I love those old console radios. Once upon a time they were the centerpiece of every households parlor. I will always have room to add just one more of them at my house.
Funny, I’ve done the same thing, put the field coil mounted on the side and installed a permanent magnet type speaker. Works! I thought I was the only one doing that. Also shortwave is still alive and well with a good antenna, especially at night. I restore old radios...fun stuff.
Old Radios & Phonographs -you could go to a PM speaker and install a filter choke -approx 8-10 hys -not critical if heavy enough or cheap and dirty a 10-20 watt wire wound resister 2000-2500 ohms . I’ve done both
There is an easier way to make knobs through duplication. This is especially helpful if you are missing a knob on a machine with multiple knobs. Buy some silicone and resin. Suspend your knob on a string in a prescription bottle and fill with silicone. When the silicone dries, pull it out and you have yourself a mold to make knobs. Just put the mold back in the prescription bottle and put the resin into the mold. Very cheap, very easy. No 3d printing needed.
Throwing this thing away is a damn crime. That could be a damn fine unit when restored. I would look in to fixing that speaker too. I certainly would not put a Chineseum speaker in it.
It's not true that the speaker wouldn't work merely because of age. It might not work for other reasons, but not because it's not flexible. I wasn't saying that you are ever going to make AM sound great, just that putting a chineseum speaker in it would be a shame. Also, while there is an upper limit to how good it can sound, there really isn't a lower limit. If the speaker sounds tinny, that will make AM sound even worse.
Quick research shows this as a "CO-OP Deluxe Teledial" radio announced in Sept 1936 for the 1937 year, sold for $88.95, the buttons on the dial is for automatic tuning. CO-OP = Pennsylvania Bureau Farmers Co-operation Association. ~Jack, VEG
This radio was sold by the "Farmers Union Cooperative" stores in rural America. Back then, made in the USA was a HUGE thing for the COOP, I can recall the COOP stores and gas stations all over the midwest as I grew up, being a farmers kid I spent many joyous days at the COOP meetings where all the farmers got together and talked of farming, while the kids went to another room and watched old 16mm movies of the three stooges and movie cartoons. This was back in the 50's
I listen to short wave, Radio Romania, Radio China, pirates playing rock music, the Buzzer, Hams, still lots to listen to. Get WWV here. Lovely radio with an RF stage too.👍
the way to fix that speaker is to recone it. if memory serves you get a new voice coil with the reconing kit. the dial on the front you wondered what it was is some type of mechanical tuning. not sure how you would set the different buttons but when you push the button in and turn the dial it should have a mechanical stop that would stop dial rotation at the station it is set for. you could probably then fine tune with the knob connected to the tuning condenser. it has been many years since i saw one of these old radios. the wires in series with the output transformer and mounted on top of the field coil is called a hum bucking coil. it indeed is there to prevent hum from the field coil getting fed to the speaker.
Showed up in my feed Friday evening - had to save to my playlist! Congrats getting it working as well as you did! Awesome restoration project for you or somebody else! ☺
Before replacing the speaker with a permanent magnet one, the continuity of the flexible leadwire to the voice coil should be checked. It might be just the enamel wire corroded at the solder joint, or the flexible leadwire is broken, both are quite common issues. Finally, since the field coil can be easily removed, it should be relatively easy to rewind the voice coil, if it's opened inside. Too bad that Chicago is 'a bit' far from you. This thing should go to Bob Andersen. Or finally, you could do a full restoration video, complete with cabinet restoration. It would be really cool! I like your resurrection videos a lot, but I would happily see a full restoration from you, as something new.
Very instructive, thank you again. I did the same speaker swap with my 1930's Relton Radio just through intuition back in the late '70's and it worked fine. Used an old Magnavox 10WR speaker.
Very neat radio! I had a Crosley Dynatrol similar to that- minus the presets- my Dad got for me when I was about 12, it worked well and was handsome. I listened to shortwave at night, I thought it was very special. I ordered a 200 made in US watt rough service bulb on Ebay a few days ago so I can plug in my newly acquired Pilot stereo console. Those bulbs are not easy to find, I guess they were killing our planet- it cost me ten bucks on Ebay. Great video - very enjoyable .
