smellavision.
Good point you make about the future of collections, I have modest collection of vintage electronics and machinery. My Sons who are now adults told me that they are not interested in the items and when I kick the bucket all the collection will go to the rubbish dump as they do not know what the items are and are too busy to sort things out. I need to decide now how to preserve the items and to ensure they will be passed on into safe hands.
@Homeless Home Movies That's a good attitude to have, but hopefully you'll get the chance to hand it off to someone who can enjoy it as well.
7:13 The rodents knew it would be a bit dull hanging out inside that chassis, so they passed the time by reading about an exciting sport sedan.
I love old vacuum tube stuff.
As I watch and listen to the tantalizing odors coming from the set, here in South Dakota it is raining, the wonderful fresh smell is so very pleasing, bet you wish you were here right now!
Years ago, I rented a shop space in South MPLS which was in the back of a TV repair shop. The repair shop had long since closed but the owner would hang out in back in our rented space and drink beer all day. He must have been in his mid 80’s. Nice old dude. Any way the front (old shop front) was chock FULL of everything. Mountains of tube cartons, testers and old sets. I was not into this scene back then and I kick myself over and over. Then one day, he didn’t show up. He just passed. Couple weeks later we were given notice to vacate by the family as they were selling the building. 3 days after that, a dumpster on wheels grabbed everything and took it all away. Kills me now
Back in late 70s there was what was once a hardware store of some kind when I was a tiny kid in 1960 ish I remember going in there with my dad. In late 70s it was full of all kinds of electronic and TV repair stuff. We were building equipment for a band and went through the whole place looking to see if there was anything we could use. Every time I watch these type videos I think of that place in northwest corner of Detroit. It's been a long time and I doubt if any of it still exists.
That cataract looks like it was most of the way to becoming the "CBS Eyeball".....
No wonder I couldn't get an update on the tubes I ordered.
Great video! Cant wait for part 2.
I hope all those new old stock tubes go to good homes and not into a land fill. I hope someone smart buys all those up at an estate sale and does good with them.
Please keep doing the Cataract videos. For some reason I really enjoy them. Keep up the great videos. I found your channel through your Mine Exploration vids. But I love old vintage electronics too.
So do I! I had a cataract operation years ago and i compare that experience to the clarity that comes out at the end every time!
This rodent bathroom (phew) of a RCA color TV may go down as the " pièce de résistance" of resurrection videos! So much so it needs a part 2. Can't wait for that!
I really admire your efforts mostly successful. It looks like a jigsaw puzzle pulled from under the dump. It is fun watching you having fun resurrecting someone's former treasure from a half century passed,
Good job on the cataract repair. Every time I look at my Curtis Mathes roundie I'm thankful I don't have to go through such a pain.
I have never seen that before in my life, probably because I'm in a much cooler place, Michigan, and it is fascinating to watch how you do that.
Dealing with CRTs and talking about implosion reminds me of when I changed the picture tube on my old Motorola from the 40s back I'm 1970 and my buddy that liked to break shit especially glass got highly interested when I told him about how it's a high vacuum and can do that. When I was done with the old tube he got a big cardboard box and a hammer. I didn't watch. He said it was cool.
The set I got my replacement flat glass with metal cone picture tube from had the safety plastic ( not sealed up like these color roundness) all busted up and had a mark on the glass front. The guy I got it from told me about how he got in a fight with his sister and one of them threw a hammer. ( nice )
We probably had this in the sixties, us kids were the official channel changers uhf and vhf.
Nice Fiat X1/9 find :) Such a sweet looking little mid-engined sports car. Most of them long claimed by rust by now.
"What happened to this thing?"
me: It was somebody's urinal.
Television resurrections are my favorite, especially the color sets. I wanna see that remote module work, at least once!
I see you everywhere XD
I so enjoy your videos. I mess around with the 80s pinballs is all electronics i get into. Had interest in tv repair back in 70s but never persued it.
