I dream of owning an antique beauty. Literally have dreams. But as you have said in other videos, someone who doesn't have the knowhow and the tools to take care of it shouldn't have one.
Before watching shangos videos I never knew if I had to roto-turbulate or to roto-twinculate, but now thanks to shango I know exactly what to do!! Thanks shango!!
2020 TV set made in 1948 rounded screen. Wonderful when tou restore it all wooden cabinet and electric parts. Greetings from Santiago, Chile SouthAmerica.
I know nothing about TV repair but have watched numerous videos you have made. Started watching when you repaired a Predica TV and find them interesting to watch. Your detail of explaining what you are doing as well as great camera work makes for an interesting video! Thanks for sharing!
Black and white? This TH-cam nostalgiafest gets self-defeating at times. There's a reason TVs could be made like this then and couldn't be now. This was the technological limit of what could be produced in bulk at the time. Maybe there were colour sets, or high def sets, in labs- but no-one would have been able to afford these sets in the real world or find anything apart from black and white NTSC programming to watch on them. The alternative to owning a TV like this was... no TV. Now we've got easily available technology to produce much more advanced and versatile TVs. Why would anyone want this type of TV back?
Nobody would buy them. Too expensive, too bulky, etc. Can't compete with a 65" 4k display for $500. This thing would be what 2 or 3 thousand minimum in a cheap particle board case.
I really enjoy looking at the vintage TVs you get ahold of, unfortunately I don't have a clue when it comes to electronics, but I'm learning.thru your videos. THNX.
The warning sticker for those metal crt's: "Fingerprints or dust on the insulating coating may cause electrical breakdown during humid weather." I guess they were right :3 Please save the crt, there aren't many of those left...
I really love the ressurection videos! In fact Shango‘s videos made me get an old Philips black&white all tube tv here in Germany which was in pristine condition and just needed a new booster cap.., they don‘t make ‘em like this anymore ;-)
I hope you find a home for the TV.. If I lived in America id snatch it up in a heartbeat. I live in New Zealand, we didn't get TV till the early 60's.. so we missed out on the 'roundie' era.. its great to see such old TVs breathe again
I've seen a few Hoffman TV's, but never worked on one. Interesting that they were built in L.A., used to be a massive amount of electronic industries there, sad all of it's gone. Really cool old set!
Great restoration on an impressive TV......in 1948, most sets were 10" picture. Watching the debate on this TV was even more entertaining with your comments! BTW, Hoffman was based in your home town!
hello shango and everyone else.... this was fun, the dems like icing on the cake.... my last analog live viewing off a roof antenna with a restored 10" set was the Obama - McCain debate... soon after you needed a converter box.... I now use a VHS player, still no converter box to digital...... and yes, I do enjoy being stuck in 1950 technology..... thanks for the posting... ur a good host
Great video. It flowed nicely. It takes talent to repair & video at the same time. LOL. I would give it more than one thumbs up if I could. Been watching your videos for years. Love the resurrection videos.
Wow, that pic looks quite amazing! Can't tell how bright it is on this end, but it looks sharp for being a marginal crt. Great resurrection! Hope you find a good home for it. Hate to see it end up in the trash.
If only California was closer to Illinois, I would adopt that set and give it a good restoration. I am amazed by that set and how beautiful it once was with all that brass.
@@mrnmrn1 Wonder if Bandersentv could have it shipped by UShip. Recently Shango066 just shipped a TV to Minnesota using the service. Still it'd be nice to see this unit fully restored. It does have a good CRT and all. Here's a link to Shango's video using Uship th-cam.com/video/hKtqXxolXnM/w-d-xo.html
So amazing! You make those electrons dance to your tune! So many bad caps in that thing, yet with minimal component change (4?) you made it play, and play well. Much knowledge, you have. I can't describe, let alone do myself, the wizardry you perform, and make it look easy.