"Great Day...this is a test, this is only a test!" Very good timing that this was discovered near the end of the video! 😁 Seriously, great job as always, Shango066, very instructive and entertaining, thanks! Now, to "phototwarbulate" my own SW tube radio!😁😉
I watch your videos as soon as they appear with great interest, and admiration what you make work! Yes, that coil on the field coil in series with the voice coil is a hum bucking coil. Amazing that the radio only wanted a good speaker and disconnecting some bad capaci-doodles to play. Here in Norway we don't have much analog broadcasting left, they closed down national FM broadcasting too and we are left with crappy DAB
Outstanding (entertainment) and highly educational 👍😁 I haven't been this impressed since I got out of the shower dripping wet. Thank you for the Radiometric Time Travel 🎬❤
Resurrect...resurrect...resurrect...yay!!! Best videos ever. I would love to restore that cabinet and put it in my office. My stereo lithography printer would make perfect new knobs. But like so many of us....TIME.
I really liked this one, to bad that specialized 150 watt current monitor met an untimely demise. These videos are really great, thank you for creating them.
Wow, this old radio is 10 years older then my father. Which makes it 82 years old & it’s still working! You wouldn’t have any Chinese crap today, last 82 years. Xoxo 😘
This is only a test, this is only a test. Yep. Post-apocalyptic radio running on auto-pilot for eternity... or until the power runs out, lol. Awesome video as always! I love these old radios. Thanks so much for the upload and the effort!
Farmer owned cooperative "CO-OP" There are still around mostly fertilizer dealerships , grain elevator, probably fuel, LP gas, lubricants. At one time you could even buy a CO-OP Tractor in the 1930's, tractor and farm equipment tires, livestock feed etc. Basically any thing you might need for the farm.
The buttons surrounding the dial are mechanical station presets. The volume/tone holes are probably for preset controls, as well, for each station, as transmitted output varied in reception. Perhaps the CO-OP moniker was due to smaller independent manufactures pooling their resources during the Depression years, producing an impressive product to compete with the "big guys".
Good afternoon Shango getting to this video a little late is that radio was completely done over restoration that would definitely be a keeper you have a great day Shang take care buddy
It was definitely a Wells Gardner product, they seemed to like tube layout diagrams drawn in perspective. It looks like it's not in bad shape other then the dead lacquer on the cabinet, even the chassis is spotless. I would bet that the speaker could be repaired since it looks easy to take apart, it's likely just a bad connection to the voice coil, maybe the Litz wire to the coil broke off? Teledial style tubing mechanisms were all the rage in 1937, and early 1938, the original Grunow ones came out in 1936, and were such a hit that many manufacturers came out with copies, including Philco. The way they work is you press in the button and rotate the dial downward. Since this was a budget radio made as a private label set, they used that horrid Tenite plastic for the buttons rather then brass like Grunow used. Anyhow they slowly fell out of favor as slide rule dials gained in popularity, then they went nuts over motor driven tuning. It's hard to say whether someone stripped the knobs and those tubes out. Two of the tubes that were missing are dead common, 5Y3s are practically everywhere, 6F6s almost the same. As for the 6G5 magic eye, nine times out of ten those are dead to start with, since they were not required to make the radio play they were rarely changed. The knobs may have been made out of that same crappy plastic as the pushbuttons, or they may have been made out of wood as on an Airline radio, in which case they may have broken apart or disintegrated long before the Co-Op radio was dumped.
The push buttons around the dial are similar to the car radios that had push buttons for preset stations. These look like they are wood and can be remade from dowel rods from any home improvement store
Glasslinger has excellent videos on cabinet restoration on vintage 1930s radios He has a complete machine shop with power woodworking tools and a spray booth to apply lacquer. He would definitely love this radio!!’
Yes , I think this relics are better managed by Glasslinger . He will restore everything on this radio to lock like new . . No offense to Shango066 intended !
There I was admiring that old rust stained light bulb, one of the stars of many a Shango resurrection video. I was worried that in the position it was in, it may accidently be stepped on. Next scene, the meter got it. Whoops.... Wonder if that "this is a test" station was a local traffic advisory station that wasn't broadcasting any current traffic alerts? We have something similar in one of the states near me. Oh, I must be living under a rock too. Had no idea Peter Fonda died.
