That radio with the 35A5 Loctal is the rarest of the rare. Those were the first year production models of the Little Jewel. That tube was already getting scarce, so they switched to the 35L6GT for the rest of production.
SH refers to the metal shell of the metal octal tubes - its almost always connected to pin 1 on the metal version and usually not connected to anything on the glass version if applicable.
Hi Shango, Any video you make is pleasure to watch, and it would be interesting to see how the second radio will end up. About J-hooking: I have a T600 ZTO I bought on EBay that I recapped (It did worked well with an exploded bumble bombe across the line cap), I used J-hooking in some areas of the chassis as not to stress the tube sockets. One consideration one has to make is where you live and the availability of parts, I live in Israel, so any part I would need for an American radio will have to be ordered from abroad. So, if I can do the servicing with minimum disturbance to these brittle parts, that's what I will do. By the way, the T600 works great with a step-down transformer from 230V to 117V. Best Wishes, Moshe.
I really enjoyed this video and yes, by all means do repair the other radio. I can't blame your distrust about lead, it is poisonous stuff and should be avoided if possible. That's why good ventialtion isn't a luxury when working on these radios... of course doing it in the open air as you do will work... you're lucky with the Californian weather though :)
"The world has enough vacuum tube radio repair videos." -- Yeah, maybe. But what you do is vacuum tube comedy, much different, much more rare, much more entertaining.
Well, now that we’ve checked the transistor-filled vacuum bulbs, we now must check the vacuum-filled transistor bulbs, too (just to be on the safe side.) 😏
The dangerous part of lead solder is inhalation of fumes while soldering . Not touching it would be second in my book because after working with it you should wash your hands with soap and water! Dry the hands with paper towels and not a cloth . Short in tube caused low output volume!
speaking of lead, i remember back in school our science teacher would put a drop of mercury in his and our hands and we'd roll it around cause it was so cool looking! now that stuffs considered hazardous and they'd never let anybody do that. different times back then before we knew better
SH on pin 3 goes to one side of the heater and to the outer metal shield, never seen a hard low impedance short from cathode to heater like that either. Try giving it a whack on the table?
Would love to see a video on the second and also performance differences. I've repaired a number of the same model of radio and noticed slight differences here and there, always find it interesting!
Very nice video again. Like to see the inside of American tube tech.😍 Unfortunately the government of Germany has decided to cut of all AM stations. All our nice AM tube radios are useless now 😢
@@spu77 thats true. I do sometimes listen to other stations in Europe and America. The more simple radio designs with grit leak rectification are almost useless anyway. Usually I try to sleep at night and it drive's me crazy to listen always to foreign languages. 😂💩 Well I will survive.
HA! We all have our idiosyncrasies; if your happy that is all that matters. I have, and will continue to enjoy your videos before gloves and now. 73 K1ZEK...Leo. da dit da
That tube tester is NOT just an emission tester, it's a full mutual conductance tester. Not only tests for emission, but measures actual gain of the tube (not diodes though, can only test diodes for emission). ALL metal octal tubes have pin 1 connected to the metal can. 'SH' is shield. OK with the gloves, though I don't think just touching solder will poison you unless you have a habit of licking your fingers. I've been using lead solder for over 50 years in the hobby (never was a professional electronics repair man or worked on any electronic assembly line) and have never had any symptoms of lead poisoning. Still, wearing gloves is cheap protection, especially since you work on so many sets that have had rat shit in them (THAT can get you sick!), not to mention high voltage. Also those blue nitrate gloves are much better than the thinner latex ones (I swear, when I wear the latex gloves paint thinner will soak through them).
Really cool design. Hope you are well Shango. I would love to see you and radiotvphononut get back together. The south is pretty much open. Maybe Heir Gov. Threesome will let you into Arizona or Nevada. People my age; 53; were exposed to quite a lot of lead. Tetraeythyl in Leaded gas, paint etc. I don't blame you for the gloves.
