Sony Sanyo Vintage Transistor Radio Diagnosis Repair and Junk Cars 

The horn is that Nissans way of begging for an EOL to end its miserable life.

I've stopped watching and reading all the news for about two weeks now. My overall quality of life emotionally has changed so much. Some people may say I'm sticking my head in the sand, but I find I can focus more on the things I like. It's like stepping outside a building to enjoy some fresh air and then looking through a window and seeing all the hateful fighting going on. I really don't want to go back inside.

No, it's not a Sanyo, but Sony was always troubled by the cheaper brands taking a larger share of the market. That's why they adopted many of the Sanyo tricks to get this model into the lower price range.

Time to do a video on fixing the capacitor wizard. Probably already needs a recap. We were sitting around one day and heard one of those horns going off for a good 20 minutes and went to go see what was up and had one of those sitting in a parking lot with black smoke bellowing out of the hood. Within a few minutes it was fully ablaze with all the tires popping and plastic just melting off and the horn still continued to blow until there was nothing left.

Radios that never were built to last this long. Some still are kicking. Shango is the best. If it's dead and he can't fix it, it's toast.

I remember when Nissan was called Datsun, but that was the good ol' days!

I just had a shangoo 066 marathon last nite, yet another video, I never get tired watching them.

Dead on about Nissan "reliability". Friends have had Murano, Rogue, Pathfinder... all with CVT and electrical problems. They all dumped them.

Since Chevrolet dumped Holden Australia, 2 years back. All the GM management team can all go to hell.

We don't live in a democracy. We have a Constitutional Republic. "Democracy is the most vile form of government" ------ James Madison. Moreover; "Franklin, what have ye wrought" ? Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it".

when someone on the news says "let me be clear," what he really means is "i'm going to lie to you."

shango066, don't ever change. You give me hope for California. It's they that must change.

Some people keep and care for their favorite electronics and enjoy them for decades. I’m so glad you’re reviving these electronics and giving them new lives. In our throw away society we’re too willing to continue to throw money away for the latest gadgets filling landfills with e waste.

It’s uncanny how many annoyances and social/political observations we have in common. Must be the result of living in SoCal too long (> 1 day).

The epic disaster the USA is facing right now is what happens when a president is installed like a portable toilet at an outdoor concert. It gets full of shit and needs to be removed.

That capacitor wizard buzzer sounds like the tone from the "Emergency Broadcast System" announcements. I'd leave it as-is!

No need for 4K imo and you’re right that camera is impressive on close ups.

K-VAX...love it! Really enjoy your style of humor and political rantings. It's nice to know that there are others out there that see this surreal reality for what it is.

Nice job. Like the new carpet, it complements your blue gloves. Thanks for the look.

Great how-to and a general commentary. Thanks for posting!

🎵You’re listening to KVAX, channel 1984🎶

Feedback: I love it when the symptom is presented up front so I know what kinda thing in on a journey to learn.

The rants make my day great video as always

Man you are great at this stuff. I am trying my best to find grounds on an old radio that I'm trying to fix lol. You make it look easy.

Unfortunately, we have to test the radio by keeping it tuned to a news / talk station lest we get a copyright match to a music station.

Would of liked to listen to the car horn a bit longer, maybe I can buy one and connect it to a battery to listen to in my home

I really like 👍 those. It looks like 👍 ya can find these at yard sales without too much difficulty. Reminds me of when my mother bought me a similar radio 📻 in 1984 at a yard sale, in Glennallen, Alaska. Your friend, Jeff.

That song is kinda catchy….,I added it to my Spotify playlist. The Sony is motorboating..

That broken coil would be easy to resolder by taking a turn off, as long as it's not soaked with hard varnish. Otherwise, solvent for the varnish is needed.

Nissan used to be number 2 back in the late 80s early 90s. however since Renault took over they've gone downhill real fast. Used to trust Toyota's until that issue of the computer going rogue and killing it's driver.

I enjoy every video that you post and your comments are gold !

I think Nissans biggest issue is their CvT’s. Subaru had issues initially but they have gotten better. I hate driving any CVT equipped car. Of course I don’t agree with any transmission over 8 gears in a car or truck. Just silly complexity and planned obsolescence

I enjoy watching you on youtube. your videos are so entertaining. I like the picture quality and the way you speak

Big thumbs up for Larry Elder! I left San Diego 24 years ago and have never looked back. I hope Larry wins.

He was the wizard of a thousand caps...

Thanks, enjoyed your troubleshooting video and your sense of humor.

i love watching your videos you are smart ..after watching you fixing the mercury record player i started working on mine i have 2 of them and both of them are slow i pulled the bottom case off the motor it was just a cover there is a small set of points with an adjusting screw i adjusted it a little now it plays the right speed and the cover snaps back on i guess the points were worn some..thanks for your videos

Probably elitely made by Tatung with those green capacitors

Coffee and breakfast always learning something new from him

On the capacitor that is used to connect in parallel, if the ends of the leads are cut at an angle they will be sharp and make better contact.

