RESTORING A 1926 RADIOLA 26 RADIO 

The intelligence and creativity are matched by the skill of execution. This has to be one of the best examples of restoration I've ever seen.

Awesome!...Glad to see you once again!....Thank you for all you do!

Ron, your all round skills and endeavour are a joy to watch.

God thank, there is still people who understand how these things used to work.

I like your no frills way of getting a radio working... get tired of these perfectionist restorations where they stuff old caps and resistors.. stuff the average person will never see anyway...get it working safely without burning the house down is good enough for me...

So creative ,so skilled,would love to learn from you but I don't think I can keep up with you ,I glad you were able to save this piece of history.man I wish you had a school ,you have a lot to teach .

Ron, dam sure when God built the Universe you gave him a hand in putting it all together.

Thank you so much for taking the time and trouble to make these wonderful videos! The Radiola is pure eye candy!!!

It’s an absolute joy to watch your fascinating and very informative videos. Thank you from the UK

Longest RU-vid video I've watched in years and I enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you.

Hi Ron, If it’s not too much trouble and you could find the time, is there anyway you could please make another video and explain how you designed your power supply PC board from the schematic and then show us how you laid out your PC board on the computer to print out? I know this would be a wonderful learning experience for everyone. I’m pretty sure most everyone know how to make pc boards using ferric chloride but maybe you could also just explain that process too. If you are too busy, please disregard. Thank you 😊, Buddy

An amazing restoration! Walt in Miami

Being a beautician and not really an electronics expert, I can really appreciate the finishing touches and restoration to give it a certain look, I very much enjoy your videos even though for the large part I have no idea what you are really doing electrically. The fitting a power supply into fake batteries and hooking it up to the circuit to give the impression than the batteries were real was pure genius

I don't known what is more educational, restoring the old radio,building fake batteries,or making a power supply. Absolutely genius stuff from the talented Ron!

Amazing. AMAZING! That unit could pass in every way as a prop in a 1920's themed film.

Awesome job! Thanks for taking the time to share with us...

Ron's depth of knowledge and his capabilities are amazing. And his workshop is very well equipped. I'm sad that this will all be lost when he and his fellow enthusiasts stop working on these ancient radios, and why would a younger person these days bother to learn all this wonderful primitive stuff from earlier times? This one was particularly awesome👍 An extremely worthwhile person 💗

Power supply! Another home made piece of test equip. Very good. Plus your trouble shooting skills are awesome.

Great video, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us .

But of course you would have circuit board production equipment in the garage. I love this channel - you are one of the best of the best at restoration!

Thanks for the video. its a plesure to see how you repair the old radios.

Great job and cool radio. Thank you for sharing that restoration with us. It really came out awesome.I can just imagine myself walking down the street and jamming out with that in the twenties. Hey, it is a portable. 😀

Funny how all the broadcasts played through this radio has a vintage sound too. Such an ingenious restoration. You know all the tricks.

What a beautiful radio! Such a glorious marvel of past-times engineering.

The 'keyhole' on the back side of the radio is used for attaching the antenna that is on the front door of the radio when the battery box is used. The battery box has a basket weave coil inside that an outside antenna would attach to. Then the antenna that is on the front door is detached by loosening the fastener on top of the door. Notice that the antenna has a metal nub near the top. This is what attaches to the keyhole on the back of the radio. Now the antenna previously on the front door now acts as the secondary coil to the primary coil inside the battery box. The battery box also has a variable capacitor to assist in tuning in stations. I think this was done when the owner had an elaborate antenna system at home that worked better than the 'direction finder' radio antenna alone. That keyhole is connected to the RF input of the radio.

I just started watching you fix ad make all kinds of things for old radios and TVs and it’s just amazing to me I’m just blown away your an amazing person and please keep it up I watch for hours thank you

First thing i do is give a thumbs up, then i watch the restoration :-)

Big Clive sent me and I subbed after watching this. Not because I like old radios but I can recognise mastery when I see it.

Respect and love to you grand paa from INDIA 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 Salute for your hardworking and knowledge . You are genius sir

Yay! A new Glasslinger video!

Cool looking replica batteries. They look like the old telephone batteries we had on our farm phone. Our home was not wired for power but when dad went on the road building grain bins he wanted to stay in contact with us on the farm, so he had the phone installed. Since we were on the end of the party line we needed to have those round batteries hooked to the phone to provide talking power, this was back in the early 1950's.

I think this is my favorite radio out of all that I have watched you rebuild. I love the antenna built in like it is.

Wonderful, I love your attention to detail with the batteries.

Thank you to share us your work. You make a great job, on this beautiful radio.

A sheer joy to watch! Some of your videos I've watched several times. Please keep up the good work.

Really enjoyed watching this, another fine piece saved from going to landfill. Great work as usual.

That's a beautiful radio! You did a fantastic job restoring it. It's awesome to see antiques like this brought back to life!

*Excellent*

Nice job, I would have fused the power supply. Also I learned decades ago that if you have brass pins on tubes they need to be cleaned as well as the brass socket contacts.

Such wonderful attention to detail. Thanks!