Retrochad the hell out of this. Shango, you make the best videos! Again I know this is an older video, but all your vids rule. Shango for President ‘24!
Co op were a supermarket in the uk that in the old days were formed by the CWS.the co op wholesale society.noticed it offered 234 volts as well as the normal US voltage so maybe available for England too. Great video 👍
Wells-Gardner for sure. I can hear it screaming: 'Restore me!!' I would love to see Thomas Johnson taking care of that majestic cabinet; that is some devine wood.
Wells-Gardner made some very good quality private label radios. I believe co-op was sold through a regional chain of stores. I've got two 1937 Airline sets using a similar chassis. Nice sets. Yours has a very appealing telephone dial with nice markings. Well worth restoring!
Co-Op was a house brand, built by several of the Chicago independents over the years. Yours is a Wells-Gardner A3 chassis, and can be found in Rider Vol 9-17. You can look it up on Nostalgia Air under Wells-Gardner. Should be quite a performer with 13 tubes.There will usually be the letters W.G.M.C. in the lower corner of the tube layout label or on the patent label on the chassis.
yay its making sound and is back to life :P nice to see you have someone that will adopt it .. its a nice radio.. I love some of the things you say randomly @ 26:16 .. it makes me laugh .. haha love it !! nice job resurrecting this old boy.
I no longer listen to any broadcast radio. I receive all my radio by internet radio, no fading, crackle, just relatively clean audio from anywhere in the world. Love it!
The teledial preset buttons are identical to the Truetone D-698 "Dial O Matic" from 1937. Each button on the teledial has a metal switch that you move right to unlock, then press the button and move the switch left to lock in the preset. The bezel around the dial that is stamped CO-OP is not original. You can tell by the holes for the knobs. The Truetone had a simple brass ring around the dial. The dial graphic may also not be original. It almost seems like someone raided this radio for parts for a Truetone restoration, then substituted parts they had available.
Very cool radio! Great diagnosis again Shango, thanks for sharing. And remember, this is a test, this is only a test. The real exam will be delivered by airplane.
It's more than likely that the radio chassis was made by Welles Gardener for a chain department store other than Sears Roebuck. The May Company would come to mind and it's probably their house brand for radios .
Co-op was a store that catered to rural customers. They sold “branded” radios . I have a post-wwii Detrola product branded co-op. The set was indeed manufactured by Wells-Gardner . Their RCA patent license code was WG-24. W-G built many branded radios and many were quite good. The tuning system was “tele-dial” which was supposed to work similar to a telephone dial. You stuck your finger on the button that corresponded to the preset station you desired and the dial would stop turning when you reach that station. A big fad in 1937-38 . Then it went away. Those buttons were likely made from an early plastic called tenite. It was an “organic “ plastic that would decompose. It will take some ingenuity to make the buttons look good again. The 6k6 is a weaker beam power tube than a 6F6. If you can’t find a 6f6 use a 6v6 . This should sound ok with lower heater drain. I have a soft spot for old radios with shortwave bands plus this one has a 3 gang tuning cap and therefore a real tuned RF stage. Shortwave is still not dead . You need at least 50’ of antenna wire suspended in open space and you have to learn what time to listen to which frequency. . Plenty of weird fun stuff on shortwave . If you can’t find the Riders page under coop try to ID the Wells-Gardner chassis #. I’m am sure that it’s out there if you know what to look for. Glad you brought the set back to life. The person who threw the radio in the trash was a vandal
This looks very similar to my 1936 Silvertone console. Same basic type of cabinet, similar looking chassis and speaker setup, and dial, but mine doesn't have the preset buttons.
There are shortwave radio transmissions still on the air. Maybe not as many nowadays but some still out there. I don't think fcc.gov is up to date on their website for shortwave licensing info.
I have a 1934 RCA Victor. Center round dial, yellow-orangish back plate. It only gets static. Beautiful wood cabinet...large, about 4ft tall. For now it is part of the living-room furniture.
Never used to have any fear at all of electricity, even 240vAC here in the UK. But as i get older, i don't think my heart would take the shocks i got in my 20's and teens.
I think this must be part of the British Cooperative society or co-op established (according to Wiki) in 1844 in Rochdale or Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS). They went worldwide including the USA. I still have a co-op supermarket down the road. Edit.....Or maybe it isn't? Edit again...Not the co-op down the road, (it is there I looked), the co-op radio. Maybe it was a pure US co-op.