We need Shango merch. The first should be a tshirt that says "here" across the front

I love my Peak Atlas ESR tester. I've had it over 3 years now with no problems. Though, it is hit and miss with in circuit testing.

I think I remember Jordan Pier mentioning that the newer Capacitor Wizards have gone down substantially in quality. Yours seems to be an example of that. Shame, it sounds like the older ones were really good.

A Blue ESR meter might serve you better than the capacitor wizard. I'm not an expert but mine works and I haven't heard anything bad about them.

You’re right it is definitely Sanyo I have a Craig reel to reel tape recorder from around the same time, and it has those same capacitors , Resistors, and a pioneer speaker!

Thanks for the new video Shango.

A good repair tutorial from start to finish.

Scotty Kilmer on his channel say the same about Nissan cars too. There junk. And you can't fight with a guy like Scotty Kilmer that work on cars for over 60 years.

I agree, I repaired and recapped a Sanyo model 10S-P10, as well as an 8 transistor 'All-wave' variant, with 2SB187 audio output transistors...

I had a virtually identical radio as a kid in the 70s (in the UK) and I'm sure it was branded Sanyo.

luv the horn. great video. just needed a plane.

Sounds like someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Shango's a bit more crotchety than usual.

In the early transistor radios from Japan, I imagine they shared supply of components. This one with the 'Sony' brand name is the first I saw with most internals 'Sanyo'. I have a Sanyo 'Transcontinental' 3 Band, 10 Transistor, where Toshiba manufactured some of the RF transistors (2SA170). I see this one has a 2SB187 pair as an audio output..

My next door neighbor has a rogue like that one that she still drives. Most of my other neighbors have nissans too. I have owned two toyotas and one geo prizm. They have never let me down, and mostly have just needed the usual maintenance. I did have an '85 Nissan Stanza years ago, and the engine died three weeks after I bought it. I did also have a '92 Sentra that was a good c car for the year that I owned it.

My 4th Gen Maxima is at 230,000+ miles. It needed what all cars need with that many years and distance, but the engine and transmission are all still good. My 1997 Buick LeSabre with the 3.8 Series II still runs decently. Now what Renault did to Nissan after they bought it is like what Fiat did to Chrysler. I've driven a lot of brand new Chrysler products and I couldn't stand them. Jeeps were especially bad. I drove new Nissan and really did not like them either. Overall, these new cars are way over valued and don't have the longevity, but they know this when people can get new cars so easily and stay in debt for the rest of their life. It's the new American Dream.

Cool to see these radios working again.

The second radio reminds me of one my Father had it was a Hitachi, it was actually after I looked it up a HITACHI WH-822H SW/BC It was called the Kelly. I see one on the fleabay now for big money. It was used every day since he got it at around 18 and stopped using it around 50. Wish my mother had of kept it, and there was the original box as well for it. I used to listen to short wave on it when I was a kid.

One thing that can kill these IF coils (and other coils) is the circuit glue they used. The darker the glue gets, the corrosive it is and it will eat the copper. I guess that as the glue deteriorated, it got fragile and that is why the bobbin was free. if you leave this glue on the circuit board it will eat the traces.

KVAX.............Bahahahaha, love it!

Love your transistor radio repair vids!! Is the Westinghouse radio with the built-in cigarette lighter, light & clock in your que?? Would really like to see a repair on that badboy!!

It's a pity the capacitor wizard isn't up to standard, especially due to it's high cost. You'd think it would be right up there for good quality test equipment... An excellent diagnosis on the Sony radio. A very good fix by using a sacrificial transformer... WELL DONE... 10/10

Well done analysis! and nice junk car too!

I only ever see clapped out nissans here in New Orleans. All of them have body panels hanging off and falling off on the highway, you see a lot of them on the side of the road, we had one of these same cars develop the same “death scream” as that one, in the apartment complex I live in, we took the battery out after not being able to get the car to stop honking. This was at 3AM. Roughly 9AM I heard the horn again, as the people were trying again to fix the issue, they eventually got the car hauled off, on a flat bed, with the horn still going! It was a sight!

GREAT rant

Wow! Of all the parts that could fail from sitting around, I wouldn't have thought the IF transformer would be a problem unless it was mechanically damaged.