Looks like this is the Little Jewel Refrigerator Radio 📻, but in this episode, it's time for a recap. Maybe a re-tube. I think this had an operational dial light in your last video 📹. I don't know 👌 the condition of the dial cord. Ya said this little radio 📻 sucks cool 😎 air into the bottom, and warmer air, out the vents in the back of this radio 📻. It must have a built-in internal fan, for longer tube, and capacitor life, if I'm not 👎 mistaken. Looks like 👍 the dial light is also working in this episode. Bad 👎 capacitors are lossy, loading down the push-pull audio output, or however it goes. I like 👍 that grille cloth. It seems so original to the radio 📻. I know 👌about the organic rubber wire in these sets. It decays over the years, and from tube, and capacitor heat. That speaker must be field coil. Be careful ❤, this being a series-string set. Radiotvphononut 📻 advises us of the same thing. Looks a little like a previous owner has soldered new capacitors, in with the old ones, without taking them out of circuit. Good way to cheat a customer out of his, or her money 💰, especially if this was a dishonest repair person. Now 👎 that ya had the speaker 🔊 turned over, it appears to be permanent magnet. Your friend, Jeff.
love your vids as all ways keep up with the good work all so it got me into messing around with valves to got a cheap one of eBay and see what fun i can have with it LOL :)
In my experience a overlapping solder joint that has enough overlap and is a good joint will hold good. What you see here are cold solders. Nothing will hold if it's a cold solder. Basically all modern electronics is made with overlapped joints (SMD) and they don't all fall apart.
I feel your frustration with "technicians" I have to deal with all kinds of industrial equipment, and I often find all kinds of crap. Shitty crimps, cold solder joints, and fuckwittery like people installing batteries wrong then blaming everyone but themselves. An example- Kind of tough to get a Genie boom lift to work, when you decide that a 48 volt system based on a 8 six-volt batteries in series, really wants 8 six volt batteries in parallel.
The old RCA's were ▪︎▪︎▪︎REALLY ▪︎▪︎▪︎big on using metal jacket tubes and advertised that fact (where Zenith @ Philco etc. liked shields in comparison). The problem with them .... I've found is their being prone to this very thing. I don't know if its age & degradation of the overall sets, mis-handling & abuse or just use over time that causes this issue. Changing to GT's often fixed it if found in time, otherwise it's a full bore repair or oftened condemned. That's why some (as myself) prefer checking tubes before booting (not being critical here understand). Side note: Back in the day (for those who aren't aware) tubes were often sold and pushed to be changed multiple times over the normal life of a set (by tube manufacturers) (be it a radio or TV) (some twice or more a year), it was big money and an industry in itself. Now days 'what might have thrown out years ago' is considered a treasure. But again, you simply can't tell until they're tested. Having said that, I just purchased 300+ tubes from a collector and found over 123 with simple single &/or multiple defects. On the brighter side the price was right and I have another 170+ nonetheless.
The Parts chassis did look a better bet! Somebody did not know about Heater Cathode shorts but they do happen. I solder better than that with one hand!
Personally, I’d be more worried about all the other potential hazards found in old gear... rat droppings, whatever wonderful concoctions are leaking out of any electrolytic components, and any ionic heavy metals present... Soldering temperatures isn’t anywhere near enough to vaporize the lead; but the smoke from the flux is pretty nasty. Gloves, a fume extractor of some sort, and eye protection (yes, I have had solder bubble and pop and send liquid metal at my face) are all requirements for this and washing with a hand cleaner that has grit (like crushed pumice) is recommended.
31:00 Grid going negative is normal; it can be caused by high audio peaks forward-biasing the grid-to-cathode diode, in which case the grid acts like an anode, reverse-charging the plate-to-grid coupling capacitor, which then cuts the tube off for a short time. Other reason is space charge if the grid-to-ground resistor is high enough (e.g. more than 5 Mohms, that's not the case here).
I tried to avoid lead myself but now I have a bullet in my thigh that can't be removed. I skipped ingesting it and went straight to injecting it straight into my leg at supersonic velocity!
