REPAIRING AN OLD 1920's WESTINGHOUSE RADIO
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2021
- This seeeion we repair a badly damaged Westinghouse radio from the early 1920's. Mice have gotten into the radio and chewed up the wiring and the transformer windings.
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I always try to imagine how it must have felt magical and almost wizardry to have this “ box” receiving sounds and voices inside peoples homes for the first time
ils avaient fait des hauts de forme avec la radio incorporée !
Your videos are so unique. It is a privilege to be able to watch you keep these things alive for future generations. Thank you so much for posting. I'm sure we all feel the same way.
Hello Ron, I love watching your videos and am amazed at your fabricating skills and depth of knowledge! Thank you for posting your work! Cheers - Luther
isn't it interesting how we've moved from visible tech to invisible technology as society has progressed. I suspect that the emphasis at that time was on elegance rather than functionality.... Watching you work is inspiring! Stay Safe, Ron!
A OLD WESTING HOUSE RADOIO RECEIVE FROM THE. 1920S IS KOOL
You have the patience of a saint Ron - keep them coming - ATB
Best time to enter an attic in the summer, just before sunrise.
Once again, an amazing repair.
Thanks for the video.
Another fun video, Ron! Thanks! It just amazes me how you can fix the unfixable (e.g., rebuilding transformers)! Looking forward to the 3” Pilot TV restoration!
This has cheered up my Tuesday. Cheers Ron and stay safe.
Love to watch you work. Thanks for posting.
Guardo sempre con piacere i tuoi video , saluti dall'Italia , Maurizio
Excellent work and enjoyable vid. Every radio collector should have an RC or RA/DA. They're such a piece of radio history. Crazy that they'll be 100 years old next year. I was fortunate enough to acquire an accessory Vocarola speaker with mine. Not my most listenable set, but pure magic when I play it.
Nice work on that radio. I like how you work on old radios. I myself started under the pandemi to work on old radios most from 40 -50. The oldest I have in my hand is from 1936 most Swedish radios,
Keep going with your good work! I look forward for new videos.
But Ron, I remember working with M-cores in the 70's, even 80's. Its a pain to reciprocally (wechselseitig) stuff them in the bobins, but there were machines for that too. They were often used in East Germany and are actually better than the E-I ones in some aspects. While you could reciprocally stuff them too, they were almost always used with an airgap for e.g. a A final stage or a choke in the power supply since there is a DC current going through.
Looking again at your first transformer, yeah its not even an M cut... The classical M cut has a closed frame and only the strip that goes into the bobbin is cut on one side. This makes stuffing even worse that your 20's high tech core in retrospect haha...
Another amazing restoration! Thank you for sharing, that set is a beauty. 👏🙂
Great job, not sure that I would have tackled those transformers. Sounds quite good for it's age.
It is nice see working a man who knows a lot. Respect. Applause.
Nicely done. There are fewer and fewer people who can fix radios of this era and keep them out of the dump!
This is a long time man. Your explanation is great, accurate and purposeful. I hope we Africans have the same equipment you work with. We lack it. Very cool. Have a nice day
Thanks for another interesting video, so glad I am not the only one using a digital camera to see where most things go back the way they were.
Thanks from France Lyon! Impossible to stop watching, a wonder travel in the 20's.
It always amazes me to see a 100-year-old device come to life.
What a good job 🙂
What a wonderful old radio Ron, wonderful job as always!
Absolutely beautiful work! Enjoyed watching!
a fantastic looking se Ron and a great restore keep them coming
I LOVE YOUR KANAL ! YOU HAVE AN BIG SPECTRUM OF SKILL AND KNOWLEDGES, AND ....WISDOM :-)
Fantastic. Thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Nicely done.
What a wonderful repair job, and a lovely looking radio set.
Great job, as usual, Ron,thanks for sharing
What Talent,Great work.Love watching your Video,s
Glasslinger has a new video! I'm on board for the full learning experiance.
hello mr GLASSLINGER its nice to see you back have not seen you on i love watching your shows and seening fixing old radios iam from australia
Very modular. I dig what the designer did.
