Garrard Phono 202A and Airline Radio 62-144 repair Part 2 

I am still amazed at how you pick up on issues with seemingly no struggle whatsoever. I know this is a lost art, but if the zombie apocalypse ever hits, Dave, people are gonna need you around big time!

Folks are dumb where I come from....LOL...My grandfather had the first Monkey-Ward (that's what we called them here in Western Pennsyltucky) radio (the floor model) that you showed...he spoke of hearing the news of the Pearl Harbor attack on that radio...it's still in the family...Thanks again Dave for keeping these pieces of radio history alive...

Usually these early magnetic cartridges lose their magnetic properties. This is easily fixable by either buying a new magnet or magnetizing the old one. Surprising that this one haven’t. Great work!

Oh man, the Doris Day drop killed me. That garnered a big 'ol blurt laugh. I'll think of that and just giggle for weeks to come. And again, I'm in admiration of your skill, patience, and dedication. I honestly don't know what else to say about it. JUST. THAT. GOOD.

Try and get us a photo of the set assembled, once the owner gets it back together. It would be neat to see it all set up with the dial lights glowing.

"It's got more knots here than a boy scout's convention" . Your sense of humour is undiminished, Dave. That's why I like your channel so much.

85 years later and that set-up never sounded better. Nice work, David!

Dave , this two part series was great. Your work and dedication are flawless. Nice job and thanks for taking us along! Take care!

What a find thanks to one of your followers, re the IF can and the intermittent shorting, great work and i hope the owner gets many more years out of the radio.

your camera work is top notch, pleasure to watch , the audio is great also

Another perfect Friday afternoon. Work is finished and another video from Dave

You always have the greatest tips. I would have ever thought of stretching the end of heat shrink to get over old insulation. I always had to use oversized tubing to accomplish that and it never shrinks small enough. It's the simple things that make a professional looking restoration. Thanks.

Glad you got it all working. Wells Gardner really made some nice equipment in the 30's. Beautiful cabinet too, and appears in nice shape. Hopefully the owner will enjoy it!

Thank you, for a few things Mr Dave. 1. Letting us know when an advert is on it's way. 2. Showing us how to expand heat shrink. Muchly appreciated.

At 14:25, I appreciate that you used a terminal strip rather than just soldering point-to-point. That looks so sloppy when I see that. I do that your way also! Well done; again!

Hi Dave, I know you like doing a thorough deep-clean but I’m sure you enjoy certain jobs where the owner requests the radio be got working, and nothing else. I certainly do! When you spoke of crackling taking place when the radio was first switched on, my immediate thinking would have been to suspect some component intermittently arcing internally. That is one good example where a “sniffer” probe, or “Bloodhound” I spoke about would have proved its worth. It certainly would have helped locate the source of the crackling noise. I say good on the man who pointed out where the noise was likely coming from - we all should endeavour to help each other. Now that the radio has received a full alignment, it sounds and performs well. By the sound of each radio station, I’d guess you have the bandwidth just right - here in the UK it is usually 9kHz, or 4.5kHz each side for A M. Yes, an excellent result my friend. The phono part of radiogram of that age can often sound dull and almost lifeless but not in this instance. Cheers my friend, Phil.

Would've loved to see the case restored but man this thing works a treat now, very nice. Cheers Dave!

Perfect work as usual!

Amazing David loved it

Thank you for sharing.

Loved it. Thanks again for another great video.

Always good, always professional. Bravo!

Great job Dave. Great video.

as always great work master

Another great repair David

Another job well done, David! It's highly enjoyable to watch a Master at work!

Well done Dave as usual you make it look easy, if you can ask your friend to take some snaps of the set in the cabinet.

Nice work. As usual.

Really nice job on the radio and phonograph combination. I always like your meticulous detail you go through in every radio adventure. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent, as ever! Excelente, como siempre!

Sir David, excellent resuscitation! I love it...... Thank You!

Loved watching David you're teaching me a lot..

Another great video Dave 👍👍

Always something new to learn watching your vids, m8! Kudos!

Amazing jop dive thank you from deep my heart for your amazing video

I'd really been looking forward to Part 2 and I wasn't disappointed...thank you!

Nice video, again, like always.

Enjoyed watching your disciplined work . Thanks for the look.

What a lovely sound machine, David!

Thanks for another great video David! I really like seeing the phono combo. It's interesting to see the different ways they did the mechanisms. :)

Really nice job getting this one working well Dave. You did a really nice job and got it playing like new and still kept it the way the guy wanted it. I love watching you do this work, because I always learn something.