32:17 is just a portion of KRDC’s “Radio Disney” and it’s still broadcasting into April. The problem is that longtime listeners of “Radio Disney” who end up going to SiriusXM for their music fix which is now running Disney music 24/7 known as “Disney Hits” which is now on channel 302. Remember, iHeartRadio pulled the plug on “Radio Disney” a few weeks ago, and KRDC is the only station left at 1110 AM. No word on they’re what they are going to sell the station. Right after the Anaheim Ducks hockey season is over. We’ll find out when the announcement comes in. If you want to learn about the new “Disney Hits” channel on SiriusXM, check it out. The link is down below. www.siriusxm.com/music/disney-hits
So what exactly are tubes then shango? Diodes,triodes,transistor equivalents or something? Are they all similar or all completely different? Would be great if you could do a video explaining the roles different tubes play, cheers, Paul.
Depends on the internal construction. That is why they have different designations. Could be a diode, or triode, tetrode, pentode, heptode... But in principle every tube with more than two connections (heater excluded, or counted as one connection) is a field effect device. So triodes which have a cathode, one grid and an anode are what you may know as a FET. If the grid (gate) is non existant, then it is a diode :-)
Sounds like somebody in the comments has tried to predict the end of the world 🌎. Overprotective with masks and gloves. Hey Shango066!! These are those nice refrigerator radios. Glasslinger has done ✔ a total restore in her past. The diodes probably go bad 👎 after the years, like 👍 capacitors. The tubes are also be expected to be weak. The dial cord looks great 👍, and the dial bulb works, and the radio 📻 dial also looks good 👍. You're not 👎 bad by using gloves or masks here, but it seems like 👍 in the comments, others think it's going to be the end times, or something. I'd replace the organic rubber wire in this. Sounds like 👍 a fire 🔥 engine in the background. Looks like 👍 you're using a permanent magnet speaker, but your field coil one is bad 👎. Just don't get shocked on this hot 🔥chassis (series-string) set. Maybe the one in the comments should touch it. LOL 😆 😆!! Good thing ya corrected the super-bright dial light bulb, and the over-volted tubes. This would burn 🔥 them up ☝ in short order. I think a capacitor is failing in such a way, that it's allowing excess voltage ⚡ to go through the circuit. Nice metal potentiometers. Not 👎 plastic junk. Looks like 👍 a few bumblebees in here. That red capacitor worries 😟 me a bit. Somebody soldered it in parallel with the other capacitor, hence the name "idiot". Dishonest repair person. This is worth the name "idiot". This thing sounds good 👍 right now 👎. Your friend, Jeff.
I was at a swap meet yesterday and there was a green one of these radios in dubious condition and the seller wanted $200 for it! I go to swap meets to get away from eBay prices. 😒
Tubes got a bad name because so many dishonest technicians replaced them needlessly for the 75% markup. (That does not apply to the 6GH8 and its relatives, which were usually bad.) Based on 52 years tinkering with electronics.
i always hope to grasp what shown here - not a lost moment. 'Never judge a book, or Radio, by its cover', as one may be just wearing Emperor's Clothes. California 'news' is Funny! "Catastrophizing" - what 'education' is built upon; "Brain" - what it's not. thanks
Time to turn the camera arround and see shango dance to brittany spears whhhoeehoeeeee 🥂🍻🍾🎵🎶🙈🤣
that would be a good 50k subscriber celebration
I'd like to see you repair the other one myself. I love videos of watching someone getting these old jewels working properly again. 😊
You are a smart man shango keep useing glovs .
From a futre nurse.
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@@jefffoster3557 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That radio with the 35A5 Loctal is the rarest of the rare. Those were the first year production models of the Little Jewel. That tube was already getting scarce, so they switched to the 35L6GT for the rest of production.
I suspect the 35Z5GT rectifier with dimple in the glass red plated at one time causing the glass to melt. Interesting video!
SH refers to the metal shell of the metal octal tubes - its almost always connected to pin 1 on the metal version and usually not connected to anything on the glass version if applicable.
video the other one too. love watching your vids and how you repair old stuff
Brother, thanks for the vids. I always watch vids at night before bed to unwind. Love the commentary!
