Your right about Mr. Sheen Sam. A neighbour put an old Yamaha keyboard & stand out in the street for the scrap man to collect. I rescued it, a bit grubby but it came up like new with Mr Sheen. It has good old 5 pin Midi, none of the USB to host nonsense so use it now as a Midi controller with my Mininova synth.
In early 2020 I bought a classic console “hifi” to fix up. Then came Covid, which led to my having heart surgery and now a pacemaker. Hearing you talk about the dangers of dealing with those gnarly old caps brought it back to me; a good idea for a project that is now permanently stalled over the fear of getting shocked! Feels good to watch you work, Sam!!
Really Nice job esp hiding the new capacitors. . Since you had to put the box on could you add a really big fresnel lens to the front to enlarge the screen
Lovely! Beautiful cardboard cases on those old axial electrolytics! I owned an oscilloscope similar to that as a kid - got it around 1970 or so. It wasn't CRC, it was Schlumberger, so it was Swiss rather than French. I don't know where my dad found it. Weird hybrid technology - there were transistors in the time base but the vertical was all valves. The valves were in ceramic sockets with PC board pins, rather than point-to-point wiring. The weak point turned out to be that there was (I think) gutta-percha insulation somewhere in the wiring for the accelerator anode, which deteriorated and arced over. At the time, I decided it wasn't worth fixing, because it had sprayed soot all over a number of innocent electronic bystanders,. I junked it, and got a Vietnam-era military surplus Tektronix scope with plugins. That behemoth is still in my basement somewhere, I should probably recap it and see if it will still work. The case looks and feels as if it would stand up to small-arms fire!
depends what flavor of Schlumberger it was! early 1970s, probably would have been built by CRC, which they aqcuired by buying out their parent comany CdC, or if it was mid to late, Enertec possibly, or maybe Solartron or Heath? in any case, CRC, CdC, Enertec, and Schlumberger were/are all french!
This is indeed a nice piece of old tech. Congrats you were able to fix it this easy. When you pulled the insides out of the aluminium tubing of the capacitor, I got remembered that sometimes in old capacitors there was a substance used called PCB. This is very bad for your health, so next time I would recommend using gloves or other protective equipment in case there is PCB.
I appreciate you hiding new caps inside the original sleeves. 😎 Hey, the museum needs an SAE Mk6 FM tuner with the small oscilloscope built-in! I wish I still had mine. I would donate it! I used to plug synths and drum machines into it.
ahh, the old new cap in the old can trick. been there done that, even managed to do some multi-value caps that way, but man it's hard making the space and ensuring good insulation with triple or quad caps!
I think Uncle Doug just spat his coffee out at your blatant disregard for the circuit diagram or capacitor values, but he would have been delighted to see you restuffing the caps. But this was a brave project to take on and what a fantastic result. Can't believe how you seem to be able to get hold of ancient CRTs and other antiquated spare parts for things.
Sam - Brilliant! But I do think "You don't want to being doing it like that" & "You don't know what your doing" 🤣🤣🤣 Great work mate, keep it up and thanks for sharing! 🙂❤
Hey Sam when you restuff caps make some ends for them to close them off and leave a note for someone later stating the caps have been restuffed so they just don't go and pull them out thinking they are old. Good job I've got 5 all valve scopes even one from Russia.
hey up cheers. i did think to do that but decided not to as it added a lot more time to is, and since they are obviously stuffed if you look closely itll stop people doing so :D i put a date on em tho cheers :D :D :D :D
I love rebuilding old oscilloscopes. The problem is, now I have a heap of obsolete but working oscilloscopes! Ah well, there are worse problems to have!
