Father and son projects involving vintage technology repairs, new technology reviews, security cameras, and electronic experiments. With occasional random subjects such as a movie analysis or a car hitting a mailbox. On this channel we've repaired 20 tape decks, remodeled 2 houses, and evaluated the length of time needed to flush a toilet! Coming to you from Memphis, TN, USA.
well, given all the interruptions i had to watch more than once to understand your over-all review, at least enough to know i've decided not to get one of these. i have one of the Realistic, those have always been great eq's
You're welcome... Yes it was a pain to have to replace this expensive part, but a lot less than a new oven. The control panel is still working as of May 2024. Earlier this year the "beep" sound stopped, but that was fixed by simply taking the oven apart and tapping on the internal beeper speaker a few times...
Most card key systems do have an option to show door use in real time - and I've seen them used this way - companies just don't always bother to do this but scan the logs if there is an anomaly
My fave movie as a kid! It was so nuts. I still love it and of course the two versions of the theme song by Sue Saad and Kim Carnes. The whole ost is great.
In all cassette decks the best ones are JVC,HARMON KARDON,TECHNICS,MARANTS another things you look for is the highest recording levels and anything past the L/R channels of 6+ and above is the best if you have one that goes from +8,9,10+ these are also great the rare ones go past a level of 12+ but in that area you are looking at tapes in METAL forms only the Cr02 is limited but does just as well only you have tio adjust your INPUT levels and for that I'm done now.
For those requesting, I did a "setup video" with links to the code as it exists today: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XEjdrgU8CAQ.html
Great video. Here is some more context. In the upper oven there are vents to drain excess heat away from the door. If you open the upper door and feel under the control panel overhang you'll see the vents that take that excess heat...and dump it right into the sensitive electronics of the control panel 🤦♀. So, no surprise, after a while the thing is cooked and fails. It is a fundamental design flaw. If you want to preserve your range for as long as possible, don't do any serious baking in the upper oven, just the odd bit of broiling, and leave the door open to cool once you are done so the heat can escape. Yeah, I know. There are two failure modes. One is that the circuit board fries, and the other is that the glass touch panel dies. As of 2024, the first is a $300 part, the second is a $900 part. I've had both over the 10+ years I've owned this unit. You can get the parts at geappliances.com/parts. The repair is straightforward, but knowing which part has failed seems to be a gamble - and these are expensive bets to be wrong on. The PS978ST1SS range has been replaced in the GE Profile range by the PS960YPFS model. Costco has it for $2900. At that price you might seriously consider whether ongoing repair of the older model is worth it. GE addressed the design flaw in the new model, but still, a control unit full of electronics directly above a hot oven is still a tough engineering challenge. So I would still recommend not over using the upper oven and venting the heat quickly after use. Much more concerning about the PS960 model is its introduction of WiFi on the critical path to functions like air frying working. You will want to look at this feature very closely and ignore the marketing. Irrespective of how you feel about wifi, privacy, etc, it's yet another thing to go wrong.
Thanks for the info! Will try the open door technique and use the bottom oven more. We've bought this new in 2013, and mostly use the upper oven.... It lasted a little under 10 years, which is a lot less than the GE double oven that came with the house in 1977 and was working fine when we replaced it (aside from a few heating element replacements over the years).
When we were in high school in the early 1980s, someone was having a yard sale several houses down the street. One of the items in the sale was a late 1930s/1940s-vintage, table-top radio-phonograph with an external microphone (Zenith, Philco-? We don't remember). On the turntable inside were two tone arms, one for playing records and one for recording on discs, like yours. You could record directly from the radio or record live with the microphone, just like Betty Herron did here. The professional transcript discs used to record radio shows had the groove starting towards the record's center and spiraled outward. So did the discs used in early sound films. Those records were huge, though: 16 inches on diameter!
Anker is the best earbuds for every price point! Iv had 8 pair since they came out and hav gifted em a few times and they were all loved. You cant beat em for the price
Hahaha I love your son's enthusiasm for tape decks from the 70s. I hope my son gets into vintage hifi gear too. He does enjoy listening to tapes, I play him a few and his mum in the car also.
@ACBMemphis I hope so and I haven't bought another dud off ebay. Its not the brand, I love JVC stuff, especially from the 80s (and Technics and Hitachi too), it's whether this seller has been honest. Hit and miss sometimes, had some great bargains and other times got totally ripped off.
7:50 That problem you’re having with the video dropping in and out if you would listen to the capstan motor it’s probably phasing meaning it speeds up and then it slows down if it does that there’s a bad cap on the power board that feeds the capstan motor I remember fixing an old VCR like that that had that particular problem. I thought it was the video heads.
1:21 I have both those VCRs The nice thing about those late 70s early 80s VCRs they were built like a tank and they were pretty much bulletproof except for the belts. I’ve had mine for years both of them and they still work great if they’re kept in a very nice environment free from moisture and dirt they will pretty much work. The only sad thing is, they’re only mono they’re not stereo it’s too bad my newer VCRs are stereo. But I used to always love those top loaders. The only Achilles’ heel, that those two machines have is the little lightbulb that is underneath the top loading mechanism without that the VCR won’t work. But you can find close enough replacements, which I had to do with mine. They just plug-in a two prong socket. And I still have the original boxes those VCRs came in when new
Have the same issues with volume. Sometimes scratchy and also right speaker goes out. Never thought it could be the speaker button. Thanks for the tip. Will try cleaning that with wd40 contact cleaner.
You compared the bottom of the line Pioneer against a middle/top of the line Yamaha. If you had compared a Pioneer 8500 or 9500 they probably would have performed much better. Also the 6500 analog could need an alignment, whereas the Yamaha digital probably doesn't ever need an alignment.