Youre really a genius! Wish you were in England!! Humour, academic brilliance how you intuitively read these circuit diagrams and have an innate knowledge of the system! I loved the video you did in a Mock spanish style house from the 20's that was being demolished, once a beautiful suburban middle class home!! Youre videos are GREAT!!! Im certain you could have a very good business in England, with your knowledge for the HUGE market here for autochange record players, valve radios, old TV sets. transistor and valve amps and radios. BRILLIANT!! Just BRILLIANT!!! Bushvhf
I'm glad this 78 year old tv and radio still works great even after 1948 and it will look good if your restoring a home form the 40s even when your making a movie set in the 40s retro fitting :)
Thanks, Shango 066. Nice video! I have a couple rolls of lead tape. My late father had them. We used asbestos paper on flue pipes. And I have a hair dryer with asbestos in it. I used it a few times before the recall. I didn't return it. I wish I had your knowledge. If only I could get a job testing tubes. I think it would be interesting. For awhile, anyway.
FYI, 8016 is an industrial number for 1B3GT. I believe you’ll see it on the schematic. It could be mistaken as a date code for 1980, 16th week, but it’s not a date code.
13:40 - old turret tuner. These were widely used in early sets and could later be upgraded to receive UHF channels with interchangeable coil sets (2 per channel). Very handy design that was dropped by the 60s.
I personally love watching tube testing. Kinda neat to see them come up and come back to life after going so long after being unused. Wish you would hit more CRTs with the "Restore rejuvinate" placebo button! Merry Christmas and happy New years shango, love your videos and hope to see more!
@@5roundsrapid263 What he really needs is a tester with a very high load so the bad tubes will red plate or internally collapse in a shower of sparks inside!
Lime green television LOL! Ever since my cataract surgeries last month my B + W movies are now in true black and white not greenish/brown. Great video.
On the cheep Chinese jumper leads.... I took my solder station into my living room one evening and soldered all the ends on about 20 sets. Now I can depend on them. Thank for the videos.
Another commenter already mentioned it, but I'll confirm: the green glow in the CRT is used to set the ion trap up correctly. The green glow should vanish or be very dim.
30:45 OMG! My dad used to use those bulbs or something like them when taking 8mm movies of birthday parties inside. He had a green metal contraption (that looks like today's sound bars) that had at least three sockets, which always had at least one open because if he used all three bulbs the ancient screw-in glass fuses in the basement would blow, leaving the house in complete darkness. Those bulbs were as bright as the sun, and just as hot! To make this vid any more nostalgic for me , the elders would have to be drinking Schafer beer in a welded steel can for which you'd need a "church key" puncture-type opener. And when you run out of cans, you pop over to the local tavern and pick up an armful of those cardboard cylindrical quart containers of Draft beer.
Love that sparko-twerbulation between that 10 kV outer anode and ground. We need more electronics these days with huge pieces of metal raised to high voltage where little hands can reach in!
63/37 is slightly superior to standard 60/40 solder. 63/37 is a true eutectic alloy that melts at 183° 60/40 melts at 188° As the melting point is a single temperature it will transition to a melting faster than non-Eutectic alloys which means less chance of cold joints. In non-Eutectic alloys one metal will melt before the other. The cost difference is minimal. I've used 63/37 for decades with fantastic results.
63-37 is the good stuff. 60-40 was the alloy they used before they knew a lot about metallurgy. Then they discovered 63-37 has a slightly lower melting point and transitions more quickly from liquid to solid as it cools. I think it's also a fair amount stronger. It's a more finely tuned alloy, slightly more expensive because tin costs more than lead. 60-40 is fine, 63-37 is ideal. Honestly I can't tell the difference using them.
63-37 is the eutectic alloy, so it melts at a single melting point, without a range with liquid plus mushy solid that you will get with other alloys. 60-40 is supposed to wet the wires and traces better than the eutectic alloy.
Bloody hell, that thing really is an asbestos disaster. Never seen such bad asbestos fallout. Normally those heat shields don't cause much of a problem.
Flir has always been good about standing behind their products. We have one on one of our trucks at the fire dept. Of course, ours is a $8,000 unit designed for structural firefighting. But they took it in and fixed ours no charge and we had had it for several years
Lol love your videos , get a kick out learning all the new words and sayings you come up 👍, thanks for all the great videos, and have a great Christmas!!
It’s sad to realize that this TV very well could’ve been powered up and gathered around for the very first televised presidential debates of the 1948 election between great men like Thomas Dewey and Harry Truman. Having it play this garbage debate as its last hurrah is almost tragic.
Hi Shango ,Just wont to wish you and your family a happy christmas and new year and thanks for all the great videos much better than any thing on uk tv. I will be looking forward to moor great videos in 2020. Regards Richard.