IDEA TO DISPLAY THE INSIDE OF THE SCOPE: use a LARGE sheet of CLEAR ACRYLIC that you BEND around the sides and top!! - - start by using some paper-board (it's like thick paer... like the type cereal boxes are made out of.. but a cereal box wouldn't be big enough... maybe two of them taped together) and you make the paperboard (we'll call it a stencil for now) you make it 'tall' enough to go from the front to the back of the scope, and long enough to start from the bottom of say the left side, go up the side and bend to the right, across the top, then bend down the side to the bottom of the right side... kind alike an UPSIDE DOWN HARD TACO SHELL (look,... now you got me hungry and thinking about burritos lol) - now use the paperboard stencil to get a piece of 1/4" thick clear acrylic (not sure what that is in metric.. maybe 1 to 2 cm thick 🤷♂ sry) then using a jigsaw you cut the sheet to the right depth, and then you form whatever screw holes you'll need... and then you HEAT THE ACRYLIC AT THE SPOT WHERE IT WILL BE BEND TO WRAP OVER THE TOP AND DOWN THE SIDES... (there should be PLENTY of 'how-to' videos on the best techniques to doing this.. I've never done it before but it seem to be straight forward... just use a blow torch to soften it (DO NOT OVER HEAT, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FIX ANY MELTED SPOTS!!! ) then using the edge of a table you bend the side down to make a 90 degree angle... (or whatever is the perfect angle for the scope... but REMEMBER YOU CANNOT UNDO THIS!! You MIGHT BE ABLE TO HEAT THE CORNER A LITTLE for small adjustments, but you WANT TO AIM FOR ONLY ONE TRY!! - - - Now the second bend is much more tricky because you can't use a table, so you might just want to use the scope.... so heat up the line that you want to bend, pick up the acrylic (it SHOULD be bendable in your hand, so be cautious) then place it on the scope and bend it into shape!!! - - - - - } BUT DO NOT STRETCH THE BENDS!!! { - - - - - this WILL cause the CLEAR acrylic to GO OPAQUE AND FOGGY AND WHITE WHERE EVER IT IT SOFT/FLEXIBLE AND YOU PULLED AND STRETCHED IT - THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT!!!! - - - MAYBE YOU SHOULD MAKE SOME PRACTICE PIECES, SO YOU CAN GET FAMILIAR WITH HOW EASILY IT DEFORMS!! - - Sorry about the caps... but I REALLY think you should have a go at this... It's not to complicated and it WILL SHOW OF all those AMAZING COLORS and TUBES - such a SWEET ADDITION to the Museum!!!!!! I wish I could get over there!!!
Maybe I'd like to find car boot sales with some old kit, maybe not vacuum tube old lol. But then my house might start filling up with stuff more than it already is 😆
Bet there was some ridiculous voltage on that tube. Reminds me of my Grandad he was a self taught TV engineer. After the war he built his first TV out of an old radar kit and giant lens. My Dad said they had half his street into watch when he finished building it. Every synth should come with a giant tube based oscilloscope in a steel case as standard imho. 😊
Not sure what you mean. This does 2 things. Blocks off knobs because it's bad having knobs that can stop function at a museum. And also makes it all visible
Not sure what you mean. This does 2 things. Blocks off knobs because it's bad having knobs that can stop function at a museum. And also makes it all visible
yeah i think im going to do that if it makes its way out of the clear box, it definitely needs a fan im adding one this week as it gets a bit hot in there haha. more for the caps. if anything its better for valves to not be cooled as they keep a more constant temp. but as you know. caps dont like it. :D
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Regarding the modern caps hidden in the vintage ones, you could also add cardboard washers at each end to make them look like they're original.
@@LenweSaralonde i could but they are fine as is. quick to replace. you dont notice when looking so all good. it took a few hours. any longer would have been too long haha :D.
I like how Sam's voice over videos are always in some strange new character, but when he's on camera he's "Just Regular 'Ol Sam"
I think it's the other way around.
What a lovely tutorial on how to repair my 1960’s oscilloscope!
Did you die?
@@Madster900 no reply.... think hes a gonner :(
Your right about Mr. Sheen Sam. A neighbour put an old Yamaha keyboard & stand out in the street for the scrap man to collect. I rescued it, a bit grubby but it came up like new with Mr Sheen. It has good old 5 pin Midi, none of the USB to host nonsense so use it now as a Midi controller with my Mininova synth.
Wonderful. I love oscilloscopes. They're so cool.
Le French oscillographe is looking splendide! Excellent travail (lovely jubbly), comme d’habitude.
Just lovely that you went to the trouble of preserving the internal appearance when recapping
I love the built-in adjustable screen hood
That is one cool scope. The design is straight out of a vintage SF movie.
