10:50 better than any video I've tried to make. It's definitely not easy. You do great work. Fun and educational.. The videos often make me feel like I'm there at your side involved in the inspections and repairs. Not easy to do.
I have a set like that one, and was built in july of 1965/ brown in color. I bought it in march of 1974, and yes it has been a very reliable T.V. set!!!!!.( built in the U.S.A.)
Such good memories. Our family had the 19 inch version of this "portable" for many years. It even had the circle with the "19." High hours for sure because it lasted forever. We watched and had it repaired until the wheels fell off, and my father brought home our first color TV circa 1976 when I graduated high school. When you were monkeying with the set, i was screaming at my phone, "Jiggle the channel tuner!!!" . We went through many different size and shape knobs for the tuner. And the rolling vertical brought back memories of me having to monkey with the vertical control knob behind the set while my face was plastered close to the screen in order to watch anything. I love the admiral brand. I bought my house in 1998, and the house came with an "Admiral Food Locker" 18.5 cu ft NT19L9 refrigerator that is still going strong 27 years later in 2024. I did replace the (mechanical) defroster timer and had to defrost an iceberg once. My wife keeps saying she wants a new fridge but nothing is broken not even the plastic inside.
@8:32 - Not completing your sentences - that's the kind of stream of conscious rapport that I have come to enjoy so much. That's the very same reason that I used to enjoy listening to Michael Savage back in his early days. Rapid-fire banter that often let the listener subconsciously fill in the missing words. I hope you don't change that aspect of your productions.
When I grew up we had a Sylvania 19" with a walnut veneer cabinet which was our main TV. It must be a relatively rare model. I've been looking for another for years but have never seen one like it, even online.
22:11 cool night light. better than a fridge magnet. Reminds me of my grandmothers camp as a kid, she had neon night lights everywhere... Little white things that looked like a miniature castle... I believe they were pretty common, i may have even seen you show one when digging through old junk...
Almost typed a comment about the possibility of radium in the clock dial. Also, thanks for another term for my electronics lexicon: "Japina". Good thing I wasn't taking a sip of water at the moment you said it. 😁
I love watching these TV videos. I've been working on televisions, both flat panels and tube televisions, I'm working on, (I put a video up about it) that already have parted out, it was making a "ticking noise" it's a Rear-Projection 55" it was working for years. I'm not getting rid of it, I know the tubes (3 separate tubes) still fire, the speakers work, the wood it's cased in, I call it "pinball wood. If you view the video you can see the main power board, the flyback, or a relay was making the ticking noise.
I have the 19" version of this set. It just worked when I picked it up a few years ago, the seller just fired it up right in front of me. The 33gy7 (horizontal out/damper) in mine looked exactly like that. I did a recap of the electrolytics and the Elmencos. Despite the B A K E D tubes the picture bulb is still bright and strong.
I obtained a number of free tube replacements from RadioShack because of the warrenty before they ended their vacuum tube sales program. I remember walking into my local RadioShack and seeing a half dozen remaining tubes stacked on the shelf behind the counter as it was ending. A sad day. I recently bought some tubes from an Ebay seller and some of them are the Realistic lifetime tubes.
I remember from my childhood Radio Shack days that the NE-2H (H for high output) neon bulb used the 22K, while the regular NE-2 used a much higher value resistor (probably around 180K like you mentioned.)
Greetings from LA this week... I was in town for some TV tapings and I brought my USB TV tuner. I can see why some converter boxes get overwhelmed by the number of OTA channels in this market. The traffic is also constantly awful.
16:33 for those Nickelback fans who really enjoyed listening to them on every rock FM station every time you turned on the radio in hopes to hear them. Lets see what was on MTV.
I got this exact same set but in a more fashionable green a few years back from the local thrift. Also worked perfectly as found. They look foreign, but the components appear American made to me. Cheers!
