If only we had a person like you in every TV and radio museum around the country I wouldn't be so worried about the loss of old electronics and documents. Someone who respected and cared about this old stuff like you do. 👍👍👌👌
Up here in Left Washington (that's a DEEP comment BTW) there is an excellent museum called the Spark Museum) that has a lot of volunteer techs that restore stuff. We have an electronics brick and mortar store that helps them. I worked at that store until recently.
I think RU-vid has somewhat brought the vintage electronics community together and we are able to learn from the vast experience of some very talented techs. I’m hopeful that the chances of interest in vintage electronics continuing is better now than it was 20 years ago😁
Even tiny cube satellites use sections of rolled up tape measure as antennas. They are rolled up and held together with a plastic string during their launch to orbit, later they melt the string and the tape measure strips unfold.
Happy to see youre still making videos! I used to watch your vids when i was a teenager and that spiraled my journey into repairing and collecting old radios and tvs lol
Doorknob caps can and do short. I'm working on my second RCA 21CT55 resto and can tell you that both sets had shorted doorknobs (the first shorted a month after I put it into regular service and the most recent set it blew in half decades ago and got glued back together with corona dope by someone back then). They're much more reliable in monochrome sets, but I've seen those doorknobs short too. For the 6KV paper caps go on Mouser or Digikey and look for the red plastic shell WIMA brand 6KV .0047 and .001uF film caps....They're probably the lowest priced film caps out there and they give good linearity and work as well as the originals...The only downside is the leads aren't long enough and need extensions soldered on. I've had 2 of these 2-chassis tele-tones one was good but the other had the chassis rewired with furnace wiring, band-aids used for electrical tape and a menagerie of 60's replacement caps that look like they got robbed out of scrapped equipment....You'd have loved it!
Yeah I have a bunch of those red ones just wasn't willing to waste them on this. I haven't seen a shorter door knob yet but that doesn't mean anything can't be as bad as paper capacitors in these sets
There's still hope!..... But unfortunately things are going to have to get worse before they get better. 🤷♀️ The "Looney segment" of voters out there have to feel real material loss before they see the error of their ways. 😒
From pure class to pure ghetto. No suit and tie for this baby! Built during the peak of the American empire,resurrected during the peak of the demise of the American empire. The commentary is just as great as the resurrection.
Nice to see you work on a TeleTone. I've got a 1948 TV-149 that I've been hoping to get to work on and I can use all the analysis of these old sets that experts can provide. Bob Anderson did a restore of a Meck brand set that is the same chassis as my TeleTone and it took even him a while to get it worked out.
The tape measure antenna is not bad idea if it's at a length where it doesn't collapse. I know of a fellow that actually uses four tape measures as a ground plane for field ham operations. When he's finishes, his ground plane simply retracts. 🙂
2:28 Redmi is basically just Xiaomi, a brand that has been available and popular in Central and Eastern European states for several years now. In the rest of europe, also available, but not as popular. Xiaomi in Poland is about on par with Samsung, marketshare wise. Xiaomi used to be cheap, affordable, good value phones. Nowadays, not really that good value but still fairly decent quality. BBK Electronics (OnePlus, Realme, VIVO etc.) is taking their place as the value phone manufacturer. Good thing for chinese phones is that replacement parts are very cheap, say a display assembly for budget phones is maybe 15-25USD and fairly easy to replace. I don't have to worry about my phone getting trashed because any damage is fixable on a budget.
They also come with an ir blaster by default making it easy to turn on the ac when you're on vacation and you don't want to pay the extra 5 euro per day for it.
Have to say that OnePlus is decent value, but getting more expensive. They're a decent phone (currently using a 6 and still have a 1 working as an instrument cluster in my car so I consider them good value. But the latest models hoover around the €1000 mark, that's me out. I refuse to pay more than €300 for a phone now. For €1000 I'd buy a car. 😁
In South America too, Xiaomi phones are very popular in Chile because they are cheap and good quality. I have a used a Redmi (similar to Shango66's in the video) for over a year and works perfectly (according to my needs). I believe that Apple phones are common in U.S., but not necessarily in the rest of the world, Apple Phones are rather expensive in my country (Chile), twice or more times of an equivalent Android phone here.
I really enjoyed this video -- it is a Shango classic. May even watch it over again. It has everything -- tragedy, comedy and some electronics theory too! Thanks again.
Wow Shango lucky you too far to visit you. Never find stuff like this in my part of Oregon. But nice Great Saturday Morning with my favorite Coffee time Shango. Love your channel I really appreciate all you do and love the extra humor and nice visits to test portable radios too. Thanks Mike
I know the feeling, don't find such old TVs in the Carolinas but still have some that I got at radio swap meets that I traveled for and also from when I used to live in New York!
Two hour resurrection episode... Nice! Seems crazy they designed it such that high voltage would go into the horiz. & Vert. If those 6000V caps shorted.
I was introduced to SAMS as a 17yr old working my first TV. Olympic 910. Don't like to touch any of this ancient stuff without one. Energy Star certified....hilarious!
Great video Shango! I also have never seen an antenna like that in my 76 years! Thanks for posting all of your videos through the years and take care! P.S. Those wraps and more are being sold quickly through Amazon!!
Video isnt too shabby, Audio is absolutely fine aswell. Thanks for putting this video together! If USA wasnt out of this world, i would probably come over pick this guy up and turn the cabinet into a guitar amplifier :D Cheers! Stay healthy!
