This session an old 1930's Dewald table radio will be completely restored. It is not working and has missing parts so it is not exactly easy. The result is a very nice looking radio that is quite rare!
Mister , you are the one . Im allways happy when a notification pops up ;=) . Beautiful piece .Thanks for shearing your knowledge and best regards from france .
I so enjoy watching you analyze and fix tricky problems! One thing I’ve learned….if it’s a challenge for you….then I should never mess with it….find a pro! (Like yourself!)
Thank you for showing how to repair the resistance wire and how to fix the cabinet, we enjoyed all the show especially Kitty, we love her very much, her voice like a music, thank you so much again.
Hi Ron your friend Dave's here nice to see another one of your videos it's amazing what you did with that old radio you're so professional please have more videos always happy to see you and your videos and your cat may God keep you safe and guide you always your friend Dave God bless you
Your video's are alway's amazing and educational. thank you for taking the time to teach us some of your knowlwdge and showing us your project's. Hello to boss kitty .
Dewald model 59 from around 1934. Has a bad resistance line cord. Struggling to keep it original and got it to work. Ron's cabinetry work is simply outstanding. I don't think I ever saw a chassis desiged to be put into a cabinet on its end.
I always enjoy your videos, I'm envious of your skills. I was very skilled in electronics and auto mechanics as well as being a Registered Nurse before my eyes gave out, but I was never any good at woodwork nor fabrication of metal or glass parts
Hi Ron ,another great video it turned out fantastic I am very impressed with your workshop,what a great guillotine, when you going to treat us all to a shop tour I would love to see?,best regards & stay healthy
I saw that something the wood veneer bulged a few places it you could have cut up and filled up with wood glue and then use a couple of clamps to press until the glue was dry
Yes. There were several swelled up places which is why I couldn't use a power sander to quickly sand the radio. That particular radio is not worth all that trouble to do a lot of veneer work. It looks great the way it is.
I love old tube gear. You must of worked on them for a long time. I micro solder now under a microscope but to be able to use a soldering gun like that on sone real gear would be fun. I follow your channel and enjoy your personality.
Good to see you are still posting, havent seen many uploads from you recently was getting concerned. quick question - You changed the capacitors without testing them - i assume as they are old - yet you changed them for stock capacitors that are so old that the legs have oxidised. Why should your capacitors have any more life than the ones you removed? - what am I missing?
In 220 volt countries they still sold all-american-5 series string radios and the ones I have seen include the fattest wire wouund resistor in the chassis, which oten goes bad when they are just a ceramic core and open to the air windings. I have rewound those, maybe something like that mounted on the chassis would be a more sensible replacement for a resistor cord.
now there is a story about the life, music the radio played and people that purchased this radio 😚 why did the cat run away when you said cut a couple of feet off the power cord? 😯 very nice job... 🧐
For cleaning those capacitor leads I would recommend using fine steel wool. And, if the oxidation is really stubborn, maybe some fine (1000 grit) enery paper. One just has to take good care that either the fine steel hairs nor the emery paper abrasives enter the radio. Edit: Cleaning with a knife blade is not that effective as it cleans a very small area per pull whereas steel wool covers much more area.
I re-tin (solder coat) oxidized component leads instead of scraping them. If the leads are so bad they won't take solder I clean away the oxides with ScotchBrite and then re-tin them before installing the component.
Greetings: Instead of a signal tracer for finding a break in a wire, you can use an inexpensive AC voltage sniffer ($3.98 shipped from China). Be sure that only one source of AC is connected to mains when testing. Good for finding that break in the resistive line cord. BTW: Alternative to an internal dropping resistor is an internal non-polarized dropping capacitor of 14 ufd 150vac. [Motor caps work here.]
What i used to do, is flex the tube, while connected to the ohmmeter, to find the bad place. Another thing, i do is gently pull the wire from it's end. Usually, the breaking is somewhere close to one end, so the broken wire will just come off.
Ah! olá glaslinger, boa noite, adorei ver você ter arrumado o Radio, ficou ótimo!.. más glaslinger eu adorei ter visto também a 🐱 oncinha... ela é muito bonitinha Oh! hello glaslinger, good night, I loved seeing you fix the Radio, it turned out great!.. but glaslinger I loved seeing the 🐱 leopard too... she is very cute
A "curtain scorcher" line cord. I figured at the beginning you'd encounter that. I restored a 1930's Sparton where the cord was just in too bad a shape to re-use. I used a capacitor to provide the required reactive current limiting in the filament string (not my idea - found on line), and used a repro cloth covered 2 wire line cord. A resistor with the requisite power rating would've been too large and generated too much heat. Luckily, the cabinet on my radio was in pretty good condition - I don't have the mechanical skills or tools that you do! What material did you use to make the decals?
I really like your pragmatic approach to restoring old radios ;-) There is nothing more boring to me than a 'rare set' - which doesn't work. Originality is one thing for me but functioning is a bigger one. I know there are other opinions ... BTW.: I watched a video of a flea market in the UK. They sell old sets (well, the housing) with blue tooth moduls and transistor amps in them - and the people buy them like crazy.
Brilliant video I love watching the attention to detail you do. My only comment would be that I think the stain color is too dark and I think blonde would of looked better . Not a criticism just my personal preference
@@jonathanInLondonUK Yes, keeping it "blond" is my preference too. The beautiful speaker fretwork design and the original cabinet coloring was definitely screaming out "I'm Art Deco"! (But at least it now works... 🙂)
Hello. I got myself a radio to play with. It needs a speaker. But, the schematics show 4 connections to the speaker. What kind of speaker is that ? I try to put a new speaker, but don't know how to connect it.
Modern-day speakers are usually permanent magnet speakers, but some older speakers use a electromagnet and the extra wires are to power it. I don't think you can attach a permanent magnet speaker to a radio not made for it but there could be some way I don't know of.
I'm usually a stickler for exact restoration, but fire hazzard+asbestos+unreliability means you're way better off with a sandbar resistor tacked inside the chassis. I love Ron, but this had me screaming at the screen
Used to reduced the voltage so the tubes work at the proper voltage (and limit current running through them). They get pretty warm because of that. The voltage used by the tubes is only a total of 55 Volts. The line cord has to eat the difference from household line voltage ( 125 VAC). So about 70 volts.
Ah, wondered about that too. The tubes must be used to running battery voltages rather than line power. Saves on power transformer, sets the tablecloth on fire...
Glass linger my hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb and I have 5 shortwave receivers iam thinking about getting my ham license
From France, Dear Madam, is it possible to transform an old AM tube station into FM ? I have been watching your channel for a long time and admire your knowledge!
Greetings: I like to use schematic PDF pages as my (coloring book). I use Adobe Reader's commenting facility to color the B+, B-, AVC, chassis/gnd & signal paths. I also use available voltages to guess current draws and calculate voltage dropping capacitors for use with silicon diode substitutes for tube rectifiers. As this is all on paper, I am not ruining anything here. I do appreciate your videos but wince at some of your methods. At 71, my fine motor skills keep me from working on these deserving units myself but get my FIX watching you. Is you capacitance bridge doing ESR testing for you? Any help with chassis or model info as I have not found a photo match to that cabinet.
