1958 Emerson 1268 Portable TV AM Radio Analysis 

I picked up a set similar to this at a flea market. Got it cheap because all the knobs were missing. When I took it apart I found all of the knobs it an old brown paper lunch sack inside. Someone had removed them to protect them.

This is fascinating! Electronics from my era (I'm 80). Takes me back. Looking fwd to your AM & TV repair videos!

I’ve learned more from this man and Bob Anderson then anyone else on the internet. Much appreciated you both Merry Christmas

Can't wait for part 2!

Shango, your inspections/diagnoses are never boring… Merry Christmas 🎄/ Happy New Year 🎉 Thank you.

Interesting. I did not realize that Emerson was a company that far back. Thanks, Mr. Shango066.

I was thinking it would go back in trash at the begining of the video. Now I'm actually looking forward to the next videos!

My grandmother had a B&W zenith tv from the 70's and she only watched it for two hours a day . It was only used for the afternoon and evening News broadcasts and Some other variety shows. She was in bed by 9 PM . The only reason the tv was retired was because we bought her a small color TV in the late 80's and she had that until her death . Her little B&W tv had very little hours and my father just took it to the curb outside our house.

Fascinating resurrection and looking forward to the following parts.

Seems like that compressed air nozzle would be a prime candidate for 99% isopropanol being drawn in to the air stream via a bottle and small tube (Bernoulli effect). It'd give things a really good cleaning without the dangers of the previous pressure washer adventures. Merry Christmas!

3:45 Guilty as charged, can't say i never popped tubes and light bulbs as a kid 😂

Greetings from Cape Town. Only the best….

Wow crusty. Merry christmas Shango and thanks for the video.

I think this would be a great learning opportunity for me and doing this in parts will be so beneficial to me I have a similar set and need to learn how to get it going. Many thanks Shango. Once it is going we can get our crape commercials to watch. thanks Mike

It wouldn't be a Christmas weekend without shango and some 50s tubage. But, this time sick in bed with covid. Still, better than being stuck at the in-laws!

I love these long videos. Watch them from start to finish i including this one. You mentioned "boring" while checking components. Not at all! Lots of us geeks out here love ur videos pal. Merry Christmas

You know its gonna be good when the green sweater comes out. Love it. Merry Christmas Shango.

Thank you for yet another great year of learning and laughing along with you. Viewer since 2018.

Yep Yep , I remember these sets well. There were a few companies making sets like this. ...GE, Admiral , Hotpoint and so many department store brands as well. I do remember seeing these on the street for garbage pick-up every week. I guess they were considered low cost portables and were discarded after 5 or 6 years of use. Its really great that your picture tube is as good as it is! There were always silvery or very dull when we use to get them in our shop for repair. WHY did everyone remove the tuner shield and throw it away ???? Yopu gonna have a real project on your hands . Thank you for these videos . Happy Holidays Buddy !!!

I remember a few of those coming in as a donation to our electronics class in HS. This was back in the late 70's. Even then they were looked upon as ancient.

Looks like it's going to be a good 3-part series. 👍

Merry Christmas Shango. Thanks for all the interesting and entertaining videos.

Love the videos. Take care and happy holidays..

Here's wishing the DynaScan tube tester a Merry Christmas and a re-calibration.

Very nice Television, Merry Christmas Shango

Its not just a handle,its also a protractor!

Cool project, looking forward to the next installments.

1:44 Radio-TV-Phono.... NUT! NUT! Say it! Nut! A tip of the cap to the drive through comedy bit by Stevens and Grdnic... 31:09 😂

Merry Christmas shango,

Heck yea! Hope you have a good Christmas / New Years! Thank you for all the content this year, its been a blast!

I can not wait until the next 2 (or more) parts. Keep up the great work Shango.

I would assume the CRT is turned off when using the radio or record player, so the two 3V fillament valves in the radio would be swiched in and the 6V CRT fillament switched out. (?) Merry Christmas Shango and everyone watching.

When I was in school, I had to walk by the town dump every day. I almost always went to look for stuff being thrown out, it was rare for me to not find something decent with some salvageable parts. Over the years there must have been many dozens of these things thrown out. As I recall, they all had series tubes and were usually baked pretty good. I stopped bothering with them.

3d print knobs is great why i bought a sweet one off ebay returned

Merry Christmas Mr Shango

I have made the purest of 'Green !! '....cheers.

A very merry Christmas Shango and thanks for all the great content.

My Aunt gave me her Turqoise and white GE portable when I was 11 yrs. old, used it for many years, a bit heavy for a 'portable' but to be expected back then in 1965.

Thank you very much for uploading on christmas

The .22 cartridge was featured in a Darwin Award as a truck headlight fuse replacement.

Merry Christmas Shango, thanks for the video!

I just cleaned out evidence of a mouse nest from a Boss GT-6 Guitar Effects Processor (I wondered how the heck they got in and realized the only way in and out is from under the wah-wah pedal), but your TVs make the stuff I clean look brand new.

I had a model very close to this that was all colored as the reddish band in this one. Grandparents gave it to me when I was ~ 11yo. Never thought I'd see it again.

Excellent as usual. Thank you. All the best for the holidays. Love your channel

I don't know what this is all about but I sure enjoy it. A lot.

This TV set would be a great candidate for the Lady Kenmore washing machine you repaired. Just use the delicate cycle.

