Vintage radio repair with a comedy slant through the eyes of a dumb stoop...old Buzz....Also enjoy the antics of Dickel, my gnome friend, Plus other stuff, and my 60's 8mm comedy films!!
What a week you had! Hopefully your wife's car is located soon! Glad to hear that Peanut is feeling better, she is a cutie! I must admit, when the video showed the Little Boy Blue pieces all laid out & the yellow pencil appeared, I had a good laugh. Dickel tries his best!
Nice to have a new video, but dear Buzz, for us foreigners, can you try if you can put text on, otherwise I have to play it in slides so I can follow along (my bad school English is now 45 years old ;-) )
Just saw 👀 your video 📹 while browsing RU-vid. I often comment David Tipton, and ALWAYS get a reply back from him. I hope 🙏 this becomes your living room radio. You'll get it back to it's former glory. Please don't cuss David Tipton out!! He specially packaged the dial glass just for you!! He also should have included some dial cord (and maybe a dial cord restringing diagram inside the package) for you!! This restoration will definitely be worth 👌 a few beers 🍻!! Your friend, Jeff!!
What a treasure to RU-vid you are Buzz! I can't explain how happy I am when I discover a new video from you. I have to just stop what I'm doing and immediately watch it, start to finish. Sorry for your recent troubles. Keep your chin up and finish this radio as I'm sure you will.
Buzz, Not only did the thieves steal your wifey's van, but they also stole the original note I included with that highly technical 2-knob radio. I knew you couldn't fix it.🤣 Regards, John
Hey John!, what's your problem with me?...all I know is that you sent Dickel a package with a toy in it, and you paid him to fix it..... Dickel read the letter you sent, and I can personally verify it was verbatim, as Dickel read it, and that was your signature..... Dickel fixed it , and It works very well, and he loves it, so If you want it back, then talk to him! ....I have to say, though, you have a nice crib there, but I am sorry you cant sleep without your "Little Boy Blue" toy.......Maybe you can get a new Ba-Ba that has a music box in it. Warm Regards, Buzz
Buzz, Per the Oxford Dictionary- Verbatim: "Exactly as spoken or written synonym word for word." Shame on you for forcing poor old Dickel to fix that highly technical 2-knob radio for you. Off camera, he probably does 98% of your so-called repairs and restorations. And for the record...my sleepy-time jammies are red. 😋 And it was good to see Peanut again. Regards, John
I should have the problems you have Buzz, and cheesh tweaker hippies stole the wife's car no less! So Dave sent you a POS i.e. lemon of a radio but it is nothing you can't fix. Seems it wants to work it just needs that magic Buzz touch. So glad that Peanut is on the mend. The John from Arkansas skit was funny especially the photo of him with a Teddy Bear and baby bottle in his crib. Just fantastic stuff and only part one! Steve from Chicago
Where did you get such a clean copy of that Little Rascals music. I have a "tombstone" super heterodyne made by U.S. Radio from 1927 I want to rig up blue tooth and be able to play old timey stuff like this on it. I'm looking for old music like this, jazz, country music, old commercials and news broadcasts, anything I can get my hands on. I always thought the Little Rascals music was cool and I'd love to get hold of a copy.
That's going to be a great radio after you do your magic on it. Hopefully the transformer will multiple input taps so you won't have to use the step up transformer all the time. Glad to hear Peanut is on the mend. We lost our dog to cancer last month. As for the SOB who stole your wife's car there's a special place in hell for thieves. If you haven't yet I'd consider getting some security cameras. I have several including a floodlight cam that monitors the driveway that will turn on the floodlights when motion is detected.
@@Buzz1151 Melbourne, 1422 kHz AM. Looks like they’re a Greek language station nowadays. Melbourne has a big Greek heritage population. Back in the day, 3XY was the number 1 station for top 40 rock n roll and pop music.
*WATCH IT!* Those three-point plugs are *FAR BETTER* than those used in America! They're *FAR SAFER* as there's *ONLY ONE WAY TO INSERT THEM INTO THE SOCKET!*
Buzz thanks for the nice radio video sorry to hear about the car. Hope they find your wife's care. You must be Portland area. looking forward to next video
Sorry to hear about your wife's car, Buzz. Better call the insurance company. Did David send along some more stained undies for the cabinet refinishing? That should cheer you up! Glad Peanut's feeling better and thanks for the "Oh's," I love that girl!!
Don't be embarrassed about the 97' Cavalier. Backup vehicular here is 97' 626 Mazda 2.5L. No shame at all with classics. Great restore this far Buzz TNX
Buzz you and David Tipton are my favourite restoror video makers on youtube, I repair and sometimes electrically restore old electronics but never got into the cabinet restores. I enjoy watching you work. I'm 72 and my vision is going so I may not be doing the work much longer
G'day Buzz. Been looking forward to this one. Ive never heard of that particular radio myself, but now I'm definitely keeping an eye out for the Beethoven variant of the radio. Its a very nice looking set. Cant wait to see the finished product on this one mate.
Hey Buzz, great video, i didn't know David could sing though... i was astonished you were able to get to play so well on the 1st attempt, well done ! Looking forward to part 2 now, thank's for sharing.
Good work, Buzz! I like to power things up and see what I’m getting myself into before recapping. If that method is good enough for you and David Tipton, it’s good enough for me. As long as Peanut is OK, your automotive woes don’t matter as much.
powering a radio up in a video before recapping is more exciting, well at least i think so....as long as you it check out before the power is applied. .Peanut is taking it a day at a time, and hopefully more weeks and months and maybe a year.🐶
Crikey! Buzz! lat looks like more fun than finding a Joey in your undies. Well what can you expect from a place where the water goes down the loo the wrong way.... Sorry to hear about those tyrannical Portland thieves. Pretty standard fare considering who is in charge of the state.... You could always move down to Cottage Grove! nice little town only 10K people. God bless bud.
hay buzz, get Peanut a can of Alpo, yum yum! btw, howz about a cookin vid, bern a long time. Old John from Arkansauce made something like cheekin caciatore. Pethaps you can try making a vegemite sangwich.