@Shango66 I've done around 10 Zenith CRTs using a cold no18 guitar string to cut the glue on the safety glass. I've even done it outside on a cold 40degree fall night. Takes a bit of elbow grease to pull the wood handles my wire is affixed to but it works well for me.
If you decide you don't want it this set at the end of part 2 I'd be interested in buying the remote control sub-chassis, tuner sub-chassis, front controls sub-chassis, and any other remote set specific parts on it needed to upgrade a non-remote set...The mouse odor thing doesn't bug me. I've dealt with several sets that bad before.
I've been to ESRC. Back in the early 2000's-2010 when I lived in the region, the FAWG (Florida Antique Wireless Group) used to have swapmeets in the ESRC parking lot. The place wasn't quite as big as a Home Depot floorspace wise back then (haven't seen it since) the floor space was more like 1-2.5 Mcdonald's buildings gutted. They did have roughly 2 story ceilings in the warehouse and tall shelves of sorted tubes with narrow aisles. They usually had a mountain of new unsorted tube caddies and boxes near the front loading door and as time marched on some of that migrated down the aisles still unsorted...
There is a time loop in the video :D
I see hard work on that tv set. Broken coils are very difficult to find., may be Shango has another chassi. I am a retired repairer of tv set and radio. Let us watch the next vids. Good luck Shango , I am your fan from Brazil.
If I know the man well enough, if he doesn't have a spare for any coils that are open he'll just find the break and repair it. (I've seen similar on a flyback where one winding was open and he managed to solder on a link to make it work). Looking forward to this next video too, should be very interesting to say the least.
@@danmackintosh6325 You right. I've seen many ancient destroyed tv set and he makes it runs. If it were I would throw it in the trash. He makes miracles . Let's watch the next chapters.
how nice is that , you find spare parts inside the TV... I just love the old electronics culture
"This is in such bad shape" he says and 2 seconds after I think he probably aught to pressure wash it he says: "this might actually be a candidate for the pressure washer." 😁
Found out about Stan's passing a week ago via VideoKarma, very sad. I'd actually discovered him via you and had planned to make an order from him, but never got around to it. Such is life.
I was just searching up cataract removal yesterday lol.
I've been there once to esrc loads and loads of tubes never seen anything like it that's a shame nice set looking forward to the resurrection video
Love watching you do that. Very therapeutic.
Wow! After watching you clean this set up, I had to go take a shower! But, I hooked, and I eagerly look forward to the next part. 👍
Definitely a good video to watch while having dinner
I bought a jukebox several months ago that I had to clean a rodent's nest out of. Surprisingly the biggest functional issue it had was the chewed up wiring harness, it really did not require much additional adjustment or repair aside from that.
Good morning Shango great video can't wait for the conclusion
Piece of History A time television was born color Set when most sets were black & White Shango066 I appreciate his passion show's in his work
Thanks for the info about ESRC.
I met Stan in January and I was impressed with the shop. The shop was going to be moving to a new location, this was weeks before Hamcation show. There were rows and rows of tubes stacked very high.
I had a ctc-16 with a nice cabinet but after fixing the chassis the CRT was dead. Got a very very dim picture. Ended up pulling the chassis and throwing the rest away. I kept the chassis for awhile put finally ended up junking it. I bought a new CRT from Lafayette and they took my money and then went out of business leaving me with no CRT and minus $60.
Can't wait for part 2!!! Please please please recap it!! Please
Great cataract removal. That will be an interesting challenge if that set lives again.
Very interesting to see the make up of the crt and how you deal with it, that box looked a real mess when you opened it.
I work on amigas, I'll be working on two Amiga 2000s that have almost identical looking amounts of mice... Can't wait to fix them.
Was it fun?
Great opening video - the work you show on the CRT (I've seen you do some of this before) is a lot of fun watching - just glad my computer doesn't have some kind of smell-o-vision. In 4K, it really does make that poop pop! Also the sound was well done as I could hear some damn saw (tree cutting?) going on down the street as well as a few kids in the background. Just glad I live in a sleepy enough town that such noise pollution can easily be turned off by me via my computer!
