Love this one, even with Bluetooth. And at the end of the video, before the closing, is Dean Martin's "Volare." Great song to go with an early 40's set!
Ye gods, that wiring! Around twenty years ago I got a 6D512W really cheap because it had a cracked cabinet. I haven’t gotten around to it in all this time because every single, stinkin wire in the radio has flaking rubber insulation. Every. Last. Wire. Life’s too short for that kind of punishment.
I hear you. Bite the bullet, do a few then leave it be for a while. Some, you can avoid through judicious use of capacitor and resistor leads (sometimes).
Seth would you be willing to sell the cabinet from your parts radio? I have a 6D520 I'm restoring, the cabinet is broken and has a on off switch drilled into the top.
I see that it is popular to add an aux input. I just can't see why with all the cool speakers anyone would want to listen to their music through old am radio. I just use a modulator to supply my own sound. To me these are more antiques than a device I would listen to regularly. It is cool to have them recapped and working, but the Fi is not too Hi, so I really don't play them much.
I don't think you're the target audience for these radios. At all. That's cool. Audiophiles are to the music reproduction industry what film critics are to cinema.
1942 was a bad year for Zenith wiring. Brittle as hell. I've got a Zenith record player that transmits "wirelessly" to the AM band and the insulation is 90% gone! Don't do what Seth did here without using an isolation transformer! He always uses one. Frustrating with all those problems with it but you have a spare radio to grab parts off it. Excellent candidate for a Bluetooth here as it isn't a very collectible AM set.
Love this one, even with Bluetooth. And at the end of the video, before the closing, is Dean Martin's "Volare." Great song to go with an early 40's set!
Ye gods, that wiring! Around twenty years ago I got a 6D512W really cheap because it had a cracked cabinet. I haven’t gotten around to it in all this time because every single, stinkin wire in the radio has flaking rubber insulation. Every. Last. Wire.
Life’s too short for that kind of punishment.
Git 'er done!
I hear you. Bite the bullet, do a few then leave it be for a while. Some, you can avoid through judicious use of capacitor and resistor leads (sometimes).
That's a fine-looking wireless. Battles are worth fighting!
Mr Zenith
nice job Mr. Radio, it looks and sounds great 👍
It is funny that a WIFI radios take a long time to start up like the old tube radios.
What is the wierd thing on the back of the radio. Is it an antenna? What are the spacers made of?
Seth would you be willing to sell the cabinet from your parts radio? I have a 6D520 I'm restoring, the cabinet is broken and has a on off switch drilled into the top.
I see that it is popular to add an aux input. I just can't see why with all the cool speakers anyone would want to listen to their music through old am radio. I just use a modulator to supply my own sound. To me these are more antiques than a device I would listen to regularly. It is cool to have them recapped and working, but the Fi is not too Hi, so I really don't play them much.
I don't think you're the target audience for these radios. At all.
That's cool. Audiophiles are to the music reproduction industry what film critics are to cinema.
It might help for the audience listening to turn off other radios while you try the one under test.
1942 was a bad year for Zenith wiring. Brittle as hell. I've got a Zenith record player that transmits "wirelessly" to the AM
band and the insulation is 90% gone! Don't do what Seth did here without using an isolation transformer! He always uses
one. Frustrating with all those problems with it but you have a spare radio to grab parts off it. Excellent candidate for a
Bluetooth here as it isn't a very collectible AM set.
Even back in the late 60's, these sets' wiring was cracked, brittle and, for lack of a better word, dried out. I wonder why? Do you know?