the quality of AM broadcast in the US seems better than here in the UK. our AM band is pretty sparse here now mostly talk stations and really poor quality
Those Japanese sets from that era are great, good components, the chassis plating was so much better than US stuff. I have never had to do an alignment on them. I really liked the look, so much different than US stuff.
Everything about them was good, but the boxy, tinny sound. This one actually had better bass than most of the ones I've heard, but the high frequencies sound a little distorted.
I remember back in the day when the Japanese flooded the market with electronic and were not up to Americans standereds! Now compared to the crap from china! made in Japan is golden!!
A toddler in a plastic bag? That is so unsanitary. Think of the person who gets that plastic bag, with all the drool and bacteria in it! I'm triggered af right now.
The unlabeled SPDT switch right off the mains could be a ganged sw that lights up either AM / FM. That's what Lloyd whispered in my ear shortly before he passed. Nice radio, actually.
0:16 Yea, it looks like the grille of an old Datsun. Extra-wide cabinet for extra-wide, full-dimensional, mono separation for your ecstatic listening pleasure .
With the 50C5 tube the filaments add up to 122 volts, or with the 35C5 they add up to 107 volts, so you can use either, depending on which is closer to the line voltage in your area. (Japan uses 100 volts.)
@@qwertykeyboard5901 in that aspect they are a few decades behind. Germany had a few different line voltages up until the 50s. I think it was 220, 240, 110 and even 130VDC in some areas, frequency was also different
I found an AGS version probably 15 years ago. It's stored away in a shed. I looked at it yesterday thinking "I really like this radio, gonna do something with it". I see the thumbnail. Wtf. A sign of some sort.
That radio works quite quite good considering it has been out of service for several decades. The radio looks like a variation of a Rincan KFA-W71, who was likely the actual manufacturer. At time 11:48 in the video (schematic of the FM front end), the upper left 12 DT8 looks like the RF amplifier, upper right 12DT8 the mixer, lower left 12DT8, the AFC local oscillator frequency steering circuit, and the lower right, the Local Oscillator. I had a slightly lesser model of this radio (Rincan version) when I was about 7 years old. My home had concrete floors and I discovered the hard way that the chassis was hot and the chassis mounting screws protruded out the bottom of the cabinet. Touching the screws and floor simultaneously really lit me up. Of course, being an incurable techno-geek, I was always getting shocked anyway. One of the quality problems Japan was noted for was poor quality plastics. This radio was no exception: the plastic cabinet over the 50C5 sagged downward due to the heat given off from the tube.
Yes wasn't the Ark of the Covenant layers of gold and layers of Acacia wood forming a capacitor...............Uzzah reached out to grab the Ark and got zapped!. Uzzah arced to the Ark! Ha! 2 Samuel 6:1-7
Supposedly, the contents of the Ark were the 10 commandments on stone tablets, a bowl of manna, and Moses' bones. No paper, foil, and electrolytic goo, or polychlorinated biphenols.
This radio makes me think of one of those 60's Japanese Mitsubishi branded tube radios. Interesting how space-age design found its way into tube equipment as well. Good video, as always
To each his own, but it certainly doesn't appeal to my tastes. I think it will eventually end up like disco, which finally disappeared from the airwaves in the early-80's.
We had the same as this radio in our institution' wardroom in 1980..I came every evening setting next to it & enjoying the clear fine fidility radio at that time.
I believe they show 50C5 and 35C5 as interchangeable to allow the radio to be used in either Japan or the USA. In Japan, the line voltage was 100 volts. I don't remember if they changed that recently but I'm pretty sure that would have been the case when this radio was made. A 35C5 would make the normal running voltage 107 volts versus 122 volts with the 50C5 if we take the voltage ratings literally. Of course this doesn't matter in practice too much. A 35C5 would have a shorter life if this radio was used in the USA but not with a 50C5 due to the difference in current draw on the filaments.
Lloyd’s made good house stereos and speakers in the old days. I had speakers off of my dads old Lloyd’s stereo and they sounded great. They were dual tweeter and a small woofer
Frequency response to 5 kHz instead of 4.5 kHz. Doesn't seem that much of a difference, but this radio sounds incredible on AM. Almost the same as it does on FM, and there aren't many radios which could make that claim.