Watching him test those tubes brings back memories of Radio Shack in the '70s when they had tube-testers in the store and you could just walk in and test your tubes to make sure they were good (or bad, whereupon the salesman would try to sell you one. 😉)
Yeah i remember those days! I used to photocopy B&W TV circuit diagrams at our city library and then take the tubes to Radio Shack for testing. They had all tube types for sale there! I was 18 years old back then, 1974, and I only had a basic tools and a multimeter. Wished I had an oscilloscope but they were too expensive!
Shango, I would've just loved one of these old Hoffman small roundies, but I'm in PAL-land (Denmark, Scandinavia), so it would need a complete rebuild to do PAL. There's something with these small old TV's. Small enough to be a tabletop, like a more modern portable 13"-14".
3:35 The only thing left of that milky way bar is a piece of its wrapper. I bet the set will hum along just fine, like new, if you tack in a new milky way bar.
I didn't realize the amount of asbestos used in making these TVs until I started watching these videos and coming across it my self in these vintage tvs asbestos coverd wiring parts etc 💀
I had to stop near 3:07 after being shown the can dome resistor that looks like a $10 roll of dimes, and then the emptying of what looked like a goodie bag of multi-colored hard candies right in front of the camera like it was christmas. This 1948 Television is 10 years older than i am, and is probably 17 years older than even the televisions my grandparents had in the 60's. Love the green tinted glass. I usually look through some comments before watching YT videos, but i don't want to spoil the surprise. This is exciting like a whodunit...which component / components are responsible for the demise of this once working unit? How did the pioneer versions of engineers get these televisions to work to get us the goods? "Stay tuned" (ha ha).
22:10 To those of us who have childhood memories of pulling tubes out of malfunctioning TVs or radios, and going with dad to the TV shop or the drugstore to test the tubes, no, it is not boring to watch someone test tubes. Nay, it is more akin to watching someone work a slot machine, or play the lottery. The number of people who know "The thrill of victory or the agony of defeat" when pressing the test tube tester "test" button is diminishing as we slowly fade away. Side note: I still carry the guilt of dropping the paper bag full of tubes, which broke some of them, as a six or seven year old, when my father trusted me to carry the precious cargo. And he didn't even get pissed.
The 6SN7 was a very versatile tube. They first appeared in amplifiers. There was even one made entirely with 6SN7s! Its use in TVs came soon after and it became so associated with TV usage that it seldom appeared in anything else after that. The 12AX7 pretty much took over after it appeared.
I know. The Chinese also still produce tubes but the selection is more limited and I suspect the Russian tubes are of more reliable quality. There was also a tube factory in the Czech Republic last I looked. Don't know if they are still going or not.
I lost my cousin to that damn aspostos died of lung cancer but never smoked a day in his life but worked in a business that used the crap on a daily basis. He refused to sue over it, said he chose to work with it so it was his own damn fault. That's how we were raised back then.
When I was a little kid about 60 years ago, my father took our TV tubes to the drug store and tested them on their tester. Naturally they sold TV tubes at this drug store.
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Adopt This Hoffman TV, Save it from the dump.
wish i could.
I dream of owning an antique beauty. Literally have dreams. But as you have said in other videos, someone who doesn't have the knowhow and the tools to take care of it shouldn't have one.
@@donaldsmalleypublishing401 but with this one who cares it's going in the trash anyway. Maybe you can make your dream come true
@@RinoaL what's stopping you? This would be perfect in that house you're restoring
@@shango066 Send it to TN, I'd be happy to destroy it.... hahaha Fun video to watch thanks!
Before watching shangos videos I never knew if I had to roto-turbulate or to roto-twinculate, but now thanks to shango I know exactly what to do!! Thanks shango!!
Also never forget to tighten the schnurbledurbler and adjust the schmoogywoogy.
Feel the sparklepony mastercharge!
Don’t forget your gamble skogmo
On May 21, 1956 the first televised Presidential debate happened but it was only shown in Miami area. This TV was already 8 years old by then.
Love the squirrel intercept. Rain in L.A. pretty rare. Great resurrection.
Thank you Dan for all of your wonderful TH-cam videos and I've never seen a CRT glow green on the inside. That is just so cool
Your a technical genius if you can make something like that operate again after 72 years.