We need a t-shirt that says "Lovely Chubely"
I always thought it was “jubbly”
lubbuly jubbuly!
Yea, I think you're right. Its more like "jubbly" or "jubbuly"
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/the-origins-of-lubbly-jubbly-1849756
@@EclipseAtDusk It is indeed, just like Del boy from Only Fools says it.
It's newrly Kosmos sized?
Also the tubes are lovely. So a transparent housing or exposed would be really beautiful.
Its not a burrito, but you can try eating the CTR. Genius line...
Yes, this is the SAM i needed today. Good repair and absolutely perfekt voice over!! Love it
That's gorgeous. The image is really sharp, too --- I've seen worse on modern scopes!
Love the fact you kept the sleeves and cans from the caps and reused them. Beautiful old scope.
Gorgeous piece of history...
Love that you used the old cap sleeves, looks great!
“So I’d just chill your beans about that”😂Good advice for the internet in general…
In early 2020 I bought a classic console “hifi” to fix up. Then came Covid, which led to my having heart surgery and now a pacemaker. Hearing you talk about the dangers of dealing with those gnarly old caps brought it back to me; a good idea for a project that is now permanently stalled over the fear of getting shocked! Feels good to watch you work, Sam!!
This was so fun to watch!
This video motivated me to restore an old scope I have hoarded for a long time. It has the same problem - dead caps.
Sports style commentary combined with vintage electronics - the world is on the way to be fixed!
I do love a nice analog glow.
LEDs are getting close to emulating it.
Nothing beats actual heat though. :)
Cool - I like how it looks with the megadrone.
Beautiful little scope. Fantastic that you preserve all this old gear.
Mr Sheen is the man. C'est magnifique!
Thank you, and good night.
😂 ❤ I would absolutely love to see you do some gardening!!!! Please please please please 🙏
Look at how shiny and new it loooks
Your Videos are totally educational valuable
I must get it together to visit again and see all the new additions.
Very nice. Always enjoy these kind of fixer up videos of Sams.
Really Nice job esp hiding the new capacitors. . Since you had to put the box on could you add a really big fresnel lens to the front to enlarge the screen
Lovely! Beautiful cardboard cases on those old axial electrolytics!
I owned an oscilloscope similar to that as a kid - got it around 1970 or so. It wasn't CRC, it was Schlumberger, so it was Swiss rather than French. I don't know where my dad found it. Weird hybrid technology - there were transistors in the time base but the vertical was all valves. The valves were in ceramic sockets with PC board pins, rather than point-to-point wiring. The weak point turned out to be that there was (I think) gutta-percha insulation somewhere in the wiring for the accelerator anode, which deteriorated and arced over. At the time, I decided it wasn't worth fixing, because it had sprayed soot all over a number of innocent electronic bystanders,. I junked it, and got a Vietnam-era military surplus Tektronix scope with plugins. That behemoth is still in my basement somewhere, I should probably recap it and see if it will still work. The case looks and feels as if it would stand up to small-arms fire!
Sweet scope! 😎
depends what flavor of Schlumberger it was! early 1970s, probably would have been built by CRC, which they aqcuired by buying out their parent comany CdC, or if it was mid to late, Enertec possibly, or maybe Solartron or Heath?
in any case, CRC, CdC, Enertec, and Schlumberger were/are all french!
@didgitalpunk 1973 at the latest, so probably CRC. No wonder everything looked so similar from the outside!
@@didgitalpunk I worked at a textile factory years ago and they had some machines made by Schlumberger, there was also schlafhorst among others.
Absolutely stunning!
That's a nice precision screwdriver you got there!
This is indeed a nice piece of old tech. Congrats you were able to fix it this easy. When you pulled the insides out of the aluminium tubing of the capacitor, I got remembered that sometimes in old capacitors there was a substance used called PCB. This is very bad for your health, so next time I would recommend using gloves or other protective equipment in case there is PCB.
Amazing work
magnificent, it looks beautiful.
I see you're using This Old Tony's screwdriver. Excellent.
It is indeed a beautiful oscilloscope. Nice fix.
Chill ya beans people! Nice job Sam Lovely bit o kit! Also if the museum gave me shocks i'd come more often!
nothing like the confidence of having a spare. two spares or.. 20.