Radioactivity decreases the further you move from the source. Try testing it at least a foot away. It should be OK. The worst is you may light up like a nightlight one day. Sarcasm is a dish served often here. For instance , I come to watch ads and infomercials on old B&W TV's here on the Shango channel! LOL
You can make a very good nite light if you take a regular LED bulb (make sure it's a capacitive dropper instead of the electronic ones), Remove all the bleed resistors (like the ~1Meg across the input series cap, and the ~10k across the main filter cap). Then replace the input series cap from the ~1uF value to around 10nF to 47nF... It draws around 0.05W and is much brighter than the neon ones which draw closer to 0.25W
Hey Shango great short video unfortunately TV is not like it used to be so much garbage on these days. I normally just watch a few You tube videos. But this time no Crape Erase for my health or other shopping crape to buy. But thanks for great Saturday Morning Coffee day Nice to see you again.
Mr. Carlson did a video like this not long ago. It got me excited because he doesn't normally fix TVs. It turned out to be a disappointment because he too selected a TV that didn't have anything wrong with it. Friends don't let friends make repair videos about stuff that doesn't need to be repaired. I liked the neon lamp segment; however, you could have padded this out a little more. For example, test the picture tube so we can see what a working but high hour picture tube looks like on a tester. Then put a brightener on it so we can see what difference doing that makes. Stuff like that. We wait a week for a video, you got to give us something with a little meat left on the bone.
That clock at the beginning is still hot (I think the half life of radium is 80.2 years?) That tube with the red socket looks like the rectifier. Lots of pins for a high voltage id think it'd arc to the others making it dim
While a tripod would make some stiff simpler for you i actually like the styles of your videos. Being able to see up close in first person like view of the insides of tvs / radios. You just dont get the same amount of detail in tripod videos
I'm curious to learn more about the use of a light bulb in the circuit on startup. Is this a substitute for using a variac? I know I've seen it explained in one of your videos, but can't locate it. I'm just getting back into vintage TVs myself after picking up what looks like a very low hour 1959 Silvertone Medalist model 9186A. I haven't touched a set since the 80s... it was my hobby as a teenager
It's a "wow" find... It looks like a very tortured, unused for long set and it lights up, perfect geometry, obviously the IF is in a perfect shape, because vertical resolution is really good, everything is sharp. The only obvious issue is that circuitry (capacitor) that shuts off the crt glow after turning the set off. By the way, the neon bulbs at the end were used everywhere. For instance, they were used as indicators of the selected channel in old Russian hybrid color TVs from late 70s and 80s. The strange thing about them was that they were not only indicators, they were also part of the memory circuitry that retains the selected channel after pushing the corresponding channel. One model that used that circuitry for a channel selector was Electron 738D (Электрон-738Д), a monstrous hybrid color set with which I grew up, produced in 1983 and it was used for 22 years.
Hey hoping you’ll see this, I have Silvertone 2072 Stereo/Radio that I just purchased. I don’t know if it works, but from looking inside I think the main and secondary amp/capacitors are leaking. I don’t really know how to repair any of the components. I’d just like to be able to play records with it. Could I send it to you for repair?
16:08 I would have lost it if Shango said "Ooooo--ooh, a pearl necklace!" They'll get you for showing Laramie! As always, I look forward to my weekly dose of Shango, with the only "woke" being picture tubes waking up.
Have you ever done a video of how a TV or radio actually functions? I understand a lot of the diagnosis that you do but I'm lacking in understanding of how a signal gets transformed into picture or sound
You have a carrier frequency that carries the modulated signal that then gets amplified and demodulated in the radio/television. Image in televisions works the same way as AM radio. To put it VERY simply if we had a signal level from 1 to 11, 1 would be white, 10 would be black and 11 would be a sync pulse (darker than black so it wouldn't show up on the television screen) which tells the electron beam to move to the next line or start drawing the next frame. I might be wrong but that's how I understand it. Also fun fact it takes 64microseconds for the TV to draw one line (63.55 for NTSC)
7:39 You can still hear the horizontal at 15 kHz? You must be much younger than I thought. I thought you were older because many of your uploads are about fixing vintage appliances that still contain vacuum tubes.
Hey Shango, please don’t invest in a tripod. There are plenty of channels on TH-cam where someone positions the camera three feet away and proceeds to work for an hour, it’s horribly boring… I like that you do close ups of the parts in question and occasional do ultra close close ups of cracked solder joints etc. Your camera work isn’t too jittery and I prefer the way you film your videos. Just my two cents…
Focus is based on the voltages on the anode as well as the focus electrode (or focus coil current on older sets). If there's a large dot it means the focus voltage/current has been lost but there's still HV on the anode.