2020 TV set made in 1948 rounded screen. Wonderful when tou restore it all wooden cabinet and electric parts.
Greetings from Santiago, Chile SouthAmerica.
I know nothing about TV repair but have watched numerous videos you have made. Started watching when you repaired a Predica TV and find them interesting to watch. Your detail of explaining what you are doing as well as great camera work makes for an interesting video! Thanks for sharing!
Wish companies still made TVs like that.
Just buy an old one...........
@@thomaspencak5811 I have an old one, but I have a feeling that I'd be better off buying a car with 2 million miles on it.
Black and white?
This TH-cam nostalgiafest gets self-defeating at times.
There's a reason TVs could be made like this then and couldn't be now. This was the technological limit of what could be produced in bulk at the time. Maybe there were colour sets, or high def sets, in labs- but no-one would have been able to afford these sets in the real world or find anything apart from black and white NTSC programming to watch on them. The alternative to owning a TV like this was... no TV.
Now we've got easily available technology to produce much more advanced and versatile TVs. Why would anyone want this type of TV back?
Nobody would buy them. Too expensive, too bulky, etc. Can't compete with a 65" 4k display for $500. This thing would be what 2 or 3 thousand minimum in a cheap particle board case.
I really enjoy looking at the vintage TVs you get ahold of, unfortunately I don't have a clue when it comes to electronics, but I'm learning.thru your videos. THNX.
You treat us well Dan. Looking forward to watching this tonight.
The warning sticker for those metal crt's:
"Fingerprints or dust on the insulating coating may cause electrical breakdown during humid weather."
I guess they were right :3 Please save the crt, there aren't many of those left...
The green glow may be an indicator ion trap. Some tubes had a phosphor coated first anode. You adjust the ion trap to minimize the green glow, IIRC
That could be it.
Sounds more likely than X-rays, I was under the impression you had to pump far higher voltage into a random tube to get X-rays.
+ 1 on phosphor.
You're right, Bob Anderson talked about that in one of his vids
yes he did and Ive read that.
For safety lol. You’re adorable Shango. The set has an inch of asbestos dust and live voltage that probably hasn’t run since 1966. Very very safe.
Merry christmas everyone.
Happy new year!
Merry Christmas and God bless
Red and Green CRT glow for Christmas!
I really love the ressurection videos! In fact Shango‘s videos made me get an old Philips black&white all tube tv here in Germany which was in pristine condition and just needed a new booster cap.., they don‘t make ‘em like this anymore ;-)
I hope you find a home for the TV.. If I lived in America id snatch it up in a heartbeat. I live in New Zealand, we didn't get TV till the early 60's.. so we missed out on the 'roundie' era.. its great to see such old TVs breathe again
Most people in America didn’t get one until the early ‘60s. My father was 11 before he had one!
I've seen a few Hoffman TV's, but never worked on one. Interesting that they were built in L.A., used to be a massive amount of electronic industries there, sad all of it's gone. Really cool old set!
Great restoration on an impressive TV......in 1948, most sets were 10" picture. Watching the debate on this TV was even more entertaining with your comments! BTW, Hoffman was based in your home town!
hello shango and everyone else.... this was fun, the dems like icing on the cake.... my last analog live viewing off a roof antenna with a restored 10" set was the Obama - McCain debate... soon after you needed a converter box.... I now use a VHS player, still no converter box to digital...... and yes, I do enjoy being stuck in 1950 technology..... thanks for the posting... ur a good host
"No high voltage, which is no shock..."
I got that, too.
Haha
Ha ha, went right over my head, i took that at face value.
I am enjoying seeing all the radios and TVs made to work hope to see more of them
Enjoy learning about this stuff! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Fun to watch!
After watching the TV at the end... I think I want to go back to 1948.
Great video. It flowed nicely. It takes talent to repair & video at the same time. LOL. I would give it more than one thumbs up if I could. Been watching your videos for years. Love the resurrection videos.
Wow, that pic looks quite amazing! Can't tell how bright it is on this end, but it looks sharp for being a marginal crt. Great resurrection! Hope you find a good home for it. Hate to see it end up in the trash.
If only California was closer to Illinois, I would adopt that set and give it a good restoration. I am amazed by that set and how beautiful it once was with all that brass.