Hi there, I love your TV videos📺 . Can Ya please tell me how You know that this TV was made in 1969 ? I am a big fan of vintage so it would be important to me. Thanks in advance Sir❤
@@ACBMemphisThank You for Your quick answer! You are a Gentleman👍 I was able to see that " 69 " only after Yr response. I hope it really means or proves that this TV was made in ' 69🕰️...... All the best to You ❗
How long ago it was, but today all the engineers’ work has turned into scrap metal. Yes, before technology was made by engineers with a capital “E”, but today managers
I got all the capacitors from digikey.com. Looking back at my email, here are the part numbers from the order: 1572-1534-ND (2 of these), 1572-1528-ND (1), 399-12838-ND (4). Also 1572-1260-ND (10 of these for the Suzuki capacitors) and 493-1609-ND (1).
@@ACBMemphis Thanks a lot!!! I replaced all the Suzuki caps and I will order the others!!! I replaced belts and some capacitors in the preamp section it sounds really good.
was handy for people at home record at their own will cassettes like a radio dj or just use it to play music at home like a crossfader, because today everything is diferent it doesn´t have use for it, the reason why it was released from 83 to 85 not today, i could say as an example ,why today amplifiers and turntables have worst sound than the cheapest components sold in the 70´s and 60´s, having a excessive price and new cartridges if not above the 2.000€ price are like childrens equipment from Chico, from 4 to 10 years old, people also use to complain about sony or pioneer high-end amplifiers in the 80´s or 90´s ,now they buy grabage and in their minds are audiophiles , and non matching components as i knew a person ,(he died of cancer) that had a hegel pre and power amplifier with some B&W speakers ,then sound was just horrible ,when at my home as i bought his cdm speakers i had a stoped A-717MKII from the 90´s and he couldn´t believe how good the sound was ,using a 70´s turntable from technics not the SL-1200(i had two MKII for 35 years) working machine but a good one ,and he spent three times the money of the Pioneer reference amplifier with 100watts each channel (real ones) to buy is Hegel amplification system ,that is a good brand but one should read the specifications before buying them ,not just because they look pretty, audiophile style it seems they don´t like music but look like they are experts without knowing nothing about hi-fi components, but money is what matters if expensive means good, well if assembled in the backyard of someone it sure will be pricey but big brands built them cheap as they have assembly lines and produce their componets by the thousands, not meaning they are bad
I was looking to see if I could trigger the garage door opening with a relay to the lights within the garage. So pulling in, garage would completely light up. But also allow for standard wall switch to operate the lights. Would that be a appropriate? Or would I need a relay? Since I want either a wall switch or the garage door to trigger the garage lights, I assume I would set up a parallel circuit to switch the garage lights on. 120 V input would go to the hardwire switch on the wall, which turn on the light parallel to the hardwire switch, the relay would operate, which would close the 120 V circuit. Resort, either or both the hardware switch or the relay would allow the garage lights to be triggered on by closing the circuit
I would think a relay would be necessary. The wires on garage door openers I have used have power (maybe 24V? used to power an indicator light or radio receiver) which is interrupted by pressing wall switch, so maybe you could connect a relay to that power, so the relay would close when power was temporarily disconnected? However, a cleaner solution might be to use a motion sensor as an input to the relay. I have not tried this, but Shelly makes a battery-powered motion sensor which can control a Shelly relay.
Watching your video really brought back memories. When I was tasked to design the 87 series, all cassette recorders were the shoe box type with function buttons in front of the pop up cassette door. I wanted a more serious unit and not a portable unit so I flipped the deck vertically. That's why the function keys are on top-that's where they were on the shoe box version. The transport assembly was beefed up beyond the portable units for a higher quality product. Thanks for your video.
Back in Puerto Rico my maternal grandparents had cable directly to the cable ready tv, but then even if they have the basic pack, they all needed the boxes.
Billie Jean was #3 for the year, #2 Flashdance by Irene Cara #1 Every Breath you take by the police I have the top 100 of 1983 on vinyl and Billie Jean came out at #3.
Interesting... The Wikipedia article "Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1983" shows (1) Every Breath You Take, (2) Billie Jean, and (3) Flashdance. Is your vinyl a Casey Kasem record? If so, maybe he was using a different Billboard chart... Thanks for the comment!
Dusk to dawn continued to work for me, as it was a separate module. However, a different model light with a monolithic module might exist (as mentioned by some commenters)
I bought a JVC KD-A3 when they came out. It made fantastic sounding tapes! It made better sounding tapes than some of the considerably more expensive decks that friends of mine owned. Certainly not in the class of a high-end Nakamichi from the same era, but for what it cost, it was certainly one of the great audio gear bargains of its time. Even though cassette tape is no longer relevant (my opinion), I kind of wish I still had it.
Was just wondering. I am wanting to have the ability to view vu meters on my system. If I have a three head cassette deck, does recording have to actually be engaged to view the meters?
It depends on the manufacturer of your cassette deck.... You could probably just put your deck in "Record Pause Mode" and the meters will run fine without recording, but when doing that, be aware that the motor will probably be running too. Sometimes you can work around that. For example, on the JVC KD-A3 in this video, while I have to press record and play with a tape inserted to _actually_ record, I can also bypass record prevention with a finger and press the record button by itself without a tape in, and the meters will work without the heads engaged or motor running.
The power on beep from the Nokia clone cell phone was also heard on Twister, which was released 2 years later in 1996 and also directed by Jan De Bont and also starred Alan Ruck. And the brick cell phone that the late Dennis Hopper used was a Pioneer PCH-600, manufactured by Motorola based on the DynaTAC platform, in 1992 for Pioneer Electronics.