Wow you're back ! I can start learning again. THANKS

Glasslinger your utube videos are awesome iam weighting for more new utube videos

Nice work again! Very enjoyable to watch! You're a true artist! Dr. Stan KZ8G

Amazing job on this one! I have visions of someone in the future finding this radio and robing around trying to find out why those "batteries" have no voltage! 😂Loved the tip about staining the dials; definitely using that myself in future.

Just found your channel! Grabbed a Crosley Fiver at a local thrift. It was sitting next to modern junk “Crosley”. They “tested” it ahhhh! I like your attention to detail and your no bs approach to just getting it done,while doing it correctly!

Fantastic work as always love it 👍

Man, this is one beautiful radio. Such pride in the craftsmanship, and you did a wonderful job bringing it back. I love the attention to detail on the battery facade. And I've never seen a speaker like that. Very cool.

Thanks for showing your expertise.

Thanks for the upload!

You are a genius! I love your channel!

That sounds is cool you are one of the old shcool radio repair man Better then Young people 👍

Amazing Restoration, that's a great looking set, Keep them coming Ron - ATB

Beautiful job what a nice radio 👍🏻😻

Excellent job.you did on the radio. I like the faux battery and the trick of the brass.

amazing radio - amazing job - I just love the replacement "batteries" ... wonderful...

Ron, good job and presentation! If I knew half of what you forgot, I would consider myself a highly rated technician. Love your home brew power supply. Maybe you should patent it and have it manufactured, it would probably be a hot item.

Great video! Thanks.

What a beautiful radio! Fabulous!

I'm a third of the way into this, will have to save the rest for later. Glad to see you back!

You a expert at everything,, great work

wow! those dials look fantastic

Greetings from the North East of England. Another great repair, love your videos, thank you 👍

Beautiful work!!

nice to get a new video from you! I'm pleased to see your excellent expert work by restoration of the old crappy nix set.

That speaker, WOW! Someday when you get bored describe what one of these 1920's speakers consisted of. We see the electro-voice coil paper types, but this one looked to be all metal?? You really deliver the history and show us items that we would never see elsewhere. Thank You

Looks like your cat enjoys this restoration !

Brilliant Project by the Maestro

Very good job, wonderful Radio....!!!

Absolutely amazing!

I didn't know that kind of valves exists!... good to see!

Another work of art!

Wonderful video , thank you.

Good professional job.

You’re brilliant!! I’m a new sub and now binging on your videos. Your cat cracks me up. She’s demanding attention!

They were making beautifull stuff back then. Imagine this radio, when it was new.

My Aunt Bonnie was Born in 1926 . Thank you for Restoring this Radio . Liked and Shared ... Subbed Just a Beautiful Set

Happy to see you save this masterpiece

You can see the early days of radio tech rapidly advanced in 30 years to germanium transistors and TV. From battery powered portable crystal radios, to 1 tube sets, to 8 tube sets, to THE FREAKING MOON LANDING!! What a time it must have been to be alive!

great work watched the whole video

Glass linger the radio cabinet looks like new thats is awesome my friend 🎉🎉🎉

Lovely restor...

Incredible 1926 in the final texte was very funny the scare, the radio working cool very good.

This is an awesome video! I always wish when firing up these old radios for the first time after restoration that the stations were from the time period of the radio. Nevertheless thank you for sharing, as it’s better than what’s on the TV.

Great job.

this is great! thanks for sharing... peace

Great restoration Ron, like the resistor idea but I think you could cut a piece of card, the same diameter as the valve base, make four holes in it for the pins and "draw" a meg-ohm resistor on it with a soft graphite pencil? That way you wouldn't see the resistor.

That tube tester is amazing .🤗

Good Work Earthling

Another Excelent video!

very very very veeeeery good job my friend!! ty!!

It must be so fun, nothing to do, but tinckering with these devices all day .... 😁😁😁😁😁

oh wow........... 6am here but ill have 2 stay awake lol

Made a similar battery replacement for a Marconi made moisture meter, as i was tired of buying 10 PM3 batteries a quarter to power it, along with 2 D cells for the 1V5 filament power. no correct transformer, but I did have a lot of 2VA 220V to 12V potted transformers, so used 4 of them instead. One did the filament power, using a LM317 to give 1V2 for filaments, and burning off a bit of power dropping 14V across the LM317, but as filament power was 80mA it was not a worry on the 100mA rated transformer. The other I used to provide 12VAC, and this drove the secondaries of the other 2 in series, with the primary in parallel, giving around 100VAC output ( poor load regulation on 2VA impedance protected transformers) which was then converted to around 140VDC. Resistor and some 33V 1W zeners to get the 90V anode supply, and it fitted all in the original battery compartment, no surprise there. Made it a lot more stable as well, and no flat batteries, or drifting on it as the A batteries aged and the acorn tube inside changed gain.

You must be the real genius behind the Iron Man suit

Glass linger your Radiola 26 portable battery operated tube AM receiver is awesome 🎉🎉🎉my friend 🎉

Wow. I think I'm a genius when I connect up a light socket!

great video

It's a beaut Ron, just in time for Mike Savage

Great vid allways a pleasure....

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