Hi Ron your tech friend Dave here and I enjoyed your video you're very talented and you have a unique style I got something to work on myself some old zenith transistor ones and a couple of two ones I look forward to your videos all the time I like watching them I hope it's all is well with you and continue to be safe and take care of yourself thank you so much for your video
Glass linger your vintage Westinghouse from the 1920s tubes AM radio 📻 is awesome my friend 🎉🎉🎉
Wonderful to watch, the core, the jacketed paper cap. and lead based solder, recovered ephemera.
Exciting 20s Westinghouse resto, thanks.
Hi Ron its Ashleigh from Australia do you know I have 2 soldering guns the same as yours. They are nearly as old as me. I generally use a very modern Weller heat controlled soldering station but every now and I dig out the soldering guns, they still work as good as every. You like me we are old enough to be innovative and creative. Luv your videos Ashleigh 💖🙌🙌
G-R-E-A-T !!!! Thanks for sharing your huge knowledge!.
Nice job building the two transformers, Ron, and stuffing the cap. I have some 4uF block caps to rebuild which were a struggle to open.
You make it look easy, which shows your skill.
Good to see you at this point in back in time friend
Your drawing has great depth of field. Easy to see where things go.
Thank you Ron Great Job On The The two Transformers. And Beautiful job on the Repairing the Radio. Always is a pleasure to watch your videos. 73 Mal KI7DYM
Great video. I love these old radios. Great to see you! Hi to Miss Kitty 😺
Fair Play Buddy I Took Transformers Apart As A Kid But Never Put One Back Together !
Bless Up❇
You're awesome. Please keep doing these. My only recommendation since you're so awesome is maybe decrease the video compression. It's very pixellated when things move.
Glass linger you are good at restoring vintage shortwave receivers and alignment of vintage shortwave receivers and vintage tvs vintage Am Fm radios 📻 my friend 🎉🎉
Enjoyed this one a lot! Thank you
You make look too easy! Your a Master at your Hobbie!
Здоровья вам великий мастер!
Nice cabinet condition for a nearly century old radio, and a great job on the transformers! I guess those naughty mice were after the wax that was used extensively in old radio parts, and also maybe something hard to sharpen their teeth on?
Actually they were radio hating mice that wanted to do harm to the set! :)
I know they used beeswax a lot; wonder if that is the reason the mice go for it?
BTW: It seemed the finished radio had distortion. Is that just the speaker or as good as it gets?
@@SpinStar1956 Here in Houston where I live the radio stations are very powerful and I have a long outdoors antenna. I was overdriving the hell out of it!
Excelente trabalho !
He still is the master…👍👍
You are the best,greetings from cold Amsterdam
Glass linger your utube videos are awesome my friend 🎉🎉🎉
So much fun, thank you!
great work
Another good job I am just amazed with the amount of knowledge you know about these radios I would like to know 1/10 of what you know I will keep watching I enjoy watching your very very much so have a nice day and I guess I asked you before where are you located God bless
very Cool Ron!
Nicoloi and George were alive when this very fine radio was designed. It'sa beaut indeed, state of the art.
I'd like to see a foreign radio from overseas that predates 1930, if they existed? That would be most interesting, since Marconi was often credited for radio.
saludos desde chile! te admiro mucho! me encantan tus videos, bendiciones!
I once recycled electronics for MCC (a Mennonite charity). I feel bad about it now, knowing that retro electronics are so valuable nowadays. I have taken transformers apart. It always amazed me how they could think up such things.
You make it look so easy, I know its not, Ha! Gotcha, Doc!
excellent job !
Someone "babied" that radio.
Just imagine all of the power surges it has "seen" since it was made LOL
(Note: this radio will still work after an EMP blast, if you can still make power.)
so will most radios.
@@tarstarkusz Only tube / valve radios because transistors would be "zapped".
@@MikinessAnalog No they wouldn't. What would likely be damaged is wired items. Voltage is generated in a very long wires. Radio itself might not work or work well for several days based on what happened the last time a major CME hit the earth and caused what an EMP blast causes.
Perhaps the tube radios would fare worse with their transformers which are very long, though coiled, wires. I don't know. I don't think anyone really does.
If there were an EMP or a CME hit the Earth (far more likely than an EMP), the grid would almost certainly have wide spread failures. Local AM stations might not even work. But at night, you could pull in probably from further away than you normally can if there are widespread outages across the nation.
Oui mais très bientôt le numérique va faire dis paraitre la magie de ces longueurs d'ondes !
