Two in one! See what sort of mischief I get into with these two pieces: A 1960's Zenith stereo with a design that looks like it belongs in a 1970's Steak house and a sort of a pain in the ass Siemens.
I hope you and/or somebody at the museum can get that bandswitch figured out. In the meantime you could scrounge another ferrite rod and restore that rotatable AM antenna. Best feature for us AM fans ever IMO.
Siemens radios are the most user unfriendly radios to work on. Won't touch them. Got to have finesse in replacing parts. So just replacing paper caps are a PITA! But it does sound excellent afterwards!!! Imagine all the years of cigarette smoke and spray furniture polish ( Pledge) put on the Zenith cabinet especially the top. That stuff actually attracts dirt. So a good cleaning is a must.
Not sure what the broken switch was switching, but I would have used another switch , even if I had to mount it in the rear just to restore the function of those other bands.
Can you please show the speaker compliment early in the video especially on the console stereos. That's something I always wish to know right away. Thanks!
That German radio looks like a bigger fiasco than our news agencies broadcasting the truth! You got patience my friend! Love to see that radio in that cream puff of a car in your garage. I bet the knobs weigh more than most entire radios do today:) wish I had your weather! Was 14 degrees Tuesday morning here in good old Saratoga Springs, New York. #wheres spring?
The capacitor you didnt change is in fact a paper one, just with a different sealing Material. They are now just as bad as the tar ones. I think they are called Eroid and i would recommend to change it too
Too bad about the broken switch in the Siemens, always frustrating when something is unrepairable. Only two other things I would've done was replaced the selenium bridge rectifier- those can fail just like any other selenium rectifier, either drastically and violently, or by slowly dropping B+ until the set stops playing. You can either make your own bridge out of 4N007's or buy a bridge rectifier to replace it. Also I see this set has a voltage selection for 125v - I would use that setting with today's higher line voltages.
Has anyone tried building a 3 transistor amplifier using 2xBD131 power transistors and 1xBC212L and a few transistors and a few diodes which is like the CRT drive amplifier in some television sets.
This ought to be exciting. Two radios 📻, as if they’re in competition against each other. Those are some real tube beauties. A lot of red capacitors in there. I think 🤔 the nightmare is worth it, as far as the resurrection goes on this. Check the dial cord and dial light 💡 in both of these. Your friend, Jeff.
I have a pink westinghouse h540t5 clock radio. Do you know of anyone who may have a tuner knob? Not looking for something for free. Kind of an uncommon radio I would like to make it presentable.
Seth, About that ferrite core antenna that was unwound, could you have used another ferrite core antenna salvaged from a transistor radio since they look similar ?
