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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Today, Buzz unveils his new project, a creepy looking 1930 Gloritone tombstone radio. Thankfully, unlike his last radio project, this cabinet is really good condition for a 94 year old radio. This gothic looking set has a very strange chassis assembly, that has to be
seen to be believed. After checking it out, Buzz decides to power it up with without changing any components. Can this old beast come out of its 90 years of slumber and sing again? Failure is not an option.......so today we shall see!
To close out the video, Dickel checks out the new and scary radio, and gets the surprise of his life!
Get out your favorite snack and favorite beverage and enjoy!
Music
The Beau Hunks - The Beau Hunks Play the Original Little Rascals Music - (1995)
Henry Busse - I’m Thru With Love (Richard Barry, vocal) - (1931 )
Victor Silvester - There Goes That Song Again - (1945)
Harry Lubin Orchestra - Weird from "One Step Beyond" - (1959)
Third boxcar midnight train, destination Bangor Maine.
Goddamn, excuse my French.. I knew someone would comment on that song!!!!!.you deserve 3 whiskeys for that great comment..I will pin it! 🥃🥃🥃
...old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues...
...I'm a man of means- by no means- KING OF THE ROAD...
My daddy is born in 25th november 1930. Still in good health. Here in Dalsbruk, Finland we will celebert midsommer in friday next week. I'll follow your project as allways. Regards Stig Österberg.
I salute your 94 year old daddy...he should defiantly watch this video!
Best regards to your daddy.
I'm very entertained with these sound effects
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Witty and hilarious. Shows Buzz's stellar knowledge of the country's aural history. The Hal Roach Studios soundtrack really frames it all so well.
Great work resurrecting another vintage radio Buzz.. Looking forward to episode 2.
it should be fun doing the cabinet up pretty! 🍺
Well done Buzz! You brought it back from the dead! Great job!
it was a great feeling! thanks Gordon...you deserve a free burger! 🍔
You have an amazing talent!
i am a jack of all trades but, alas master of none😪😪
@@Buzz1151 ..... and too modest!
A week ago, I was actually thinking to myself "when is Buzz going to post another video?"
You've been entertaining and educational. Has me anticipating the next project.
Keep up the good work!
Great video Buzz. Poor old Dickel!!
You certainly have your hands full with such an old radio. All those combined components in cans. I suppose it was "modern thinking" back in the day. Good luck with the restoration.
I've been busy too!! New steel roof sheets on my garage. 3weeks of hard work but up to now not a drop of water when it rains. Keep your fingers crossed.
At least not too much work on the cabinet.Thats a blessing.
Take care old friend.
Best wishes
Lynton G4XCQ
this radio is growing on me! haha ..you actually get on the roof and install steel sheets?🍺
Yes, great fun for an old fart, but hard on the knees.
lol the ghosts when you pulled the chassis. Surprised it referenced television in 1930!
haha,..ghosts are everywhere, especially in this radio. I guess they were experimenting with television even in 1930!👍👍
Oh my goodness that is one scary radio. Too bad about the globe tubes especially the blue one. I really like those tubes. Glad to see a Dickel skit.
hi daniel, good to see you again, cheers 🍺
Interesting volume and power switch combo. Simple and ingenious.
Great work Buzz!
Many thanks!
Nice work Buzz looking forward to next episode. I like the look of that radio looks very unusual to the run of the mill tomb stones. 😅
it does look unusual, thats for sure.....i look forward to spiffing up the cabinet!
Great stuff Buzz! I feared for your power transformer in that first power-up, but you did the right thing :) A very interesting radio from it's construction through to the circuit and those early components. Thank you for bringing it to us. Looking forward to the next part.
thanks edward, 🍟🍔🍺
A nice radio Buzz. If you plug it in and start hearing the cackling from "The Witches Tale" then you know it's a haunted radio.
YIKES!
Gary, you can provide some haunted music on your pipe organ. Maybe something likr THE GHOST AND MISTER CHICKEN music. I thought of you when Buzz unvaled this fine old relic. btw, does Lee have an OTR to lusten to in his stall? Or perhaps a TV set like Mister Ed?
Don
Nice old radio, but the evil puppet at the end scared the hell out of me!
thanks tim, but Dickel is now worried that you think he's the evil puppet! 😱
WOW, hi Tim, LTNS? I hope your doing OK buddy.
Ricky cassettemaster is still at it, me thinks he's a college ernginrier now, we knew him as a nerdy prodigy ternager, lol.
