RESTORING A PHILCO CONSOLE RADIO
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ต.ค. 2023
- Back to doing videos again after a bit of house remodeling. This session we restore a 1937 Philco console radio. It is completely dead, not a peep from the speaker. The cabinet is in very good condition so it is worth doing.
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I love watching these old restorations, when we were kids me and my brother would stare into the back of the radio to watch the glow of the tubes and the smell of the electrics warming up LOL God I miss those days, thanks glass slinger for the memories
Proprio come facevo io con un bel INCAR 8 VALVOLE E FINALE POSH POOL.
I did too, back in the early 80s
@@chrisingle5839.......io lo facevo, invece, 80 anni fa !!
Use to play with television with the back off. Miracle wasn't shocked.
Finally! Now I put down everything I was doing, grab my popcorn, and enjoy 1 hour of relaxation!
As happy as I am to see you do a new resto- I'm equally happy to see a new frock. KEEP BEING YOU!
No, actually they are Ron's own distinctive work overalls, for Ron likes to show his legs off. So carry on, Ron, we like you as you are...a very-very clever man.
O my god!! Long time no see, Welcome back my friend!!
Please do some more glass work videos. I just love your work making tubes!
Thanks Ron, another lesson in how it should be done. Good to see you post another video. Best wishes from the UK
so good to see you back - had missed you and was getting concerned for your health
Most enjoyable 1 hour and 16 minute commercial free entertainment in months. Bravo!
34:27 “I remember back in the ‘60s I was paying $25 a joint”. 😂
Great to see you. Lovely radio and a handsome helping cat. No TV for me this evening.
Nice to hear from you!! Hope you are well!!
Thank you so much for the videos you make. You have a true talent and you are an absolute master at what you do. Not to mention your videos are both calming and funny. My husband and I love watching your videos and your kitties are so cute!
I missed you! Glad to see you again Ron. Nice radio came out good! Love your cat.
Always love to see you at work, not messing about and not being stupidly cautious about voltages, yet giving great tips and sharing experience. All the best from The Netherlands. Looking forward to the next one.
Great outfit today. Love your work outstanding as always. Keep up great work.
Good to see you back on here! Love these old radios.
Glad to see you back. Always look forward to your vids. Wishing you well, Ron: from another Ron in Liverpool uk.
Haven't seen you here for a while. Glad you are doing ok,really enjoy your videos..
I've never seen a rectifier valve mounted to the transformer before, what a cool design idea.
Looks great.
I've seen it on TVs
Philco was known to do that in chassis for quite a few years.
Love this gentleman, he is very sweet and a beautiful person and I just love it, thank you my friend.
My name is Laurajane, I have started to watch your videos and are fascinated by them. My Opa had a radio very similar to this one that you have just completed. That really brought back some really pleasant memories, I live in New Zealand, and we have a habit of repairing a lot of things because of cost or mainly because they are so hard to come by. Take care, regards, LJ
I guess there are advantages and disadvantages wherever we live! Here in the USA, especially Houston TX which is where I am. Everything is easily available here, even stuff from China and Russia. Well, until recently of course. Shipping to New Zealand is outrageously expensive for some reason.
Great to see you again :):):)
Glass linger your antique philco console tube shortwave radio is awesome my friend
A shock a day keeps the doctor away. Another amazing restoration.
another nice restore and great video Ron. Enjoy all of your vids... Much appreciated and thanks...just be careful of those shocks...
Yet another old set resuscitated and given a makeover! Good job you have a LOT of spare parts hidden away in that attic!
I need an autobiography video or something. I think you might have a very interesting life story.
Good to see you back Ron, always love your videos
Sorry so late. Happy Christmas and New Year from England. I enjoy your rebuilds a lot, it's nice to see the past come alive. Keep up the good work. Best Regards.
The timing on this video being posted is wonderful! I just pulled this exact model out of storage and am looking into how to go about repairs, thanks for the upload, and rock on!
Very nice to see you again. Transformer with octal socket. Cool. Love your work. ♥️🌹©️
Always good to see Ron at his bench, looking forwards to any new videos where Ron make new radio tubes.
Me encanta cuando sonríes porque eso indica que disfrutas restaurando radios antiguas. A mí me pasa también. Un saludo desde Alicante.
great to see you back ron :)
Sending all the love Ron! What a sweet radio!
