Oh my! You sure brought back memories! Nicely done. Taking a homemade impossible and turning it into a working radio. Glad to see the note that you did not trash the old audio transformers so you might rewind them later. I would rewind by hand as that is less likely to snap the thin wire. A lot of work, but have had many years of hand winding transformers and my own RF coils. Thanks so much for posting this!
I saw that there was a new glasslinger video and became quite excited. I love your work and have greatly anticipated every video you've made since I found your vacuum pump system tour four or five years ago. Thank you for being amazing Ron
For an old man in a dress you do pretty good work lol. Fascinating and entertaining. Just not something you see every day down south. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing your knowledge. Keep on keepin on.
thankyou. i cant express enough how much i love your videos, when this popped up it took a second for me to remember! in the past six months my best friend died and my electronics hobby has picked up alot of speed. trying to find sams is crazy being in my 20s and not knowing anyone in person interested in electronics from back in the day. your channel is a beacon in my life. imma keep doing what makes me happy, please keep making these videos.
Thank you so much for the carefully detailed explanation of the double reflex circuit. I really appreciate that. And of course, I appreciate very much all these restoration videos of yours. Regards, Daniele 🙂
I am glad to see you are still making content. Your channel is one of the hidden gems on TH-cam. The amount of knowledge, skill and craftsmanship you display in these projects is awesome and inspiring, and I am very grateful that you've shared it.
When I was a kid I gobbled up every broken and old electronic device I could get my hands on. If I was unable to get one working I’d take it apart for later use. I taught myself how to repair these devices by trial and error at first and by reading later on. I have a talent for repair it turns out. I could almost just look at the guts of these old tube radios, tvs and record players and without knowing how, figure out how to repair them. I can’t explain this gift and my wife is always knocked out how I can practically by placing my hands on her devices, figure what’s wrong and repair them. If I had not been totally led away from any interest in repairs, I might have made it a career choice. I use to design and build my own transistor radios too. I had all sorts of bins with tubes, resistors, transistors variable resistors and capacitors. My father found my stash of these things and threw them away. I entered law and eventually became a Judge, having a terrific career. But I still like to see videos like yours, repairing items as I once did, many years ago. I wonder how close to my young interests were yours
Same childhood interests. But my dad didn't steer me away from tech. I went into electronics engineering and worked a lot harder than I should have for a lot less money than a judge makes!
yeah Glaslinger, i loved the beautiful radio restoration it was great !! and me Ricardo sales franz gunart loved your service, congratulations, ah !! Glaslinger I'm your fan too okay, hugs
Please don't take this the wrong way. May I be your toy boy - I'm 72. Like many of the others below I have missed your videos. I don't have a tenth your knowledge and make many mistakes, like trying to tighten a live terminal (240V). It was refreshing to see an expert like you willing to show that somewhere along the line you dropped a clanger. If you believe you learn by your mistakes I should be catching you up at a great rate of knots. Thank you so much for returning to TH-cam, you really were missed a lot you know. Keep well and all the best.
I love the construction with the bakelite and brass standoffs, the tops of the tube protruding. I am still completely stumped by early radio and amplifier / tube circuitry
Glasslinger - Glad to see another of your videos! Really enjoyed the explanation of the circuit and the trouble shooting done to get it modified and working. Had to do a screen grab of the circuit diagram so I could follow along with your explanations. You have a lot of arcane and interesting vintage electronics knowledge twixt your ears Sir! I was hoping that the quality of your last video was a one off but this one is as dark and lacking in sharpness as your last one. The scenes in your wood shop are much brighter and seemingly almost in focus. Could you use more light in your shop shots as they are dark and is it possible your camera is set for 480p instead of HD quality? Thanks again for this most interesting video and looking forward to many more!
Sorry about the bad video. I am old (73) and my eyesight is horrible. I can't tell when the camera is focused or how bright the scene really is. It looks fine on my monitor when I'm doing the editing. There are sliders on the youtube control that you can bring the brightness up if you so desire. Only thing I can say to you is DON'T GET OLD! It's got terrible disadvantages! :)
@@glasslinger - The main disadvantage to getting old is that life isn't nearly as much fun as it was before we arrived here and time is running out! I will be 75 on 31 December and don't feel a day older than 90. 😨
@@mickbradford3167 I can't agree or disagree but I am 47 and life is much more fun for me compared to 20 years ago. Not because of circumstances but because of knowledge,wisdom etc.