Old buzz hss come a long way since he was a novice radio geek in his early vids. I think John lockemeister and John joernone may have mentored old buzz back then, ad they did me too, but you and Rricky were my inspiration with tape recorders. I thank all of you, you were great teachers.
Don, a special ed student.
Aren't you at all upset that you don't have to make the cabinet on this one, you've developed quite a good experience with that job ;-)
i need a break from all that! 🤣😂
Buzz you just get lucky on wonderful finds like this and sure glad you made this video. Enjoyed it.
yay!!! 🍺🍺
What a great old radio. PLEASE keep your fingers away from that speaker cone. Cant wait to see the finished product
OK. Ok.....The Biden regime has already warned me not the abuse the speaker, or I will get another public flogging!😪😱
@Buzz1151 Not sure about US politics. But hello from Sydney Australia
Good job Buzz.
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Well Buzz, this radio is certainly a unique one from several perspectives. On the plus side, nice condition for its age. I have never heard of this brand before but, everyone and his brother were manufacturing radios in that day, attempting to fill the huge demand. "United States Radio & Television Company", the Television part caught my eye, as I think the only person manufacturing TVs in that day was John Logie Baird. Philo Pharnsworth had just secured his first patent that year and was still developing electronic Television.
The cabinet shape reminds me of the tombstone cabinets from the mid 1930's. "Screen grid", interesting that was highlighted on the name plate. The reduced control grid to plate capacitance offered by tetrodes and pentodes was a huge breakthrough improvement in RF amplifier stability, although I noticed on the schematic, the RF transformers still had a tap for a neutralization network for use with triodes. This radio looks like most of the tubes are original due to the glass envelope shape and numbering system. I suspect the 80 tube open filament occurred when someone tried turning on the radio recently, the high DC current output trying to supply that filter cap that was acting like a zener diode probably took out the filament.
when I first saw the radio on eBay, I knew I had to buy it, even as creepy looking as it is. 😁
@@Buzz1151 I fully understand your urge to buy it. Please enjoy not having to reconstruct another total "basket case".
Buzz: Another great radio brought back to life. Enjoyed the trouble shooting and Phoenix ending. Thanks for sharing.
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Very cool radio Buzz! The early AC radios had some very interesting engineering. That power switch looks like it was built to last 100 years and beyond! I have seen radios that were worked on in the distant past and they'd often wire in a toggle switch to bypass the main power switch, but all the main power switch needed was a little cleaning up because they were built so well.
this radio was well built , thats for sure! 👍
oh boy Buzz ... this one is gonna make for a swell build ! jeepers !
jeepers creepers 👻👻👻👻
Thanks for the video hope you find Dickle.
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I thought about you a few weeks ago. I bought a 1930 RCA Radiola model 80. It didn't have the globe tubes as they were replaced with some ST types at some point. I was thinking ole Buzz will be envious of this radio and I wondered if I lived next door would I let you restore it for your channel.
haha, I don't work cheap!!!😂🤣
@Buzz1151 I got it from one of my second hand estate sale Type store for a hundred bucks which I thought was a pretty good deal for such a big old radio
Not gonna lie…Buzz videos are my fave. And yes, your interactions with Dickel are highlights for me as well. Thanks Buzz!
Dan
Glad you like them!👍👍🍺🍺
Wow, for the first time I see the technical channel combined with the elements of art 😮 Very unusual and funny 😂
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I don't think someone bought this and then quickly replaced it with a superhet set. This thing was $59.50 in 1930, at least according to a scanned flyer I just saw.
My wild guess is that this was used right through to the end of the war and then it was replaced. Or maybe it broke down and he didn't want to fix it and so he bought a new one.
What is amazing is someone held onto it so long without throwing it away. It's kind of amazing so many of these old radios were stored by someone for a very long time. Hell, the guy who bought it might have been older and so it survived his death and the next person's death probably as well. It's only 6 years short of a century old. This was 40 years old when I was born.
the radio looks like its has very few hours...so, I stick by my assessment..... $59.50 wasn't much to people who had money, and loved the newest technology, just like today. 🍺
Outstanding. It's good that you upped your game. Those one knob radios are extremely complicated.🧐
i think you're jealous! 😂🤣
Thanks a ton Buzz Keep them coming buddy Love your vids !
hi Gord...thanks......always good to see you comment...it's always appreciated! 👍👍👍
Halloween came early this year Buzz! You have to break out this radio on Halloween from now on! Looking forward to the next episode, regards, Bill.
hey, good idea Bill!. Perhaps a séance? 👻👻
Thanks Buzz
Always enjoy your videos
Glad to hear it...that comment earned you a free beer! ...here you go! 🍺
Buzz
I drink Wild Turkey
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Another good presentation. Very informative. The "Ship Light" in the background looks familiar.
yes, that lamp has a long history!👍👍
This radio cost $59.50 in 1930 when new. $800 in today's money. But it had a huge chassis and rather skimpy cabinet for holding that huge chassis. Good thing you found that site where if you creaked open your wallet you could get a factory service manual. Then you did some testing to replace some necessary replacement parts and it worked! You done good.
