1934 Crosley Model 179 Part 1 

Will wonders never cease. You got this nearly a basket case of a radio working. You're an amazing guy Buzz. I do love the Buzz Cinema of High Noon. You and your brother put a lot into it.

Enjoyed your video!!! Good luck on your restoration of the 1934 Crosley radio. It'll' be a masterpiece just like all your other radios. The 8mm movie High Noon was pretty darn good!!! It gets better with age.

That was a thriller of a video. It looked like a goner until you touched that probe to the volume control and got sound. I don't know the technicals about radios, but you had me on the edge of my seat as I watched!

so thankful I STUMBLED across this video. Thanks again. Where can I get some ice cream!!!

That’s a REAL Crosley radio 📻. In a way, that’s a Radiotvphononut 📻 special. A few vintage radios 📻, have been sent to him, broken 😞. This one ☝️ is surely worth a few beers 🍻. It was my birthday 🥳 on June 5th. Your friend, Jeff.

Can't wait to see the cabinet finished. I know it will be beautiful. I am hoping to add a 1930's radio to my collection someday.

Can ways count on you for knowledge and humor. Made me laugh, thanks Buzz!

Thanks again Buzz .All good buddy ! Beer time. Can’t wait for the next one.

FYI - The old Crosley manufacturing plant that built all those model of radios in the 30' & 40's burnt down a few months ago. Been up for sale for several years. Rumor has it there was a buyer, but don't know the reason what caused the fire. Glad to see your restoring a piece of history for this brand of radio. Thanks Buzz Rusty - A.R.S s KU8O

Hi Buzz, just watched the video, when you pulled the box capacitor out of the chassis, your sound effect made me roar with laughter! I look forward to your 8mm films, they are a hoot! Good luck with that poor old Crosley.

Oh Buzz... you bone head! How easy is it to make a mistake like that 😂 The cabinet should come up a treat, it is in pretty good condition aside from the fretwork. Todays Buzz Cinema was edge of the seat viewing, I was happy to see Will got the girl 😄

Well done Buzz! That cabinet is going to be a challenge for sure. Cheers, John

A tombstone that looked like it needed a tombstone brought back from the dead... cheers.

Holy cow! Buzz broke down and bought a Fluke meter. Nice. I have a nice Fluke 189 which I love.

Another great project / adventure 👍

Amazing job getting it working..... it will be beautiful when you are done.

I am a year behind on your vids but holy crap. You got a Fluke!!! Last year. CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am binge watching your vids. I just heard about John from Arkansas wife passing. Thanx for the update. Love your vids and your work. I love my Fluke 87V.

Is that Crosley a straight set? You've certainly some work on your hands, Buzz with all those caps! Clever 8 mm film exploits! I've just borrowed an 8mm digitiser for my old 8 mm films of the 70s! Well done there!

This is so great watching a perfect restoration of yes teryear followed by Buzz cinema which always absolutely kills me has me in stitches 😂

Great work, Mr. Buzz.

Thanks Buzz! I really enjoy your old movies with your brother Bizz. I assume, because he is taller, that he was the older brother. Did he drive the film making fun? Also, is Bizz still around? If so how fun to include him sometime. If not, how great you have all these recorded memories to appreciate. Thanks Buzz and Bizz for your camera fun!!

Good video enjoyed High Noon,keep em coming. 🐎

Great to see you back. That cabinet will be a challenge but I think you have done a super job on another one that was worse. Nice job on the 8MM. I had to laugh at some of the more modern things showing up in the old west.

buzz even though our leader is falling down your videos never lets me down thanks.

I have that same model signal tracer... it can be very handy indeed.

The 80 is my personal favorite tube. especially the globes. This radio has a lot of similar parts to that Crosley I got from Old64Goat. I think the speaker on that is toasted. I need one of those signal tracers! I was fixing an old Airline for a friend. I had it working but then it stopped stone dead. I had not one but two tubes blow out at the same time! took me days to figure that out! PS loved the film at the end! lots of great camera work!

Wow ! For once I enjoyed the western even more than the radio restoration. I think High Noon was your best effort to date, and I've seen all your vids ! AND John from Arkansas is back !! Fond memories of potatoes competition. Things are looking up ! Wonderful channel you have, keep it up !

Great work on the CROSLEY, mistakes?...I make them quite often. Love the skit, you have a great talent.

A Fluke model 87V. Nice product placement. Nice choice in meters.

That was an awesome recovery after a fumbled beginning. This radio and cabinet looks like it needs a lot of work. You have your work cut out for you. I enjoyed your High Noon Production! Thanks so much Buzz...

