Healing M401E Aussie Radio from 1946-47 Restoration 

Good job. Nice to see your restoration technique improved a lot as time passed.

I like that grommet you used for the tuning great idea.

i love old radios nice to see you bring them back to life. from the U.K

Very handsome and stylish cabinet. Maybe you could give us a tour of your radios one day. Thanks for the video.

I really like watch how you bring these radios back to life. Nice one. (from Poland)

Great job David, done to your usual high standards. Pleasure to watch. Happy Christmas, and a great restoring new year.

Thank you again for sharing your rebuild. I always enjoy your videos, and have learned a great deal from watching them. 👍

Great radio 📻. Great 👍 videos to fall asleep 😴 to. 💤. Great 👍 for an insomniac, especially if restoration is their forte. Sort of like “Radio Theater”, for the sleepless person. The songs, the sounds, dial lights, dial cords. Watch until you become increasingly sleepy 😴 💤. I notice you only take interest in small radios 📻, which is fine. I’ve never seen ya do a 1947 Firestone Airchief radio, or the like. These are actually furniture with function. Could have one ☝️ as your nightstand, or any other purpose ya like. These are sure beautiful radios 📻, and they’re tube type. Brown wooden cabinet and glass dial face. Yes, it’s lighted, my favorite. The 1947 Firestone Airchief has a field coil speaker 🔊. They are not permanent magnet, but can be retrofitted for one, temporarily. This could require a little work, such as if you need your field coil speaker repaired. If a These radios were made by Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. I don’t know 🤔 if they were a promotion, as to perpetuate the sales of tires, or a special offer to people. Even for the 1940’s, a Firestone Airchief and similar radios 📻 were pretty expensive. I’m going to guess in the neighborhood of the $500.00 range. Without inflation, that was a LOT!! Please tell me about the Firestone Airchief radio, and how it came about in the way it did.

Beautiful work Mr. David. Seeing the repair and restoration of an old radio and seeing it work again in a pristine state is excellent.

This type of radio is one of my old time favourites. I have two similar ones. When polished and in full working order, they are real eye catchers. Typical old time parlour radio sets! Ah #nostalgia 😀I also love em cos they're not powered like the cheap and nasties!

That power cord was very professionally installed indeed! Especially connecting the wrong colours to the wrong connectors is recommended.

Love your work David

Another beautifull restoration, David. I must say you have plenty of elbowgrease, man ! The result is astonishing. Another beauty. 👍🤝🇳🇱

Sweet! nice job, it's amazing what other country's do or did, with just 4 tubes. I have a tiny tiny Emerson radio with 5 tubes and oh my gosh! talk about shoe horned in all the components!

I've got one of these, in brown ... Loved it. But I had the same f'back problem you had too 🙂

another great jop David thank you so much for sharing this.

What a cute little radio. I saw this video about six months ago and going to sleep last night I have a scenario which I think suits. This radio would be in a high school girls room (with her bobby sox and saddle shoes!). She would come home, and she would have half an hour before she had to set the table for dinner. She would go into her room, turn the radio on and hope to hear Vaughn Monroe singing "Dance Ballerina Dance."

that is very cool. Love it. Keep up the great work.

I enjoyed this restoration, David, thanks. Good idea to cover the speaker cone to keep it from magnetically attracting errant screwdriver blades. Also, I didn't realize that reducing the IF by just one hertz could eliminate squeal. Back in the late 40s a "properly tuned" freq gen on a well equipped radio man's workbench could be off by at least that much. I guess variances were expected so tolerances were looser back then. Will have to remember that one.

just one more comment battery restore was well done more transistor radios please regards ron

Just sold my television set. This is much more fun to watch...👍👍

As always...WELL DONE!

The radio announcer at 22:08 was mentioning talking to teenagers about "The Birds & Bees" and the oscillation noise from the radio would've summed up a teenager's reaction to that talk! LOL

That's a beauty Dave! It looks like it has never been worked on. Must have been in storage. There was a lot of dust in there. Could that be because there was no backing. Make a backing! You can do it! No pressure, I'm just being an ass! By the way I shook my keyboard, and I still can't get a question mark.

Nice job

The man with the golden fingers...

They sure don't make radios like they used to. Beautiful!

Goodness. You have a lot of radio stations in Australia that broadcast various music on MW. I don't live in a big city, so all I get are talk radio, one religious music, and one country and western...

beautiful wireless

I've got one of these with a brown bakelite case ... different cct though, Rectifier is vertical on the chassis and no filter choke ... Interesting.