Happy Xmas awesome youtube content creator

@0:39 - Ah, the 50's American cars. "When the chrome was thick and the women were straight" - Michael Savage.

Awesome job you done in 2023 & hope 2024 is another great year & thanks for the wonderful videos Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you & your family. -73's

That scanner makes a great pdf. Your doing good work for your younger friend. Merry Christmas 🎄28:29 - Someone went to great lengths to keep that Emerson working. Fascinating 😊

Haha that PCB at 17:43 looks like the inside of an ashtray! :D

Very interesting! I have almost the same set but in a television-only version. Yours is quite interesting with the AM radio option and the 3V filament tubes used for it. I will look forward to the parts 2 and 3 resurrection videos! Mine has a lot of white ceramic covered paper caps in it, I got it working as-is but I want to recap and properly restore it when I get a chance!

This will be a very interesting series, looking forward to it..👍

much respect sir, happy holidays thanks for the tutorials

looks fun, happy holidays!

my favourite nerd started his career with an Emerson TV. He just had to make sure it was tuned to channel 3...

My family once had an RCA B@W set about that size. It was a red metal set, had the controls under a flip up door on the top right hand side. I don't think the RCA was a 'hot chassis' set, it probably had a power transformer. WOW. If you don't do anything else with that set, SAVE THE CRT!!!. Good replacement CRTs are as rare as hen's teeth today! Wow, RU-vid has really FSCK'ed this video with TON'S of ads

Any end of the year EOL’s in our future 💥

I’m about 10 days older than this TV… Condition is somewhat similar..

You have a great channel!

The 22 magnum comment caused me to lose control of my bowels.

Merry Christmas🎅 Leo 73

Nice tv, i wish i had one of those still

5:15 “on the budget side” - that would be par for the course for a British TV set of the same era! Including mains dropper resistor with different tappings for different voltages!

Merry Christmas shango

the handle became a compass like the ones you use to make perfect circles

Nice tv 🎉. This set has the same features as the Emerson 1232. I do believe they were both marketed as "port-o-rama"sets, but the major differences being the 1232 uses a 8 inch picture tube and was considerably smaller. It was also a power transformer set.

Marry Christmas I really like your tv

The cathode power impacts the current it can pass. So the 25V tube can pass probably like 5x more current than the 12V one. But the plate dissipation isn't always directly correlated to the cathode heater power. That's why for example 19W 6L6GC's have only a 6W heater. Meanwhile a horizontal output tube like an 15W EL500 has a 9W heater. The EL500 is rated for 440mA max cathode current, but the 6L6GC is only around 200mA... If you try to use a 6L6GC at 440mA of pulsed cathode current, the cathode emissive coating will literally be ripped off the cathode tube.

Stunning TV

I have a 1956 RCA metal portable. It has a power transformer. But the CRT was like new. My theory is that the portables were not as heavily used.

I wonder if there was a design flaw with the original horiz output and there was a service bulletin to replace it with that?

Love your videos

Weren't the Philco sets much slimmer at the time?

I prefer my shrooms psychedelic, please. Taste great with a little butter. Yum! Whoa! Trippy, man!

32:32 as a child, I learned that it is not possible to repair RF cans because they are magic, and that there is no one in the world who is alout to du repairs on it, so it will bey brocken for ever!

so, at an antique store in my town there is a 70$ zenith vacuum tube tv and it looks to have all its parts. should I get it?

The metal cup around the cathode (Wehnelt cylinder) might not be discolored, but the neck seems to have a lot of metal evaporated on the glass around the pins. Looks like very high hour. Maybe it is gassy, and that gives a false reading on the tester?

I wonder if grease gets sucked up by the high voltage quicker than cigarette smoke. Maybe that could account for the chassis premature aging.

Your tube tester is too reality based. Looking forward to the series.

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Nice tv 🎉

Heinrich Barkhausen discovered that a slow, smooth increase of a magnetic field applied to a piece of ferromagnetic material, such as iron, causes it to become magnetized, not continuously but in minute steps. also could be a German dog locked in his home ... barking & barking .

Part 4: Proper decontamination and proper disposal per haz-mat protocols. .......;▪︎....

Yep, I'd check that tube tester. I can't believe all of those tubes are bad like that.

It would be cool if you could use a 3-D printer to make the part for the centering magnets!

Huh, a series string hot chassis set with RCA phono input and speaker output referenced to chassis ground?!

Love it! Let's do it!

I wonder if the TV set was modified to death. The mods worked, kinda, sorta, and then it was retired.

It's as old as I am.

Brakeclean or Terminal cleaner could be an option to remove the crud. I know you don't like cleaning, but at least both products evaporate quickly.

Oh how I hate working on these sets

I was watching your other video the 1947 resurrection. The car alarm is called The ghetto 5000. Your right i see cars like that in Philadelphia. Great learning videos shango066!

GOTTA LOVE THEM MUSHROOMS!

" need to blow this thing off " LoL thats what she said

Is it possible some of that dirt in the set is part of the plastic decomposing, like some type of oil substance?

Shrooms man. Whoo Hoo

I ran across your channel and I have matching RCA portable TV’s with 5” black and white screens, one’s red and one is white.Neither one of them work, I hate to throw them away, any ideas what to do with them?

Not too keen on the headphone socket mounted on the chassis. 120V applied to the viewer's head could be unpleasant. It's a typical modification by those who don't know what they're doing with live chassis radio and TV sets.

Maybe use motor winding paint/coating on the yoke.