I'm an ol' guy too... all these years learning, breaking, and building things... now we sort of have it figured out, and have the tools and the time... but the body is not willing anymore. As Ron said, eyesight is one of the victims... it is giving me a real trying time still doing surface mount. 1206 is sort of my limit anymore... 0805s are history.
Ron, don't scratch the thin enameled wires, most probably you cut it partly and later, during the winding on lead wire, it was broken. Better to remove the enamel by soldering it on tablet of Aspirin. One more trick - make about 5 rounds of wire on fingers, then twist it, you will get strong wire for direct connection to terminal (coil's wire will be reinforced by additional strands). I like all your videos. Thank you!
Before attempting to rewind the audios I used a little trick of connecting a Dynomotor or other source of fairly high voltage DC to the secondaries and a lot of times they would weld closed again usually without much loss of resistance. This didn't always work but I wasn't out anything by trying it and seemed to have good luck with this method. Usually I would arc one connection of the HV DC source to one terminal of the secondary until it would draw an arc then measure the resistance of the secondary until I got close to the proper value but don't leave it on too long or it could cook the transformer. The other thing I found that cleaned Bakelite face plates for 20's radios was Scotts Liquid Gold or very light oil but Scotts worked the best. Apply it to the face plate or other Bakelite material work it in and then use a clean paper towel or rag and wipe off the excess. I even used this on some painted surfaces such as metal horns or metal face plates with very good results but NEVER use it on Celluloid tuning dials as it will remove the numbers and you will do much crying. I strongly suggest to leave those types of dials alone do not clean them with anything other than a dry towel with nothing on it. Hope this helps someone out.
Ohh I know that frustration of spending half a day trying to refurbish something only to end up failing. The British thing to do is have a cup of tea. Excellent work there Glass slinger.
So much knowledge, experience and expertise. You should take on an apprentice and pass that knowledge on. Most of us are proficient in one area, you however are skilled in just about everything. So glad to see you are creating videos again. 😁
a trick that may "fix" those secondaries is to charge up a 500pf disc cap to about 4KV and then dump that charge across the secondary. Sometimes that serves to "arc weld" the wire ends together.....I did this on a RE45 victor magnetic phono pickup that was open. I got the pickup working with slightly reduced output, but made the phono operable and it still sounded good. Someone told me that that style of RE45 series of radio/phono with the oddly shaped radio dial opening was referred to as a "fishmouth" by the local techs working in Springfield missouri area in the 1930s.s
I found your channel via your video on making a spherical envelope Audion tube, via searches and subsequent recommendations on tube radios, which I had found after following some rabbit trails from crystal/trench radios (a variable coil, blued steel blade, pencil lead, and a crystal earpiece will do the job, if you have a long antenna -- but don't forget the safety pin). One of the attractions tubes have for me is that it's possible (not easy, no, never, but possible, as you've demonstrated) to make your own, unlike a transistor of any utility. Not to mention I can better visualize what's happening inside the tube in operation. This circuit looks like it'd be cool for my first construction project, but I see it had some issues getting it to actually work. I've got a pair of 1T4 tubes on the way (low voltage filament, 22-45 volt plate miniature pentodes), along with sockets and magnet wire for coil winding; I'm planning for a regen with an RF amp stage (likely to get an audio amp stage as well, once the receiver works, so I can drive an internal speaker), and either coil taps or plug-in coils to let me tune from broadcast up to 10 meter. It's been forty years since I've listened to shortwave, and I've never built a radio with any active components (the crystal set I built in 1970 never worked) -- but my attention to detail is a lot better now than it was at age 10.
A 1920's radio reparation, with a pretty cat. What is the cat´s name?😺 You are a very professional audio and video restorer! It is possible understand what you made, because you are allways explain de various works. Like the cooking showed on TV. But more complicated, shure! With all appreciation, from a little collector and restorer of these Audio and vídeo machines. Santarém, Portugal, Europe.
Who the hell gives thumbs down on these videos?? I admire your skill and dedication with these jobs, great to see. If I could give one bit of advice, a new camera would really improve the viewing experience. :) All the best from Australia.
The camera is a Cannon I2 which is a decent camera. It is my very amateur video experience plus I have to do it all by myself. And I'm old and half blind so I can't tell when the camera is in focus. Have to guess.
I envy your having the skill to even look at that box and think "repairable radio". Amazing.
Ron you should write a book - you have a wealth of knowledge that is hard to come by - years of experience - ATB
WHAT A KOOL 1920 HOMEMADE RADIO RECVER TEX ME MY CELL WHEN YOU HAVE THE TIME
So glad you're back! Keep going!
I fully appreciate the amount of skill that goes into even your failures. Good stuff. And that circuit is genius.