Great video. It really would be a shame for that to go to the dump. It's a great candidate for a rebuild.
Maybe Banderstv could do a complete restore.
@@jerryspann8713 Yes, but he is two thousand miles away. Let's hope somebody will save this set.
@@mrnmrn1 Wonder if Bandersentv could have it shipped by UShip. Recently Shango066 just shipped a TV to Minnesota using the service. Still it'd be nice to see this unit fully restored. It does have a good CRT and all. Here's a link to Shango's video using Uship
th-cam.com/video/hKtqXxolXnM/w-d-xo.html
Haha Great canadate. Haha
@toga941 REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
So amazing! You make those electrons dance to your tune! So many bad caps in that thing, yet with minimal component change (4?) you made it play, and play well. Much knowledge, you have. I can't describe, let alone do myself, the wizardry you perform, and make it look easy.
Thanks for the Flir images. Imagine how much easier servicing would have been back in the day if these had been available.
I hope someone offers to take on this set's restoration, it deserves to be saved!
I didn't know they had FM in 1948. Learn something new every day.
Wow it’s like watching tv from the future from the past.
boring to watch you test tubes? compared to anything else 'on the air', I'd rather watch this. My brain eats this stuff up.
Keep up the good work!
Youre really a genius! Wish you were in England!! Humour, academic brilliance how you intuitively read these circuit diagrams and have an innate knowledge of the system! I loved the video you did in a Mock spanish style house from the 20's that was being demolished, once a beautiful suburban middle class home!! Youre videos are GREAT!!! Im certain you could have a very good business in England, with your knowledge for the HUGE market here for autochange record players, valve radios, old TV sets. transistor and valve amps and radios. BRILLIANT!! Just BRILLIANT!!! Bushvhf
I'm glad this 78 year old tv and radio still works great even after 1948 and it will look good if your restoring a home form the 40s even when your making a movie set in the 40s retro fitting :)
Thanks, Shango 066. Nice video! I have a couple rolls of lead tape. My late father had them. We used asbestos paper on flue pipes. And I have a hair dryer with asbestos in it. I used it a few times before the recall. I didn't return it. I wish I had your knowledge. If only I could get a job testing tubes. I think it would be interesting. For awhile, anyway.
You are THE man. Nobody twinko terbulates like you do!
It’s great that FLIR gave you a replacement. I’d been wondering if they would. It’s interesting to see the chassis through an IR camera.
That CRT is awesome. Great resurrection. Someone somewhere needs it and can't find one. Cool stuff.
Shango066
Every time you surprise me, well done a beautiful job
FYI, 8016 is an industrial number for 1B3GT. I believe you’ll see it on the schematic. It could be mistaken as a date code for 1980, 16th week, but it’s not a date code.
One wonderful enjoyable watch.......And that CRT WOW what a good picture.
Red and Green glow....all you need is the Blue glow and you've got color!
I always enjoy your resurrection videos.
13:40 - old turret tuner. These were widely used in early sets and could later be upgraded to receive UHF channels with interchangeable coil sets (2 per channel). Very handy design that was dropped by the 60s.
I personally love watching tube testing. Kinda neat to see them come up and come back to life after going so long after being unused.
Wish you would hit more CRTs with the "Restore rejuvinate" placebo button!
Merry Christmas and happy New years shango, love your videos and hope to see more!
Me too. I have a tester and love to go through “junk” tubes to see if they work. It’s really cool in a dim room. You can see the purple glow!
@@5roundsrapid263 What he really needs is a tester with a very high load so the bad tubes will red plate or internally collapse in a shower of sparks inside!
Best resurrection yet, very entertaining. Live long and prosper.
In every aspect a wonderful movie! Thanks and a happy X-mas from Belgium.
Lime green television LOL! Ever since my cataract surgeries last month my B + W movies are now in true black and white not greenish/brown. Great video.
Nice to see that classic Hoffman actually make a picture again! Hopefully someone can adopt it and complete its restoration!
On the cheep Chinese jumper leads.... I took my solder station into my living room one evening and soldered all the ends on about 20 sets. Now I can depend on them. Thank for the videos.
Another commenter already mentioned it, but I'll confirm: the green glow in the CRT is used to set the ion trap up correctly. The green glow should vanish or be very dim.