@@eDoc2020 Seems to be more common with older high hour CRTs. The horizontal and vertical deflection circuits collapse first as the capacitors in those higher power circuits drain, and the beam goes to the center. The cathode and heater are still hot and emitting electrons for a time.
a few years ago, I read a book on the Radium Girls, ( who were hired in the 1920's etc to paint these dials on clocks etc,) it was really disturbing/harrowing
when I was a kid my father's girlfriend and I couldn't decide what to watch so she threw the tv across the room. It no longer worked. I opened it up and found tubes fell out so I put them back in and it worked again.
Sitting here smoking cowboy killers while watching Shango066 play with radioactive materials and the radiation king. Total flavor country…
Mmmmm-mmmmm ciggerette glaze......
The disappearing dot, only on a CRT, I miss that and the snow, I kind of miss that too.
Them neons, almost like a box of sweets 🥰
10:50 better than any video I've tried to make. It's definitely not easy. You do great work. Fun and educational.. The videos often make me feel like I'm there at your side involved in the inspections and repairs. Not easy to do.
I would take this video over a boring cooking video any day. Shango is like non other! Keep up the great work!
I didn't learn anything on this video, but it was still worth watching. Todah.
I’ve seen neon bulbs in continuous use last for decades. My father an EE said under the right conditions they should last forever.
That set has a really nice shutdown fade out to white dot going on. Makes me nostalgic.
I have a set like that one, and was built in july of 1965/ brown in color. I bought it in march of 1974, and yes it has been a very reliable T.V. set!!!!!.( built in the U.S.A.)
I watch at least one of these videos every day. The guy knows his stuff. It's amazing the amount of test equipment he actually has.
Such good memories. Our family had the 19 inch version of this "portable" for many years. It even had the circle with the "19." High hours for sure because it lasted forever. We watched and had it repaired until the wheels fell off, and my father brought home our first color TV circa 1976 when I graduated high school. When you were monkeying with the set, i was screaming at my phone, "Jiggle the channel tuner!!!" . We went through many different size and shape knobs for the tuner. And the rolling vertical brought back memories of me having to monkey with the vertical control knob behind the set while my face was plastered close to the screen in order to watch anything. I love the admiral brand. I bought my house in 1998, and the house came with an "Admiral Food Locker" 18.5 cu ft NT19L9 refrigerator that is still going strong 27 years later in 2024. I did replace the (mechanical) defroster timer and had to defrost an iceberg once. My wife keeps saying she wants a new fridge but nothing is broken not even the plastic inside.
Perfect length to take down with my coffee and be done in time for the F1 start.
Once again, shango, you are too good to us.
Naw probably less damaging than holding your phone against your head for 5 minutes every day
@@shango066 that's exactly why I always use speaker phone.😅
@@Rev22-21😅 you’re that guy in the lobby
You can tell how much Shango just doesn't care when he just sends in full line voltage. xD Blow it up!
He probably was told it was plugged in recently.
@@Phantom-darkness Likely. I was just goofing. It sounds like he was going through the motions for his buddy while taking us along for the ride.
HA thats the way we did it ! If the tag said "burned" we definatly did it ! Makes for a quick diagnosis .......
LFOD !
@8:32 - Not completing your sentences - that's the kind of stream of conscious rapport that I have come to enjoy so much. That's the very same reason that I used to enjoy listening to Michael Savage back in his early days. Rapid-fire banter that often let the listener subconsciously fill in the missing words. I hope you don't change that aspect of your productions.
Always love the content on this channel
shango066 rocks
When I grew up we had a Sylvania 19" with a walnut veneer cabinet which was our main TV. It must be a relatively rare model. I've been looking for another for years but have never seen one like it, even online.
22:11 cool night light. better than a fridge magnet.
Reminds me of my grandmothers camp as a kid, she had neon night lights everywhere... Little white things that looked like a miniature castle... I believe they were pretty common, i may have even seen you show one when digging through old junk...
