Channel Updates and 1941 Philco 41225 Radio Resurrection 

Thats the spice of life. its how real people are. lol

Thats the whole reason i subbed

@Icky Icky Batang ... I'm with you!

Just add a capacitor it will refine the crass. 🤣

And really, nothing he does is wrong. The customer just wanted a repair, not a restoration, and that's exactly what she got. :)

@@kd5byb Yeah, I hear you... But that yellowed plastic is just driving me crazy!

@@tarstarkusz Easy fix. Remove the plastic bezel, put it in a soup bowl, pour in hydrogen peroxide 3% (regular drug store concentration) until it completely covers the bezel. And, if you happen to have a UV light bulb handy, put it into a desk lamp, and place the desk lamp right next to the bowl, and shine the lamp directly down onto the bowl with the bezel in it. Leave it like that overnight. It'll come out sparkling clear the next morning, like factory new...no more yellow.

@@Trev0r98 You mean retrobrite it. I don't know if anyone has had success retrobrighting clear acrylic. It is trivially easy to just make a new lens too.

@@tarstarkusz It works on acrylic, polystyrene, polycarbonate, urethane and vinyl. I know because I've tried them all, and it works. All take about the same amount of time to "de-yellow" and become clear again.

Accurate

Unless it’s classical, jazz or oldies. Yep

@@nobodynothingberg4886 I absolutely agree, I have 2 oldies stations around me. Good stations

i've been watching for 4 years and still don't really know anything about tv's.

@@Stoneforth It's like getting your bearings in the city .. With its districts, quarters, houses and streets. Shango is like an archaeologist who excavated and restores and revives an ancient city from its original appearance.

He is very smart and does good work but there is something about him that gets on my nerves.

@@equid0x Same here!

"let's see if I can find a decent oscilloscope on craigslist. Oh. Oh no."

I can't watch Carlson. He is such a sperg.

Radios are not hard and there are so many radio repair restoration channels that if you are willing to spend a few hours watching videos you should have the basics down

Mr. Carlson doesn't like how it was designed next thing you know he has engineered and manufactured a new board or part like it came from the factory.

Mr. Carlson is fantastic, but yeah, I really have to be in the mood.

And unless you are concerned as to the molecular structure and ionization state of chassis corrosion samples he can be a bit much. But God bless him.

I did the same thing. Used to rummage through the city dump in the 60's before they decided it was dangerous and locked them up. I would grab every radio I could find and usually tear them apart, if they didn't run with an easy fix. I used to take components apart, I enjoyed the old wax caps with their layers of wax paper and foil.

Covid probably didn't know what hit it when it reached the Shango residence, like a wayward Indian telemarket-scammer-quirkledinger.

@@MattExzy Rumor says it spent most of the time sobbing in the corner with its thumb in its mouth.

I am so glad I don't have a tv or radio in my house. I have seen the effect they have had on my neighbours these last 2 years.. I'm still the same.. just angrier

Early into the TV technology.

how trite. Making fun of black people and spouting COVID-denying BS is what I'm irritated by. I'm still watching his channel, but I'll speak my mind, too! Does that offend you?

@@hmbpnz Offended? lol, no. Just proves your own weakness. When we lose the ability to laugh at ourselves then we have lost everything. Good luck to you.

@@seanobrien7169 I wouldn't say it was a weakness, just making an observation.

I've always thought wholesale cap replacement is a retarded approach unless you're doing a full restore or don't know what you're doing. No reason to replace working parts unless they are a well known failure like the bumblebee caps or the old japanese caps that are nearly always bad. I worked in a repair shop in the 90s and we never took the approach of changing everything on the board... That's just silly. Nobody gets a bad wheel bearing or drive shaft on a car and changes all of them on every wheel "just because."

No kidding. I used to watch Carlson pour in hours of love and repetition and at the end of the project he has an AM radio. Maybe they're more useful in Canada than California. Maybe not.