Thanks shango for your high quality workmanship!
Its historical and important to show how to work on this sets.
Frohe Weihnachten!
30:45 OMG! My dad used to use those bulbs or something like them when taking 8mm movies of birthday parties inside. He had a green metal contraption (that looks like today's sound bars) that had at least three sockets, which always had at least one open because if he used all three bulbs the ancient screw-in glass fuses in the basement would blow, leaving the house in complete darkness. Those bulbs were as bright as the sun, and just as hot! To make this vid any more nostalgic for me , the elders would have to be drinking Schafer beer in a welded steel can for which you'd need a "church key" puncture-type opener. And when you run out of cans, you pop over to the local tavern and pick up an armful of those cardboard cylindrical quart containers of Draft beer.
Merry Christmas Shango and to a very happy and most healthy new year.
Love that sparko-twerbulation between that 10 kV outer anode and ground. We need more electronics these days with huge pieces of metal raised to high voltage where little hands can reach in!
63/37 is slightly superior to standard 60/40 solder. 63/37 is a true eutectic alloy that melts at 183° 60/40 melts at 188°
As the melting point is a single temperature it will transition to a melting faster than non-Eutectic alloys which means less chance of cold joints. In non-Eutectic alloys one metal will melt before the other. The cost difference is minimal. I've used 63/37 for decades with fantastic results.
63-37 is the good stuff. 60-40 was the alloy they used before they knew a lot about metallurgy. Then they discovered 63-37 has a slightly lower melting point and transitions more quickly from liquid to solid as it cools. I think it's also a fair amount stronger. It's a more finely tuned alloy, slightly more expensive because tin costs more than lead.
60-40 is fine, 63-37 is ideal. Honestly I can't tell the difference using them.
That's good to know I'll try some 63-37
63-37 is the eutectic alloy, so it melts at a single melting point, without a range with liquid plus mushy solid that you will get with other alloys. 60-40 is supposed to wet the wires and traces better than the eutectic alloy.
That's funny, I have both and the 37 63 is about useless, but the 40 60 is fine.. well maybe it's about quality not metallurgy in my case
A new Shango video and before Christmas yes👍😃
yayyyy
63 37 is the premium "eutectic" alloy, doesn't have that dry joint causing slush stage when it freezes.
Bloody hell, that thing really is an asbestos disaster. Never seen such bad asbestos fallout. Normally those heat shields don't cause much of a problem.
Also, wtf, 1 minute and 15 seconds is not enough for any nuanced opinion...
@@tarstarkusz what are you talking about ?
@@Kubulek17 I'm not sure, it's been months since I posted that.
tarstarkusz you sound like the kind of person who doesn’t want women to have rights
@@Kubulek17 wait what went on here lmao
We had a plain late '40's-early '50's Hoffman TV. As I recall, it had about a 9in. screen (green). The cabinet was better than the TV.
*"He is just all show and no go.."*
-shango066
@AkshonClips You have exhausted your vocabulary of humor
Dan, I was hoping you would bring forth part two of this old B*stard...it was a joy to watch...you are amazing! : )
Beautiful CRT. Happy Christmas Shango and thanks for making my year better than it could have been.
Flir has always been good about standing behind their products. We have one on one of our trucks at the fire dept. Of course, ours is a $8,000 unit designed for structural firefighting. But they took it in and fixed ours no charge and we had had it for several years
Lol love your videos , get a kick out learning all the new words and sayings you come up 👍, thanks for all the great videos, and have a great Christmas!!
It’s sad to realize that this TV very well could’ve been powered up and gathered around for the very first televised presidential debates of the 1948 election between great men like Thomas Dewey and Harry Truman. Having it play this garbage debate as its last hurrah is almost tragic.
Beautiful device, probably nobody expected it would run again in 2020
Love the asbestos blanket.
And the whole chassis is full of cancer inducing fibers. Lovely.
Hi Shango ,Just wont to wish you and your family a happy christmas and new year and thanks for all the great videos much better than any thing on uk tv. I will be looking forward to moor great videos in 2020.
Regards Richard.
This is simply brilliant!
