My family owned this model TV in 1956 when I was 5...watched "Tom Terrific" and "The Lone Ranger" on it! I remember that round screen like it was yesterday!
It might surprise you folks that I was born 1985. My grandmother bought my brothers and I cassette tapes of old time radio. Back in the 90's we didn't mind being sent to bed because our mother would allow us to listen to some old greats. Sgt Preston was one of my favorites.
How old engineers and repairmen even managed to make sense of old tvs is beyond me. Looking at that jumbled mess of wires and components makes my head spin. Reminds me of some of those old breadbox wiring images. Your channel also deserves more views considering how awesome it is to see these old wooden beauties be brought back to life.
Thanks for the kind words! I think the fact I can see every component, and there’s so much room, is why I like it. I can really improvise when replacing components on where everything will fit best. If I need to add in a fuse, no problem, there’s space to do so. It’s a lot of trial and error and problem solving which I absolutely love.
My father was a self taught technician for tv and radio repair and owned his own shop 1949 until 1965. Spent many hours looking over his shoulder. Your terms bring back memories. Thanks
@@briandprice1981 I can almost guarantee you the ol timer ain’t around no more given the fact that he worked on TVs from 49-65. Unfortunate, but it’s all our fates.
As a guitar player, it’s wild to me how similar these old television sets are to the tube-powered amplifiers we guitarists adore. Great job on the repair mate!
When I was four years old my parents had an Emerson table top TV that I remember watching a local kids show called Wunda Wunda in 1953. The tube was probably 9 inch and I watched the kids show around noon when KING NBC in Seattle came on the air. My Mom said I will turn the TV on to warm it up so I could watch it. So many years ago, but remember watching TV at 4 years old. Nice restoration on your TV.
@wanaraz Yes.....here some trivia about Brakeman Bill. He had a contest where someone would win a train layout like on the show. I remember a kid who won. Go maybe 10 years and we had moved to Snoqualmie. I was inv9th grade and developed a friendship with a guy who lived there. Low and behold in his garage was the layout he won from Brakeman Bill!!! Do you remember Captain Puget, Stan Borissons Club House?, I remember Brakeman Bill on Channel 11 in Seattle, maybe you were thinking Brakeman Bill.
@@Idelia412 Never heard of those. Maybe in America and in California Los Angeles we had different shows. We had Captain Kangaroo. Howdy Doody, Nelliebell, Rin Tin Tin of course lassie, Sky King , Sherri Lewis and Milton Beryle. And many others. Personally I liked all the cowboy shows. Like Gene Autry , Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger and others.
Your videos remind me so much of visiting my grandparents in the early '80s. They had a TV in the back bedroom from the late '50s that us kids were allowed to use (the living room TV was off limits to us). We had to go back there and turn it on a good 15 minutes before we actually wanted to watch anything, because that's how long it took for the picture to come on.
When I was a child in the 1960's we inherited my grandparents black and white tv. I so well remembering to on occasion having to give the tv a thump on the side to get the picture to unscramble. I was also, because I was near sighted, and sat closest to the tv, the 'remote control'. I got to change the channels and adjust the rabbit ears, and fine control - everybody remember 'fine control'?
Wow. I can’t believe I’m seeing this. I remember seeing Roy Rogers with The Sons of the Pioneers sing “Cool Clear Water” on one of those . My first exposure to television. Nice job.👍
You do great work. I found an really old tv in a drainage ditch when I was a kid , brought it in the garage and cleaned it . Turned it on and it worked, somewhat. The CRT in it had metal sides. These were connected to the Flyback HV. It did not take me long to find out the fact, to turn it off to reach in the back wiggling the tubes. 20 KV will sure make you respect electricity.
*THATS BEAUTIFUL* the cabinet reminds me that these woods were NOT all dark brown and dingy as we see them today. Those dark forboding wood panelled walls in the soviet era buildings, if you see the old colour photographs they are bright and vibrant light coloured or teak coloured when new. I think it was the right decision to re do the veneer.
except wood was pretty bright in the 90s and early 2000s, most of that wood paneling from the 70s was fine, darker woods are fine, some people like a house that isn't as bright as an office building like the millions of 2010s/2020s era buildings with the same tacky bland interior, the dogma around late century design after the 1960s makes no sense
You took us back to the 40s or 50s with that super antiquated television set Sir. Give your self a pat on the back. Meanwhile, I’ll send you respect. Very nice👍🏻!!!
