Antique Earphones [Restoration] 

Extremely Flammable Worktable should really get some credit. He carries the show.

“Garbage on the floor” really deserves its own spinoff show

These are high impedance (~2000 Ohm) headphones for use with Crystal Radios. Modern headphones are about 16ohm.

Excellent work on these. The best soldering hack for you if you don't know is to tin (solder) the wires and terminals before you join them. That way the process happens a lot quicker and easier and you get a smooth clean joint.

Dude, I can't get enough of that wonderful intro hahaha

I’m sad that *_Evapo-Rust Super Safe Rust Remover_* doesn’t get a cameo in that amazing intro... :(

Thankfully you put them on your head at the end. Because of the banana's terrible performance this episode, I had no idea how large or small these headphones were till the very end!

This is my favorite restoration channel. You do a great job and try not to cut corners. Plus you point out materials of interest, and talk about things you didn't expect/not sure what to do with. Seriously, great job.

Nice to see Tiny Anvil even if it was an uncredited cameo.

Nice to see new actors on the series! I already saw some work of small screwdriver and it surely have future in showbiz!

I'm getting you soldering flux for Christmas.

That’s incredible that they still work ~100 years on. No EarPods will ever last even half as long. Great video 👍

14:50 No you need to stop trying to heat the mass of that anvil, it's sucking all the heat out of the part. If anything you need a bigger/higher wattage iron. The bigger the part, the bigger the iron. A iron shouldn't take more than a couple seconds to heat up the joint. It's like you're trying to oxy-ace braze with a propane torch. I'd tin the speaker coil wire first, then tin the post using a large 60W+ iron with a pair of helping hands away from the plate assembly. Then reflow and stick the coil wire to the plate, then install the post in the hole.

When you took the earpieces to the buffing wheel, I did not expect them to come out like that!

Me and garbage on the floor have a lot in common. I really associate with that character

ProTip: When soldering, the solder should be introduced to the material being soldered, not the iron.

Very interesting speaker design - explains quite well how they managed to survive all these years.

Good work. There's only one step to rearrange them in stereo.

I will never grow tired of your sense of humor. I enjoy watching you do what I can not financially afford to do. As I don't have workshop space. Keep up the good work.

Listen, I watch a lot of RU-vid, and you have by far the best intro there is. Cracks me up 100% of the time.

I'm glad to see you used your tumbler to help with the finish on these headphones. As soon as I saw them I thought they would be perfect for Rolling Stones.

Dude you do an amazing job. Upload more please. I love your content

The black earpiece looked new after buffing! Beautiful!!Headphones 🎧 looked great 👍🏻 ❤️😊

The intro and the no music earned you a subscription

All hipsters will get a heart attack when they see it on the street. ;)

Finally, an official standard scaling banana

Super cool you were able to restore them and to have them work to boot! 😁 Nice job! Thanks for the video. 👍

Discovered this channel yesterday, easily one of my new favorite things on RU-vid.

Looks amazing, love the brass and nickle color mix, much better than original! Another superb job!!!

That one character sure is buff and has a very polished technique!

OLD AUDIO TECH. That's my absolute jam! Do more! Mr. Carlson's Lab is a good resource here on youtube for learning more about it. Very nice work.

Eric, I love your Videos! keep up that amazing quality, and I really enjoy your style!

Scalable Banana! I loved him back in the 80s. Nice to see the ol timers are still working.

Man, change the plug and make it stereo! Great vid as always!!

Ok seeing you hook up that contraption to your nice sleek fancy modern phone was everything...!!! I’m shook the house lol. We love a good retro meets modern moment!!!

A wonderful production as always.

10:51 When soldering, you need to use rosin, then soldering is faster and more reliable and the resulting connector is electrically better.

Nice job as always man

Great intro and perfect restoration :) Good work man

Gotta say I was originally interested in the item being restored but the intro was so awesome. Good stuff my dude.

Great job, glad to see ya back on. Where's my 🔧.

My favorite part of the intro, garbage on the floor!❤❤👌🏼👌🏼

That was amazing a restored a pair of my grandfathers aircraft head sets When I was a teenager. The neat thing is that you can still find a lot of cloth wrap wire out there and they work just great

Wow that surely took a lot of time! Beautiful Work!

Hand Tool Rescue: I wanted to keep the restoration faithful to it's original state. Me: Hand Tool Rescue: Nickel-plating was fancy back then, but now brass is fancy! Me: WTF?

A little saddle soap on the leather goes a long way. There are tons of stuff to restore dried out leather but you really only need a couple chemicals to bring it back nicely.

I think this is the first of your videos that I didn't thoroughly enjoy. Still gave a thumbs up because I know that you put a lot of effort into your videos. Keep up the good work.

The headphone is a fine piece of equipment. Worthy of your restoration.

I used to work in a instrument repair shop and used a buffer like that all the time. I kept waiting to watch a part go flying across the shop 😅😂

I missed Nutella in the opening credits, but I have to admit the scaling banana has appeal.

I was really loving this, and then you had to put the “earwax” in my brain.... 😂 still one of my favorites 👍🏻👍🏻

magnific work i admire all the restorators do, is so amazing see someting line new

The "coating" on the disks is probably mica for insulation. It's a mineral.