Oh no, I saw a cigarette ad and now I'm a smoker!
just smoke a joint, that's ok. no, encouraged. ha
I don’t smoke either.
smoking is good! - any person in the 60s and 70s
@@ticn Yeah, more doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.
Pretty sure that ad is from the 1980s. Back then, my mother smoked Salem 100's (regular), which had that style of logo. Those were also the days when my preteen self could buy 'em from the corner store w/o the clerks batting an eye (for getting a buck or two for snacks as well).
I talked to the guy several times at the Dayton Hamvention from esrc. Bought some stuff off of him over the years. I bet that Vacuum Tubes Inc. will try to buy the inventory I'm not sure how he's going to store it! Antique electronic supply will likely bid on them too them unless the kids are idiots and would rather crush them then sell them for a dime less than full retail. 😵. I have seen that happen over the years.
Crazy enough, I've never had your speaker terminal issue with RCA CTCs of the era. Also the reliability of the solid state rectifier is exactly why they went back the tube focus rectifier. Someplace I have an original engineering bulletin talking about the issue.
For a set that cost new what a used car cost at the time, It's sad to think of what became if it.
A TRUE INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR SENSATION
There is a 1970’s RCA color TV in my grandpas basement. I brought a NES over plugged it in and thankfully it still worked. I think it was 32” but I’m glad it wasn’t like this one because I do not have the skills, tools, or knowledge to repair these like you do.
You mean people actually make negative comments about how dirty some of these sets are??? Wow...
That TV has all the tellings of being found in an abandoned house.
Can't wait for part 2
Fairly amazing what them rodents can do, I am no friend of the "cute little guys"
that safety glass is a trip. Hard to imaging not so long ago CRT's ruled the TV and monitor world
Hantaviruses are no laughing matter. Best to wear gloves when dealing with this sort of thing, and even a respirator if there's not good airflow.
If it was a long time since the rats were in there it's highly likely any viruses are dead
Just wear your normal corona protection gear.
A family member almost died from that. Its really no joke.
A true International Flavour Sensation.
Epic
Only a very intelligent man can say this describing rats crap
Probably will have to pressure wash the chassis because most of the tube sockets are packed in with debris. Maybe just a light wash will work. Great repair on saving that speaker too!
Taking electronic components to the car wash, looks like something crazy I might do.
Looking forward to part 2
If kids aren't interested in a business, far better they sell it to someone who is and can capably run it.
@chris younts Seconded, I've seen it happen with local restaurants with a lot of history and regulars. Gets left to the kids who only want it to make money, and they run it into the ground. Here's hoping it doesn't happen here!
CTC16 I used to fix them in my younger days.
You really drove home about the speaker! Sadly it's becoming more regular with large collections going into skips after the owners death. They won't share, give or sell anything when they're alive then it all gets scrapped. Pain you had to do the silicone twice. Looks like the CRT he swapped out could be better than the one he got.
Same stuff happens with car hoarders, never sell anything then when they die they get crushed.
I've seen it many times they always say I'm going to fix it up.
And even while they are alive, the cars often just sit on the property deterioating, since they have too many cars to be able to properly take care of them or store them properly.
@@bloxyman22 Tell me about it, dude. This is why I love watching the barn-find videos here on TH-cam. At least we know that, more than likely, most of those cars are going to be saved.
watch this guy.. he's done some incredible things with those: th-cam.com/video/u7pNFjQw12c/w-d-xo.html
Shango if for some reason the CRT turns out to be bad even though it's testing better than the other one you removed, please, please, please show us how to do the hot wire safety glass removal.
Usually there is a high voltage warning at the start of video's......nope not here.....we get a rodent warning lol.....
You made me laugh when you pulled out the Fiat X19 ad. I have an 1981 one in pieces. Sort of like the tv set you've got.
I can't stop laughing. "Come to flavor country" 😂😂😂😂😂
You are going to become a super villain one day from working all of these old dodgy electronics
I know you can get that rca going Your the man to do it.