Beware of haunted radios. They can get very costly to exorcise them.
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Very neat! To see this old classic at work! Good night Buzz...Good night Gloritone!! Would it not be great to have one of these old classics turn into a time machine...going back to the time of old radio dramas! There was a Twilight Zone about a vintage Radiola which took its owner back into his youth...to a chance to relive his life...his second chance! The episode was entitled...."Static"! I had two 1931 Majestic consoles...one a radio/phono...the other a small "apartment-sized" Consolette. The both featured a "book-designed" chassis...the tuner had the power unit bolted under it...the assembly slid into the cabinet on strong wooden rails. To service the under chassis components...the two units opened like a book, gaining access to the caps and resistors. Talk about heavy! I designed a special jig the support the opened assembly. The speaker was a "Colortone" unit. these sets were very well designed, as were the cabinets. I recently sold both sets to a fellow who is a Majestic collector.
I remember that twilight zone episode well!👍👍
Great , Buzz!
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Very nice Buzz. I’ve got a 26p still unrestored, so I’ll be following your findings/repairs along for tips, etc. Hope all goes well as I’m still watching. All the best. Don
if your radio asks for your soul or 100 bucks, better fork it over!! 🤣😂
Great save for sure Buzz. 94 years old! Wow!
yeah, wow!!
Good job Buzz. I knew you could do it. :)
you win a free fry! 🍟
Funyuns and Rolling Rock. That gnome knows how to live.
hi tim..this is the gnome Dickel...thanks 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Long time, no see!! This would be the perfect Halloween 🎃 radio!! I'd have this out in the living room, with Halloween🎃 music playing!!, so when ya hand ✋️ out the Halloween 🎃 candy 🍬, they'll see it, and hear it, too!! 🍺🍺🍺!! Your friend, Jeff!!
Hi Jeff..thanks for stopping by! 🍺🍺
Wow, Utah speakers, Fender used that brand for a bit in their guitar amplifiers! Cool!
Very cool!
Awesome new project! Cant wsit to see it done.. Nice!
Thanks 👍
buzz love this one quite unusual thanks .
thanks Joseph..when I saw it on Ebay..I knew I had to buy it!.... thanks for stopping by.🍟🍟
When I was 10 or so I remember listening to Don McNeils Breakfast Club and Arthur Godfrey was still on the radio then bout 1960 or so.
I remember Arthur Godfrey too..I remember him playing an ukulele..🍟🍔🍺
Thanks for the video, Buzz. I’m happy for you, cuz it looks as if this may be a far less grueling rehab adventure than some of the mouse homes you’ve opened. Well… come to think of it, that ghost might start making your fingers poke the speaker. You WILL have someone else to blame it on, though. 😜
I'll keep my fingers crossed, and away from the speaker cone. I don't want another public flogging🤣😂
Hi Buzz that is an unusual layout, perhaps it was made for the Australian market, David Tipton may have a view on that.
But seriously looking forward to see how this one pans out.
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Omg Buzz , I saw the description on my phone .I thought it said Gloryhole radio Corp....Well I spit my coffee out on the desk 😮 almost choked..wow boy I was relieved when I saw it again.😂😂😂😂😂
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The Amityville Horror radio. (and I mean the first one, only one I've seen)
Very cool radio regardless. Exact same knobs as the Swedish company Luxor's first, box shaped radio from the 1920's.
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Buzz, another enjoyable video, however, I would love to see Dickel manipulate the metal platting process. He might even be able to turn zinc into “z”ero bars and vinegar into whiskey.
Just as a side note, my mother’s maiden sur-name was Bardo. As a child I wanted to learn how to play the violin; she discouraged me, claiming the family didn’t have the right stuff for it. Her father, Guylum, thought he did, and apparently drove the family nuts for decades with his squeaky violin playing.
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Standing ovation for the Mr. Buzz!
thank you Mr. alphabeets 🍺
Love it Buzz.
love your comment terry! 👍👍
That energy was being burned up somewhere.