Watching him test those tubes brings back memories of Radio Shack in the '70s when they had tube-testers in the store and you could just walk in and test your tubes to make sure they were good (or bad, whereupon the salesman would try to sell you one. 😉)
Yeah i remember those days! I used to photocopy B&W TV circuit diagrams at our city library and then take the tubes to Radio Shack for testing. They had all tube types for sale there! I was 18 years old back then, 1974, and I only had a basic tools and a multimeter. Wished I had an oscilloscope but they were too expensive!
A *LOT* of things have changed in the world since 1948, when this TV set first found a home! Stalin's Red Army was about to seize West Berlin!
Remarkable indeed that this old wreck is still working enough.
Merry Christmas Shango! We love these videos.
Отлично, чувак! Чуть слезу не пустил! Так тепло и лампово!
Shango, I would've just loved one of these old Hoffman small roundies, but I'm in PAL-land (Denmark, Scandinavia), so it would need a complete rebuild to do PAL. There's something with these small old TV's. Small enough to be a tabletop, like a more modern portable 13"-14".
man those things had so much more swagger back then
Happy holidays sir love your channel love nicola frome the UK
3:35 The only thing left of that milky way bar is a piece of its wrapper. I bet the set will hum along just fine, like new, if you tack in a new milky way bar.
I could see Paul Carlson of Mr. Carlson's lab spending the time and effort to restore this.
I didn't realize the amount of asbestos used in making these TVs until I started watching these videos and coming across it my self in these vintage tvs asbestos coverd wiring parts etc 💀
A very pleasing video interlude. Merry Xmas, one and all. (Happy Pagans-day).
This might be your most impressive resurrection since the crusty desert radio series of 2017.
Merry Christmas, Shango. I really enjoyed the content. Keep 'em coming.
So you got a new FLIR for Christmas, and we got to see that old Hoffman play one last time.
I had to stop near 3:07 after being shown the can dome resistor that looks like a $10 roll of dimes, and then the emptying of what looked like a goodie bag of multi-colored hard candies right in front of the camera like it was christmas. This 1948 Television is 10 years older than i am, and is probably 17 years older than even the televisions my grandparents had in the 60's. Love the green tinted glass. I usually look through some comments before watching YT videos, but i don't want to spoil the surprise. This is exciting like a whodunit...which component / components are responsible for the demise of this once working unit? How did the pioneer versions of engineers get these televisions to work to get us the goods? "Stay tuned" (ha ha).
22:10 To those of us who have childhood memories of pulling tubes out of malfunctioning TVs or radios, and going with dad to the TV shop or the drugstore to test the tubes, no, it is not boring to watch someone test tubes. Nay, it is more akin to watching someone work a slot machine, or play the lottery. The number of people who know "The thrill of victory or the agony of defeat" when pressing the test tube tester "test" button is diminishing as we slowly fade away. Side note: I still carry the guilt of dropping the paper bag full of tubes, which broke some of them, as a six or seven year old, when my father trusted me to carry the precious cargo. And he didn't even get pissed.
Thanks for all that good content again this year, Merry Christmas Shango have a nice new year.
Thankyou shango066, i didnt think it would come back that good.
Have a happy xmas shango :-D
The 6SN7 was a very versatile tube. They first appeared in amplifiers. There was even one made entirely with 6SN7s! Its use in TVs came soon after and it became so associated with TV usage that it seldom appeared in anything else after that. The 12AX7 pretty much took over after it appeared.
You can still get new 6SN7's made in Russia. I love them for designing tube audio amps.
I know. The Chinese also still produce tubes but the selection is more limited and I suspect the Russian tubes are of more reliable quality. There was also a tube factory in the Czech Republic last I looked. Don't know if they are still going or not.
I was waiting for this video (love seeing TV's and radios being resurrected) - thank you Shango. Merry Xmas to you and your family man. :-)
A great roadkill restoration.
I lost my cousin to that damn aspostos died of lung cancer but never smoked a day in his life but worked in a business that used the crap on a daily basis. He refused to sue over it, said he chose to work with it so it was his own damn fault. That's how we were raised back then.
Sorry I'm a little late but I hope you had a great Christmas and a great New Year love the video
That tube is beautiful ;-;
Nice little TV. Great job on the resurrection. Watch out for that asbestos man.
When I was a little kid about 60 years ago, my father took our TV tubes to the drug store and tested them on their tester. Naturally they sold TV tubes at this drug store.