Arvin 450-TL AA5 Radio Restore Down Under with Retr0bright 

David, your videos set a very high standard for production quality! Such attention to detail, sharp, non-shaky pictures, great sound. I wish more radio/electronics repair videos were such a pleasure to watch! Thanks!

Love the capacitor work - and the transporter was brilliant!!

Dave, I am enjoying your videos. The Arvin in particular is very special. My mom always had one on her dresser til the day she died. An old friend of hers told me she had bought one for her first apartment after graduating college way back in the early fifties. She loved jazz and broadcasted music. She give me my first record player when I was 5, and a crystal set a year later. I’ve been building audio since. I suppose it all started with the Arvin. Its probably time for a tuneup. Thanks David

I think you’re the only other restorer I know other than myself who is willing to replace a paper capacitor enclosure to look original. Unlike yourself, I’m a bit more lazy and I just re-stuff the old paper enclosure, but you’ve inspired me to produce them from new. I never considered fabricating one. Will have to try it.

What can i say David ? Perfect as usual and it seems so easy for you, your videos always bring a smile to my face and a feeling of satisfaction when you get to the last cosmetic parts, but adding the Star Trek references was just the icing on the cake this time. I'm a long time Trekkie and learned much of my english through the series growing up. Again thank's for sharing and live long an prosper :-)

That replacement cap is a thing of beauty!

fantastic david love all your videos

I'll send you my co-ordinates; please beam over some 4X Gold. Another great repair David! I love the capacitor rebuilds. Quite superb man, thanks.

Good after noon David Sir.A good efforts by you to restore radio as original as.Very nice Sir.Thank you so much. Pls upload reel to reel tape recorder if possible.

Another beautiful and entertaining restoration - You are getting very good at making new 'authentic' smoothing capacitors Dave. Looking forward to tuning into the next 'Tipton TV' episode

Brilliant as always David, I thoroughly enjoy your videos!

There was quite some stuff left in the Heisenberg Compensator and/or the Pattern Buffer. Interesting revelations. Teleporters are hard to understand AND operate. Well done, Dave 👍🤝

Well Done! Nice find on the Ant. Cap., I have herd that same distortion on one other AA5. Looks like I missed it, Thx!

The radio came out an absolute treat, David, did enjoy the video.

what a beauty!!! 👏👍👏

That is an outstanding repair job i like your style ,that electrolytic cap is fantastic. First class restoration all round i shall be watching more of these vids from you cheers.

Always in leadership, I give you a thousand greetings and greetings, for the effort expended in a hobby, but I want to relate to the past and the nostalgia and love it brings to the future, in order to instill stability in it. Let me say that I watch your videos with this perspective, and with this vision, to gain two things, nostalgia and confidence, for nostalgia for the past and confidence for the present and the future. Long as

Another beautiful job Dave. Thanks for all the tips! John

Estimado David, como siempre un trabajo impecable y muy didáctico, se aprende mucho con tus pacientes y divertidos comentarios. Gracias por compartir tanta experiencia y conocimiento. Con algunos de mis radios tengo el problema de que no sintonizan la mitad del dial y no encuentro la solución. Saludos desde cdMx

One of the best times of the week. I really appreciate your videos. Stay well over there. Or down there. Or just there.

The cap from AC line to chassis is often called the death cap not the cap across the line cap.

22:00 Personally the hard way seems like a much more elegant solution, it's your attention to details that make your restorations stand out. Not that it matters much, however, there's a black glue stick, that is mainly used for Automotive applications, it holds on stronger than the clear glue sticks and melts at a lower temp, it is also a little runnier because of its lower melting point which makes it ideal to get into all the little nook and crannies. again not that it changes much but I prefer it over the clear stuff especially when using 3d printed parts.

Great work! Thanks. Love the transporter ! Beautiful radio design.

Nice radio 🙂 and good work!

As always a GREAT video..

Great result David. First class as ever. Does your transporter work over longer distances? If so send me a radio to fix. They are thin on the ground over here at the moment! Don’t know if I ever mentioned but when I was very young my parents used to wash me in cheap Australian lager! I later found out I had been fostered! All the best Lynton

Another great restoration, Are you going to market your transporter ? ;-) the beer option should be a great selling point

Awesome job.. Thanks for sharing.. Subbed..

I was thinking about the antenna buzz, perhaps the radio needs a good reference to ground and since you powered it using a isolation transformer the ground would be "floating". Try running it without an isolation transformer if it makes any difference :)

Hey, watch radiotvphononut's video on the Silvertone model 5 radio restoration. The Silvertone model 5 has the same chassis as your Arvin.