Almost typed a comment about the possibility of radium in the clock dial. Also, thanks for another term for my electronics lexicon: "Japina". Good thing I wasn't taking a sip of water at the moment you said it. 😁
I love watching these TV videos. I've been working on televisions, both flat panels and tube televisions, I'm working on, (I put a video up about it) that already have parted out, it was making a "ticking noise" it's a Rear-Projection 55" it was working for years. I'm not getting rid of it, I know the tubes (3 separate tubes) still fire, the speakers work, the wood it's cased in, I call it "pinball wood. If you view the video you can see the main power board, the flyback, or a relay was making the ticking noise.
As requested "75k subcribers and this dude cant even get a tripod"
It's the scourge of our day.
Dizzy yet? Maybe laying off the shrooms until after watching!
Shango is the best ever!
Don't Forget! 🚬🚬🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🤠🤠
For years it is the same Shango is not the kind of guy who will change...
Had a 1968 Admiral Playmate 9 inch tv. Used it in college and for another 13 years before it stopped working. They were great tv sets.
I have the 19" version of this set. It just worked when I picked it up a few years ago, the seller just fired it up right in front of me. The 33gy7 (horizontal out/damper) in mine looked exactly like that. I did a recap of the electrolytics and the Elmencos. Despite the B A K E D tubes the picture bulb is still bright and strong.
Who remembers the shot of the realistic lifetime tube swirling down the toilet 😂
I obtained a number of free tube replacements from RadioShack because of the warrenty before they ended their vacuum tube sales program. I remember walking into my local RadioShack and seeing a half dozen remaining tubes stacked on the shelf behind the counter as it was ending. A sad day. I recently bought some tubes from an Ebay seller and some of them are the Realistic lifetime tubes.
Me
I musta missed that one-what was the title of said video????
Grundig 7000 repair
@3:26 - That elicited a spontaneous laugh. Vacuum bulb missunder installed.
Nice to see a tv was well looked after.
Thank you For starting my day with a few good laughs! keep'em coming.
Shockingly good for an Admiral.
I don't have the telligence to understand most of this but I do enjoy the videos.
I remember from my childhood Radio Shack days that the NE-2H (H for high output) neon bulb used the 22K, while the regular NE-2 used a much higher value resistor (probably around 180K like you mentioned.)
Yes, true. I have an old GE tube radio on my nightstand with a high output “H” for the tuner dial and a standard neon for the clock face.
Greetings from LA this week... I was in town for some TV tapings and I brought my USB TV tuner. I can see why some converter boxes get overwhelmed by the number of OTA channels in this market. The traffic is also constantly awful.
16:33 for those Nickelback fans who really enjoyed listening to them on every rock FM station every time you turned on the radio in hopes to hear them. Lets see what was on MTV.
nice geiger counter.. those 6JS6 are used in some 70s / early 80s Amateur radio HF transceivers as a pair of RF output tubes, mostly 6JS6C.
Shango066 for President
Actually no you should declare yourself King of the United States.
I got this exact same set but in a more fashionable green a few years back from the local thrift. Also worked perfectly as found. They look foreign, but the components appear American made to me. Cheers!
I've got some custom made seashell night lights I've had since I was a kid. I was able to retrofit them with orange LEDs.
I have this same set but probably older--mine was made in the Harvard, IL, plant. There is a paper tag still attached with the info.
Admiral Plug-N-Play!
Hey Shango, next Tv repair I think a bent carrot commercial might be pretty funny. Especially the warnings.
Love the screen dot ending, but it wasn't the ending. Thanks S
Comments help the channel so comment!
Radioactivity decreases the further you move from the source. Try testing it at least a foot away. It should be OK. The
worst is you may light up like a nightlight one day. Sarcasm is a dish served often here. For instance , I come to watch
ads and infomercials on old B&W TV's here on the Shango channel! LOL
On that nob that was broken use some superglue and corn starch or some jb weld for plastic that will fix it
Wow. Radioactive!
And going to watch the TV part.
He does just fine without a tripod. I actually never noticed.