Hi Shango,
Any video you make is pleasure to watch, and it would be interesting to see how the second radio will end up.
About J-hooking: I have a T600 ZTO I bought on EBay that I recapped (It did worked well with an exploded bumble bombe across the line cap), I used J-hooking in some areas of the chassis as not to stress the tube sockets.
One consideration one has to make is where you live and the availability of parts, I live in Israel, so any part I would need for an American radio will have to be ordered from abroad.
So, if I can do the servicing with minimum disturbance to these brittle parts, that's what I will do.
By the way, the T600 works great with a step-down transformer from 230V to 117V.
Best Wishes,
Moshe.
Your videos are great, your wearing gloves to protect yourself is great, your one of the BEST there is. Thank you
I haven't heard Ebony Eyes in decades. It's one of those songs they don't play on oldies radio where I live.
Good radio repair!
Shango
I love yours speeches I understand evry single word
That tube tester is a thing of beauty. Looks to be in perfect condition.
I really enjoyed this video and yes, by all means do repair the other radio. I can't blame your distrust about lead, it is poisonous stuff and should be avoided if possible. That's why good ventialtion isn't a luxury when working on these radios... of course doing it in the open air as you do will work... you're lucky with the Californian weather though :)
"The world has enough vacuum tube radio repair videos." -- Yeah, maybe. But what you do is vacuum tube comedy, much different, much more rare, much more entertaining.
Yeah, where else would you see picture bulbs, if not here :)
I wouldn't mind a short vid about what it took to get the other radio going.
Well, now that we’ve checked the transistor-filled vacuum bulbs, we now must check the vacuum-filled transistor bulbs, too (just to be on the safe side.) 😏
you can only do that when the death capacitors are loaded into the bambulance 🙈🤣🍻
Maybe it’s humming because it doesn’t know the words.
Can't get enough Shango. more bambulance!!!
I never knew I would be so emotionally invested in whether Radio Disney was still on the air in LA. Britney forever!
Parts chassis looks much better and more fun to work on
Wearing gloves is smart,I use them at the range when handling ammo, my fingers turn black from the lead when I don’t wear them, and that’s not good.
Loved the video, I have 3 of these little jewels, one works, and the other two... well not so much. Lot's of trouble shooting coming up. God bless.
Nice and clear language
The dangerous part of lead solder is inhalation of fumes while soldering . Not touching it would be second in my book because after working with it
you should wash your hands with soap and water! Dry the hands with paper towels and not a cloth . Short in tube caused low output volume!
Hold your breath while soldering?
A small fan to blow the fumes away is what I use. Works good!
This parts set a good demonstration that you need a decent mechanical connection in addition to solder
Yes, there are a lot of radio repair vids out there, but NONE are quite like yours! Great video!
9:40 the ad really sounds like the radio is reacting to the fiddling of its sensitive parts
I liked the Robert John guess , that's Sad Eyes . Ebony eyes was Bob Welch
Bob Welch was early Fleetwood Mac guitarist as I recall.
Precious Love radio hit I remember as a kid. I think he died a bit young as well.
I'm going to try to be more careful with lead. Thanks for telling us the story.
The "Blue Gloved" radio devil strikes again!!! Some great tips there "buddy". Thanks for the look.
Well spotted on the pin!
hell yes repair the 2ne one please, Mr J hook..........Your hook is my command!
Bob Welch . Ebony eyes 1977
speaking of lead, i remember back in school our science teacher would put a drop of mercury in his and our hands and we'd roll it around cause it was so cool looking! now that stuffs considered hazardous and they'd never let anybody do that. different times back then before we knew better
SH on pin 3 goes to one side of the heater and to the outer metal shield, never seen a hard low impedance short from cathode to heater like that either. Try giving it a whack on the table?
I actually have a couple of times.
Sry to hear about your friend :.(
Sometimes it is all about the revision, other times not so much.