Your videos are an absolute inspiration. I hope that future generations appreciate what you have left to them. 💕
Please don't abandon your channel again.
glasslinger home maid radio Receiver from 1920s cabinet look good that's cool
Congratulations on the major rebuild and I like how you kept it vintage with the old good components and wire.
Great video. Thank you for taking the time to record it for us. Very Interesting.
Awesome restoration, thank you. It is amazing watching you easily and quickly get everything looking original, perfect! Such fun!
Oh my! You sure brought back memories! Nicely done. Taking a homemade impossible and turning it into a working radio. Glad to see the note that you did not trash the old audio transformers so you might rewind them later. I would rewind by hand as that is less likely to snap the thin wire. A lot of work, but have had many years of hand winding transformers and my own RF coils. Thanks so much for posting this!
You are the most patient soul on the Earth! I would have gone ballistic after all that work for nought on those transformers!
I edited out the"ballistic" part of the video! :)
glasslinger LOL! Thanks for these videos. They are tremendously instructive!
Your explanation of the circuit was so clear !
I saw that there was a new glasslinger video and became quite excited. I love your work and have greatly anticipated every video you've made since I found your vacuum pump system tour four or five years ago.
Thank you for being amazing Ron
For an old man in a dress you do pretty good work lol. Fascinating and entertaining. Just not something you see every day down south. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing your knowledge. Keep on keepin on.
Really neat! Particularly enjoyed the hand winding portion.
thankyou. i cant express enough how much i love your videos, when this popped up it took a second for me to remember! in the past six months my best friend died and my electronics hobby has picked up alot of speed. trying to find sams is crazy being in my 20s and not knowing anyone in person interested in electronics from back in the day. your channel is a beacon in my life. imma keep doing what makes me happy, please keep making these videos.
For radio schematics go to the American Radio History .com website and they have the complete rider's manuals set online.
Makes my day every time to see another radio come back to life :).
Nice old radio brought back to life. Thanks
This is one of my top favorite channels. So glad to see this being recorded.
Always so positive upbeat let’s get the job done approach fantastic.
Great video I enjoy watching your videos keep up the good work.
You are a wealth of information and I truly enjoy everything you do
glasslinger I hop you are keeping the home maid 1920s radio Receiver because it is cool
Glasslinger your home made 1920s radio Receiver that you are Restoring is cool
Thank you so much for the carefully detailed explanation of the double reflex circuit. I really appreciate that.
And of course, I appreciate very much all these restoration videos of yours.
Regards,
Daniele 🙂
My friend who owned a TV store and was so much like you. A huge collection of old tubes. RIP Finkbeiner.
glasslinger home maid radio Receiver from 1920s with broadcast band is good for DXing that's cool
I am glad to see you are still making content. Your channel is one of the hidden gems on TH-cam. The amount of knowledge, skill and craftsmanship you display in these projects is awesome and inspiring, and I am very grateful that you've shared it.
watch lots of youtube videos,,your the best,glade to see you again,, keep coming back
Fantastic save! Thank you for sharing the journey.
Always so happy to see you've released a video. Entertaining and educational.
Always amazed at your knowledge and glad to see you making videos.
Whoever made that nearly 100 years would be proud of you - Kudos.
Too much fun, will watch again tomorrow night! Awesome video, it's a story telling episode. Great stuff! Ohhhh-Kay'
Damn it, I got worried ... Thanks for returning back.
When I was a kid I gobbled up every broken and old electronic device I could get my hands on. If I was unable to get one working I’d take it apart for later use. I taught myself how to repair these devices by trial and error at first and by reading later on. I have a talent for repair it turns out. I could almost just look at the guts of these old tube radios, tvs and record players and without knowing how, figure out how to repair them. I can’t explain this gift and my wife is always knocked out how I can practically by placing my hands on her devices, figure what’s wrong and repair them. If I had not been totally led away from any interest in repairs, I might have made it a career choice. I use to design and build my own transistor radios too. I had all sorts of bins with tubes, resistors, transistors variable resistors and capacitors. My father found my stash of these things and threw them away. I entered law and eventually became a Judge, having a terrific career. But I still like to see videos like yours, repairing items as I once did, many years ago. I wonder how close to my young interests were yours
Same childhood interests. But my dad didn't steer me away from tech. I went into electronics engineering and worked a lot harder than I should have for a lot less money than a judge makes!
Nice work, as usual xx
The finished box looks much improved on the outside but open it up and WoW beautiful.
