I think the last 2 1/2 years have taught most of us that THE most dangerous thing to have around us is a dull brain. Luckily the people who come here don't have one of those.
I found an 8 transistor Zenith Deluxe Royal at a local flea market that does honestly use all 8 transistors. Has an RF front end and a separate mixer oscillator for stability. Works like a champ and very good sensitivity. Someone's junk is now my treasure.
"City of New Orleans" was originally written and performed by Steve Goodman. One of the few good things to come out of Chicago. Later covered by Arlo Guthrie and others.
24:10 Never change, Shango! This is why I love your channel so much, the repairs are always fascinating to watch (I love audio equipment especially), and the comments and sarcasm are just making my day every single time! Big thanks for doing what you do, I appreciate it!
@ 27:04 - That was Aelo Guthrie. You woulda liked him Shango; he was the master of cryptic nonsense responses. He recommended walking into draft offices during the height of the Vietnam War, and saying "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant, excepting Alice!" , as a means of avoiding the draft. Check out Alice's Restaurant Mass-o-cree in three part harm-o-nee!
"...27 8-by-10 color glossy pictures, with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, describing the quote 'scene-of-the-crime' unquote." 🤣🤣
@18:00...... You're right. Like the saying goes " tell a lie enough times and it becomes the truth". @26:57 That particular version of City of New Orleans was sang by Arlo Guthrie. As far as sensitivity....I think it is pretty sensitive myself. Just sayin'
@@uTube486 Sorry, thought that you were supporting Shango's idiotic claims of COVID being a hoax. I sometimes wonder if he just says this shit to rile people up. He seems otherwise intelligent.
Quote: Like the saying goes " tell a lie enough times and it becomes the truth". Genesis (the band) had a song that delve into that concept, they titled it, "Keep It Dark".
Great repair. Nothing on a circuit board is found bad by accident but by careful observation of the traces. Old E-caps being replaced is a given to make sure there isn't anything else bad either.
National treasure. I feel like some folks don't want to like him because he infers right wing PoV. Cancel Culture has its place condemning old racists and slave owners. But condemning such an intelligent and entertaining person for opinion is harsh. Unamerican.
I have one of those Kensington AM radios with something like 15 or 16 transistors. It's crazy how many useless transistors they used to stuff into these radios.
@@Suddenlyits1960 I just pulled out the Kensington I have and sure enough 16 transistors. I also have a Mark T that has a mere 15. I picked up a 10 Transistor Juliette that has a sticker on the bottom that says " This Receiver uses a 10 transistor circuit wich complies with the FTC ruling on Transistor cont of Dec. 10 1968" so it looks like the FTC did crack down on ploy they where pulling off on radio customers. BTW the Kensington only has one stage IF and isn't any better then a 6 transistor radio.
@@jrocco36 I have an American made 10 transistor Jewel radio that when you remove the redundant transistors in the audio output and replace one transistor that is functioning as a diode you have a seven transistor set that performs like a seven transistor radio should. Nothing all that special.
@JRocco 36,thanks for sharing the info on the sticker. I had remembered that the FTC cracked down on the inflated transistor count but couldn’t remember when exactly it happened. They’d just toss in transistors that didn’t do anything and weren’t even hooked up so they could claim their set had 14 transistors. More equals better in the average consumers mind.
I just wanted to say hello for a change. I watch your videos faithfully and have learned so much from them. I rarely ever comment but always give you a 👍
Hi Shango0. Love the videos. I like reading the comments to see how many get offended, " By the truth " Always good for a laugh. Liked,shared. All my best.
I don't care, I'm a sucker for those little shiny transistor radios, LOL The best part of it is they don't take up much room so you can buy everyone of them you see if it's cheap....
At 17:52, _"just keep repeating it"_ which was Josef Goebbels' strategy for manipulating "the masses." Ah yes, I remember Arlo Guthrie's _City of New Orleans_ back in 1972. Those were the days.
My Facebook posts to the libs sometime include the statement attributed to Goebbels " accuse the other side of which you are guilty" drives 'em nuts. 😁
I have a 1963 Wards Airline Cigarette pack storage transistor radio. Looks like a tiny table radio with a flip open top to store one pack of regular or king size cigarettes plus matches or a lighter. Plus a place to stick your initials from a furnished sheet of them. It is called a Solid State Table Radio model 1706. DC powered.
Another treasure trove of radios 📻. I bet ya can recap all of these. My favorite radio is the one with an 8 on it. This high sensitivity radio also looks great, too. Just be careful with the knife 🔪, ya don’t want to scratch up your radios. The “8” gets pretty good reception, but I’m not even sure of capacitor condition. I’m not sure 🤔 what year the “8” radio is. I’ll guess circa 1975. Your friend, Jeff.
nice repair. kind of a useless radio though... looks like one of those you have to put on a table and stay still to tune, then when you pull your hand away or walk to the other side of the room the station is gone.