@David Tipton Link to Frequency Generator is just a link for the magazine... Can you please post the actual link to purchase the device, thanks

... the transport by means of beaming via raumschiff enterprise,.. a really simply good idea,.. is the/your project ready for series production...😇🥰🤗🤭

I know it was 2 years ago, but I was still hearing remnant motor-boating. Did you replace bypass (de-coupling) capacitors?

Aussies are 'Trekkies' too...Who knew! LoL

I am very interested in the frequency meter you are using in this video. Could you please provide some information on it?

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I wish you lived closer to us in the US. I have about three dozen radios you could help me "fix." We call Bakelite brokealot here.

Hi Dave, I enjoy your repair and restore videos very much. Yours are of the best quality in the world in my opinion. Oregon, USA here. I have restored quite a number of old radios myself. It's a thing with the transformerless AA5 radios. Really old wax/paper capacitors don't "reform" well, and the ones that go across the line will blow out the filament of the audio output power tube. (valve). Its best to test them with a capacitor tester that produces a load... or as I have learned to just clip them out before the first power-up.

Great job, informative and entertaining as if we would expect anything else from you. Look forward to the next one!

As usual David you restorations are a marvellous of technical mastery and humour! Love it!!

Someday, someone is going to open this radio and admire the way you replaced the cap. No waste of time at all.. 😊

The ending was a very nice touch.

Friday morning watching in bed, happy chuckling to myself, thanks again for a great watch, thinking of getting up,

Would that machine work on Boris Johnson???? Thanks for the video i do love these old radios.

Well done David..... you've done a superb job on that radio. That radio likely played the news of assassination of JFK and Beatles for the first time in the U.S. It's come out beautifully..... well done mate

Looking great as usual Dave. Well done on a sweet job. I like the simplicity of the case too.

Great job on the filter caps! Very impressive 👍 I'm also really glad that you don't break these down into several 5 minute videos. It's a pleasure to watch. I restored radios for nearly 25 years as a hobby, but lost interest in the last several years. You may have ignited a spark as I have about a dozen radios in my workshop awaiting restoration.

Thanks Dave love your videos! I grew up on a farm in North Dakota, Dad and his brothers had farms all in one area so we visited back and forth quite regularly. One of dad's brothers lived about two miles east of our place and we regularly spent Sunday afternoons visiting and dining with them. They had a radio that looked exactly like that, while I don't recall the brand, I do remember thinking it would be so great if we could have one like that however our house had no power or running water so we depended on kerosene lamps and a battery pack radio. Our use of the radio was quite limited because battery's cost money! Later on we moved to town so my elder sisters could attend high school and the farm was eventually sold.

Never saw a floating feedback winding on an AM radio before. Seems like there is supposed to be a small cap on the top side of T2's secondary to ground. (gimmick like?). Great job Dave, I liked the labeling on the heat shrink in the cap and then hot gluing it together!

Just a note, since you aren't that familiar with AA5s - you got it by the end, but it is pretty important to have the dial lamp working on AA5s, where the lamp is across the rectifier. When it burns out, that increases the current through the rectifier filament, and it will burn out much sooner than normal. These radios are marvels of low-cost design, almost *everything* in there more-or-less has to be there, and as you found, the performance is very good for something so incredibly simple.

Hi davad my frand are yuo good.... 🌹💖♥️🌷. Abdul., 16/11/2020 1.8 x am

Hi Dave, You're auto transporting stuff too, that's not the only magic though, the whole video is magic, 58:43 of it. Thank you.

Just beautiful, all of it. The little stars between the numerals on the dial really set it off. As for the transporter, haha, you wish! At least it didn't re-materialise as the French radio! Very enjoyable video as usual. Cheers

Hi there, the capacitor across the power switch is to help prevent sparking and popping when opening and closing the switch. I hope this helps you out. Thanks for your great videos. :)

Thank God its Friday, just love these Friday morning electronic fix great work Daviid thanks

What a beautiful resto. Loved that shiny bakelite. Just found your channel and this is the first resto i have watched. You are a master, sir. Cheers from Northern Victoria.

Loved the transporter set, Whoa Ho it worked! Funny stuff

Interesting set. Can't say I've ever seen a chassis curved like that to accommodate a pot. (The only improvement I'd make to that transporter is a jar of Vegemite for added boost.)

35:53 Yeah...... right! You still had to physically carry that old beast out to your workshop/shed!

Great work I like the mix of "carpentry" and electronic repairs a lot. Please don't use the teleporter on yourself, if you have seen "The fly" you'll know what I mean.

Well done my friend! Love your videos, i have learned a lot.

Hello again ,David. It is great seeing you work, and the video antics ! When will you bring back the magic pencil ? Emerson made some really nice sets, looking forward to that one.