Great find.I hope you get it working.I don't see those anymore here in Oregon unless there at some high priced thrift store or antique store-especially one for free.I haven't seen a freebie radio since the 1970s or '80s.
yeah!!! shango adorei você acabou arrumando um belo Radio antigo gostei meu amigo meus parabéns yeah!!! shango I loved it you ended up getting a nice old Radio I liked it my friend congratulations
Frankly,I never heard of a "Co Op" brand radio before.The last free radio I got was a Philco 42-1008.I haven't gotten around to it.the chassis is under my workbench;the cabinet,record changer and speaker is in the corner gathering dust with my heater setting on top of it.
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It's amazing how much smoke they can pack into a resistor.
I love those old console radios. Once upon a time they were the centerpiece of every households parlor. I will always have room to add just one more of them at my house.
RIP Shangos light bulb.
You will be remembered in dozens of videos.
We need a montage with the sad music.
Godfrey Poon this ones perfect skip to 1,min 1 sec
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yes, I was a little sad, too ... ^^
Definitely worth a good restoration. A very rare find
those are early presets, i bet that was an expensive radio in its day.
“Today is a great day testing testing. This is *only* a test!”
Great job!
This is god damn creepy
Interesting...
I wonder where that signal was from ?
Sounds like a numbers station or something. Those are weird, but have a probably cloak-and-dagger, secret-agent-y sort of purpose.
@Steven Carlson
You could find it out with the help of triangulation
I from Brazil.I loved electronic. and you make my life better!
Funny, I’ve done the same thing, put the field coil mounted on the side and installed a permanent magnet type speaker. Works! I thought I was the only one doing that. Also shortwave is still alive and well with a good antenna, especially at night. I restore old radios...fun stuff.
Old Radios & Phonographs -you could go to a PM speaker and install a filter choke -approx 8-10 hys -not critical if heavy enough or cheap and dirty a 10-20 watt wire wound resister 2000-2500 ohms . I’ve done both
37:10 WWV 10Mhz yes it is still on the air. A budget was passed
thats great
Shangos neighbor got an AM transmitter and is screwing with him. This is test a test....
There is an easier way to make knobs through duplication. This is especially helpful if you are missing a knob on a machine with multiple knobs.
Buy some silicone and resin. Suspend your knob on a string in a prescription bottle and fill with silicone. When the silicone dries, pull it out and you have yourself a mold to make knobs. Just put the mold back in the prescription bottle and put the resin into the mold. Very cheap, very easy. No 3d printing needed.
A prescription bottle might work for you, but I'ma need something much bigger.
Well, I suppose it all depends on the size of your knobs.
@@tarstarkusz Uh.... yeah... Can I quote you for 2019? : )
"It all depends on the size of your knob: Tarstarkusz 2019
@@tarstarkusz lol
WWV, WWVB, and WWVH are still alive.
I'll bet the old radio never dreamed she's have a nightmare fuel robot voice coming out of her.
Yeah, WWV was CW until like 1950.
Throwing this thing away is a damn crime. That could be a damn fine unit when restored. I would look in to fixing that speaker too. I certainly would not put a Chineseum speaker in it.
It's not true that the speaker wouldn't work merely because of age. It might not work for other reasons, but not because it's not flexible.
I wasn't saying that you are ever going to make AM sound great, just that putting a chineseum speaker in it would be a shame. Also, while there is an upper limit to how good it can sound, there really isn't a lower limit. If the speaker sounds tinny, that will make AM sound even worse.
It's a cool unit. And likely hand-assembled and sold by a farmer's rural electrification cooperative.
Quick research shows this as a "CO-OP Deluxe Teledial" radio announced in Sept 1936 for the 1937 year, sold for $88.95, the buttons on the dial is for automatic tuning. CO-OP = Pennsylvania Bureau Farmers Co-operation Association. ~Jack, VEG
They could have bought a high-end laptop instead, wow.
@@monkeyboy4746 In 1937?
$88.95 in 1937 dollars inflates to $1,619.59 in 2019 dollars.
They're running a test before converting to a mumble rap station.