Well Buzz Ellen and I enjoyed part 1 and am looking forward to part 2! Sorry about your car troubles, maybe Sickles can GIVE you the $500 for a down payment on a replacement automobile. Blessing Leo and Ellen.🙏
Hi Leo and your lovely wife Ellen...looks like wifey will use my car, till she can save up enough for a down payment.....but she was smart, ..she saw Dickel napping with the $500 and snatched it up, and he was never the wiser when he woke up! haha😂😂
Hi Buzz! What a cool radio. I liked the cartoon also. Glad Dickel was able to fix John's music box. I miss that guy, wish he would start making videos again. Best to you, Bill.
Wow Buzz, that radio is worse than I thought, my apologies 😟 I know you will do your best but I think it's a lost cause...hehe... 😊 I'm sorry you had a rough week Buzz, it's good that old Peanut is on the mend. Well done finding the info on the radio and the schematic from Graham, he is in our local radio club and has a keen interest in Music Master Radios. His schematic differs to the one I sent you. The Sticker on the back of the IF can is called a ARTS&P sticker. ARTS&P handled all the royalties for all the radio patents, the radio manufacturer paid ARTS&P the royalties and ARTS&P paid the patent holders. Radio licences were discontinued in the 70s so you are safe. Those yellow/green capacitors are called Philips mustard caps and should be OK to keep. In the song, Waltzing Matilda relates to a swagman walking along with a swag on a stick. The swag is called Matilda and you are said to be waltzing along with her. Thanks for playing that Buzz, I haven't seen that Slim Dusty clip for years. I chucked in an extra speaker because I could see through the original but it looks repairable. I hope we are still friends after I sent you that piece of junk 🙂🍻🍻
I was expecting tie me kangaroo down sport by Ralph Harris, or that song about a vegemite sangwich by Men At Work. I actually have a digereedoo, and enjoy playing it. And i enjoy foreign radios, I once had a Barlow Watley, a very interesting portable, wish i still had it. I hope Buzz insurance covered the car. GTA is a felony if they catch the theif. We had to junk a couple Toyotas recentky, got robbed by a Toyota dealer. So Buzz went to Ausdieland in his 30s, I'd like to hear more about that? The only other country I was in was Canada. Wouldn't it be cool to talk across the big pond with Buzz on a transceiver? I am a ham radio guy, DXing with radio is fun. It would be interesting to see you and Buzz get your hands on an old tube ham transceiver like a Drake, Heathkit, Johnson, Swan or Collins. Old tube military receivers are also a hoot. 73, Don
tsk tsk David!...a piece of junk?... no way mate!...I sent YOU a piece of junk! 😂...well,....maybe both were junk.!!....but you restored my radio like new, and I will do the same for yours.....thanks for the info about the swagman and his swag stick, swaying and waltzing with it......I've loved that tune since the 3rd grade , when the music teacher played it, and sang it back in 1959.....a few years later, I watched the movie "On The Beach", and they played that song through out the film..... It was a warm and cozy film, about an all out nuclear war, and everybody dying from fallout, and the last place still survivable was Australia,...for a while...... I'll keep the mustard caps if they check out ok...and any personal history on the radio and who owned it would be helpful, so I I can mention it in the video...... thanks my friend, cheers, 🍺🍺🍺🍺Buzz
Wow Buzz, you sure do put an impressive amount of work into each video! Sorry to hear of the series of family calamities though; that tough! The Aussie radios are a bit different, a simple AM radio with all the provinces looks like a multiband radio at first glance. Most all the Aussie radios have a power transformer with a full-wave rectifier, which is a huge bonus over the US AA5 design. That particular radio David sent you, appears to be an AA5 design using 6 volt filament tubes. Since so much power is wasted on filaments with the AA5 design, I would expect this radio to pull about 22 watts. You may be able to use a capacitive tap on the primary of the power transformer to step up the voltage to 220 Vac. Connect two 5 uF plastic film caps in series, which connects to the transformer primary. Then connect the 120 Vac to the cap center tap and one side of the power tramsformer. That RF input transformer is in a vulnerable mounting location, looks like it could easily be damaged by removing the chassis from the cabinet. I would be tempted to relocate it to a safer place.
@@Buzz1151 I just mentioned the cap voltage step-up in case you wanted a stand-alone radio without the voltage converter. You can't do much about the 50 hertz though.
Hi Buzz. Sorry to hear about Peanut and your Wife's Van. Loved the Song from Down Under. That radio will be great when you get it done. I am looking forward to more from you. As always My friend I liked and shared. All my very best to you and yours. May the crooks who stole your Wife's van get whats coming to them !
hey my friend Bobby....thanks, looks like cops don't investigate stolen cars anymore, so the insurance will pay off the finance company, and the thieves win again...it's getting sad 😔......take care ..🙏
Hi...the laughing was an inside joke for my family 😂...they make fun of it, but it has never failed me till the tensioner snapped, and that was a an easy fix!....I love my 27 year old Cavalier, and will probably keep it till I drop dead!. You are right about the new cars getting ever more intrusive ! cheers..🍺
Crazy looking dial glass. I was thinking it was shortwave too but it’s just AM. I believe that’s correct. Sorry about your car troubles. Very happy that Peanut is responding to treatment. I think you deserve to relax with a beer for all your stress and troubles 🍺. Make it 2.🍺🍺 Steve
