As someone who knows nothing about radios and found your channel through my interest in Hazbin Hotel, I thought this was very interesting to watch! And your narration was great; you kept it simple and clear enough that even noobs like me could follow you.
Came for hazbin hotel broadcasts, stayed for the radio restoration :P I'm also a proud owner of a soviet Ural-53 radio from the 50s that I restored. Sad to see our hobby dying out, but keep up the good work anyway!
Oh I'm so glad you made it here!!!! I have a clock from a soviet era submarine!!!. But that Ural-53 I bet is awesome! Hopefully I have inspired some people to look into vintage radios. I hope so.
Be careful with that clock if it's from 60s or older, it may have radioactive paint on its dial that used to glow in dark. If the coating is green or blueish, it's safe
Awesome video! Definitely don’t be afraid to make more like this! I just brought my grandpa’s 70’s sansui back to life a few months back and would love to be able to do a similarly thorough restoration of it someday
voice reveal?! Still cool stuff though never knew I needed understanding on 1920s-30s radio, but it's kind of awesome to know more about it. 7:22 I can in fact appreciate that 11:18 that sounded cool, very concerned about that first one Though 13:37 stay tuned....
Haha yes yall get to hear my awkward voice XD But thank you! I tried my best to explain everything. It's all in my head so trying to talk about it was a challenge. I hope I made atleast some sense.
I just bought a model 70. I had to rewind the oscillator coil and the rf amp coil was open. It plays now but still needs alot of work. Thanks for sharing your restoration!!
AAAAA i love this!!!! thankyou for the lil behind the scenes- well behind the radio!! lol- the Radio Demon himself would be proud, I can feel it 😊 *bc im also impressed as hell;-;
Amazing, that must have taken alot of time and patience. You did a great job! Edit: love when you can hear peoples cats chim in as if to say "I want to be involved mom/dad!"
I have an old radio that i wanna play my own songs on and I wanna get the same transmitter kit you have, im looking on ebay but i cant find the one you use. Also, great voiceover and process on how you repaired it.👍
Liked the video A terrible idea I had was maybe when you're more comfortable with voiceovers, you could try go for the transatlantic accent (would be right at home) but no pressure
Very nice to see the restoration! This must have been one of the more expensive models, with the big power-transformer and giant tuning capacitor. Also very interesting to see, how early the U.S. manufacturers used the superhet-principle. Most german "cheaper" radios used the much more simple "feedback" approach, that only required 3 tubes. Anyway, very nice results! There seems so be still quite a lot of hum...is that more of a AC-filtering issue, or a shielding-problem?
@@Radiogirl1931If its AC-filtering, you could increase the capacitance of the main filter-capacitors. Even back then many people paralleled another capacitor to the main filter, to get rid of the hum. :D Have you connected the radio to ground? These radios really need grounding to work properly and to get rid of the hum. Did you replace those "domino" capacitors too?
@Techcraft15 the Michalite capacitors tested good and did not need replacing but grounding is something I'm working on currently. I am picking up another Philco 70 in the next hour and work on it.
@@Radiogirl1931 The service manual says the chassis can be connected to ground, that should get rid of most interference. I was asking about the capacitors, since a wrong bias of the output-tube would cause excessive current draw, and would not only ruin the tube after several hours, but would result in more hum, since the additional current would load down the supply, therefore incresing the ripple of the DC.
@Techcraft15 when I get back home to that radio I may link up with you on That. I checked all the capacitors and replaced the ones that were bad but I can go back over it and see if anything additional is needed. In still learning with this so your input is greatly appreciated
Because if there is an electrical fault, the radio can overload can the capacitors can explode and catch fire, and a tube could rupture causing extreme damage to the set
@josephruggieri884 essentially yes. It's also smart to use a variac on first power on because if it hasn't had power in a while, it may be hard on it to go strait to 110. So slowly easing the power up may be gentler on the componants. Atleast, that's what I have been taught. The scary thing is, these old radios can carry loads well over 400-500 volts. These can kill you.