Another fine video
Ebony eyes by Bob Welch. Yes, repair the other one.
GE Data Sheet names 12SJ7 pin 1 (SH) as "Shell and Internal Shield"
Would love to see a video on the second and also performance differences. I've repaired a number of the same model of radio and noticed slight differences here and there, always find it interesting!
Very nice video again. Like to see the inside of American tube tech.😍
Unfortunately the government of Germany has decided to cut of all AM stations. All our nice AM tube radios are useless now 😢
You can still listen to foreign stations at night!
@@spu77 thats true. I do sometimes listen to other stations in Europe and America. The more simple radio designs with grit leak rectification are almost useless anyway. Usually I try to sleep at night and it drive's me crazy to listen always to foreign languages. 😂💩 Well I will survive.
Up to you man, if you wanna film the other radio I'll watch it. More Japanese TV's though, I'd like that even more
That is how I think about it too!
HA! We all have our idiosyncrasies; if your happy that is all that matters. I have, and will continue to enjoy your videos before gloves and now. 73 K1ZEK...Leo. da dit da
Metal tubes did tend to leak a bit more.
Thank you for this de catastrofication.
man I have catastrophized so many times in my life
Wow, the soldering, (or lack of). in that radio was appalling. Nice repair job.
Someone luvs their cheesy pop music 👍🎶
That tube tester is NOT just an emission tester, it's a full mutual conductance tester. Not only tests for emission, but measures actual gain of the tube (not diodes though, can only test diodes for emission).
ALL metal octal tubes have pin 1 connected to the metal can. 'SH' is shield.
OK with the gloves, though I don't think just touching solder will poison you unless you have a habit of licking your fingers. I've been using lead solder for over 50 years in the hobby (never was a professional electronics repair man or worked on any electronic assembly line) and have never had any symptoms of lead poisoning. Still, wearing gloves is cheap protection, especially since you work on so many sets that have had rat shit in them (THAT can get you sick!), not to mention high voltage. Also those blue nitrate gloves are much better than the thinner latex ones (I swear, when I wear the latex gloves paint thinner will soak through them).
Really cool design. Hope you are well Shango. I would love to see you and radiotvphononut get back together. The south is pretty much open. Maybe Heir Gov. Threesome will let you into Arizona or Nevada. People my age; 53; were exposed to quite a lot of lead. Tetraeythyl in Leaded gas, paint etc. I don't blame you for the gloves.
sure I like to see the other radio repaired.
Part 2! 😊 Part 2!
Cause of the one song playing on the radio I just want to say every Shango dance now.
Looks like this is the Little Jewel Refrigerator Radio 📻, but in this episode, it's time for a recap. Maybe a re-tube. I think this had an operational dial light in your last video 📹. I don't know 👌 the condition of the dial cord. Ya said this little radio 📻 sucks cool 😎 air into the bottom, and warmer air, out the vents in the back of this radio 📻. It must have a built-in internal fan, for longer tube, and capacitor life, if I'm not 👎 mistaken. Looks like 👍 the dial light is also working in this episode. Bad 👎 capacitors are lossy, loading down the push-pull audio output, or however it goes. I like 👍 that grille cloth. It seems so original to the radio 📻. I know 👌about the organic rubber wire in these sets. It decays over the years, and from tube, and capacitor heat. That speaker must be field coil. Be careful ❤, this being a series-string set. Radiotvphononut 📻 advises us of the same thing. Looks a little like a previous owner has soldered new capacitors, in with the old ones, without taking them out of circuit. Good way to cheat a customer out of his, or her money 💰, especially if this was a dishonest repair person. Now 👎 that ya had the speaker 🔊 turned over, it appears to be permanent magnet. Your friend, Jeff.
love your vids as all ways keep up with the good work all so it got me into messing around with valves to got a cheap one of eBay and see what fun i can have with it LOL :)
"Ebony Eyes", by Bob Welch!
The SH pin does double duty as a heater and a shield pin. Keeping them separate would require either nine pins or a top cap.
Yes make a video on the 2nd one please .