Excellent, Shango. Well done using that gangster phone..... Being caught with that thing here in the UK would mean arrest and torture for at least two, even three weeks, until you admitted being the king pin of the whole bullion operation. Then there's the 40 years in jail! A great TV, truly worth bringing back from the dead. By far the best part is the antenna, oh those floppy flippy rabbit ears! Wonderful!
Amazed that you were able to wake up that set. What you had on it is the reason I dropped cable years ago. As far as that upcoming RCA mini console, never seen something like that, should be fun!
There is a low temp solder that is used to remove surface mount components. You flow all the chip leads and it stays molten long enough to remove the chip. it is called Chip Quick.
Love the Alligator pattern covering. The free energy community will tell you that if your free energy device isn't producing any free energy it's due to your skepticism, your lack of faith. You've possibly been brainwashed by reading books on, or going to school and taking one or more courses on physics.
😂 its funny when you said you can already smell it burning without power on it... cuz when you pulled the paper out of it in the beginning i swear i could smell that old dusty tv smell.... for real!
I have one of these that I have in my list of upcoming restorations/resurrections once I have something called time that I could work on some of my own stuff (not others'), this gives me an idea of what I will be looking forward to! I imagine a lot of way out of spec resistors not to mention all the capacitors and maybe picture tube and more!
REDMI: The "twisting jerk" motion you're getting when starting recording points to a broken physical optical image stabilization mechanism; this is common in phones that have suffered a severe drop and/or have been left mounted to a vibrating vehicle for too long, either probably relate to how the phone ended up in your yard. Since it's a very cheap and common device you could probably DIY replace the affected camera unit for ~$20. The momentary pauses during recording may be a memory write or background app/spyware issue. You may be able to force the camera to drop to a slower framerate by shooting through the lens of a pair of sunglasses.
"I'm not gonna' give up, I never give up." I think that a common thread among us all. "Who else would have taken the time, or cared enough to do the job right." - Jonathan Kaye.
it was really nice the day it left the factory, a bit of a mystery TV that wakes up slowly after many years of sleep but a really cool TV I hope someone will make it nice again it deserves it
I have a nifty 400 dc voltage power supply with a built in milliamp meter. I put the cap in question and start reforming, when the meter reads 5 ma, and when the current drops below 1 ma, repeat again.(raising voltage) Short term at least, it works quite well, btw the set is awsome!
back in the day i had plenty automotive wiring diagrams scanned like that . what i did was print the pages, guilotene some and glue em together into one sheet.
1:10:33 yes, Those 2 resistors-"caps" , The 3 Capacitor- "resistors" must be hard to get by especially the high voltage disk resistors ones lol. Nice video btw
When i was a teen -- I was exploring a huge old abandoned Plantation Home down in Port Sulphur, La.. on the 2nd story in a Clothes Closet, covered with a Blanket, was a small square TV, maybe 12inch X 12inch with a round TV Tube and covered in what i think was authentic Alligator Hide, almost just like in this video. It looked more equally square than the one in this video also. I found other small collectables in the place but I do now regret not adopting this TV... The local kids from near by was slowly destroying the Place.
I don't think 1950 was the peak for America. A lot of the issues we have today, they were already germinating back in 1950. They just weren't visible yet, because we were still dealing with the utter shock of what humanity was capable of during WWII. 1950 was a high point, economically for America, because of WWII, and the postwar rebuilding, but even by then, some cracks were starting to show, and things were already beginning to cheapen. I have a substantial collection of Looney Tunes cartoons, from their early beginnings in the '30's, up to the mid '60's when the quality was awful. By 1950, the quality was already beginning to fall. It was still great, and many of the classic Looney Tunes came from the 1950's, but their visual peak was, I would say from 1940 to 1948. Look at Gossimer, the red hair monster, in his 1946 debut, and look at his cheaper design by 1948. It's not much cheaper, but still not as good. Plastic was becoming a thing by 1950. Commercial microwave ovens existed by 1950. McDonalds existed by 1950. The 1950's set the stage for the 1960's. The 60's began defining itself even before we got involved in Vietnam.
Today we have extremists routinely denying the horrors of the 1940s. That's intellectual regression. And in my experience they glom to F o x network for news.
One of the reasons to watch shango066 is for the color commentary on the news ( even in Black & White ) but then other times maybe he just needs to hook up a VCR on channel 3 with old Beanie & Cecil cartoons.
The 'Redmi' phone is a Xiaomi phone, probably 'made in India. Top of the line models are made in China.. so it says on the net. Thanks Shango for keeping the technology of real things alive.. it does matter. Really.
@Shango066 Are you a Terry Pratchett fan? "There is no justice, just us" was a line from Mort, a book in the Discworld series. The entire series is fantastic!
You can zoom while recording same way you would if you are just seeing a picture on the phone but in the camera settings you can configure the volume up and down switches to act as the zoom in and out.
It is stereo. It has 2 mikes. One on the top near camera near the phones input on the top and the other one at the bottom that is the same used for phone calls.
Just for information, that phone is a °Xiaomi Redmi Note 8° is a chinese phone, it's not bad but sure it's not high end, i bought that phone many years ago for 200€.
Not chicken wire, but, I used such wire to replace perforated plate for better air flow, yet it shielded the RF very well! I am surprised they put in so many screen plugs, which don't flow air very well, which is probably why they installed the 1/4 inch screen. Cool find! I have seen the measuring tape antenna before, but I saw it with wind up reels at the center insulator, and it was for HF military use.