It's not every day I watch a video and think, "I'm better at soldering than this guy" :D

so glad you went back to that intro love it

Best intro ever. Reminded me of the things I used to watch as a kid

The intro gets me every time bro! I love it, dont change it!

Excited to see Scaling Banana and Adjustable Wrench work together

That's gotta be one of the best intros on RU-vid. Love it!

I restored an old pair of headphones almost like the ones you’ve restored, but the electronics were fried, so I took another pair of modern headphones and used their guts in my antique ones and they rock. My son uses them as his gaming headphones to this day. Love the channel keep on restoring.

That intro kills me every time but somehow I keep coming back.

Nice lookin' set of cans you got there. And don't bogart the stone washer. I gotta pair of mom jeans I need to toss in later.

The intro is amazing. Good work with bringing these back to life, I really wonder how they sound.

Man this is awesome. So cool. You've earned a new subscriber! Keep it up!

10:13 It is worth scratching an isolated wire with a sharp knife, because sometimes this wire consists of enamelled wires, i.e. insulated. If you do not scrape the wire with paint, then it is difficult to solder it anywhere.

The intro is the stuff of legends!

100 years old ! Wow that's really amazing.

Wow. That worked better than expected. You JAM!!!

awesome restore: seems like the tip of your soldering iron was tinned. Many of your solder joints looked cold.

You can really tell when someone is into old tools when he whips out the vintage rca adapter for composite video signal and right channel audio at 19:08. Everything else would not be suitable for that type of headphones. Respect.

If I only could like this video twice: one - for the intro, second - for the perfect restoration.

Aaaand now your intro is stuck in my head for another week or two... Ultimate hipster headphones man, cool find.

Nice work! I like the brass better too. Did you keep these or are they a commission?

11:05 you should use smaller size solder and adding some flux will make it easier to solder

Very cool pair of headphones. They sound pretty good.

Love old headphones. Great video👌👌. Thanks 😊

Oh wow! The screen debut of scale banana! I am so hype!

Oh yeah? Well,...... Nickel plasted brass hates you back! There, now you're even! 😡 We, however, think you're the bees knees. 😀

Amazing restoration!

Reminds me of a pair of headphones I bought out of an Allied Radio catalog back in 1961. I used them for shortwave radio listening. They had the same metal diaphragms.

Couple of things I'd like to point out, 11:38 "These are mono headphones" No dude, they have two independent drivers, they can be wired as stereo just as well as mono; they will be mono only if you mono them, and there is no reason to do that today. Reason why they were originally wired together in parallel is because back in 1923, stereo wasn't really a thing yet. But it absolutely is now, and your headphone amplifier, and pretty much every other piece of contemporary audio equipment that comes with a headphone jack is, surprisingly (not), at least stereo, it has a stereo headphone output designed for TRS plugs, where T(tip) is left channel, R(ring) is right channel and S(sleeve) is common. And when you plug a TS plug wired like that to it, what happens is the right channel gets shorted out by the longer sleeve, and only the left channel is output into both phones, so not only does it ruin the stereo image, but it also short circuits the right channel of the headphone amplifier, which is not good for its health. It's not like you're monoing them for the vintage value... that ship has sailed the moment you put that new plug on. Speaking of which.... 12:17 "These wires are way too big for this jack (* note - its a plug; jack is the hole you plug it into) but I have to make this work" Or, you could buy a proper quality plug, such as the Neutrik NP3X-B and use that instead of that cheap chinese piece of junk. Or better yet, you could try and find a vintage brass TRS plug, like from an old telephone switchboard (blog.lazerwalker.com/images/switchboard/cable.jpg ). Anything but ^that^ (11:50).

*Meanwhile Me:* _* buys new headphones *_

that was a really awesome restoration!!

Man, I've been gone for a while. I love that intro video!

Maple syrup is such a good actor, I love his role.

M*A*S*H Beats by Radar O'Reilly and Hand Tool Rescue

There are no complex details, only functional, I played this as a child. I like it a lot. Thanks for the content.

Good work. Those look amazing.

They use these kinds of headphones at school to do like the high frequency tests except slightly more advanced

His clumsy soldering skill reminded me of my early days with soldering iron back in 5th grade!

I subscribed just because the intro was so very perfect. But I'm staying subscribed because this is my humor. And its perfect. Thank you for your work!

Great video, man! I was curious how the sound would be. I like a cheapie fly tying vise to wrap thread like that - makes it go pretty quick.

"The hand tool rescue show " 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 These earphones are for ever Now we are in the disposable era

I can remember using a pair like that in 3 grade

I have those! I need to restore them too, thanks for the inspiration! Love your channel

Thumbs up for intro alone! Nice work!

All I could hear was Lily Tomlin's phone operator character's voice in my head... "*snort* one ringy dingy.." I realize it's most likely not period correct, but it was all I could think about as I watched this. 😁

It took me a few times to realize that you were soldering the wires to the screw heads. I couldn’t see the wires very well. But an amazingly good restoration! Where’s the best place I can find a decent pair of these types of headphones?

quality work like always

That coating reminded me of some old mirrors in the bathroom I had to redo. Used some paint stripper to take off the protective coating (think I used DCM based stripper), and then got some off the shelf Muriatic acid from the pool section to help with the silver coating.