You can make a very good nite light if you take a regular LED bulb (make sure it's a capacitive dropper instead of the electronic ones), Remove all the bleed resistors (like the ~1Meg across the input series cap, and the ~10k across the main filter cap). Then replace the input series cap from the ~1uF value to around 10nF to 47nF... It draws around 0.05W and is much brighter than the neon ones which draw closer to 0.25W
Nice radio
Hey Shango great short video unfortunately TV is not like it used to be so much garbage on these days. I normally just watch a few You tube videos. But this time no Crape Erase for my health or other shopping crape to buy. But thanks for great Saturday Morning Coffee day Nice to see you again.
That was very Admirable of you ;)
Mr. Carlson did a video like this not long ago. It got me excited because he doesn't normally fix TVs.
It turned out to be a disappointment because he too selected a TV that didn't have anything wrong with it.
Friends don't let friends make repair videos about stuff that doesn't need to be repaired.
I liked the neon lamp segment; however, you could have padded this out a little more.
For example, test the picture tube so we can see what a working but high hour picture tube looks like on a tester. Then put a brightener on it so we can see what difference doing that makes. Stuff like that.
We wait a week for a video, you got to give us something with a little meat left on the bone.
You get what you get and you don’t get upset…
@@polishhotdog933
You don't speak for me.
@@kd6tas oh ,brother
Those neon bulbs look similar to the ones used as a period and the number "1" on my Nixie tube based Scott 433 FM stereo HiFi tuner.
Had a flip clock radio that used the neon to light the clock display. Despite it being from the 70's, the neon was still good.
neons usually use 100 to 270k on 240v supply, for 120v areas about 47 to 100k i'd say,
Zenith TVs from 1960’s are well made and my 19” B/W zenith tv with green trim around the edges of screen.
This was not a boring video. Why? After long and complex videos, you need some rest 😉❤️
They were good little sets. Between GE & Zenith price wise. This was ten times the set over GE.
LFOD !
That clock at the beginning is still hot (I think the half life of radium is 80.2 years?) That tube with the red socket looks like the rectifier. Lots of pins for a high voltage id think it'd arc to the others making it dim
While a tripod would make some stiff simpler for you i actually like the styles of your videos. Being able to see up close in first person like view of the insides of tvs / radios. You just dont get the same amount of detail in tripod videos
Set was originally in Saint Louis, MO. Recognize the street names on the service /repair sticker.
Is in there, keep looking, you'll find it
I saw Biden on the TV the other night and he actually looked awake like someone had given him a brightener
He looks like a zombie most of the time.
Whereas Trump needs several brighteners these days. His picture bulb got necked and went to air. His I.F. cans have silver mica disease as well. 😂
they had him full of drugs. they did the same thing with killary, after her TV appearances, she'd collapse
Adderol IV for the SOTU Address 😂
Curious to know how that CRT tests.
I'm curious to learn more about the use of a light bulb in the circuit on startup. Is this a substitute for using a variac? I know I've seen it explained in one of your videos, but can't locate it. I'm just getting back into vintage TVs myself after picking up what looks like a very low hour 1959 Silvertone Medalist model 9186A. I haven't touched a set since the 80s... it was my hobby as a teenager
ah, the good ol spicy paint. probably taste nice and sweet too. love me some lead.
It's a "wow" find... It looks like a very tortured, unused for long set and it lights up, perfect geometry, obviously the IF is in a perfect shape, because vertical resolution is really good, everything is sharp. The only obvious issue is that circuitry (capacitor) that shuts off the crt glow after turning the set off.
By the way, the neon bulbs at the end were used everywhere. For instance, they were used as indicators of the selected channel in old Russian hybrid color TVs from late 70s and 80s. The strange thing about them was that they were not only indicators, they were also part of the memory circuitry that retains the selected channel after pushing the corresponding channel. One model that used that circuitry for a channel selector was Electron 738D (Электрон-738Д), a monstrous hybrid color set with which I grew up, produced in 1983 and it was used for 22 years.
Hey hoping you’ll see this, I have Silvertone 2072 Stereo/Radio that I just purchased. I don’t know if it works, but from looking inside I think the main and secondary amp/capacitors are leaking. I don’t really know how to repair any of the components. I’d just like to be able to play records with it. Could I send it to you for repair?
Realistic Lifetime tubes generally cost almost exactly 2x the price of their regular tubes. To cover one expected replacement during the 'lifetime'.
