RESTORING AN RCA AR 812 ANTIQUE RADIO 

No one can compare to the work you do,your a genius

I have watched many of your radio restoration videos. This was the absolutely best one you have done yet! Your depth of experience is always evident, especially so in this video. I work on radios as a hobby. Your straightforward approach has encouraged me and I suspect many others. Thanks so much. And don’t let the ‘getting old’ stuff bother you. I experience it too, but persistence overcomes!

Glass linger your vintage RCA AR 812 AM tubes receiver is awesome my friend 🎉🎉🎉🎉

It’s not an old man thing because I’m only 44 years old and I do worse than that all the time even though I’m an electronics technician fixing eScooters every day, I wish I had a quarter of your ability and talent and the guts to wear a dress, not that it would interest me to do so, that’s something I truly admire about you, your comfort within your own skin and being yourself, abilities aside your an individual and you truly do what you feel is you and how you want yourself to be, look like and enjoy your hobbies that are highly technical and actually beneficial because you repair stuff that would end up in landfill, I do the same and it’s a very useful and prized talent, people these days are getting so far away from being hands on it’s a little scary, especially if for some reason we end up in another world war, people like you and me will thrive and be super self sufficient and very valuable to many others and in turn be looked after, don’t even change who you are, because I am a Cat person as well, so it makes me feel joy when I see you interact with puss because I can tell a person is kind and caring just in the way they interact with their Cat, I have very little patience for dogs as I find them a little pathetic and always needing reassurance and can’t think for themselves unlike a free thinking and free spirited independent feline, thanks for sharing your amazing talents and especially your pleasant personality and temperament it’s a real joy and treat. 👍🏻🇦🇺🇺🇸

cooking with Ron ''350 degrees 2-3 hours'' ''smells great Ron what you got in the oven?'' ''antique radio parts'' OH OKAY lol '(laughing) ' this toaster oven is toast '' fantastic could watch your vids all day.....

Another fine piece of vintage electronics saved from the dumpster and resorted to a thing of beauty. Your skills and knowledge are mind boggling.. Thank you for sharing it all with us.

Hey Ron, how about a video showing off your collection? I sure its almost as amazing as you are!

Glass linger you are good at restoring vintage radios and vintage TVS my friend 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Here’s a coincidence. I watched your video within a few hours of it coming up. Then today I picked up Silicon Chip, an Australian electronics magazine, and they feature the restoration of the exact same radio. They also had to get the rosin out of the catacomb, which they did with a sharp wire, and repair broken wires in addition to rewinding a coil. Theirs didn’t have the original audio transformers, but they did have two replacements that would fit it. These gave very good results despite the DC resistances being much lower. They noted that the rosin shrinks and cracks with age, breaking the wires in the process. A lovely restoration of a very interesting early set.

Great restore work ,i have never seen one of these radio until now,You must have a fantastic collection of radios maybe might see them in one of ur videos.Happy days to you.

glad to see your still working your magic, will watch this straight away ,, Always an education to watch your videos. PAUL at Ipswich.. Suffolk,, Great Britain !!

Nice looking radio love that deep brown stain thanks for the deep inside the catacombs look.

I have one of the 812s in the shop and oneday will get to it.. Thanks for the tip on modifying the tube...

I love your videos.They are true restoration classes. Congratulations for the work and thanks a lot for showing!

You Ron are a Amazing Person God Bless

This really amazes me every time you bring one of these antique radios back to life thank you for sharing

I'm binge watching your videos while recovering from Covid. Time and time again your projects present problems or complications that would cause a mere mortal (like me) to give up. It's inspiring to see how you use your knowledge, experience and creativity to persevere and conquer!

Ron, my mouth fell open watching you do this. Truly stunning.

Love the way your using surface mount tech with valves. Got a wireless set 18 wwii British back pack radio . You inspired me to get it working. Thanks Ron.

Love watching your videos. Full of hints and tips, fantastic finished items. Enjoy your upbeat approach to life. Thanks for sharing.

This is one magnificent restoration! I never knew of this radio, It probably looks and works better than when new. Wish I had your talent and patience with antique equipment.Thankyou for this wonderful video, Walt in Miami

Excellent restoration of a truly beautiful radio. Thank you glasslinger..

Another wonderful rebuild Ron thanks from the UK

One of the best restorations I've seen to date. It kept my attention from start to end. I really liked the valve replacement. Very nice job done all round. A pleasure to watch.

Back in the late 50s, early 60s my father use to repair quite a few radios from the 30s and 40s, by the mid 60s prices came down and these older radios were all but junked, replaced by the newer more reliable and cheaper transistor equipment. It's strange to think I'm watching someone repair something which I'd seen repaired over 50 years ago and back then it looked old

cool another great video

Very enjoyable. Please keep the videos coming. Thanks Ron!

Wonderful way to preserve knowledge of how to repair these old radio's. Keep it going..! I would like to see a video of the instruments your are using, like the tube tester and power supply. How these are constructed, diagram etcetera. No doubt they work perfectly.

A wonderful restoration, enjoyable to watch. Thanks for sharing with us Ron.

Magnificent work Ron and what a lovely old radio. Lots of stuff I've learnt from you over the years goes into my own radio restores. All the best from the other side of the pond.

Glass linger the vintage rca ar 812 the radio cabinet looks like new 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Glass linger your utube videos are awesome my friend 🎉🎉🎉

One of the best things to clean up pine tar/rosin is denatured alcohol. Much nicer to work with than most of the alternatives.

Have you ever made..or thought about making a video of your collection....it would be a very intense video...thanks for all you've done, you are an AMAZING person.