Really Nice job on The transformer.
Working with very old radios its like mending a Ford modell T
Tanks for The lesson..
PS. Put a lid on The mousehole or
made a sign saying "NO Mouse"
Very nice👌👌
Very nice tube type 👍 radio 📻 !! Did ya say 1949. I know ya can fix the major internal damage. Your friend, Jeff.
About 1923 or thereabouts.
@@glasslinger "Where in the hell did it go?
All right, i'll go get another one"
LMAO, been there done that & then questioned my own sanity XD
Had a few repairs, from the 1960's era carbon composition resistors in there.
Лайк неглядя великому мастеру! Super!
Nice job
GREAT RADIAX REPAIR.
Very cool ...
You are amazing
Respect !!!
nu am vazut asa vechi ,foarte interesant
Nice RA-DA set. 👍
that new hair colour goes well with you dress
Better than the old worn out rat hair color it naturally is at my age! Getting old sucks!
Westing mouse radio
I don’t think they were idiots back in the 20s they had a reason for doing what they did. Also we have learned a lot these past 100 years
Beauty.
Can you imagine what pure hunger the mice had to motivate them to chew and eat wire insulation to try to survive? May be the idea of modern wire strippers came from them! Hehehe...!
Maybe I need to keep a mouse on a string to use as a wire stripper! :)
@@glasslinger Deep in the winters here in Michigan the deer get so hungry they come out of the pine forest and chew off and eat the outer jackets of my coax antenna feed lines. I try to feed them whenever I can.
U R good manz🖒🖒🖒🖒
You're such a card. Wonderful!
Cool...cheers.
perfect !
Another Ron special! Don't forget to plug the critter hole!
No, that gives it its authenticity & cred
Antique radios are very easy to repair because they are simple circuits, but PARTS can be impossible to replace. I have a Philco #5 (Cathedral top) I need a turning COIL (not variable air capacitor ) for and I'm not willing to pay $3500 for a hand-made one from France. $300 for a #81 tube is bad enough. Eddystone variable air turning capacitors and dials from England are priced like new cars, NOS Hammerlund parts are like buying kidneys. Century-old materials deteriorate, like shellac coil forms and the silk/copper Litz wire on them in the IF transformer cans.
Its amazing, How easy you solder with that big Gun.
The trick to good soldering is to have PLENTY of heat FAST. You want the power to get on the joint, heat it to melting, and then get off it quickly. If the iron is marginal, it takes a long time to heat the joint, all the while stressing the plastics and insulation around the connection. The camera lens does make the soldering gun look huge. This is a 125-150 watt gun, not the huge 350 watt job!
Where the hell did that go ? i havent been anywhere is my life story too.. keep up the great work
Bravo
Indeed
How did you know which was the primary on the replacement one you put on the bigger transformer?
Ron, what kind of epoxy would one use to reattach a glass envelope to its metal base? The tube is an nl-617 industrial mercury vapor rectifier with an Edison style threaded base.
I asked Mr Carlson about that and he suggested JB WELD. There's another YT site called BLUEGLOW ELECTRONICS Sep 8 2020 BG295 with more info.
That bigger transformer looks very similar to the other one. Would it have come from another old radio made by Westinghouse? But then I have never seen audio transformers with a 2nd tap on the output. I take it then that is not used on this radio and that someone was adapting in a part to fix it? How did you know which wires were on the beginning and end of the primary and which one was the tap on the replacement?
48:35 You can get a brass wire wheel for the dremel to do that. A brass wire wheel will just clean it and not scratch it up the way a stainless steel razor will.
Depends how stiff the brush is, if it's short 'hairs' it'll scratch it to fuck
@@phonotical You have to use genuine brass brushes and not brass colored or brass plated aluminum wheels.
Glaslinger cleans radio knobs with steel wire wheels.
@@tarstarkusz The sharper and stiffer the better! :) Note that the pressure you press against the wheel significantly affects what the total effect is.
@@glasslinger I looked in horror the first time I saw you do it, but you can't argue with the results. You obviously know what you're doing with that.
I didn't understand the circuit with 3 tubes, 1 is the mixer, 1 amp, 3rd ??
Wow! 2 Transformers side by side, instead of positioned at right angles to each other. Is there something one is missing?
Classic..!!..
👍👍😎
good