I really enjoy your video. Every time something new 👌 and funny. As ever good job 👍 and

Thanks for all that Dave, especially the nostalgia bit. May I ask a rather dim question? What is the difference between a condenser and a capacitor? Sorry if this produces groans among all the initiated. Thanks again and I'm looking forward to seeing the schematic for the transporter machine - I could do with one of those...

What a kool Arvin 450 tl aa 5 radio reciver

First congrads on the rugby win and do yo have the schematic's for the transponder i need one of them ,Well done David and excellent job of your workmanship again always a pleasure to watch you ,Just love these classic radio you come across to put your master touch on them.

Great restoration David. Really like the capacitor.

other than some minor case damage the other one is just as nice and should be done up proper as well.

I really enjoyed watching you make another capacitor tube - it's a work of art and looks completely authentic when you've finished. I do hope your neighbours don't work out where their tinny and vegemite have gone though!

Never fails to impress us, thanks for sharing 😘

39:00 Have you ever thought of a career in comedy?

DAVE, DAVE, DAVE! I thought I had somehow missed your video on Friday, after watching it, I discovered you were messing around with a transporter and it still has some bugs, THAT is why it just showed up here!!!! :P It is nice that you had 2 to combine into one, that makes the job easier for sure :D Regardless of the pug on the end of the cord, how many people there would know how to work a radio that does not tell you where every station is located? :D :D :D Nice job as usual, THANKS :D

Maestro David Tipton: Es Admirable la forma tan elegante de reparar estas radios. La limpieza y la curiosa manera de colocar las Capacitores Electrolíticos en su envase original. Mí respeto y gratitud por sus Excelentes vídeos. Siempre Aguardo por sus Tutoriales. Cuídese Mucho Usted y Su Familia. Perdone que siga escribiendo en Español, mí Inglés es pésimo. Un Cordial Saludo desde Cuba.

David, Another great video! I sort of hoped you would have included the other radio (not one of the twins) in this restore as well as this one, but perhaps it will be in the next one! I posted this video on my Facebook page...maybe you will get a new viewer or two.

That trainport is kool

Hi Dave, how are you doing? ,’Teleportation’ - it’ll definitely reduce the risk of developing a hernia 😀. Joking aside, I too love reconditioning American Vintage Radios. Their circuits are usually very straightforward to follow. Replacing one or two wax coated foil, and paper capacitors, then doing a quick test as you went along reminded me in some ways of Larry (Back to the future radios). He recently uploaded a 2 part YT video series featuring an early1940s Stewart Warner radio, where he did a similar exercise to show viewers how a radio’s performance improves when wax coated capacitors are replaced with new. Your Arvin radio sounds, and looks absolutely lovely. But, having seen your superb restoration achievements in past videos, I’d say it’s fair to say, “I for one would not have expected anything less from you.” The Emerson radio should make for another brilliant restoration job. That one is a good looking radio. I too have a few American Vintage Radios waiting in the wings that are ripe for restoration. The next Vintage Radio on my wish-list is to get my hands on one that was manufactured in Australia, for the Australian market. Like American, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African radios, they come up for sale from time to time here in the UK, so getting hold of one should not be too difficult. Lovely chatting with you my friend, Phil. P.s, my two Philco, model 48-420 ‘Hippo’ radios will hopefully be uploaded in two weeks’ time.

Greetings: The RU-vid channel "Mr. Radio" host Seth in California's San Francisco Bay area does many radio restorations for the local radio club's auctions. It seems most of the American radios after a certain point were predominantly power "transformer less" aka hot chassis sets. The across the line and B- to chassis caps had .05 ufd values that allowed too much AC that still shocked and were reduced to about .01 ufd "x or y" safety caps (certified to fail open rather than shorted). Also, when replacing the line cord a polarized cord is used and the wide blade is connected to outlet NEUTRAL with the power switch moved to mains HOT. That helps maximize the safety aspect. Here when the B- is NOT connected to chassis except through a high value resistor, 200K-400K, and a Y cap, we say the chassis B- is "floating". From what I've seen, fuses are added to transformer sets to save the "hard to replace" transformer. My preference is to add an inexpensive (about a US dollar) CL90 or CL90A "inrush current limiter" on the HOT circuit to protect the VALVEs. They are about 120 ohms cold and drop resistance as thy warm up.

I wish I lived near you so I could pay you to align and repair some of my analog radios. Some are new and weren`t aligned properly at the factory....Sony ICF-P26 and Tecsun R9012 and R9700DX. These are some of the very few true analog radios still sold and work so well when you can get one that`s set up right, but sadly only about one in four are adjusted for maximum sensitivity on the MW band.

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Great job again David. Beam me up Scotty!! What a nice touch. Your editing is superb. Thanks for sharing. 73 de KB7ICI...Bill

We had an Arvin TV through much of my childhood, late 1950s, so I remember that logo. My father who was a WWII radioman repaired it dozens of times, even replaced the flyback transformer at one point.

