That thing is Wells-Gardner all the way, with a VM record changer. If that's the TV chassis that I'm thinking of, it uses an oddball circuit breaker that contains an internal resistor that's in the horizontal output tube cathode circuit. If the circuit breaker fails, it will cause an electrolytic bypass capacitor on the horizontal output tube cathode to blow up. The most interesting thing about this chassis is that it's a modular tube set. Otherwise, I'm not fond of them. The CRT was probably sourced from either RCA or Rauland.
Someone's got one up on ebay (without the dust and supposedly in the original plastic) for almost $500. Like this one, it's. the London version with "Have you seen your mother?" and "Paint it Black" in place of "You Better Move On" and "We Love You" on the Decca version.
No Name I have that very record paper cover not in the best condition put plays very well. keep in mind with EBAY people can whatever the want. usually overpriced.
The TV chassis mas made by Warwick Electronics, Chicago Il. the Horizontal output Tube & most of the other tubes are Japanese made as well as the Stereo components. i worked on a few of these sets in the late 70's
Yes, I have the standalone deck too, never seen it elsewhere before this video... Mine is the Realistic SCT-3 (Radio Shack Catalog 14-861). I will have to do a video of it, definitely the same deck in this video, but with rear microphone jacks...
Reminds me of a Curtis-Mathes set we had in the 1980's. It came with a house we bought as the sole piece of furniture left behind. We used it for years.
Most likely made by Panasonic. They made a lot of stuff for JCP. Update - Made by Wells Gardner. I saw their EIA code 334 on the back cover. They also made Western Auto's Truetone brand.
Cool :) My Grandmother had a 1963 Zenith tv like this with a record player and am fm stereo . My sister and I watched tv on it in the early to mid 1980's :) It was cool :)
I had a Pencrest B&W vhf only tv back in the 70s. It did the job. Also my friend had a Pendrest console stereo. Like you said, not great quality, but it sounded pretty nice.
radiotvphononut would have loved finding the Rolling Stones album in that thing. He complains he usually finds gospel (especially Jimmy Swaggart) instead.
You're not even going to test the CRT in that pig? I'm disappointed, sir. LOL. Keep up the videos as you can. Love them all. Thanks for what you do, Shango066.
It looks like it was a "champagne taste on a beer budget" type unit. Seems surprisingly well built for what it is, but at the same time sadly under-engineered. Hopefully you can give it a little love when you get bored. It's kind of neat to see this poor man's high end stuff get some love and attention as at seems to be increasingly rare to see it in the wild. All in all: excellent find!
I keep wondering why, back in the day, they built hybrid appliances like this tv. Wouldn't it have been easier to build an all-transistor appliance? Or was it cheaper to make use of prefabricated tv-chassis? It seems this chassis was an american built RCA, isn't it. I'm also astonished people would still buy corny fifties-design cabinets in the seventies. Although maybe they were targeting the people who were adolescents in the fifties. Still, it's weird to see fifties design in a supposed space-age product :) Anyway, even if it isn't high quality, it's still a nice find. Should make for an interesting video to see it all working.
According to Wikipedia 710 AM had a "powerhouse rock line up" in the seventies, featuring the following DJs: Dick Whittinghill, Geoff Edwards, Wink Martindale, Gary Owens, Bob Arbogast and Roger Caroll. That would fit with the LP on the turntable.
Hey Good Buddy, you might have yourself a rare bird there. I suspect, from experience in my Dad's repair shop way back when, it's a Panasonic clone of sorts. Also, the whole idea of the "afterthought" tape player was not so much an afterthought, but a way to option cassette vs 8-track vs none but a record storage bay. Indeed the cassette is the rare bird on such a tube set. The whole meter thing was a way to faux higher end component stereos that were becoming the big thing but I guess you know that. I would say it really is not a cheapo set, but more of a midrange console. Low midrange at the worst. There's some popularity for these kind of kitschy "store-brand" units that are above K-mart level, ie, Sears, Penncrest, Wards. I myself just got a Sears Silvertone console that's pretty sweet. I think it's definitely worth testing the tube to see what's up with it.
Loving the live stuff! please if you ever start doing more of it can you please be sure to keep the vod up on the channel? some people will delete the video after the stream and I would hate to miss anything from the shango. I know you don't take requests and why would you but I've been jonesing for a tv repair all the way though the setup/tuning/adjusting stage.
the turntable is a good one my aunt had this console and the first thing to go was the sound on the television and the rest worked well. the unit was owned by my aunt for 50 years and the turntable never was serviced and everything lasted till a month after she passed away . . sometimes these units are great and sometimes they are garbage thank you for posting this another great video
am 710, i guess format in the 70's or 80's. featuring popular music, news and sports. for those commented cheap electronics, it's high end set back in the days. that's all we had for electronics.
The tape player may only work while in tape mode, towards the end you put in tape mode but you didn't try the tape player after doing that, so maybe it will work.
Most later '70s Penncrest (portable) electronics was halfway decent. Their CB radios were sourced mostly from Uniden, Tram, and Pace (of California). Never had my fingers inside of one of their TV's, though.... (and that TV surely mimics a POS)
Penncrest stuff are pretty rare, I just recently bought a Penncrest guitar amplifier. Although they are rare, that's it, not worth much money. I like them just on a personal level because they are rare. I used to be a repair technician, so I like to re-cap them and make them work again for shits and giggles.
hope to see you get the tv part to work I like seeing old tube sets working I have an old RCA in the barn I would love to work on its a color set has the flip down dials in the front that pulls out of the speaker area
Did you play the roling stones album on another stereo blowing out dust cleaning pots. With tuner spray would do alot a long sheet rock screw would probly fix the lid
Hey, awesome! The platter spins! Most of the time, the grease has hardened and the platter is seized. Maybe you should send it to radiotvphononut! :) Time to test the picture bulb next.