Geeat to see you still bringing these beauties back to life!
Ron, you rock!
I saw Assholetone open for Dexy's Midnight Runners back in 85. 😅
I don’t have any problem with wearing a dress at all as a matter of fact I love it. It’s great to see. I was just wondering if there is a story behind it? Or maybe a video on it
I dont know how i havnt seen your channel yet but im glad i found it. You are a master with this stuff. I just subscribed.
Well done fantastic restoration thanks for that video!
Nice one Ron even made the balsa wood look good .
Really enjoyed watching you work again . Haven't seen you here for a while. Nice radio. Surely worth more than 50. Here in the UK it would bring much more in that condition . Would need a transformer for 240 volts though. All the best Ron .
Good job again. Love your work.
I get a big kick out of your no nonsense approach to things, happy new year
Great job Ron! I love that 30 Ma power supply and the other ones you've built. The Sprague .05 yellow cap is 1960's vintage. I have ones like it in my early 1963 Johnson Invader 2000.
Beware of that cap! They dry out inside and lose capacitance. They don't short out, just become useless over time.
I've replaced mine. I've heard the orange print ones last a lot longer, but I don't take chances as they're cheap to replace with modern components. Thanks for the warning.@@glasslinger
Hey, Ron, I was beginning to think you had retired! Glad to see another video.
Great video on this one Ron, keep em coming !👍
Cheers
Nice job. I do the same with very old valve and early germanium transistor amplifiers. It's good fun and very rewarding to restore otherwise a scrap item.
You did a nice job, as always.
Welcome back. Missed your videos. Thanx Ken from gpt ms.
Another great repair keep them coming Ron
Bellissima radio ed eccellente la riparazione. Complimenti egregia Signora. Un saluto❤
Happy to see you again, if I can restore radio and blow glass today is thanks to you Ron :)
Hello 'Glasslinger' Thank you for the video! Nice one.
I've got 25 radios that need your help! LOL! just great work! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Great job on the Philco. The early designs are somewhat intimidating to me.. take care thanks for sharing
And i love electronics. I quite often are doing the same thing u r doing.
Mr glasslinger your vintage philco console tube radio has two bands brocast band shortwave band is awesome my friend 🎉🎉🎉
Made my day. Thanks Ron!
I bet ya Carlson would fiddly doodle around installing a fuse....Just kidding.. Love ya! Thanks for the vids!!
50 bucks. I'll send you money man that is so cool you teach me a lot of little tricks. And amen on the Weller guns my dad used em. I use them. Thank you for the lessen in older radio work ©️🌹♥️
Someone just gave that to you? I must go to all the wrong places 😂 I've been hoping you'd make a video again soon!
Just bent up a piece of thick copper wire from old electrical wire to use as a solder iron tip. Works ok but does not last long, but no cost.
Yes, I USED TO use pieces of #10 wire from romex. Now I'm old enough and have enough money to buy real tips! The money is rotting away fast so why not spend it on something useful while I still have some! :)
I totally agree with you. Thank you for your excellent videos.
I used to do that when I was a kid. One tip I sort of stumbled onto was that when it burned through, I would grab the two end with pliers and twist them together 3 or 5 turns and then snip the ends off making a sort of chisel end. They would last forever when I did that.
Glass linger you are good at restoring antique radios and alignment of antique radios my friend
Muy bueno lo que hace maestro,excelente trabajo.que pase una feliz navidad y un prospero año nuevo.adrian de argentina.
Great job as usual Ron
Looks very nice, Ron.
Ron, on your Weller soldering iron: When I was a kid, my Dad bought me the 100/140 model and I kept wearing out the tips and he was getting tired of buying them. So one day, I was desperate and made one out of 14ga. house wiring and like it so much better that I've never bought a factory one since. Now the trick to making them last is to slightly crimp the two-lines where you actually solder, so that all of the current isn't in the hoop (this is where most people make the mistake). After that I made hot-knives and all manner of custom tips. For your 250W, I use 12ga. wire and it works out really well. You will find that these tips heat-up so much faster and you have to learn to throttle them a bit. And, they get really hot so soldering directly to a chassis is not a problem. I still have my 100/140 Weller and it has never failed me; even the light bulb still works after 60-years!
Great tip on determining which antenna port is for what band; very few people know that one so Bravo!