The High Noon video was really good 👍

Thanks Buzz another quality Buzz video. I really like it when you pull out the test gear. Knew you had it when that came out. It’s like watching Buzz cinema. Leaves you with warm feeling on the inside. Thanks again, awaiting the cabinet puzzle that will be fun. Dean

Buzz, you make a fine leading man in the movies! I am impressed. That radio has a lot of potential - I'm looking forward to the next episode!

Always enjoy your videos Buzz, the Crosley sings again good work.

looks great dont put your finger through the speaker Buzz

Joy of joy. Another Buzz video! Good luck old friend.

Thanks Buzz, It all looks great so far. Put a little Shinola on that cabinet and stick it on the shelf.

Holy broken records Buzz. If it was any more fallen apart, it would have been an Ikea Flat Pack radio. Still I am excited for the end result and your problem solving abilities

Those wildwest high tension lines, gotta love it 😊

Hi Buzz, this is my first posting to your RU-vid page. RU-vid's sorting algorithm first suggested one of your videos about 6 months ago. I must say, your unique radio restoration style gave me the initial impression that I wouldn't find anything technically useful, what with the off-beat humor, 1930's background music, obnoxious sound bites, troublesome gnome, and vintage 8mm shorts. After viewing more than a few minutes of some of your restores here and there, I discovered you really know what you are doing. Anyone that can rewind power transformers, field coils, and re-cone speakers ranks very highly in my book. I have been restoring antique radios for 50+ years and made a career of sevicing and designing the RF/analog portions of communication transceivers so, am not a new comer. In going through the schematic for the Crosley 179, I notice a few things that caught my eye. It is using the first generation of tubes that are indirectly heated. The 2.5 volt filament (6.75 amps) was used in the early 1920's tubes, so was likely a holdover from then (Ah, tradition!). I think that low voltage was used orginally because the early tubes used a standard tungsten filament from a light bulb, and they needed to be run at a high temperature to generate a sufficient electron cloud. The lower filament voltage made use of a thicker filament, thus longer filament life. This radio actually has AGC! Very advanced for 1934! There must be a mistake in the schematic but, I noticed resistors 63, 68, and 69 (which forms a voltage divider to bias the detector output) is dissipating 40 watts! The second tube in the radio is being used as a mixer/local oscillator. The oscillator portion of the circuit is using the suppressor grid as the oscillator input and plate as the output. I have never seen this done before. There isn't gain available using this configuration plus, the RF input signal will FM (Frequency Modulate) the oscillator when strong signals are present. At first glance in the start of your video, the radio appeared to have taken a hay-maker in the speaker lattice but, seeing the rest of the radio, it actually doesn't look too bad. Those speaker lattices are usually thin plywood with veneer, which often comes apart over time. Using your "bag of tricks", I know you will come up with an adequate fix. Don't feel bad about the capacitor mis-wiring, it happens to all of us sooner or later. Otherwise, keep up the good work!

Just goes to show how smart you really are. You and your brother should have been the next Peck And Paw. Be cool and I will see you in the movies.

Nice job Buzz! I'm going to list everything JB has accomplished: [null]

Hi Buzz. Great job on the radio . I love your Film's when you did them back in the day.. I see Dickel is still his good old self : ) As always I liked and shared. All my very best.

The Western was petty good.

I guess at some point you could stop down at the Rexall Drug store and test the tubes on the tube tester. They kept spare tubes underneath the tester you could buy. There was a variety of socket on the testing panel and meter I think with colors on it Good bad etc.

I'm sure that willbe one sharp radio once you work your magic on it, Buzz :) I don't think I'll ever manage to get back into radios as much as I'd like to myself. I just spent the last week in the hospital with kidneys trying to fail because I didn't know I couldn't take Aleve because I'm diabetic. It made my sugar drop so low they wanted to fly me to Louisville to a big hospital there to workon me. I did manage toget them to take me by ambulance instead because I told them if they wanted me to die, put me up in the air and I'd die from sheer fright. I'm back home and my kidneys are working so I don't have to do dialysis, but I think I just escaped that fate by the skin of my teeth. So you'll forgive me if I just lay around and watch you restore them :)

La reparación fue un éxito buzz la rejilla del gabinete dará un poco de trabajo pero de seguro te quedará de 10 como siempre..esperaré el siguiente video saludos buzz.

That's why I'm not a fan of working on Crosley's of this vintage because they use those stupid dual capacitors and you think the band in the middle is a common connection but on some of them, only one cap goes to it! I did the same thing you did on a Fiver, assuming the band was common. Same results...no sound. As soon as I corrected that cap mis-wire, it came to life.

Hi old buzz, limey here, Transformers draw current even when unloaded, magnetization current, however its out of phase iwth the voltage, making low power factor resulting in very low acual power consumption.