8:34 Are those sliding doors? I'm going to guess they are hollow plastic, but they are a lot more tastefully designed than much of the Mediterranean whorehouse-style furniture that was so popular back then. Those 8" paper-suspension woofers with pre-Zaire-civil-war magnets don't look very promising, but sometimes when you throw all that cheap stuff in a big enough cabinet, it just sounds good by accident. I've never understood why they bother with those horns in something like this; a SS amp can easily power any $10 tweeter and unless they are very carefully engineered, the horns will just muck-up the frequency response as well as the dispersion pattern.
That last-minute VoiceOfMusic changer, with size-sensing, no less, also deserves honorable mention. They might have just used it out of force of habit, but it's almost certainly of higher quality than the BSR's they were using in systems like this.
14:30 Sounds OK, considering the back is off and it's sitting in the bed of a truck. It will probably end up in the "pleasant jukebox" category, but still better than a lot of the compact systems in that era with giant-grill-shallow-box speakers. But only someone with a lot of extra space could give this thing the love it will need to survive.
also love your comment about the old Ford philco tv I still am waiting for you to get that one going :) I know your only one guy and its tough to work on stuff and real life lol keep it up shango066
Cool, I had the exact same cassette player as a standalone component. Can't recall the obscure brand name. I got it as a freebie in the late 70's It played tapes ok ,but the non-Dolby tape recordings from it were a bit muffley as compared to the more advanced Dolby NR cassette decks.
Not sure if you have ever worked on any arcade monitors,but if you ever get a chance do do a video on an electrohome monitor from the 80s, it would be super cool.
my favorite station in the eighties, in NY, was wdre. formerly wliw. now 92.7 garden city is an all spanish audience station. many analog frequencies are making that change. everyone else is pursuing other media, and with automobiles using cirius/xm menus instead of radio channels, no one is following radio. oh, well
Could have been destroyed in a dump but as fate would have it, it ends up with not only the right guy but someone who knows how to take care of it and fix it
well its neat, i'd keep the tape deck and the wrong way round dials as well as the radio but the record decks a bit gone, plus ???? if the tv works, it lights up but that's it
I worked on TV's during the 70's and don't remember seeing that chassis. The power transformer looks A Merican. Thanks for the interesting video. Is that turning table one of the last V. M.'s?
How cheap / sneaky... even with three speakers on each side of the cabinet, the TV just plays through a single 4" x 6" under the channel selectors. As if it would have been so difficult to route the TV audio through the stereo amplifier and speakers. It is like a separate, isolated TV, receiver, cassette deck and record player share a common cabinet.
a fix up can be done,shang likes making old tech vintage tech at least be functional,stuff like refinishing old cabinets,jerryrigging a tuner/amp that people put out in the alley,,mount the piece with 55 wpc inside the cabinet,using AUX IN/ for a turntable with mag cartridge,out to speakers,like that built in tuner that still works,use rubber adhesive on the paper cones to reinforce them,or mount more modern poly bass cones and tweeters,all that could be done with equipment like this,
You have to do that Philco ford that thing would be so cool to see working again And I want to see the steps to Getting it working because it's early color solid state. color table top sets like that one don't get resurrected that offend
vintage panasonic rodalco,this doggy is 40 years old,sliders are still fine,some knew how to makem work 4.bp.blogspot.com/-nrZHggHTV2o/UJVdPOPmChI/AAAAAAAABrQ/9SzqXqpDjHQ/s1600/2photo+3.JPG
I didn't really know where to ask so maybe someone out there has some experience and can answer my television question. I was browsing kijiji the other day and someone has a Zenith Chromacolor mid 70s for sale with the white plastic bottom. They say it powers on but that no picture displays. I think this was a solid state tv? because right away im thinking it's a vacuum tube issue but if it's solid state could it be a filter capacitor problem?
I think of Zenith and Magnavox for quality in these old consoles.Zenith had a better picture, Maggotboxes had much better sound. I'm surprised that there are any Pencrests to be found at the curb. They were junk when they were sold, an imitation of better brands. The cabinets were always better than the guts. This thing has probably got a 2-watt per channel amp, and even if you get the FM and AM aligned, it'll be noisy and about as selective as a rat terrier in a field of mice. But, kudos for a rescue.
Sad small speakers. Add a powered sub woofer to really improve enjoyment factor. I do this with small compact systems that sound good. Neat piece just the same. I see separate television speaker. Can it play TV through the stereo? I assume yes.
that is a nice tv, just a shame everything in the uk is now digital as in old none digital tv's just have static i'd love that thing, screw using the tv i'll hve the cassette radio deck if it had an 8 track it be perfect!
owing to the taxes,rules n regs on businesses big & small, specialty vintage electronics can not pay the rent,hence lLA & south counties do have a lot of non profits like goodwill,mexicans often have resale shops with old equipment,which you scarf up only for the parts weekends are a good time to his advertised and non advertised yard sales,swapmeets,where people often sell closed out inventories old stuff,like shango spies from the truck to loadem on the rear carrier,