It's been an absolute pleasure to watch you work again. Great job Dave, enjoy your weekend with the family.

As usual a most enjoyable and entertaining video. A very nice way to spend an hour.

I can't wait for part 3 !!!!

Another very good restore, thanks for the videos David, Made my Friday night.

Part 2 & you didn't disappoint Sir! Well done & great video work as always! That tip on the wires shorting to the cans was quite a timesaver!

Well done mate, it would have been extremely satisfying to achieve such a great outcome. Another great video.

great work!

Nice one Dave, you did a great job as always, nice touch with the video segments , you never stop learning, that's what it's all about, love watching your work, hope everyone is good mate, tell next time.

Very good video, careful work and bits of humor thrown in for good measure.

Other great restauration, very well explanaid, I learn a lot. Congratulation - Sao Paulo - Brazil

Nice job David. I picked up some good tips. Thank you. John

Absolutely fantastic video. Always top quality viewing .Well worth waiting for part 2.This really is a premium channel.Best wishes Terry uk 🇬🇧 👍 ❤

Great series and wonderful result. You are amazing. Thanks David de KB7ICI...Bill.

Thanks for the Cleaning switch tip, would not have thought of that

Once again a journey worth taking, excellent work David. 📡 >>>>>>>> 📻

Yet again another great video, such excellent work and troubleshooting skills and repairs. Love that a fan of yours saved you hrs of troubleshooting frustration with that suggestion that lead you right to the problem. Also I have not before seen how those adjustable mica capacitors look like when opened up or mica removed, thanks for that.

Nice work as usual Dave! The "folks are dumb" thing took me back to Jacki McDonald's days on Hey Hey.. 🤣🤣

Fine job David !!! Well done... that arcing suggestion was key.... and you've shown the evidence.... excellent stuff.....

muy buen trabajo mi amigo, felicitaciones

Sometimes it's not simply procedure that gets the job done but a certain amount of detective work. On something this old you almost need to re-learn electronics! Superb result, well done.

Hi David, great to see part two. Fantastic job but good job that follower mentioned the problem if. A real trap for young players. Cheers Steve.

Dave, the radio IF can surgeon performing an mica transplant! :-)

I wanna CLEAN it! Nice job.

Thanks David, I really like these early models, fascinating, would love to see it mounted in the case though.

Top notch as always, David! As usual, I’ve picked up some tips and tricks. Oh, and some jokes. 😊

great referb good idea to clean the mica wafers i will try that idea thanks

great job dave ,i restore 70s and 80s recievers ,amps .Now im going to get into tubes.its nice to see that old stuff restored thanks dave for your jnformative videos ive learned alot PAUL

David as usual you've proved you can just about fix any radio or record player , I look forward to your next video ,👍

What a beauty. I love the dial on this radio!!

Hello David, I enjoyed this rebuild . The older radios are built to last . Insulation of the day not so much ! Thanks for posting this !

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What fun to see the prices of replacement parts!

I like the tone and volume indicators. Totally useless 1930's bling! Perfect

Thanks

Smashing repair david :-D So nice to see such an ancient radio sing again :-D The tuning was so far off i suspected someone was messing about with it, likely more than one mad tweaker lol. The tip about the arcing wire was great, that could have been a nightmare to find the fault. I imagine the records you are playing are so old that no one holds the rights any more. Hunts capacitors, ok in there day but 30 + years later deadly.

I have no interest in repairing radios but I found this video mesmerising and very interesting. Thank you for posting it.

Excelente Maestro David Tipton: Siempre espero con mucho interés sus vídeos. Un Cordial Saludo desde Cuba.

Thanks for the video. I am restoring a Midwest DD18 console and was wondering how to power up the radio safely. I will use your trick of putting the tubes in one at a time. Wonderful video.

Lazy Dave did not drill off the insides of the old capacitors and insert new ones inside) Great as always!

Hi David. Superb job yet again. I bet that it sounds good in its cabinet, it may also sound better with a larger speaker. That speaker you had there looked in too good a condition to be the original.The owner should be more than happy with the result. As always I thoroughly enjoyed watching this series. Stay safe and well. Cheers Chris.

Great job as always, Dave! 24:00 - The Jersey Boys! ;-) It seemed strange to not see station call letters on the dial. I’ve gotten used to that on your channel. Then I remembered it’s an American set. Believe it or not, Wells-Gardner is still in business! But they no longer make radios.