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Nice Brown color 👍

Nice works, I find you channel a couple of days ago... I think, have you any complication on mount new electr. condensers inside the old ones? Regards from Argentina, the other country in the world with the same 220 volts 3 pins plugs.... haha

Hi Dave interesting videos saw in your last video you using your de soldering pump seems to work well ! could you tell me the brand and were you found it ?keep up the good work regards ron

Hey, David! I noticed few of your projects have a rear cover. Is that typical? All US radios have a cover, usually including a wire loop antenna. Thank you for detailed and instructive vids! Cheers!

Again I am watching an older video and since you were asking for comments in it I thought I do so. Maybe it isn't really necessary but isn't it better to use gloves when you start opening the case and taking the radio out of it? I mean regarding all the dirt, dust, spider webs and who knows what else might be in there, just to protect you. Once you cleaned it it is safe to work without of course. As always a nice result, thanks for showing what and how you did it.

The set designers certainly extracted good performance from just 3 active valves. This might explain that instability. Interesting fix to tune the IF away from 455. I wonder if tuning the oscillator away from its "as found" setting would have had the same effect.

Hello David. I'm going through your older videos now, you don't disappoint. Another wonderful restoration. I have a question: on the back of the radio, it looks like there was probably a thick paper or pressed wood cover. If I were to perform a similar restoration, what would you suggest? Yes, I know, the back isn't necessarily required and probably allows the radio to run cooler, but I'm just curious about what you would suggest. Best regards. Dave

Can you tell us more about that three step plastic polishing technique.

Another good video! I noticed the green sticker on the back of the chassis looked kinda "ratty" and it reminded me of another of your videos where you made one like that and attached it to the chassis of the radio in that video. Any particular reason why you didn't do it on this one? Thanks for sharing the link to Carl's Capacitors.

Hi Dave, as with all of your restorations; you do nice work! I have an observation. Being in the US, I have never seen dial markings like these Aussie radios have. I am used to seeing frequency markings and sometimes wavelength markings. Your radios seem to lack any type of frequency marking and instead, have callsign or country markings (or at least that is what I make of it). There may be dial frequency notation in the background but, if there is, I am not seeing it in the videos. Anyway, just curious how you would go about aligning the dial or tuning in a station where you have frequency information but, no callsign or country code? I am also assuming that, if country codes or callsigns are listed on the dial, that information is likely obsolete.

I hope this is not a joke of a question for you David but, do newer Australian radios also have this same type of dial? If a radio has a digital indicator does it have these initials that most of your older ones have or is that display just a thing of the past now? In the USA our radios of course never had such a dial as yours in Australia have on them. Is this type unique to Australia or did other countries use such a system? thanks for your trouble.

Had seen better days 🤣👍🏾

That bakelite are so nice you have museum ??

Do you have the Healing Scales Moderne radio?

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David the date must be April 22nd 1947 as your speaker date says I noticed. Not 1946 😉

Hi, I wanted to tell you that I could clean the speaker with a brush 2:34

Hi David,. You didn't get any answers about the HT+ being connected to the chassis. I didn't entirely get your explanation - something about reducing 'electrolyisis' between the case and the windings. Why was there this 1950s craze for 'positive earth'? Radios, TVs, cars... I'm puzzling over a 1960s amateur bands receiver transistor front end/pre-selector I picked up at a car boot sale which uses +12v positive chassis. It's not quite as easy as 'just connecting the power the other way round' when you need to take a signal to a 0v chassis receiver. To add insult to injury, the transistors - which need to be replaced with modern high frequency ones - are all PNP. Hmm.

14:38 will teach me not to watch these videos while falling to sleep.

Like the red tubes Like the "turntable" too, needs a "handbrake" Like the speaker protection

Interesting video and a great restoration David. I wonder if you test the capacitors that you replace to find out which end is foil side out? Modern capacitors do not indicate which end is the outside foil and I was wondering if this may have been the cause of the radio's instability when the IF was correctly aligned. Mr Carlson's Lab did a video on this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BnR_DLd1PDI.html Kind Regards, Adrian

Oh and we found the SKELETON of a dead mouse in one of ours (Regentone) Yep the SKELETON!! 👀🤣 Anatomically perfect in every detail ... 😀 Not forgetting of course the opening of the back and as you move it out runs one of the biggest dammed spiders you've ever seen 👀😗🤣🤣 Though prob not so funny for the Aussies re poisonous spiders et

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