Very unusual set. Here in l'il olde England there were no electrostatically-deflected TVs made commercially post WW2. ES-deflection was confined to kits and home-grown TVs made out of war-surplus parts. The added possibility of duff deflector coils/line output transformers would bring in their own troubles. Keep up the good work!
Great job. Takes me back to my "early days" of testing tubes at radio shack and working with my dad repairing tvs. Got me into electronics and computers.
I was initially thinking about not saving of the original veneer as an overall loss, however, a fusion of 1949/2024 in the cabinet was a great decision. Not going solid state to make it functional was also sweet. Thank you for the lessons and the entertainment.
I wish I knew enough to fix these old televisions. My grandpa gave me his old family TV that his dad “my great grandpa” got from a friend in 1959. It was a 1950 model RCA. So I don’t wanna get rid of it since it’s been in the family for like almost 70 years so I’d much rather fix it. Just sucks I cant😂
My first and only so far TV restoration is a big heavy behemoth of a 1955 zenith 'tabletop' model. First, I want to see the housewife carrying this thing around. It's gotta be close to 80 pounds. Second, what got mine going again was I pulled the chassis, sprayed the pots with WD-40 and worked everything back and forth. Watch everything closely and have a helper ready to yank the cord out of the wall in case something starts going awry. Note: I am not a TV repair man or an electronics expert. I'm a residential electrician at best. This was my experience, your luck may vary.
I absolutely love your channel. I like repairing things and have fixed a few TVs too, I love seeing people take good care of tech and doing repairs, this is the spirit we should all have ngl.
Hey thanks so much, that really means a lot to me to know people like the content I'm putting out. I do wish more appliances today were more accessible to repair. I think it would be good for people overall to know how things work.
17:20 Those dots you mention are called "chroma dots", and they're caused by the way colour information is carried in a TV signal. The Dr Who episode "The Ambassadors of Death" had been preserved only on B&W film. The B&W picture tube in the telecine caused the chroma dots to be recorded onto the film, and in 2008, a technique was invented to recover that colour information!
Wow... the underside of the chassis looks a complete mess, how on earth would anyone even with a schematic diagram start to fault find that!! Hats of to you sir for sorting that out 👍 And hats off to the people that constructed it in the 1st place. 👍
@@televisionforever spot on. It looks very complex in the construction side & no doubt a headache to fault find. I'm currently attempting to repair my old philips PM 3233 scope which i find a bit awkward, but it does have mainly PCB'S rather than tag board. 👍
That mess you said is by the craft technic those long ago times, a point to point with so many tubes circuit looks that someone were make repairs with bad or none criterea...😮
@@kkteutsch6416 its an amazing and very good achievement how they were able to construct sets like they did back then. It does look like a mess , i wasnt being distasteful in my comment. 👍
LOL those wires/capacitors look like the Salvador Dali version of what the inside of a TV looks like, not what I would expect to actually find in a TV.
Wow, it looks spectacular and performs incredibly well! I have refinished many cabinets but I have never replaced veneer. I am now inspired to try my hand at it!
I would love to own that! Old tec like that is awesome. All the diodes and resistors in that thing are super indimidating. It is amazing what engineers had to do before solid state components were developed.
It's good for another 75 years. :). I have a set that has a RCA 630 chassis, 10 inch kinescope. In 1984 it worked pretty good. Probably doesn't work anymore. The next owner can figure that out. My dad bought this set in 1948.
Just came across your channel today, I'm 32 and absolutely love the old electronics from the 30s to 60s , the work that your doing is awesome ! Keep up the good work buddy !
You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... the Twilight Zone.
Excellent job! Cannot believe the work you did on this. Its amazing that you were able to restore a tv this old. I can’t imagine the historical events this TV probably showed. The bomb on Hiroshima, the Korean War, the election of Eisenhower. Pretty amazing!
Great work Jack! You should be very proud of the restoration. Those Motorola chassis are fun to get going - and sometimes very difficult... I look forward to your future work!
This is so fascinating to me seeing how these old TVs work and seeing them work again. I would like to see more of the restoration of the electronics and the chassis though
This is pretty cool! Gadzooks.....the view of the wiring and resistors on the inside looks like a bomb went off in old radio shack parts shelf 😅😂🤣 I have an old 1947 RCA AM/FM table top radio that has circuits that look half as complicated to repair inside and I still cant get brave enough to try restoring it yet for fear of ruining it. This video was a good motivation to tackle it in small steps.
This thing is awesome; wish they sold modern versions of these! So simple at first glance with all the chunky components on one side -- then you flipped it and showed the bonkers wire-maze beneath! 🤣🤣🤣