@kie SHUT UP!!
and yes im a gen Z, But SHUT UP YOUR CRINGEY MEME
Probably
Wells-Gardner stamped its radios W.G. 24. This radio looks very close to a Truetone D-698.
Oh no, I thoroughly enjoy the whole lead-up to the radio, TV or whatever coming back to life! It's very informative.
Absolutely!
This radio was sold by the "Farmers Union Cooperative" stores in rural America. Back then, made in the USA was a HUGE thing for the COOP, I can recall the COOP stores and gas stations all over the midwest as I grew up, being a farmers kid I spent many joyous days at the COOP meetings where all the farmers got together and talked of farming, while the kids went to another room and watched old 16mm movies of the three stooges and movie cartoons. This was back in the 50's
I listen to short wave, Radio Romania, Radio China, pirates playing rock music, the Buzzer, Hams, still lots to listen to. Get WWV here. Lovely radio with an RF stage too.👍
CO-OP Farmer owned cooperatives....east of the Rockies
Terry Marshall got ‘em west of the Rockies too.
Old country radio!
Terry Marshall I live in Tennessee. We have a farmers Co-Op. they sell things for a farm. Feed, materials, etc. so radios too is no surprise.
Still have farmers Co-OP in New Zealand. Fonterra-Anchor Dairy is a CO-OP
Like a rural electrification cooperative?
the way to fix that speaker is to recone it. if memory serves you get a new voice coil with the reconing kit.
the dial on the front you wondered what it was is some type of mechanical tuning. not sure how you would set the different buttons but when you push the button in and turn the dial it should have a mechanical stop that would stop dial rotation at the station it is set for. you could probably then fine tune with the knob connected to the tuning condenser. it has been many years since i saw one of these old radios.
the wires in series with the output transformer and mounted on top of the field coil is called a hum bucking coil. it indeed is there to prevent hum from the field coil getting fed to the speaker.
20:15 - "Yeah look at this thing drop like a rock..." Great foreshadowing!
TechnicalLee Damn,didn't noticed that!
Re 'Made in USA': Note the 234 volt mains option. RCA exported/licensed globally back then.
Showed up in my feed Friday evening - had to save to my playlist! Congrats getting it working as well as you did! Awesome restoration project for you or somebody else! ☺
Before replacing the speaker with a permanent magnet one, the continuity of the flexible leadwire to the voice coil should be checked. It might be just the enamel wire corroded at the solder joint, or the flexible leadwire is broken, both are quite common issues. Finally, since the field coil can be easily removed, it should be relatively easy to rewind the voice coil, if it's opened inside.
Too bad that Chicago is 'a bit' far from you. This thing should go to Bob Andersen. Or finally, you could do a full restoration video, complete with cabinet restoration. It would be really cool! I like your resurrection videos a lot, but I would happily see a full restoration from you, as something new.
I got here due to Mustie1. He picked up a similar 1937 radio, again for free.
Ribierasacra me too, for a min I thought this was it, but nope its a different radio
Very instructive, thank you again. I did the same speaker swap with my 1930's Relton Radio just through intuition back in the late '70's and it worked fine. Used an old Magnavox 10WR speaker.
Love these old radios. Seems amazing something 80 years old still works. I tip my hat sir. Miss the kitty 🙂
Here we have!!! This channel is the best Comic electronic learning channel out there great video Shango keep up the good work.
That 470 ohm resistor definitely had 'Test' and it was Great Day for it. Another awesome video on bringing a curb side find back to life.
Very neat radio! I had a Crosley Dynatrol similar to that- minus the presets- my Dad got for me when I was about 12, it worked well and was handsome. I listened to shortwave at night, I thought it was very special.
I ordered a 200 made in US watt rough service bulb on Ebay a few days ago so I can plug in my newly acquired Pilot stereo console. Those bulbs are not easy to find, I guess they were killing our planet- it cost me ten bucks on Ebay.
Great video - very enjoyable .
"Great Day...this is a test, this is only a test!" Very good timing that this was discovered near the end of the video! 😁 Seriously, great job as always, Shango066, very instructive and entertaining, thanks! Now, to "phototwarbulate" my own SW tube radio!😁😉
I watch your videos as soon as they appear with great interest, and admiration what you make work! Yes, that coil on the field coil in series with the voice coil is a hum bucking coil. Amazing that the radio only wanted a good speaker and disconnecting some bad capaci-doodles to play. Here in Norway we don't have much analog broadcasting left, they closed down national FM broadcasting too and we are left with crappy DAB
Nothing like a Monday watching Shango slowly losing his shit on airtraffic. Nice cliffhanger ending..