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2/10 MFD = 0.2 MFD!!! A strange way to express the value, I would have thought it had 2 X 10 mfd caps in there 🤔 An old radio in good condition Buzz, a change for you, this should be an easy restore except for restuffing all the capacitors. What a pity the blue tube was damaged in transit, maybe your radio is like 'Christine' and will repair itself. Very sad the radio took your soul Buzz, will we notice any difference next time??? 🍻🍻
hi David....yeah. I thought the same thing 2 x 10 uf caps = 2/10 mfd...strange.......you'll have to watch part 2 to see what happened to ole Buzz 👻🤣😂
tuning condenser looks new. ive been working on a 1957 westinghouse b&w tv metal cabinet is 24"x26" interior completely covered big sheets of asbestos they sure went to town on that stuff must have been 1 or 2 house fires
the radio is low hours, thats for sure, and kept dry in storage.
4:00...ALRIGHT- WHAT ARE YA TRYIN' TA PULL?!!
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I think that radio used to belong to the Adam's Family. Seriously if you did a perfect job refinishing the cabinet it would be a beautiful radio. Great find 👍
i think it'll lighten it up to make it POP!
Congratulations from Chile.
hola a chile...espero que hayas disfrutado viendo mi video!
I liked the Godzilla music in there
it's goes well with power up!👍👍
Fantástico trabalho!
obrigado por assistir, felicidades, 🍺
Ciao. I tuoi video sono magnifici. Sono molto esplicativi e istruttivi. I miei più vivi complimenti .Grazie .
grazie, felice che ti piacciano i miei video!
Those old caps were shorted!
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Great job Old Buzz! It's nice to know how these old radios were made. Have a good beer and beware of ghost.😅😅😅
hey boris.....if the radio starts playing 1930's baseball games I'm out of here! haha
Looks like a stste of the art radio, very advanced early radio. most of it original too, a real ""keeper""!
Dickel was dealing with a greedy demon-c-RAT ghost. Dickel could put a gnome whammy on it. Gnomes were put in the gardens of haunted houses to ward off evil spirits in gothic midevil times.
Your animation special effect blew me away buzzo. I'd consider this vid to be in your top ten best. Cheerz with the Rolling Rock and Funyons, BUUUUURP!
Your buddy, Don the junk collector
PS: Yesturday I got my soldeting iton out of storsge to solder the power supply / charger xlr plug of my Quantum electronic wheelchair, aka my ""car"". (Edie cannot drive anymore, she hss a Rascal mobility scoother as her car). Anyhoo, my eyesight made it quite a challenge to solder, but somehow I got it fixed, blindly? It made me feel good, so i soldered a few other things that needed doing. Maybe I'll post a vlog... long over due.
yeah, lets get a video from the junk man! ...maybe some dusting with a leaf blower!! hahaha⭐⭐⭐
What's that music playing way in the background😮, I've heard it in laurel and hardy shorts ! 😅😊
it's Laurel and Hardy + little rascals music. 👍👍
I'm 70 miles from NY City. Most FM is out of reach and Am used to be not awful but with the new radios am seems to be not as good. I was always messing with antennas. I finally got a Select A Tenna but it's awkward to use. I use Echo Dots with a receiver in the rooms I want to have radio now. If not that an old laptop with "RadioSure" a line out to a receiver. The Echo dots being the most convenient.
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Your soul or $100... hard decision! 😆 Better make sure that radio doesn't pull any funny business during the witching hours!
Dickel lost his hundred, but I settled with the ghost for 5 bucks and a bottle of whiskey! haha🤣
@@Buzz1151 Now that's a deal!
Woo! Viewer #5, liker #2, and commentor #2! This, without notifications. I'm climbing up in the world! I'm Blowzo the Humble Ham and I wish you well, Mr. Buzz. We love you :)
thanks Blowzo😂
I see you have quite a collection of amateur radio videos.
Your thumbnails are driving me to take a second look. 73
@@mackfisher4487 when you watch my video, you enter the 4th dimension, and you have to let it all go......
I'd hate to think how much you would have to pay for a 45 tube if it were bad. Multimillionaire audiophiles are buying those things up like crazy and refusing to let go of them at any price.
they are selling for about 140 bucks...glad mine was good..haha👍👍
What exactly is so special about them?
@@sterlinsilver it's those dumb young audiophiles who like tube amps.
@@sterlinsilver They're a really good audio power triode, that's what it is. Anytime someone finds one the super-rich audiophiles start hoarding them...
At first look, I could only think of Dracula and Transylvania.