I loved it. Maybe they will remaster your High Noon version to 4k. I think I heard a Hoppi laugh in the first part of your video.

30:00 Where's Dickle? He would have been really hard on you about that.... Cool radio. Can't wait to see it fully restored. Stay well!

Interesting radio. That was an easy enough mistake to make Buzz. You would figure the center band is a ground but here it connects the plate to ground through the .001 and to the grid of the final through the .03. It's almost like those were early versions of couplates. Great rendition of High Noon also! 👍👍

8:00 The Henry L. Crowley Co. made a lot of radio\television parts, managed to get a new factory and machinery from the US Government for War Work (BEFORE Dec. 1941), sold 100% of it's parts to to the US Signal Corps., but sued the Government (and lost) when the US Gov. did not remove their old equipment from the factory in 1946 as they had agreed to. Judges said too many factors besides that could have caused lost profits in 1947-1948 ... not sure what happened to the company after the 1950's ... lawyer stuff ...

Wow you aren't kidding Buzz you did start with a real basket case from 1934. It's always good to have happy accidents when you work on a radio. One wire connected in the wrong place really does make a difference. Thanks for another great video Buzz. Oh and by the way my oncologist pronounced me cancer free after 6 months of Chemotherapy so I will be around to bug people on my videos.

fun city, boss

I have a 1932 Crosley 171 full sized console. I has a few cardboard box condensers too. I did a superficial troubleshoot and only got some hum out of the speaker. That one has been on the back burner for a couple years because it has so many weird looking components and I can't find a decent schematic.

Those dual paper caps can be a puzzle. Sometimes the common lead isn't ground. But you do need to do something about that messy rat's nest of wiring under the chassis. Throw in some tie points for crying out loud, Shango would really call you out!

A Fluke multimeter? Have you won the lottery?

YAY New Buzz

YEAH!!!! Another BUZZERIFIC video and a new one to boot! I always enjoy seeing a new video from you on here! This looks like a fantastic one to restore...reminds me of the 1932 Mystery Cathedral Radio that you did such a fantastic job on. I have a request concerning this radio...especially the case. Would you PLEASE work your Buzz magic on the case and stain the entire case? I mean, the inside, the bottom, everything! I am glad the transformer turned out to be good. I am sure you could have wound more wire on it if the thing was open on one of the windings or more, but it would be a bit of a pain for you now wouldn't it? Still, you always do such a wonderful job of winding the coils. You also are going to add the Colonial Red paint, right? Oh, and about that capacitor being in the wrong place...I know you really DIDN'T make a mistake and wire it to the wrong place, it was Dickel that did that! ;-) Looking forward to the next video in this series.

Good one Buzz. Joe Brandon? Yeah, I know whatchoo mean. Can’t wait to see your magic on the cabinet. 😮

Hi Buzz, Please clarify something for at least me. You had the rectifier tube out for the first turn ON. Where did you hook up your meter leads to get 800+ volts? Great start, by the way, to another fantastic deries. Thanks again.

bug crawling around at the 20:51 mark lower left of video lol. Radio wont work as it has bugs in it

Enjoyed another Buzz broke-it fixed-it video 😋 . A thought came to me and maybe you could do a quick video on this. How do you find all the little “comment” clips you insert into your videos? Do you go looking for them, or do you hear them in other media and capture ones that you think you might use later? Thanks for all the hard work you put into your repairs and videos. Very enjoyable!

what does that grill cloth smell like

Good Lord Buzz, go calm down the Goat, he is taking trolls too seriously

Awesome! It's always a possibility that a small error happens in replacing components! Thankfully that misconnected capacitor was just a time-waster and not a power transformer waster! Buzz, I always look forward to your videos. They are educational, and also very entertaining and relaxing to listen to. Hard to find all those benefits in one video! This reminds me... I got a Crosley from around 1934 as well! It operates on an entirely different principle than yours but it still might interest you! The nameplate is almost identical which is cool! Seems Crosley branched out beyond radios for a while, and went into other domestic appliance markets. They invented something (or a feature of something we all have) which still has a legacy today. Here's the video about my Crosley find! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oLHw_wL8tdE.html

All things considered, your version of "High Noon" was fantastic! I really enjoyed the shots with power line pylons. Near Torrance?

What is that finish made of ? Diamond ?

If you start sniffing speakers i will unsubscribe.

Buzz, C'mon, man. Quit playing around, old man. Find a real basket case radio to restore. This one is a one hand behind the back and one eye closed minor project. pfffftttt A baby could do it. Regards, John

Nice work on the radio. Movie was great, but could have benefited by adding a little more gratuitous sex and violence.

I subscribe and watch all your videos! Love them. Could you please leave your politics out of them? It would be greatly appreciated!