It’s not that great in the US, especially with modern radios. He’s near Los Angeles, so it sounds better than most cities. A tube radio made for AM helps immensely, too.
One of the tubes seen at 3:48 is a Rincan. I have seen a version of this wide two speaker radio with the same OFF-HI-MED-LOW power / tone switch with the RINCAN name on it.
I just found your channel. I love it. I was always interested in electronics as a kid. I used to fool around with speakers and things. I am a subscriber now. thank you.
That's one cool radio. Definitely has that automotive 60's look to it where the speakers can be the "air vents". It would have been cool if it had a phono input that could play whatever was connected to it in stereo.
Silver mica disease is a build up of conductable material in the capacitor of an IF-Can it kinda acts like a domino affect. As the IF-can builds up carbon it starts to arc and short out the more it makes carbon the faster it makes even more carbon in the can until it no longer works. With radios like this one share IF-Cans between Am and FM and those don't have issues it's the ones that have just 2x 455 KC IF-cans. They burn up usually the 1st one.
I would love a video about silver mica disease, I think I'm starting to understand it after seeing your CBS 5 radio repair but a bit of explanation would be really great.
Hey Shango good morning another great video brought to you by z tango keep the videos coming you have a great day my friend take care PS believe this that's not Lloyd's of London made in jaypan very nice radio though
Fun job “re-surrounding” speakers, using homemade speaker service turntable made from a Lazy Susan base/bearing set (& x-over rebuilds) .. have done several including vintage Cerwins, Optimus, etc .. the RS/Realistic/Optimus T-300 speakers are quite good - curb find …
That's nice I just got a radio with a similar chassis an XFA-707 Macy's radio which works and sounds great. Problem is that the case is ugly and missing knobs. I made the mistake in messing with the dial cord and now gotta fix the cord and reattach to the pointer. Came with a Zenith for 10 bucks which is why I bought them.
That is "Gas Pedal" by Sage the Gemini from six years ago, it peaked at #29 on the Hot 100 and #6 on the Hip Hop Chart. Sage the Gemini is from the Bay area. And now, back to the countdown...
at Least back then the government tried to comfort the public by having those symbols on radios, even tho the chance of having any radio on the air, or working radios to receive anything was slim to none after a massive strike!
Lloyds was a fairly decent brand, but did cheapen a bit as the department stores started selling them in huge numbers, competing with names like "Sound Design", Symphonic, Juliette. Great odd ball radio, thanks for sharing
I have a Lloyd's table radio that uses almost the exact same circuit, the only differences being that mine has only a single speaker and no tone control. Be careful with the capacitor across the power supply rectifier. In my radio, it had a brand name like "oil con." It turned out that this was an oil-impregnated paper capacitor, and it short-circuited! Fortunately, the designers included a fuse in my radio, so damage was averted. The four stages in the FM tuner schematic are, starting at top left and going clockwise: grounded grid RF amplifier, mixer, local oscillator, and reactance tube AFC. I am surprised that this relatively simple front end works so well.
In NYC, “Hot 97” and “Power 105” both have “Mumble Rap”. Back in the 1980’s “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang was the first “Mumble Rap” to popularize the genre.
I just got through messing with a dial cord like that, it's not that hard to work with. I first marked on each side of the cord holder, on the string/cord with a red marker so I'd know where to clamp the cord down again. You can loosen the screw enough to pop the string out from the clamp, or go ahead and loosen it all the way. When putting it back together, I found it was easier to barely start the screw in the clamp first, then drop the chassis back in, line it up where you marked it's position then tuck the cord underneath using something like a flat-screwdriver then tighten clamp. I just started getting into these old radios, don't know much yet but this worked for me.