What a talent...excellent!

over an hour as passed in what seems like a no time at all your videos are gripping thank you so much for posting.

really great to see you back , love your channel

I always find your videos such an inspiration. Many thanks.

WOW. Talk about having your act together. Thank-You very much for posting and sharing your expertise.

That looks beautiful - great video, thank-you!

what a gem this turned out to be. Thanks for sharing!!

Great VIDEO, AS ALWAYS, why would anyone give this video or any video's of glasslinger's a thumbs down

Always impressed by your knowledge....👍👍

and yet again, you smash it out of the park with your amazing genius. I love the work you do.

You did a really nice job! Thank you for sharing...

Another great job from the master.

Excellent work. Your knowledge of electronics is amazing. The shop foreman is a cat!

Beautiful restoration

Great video Ron ,I have never seen that type or radio before .Thank you for the education

what an awesome looking radio, well done

Always learn from your videos. Thanks so much for sharing. Love the kitty shots! :-)

Great job, enjoyed this video

I just need to tell you i am so very happy that you have chosen to put more videos on your channel. I'm sure you know this - the young people do not care about any of this stuff. If it is about the new phone or etc, Had you and YT been around in my youth. I could have done so much better in my career in electronics. Maybe it is just me - but i doubt it. What you put out here on YT i have huge respect for, and hope that you will continue to post. I see and give the nod to your attire. No shock no bad thoughts. If this is what you do - i'm fine with that. Your brain is full of amazing things - that i hope you will share. I respect what your choices are. Furthermore, i respect you. Please do not go away again.

Nice looking radio and another excellent restoration i alway's enjoy your video's keep up the good work sir.

A very good video as always Ron. 👍

Am i looking forward to this. Always enjoy your restores. Here goes.

Brilliant working 👍

Glasslinger has another new video out? Christmas in July!

Another great video, thank you

Great job i love this heavy radios 👍

It did come out beautiful.

What a tedious job! Wonderful workmanship, amazing! Walt in Miami

I was completely taken in by the thumbnail, thinking that was an exotic RCA radio that I hadn't seen before.

Super Cool. I've been watching your vids ever since the Westinghouse Refrigerator Vid.

I thought this episode is a joke about the oven 😆

The man with the golden tubes

Nicely done.

Mind boggling stuff. Certainly earned your money on that one.

Love these vids happy subscriber always great work Ron.

love your videos

Brilliant Work

Thanks, I was just watching the 26 video and it got me curious about unpotting one of these.

Awesome! Can’t wait till I’m off work to watch this.

your knowledge is amazing, would love to see an tour of your collection

Dam it ........I luv your vlogs superb

Old inkjet printer are a great source for salvaging rubber bushings of various sizes like the ones you need for this radio. Nice job btw.

Wish I have a pound for every time i yanked a meter off like that. I could afford a new car.i do like the little comments you put in explaining things.

another interesting repair.

Excelente saludos de Santiago de Chile 🇨🇱

No wonder I am asleep during the day. Its almost midnight here and youtube notified me about this gem :)

first time I've seen his channel - the video was very interesting - you have a new subscriber

Very good looking radio, I would love to see a video of your radio collection!!

Next time you can try and make some UV199 tubes! Great video as usual

You definitely know your stuff!

You are the best electrotuber (Electronic RU-vidr)

Really learning a lot, I work on slightly newer stuff such as Drake and KW Electronics stuff, the stuff you do is amazing though, please keep up the great work

Congratulation for this restoration, this radio is very interresting, it uses very primitive tecnology. I never seem this kind of radio in brazil, I go to reserch about the small tube that used. I wait your next video São Paulo - Brazil

Man I would like for all my hifi equipment to look like this radio.

Ron, great tutorial as always. Looked like a meat loaf stuffed into the oven, probably didn't have the aroma of one......

I would save that toaster for other projects. You never know.

This is very good. I'ma bout to tackle a tar potted in open AK F2 speaker field coil that goes with my 46 radio. I have a rarely used toaster oven. This will get it out of it's case. The speaker voice coil was also open, I found a break in a wire splice solder joint in the wire under some tape going from the speaker wire terminal on the way to the voice coil, that's fixed. I hope to get lucky again fixing the field coil. Assuming I do fix it the remaining question is whether I should re-pot with the tar or leave it out. Thank you for your excellent how-to videos!

Please, make a video showing your radio collection.

Hi there, by coincidence there's an article in the latest Australian Silicon Chip Magazine (August 2019) by Dennis Jackson which describes the restoration of one of these radios. In that set the audio transformers had gone open and one of the RF coils had to be rewound. He also had problems in removing the resin. He also suggests that the catacomb was potted to discourage copying. Cheers Doug.

So maple syrup is made in the oven and then filled into a glass, a nice radio and after the restoration it looks like new again. 👍

You are wonderful i adore you

Nice restoration. Takes way more knowledge and patience than I have. I also get the same radio station you have on for a few seconds. I noticed you power supply showing voltage/amps?? do you have a video of it. Looks like something I would like to build. Just starting to restore ie(replace caps/resisters) some old tube test equipment I have picked up in the last year. Enjoyed the video, off to watch a few more.

Wonderful! Can the pinot bexternally jumped?

Another good job you just amaze me but I enjoy watching you I’ve asked you a couple of times I don’t know if you read these comments or not but I was wondering where you was located so keep up the good work and I will keep watching god bless

he's back, yippee, go.......................

Good job! Question, WHY did they pot the can with that pine tar? Why?!?!.!?!