In my experience a overlapping solder joint that has enough overlap and is a good joint will hold good. What you see here are cold solders. Nothing will hold if it's a cold solder. Basically all modern electronics is made with overlapped joints (SMD) and they don't all fall apart.
37:10 Ebony Eyes, Bob Welch, 1977, from the album French Kiss.
I feel your frustration with "technicians"
I have to deal with all kinds of industrial equipment, and I often find all kinds of crap. Shitty crimps, cold solder joints, and fuckwittery like people installing batteries wrong then blaming everyone but themselves.
An example-
Kind of tough to get a Genie boom lift to work, when you decide that a 48 volt system based on a 8 six-volt batteries in series, really wants 8 six volt batteries in parallel.
Taking precautions is the senserble thing to do.
I was told by an old radio engineer that the first rule of tube radio repair is to confirm all the tubes are good.
I think SH is shield or the metal can.
that is exactly what it is----- your are correct!!!!! you deserve an "ATTABOY"!!!!
The old RCA's were ▪︎▪︎▪︎REALLY ▪︎▪︎▪︎big on using metal jacket tubes and advertised that fact (where Zenith @ Philco etc. liked shields in comparison). The problem with them .... I've found is their being prone to this very thing. I don't know if its age & degradation of the overall sets, mis-handling & abuse or just use over time that causes this issue. Changing to GT's often fixed it if found in time, otherwise it's a full bore repair or oftened condemned. That's why some (as myself) prefer checking tubes before booting (not being critical here understand). Side note: Back in the day (for those who aren't aware) tubes were often sold and pushed to be changed multiple times over the normal life of a set (by tube manufacturers) (be it a radio or TV) (some twice or more a year), it was big money and an industry in itself. Now days 'what might have thrown out years ago' is considered a treasure. But again, you simply can't tell until they're tested. Having said that, I just purchased 300+ tubes from a collector and found over 123 with simple single &/or multiple defects. On the brighter side the price was right and I have another 170+ nonetheless.
The Parts chassis did look a better bet! Somebody did not know about Heater Cathode shorts but they do happen. I solder better than that with one hand!
Personally, I’d be more worried about all the other potential hazards found in old gear... rat droppings, whatever wonderful concoctions are leaking out of any electrolytic components, and any ionic heavy metals present...
Soldering temperatures isn’t anywhere near enough to vaporize the lead; but the smoke from the flux is pretty nasty.
Gloves, a fume extractor of some sort, and eye protection (yes, I have had solder bubble and pop and send liquid metal at my face) are all requirements for this and washing with a hand cleaner that has grit (like crushed pumice) is recommended.
Liticap sounds like a mumble rapper
31:00 Grid going negative is normal; it can be caused by high audio peaks forward-biasing the grid-to-cathode diode, in which case the grid acts like an anode, reverse-charging the plate-to-grid coupling capacitor, which then cuts the tube off for a short time. Other reason is space charge if the grid-to-ground resistor is high enough (e.g. more than 5 Mohms, that's not the case here).
The grid was going positive
SH is the metal shell.
I tried to avoid lead myself but now I have a bullet in my thigh that can't be removed. I skipped ingesting it and went straight to injecting it straight into my leg at supersonic velocity!
The SH on pin one means tube shell .
I wanted to ask about the gloves, more power to you. Might be a good idea I did the same when I get "hard core" soldering/handling.
I vote repair other one. Thankyou
So I see what the across the line cap is affecting, but what is it doing? Is it filtering AC line harmonics out the RF stages or what?
To someone who fixes old electronics, E.D. means electronic disfunction. Is that a Hickock tube tester?
Oops...I might have violated copyright laws by saying that!
32:17 is just a portion of KRDC’s “Radio Disney” and it’s still broadcasting into April. The problem is that longtime listeners of “Radio Disney” who end up going to SiriusXM for their music fix which is now running Disney music 24/7 known as “Disney Hits” which is now on channel 302.