We had this EXACT set when I was a kid. That was in the late 60's, So it was in somewhat better shape! 😜
You're right to think about these things. I'm a young boomer, my kids are aged 5, 11, 14 and I don't know if any of them would want my legacy of audio and video equipment. But how would I plan what to do if I get the lurgy and go the way of Betamax? I suppose it would all end up in an auction somewhere but few people would know just how rare and precious some of the kit is. Except perhaps my TH-cam followers, and some of those may be boomers too!
the tubes are valuable assets. the kids are undoubtedly fighting for their value, so think it through: that stuff will go to auction.BECAUSE IT ALWAYS DOES!! No one will throw away a valuable inventory of vacuum tubes in 2020. You're worrying over nothing. but whatever makes you feel good.
To be fair, he did say the kids have no interest in it, which might also mean they have no knowledge of just how sought after it is. At that point anything is possible. Maybe a family friend will step in?
From what I've seen he'll work his voodoo CRT magic and it'll work perfectly!
18:30.. "...the first thing we've got to do is get this tape off of here..." me: "get that tape off of there..."
The car from the magazine ad is the awesome Fiat X1/9 - was sold from 1972-82.
What the Hell? They blanked out Pt 4? Bring back pt 4. Bring it back bring it back.
Cant wait to the part 2
Shango, you can get that 3M double sided foam tape in pads from a janitor supply store. It's used for sticking soap dispensers to tile walls.
Looking forward to Part II
Wow! I Remember that greasy goo that you describe as rats urine and faeces from the time that I was working as a mechanic on small platform scissor lifts. One was owned by a giant bakery and it came from the customer to us for maintenance once a year. And this dirty stuff was everywhere inside that machine. It was exactly as in this TV set with faeces, dead rats, nest materials and it even had maggots in it. But no problem, I can handle that. Wear gloves, give it a good clean and take care just like you do.
Oh, and if you're wondering why you are getting a surge in popularity on your channel in recent months, Shango, that would be because I have been promoting you on other channels (when appropriate) for the the last 6 months or so, dude. You're welcome :D.
Expect a surge in your germanium transistor videos. The guitar pedal folks will enjoy watching your explanation on using the Russian transistors you've collected and used.
On the other hand other people are like "filthy rodent nest in there? Lemme get my coffee!"
More chance of catching Hantavirus from the rats nest than getting lead poisoning from the components/solder.
This will be one hell of a resurrection.
Bring that picture bulb to Fresno for removing the cataract. It is 104° this week.
Here in New York, it’s close to 90 degrees like the one in Fresno.
Great restoration video, I really enjoyed it. Great restoration video, I really enjoyed it.
Oh yeah,this is going to be a good Shango's special.
18:56 Right on.... plus, the black covering helps protect the phosphores and stuff from getting degraded from the long exposure to the sunlight.
... speaking of the necessity of safe-handling of CRT's, I'm always reminded of this video which shows exactly what can happen if one is not careful with or is foolish with a CRT ;-)
th-cam.com/video/Qv-Ub7kgm0Y/w-d-xo.html
Shango...I wouldn't know where to begin...you're a fking genius
This is sad these things are worth saving.
One day i hope to get one of these roundy tube tvs....one day
@14:53 colour bars are off...no blue gun?
A sweat shirt, head scarf, heavy leather gloves and sun-glasses... a fella could have a good time in Vegas with all that...
@9:29 i am certain it is urine that caused that. i recognize the signature, as i sometimes spill my “chamber pot” on my television here in college, and it also damaged my tv. do not judge me, as i admit to being lazy to walk town the hall to piss.
Save the urine to dump onto communists
@@nathanlewis5682 right on
Did you video the power-washing? Is there any special stuff you have to do?
I would think the owners family will attempt to sell the tube inventory... Gary Stork was friends with the Miller Family that owned Voice of Music ... when they went bankrupt... Gary had the sense to save all the parts sitting in VM warehouses ... otherwise... VM would be a footnote in history...
We can only hope.
Oh you know the kids will just bin it