Maybe its only a test?
Cheers,
Outstanding (entertainment) and highly educational 👍😁 I haven't been this impressed since I got out of the shower dripping wet. Thank you for the Radiometric Time Travel 🎬❤
RetroChad continues to get dumped on. Love it! “Here we have....”
Resurrect...resurrect...resurrect...yay!!! Best videos ever. I would love to restore that cabinet and put it in my office. My stereo lithography printer would make perfect new knobs. But like so many of us....TIME.
I really liked this one, to bad that specialized 150 watt current monitor met an untimely demise.
These videos are really great, thank you for creating them.
Wow, this old radio is 10 years older then my father. Which makes it 82 years old & it’s still working! You wouldn’t have any Chinese crap today, last 82 years. Xoxo 😘
This is only a test, this is only a test. Yep. Post-apocalyptic radio running on auto-pilot for eternity... or until the power runs out, lol. Awesome video as always! I love these old radios. Thanks so much for the upload and the effort!
Farmer owned cooperative "CO-OP" There are still around mostly fertilizer dealerships , grain elevator, probably fuel, LP gas, lubricants. At one time you could even buy a CO-OP Tractor in the 1930's, tractor and farm equipment tires, livestock feed etc. Basically any thing you might need for the farm.
1700 am was a sports radio station for the San Diego market, now it’s nightmare fuel
The buttons surrounding the dial are mechanical station presets. The volume/tone holes are probably for preset controls, as well, for each station, as transmitted output varied in reception. Perhaps the CO-OP moniker was due to smaller independent manufactures pooling their resources during the Depression years, producing an impressive product to compete with the "big guys".
Good afternoon Shango getting to this video a little late is that radio was completely done over restoration that would definitely be a keeper you have a great day Shang take care buddy
The match book has a picture of Paul Revere on it.
Didn't he light a town on fire to signal that the redcoats were coming? Maybe it's his matches...
I thought matches were cool, I wondered if they still worked😜
That means this is a really old radio!!!
Probably from the 80's matches had the striker on the front of the matchbook until the early 70's
"Grazin' In The Grass" by Hugh Masekela sure brings back a lot of memories!
It was definitely a Wells Gardner product, they seemed to like tube layout diagrams drawn in perspective. It looks like it's not in bad shape other then the dead lacquer on the cabinet, even the chassis is spotless. I would bet that the speaker could be repaired since it looks easy to take apart, it's likely just a bad connection to the voice coil, maybe the Litz wire to the coil broke off?
Teledial style tubing mechanisms were all the rage in 1937, and early 1938, the original Grunow ones came out in 1936, and were such a hit that many manufacturers came out with copies, including Philco. The way they work is you press in the button and rotate the dial downward. Since this was a budget radio made as a private label set, they used that horrid Tenite plastic for the buttons rather then brass like Grunow used. Anyhow they slowly fell out of favor as slide rule dials gained in popularity, then they went nuts over motor driven tuning.
It's hard to say whether someone stripped the knobs and those tubes out. Two of the tubes that were missing are dead common, 5Y3s are practically everywhere, 6F6s almost the same. As for the 6G5 magic eye, nine times out of ten those are dead to start with, since they were not required to make the radio play they were rarely changed. The knobs may have been made out of that same crappy plastic as the pushbuttons, or they may have been made out of wood as on an Airline radio, in which case they may have broken apart or disintegrated long before the Co-Op radio was dumped.
38:29 You found the Area 51 test station!!! 😄
The push buttons around the dial are similar to the car radios that had push buttons for preset stations. These look like they are wood and can be remade from dowel rods from any home improvement store
I just watched Easy Rider 8-26. Been a few decades. What a trip! :)
Very Great Job^^ ;=). Pretty Videos from good old electronic staff :=).
Glasslinger has excellent videos on cabinet restoration on vintage 1930s radios He has a complete machine shop with power woodworking tools and a spray booth to apply lacquer. He would definitely love this radio!!’