Meguro capacitors? I may have happened upon the name before, upon taking radios 📻 apart. AM and FM 📻 have two separate dials on this. I bet it also has two dial cords. That can be very hard and frustrating to fix, if two dial cord systems are combined. FANTASTIC dial cord pulley, and tuning gangs. At least, the company had to equip this with dial lights 💡. It even looks like 👍 that radio’s 📻 tube type. This must be a 1960’s. Lloyd’s has gone downhill since then. I received my first Lloyd’s, all plastic home 🏠 stereo in 1984, from Costco, for $59.99. It had dual cassette decks 🆙 front, a record player, and AM/FM radio 📻. This set also had veneered, particleboard speakers 🔊 . Probably not a far cry 😢 from the modern 1988 Crosley of any sort. It did me fine, until I broke a recording arm in it for the cassette deck . He charged me $59.99 to install a recording arm, but it didn’t record tapes anyway. Everything still worked, all ya couldn’t do is record tapes. I sure wouldn’t twist the dials back and forth like 👍 that. I’d be afraid 😱 of putting that much more wear on the potentiometers Your friend, Jeff.
The main reason most Americans thought that Japanese products were junk is because the memories of December 7th 1941. After all this radio was manufactured less than 20 years after the end of World War II.
There is a scene from Back to the Future 3. The 1955 Doc Brown was inspecting through a magnifying glass, an electronic component from the time machine to fix it. Doc Brown: " Its amazing this little piece could be so much trouble. No wonder this part failed. It says Made in Japan. " Marty: " What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan."
Nice refoam job making due with what you got. I had a fun time doing a sub for my brother, the seller wadded the foam up which took he'll to flatten again. And to top it off my brother burned the coil up a few days later... So it was wasted effort.
"Deader than a toddler in a plastic bag factory"! 👶🏻A gift from above, first tested tube had an open filament!🎰 Radio is as old as me but still sounds good! Darn Japanese engineers were way ahead of the game back then! 🗾Good save on those speakers.🔊
19:40 I like it better in the medium "muffled" position; the highs that were exposed by cutting that capacitor were fairly distorted. I'd have shorted the power connections and put a switch on the line cord.
I always thought these things looked like an alien spacecraft. I think there is a similar version that is AM and shortwave, but I don't know if that was also made by Lloyds.
space and USAAF programs in 50s & 60s became popular in consumer designs,,the studebaker with a bullet nose and curved split windshield like fighter cockpits,radio designs in early 60s,,airliner design,slick smooth lines,, marketing thx to all the NYC adboys
Might want to let Saul know that his AM is not getting both channels. That's actually more common. There's a slew of AMs here with translators that feed only one channel of audio to the AM transmitter. I've told all of them, but it falls on deaf ears. Odd considering that Saul spent some money on getting a rather nice audio processor for it.
@@shango066 Send a message in Facebook and tell them about it. Perhaps, they send it to Saul. They are pretty responsive. Saul does try to run the best facilities in the market. I'd bet he'll like to see this video.
@@mohinderkaur6671 Ohhh yes, because they don't have a ridiculous amount of heat dissipated in a dropping resistor for the filaments, my bad! And I suppose if you wanted more power you could just get an output transformer with a lower primary side impedance, although you'd need an output valve which could handle that amount of current.
To remove the chassis you loosen the screws with the paint on the back of the pointers lift the string out of the clamp, you probably have to dig off the paint, the pointers stay in the cabinet, then just re- insert the string in the clamp and snug up the screws when you have the pointers set to the dial markings, usually the last mark on the low end, if there's a sams it may have exact instructions
We had a repeater on channel 6. It inspired an older lady I knew to get a TV to FM converter so she could listen to her soap operas while she ran her errands. Have you ever seen one? I installed it her Buick.
I used to have a ton of these kinds of sets after a fire at an importer nearby. Generally good stuff. This was the era that the Japanese were trying to shake off the cheap and shoddy image. This particular one was made by Rincon. There was another major maker back then (beside the "name" brands - Sony, National/Panasonic, etc.) but I can't recall it now... Began with a "S"... Foster was a major supplier of speakers for decades. They could be found in Japanese and U.S gear back then. Interesting aside about this era: this was when Pioneer started out making low-end gear. I still have a rim-drive (kid's) tape recorder from back then. They had been supplying speakers since the 30s but were expanding to make amplifiers and turntables in the early to mid 60s.
Sanyo. There was also Toshiba, and Yaou Electric, makers of the General radio. Our first transistor radio growing up was a General three band, 12 transistor portable.
