It’s gorgeous! It looks coming right out of an airliner cockpit. How would it compare to say the Sony ICF2010d from the same era if memory serves me well?
This was a fantastic serie! Very impressing work. I was about to purchase one and was looking at getting to know a bit more about it before. This was quite humbling to say the least. Giving all the risks involved with the aging components, it would be miraculous to find any second hand radio without something on the verge of breaking down, not mentionning I could not even test it. I’m starting to think it’s not a great idea, given I have zero electronic knowledge, nor do I have any equipment to sort anything beyond replacing the batteries, or potentially a bulb. Thanks mate, it was very interesting and joyful to watch.
Hi from Australia. Earlier this year I bought part of a deceased estate collection and there were a number of Pye radios. One was an absolute monster I sold off quickly at one of our clubs trading table days. The others are here waiting to be restored. Among them is a P53! It is a Pye of Cambridge build, but judging by the video has exactly the same chassis and speaker. It has all the valves, but when I fired it up on the dim bulb it motorboated something chronic. The cabinet is in better condition than your one, only because someone has started to strip it. No knobs either. Judging by your resto, I should get going on mine! The other Pyes of interest are a PE93U (Cambridge), and a 7MSP (Melbourne, Aust..) Both use the same cabinet, but have different chassis. There was also another unmarked one with an Astor GN chassis. Pye and Astor where partners during the 1950s as TV approached in 1956. As an aside, Manuel has redesigned the Bluetooth module to include volume matching with an op-amp. It's far better than the original design! Best of luck with future projects, and I hope you will look at some of my videos. (Shameless plug!!)
Thanks for this,brings back memories ,my mum had this exact model.I spent hours tuning up and down the shortwave bands ,in the evenings, listening to VOA ,radio Moscow and radio Luxembourg on 49.26 and many others. During the day it was tuned the light program on 1500 meters as medium wave didn't work.
Wow, it looks good, and it sounds good. Now, with the Bluetooth connection, if you record some of the old Radio Luxembourg broadcasts (or even the jingles) and play those through this old radio (after sunset, for authenticity), that would be cool.
Love some of the things youtube throws at me. Really loved this. I could almost smell it when you opened it up. As a child born late sixties I can remember sweeping through the SW bands on a (?) Bush radio, with the green glowing oval. Fabulous!
What a brilliant unit. I wish I could find something like it here in Australia. We mainly get AM and SW units here. The only FM units I have been able to find are either Japanese units or very expensive German units.
I wouldn't be surprised at the selenium rectifier, which usually has five or so units stacked, reading a high resistance as the stack, if the resistance meter only has 1.5 volts in it. Replacing this is not a bad idea, not because it does not work well now, but because these rectifiers can burn out without warning, creating a horrible and somewhat poisonous stench as they do so.
That’s a really great looking radio. Good job. By the way, I upgraded the Bluetooth pcb to include a preamp stage. This means that now you can boost the module signal to make up for the low level.
Hi Manuel, Yes, I have got your updated pcbs, but had this earlier one already built up so used it here for convenience. Thank you for your comment. Rod
I have also this Piece of very good Receiver. It works very well. The only thing i have repaired ist to Change Lambs :) The sound of this Receiver awesome. Thanks for the very good Repairvideo. I don't no why the Transformer Coil will damaged.
That model radio looks very similar to the one that was used in the British War Series "Danger UXB". You can see it in the officers lounge, they even listened to it occasionally.
Good afternoon I have a Grundig Satellit 2400 radio, by pressing AM you can hear the frequencies well. When I change the upper button to FM, the frequency 389.5* appears and I cannot modify it to MHZ, what could it be? The rest of the khz frequencies work fine. thank you.
I'd usually frown at gutting so to speak the chassis of vintage radios then go this route. I'm also interested in old vintage clocks and it is annoying seeing it happening adding cheap quartz mechanisms off amazon to them. Don't get me started on people selling on Facebook marketplace old antique furniture saying upcycle, upcycle, grrr lol. You did an amazing transformation and as said its being used again as intended. Thanks for sharing.
Good afternoon I have a Grundig Satellit 2400 radio, by pressing AM you can hear the frequencies well. When I change the upper button to FM, the frequency 389.5* appears and I cannot modify it to MHZ, what could it be? The rest of the khz frequencies work fine. thank you.
Hi my friend 😊I am from India. I have Sony ICF 7006 which is an absolute digital radio and it is more or less lying in coma as it wasn't used for many years. I took the radio to Sony ,India but they after keeping the radio for 2 months regretted. If you can fix my radio come back out if its coma then I won't mind shipping it to you . And shall also pay for repairing charges.
Awesome troubleshooting skills Sir. I live in Brazil and inherited an old Bush export set I been working on for 16 years! Besides the electronics your carpentry works are also top notch. Cheers.
Nice job. The cabinet looks great. I can't remember the RU-vidr, but there is another channel that sometimes converts valve radios to transistor radios by actually using the existing valve circuit and valve bases with various modifications. It may be RFBurns who does it?
Love it! I’ve enjoyed restoring old sets too and have fitted am/fm modules , but not seen the one with the pot tuning before. Keeping the mechanical tune working makes a big difference to the finished result, so thanks for sharing your hard work. I aim to copy some of your ideas! (How did you bend the Perspex frame?)
I constructed a homemade bending frame using an element from a hairdryer stretched into a channwl fitted below a hinged table the temperature controlled by the varactor in the workshop. I might do a video sometime in the future. Thank you for your comments.
More RIP vintage radio than RAP I think. However your solution for fitting the new digital radio is ingenious esp. using a pully mech. on the original variable cap tuner body. I did wonder what would happen to that LM317 dropping 14V across it without a heat sink. I hope you keep the old radio chassis parts in case you ever get to fix another one that has good valves. I suppose even if you could find alternative valves it still wouldn't be original so you might as well make something that can be used. The case looks superb. Can't wait to see the final results of all your efforts.