Yes , I think this relics are better managed by Glasslinger . He will restore everything on this radio to lock like new . . No offense to Shango066 intended !
Whoever wants to Pony up the money for shipping to adopt this one in the Patterson is welcome to them. They both need to find a new home quick
There I was admiring that old rust stained light bulb, one of the stars of many a Shango resurrection video. I was worried that in the position it was in, it may accidently be stepped on. Next scene, the meter got it. Whoops....
Wonder if that "this is a test" station was a local traffic advisory station that wasn't broadcasting any current traffic alerts? We have something similar in one of the states near me.
Oh, I must be living under a rock too. Had no idea Peter Fonda died.
I didn't realize just how beefy the Fluke 27/FM is until I came across one. That light bulb never had a chance!
@@uxwbill It's a military grade unit so it's really robust. Mine sill has the US Army calibration sticker on it.
0:15 "Milenial Style" LMAO!!!! i understood that reference 😂😂😂👌
Retrochad the hell out of this. Shango, you make the best videos! Again I know this is an older video, but all your vids rule. Shango for President ‘24!
It smells like a resistor? Please do a video on smells of old radio and TV components.
Burn some Bakelite for that realistic "it's almost like I'm there" effect.
Nothing like the smell of an old radio "warming" up the room. Ask any fireman! LOL
David Arnette old resistors when burned smell like burnt sugar cookies to me .lol
That tuning "dial" reminds me of the old dial-type selectors, where one presses a button and then rotates the dial.
Yeah the mechanism in the back looks like more of a "stopper".
Nothing like a mysterious female voice saying cryptic shit over the airwaves. I'm so happy that kind of thing still exists.
Wells and Gardener Phantom Telephone Dial has the same line up of tubes as the Model A-1 from Riders Volume 9-14 page 1559 of the PDF.
RIP Peter Fonda
You can still buy a 150W tungsten lamp in the EU for about 80 cents, it just says "For industrial use, not suitable for household illumination".
Co op were a supermarket in the uk that in the old days were formed by the CWS.the co op wholesale society.noticed it offered 234 volts as well as the normal US voltage so maybe available for England too.
Great video 👍
Great radio stations you got there wow I'm impressed
Wells-Gardner for sure. I can hear it screaming: 'Restore me!!' I would love to see Thomas Johnson taking care of that majestic cabinet; that is some devine wood.
No, it was saying "testing, testing. It's a great day for testing."
Wells-Gardner made some very good quality private label radios. I believe co-op was sold through a regional chain of stores. I've got two 1937 Airline sets using a similar chassis. Nice sets. Yours has a very appealing telephone dial with nice markings. Well worth restoring!
Enjoyable as always.
I would love to see that apparently rare old radio restored.
Co-Op was a house brand, built by several of the Chicago independents over the years. Yours is a Wells-Gardner A3 chassis, and can be found in Rider Vol 9-17. You can look it up on Nostalgia Air under Wells-Gardner. Should be quite a performer with 13 tubes.There will usually be the letters W.G.M.C. in the lower corner of the tube layout label or on the patent label on the chassis.
And the internet says it’s a Wells Gardner A7-MB had a picture of the same exact Radio.
yay its making sound and is back to life :P nice to see you have someone that will adopt it .. its a nice radio.. I love some of the things you say randomly @ 26:16 .. it makes me laugh .. haha love it !! nice job resurrecting this old boy.
Could be the highway dept. AM information system testing..thanks
As ever, fantastic 👌
Many thanks
I no longer listen to any broadcast radio. I receive all my radio by internet radio, no fading, crackle, just relatively clean audio from anywhere in the world. Love it!
The teledial preset buttons are identical to the Truetone D-698 "Dial O Matic" from 1937. Each button on the teledial has a metal switch that you move right to unlock, then press the button and move the switch left to lock in the preset. The bezel around the dial that is stamped CO-OP is not original. You can tell by the holes for the knobs. The Truetone had a simple brass ring around the dial. The dial graphic may also not be original. It almost seems like someone raided this radio for parts for a Truetone restoration, then substituted parts they had available.
Yeah that short wave test signal. Very strange. Cool video. Thanks for posting.
Very cool radio! Great diagnosis again Shango, thanks for sharing.