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That's what they used to use at the Glory Holes.
is that from personal experience? 🤣😂
I'd watch you except for the inane voices and music you interject into the video. It's juvenile,in fact, I know Juveniles who have more adult maturity.
i don't care what you think. 😛
I knew you could do it Buzz, glad you’re back in action.
🍟🍔🍺 your order sir!
Looks like the doorknocker transformation in the movie Scrooge. To quote Firesign Theater " Hey you ,your doorknocker came off!"
i like that doorknocker scene from the 1938 and 1951 movie versions ..you win 2 free brews! 🍺🍺
Hi Buzz. Wow That's one cool radio for sure. I love to hear these great old radios come back to life. As always my friend I liked and shared. All my very best.
hi Bobby...thanks for stopping by...always good to see you!👍👍
Great work Buzz...thanks for the adventure...
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When reading schematics, the triangular symbol with the three lines is "ground" or chassis. To determine how much current the radio should pull, look at the name plate for the watts. Use 120 volts and the watts to calculate the amps. You should immediately KNOW over an amp is incorrect and could burn out the power transformer.
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I can just see Dickle morphing into Charlie McCarthy! Radios back in 1930 sure had personality... BTW I remember that Twilight Zone show about a ventriloquist possessed by his dummy!
that twilight zone episode scared me as a kid!😱😮
Love it, great old set and a nice easy repair, congrats.
thanks for stopping by jerry..it's hot here today...here's a ice cold brew for you 🍺
It's pretty amazing that they were calling themselves the United States Radio and Television Corporation in 1930, considering television was only 3 years old at that point. I bet they hadn't even made a television yet in 1930. There certainly wasn't much on in most of the country anyway. Great find, Buzz! Looking forward to see how it comes out.
hi Herb...yeah. that United States Radio and Television company made me think , was television a real thing back in 1930?..it's cool, any way you think about it, 🍺🍺
Good trivia point, RCA was not R&TVCA.
Great old classic radio Buzz, and great job getting it going! It will be interesting to see what direction you take the cabinet.
hi greg...thanks for stopping by! 🍺
Bangor, Maine isn't that where Stephen King lives? did it come out of his house if so send it back it's haunted lol
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Dear Buzz, Just think about it for a minute or two and then you will know why the original owners put the creepy radio in the attic and left it there for 90 plus years! Next it will be telling you to get an axe and give someone 40 whacks. I'll have to check with the ghost to ghost network on THIS ONE! Whooo!
Good work bringing it back to life. heh, heh!
Just one thing a long past radio expert told me one day and that is you don't want to power up 94 year old electrolytics and think you can reform them somehow. They are irredeemable! It's a good way to blow a rectifier tube and worse boirn the power tranny out. Whoops! Did I say tranny. Hope I don't get banned. Oh wait, I don't care, I'm a ghost. Whooo Whooo!
Why couldn't you haunt my radio, instead of the lowlife greedy ghost haunting it now? 🥃🥃🥃🥃
Great job Buzz, I have a couple of radios from about 1930 that don't work, maybe for the 4th of July I'll hook them all up to a power strip and turn on the power as all they do is smoke anyway, and celebrate the 4th of July will fire works!!
if you do, make a video of it.....it would make a great 4th of July! 👍👍
Watched another video of yours with copyright music on the channels and TH-cam has not blocked it.
I note you credit the performers in your description. Did you have to get permission from the performers? or is it permissible to use the short excerpts as long as you add the credits? Thanks.
the copyright owners monetize the video in return for me being able to use it.
Great job, Buzz! Your detection abilities are supurb! Dickel is a dummy no matter a ransom or not!
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Is that a bottle-opoener or a coin slot on the front of the radio? (lol ... I just started watching the first minute ...)
yes. it's a slot machine and radio! 😁
Nice restoration, there, Buzz. Look forward bro seeing the rest!
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Beautiful
yes you are! 😎
Buzz I have that exact model in my collection !
hi richard...send me a picture of yours, and i will post it in part 2 ok?
buzz1151@comcast.net
That's a very interesting radio! ❤
creepy too!👍
luck its not glori hole
what's a glory hole?
Nice Buzz!! You were due for one that didn't fight you tooth and nail!
yes, it's wonderful, that I won't have to use glue on this radio , hahaha🤣👍👍👍
Buzz I can't believe you dont have a dim bulb tester. I do love your videos, keep them coming!
i do have one, but the variac is more fun!👍
@@Buzz1151 oh my mistake, cant remember you using one in a video. My set up is isolation transformer into variac into dim bulb into radio. I believe it saves my radio from damage.