I'm 47 and my grandmother used to have a radio covered in a black pvc like wallet like that, your video's are always interesting love the kit builds. You give old things a new lease of life, great stuff
A gorgeous radio with booming sound, and a neat little background story, to boot! It's nice that you were able to retrieve it and get it going once again. Sony evidently designed and built an amazing number of SKU's of radios. I sorely wish they would get back to the business of superior shortwave radios like they built so many years ago.
Good video on the Sony . This is what got me into the radio collecting world , listened to radio stations at the age of 6 , from mainland ( CKLG , CFUN ) here on the Island in the early seventies. Bought radios cheap back then in thrift shops , and had a collection . These were well built radio's in the day , enjoy working on them , keep up the good work !
I just got a deal on an old boombox with am fm... realistic brand... I fired it up and the radio sounded excellent and I listed to it for bout 20 min... then today I turned it on and it sounded like the stations weren't coming in near as strong but I grabbed one and went about my business and in a couple of minutes it sopped working... powers is on but the am and fm are not pulling down any stations??? what could that be... it's like a capacitor or another component failed??? or what ever captures the signal failed??? can you point me in a direction to look at.. thanks
That's a beauty. SONY's are worth saving. My first Radio was a red and white Sony TR-1820. I found one a few years ago and it is in beautiful condition.
I want to ask you if the tuner cleaner and lub.Will work on that volume knobs ,I bought a fan a while back from radio shack ,I didn't no if I should have bought just a tuner cleaner or a tuner cleaner with a pub in it ,I have a seventh or older I want to no if I can use my cleaner and lubricant on it.
Nice history of a great radio. Recently found a radio-same model as the first one my mom bought for me.( Realistic 5 transistor). Got me collecting radios,now. That thing may not have much inside, but look at that huge honker of an antenna ❗️Won’t find a chunk of ferrite like that in a modern radio (except maybe a C.Crane radio).
Aron Gooch The power supply is excellent. Will actually go up to 50 volts but I only had a transformer that outputs around 36-40. I built it with what I had on hand. Transformers are expensive. The old transformer has the original radio shack price sticker on it. That's how old it is.
A good old radio :-D, and that outer case protected the plastic nicely :-D. I bet a blob of clear epoxy resin would keep that battery post in place. Depends on how far you wish to go with it :-).
zx8401ztv Yes jb weld will fix it nicely. This is as it was when I pulled it out of the drawer. My grandmother just used to put a little block of wood in it to hold the batteries. Back then we didn't have the super glues we have today.
Yes I know. I'll probably mix up some JB Weld and affix the battery terminal some day as I would like to fix that up. This one has been in the family for 56 years.
I no you can fix anything ,I would love to see you fix the kinda of radios ,I like to fix and learn on,like a AA5 G.E. 1960 era clock radio,or any 60,s era radio ,I pick these kind of radios to learn on ,because of your videos and a couple others I watch I have fix five or six radios so far.And am a big fan of what ever radios you fix.thanks for your videos and time to help others.
Great video and a very interesting old radio. Makes me sad that so many people will never know how good quality products used to be available and now most things are junk. It used to be that the more you paid, the better the quality. But now it's put out cheap junk, make a much money as you can, sell your product name and run and start making more junk under a new name. Keep making your interesting videos.
Dan E. I love the old tech. It is all repairable. I have a few real nice old pieces to look at this fall as I get back into making videos now that summer is done and the weather turns ugly. More time to spend in the studio.
I like the old transistor radios. That one still plays pretty good, considering how old it is. Many of the old vintage transistor radios uses germanium transistors, which I think are not easy to replace these days. NTE make some generic replacements.
We use penny's grandpa stuff too that pitney's humble sides behind the moment a copper battery terminal which I remember what happened to be a sham out of the batteries
Reminds me of the AJAX 8 transistor radios that my parents bought me and my sister when we were kids in the 60s, listening to radio Caroline and Luxembourg, I found, by accident, that by selecting a Sw.frequency on a 40s cabinet radio that I had, I could block the MW frequency in her room next to mine, and replace her music with a annoying high pitched tone, which was useful if she Pissed me off. Later bought a second hand Shaub Lorenz, now that had some guts in it and volume.
I was born in 66, my first radio was a small transistor radio that ran on a 9v battery, I had it around 73-75 and it went everywhere with me, small little handheld with the small white earphone, my dad would take it to work with him during the school year, I got it during the summertime, ah memories :)
Unkyjoe's Playhouse I was born in ‘61. Back then, almost everyone had a pocket radio, like cell phones today, boys and girls. I recently stumbled upon two that I had. A cute little Realistic 5 transistor AM radio-the first radio I remember,my mom bought for me.
I bought a similar vintage sony radio, and got it delivered to my mum's address for convenience. Unfortunately the postman put it in the recycling bin and it got recycled on the same day. I got my money back from eBay but it certainly was a bit of a learning curve for me and my mum!
If you saw my rant on Canada post you know my feelings about not only them but fed ex, ups, and DHL as well. They could use a trained monkey and get better results.
@@12voltvids thank you for the fantastic videos, I collect everything Sony but despite going to technical college in the 80s, I am very nervous about making repairs (especially soldering) but you give me the confidence to have a try. Big thumbs up.
Did you get around to fixing the battery contact and faulty volume control in the sony TR6080 ? it looked like a decent radio in 2017, a little clean of the grill with a tooth brush would make it fresher.
No I haven't done anything with it since this video. It is still in the same drawer it has been in since I put it back after shooting this one. Some day I will bring this one out again and glue that battery compartment back together.
jpdesroc I built it. The condensed build is on my channel and the full 3 hour component level build is available to patreon users. Look for am stereo transmitter build. I built it only a few weeks ago. Was a kit I got off ebay. Range is about 1/2 block with piece of wire for antenna. It is a Motorola C-QUAM compatable stereo transmitter. I will be showing off some of my other am stereo radios receiving signals from it in future videos.
XXEllieXX The video of that power supply build Is on my channel. The regulator module came from banggood.com it is basically a transformer, bridge rectifier and capacitor plus a fan and the dc-dc buck regulator module. Works fantastic. See the video of the construction and read all the negative comments on my construction techniques by those that wrote a comment before seeing the finished project.
nice video grab some step down power transformer and voltage regulator for your radio power supply run your radio on that supply... it should work fine without noise
Wow!... that wooden Sony is a valuable collector's item... congratulations to the owner for scoring that one. Your Sony is awesome too.. especially since it's a family heirloom and thus priceless.... cool antenna in that set, ... lots of capture area along all that ferrite bar, and the link-coupled external antenna connection is the icing on the AM-DX-listening cake :-).
Yes it is cool. Will be repairing that one next probably as it won't tune anything. Bad caps no doubt. That one goes back to 1956. Speaking of AX DX, I have been playing around with my old Sony XR-A37 AM stereo car radio. As you know car radios are pretty good. Was pulling in signals from all over the place last night including some AM stereo stations. I should make a video of that next time I go hunting for signals. I use a Cushcraft AP8 vertical for the antenna.
Right on.... and definitely, car radios with their RF amps in the front-end can definitely pull in the weak stations, especially when hooked up to a nice long-wire antenna and a good ground connection.
Kennynva T. Correct. Actually they used even less than that. About 1/3. Only a .2 volt junction drop as opposed to .6 for silicon which means that as the batteries run down they will work until the voltage is lower.