Lucky enough to have a TV station who sold off surplus.. in good shape.
Stunning bit of kit that.
Nice to have a little recap at the end of the video
I appreciate you hiding new caps inside the original sleeves. 😎
Hey, the museum needs an SAE Mk6 FM tuner with the small oscilloscope built-in! I wish I still had mine. I would donate it! I used to plug synths and drum machines into it.
That's right pukka M8 ! Nicely done as usual.
Beauty find beautiful rebuild, gorgeous!
Your channel never disappoints 🎉
ahh, the old new cap in the old can trick. been there done that, even managed to do some multi-value caps that way, but man it's hard making the space and ensuring good insulation with triple or quad caps!
Very cool bit of kit!
I think Uncle Doug just spat his coffee out at your blatant disregard for the circuit diagram or capacitor values, but he would have been delighted to see you restuffing the caps. But this was a brave project to take on and what a fantastic result. Can't believe how you seem to be able to get hold of ancient CRTs and other antiquated spare parts for things.
Ah, Uncle Doug… had a lovely chat with him about guitar amp cable dressing to suppress hum. He’d be fine with a few uF here and there.
just came back from playing a gig with my band wearing one of your LMNC T-Shirts on stage. with a beer andthia vid its a perfect aftershow party 😂
I swear I could hear the "Sam, you don't know what you're doing" song playing in the background the whole time. /s 😂
Sam - Brilliant! But I do think "You don't want to being doing it like that" & "You don't know what your doing" 🤣🤣🤣 Great work mate, keep it up and thanks for sharing! 🙂❤
Awesome, I love the this video style once in a while too.
Hey Sam when you restuff caps make some ends for them to close them off and leave a note for someone later stating the caps have been restuffed so they just don't go and pull them out thinking they are old. Good job I've got 5 all valve scopes even one from Russia.
hey up cheers. i did think to do that but decided not to as it added a lot more time to is, and since they are obviously stuffed if you look closely itll stop people doing so :D i put a date on em tho cheers :D :D :D :D
Gorgeous
Lovely jubbly, indeed. ♥
Weird request but I'd love a video on how an oscilloscope works.
I love rebuilding old oscilloscopes. The problem is, now I have a heap of obsolete but working oscilloscopes! Ah well, there are worse problems to have!
Oooh, smell the tubes infused with Gauloises, garlic and coffee. Solid bit of kit.
Awesome video
damn. that’s beautiful
and good training video
beginning mine now with these precision techniques
lovely jobly
epic voice over.
Dude Ive been working with valves for decades.
Happiness is a warm tube
I’d really love to come to the museum one day, but coming from Belgium, it’s quite an expedition …
Lovely old silly scope!
"Do not use this video as training... because I don't want you to die"
Okay 😐 👍
Excellent 👌🏿
Man your so funny... "I`d chill your beans about that" ...had me laughing out loud ! ...brilliant ...your a STAR !! great video`s ..keep em` coming !
Those red capacitors look like firecrackers haha dang
Nice one dude !
IDEA TO DISPLAY THE INSIDE OF THE SCOPE: use a LARGE sheet of CLEAR ACRYLIC that you BEND around the sides and top!! - - start by using some paper-board (it's like thick paer... like the type cereal boxes are made out of.. but a cereal box wouldn't be big enough... maybe two of them taped together) and you make the paperboard (we'll call it a stencil for now) you make it 'tall' enough to go from the front to the back of the scope, and long enough to start from the bottom of say the left side, go up the side and bend to the right, across the top, then bend down the side to the bottom of the right side... kind alike an UPSIDE DOWN HARD TACO SHELL (look,... now you got me hungry and thinking about burritos lol)
- now use the paperboard stencil to get a piece of 1/4" thick clear acrylic (not sure what that is in metric.. maybe 1 to 2 cm thick 🤷♂ sry) then using a jigsaw you cut the sheet to the right depth, and then you form whatever screw holes you'll need... and then you HEAT THE ACRYLIC AT THE SPOT WHERE IT WILL BE BEND TO WRAP OVER THE TOP AND DOWN THE SIDES... (there should be PLENTY of 'how-to' videos on the best techniques to doing this.. I've never done it before but it seem to be straight forward... just use a blow torch to soften it (DO NOT OVER HEAT, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FIX ANY MELTED SPOTS!!! ) then using the edge of a table you bend the side down to make a 90 degree angle... (or whatever is the perfect angle for the scope... but REMEMBER YOU CANNOT UNDO THIS!! You MIGHT BE ABLE TO HEAT THE CORNER A LITTLE for small adjustments, but you WANT TO AIM FOR ONLY ONE TRY!!