Arvin Industries is based in Columbus, Indiana, and started manufacturing Arvin radios in 1927. The company then started producing auto mobile radios in 1933, followed by home radios in 1934, and televisions in 1948. ... Arvin radios come in a variety of different shapes and sizes.

What a loverly repair/restoration :-D It first looked like an old radio in a fair condition, when you had finished it looked like it came straight from the manufacturer, bloody amazing. Your manufactured capacitors always look like they belong in the radio, what a loverly look. The de-yellowed knobs look brilliant, who would think that hair use peroxide and sunshine would make them look brand new again :-D You just need a u.v barrier spray to stop the sun having it's evil way with them again lol. I had a good chuckle at the transporter, some how i was not supprised at you being happy with a tinny of nectar :-D. I was starting to think tha toaster rack local osc trimmer was dead, it jumped around like a kangaroo with a promse of sex lol.

That Arvin looks like it was stored in a dust free environment. Still for an Arvin radio that's a year younger than me it still looks pretty good.

David, once again a great video. Please don't take what I'm about to say as negative. As was watching, every time the mains voltage dipped below 50V the power display blanked was annoying to me, and yes I know that how these displays were designed. All other youtubers who use these displays also have the same issue. When I built my isolation transformer and current limiter which included one of these Voltage/Current/Power displays. I modified mine to be powered from a small mains transformer which allows the display to operate regardless of the ac voltage being measured.

Hi Dave, fabulous job! And the Americana montage at the end was very nice and quite stirring, even for this jaded American. There was a bit of “duck and cover” in there. Did you ever wonder what possible good that would do in the event of a thermonuclear attack? I noticed the radio did not have the Civil Defense (aka CONELRAD) markings at 640 and 1240. It must have been made shortly before that become a requirement. I have one word for you Dave: Nancy!!!

Yes, I'm sure it played all those programs and ads back in the day when you actually had to get up off your bum and turn a knob or flick a switch to hear music. "Hey google..." just doesn't have the same appeal. And I just can't see anyone meticulously repairing a google device 50 years from now. There's a certain beauty gone from the world.

Hay Dave, very good restoration & thank you. Re, the cap rebuild - you said you already had the artwork... was there a video covering this please? Also Terry from D-Lab has documented his take on can capacitors... (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VQ3Vvu9tUJ8.html) looks very practical... but not as pretty as yours!

Dang, 27:43 was an interesting connection to the past. Maybe that radio had once played Charlie Brown (song by the Drifters) way back in the 50s in the US!

That's not an Iron "This is an Iron"! Energize... Bzzzzzzz...Love it. Looks great. Thanks for showcasing an Amerian Radio. Ovalteen.. Kinda got a start on Tang when it came out.

Hmm, gonna have to work on my beer fridge restore next. Keeps turning beer into sake -- must be the metric parts I've been using. Fortunately, I love sake so there's no hurry... Great job on this restore, as usual, and thanks for the bit of Americana at the end! I remember the Duck and Cover drills at P.S. 193 Queens back in the 60s. I drank more Tang than Ovaltine, but I remember watching JFK and the moon launches on our B&W TV very well!

Well, what a lovely way to spend a Friday night away from Melbourne. Yes they've opened up the ring of steel and I'm now 200 Km from home. That's a nice looking radio and you've concurred again. What I really want to know is whether you could build me one of those transportation machines that sends me back to 1980 along with a box of XXXX beer. I quite fancy that idea right now. Nice video David.

Excellent video well done Mr Tipton very informative thanks 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Hi Dave : Here in the US the Fork symbol is chassis ground and the down arrow is common ground and digital ground....I almost bought the exact Emerson radio on E Bay only difference is the lower dial frequency covers short wave, I still might buy it the price is right ..How did I know you were going to make a proper cap ! keep up the great work Dave :) Beam me up Scottie HAHA

Ah the smell of brasso and boot polish, takes me back to my Army days living in the barracks during our Basic Training in 1970.

Another Superb Restoration of Arvin AA5 AC/DC Radio Congratulations of Wonderful Restoration David Again Full Marks.

As always *A+* David

As always, another great Video, Oh and very nice Matter Transportation Machine 😉, keep safe mate, and your family best regards Barry

Yo. David uses that transporter to get your Philly Cheesesteak. right away! I give you the coordinates soon.LOL, Great restoration.Breathtaking just to watch....Thank's for sharing this video. Wow simple design and reaks of a time long ago, a simpler time. Take care...

It is -11F here in South Dakota this morning, we have had 6 inches of snow pushed by 45 MPH Winds out of the West. A friend has just come by with his Bobcat Skid loader and cleaned the drifts out of my drive way so we can use it now. Hope you folks down under are enjoying your warm weather.