Did you glue the knob back together. That’s good content wasted good sir.
I'm not sure about the tripod thing, but I'm pretty sure I see a cold solder joint.
16:08 I would have lost it if Shango said "Ooooo--ooh, a pearl necklace!" They'll get you for showing Laramie! As always, I look forward to my weekly dose of Shango, with the only "woke" being picture tubes waking up.
most enjoyable, sir~
A&E Electronics out of St. Louis...out of business as of 2005. Over 50 years of service. Sad to see another TV shop die.
What's on MTV? Not music. Wait. Wait. You got music!! How did that happen?😮
Have you ever done a video of how a TV or radio actually functions? I understand a lot of the diagnosis that you do but I'm lacking in understanding of how a signal gets transformed into picture or sound
You have a carrier frequency that carries the modulated signal that then gets amplified and demodulated in the radio/television. Image in televisions works the same way as AM radio. To put it VERY simply if we had a signal level from 1 to 11, 1 would be white, 10 would be black and 11 would be a sync pulse (darker than black so it wouldn't show up on the television screen) which tells the electron beam to move to the next line or start drawing the next frame. I might be wrong but that's how I understand it. Also fun fact it takes 64microseconds for the TV to draw one line (63.55 for NTSC)
When did the radio shack realistic tubes become a thing? I thought early 80s so does that mean this was in use until then?
Doesn't it bother you that the Neon Nightlight now flickers?
I have radium impregnated signal/audio level meters on my Collins R-390A military radio!
7:39 You can still hear the horizontal at 15 kHz? You must be much younger than I thought. I thought you were older because many of your uploads are about fixing vintage appliances that still contain vacuum tubes.
De peluche!💯
The casework is identical to the UK GEC 2015 13 inch 405/625. The chassis is completely different.
Don't you just hate it when something just works.
I've git a friend that has a function generator and an oscilloscope. Can you direct me on how I should align a couple am fm radios I have?
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Hey Shango, please don’t invest in a tripod. There are plenty of channels on TH-cam where someone positions the camera three feet away and proceeds to work for an hour, it’s horribly boring… I like that you do close ups of the parts in question and occasional do ultra close close ups of cracked solder joints etc. Your camera work isn’t too jittery and I prefer the way you film your videos. Just my two cents…
BAKED.
Hi Shango Mango 🥭
more like "SHAKY SHANGO"
So, this video proves that old electronics should just be plugged in and let ‘em rip!
WEF is frightening right now. A lot of things that are happening in my country that harm the population and make zero sense.
Is there a list of your dinky quarebaled words. I'd love to see all the various Shango words in one place
Oh forgot to ask some t.v. sets once turned off the dot seems to be big and go away why is that?
Dying CRT.
Focus is based on the voltages on the anode as well as the focus electrode (or focus coil current on older sets). If there's a large dot it means the focus voltage/current has been lost but there's still HV on the anode.
@@eDoc2020 Seems to be more common with older high hour CRTs. The horizontal and vertical deflection circuits collapse first as the capacitors in those higher power circuits drain, and the beam goes to the center. The cathode and heater are still hot and emitting electrons for a time.
It's a shame we don't have the glowing tubes, weird noises, and strange interference influencing science fiction anymore....
Turdeau is pregnant with Klaus's love child
Uuuuuu no wonder! 😂😮❤️
where does a tree become a log?
It's just radium on your clock It's safe just don't ever ingest even tiny amounts It's incompatible
With your Skeleton and teeth.
a few years ago, I read a book on the Radium Girls, ( who were hired in the 1920's etc to paint these dials on clocks etc,) it was really disturbing/harrowing
Not often the set fires up on all cylinders.
I heard a rumour that some things actually survive shipping intact. But that can't be true can it???
Ahhhh...Yew shall eat zee bugs and be happy 🦗🪲
Hail to K.S.
Elf off the shelf!😅
Time for shango to get a 3d printer I see
Obviously a complete recap is required.
Sniper! No decollete, thumb's down.
Let's just juice it!!!😮
when I was a kid my father's girlfriend and I couldn't decide what to watch so she threw the tv across the room. It no longer worked. I opened it up and found tubes fell out so I put them back in and it worked again.