On using a scope for high-voltage: I made a divider out of an old highlighter barrel and use it to divide down by 10; you can calculate the divider network based upon your scope's input impedance, if you need it to be real accurate. I also made a 100:1 to be able to measure and look at the 2nd anodes of CRTs. It just scares me too much, knowing how those probes are built inside to trust my scope to them!
Anyway, you probably know about all this anyway, but great to see you in the shop.
Happy Halloween as I'm sure you'll be out Trick-or-Treating--LOL!!! 73...
Hi miss you you know how to fix any thing. I. Wish I could be with you in your shop and learn from you. When I was a kid I work on ,t,c. Radios. Slef taught. Yes I I bee tossed out from behind the TV, I was working on. After I learn what I could from reading books. I went to school for a wile. All they wanted. Was more money, to tell me what i already knew. We had CB' now I made friends with them he was like you ! I learned morn from him ,than school . Went in the army did a lot in their School. Now 78 it's my Hobby. Most radio. No fun with new ones, just new bord that plug in. This why I love watching you, you have fun with what ever you working on . Thank You for your time. ,this and law , I wanted to be morter officer ,.Dad said no. Cars. He knew even one badge #1. Thank You just keep making video s ,so I can learn and Remer. TAKE,CARE. HAVE A NICE. DAY. OLD DAN.
always learn something....thanks for the videos
you are a true renaissance man
Great video as always,love watching them! For fifty bucks I'd definitely take the radio. Farm radios and these big ones are impossible to get here. !looking forward to seeing your next video
Glass linger your utube videos are awesome my friend
Oh! yeah glaslinger adorei ver a Restauração do rádio Philco, ficou lindo, & funcionando muito bem
Oh! yeah glasslinger loved seeing the Restoration of the Philco radio, it looks beautiful, & works great
Big Clive pioneered checking for stored charge on capacitors with the finger test.
Hi Ron your friend Dave from up North and amazing video it was nice to see a professional restore that radio like your work I retir😂ed from it myself I was a radio TV man thank you for the video I enjoyed it very much may God bless you and keep you safe 1:16:29
Nice work Ron. This one gave you a pretty good fight for no more than it was worth lol.
Radio restoration is a work of love: certainly no profit in it! :)
@@glasslinger I know that’s right lol
Ron, please explain how you get the sand out of the tuning capacitor bearings and wipers, and from inside of the potentiometers. The last thing I want inside a radio is grinding grit. No, the tuning capacitor wipers ("fingers") only contact the rotor shaft to connect it to chassis/circuit ground in multiple places. The stators are fixed in place, they do not move, each being connected by wire to its individual stage, such as antenna, mixer and oscillator stages (this is for novices to know). The wipers DO need to be lubricated with a electrical grade grease (no lithium soap) for them to maintain low contacting resistance by remaining free of corrosion. A paper capacitor "over 20 megs is good"? No way! It better be over 500 megs if you want it to last. Remember, leakage increases with temperature exponentially. In the case of capacitors polarized with high DC voltages and the radio is nice and hot a 20 meg insulation resistance capacitor at room temperature would be down around 5 megs or lower at operating temperature. A high leakage current will also cause heating of the capacitor. The heat will cause further insulation deterioration by electro-chemical reaction. Eventually the capacitor will drop to such low resistance resistors will start burning and possible other damage will occur (for novices to know). Well, you're not a completely incompetent old far, Ron. You're just a rush-to-get-the-job-done old fart.
Sthap pleeeze
Hi! I like how you video yourself working, you look like you have been doing this stuff a very long time. Take care Brendan
Ron I made your electronic circuit breaker, and it sure increased my bench capability. Would also be interested in the internals of your custom bin module for the Tek rack.
I do my fuses the same way. I keep the end I'm slobbering down so the fuse doesn't melt. I have a 1930's slobbering iron I think it's about 200-300 watts that I absolutely love. Way better than my 250 Weller gun. However, you should try using 14 gauge solid house wire for your tips. You can bend them how you want and a LOT cheaper. I won't go back to buying tips. I even make my own slobbering iron tips. Right down to using a metric die to thread them for the iron. You can make them into different shapes for your own purposes and pry "guilt free" on components not having to worry about ruining the coating on the tip.