Back in January here in the TN/GA area, during the Georgia runoff, the political propaganda mouthpieces where in full gear as well, i mean if you heard the election adverts that were being play, most of them where just the two parties scapegoating and gaslighting one another, especially over Covid, nothing nice or encouraging is said anymore, some of the ads were also done by private businesses, rather then the politicians themselves, it got so irritating that i ether turned off the radio, or change it to an AM station away from the GA broader, such as WSM, which is only two hours down the road from me in south half of Nashville. anyways, there are two FM stations i listen to here, used to be three with this 80's/90s station, but the more i got hearing about it, it was just them favoring or repeating songs every two hours, mostly between Bette Midler's Wind beneath my wings, and Mariah Carey's Fantasy. this irritating issue goes back to what radiotvphononut mention about radio stations nowadays, being so automated, that there not a whole lot of diversity in the selection anymore.

The sound of your electronics cremating themselves! Audiophiles choice!

Well, those paper wax capacitors can be restored, there are certain methods used by folks who want to keep 30's/40's radios all original.

@@Pawelr98 The only thing I can think of is to gut a wax capacitor and insert a new cap inside the old one, but that just seem like time wasting denial. If the overall look of the inside of a radio that was never meant to be viewed is that important to you, I suppose. One of the benefits of just using the new, smaller caps is that they provide better air flow for what was essentially an over packed rat's nest of components.

@@robertgaines-tulsa no, they just "open" the ends of the wax capacitor and boil them in wax, which removes most of the stuff that caused them to leak DC current. There are even guides out there, some 90+ years old capacitors could get restored to a point where leakage was (almost) nonexistent.

@@Pawelr98 i'd rather restuff them if the radio is worth the trouble and is a nice specimen...no willing to risk cremation of an expensive output tube over a 10 cents cap

Same here. You will live a healthier life by not consuming msm.

here in the uk they are now trying coercion bribary and you could win £5k tactics for those who choose not to take part in their seriously flawed drugs trials. my daughter has had both injections yet she is in isolation due to her getting covid at work doesn't fill you with confidence does it, like you shango and many others i'm going to take my chances as i have no faith in what they are trying to push and the way they are pushing. good health.

@@dbrown51967 America has been doing that a while. They call them "lotteries" where you can "win" some amount of money and you enter by taking the shot. Unfortunately, you are a lot more likely to win blood clots and strokes than any money.

@@tarstarkusz Even more crazy, I heard on the radio there were some states offering "Joints for jabs"!! Is this for real??? How about a pack of cigarettes as a prize for being part of the clinical trial ??

@@LakeNipissing I haven't heard that one. But pot is not legal for recreation in my state.

Vitamins eh? So a scam ;)

But he didn't have one of the wax / paper "bombs" explode in this video when the radio got full power applied with the series light bulb bypassed.

Yay biased opinions!

"Water... you mean like in the toilet!?"

Yeah we got idiots who use religion making policies and idiots thinking a business man loves them. Then the other side is well, stupid. But neither side can negotiate, always right means always wrong.

Default. If you get the rabies or tetanus your natural inmune system will be worthles. Get a pistol to end your agony.

@@feynman6625 What a stupid reply.

Like the one you hear on a radio show with the “Camel Caravan” with Vaughn Monroe, “Abbott & Costello” with the famous “Who’s On First” skit, and “Richard Diamond, Private Detective”.

Fred and Barney smoke Rothmans

BTW Hope your doing okay! And the same to everyone else around you!

Let's ignore mainstream and just do internet ! Mainstream is for the 'unaware' people !

Sounds like it's not Covid. I took someone to the ICU with Covid who was put on a vent and he was out in about 4 days. He caught MRSA Pneumonia from the ventilator and went back in a week later for 7 days and had to be given pure oxygen with a face mask. The doc said he was over the Covid for the second round and the pneumonia was worse.