Wow, fantastic explanation. Excellent way of explaining it. Even i could understand it. LOL
i just cannot stop watching your channel
Gotta love that cat, he's the brains behind it all
Another wonderful restoration!
I've been looking all over for this channel. Glad I found it..
That was one beautiful rebuild. Love your cat he sounds like a child
I love watching your videos. Wether it is making tubes or restoring old radios but, Everytime your cat shows up meowing it makes me laugh
It is awe inspiring to watch a true master demonstrating the art.
I love watching these videos, ever thought about a live broadcast?
I like how you hide new components inside original components, or something that disguises it. Very nice work.
Loved the transformer rewinding details - I did wonder how practical it would be to repair such fine windings. Also love the cat interruptions
Lol......you are extreme!!! I love your work. Thank you so much for sharing!!
yeah Glaslinger, i loved the beautiful radio restoration it was great !! and me Ricardo sales franz gunart loved your service, congratulations, ah !! Glaslinger I'm your fan too okay, hugs
Glad to see you again. Great work onto that piece of history...
Fantastic restoration I really enjoyed the video. Keep em coming Thanks for posting
Please don't take this the wrong way. May I be your toy boy - I'm 72.
Like many of the others below I have missed your videos. I don't have a tenth your knowledge and make many mistakes, like trying to tighten a live terminal (240V). It was refreshing to see an expert like you willing to show that somewhere along the line you dropped a clanger. If you believe you learn by your mistakes I should be catching you up at a great rate of knots. Thank you so much for returning to TH-cam, you really were missed a lot you know. Keep well and all the best.
Lovely to see your with us again more please.
Love the wire straightening method! Great video!
Very nice I love videos that actually can teach a person a few new tricks.. nicely done.
Great work as always Ron!
Great Job, hope to see more from you .....excellent work on these old collectibles .
I just found your channel. I like to collect and restore antique electronics, and I definitely feel like I could learn a lot from you!
So happy to see you back at it making videos :) What a beautiful job.
I love the construction with the bakelite and brass standoffs, the tops of the tube protruding. I am still completely stumped by early radio and amplifier / tube circuitry
Glad you are back! Really enjoying your videos!
Beautiful job! Great to have you back!
Glasslinger - Glad to see another of your videos! Really enjoyed the explanation of the circuit and the trouble shooting done to get it modified and working. Had to do a screen grab of the circuit diagram so I could follow along with your explanations. You have a lot of arcane and interesting vintage electronics knowledge twixt your ears Sir!
I was hoping that the quality of your last video was a one off but this one is as dark and lacking in sharpness as your last one. The scenes in your wood shop are much brighter and seemingly almost in focus. Could you use more light in your shop shots as they are dark and is it possible your camera is set for 480p instead of HD quality?
Thanks again for this most interesting video and looking forward to many more!
Sorry about the bad video. I am old (73) and my eyesight is horrible. I can't tell when the camera is focused or how bright the scene really is. It looks fine on my monitor when I'm doing the editing. There are sliders on the youtube control that you can bring the brightness up if you so desire. Only thing I can say to you is DON'T GET OLD! It's got terrible disadvantages! :)
@@glasslinger - The main disadvantage to getting old is that life isn't nearly as much fun as it was before we arrived here and time is running out! I will be 75 on 31 December and don't feel a day older than 90. 😨
@@mickbradford3167 I can't agree or disagree but I am 47 and life is much more fun for me compared to 20 years ago. Not because of circumstances but because of knowledge,wisdom etc.
I'm an ol' guy too... all these years learning, breaking, and building things... now we sort of have it figured out, and have the tools and the time... but the body is not willing anymore. As Ron said, eyesight is one of the victims... it is giving me a real trying time still doing surface mount. 1206 is sort of my limit anymore... 0805s are history.
Ron, don't scratch the thin enameled wires, most probably you cut it partly and later, during the winding on lead wire, it was broken. Better to remove the enamel by soldering it on tablet of Aspirin. One more trick - make about 5 rounds of wire on fingers, then twist it, you will get strong wire for direct connection to terminal (coil's wire will be reinforced by additional strands).
I like all your videos. Thank you!
You Sir, are some kind of radio God. I hope you have an apprentice you are teaching your knowledge to.
Thanks for your very good explanation of the circuit.
looking already forward for your upcoming video!