- - - Now the second bend is much more tricky because you can't use a table, so you might just want to use the scope.... so heat up the line that you want to bend, pick up the acrylic (it SHOULD be bendable in your hand, so be cautious) then place it on the scope and bend it into shape!!! -
- - - - } BUT DO NOT STRETCH THE BENDS!!! { - - - - - this WILL cause the CLEAR acrylic to GO OPAQUE AND FOGGY AND WHITE WHERE EVER IT IT SOFT/FLEXIBLE AND YOU PULLED AND STRETCHED IT - THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT!!!! - - - MAYBE YOU SHOULD MAKE SOME PRACTICE PIECES, SO YOU CAN GET FAMILIAR WITH HOW EASILY IT DEFORMS!!
- - Sorry about the caps... but I REALLY think you should have a go at this... It's not to complicated and it WILL SHOW OF all those AMAZING COLORS and TUBES - such a SWEET ADDITION to the Museum!!!!!! I wish I could get over there!!!
It's what I was planning to do but because in the museum and heat
Issues I wanted knobs off limits. So put it in a see through box. Quick and easy
Maybe I'd like to find car boot sales with some old kit, maybe not vacuum tube old lol. But then my house might start filling up with stuff more than it already is 😆
what a beautiful thing! good'un m8!
1:34 I like the 'complete idiot' line 😂
If the whole synth thing doesn't work out you could always narrate documentaries on Dave.
I'm raging on screwdriver envy right now.
Lol when the funny accent drops out then drops back in when you realise :)
Get shocked could be part of the museum.
Hey! Nice job once again and yeah CRC is French as me yay!
Bet there was some ridiculous voltage on that tube. Reminds me of my Grandad he was a self taught TV engineer. After the war he built his first TV out of an old radar kit and giant lens. My Dad said they had half his street into watch when he finished building it. Every synth should come with a giant tube based oscilloscope in a steel case as standard imho. 😊
Nice.
What a nice training video :)
Wow that Was intens repair , opposite here Notting wanna be fixed 😅 well keep on i like
Neat! Maybe you can get an acrylic replacement for the cover?
Very nice! Have you ever done a video on mechanical tv's by the way?
You're awesome :) Also, thank you for not electrocuting yourself. Again, maybe. :P
Glass in the sides with screwed in panels, without glassing in the front and back, perhaps
Not sure what you mean. This does 2 things. Blocks off knobs because it's bad having knobs that can stop function at a museum. And also makes it all visible
Not sure what you mean. This does 2 things. Blocks off knobs because it's bad having knobs that can stop function at a museum. And also makes it all visible
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER right you are, sorry, I didn't realise you wanted to guard the functions away too but that makes sense
You make your voice sound like Santa claus lol.
My name might not be Tony but I know a handsome looking slot-head screwdiver when I see one.
Luvvvly jubbly!
Those red things ain't caps - they're firecrackers.
With every video the voice over becomes ever more Mighty Boosh Hitcher.
Talk of eating French CRTs reminds me of Monsieur Mange Tout...
Eventually make an acrylic cover to replace the metal one and add a clear PC cooling fan for the tubes.
yeah i think im going to do that if it makes its way out of the clear box, it definitely needs a fan im adding one this week as it gets a bit hot in there haha. more for the caps. if anything its better for valves to not be cooled as they keep a more constant temp. but as you know. caps dont like it. :D
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Regarding the modern caps hidden in the vintage ones, you could also add cardboard washers at each end to make them look like they're original.
@@LenweSaralonde i could but they are fine as is. quick to replace. you dont notice when looking so all good. it took a few hours. any longer would have been too long haha :D.
Let's do some Lissajou's figures!
So im using this as an instructional video, and was wondering do i start by plugging it in? And where do i stick my finger then?