And remember, this is a test, this is only a test. The real exam will be delivered by airplane.
Found out Peter Fonda passed away by watching this, never know what you will learn from a video about an 80 year old radio
Just think of all the radio legends heard on that radio. Glad it still works.
save those wax capacitors for your slingshot take out the pigeons up in the corn crib
Or low flying Cessnas
Get em with the slingshot and put another pidge on the barby
I still listen to shortwave, it still rocks out :)
It's more than likely that the radio chassis was made by Welles Gardener for a chain department store other than Sears Roebuck. The May Company would come to mind and it's probably their house brand for radios .
good job to you and those guys who bring it to you ! Cheers !
Co-op was a store that catered to rural customers. They sold “branded” radios . I have a post-wwii Detrola product branded co-op. The set was indeed manufactured by Wells-Gardner . Their RCA patent license code was WG-24. W-G built many branded radios and many were quite good. The tuning system was “tele-dial” which was supposed to work similar to a telephone dial. You stuck your finger on the button that corresponded to the preset station you desired and the dial would stop turning when you reach that station. A big fad in 1937-38 . Then it went away. Those buttons were likely made from an early plastic called tenite. It was an “organic “ plastic that would decompose. It will take some ingenuity to make the buttons look good again. The 6k6 is a weaker beam power tube than a 6F6. If you can’t find a 6f6 use a 6v6 . This should sound ok with lower heater drain. I have a soft spot for old radios with shortwave bands plus this one has a 3 gang tuning cap and therefore a real tuned RF stage. Shortwave is still not dead . You need at least 50’ of antenna wire suspended in open space and you have to learn what time to listen to which frequency. . Plenty of weird fun stuff on shortwave . If you can’t find the Riders page under coop try to ID the Wells-Gardner chassis #. I’m am sure that it’s out there if you know what to look for. Glad you brought the set back to life. The person who threw the radio in the trash was a vandal
Correction-6F6 and 6k6 were power pentodes , not beam power tubes like 6l6 or 6v6
This looks very similar to my 1936 Silvertone console. Same basic type of cabinet, similar looking chassis and speaker setup, and dial, but mine doesn't have the preset buttons.
The incandescent light bulb ban only applies to bulbs between 25 and 100 watts, so 150 watt bulbs should still be available.
i got a 100w and a 200w incandescent clear bulb probably not vintage but its mains resistor at the end of the day
What a beautiful radio.
There are shortwave radio transmissions still on the air. Maybe not as many nowadays but some still out there. I don't think fcc.gov is up to date on their website for shortwave licensing info.
I have a 1934 RCA Victor. Center round dial, yellow-orangish back plate. It only gets static. Beautiful wood cabinet...large, about 4ft tall. For now it is part of the living-room furniture.
Awesome video I wish I could do this stuff
Never used to have any fear at all of electricity, even 240vAC here in the UK. But as i get older, i don't think my heart would take the shocks i got in my 20's and teens.
This was only a test!
Good for testing frayed line cords.............Probably a neat restore set!
Always an adventure looking into the innards of an ancient radio.
Maybe that mystery station is a placeholder for a secret numbers station at night.
I think this must be part of the British Cooperative society or co-op established (according to Wiki) in 1844 in Rochdale or Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS). They went worldwide including the USA. I still have a co-op supermarket down the road.
Edit.....Or maybe it isn't?
Edit again...Not the co-op down the road, (it is there I looked), the co-op radio. Maybe it was a pure US co-op.
Great find.I hope you get it working.I don't see those anymore here in Oregon unless there at some high priced thrift store or antique store-especially one for free.I haven't seen a freebie radio since the 1970s or '80s.
yeah!!! shango adorei você acabou arrumando um belo Radio antigo gostei meu amigo meus parabéns
yeah!!! shango I loved it you ended up getting a nice old Radio I liked it my friend congratulations
Frankly,I never heard of a "Co Op" brand radio before.The last free radio I got was a Philco 42-1008.I haven't gotten around to it.the chassis is under my workbench;the cabinet,record changer and speaker is in the corner gathering dust with my heater setting on top of it.
RIP lightbulb
I think the weird knobs are for presets. There were a few remote controlled radios back then.
5Rounds Rapid “telephone dial” big hit of 1938.