Before attempting to rewind the audios I used a little trick of connecting a Dynomotor or other source of fairly high voltage DC to the secondaries and a lot of times they would weld closed again usually without much loss of resistance. This didn't always work but I wasn't out anything by trying it and seemed to have good luck with this method. Usually I would arc one connection of the HV DC source to one terminal of the secondary until it would draw an arc then measure the resistance of the secondary until I got close to the proper value but don't leave it on too long or it could cook the transformer. The other thing I found that cleaned Bakelite face plates for 20's radios was Scotts Liquid Gold or very light oil but Scotts worked the best. Apply it to the face plate or other Bakelite material work it in and then use a clean paper towel or rag and wipe off the excess. I even used this on some painted surfaces such as metal horns or metal face plates with very good results but NEVER use it on Celluloid tuning dials as it will remove the numbers and you will do much crying. I strongly suggest to leave those types of dials alone do not clean them with anything other than a dry towel with nothing on it. Hope this helps someone out.
Amazing work. Hope you continue to share with us going forward. All the best to you.
always love your videos I learn something new every time
so much effort on the transformers….. great Job!!
Ohh I know that frustration of spending half a day trying to refurbish something only to end up failing. The British thing to do is have a cup of tea.
Excellent work there Glass slinger.
Hats off!You sir are amazing!
So much knowledge, experience and expertise. You should take on an apprentice and pass that knowledge on. Most of us are proficient in one area, you however are skilled in just about everything. So glad to see you are creating videos again. 😁
Whoa, did you just roll your own coil?! Hat's off and lots of respect to you for that skill!
Another lovely restoration
YT has made your latest videos show up late on my inbox Ron!, I am so sorry for not noticing and I am equally happy to see you back!!!
so glad you are back Ron
a trick that may "fix" those secondaries is to charge up a 500pf disc cap to about 4KV and then dump that charge across the secondary. Sometimes that serves to "arc weld" the wire ends together.....I did this on a RE45 victor magnetic phono pickup that was open. I got the pickup working with slightly reduced output, but made the phono operable and it still sounded good. Someone told me that that style of RE45 series of radio/phono with the oddly shaped radio dial opening was referred to as a "fishmouth" by the local techs working in Springfield missouri area in the 1930s.s
I found your channel via your video on making a spherical envelope Audion tube, via searches and subsequent recommendations on tube radios, which I had found after following some rabbit trails from crystal/trench radios (a variable coil, blued steel blade, pencil lead, and a crystal earpiece will do the job, if you have a long antenna -- but don't forget the safety pin). One of the attractions tubes have for me is that it's possible (not easy, no, never, but possible, as you've demonstrated) to make your own, unlike a transistor of any utility. Not to mention I can better visualize what's happening inside the tube in operation.
This circuit looks like it'd be cool for my first construction project, but I see it had some issues getting it to actually work. I've got a pair of 1T4 tubes on the way (low voltage filament, 22-45 volt plate miniature pentodes), along with sockets and magnet wire for coil winding; I'm planning for a regen with an RF amp stage (likely to get an audio amp stage as well, once the receiver works, so I can drive an internal speaker), and either coil taps or plug-in coils to let me tune from broadcast up to 10 meter. It's been forty years since I've listened to shortwave, and I've never built a radio with any active components (the crystal set I built in 1970 never worked) -- but my attention to detail is a lot better now than it was at age 10.
Awesome to see you back
Excellente bonne restauration, j'apprécie vôtre science qui pour moi est infinie dans de nombreux domaines !!
Glass linger your Homemade receiver is awesome my friend 😅😅😊
You have the patience of a saint!!
the dual purposing of AF/RF of the tubes was fascinating for 1920s technology.
That's a nice little radio good job
Glass linger you are good at restoring vintage shortwave receivers and alignment of vintage shortwave receivers my friend 😅😅😅😊
I like that your work bench is messy like mine😜
A 1920's radio reparation, with a pretty cat. What is the cat´s name?😺
You are a very professional audio and video restorer! It is possible understand what you made, because you are allways explain de various works. Like the cooking showed on TV. But more complicated, shure!
With all appreciation, from a little collector and restorer of these Audio and vídeo machines.
Santarém, Portugal, Europe.
Awesome restoration
Awesome job on the transformers
fantastic restore
u do it so easy.Amazing!!!
great work .. and one very cute cat :)
wow..that turned out awesome 👍
amazing double reflex
You are realy great Ron!
Who the hell gives thumbs down on these videos??
I admire your skill and dedication with these jobs, great to see.
If I could give one bit of advice, a new camera would really improve the viewing experience. :)
All the best from Australia.
The camera is a Cannon I2 which is a decent camera. It is my very amateur video experience plus I have to do it all by myself. And I'm old and half blind so I can't tell when the camera is in focus. Have to guess.