Honestly your one of the best at handholding lol

21:29 “Sanyo with the little biebly-squibler…it got rocks up in it’s watch”

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New to the channel This video is awesome Thank you for what you do

In 1985 my late wife had her gall bladder removed. Back then it was major surgery. While she recuperated in hospital I asked if she wanted me to bring up a portable TV as the hospital did not furnish them back then. She said she would rather have a radio to listen to. I dug around and could not find a descent pocket radio, so I stopped by the Radio Shack and purchased a nice little SONY radio, it looked a LOT like that one but of course updated a bit. That was her radio for many years but it must have stopped working as we no longer have it. Later I found her a nice Garmin transistor AM/FM/SW. It was a bit larger but still on the small nearly pocket size. I now have that sweet little set by my chair and do play it from time to time when I am not playing my ESP32 built wifi radio that plays the type of music that I want to hear.

The same thing happened to my old neighbors Ford Explore a few years ago one night with the horn getting stuck. On that one the horn element started failing after about 3 minutes.

I've never seen a nonadjustable IF can like the one in the video. The service manual for a 2003 Chevrolet S-10 mentioned that if the horn were active for more than two minutes continuously, it'd set a diagnostic trouble code. I kind of wanted to try that and see, only I wasn't sure I could find a place deserted enough to make that kind of racket without bothering anyone... Maybe I could have unplugged the horn and it would still have sensed the relay being closed. I was thinking of getting the Capacitor Wizard. Now I think I'll give it a pass. I have the Blue ESR meter and while I haven't used it a lot, it works well.

Drove a Nissan rental once. What a lifeless wobbly noisy classless vehicle. Slush box automatic transmission, which was new at the time, was already changing gears roughly when downshifting, the Seats were uncomfortable too, no matter how you adjusted it. Rattly plastic interior that drove me almost mad.

Hey nice shoutout to my boi louis! Keep up the good work Shango. Never give up!

Shango I love to hear you rant on a number of things and I would so enjoy it. And your thoughts on it. Tho your channel is tvs radios and such.

My roommate last year had a Nissan Juke (aka Nissan Puke or Nissan Joke). On his way to campus he heard a BANG! and the car went into limp mode. He thought the CVT ate it, and so did I. It was something else, can't remember what. He sold it and bought a 2005 Buick LeSabre with the 3.8 and never looked back.

That little rant got you a follow.

That horn element will outlast the gear box. The horn is probably made by Bosch while the CVT is hardly made of metal.

Open that capacitor wizard and you might find what mine looked like. Mine looked as if a blind, 2yr old Chinese kid assembled it! I was lucky and had a older model. I made one good tester out of both. Was a pain but it’s a good tester now.

My 89 sentra has been pretty good. Most of my trouble has been in timing chain guides and CV axle failure. At least I can fix it myself unlike a cvt.

The piezo capacitor in the capacitor wizard probably went bad

Excellent vid... I love the sarcastic dark sense of humor... It is a trademark of us Gen X-ers... Don't ever change to satisfy others.. There's enough of us crusty old codgers to form our own country...

Hello from Louis Rossmann!

I really love your sophisticated, summarizing outros :) It's a kind of signature on your productions :)

I own a 2015 nissan sentra, it has 70,000 miles on it. It threw a mass airflow sensor code, replaced the sensor and it didn't like the aftermarket sensor so i had to put the oem one back in after cleaning it, and now it works fine without a code. Sure the cvt is a bit jank when accelerating quickly from a dead stop, but that doesn't matter to me.

I got my transistor radio today, and it’s an International Transistor Corp. (ITC) AP-120 and it’s an AM/Police radio, but FM is on the back which is kinda weird. It works, but needs to spray the controls, but it lacks FM.

Great 👍 looking Pioneer speaker 🔊. Back when at least somewhat better quality went into these things. The speaker 🔊 is permanent magnet 🧲. Your friend, Jeff.

Question for the group - In an older car some primary copper wires are developing black strands. Does this mean that the current flow is reduced?

I wonder if that Sony was made/assembled in Hong Kong. It may explain the assortment of different branded parts and unusual construction techniques...

Usually horns burn out after five minutes.

Your camera is insanely good for close ups

Out Nissan Xtrail lasted 10-12 years. It literally popped a piston out and it was totaled. It somehow got fixed but then the gas pedal connection failed and we didn’t have enough torque to they the car out of the garage cause there was a minuscule bump

If this video is representative of American media/radio as a whole, it's crazy how much they talk about Covid. In Ireland we have close to a 90% vaccination rate and the media doesn't have to keep going on about it constantly.

The horn on my VW Beetle, sounds better then that Nissan! 😂 Way cute 🥰

This guy makes a broken car horn entertainment.

thank you mate

Nissan does have the best car horns at least. Lol. Enjoyed the video, to the end.

My Grandfathers Datsun ran for 37 years!

Probably a Sony radio with a lot of Sanyo components or a Sony OEM'd out their radio production to Sanyo. And for a Pioneer speaker seen a lot of these radios with Pioneer speakers.

hey mr.tv ..may i as you if you know any of these co.s still make the lil fm radios