The only time I've seen UV glue is at the dentist. Nice to see it's available to the public.
29:45 "They're way the hell up there". 😂 I love all of your videos.
Goeszonta lmao thank you for the smile. Love your channel.
Mr glasslinger you utube videos are awesome my friend 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I restored a 1937 model of this set back during covid for a family member. Without having watched this through to the end I noticed it doesn't have that duel wire antenna these were known to have come with; they pivoted like those on Zenith sets 😊
Great video thank you.
I friend of mine got one of these in 1994. He brought it up on a variac over nite and it worked fine.
Think this a Philco model 37-610J. Only write that since it has a large shadow meter dial and the center bottom knob is
offset to the other two knobs. Boy it needed help. That was a really good coverup on the balsa wood patches Ron.
It was priced right and so much better than going to a landfill.
To clean radio knobs of encrusted dirt, I use an old toothbrush and some liquid dishwashing soap. They look perfect after a little scrubbing.
If i'm not mistaken, the model number has the first two digits is the year it was made. I have a 42-380 Philco. So it was made in 1942 .
You are correct!
Technically, your radio would be for the 1942 model year, meaning your radio could have come out in the last few months of 1941, just like the 2024 cars are out now even though it’s still 2023.
@THOMMGB it's a console my great aunt had for her family. The transformer was reached and I found a different chassis for it at a estate sale of an old tv tv shop in Marion ohio. She must have been looking over me on that one. I had it repaired. It's got the old fm band to 100 kc and shortwave and am with a reproduction escutcheon. Does that model make it worth more?
@@jockoharpo2622 It’s probably not worth any more. Usually, a complete all-original radio is what collectors look for. The important thing is, are you happy with it and do you enjoy it? It’s a part of your family history. Take care of it if you can.
so nice job
its a delight to watch an Elmer work his magic. on that balsa patch. try 'poly shade' polyurethan with stain combined. it doesn't soak in like stain but instead tints the poly. basla is a sponge ,so controlling color is hard
Wow Welcome back sweetheart? I'm Happy to see you back in a video! I see your beautiful kitty is still helping you. >>>> IF ANYONE that can post pictures on the channel I been trying for 7 months to send this beautiful Lady a picture of a BIG tube that she has NEVER seen like this one. If anyone could post a picture for me i would really really appreciate it..... Thank you all And Thank you sweetheart for another great video......
Sir i wish i could help you out. I hope someone will let you post your special tube. I would love to see it my self.
Hello sweetheart? i just popped in to check on you, And i wanted to wish you a very Marry Christmas. I hope your year was a fulfilled one with all kinds of dreams answered for you. God Bless have a great week......
Love your videos. Thank you!
Hello a very good video too❤😊
I enjoy your videos I think that’s great
For Soldering gun tips I would use hard copper wire #12 or #10 purchased from the craft store (or ebay), bend it to shape and it made good cheap tips for the soldering gun. You could try Electrical wire but I thought it is too soft.
The Weller commercial tips are made with metal that does not dissolve in liquid solder as fast as bare wire. I have tried both and the tips win out every time.
Very cool 💯 😎
Eliminate the phono input? Well that's no good. :( I do appreciate the work you're putting in to saving this though. :) And, as you said, for a $50 radio, you've done well by it.
I think this exact same chassis is used in a Philco 620 tombstone radio. I found one of ose at the County Fair one day when it was pouring rain. A few notes about these that you may find helpful:
(1) The tuning capacitor is mounted on three soft rubber grommets of non-standard material and shape. Most of those are now rock hard or crumbled. It's kinda hard finding suitable replacements. I forget where I found some. Maybe at an auto parts store.
(2) The wire insulation is rubber, also very crumbly. Try to avoid moving the wires.
(3) Many Philco radios of this time had a weird power supply where the capacitor is NOT connected to the chassis. The capacitor has often been replaced by now, often, like more than half the time, incorrectly with the negative end connected to the chassis. This makes the audio very mushy and overheats the power transformer and output tube. If the transformer has leaked out a lot of wax, that's very commonly caused by the capacitor being miswired. Check the audio output tube grid to cathode. It should have like -15 to -25 volts. Low or zero volts probably means the filter capacitor is miswired. Cathode to chassis should read at least 220 ohms.
Yes!
Why do you not place cap sleeves for protecting from shorting?