I have one Sylvania radio from the late 1950s which has only four transistors as it uses one as both an oscillator and mixer. Not the best performer but still quite good for just a four transistor radio.
The audio feeding through and appearing on the oscillator is because the power supply is being modulated. Lightbulb allows that, and then the bias follows the power supply.
Would have been very-interesting to actually know what line in the circuit that trace-break was at. It is interesting to note that a serviceman can encounter some of the most-bizarre symptoms that when described to an engineer are beyond his belief. If you really want to know electronics, find all manner of electronic devices and do exactly what Shango does--bring them back into operation. However, Shango could save himself a lot of trouble, if instead of all this troubleshooting stuff, he'd instead just give the radio a shot of 'clotzine!'
The radio with the 8 on it, 8 transistor. I would think when connected to 6 VDC starts off loud and then slowly get quieter. That’s because there is a sudden input a surge of power maybe not quite 9 VDC but enough to drive the components as the surge goes away and it’s just a constant 6 VDC then the radio gets gradually gets quieter due to lack of voltage. Ricky from IBM, Ret in the Free Independent Constitutional Republic of Florida (no longer from Simi Valley)
My first thought was an open emitter bias resistor. The bypass cap would charge up, raising the emitter bias until it got close to the base voltage, then the transistor shuts off. The problem with that idea is that unless the cap was really leaky, or had another discharge path, it would stay charged, and the radio would only do that once, until the cap's charge bled off. When he found the open trace, that was sort of like having an open resistor. I don't know if that was the ground trace to an emitter resistor though.
One of those rubber bands that comes around asparagus would work too. If I use clear tape, I always leave a folded over tab to grab on to, and you don't need the tape to go round and round.
I wonder what chain store sold Kensington? Gamble/Skogmo for the yellow Coronado which you have a video up. Good catch on the visual of the broken trace, these do get dropped quite often, so not unexpected or surprising failure there. Great video man!
I have a similar issue with my 1972 Sony CF-350, except it's with the FM band where the upper and lower extremes can't be picked up at all, and in the middle of the band, the stations are either strong and clear, or marginally listenable. AM works fine. I also have a Sanyo M-7735 that is completely dead, and the Cassette door is jammed and won't eject. There is a tape inside it. I've also got a GE 3-6025A with the early digital tuner and it acts strange as well, won't pick up anything but some random ass weak station that it's locked to on FM, and AM is in 9Khz intervals rather than the 10Khz here in the US. Bare in mind it worked perfectly the first few days I had it. Now both bands act bizarrely, and most of the buttons below the display don't do anything whereas that was not the case before.
That Caltrans robot station is in the extended band, I think around 1610 KHz. This radio didn't seem to tune that high, until Shango tweaked the oscillator trimmer cap.
Just so you know, "Bob Dylan" is actually named Robert Allen Zimmerman! They always try to hide their identity. He totally sucks. I don't know why anyone ever liked Zimmerman!
For many years, he has been living in the elite customs he once attacked. Believing a folk singer is Messiah material never ends. Woody Allen: "Look here comes god out of the men's room."
Change the tune of the pastors on one of those mushrooms to the badger for a capacitor, a Russian capacitor, since we were so fond of those, and always thinking about Bayou
If a transistor has the center lead cut out is that typically used as a diode, and can you check transistors with a VOM? I don't have a transistor tester that's why I ask.
A diode can be made using either the transistor base to the collector or the base to the emitter - the spare lead doesn't need to be cut, but you can if you want. With this info: It's best to check both of those internal diodes with a DVM diode checker feature. If you only have a voltmeter (a current meter would be better), you would need to build a small test circuit. Hope this helps.
i bought a cool amfm aristone walkman radio a few months ago ,i use it at night to drift of to sleep,sometimes the bbc world service stops me lol ,sounds nice...
That 'Honeytone' is kinda neat-lookin', as is the Airline - you can't tune smarter... Snailie lichen... Shame they're not even crackle-pony working... BTW, that's Arlo Guthrie singing 'City of New Orleans'... song gives us the feels...
A few months ago I emailed you about a '66 GE transistor radio reed speaker fix and inquired about how you receive viewer projects. How does your viewer project submission/mailing process work?
Not Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie.., of 'Alices Restaurant' fame, also 'Coming into Los Angeles' . Radio kids between certain ages, I'm 54, remember all those songs. Love the rant "repeat it enough people will believe its true" True enough in the Millennial/Snowflake era.
I dont know. I have a kit radio with local osc, and filtered final. a chip. +Filter and it runs rings around the super het. From the same co hi hi...and i find that the less parts the less system noise...
This little radio made me laugh. It sounds like it's big brother with a 60cycle hum when it's electrolytics go bad but this one is higher frequency hahahaha 😆 the entire radio oscillates. Hum from a battery hahahaha