Remember, iHeartRadio pulled the plug on “Radio Disney” a few weeks ago, and KRDC is the only station left at 1110 AM. No word on they’re what they are going to sell the station. Right after the Anaheim Ducks hockey season is over. We’ll find out when the announcement comes in.
If you want to learn about the new “Disney Hits” channel on SiriusXM, check it out. The link is down below.
www.siriusxm.com/music/disney-hits
Disney is awful. It should be called pedoworld. They go where the kids are. Walt understood that. Disney pedos are arrested all the time.
Hi
So what exactly are tubes then shango? Diodes,triodes,transistor equivalents or something? Are they all similar or all completely different? Would be great if you could do a video explaining the roles different tubes play, cheers, Paul.
Depends on the internal construction. That is why they have different designations. Could be a diode, or triode, tetrode, pentode, heptode... But in principle every tube with more than two connections (heater excluded, or counted as one connection) is a field effect device. So triodes which have a cathode, one grid and an anode are what you may know as a FET. If the grid (gate) is non existant, then it is a diode :-)
@@kuebbisch Awesome thanks, amazing to think how these work really
Sounds like somebody in the comments has tried to predict the end of the world 🌎. Overprotective with masks and gloves. Hey Shango066!! These are those nice refrigerator radios. Glasslinger has done ✔ a total restore in her past. The diodes probably go bad 👎 after the years, like 👍 capacitors. The tubes are also be expected to be weak. The dial cord looks great 👍, and the dial bulb works, and the radio 📻 dial also looks good 👍. You're not 👎 bad by using gloves or masks here, but it seems like 👍 in the comments, others think it's going to be the end times, or something. I'd replace the organic rubber wire in this. Sounds like 👍 a fire 🔥 engine in the background. Looks like 👍 you're using a permanent magnet speaker, but your field coil one is bad 👎. Just don't get shocked on this hot 🔥chassis (series-string) set. Maybe the one in the comments should touch it. LOL 😆 😆!! Good thing ya corrected the super-bright dial light bulb, and the over-volted tubes. This would burn 🔥 them up ☝ in short order. I think a capacitor is failing in such a way, that it's allowing excess voltage ⚡ to go through the circuit. Nice metal potentiometers. Not 👎 plastic junk. Looks like 👍 a few bumblebees in here. That red capacitor worries 😟 me a bit. Somebody soldered it in parallel with the other capacitor, hence the name "idiot". Dishonest repair person. This is worth the name "idiot". This thing sounds good 👍 right now 👎. Your friend, Jeff.
I used the TV-7 in the Army.
J-Hook is an approved method. No apologies necessary.
Any Ham radio viewer here ? 73s from PD0ROH.
KG7LSA
@@KortNatali 73s to yall in phoenix from the Netherlands .
the amplifier are soo weak like 500 mw or 1 w power ?
Radio Disney is still on? Gawrsh! 😜
Ebony eyes Bob Welch.
I was at a swap meet yesterday and there was a green one of these radios in dubious condition and the seller wanted $200 for it! I go to swap meets to get away from eBay prices. 😒
What’s the reasoning for leaving those old wax caps in there??? Especially the .2
A bit over 8 minutes in: a reminder to check for termites!
Warming up please wait ⏳🙏
"THE PROBLEM IS NOT IN YOUR SET------ PLEASE WAIT"!!!
I think some of your vacuum tubes might have ED problems.
Jiffy Lube radio repair?
Tubes got a bad name because so many dishonest technicians replaced them needlessly for the 75% markup. (That does not apply to the 6GH8 and its relatives, which were usually bad.) Based on 52 years tinkering with electronics.
inner mittens capacitors
i always hope to grasp what shown here - not a lost moment.
'Never judge a book, or Radio, by its cover', as one may be just wearing Emperor's Clothes.
California 'news' is Funny! "Catastrophizing" - what 'education' is built upon; "Brain" - what it's not. thanks
Justin Bieber is Canadian but lives and works (?) i in the U.S. Good thing cuz Canada doesn't wan't him.
Bob Welch
I always assumed the gloves were for mouse poo...... or roach poo.