At 15:55 the components shown are taken out, that are bad or out of spec are commonly called "dead soldiers". Boy that chassis was really mucked up by previous repairmen. Some who didn't bother connecting the parts they added properly. And they charged the previous owners for doing it! Like how you caught the fact the speaker wasn't connected in the circuit when testing it! Sure it happens to us sometimes. Even with the dirty band switch it works. Rest of the repairs were fascinating to watch and will remember how it was done right by David! Some IF transformers have been found to have cardboard in them to stop arcing inside. A few manufacturers didn't do this like Wells Gardner but it does work. Aloha , Steve

Cool to see and hear a 90 year old phono and radio amp working after so long. Now a days we buy a plastic phono and amp it is broken within two years. I noticed the cost of the transformer on your data of the radio. Transformer costed about 3 Dollars? What a prices back then hé. David you done a nice repair partly restauration. Cheers Martin

Hey, Dave! I was waiting for this. I was getting ready to have a trailer loaded, spotted that this video was released. Told myself that I would watch it when I got home. The difference is watching on my phone or my 65" television. Much better on the telly. Love the video as usual. Too bad you didn't restuff that capacitor.

The sound from the record player was really nice (with plenty of bass component, which you don't usually associate with 78s). Ditto, very little surface noise. I wasn't expecting that! I remember endlessly playing my first ever record, which was a 78: "The Isle of Capri" on a black wind-up gramophone. (Sadly, a lot of the 78 record collection got turned into short-lived and immensely ugly "vases" (with a bit of heat applied)). Good we both share early memories of changing gramophone needles! Many thanks for the video, as always. ---Mike

A coffee for this Work, Greets from AUSTRIA 👍🏻

Awesome job Dave your friend is lucky to have you there to restore this Lovely piece of Radio & Phono History. So exciting seeing everything come back to life , the old needles look quite lethal I wonder what the wear rate is on those old 78 records 🤔 ?

A good job well done :-))

Another excellent Refurbishment Dave the Turn Table and the radio were both built before you were born the radios with RF stage perform excellently and good work finding that intermittent crackle from information from internet Mate I can see you getting more work but a excellent refurbishment Dave Full Marks Mate.

Very nicely done Dave. That gramophone sounds spectacular. Your records are in really good nick obviously. I need to buy you another coffee mate after all the interactions and replies on your last video. Thanks for all of it

Brilliant, and quite a different challenge that you overcame with your usual skill. I would love to hear it in the original cabinet with all that timber. You also win praise for having the cheesiest record collection. 😊 Now that I think of it, I have got some pretty cheesy 78s too, although I draw the line at harmonica and hula. 😄👍

I spoke to you a while ago about you having the same rf generator as me and took out the 12 position function switch and put back in what should be a 1k fine tune rf pot did not have 1 but replaced with a 50k 1 i had and the generator is now running fine plenty of output before very weak and getting depressed thought i had brought a lemon now happy.I was trying to repair a Stewart Warner 1934 and using the generator the way it was was useless could not get any signal before to pass anywhere in the radio spent heaps of time checking capacitors etc going in circles but thanks to you and listening to what you say helped me thanks man.

48:35 "No hum?" Clearly it knows the words to the song! LOL

I have had a number of radios and tv that over the years as well as faulty caps failing have also come across some of the mica caps becoming noisy from age and leaky/intermittent and can cause crackling in the audio . Mainly the one that are across the main B+ rails. Hard to check and easier just to replace when going through a set.

Dave, Great video as always. I can’t really tell but at 16:05 there is a shot of the terminal strip that was reworked. It looks like at position 5 from the left where the 22K is connected there is a black wire that appears to be unsoldered.

50:17 AWWW so nice to see you in your younger years lmaoo The radio sounds great.

David Tipton the owners Garrard phone Airline radio Receiver is cool

Ahhhhh, I still remember the days you could pop the back off the tv or the stereogram and look for the valve that wasn't glowing. Then go to the shop and buy another one, put it in and Bob was your uncle again. "Folks are dumb where I come from..." 🤣 Don't feel bad, I'm sure that more than once even Dr. Frankenstein clipped the wrong leads on the monster's electrodes. It happens to the best of us. Which brings me to the point, I wonder where Dr. Frankenstein got his electronics from. I mean, no internet and probably not too many electronics shops in Transylvania.

I've found that braided boot laces make a great replacement for frayed a dissipated braided cotton insulation. A bit of heat shrink on the ends minimizes the discontinuity, and available cheap at any dollar store.