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The Vintage TV and Wireless Company
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Electronic Fettling and Restorations from The Vintage TV and Wireless Company
Full restoration of a very poorly 1931 HMV 501 Radiogram Part 1
Full restoration of a very poorly 1931 HMV 501 Radiogram Part 1
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1950s Invicta radio.....RESTORATION GIVE AWAY! Will it work?
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A poorly old set from the early 50s....give away. Let's check it out.
Ferguson 536T. A very (filthy) early1960s TV restoration
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Ferguson 536T. A very (filthy) early1960s TV restoration
Dangerous Mazda Disneylights...repaired.
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Dangerous Mazda Disneylights...repaired.
British Bubblelites, called Tubelites! Christmas special
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Very rare UK bubblelites from the late 50s, so festive!
Wonderful 1938 Cossor Wireless Restoration
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Wonderful 1938 Cossor Wireless Restoration
Beautiful Sobell radiogram restoration Part 2.
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Sorry for the strange part 2 edit due to problems with part 1.
Beautiful Sobell Radiogram restoration Part 1.
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Beautiful Sobell Radiogram restoration Part 1.
Philco Predicta doing her thing!
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Fully restored Philco Predicta working well in the UK. These sets are rare in Britain, so seeing one working after we'd restored it was a treat!
RGD Radiogram with super rare Garrard RC1 deck
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RGD Radiogram with super rare Garrard RC1 deck
Poorly Bal Ami Jukebox Amp.....Bodge-tastic!
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Poorly Bal Ami Jukebox Amp.....Bodge-tastic!
Electronic restoration to a huge RGD 1046 radiogram
Просмотров 11 тыс.2 года назад
It's radiogram time. let's get inside this enormous gram and take a look.
BSR UA14 Record Deck restoration
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This poor old BSR deck is in need if some TLC.. ..let's take a look at the restoration.
Noma Bubble Lights on the tree!
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Just a quick follow up from the Bubble light video. I never showed them working on a Christmas tree...so here they are, doing their thing! Enjoy.
Trace Elliot V8 valve bass amplifier. The Big One!
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Trace Elliot V8 valve bass amplifier. The Big One!
Hacker RG200 Radiogram. Restoration and testing!
Просмотров 11 тыс.3 года назад
Hacker RG200 Radiogram. Restoration and testing!
1940s Noma Bubble Lights. Replacing the bulbs.
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1940s Noma Bubble Lights. Replacing the bulbs.
Murphy V270C CRM142 Mazda tube problems!
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Murphy V270C CRM142 Mazda tube problems!
Ekco TV having a test run before heading out for h
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Ekco TV having a test run before heading out for h
looking forward to the finish. Crunchy rubber wiring usually has my heart sinking. Lots of fiddly rewiring and trying to keep it all looking genuine.
I haven't seen a Baby Belling for years...
Hello good night beautiful vitrola Love Love Love Brazil 🤔🥰💞💓
Beautiful TV love love love Brazil 🤔💞💕💓❤️
Interesting troubleshooting and repair. 👍👍 Love the Philips PM5544 pattern. TV stations in Australia used to show a variation of that (around the late 1970's) either before their regular programs or prior to ending broadcast each night. The pattern was a rough guide to adjustment of the picture size/position in B&W sets and some early colour models which suffered convergence drift.
Very well done! I am currently working on a late 1940's Zenith 12h092R AM/FM/ 78RPM Phono with the same crappy wires. It s definingly a job to replace them. The Zenith has long 9-wire cables that have 3/4" braiding on them. They had the same bad wires that I had to pull through and replace. That was loads of fun - NOT! Nice work with the capacitor block. We had a US company (Atwater Kent) that used them all the time back the 1930s too! I actually use a propane torch to get them out of the numerous boxes in those sets! Anyway, new subscriber here. Loved the video! Thanks for sharing it!
A real gem a genius at work
Cannot wait for part 2!
great video and i also enjoyed your talk at NARC i watched it last night on there channel
Glad you enjoyed it
That's beautiful. I have another HMV, which has been hard to identify for me that is. I have found another advertisement so I thought I send a link to see. Mine works and have fitted a hidden socket to plug in a Bluetooth receiver. www.ebay.com.au/itm/264804119766
Nice job and I have like 4 set waiting to replace wire like you are doing I have noticed a lot 1940s sets have that poor rubber wire !
Friends of mine brought something similar to these from The USA one year and used them. Noma also made a talking O gauge plastic railway station.
you remind me so much of a guy in Norwich that use to have a shop called Bits n Pc's but he had a moustache. any relation?
Very interesting, thank you. I have never seen any of those glass resistors before. Funny that you mentioned Shango... he has plugged in radios with mains leads that are crispier than those wires - absolutely terrifying, even if he is using a series bulb.
They certainly squeezed a lot into a very small space in that small cabinet! Bet it got hot in there! At 11.40 is that a bit of warped 78 sculpture I spy on top of your oven 😂
Always wondered why some early resistor were encapsulated in glass. Thanks for showing that. I have tried the old pencil trick to build up a resistance value but that looks like it was tuned over a candle flame🙂.
Fascinating to see how different the components were! I have an Ultra radio from the mid 1930s, and the change around only 5 years later is considerable. Resistors with the colour code ('Body End Dot rather than stripes, though) and discrete capacitors, and a superhet design. So the technology in the 30s was actually progressing at a fast rate.
Always interesting to see the difference between American radios of that era compared to British electronics. What voltage was used in those days in most homes?
It varied from region to region. Anything from 200 - 250V. Some A.C....some D.C. Hence, all British built stuff had to have multi volt inputs.
@@vintagetvandwireless I'd add some districts were also 110 - 150V. Often if there was a private generating plant for lighting it'd be a lower voltage, plus mains frequency could vary from 25Hz to 100Hz. If you get hold of one of the "Trader" annuals from the 1930s, they often list the supplies by area. I have one of these 'grams too, but mine is a DC-only model using 0.25A valves.
if I were to restore such a TV, the first thing I would do would be to check the picture tube
What a beautiful machine ❤
Cool radio
YOU SPED UP CLEANING THE TV HERE. **HOW DID YOU FIND MY FLUX CAPACITOR FROM ""BTTF1,2,3"" AND USE IT TO CLEAN YOUR TV. I TURNED OFF THE FLUX CAPACITOR 40 YEARS AGO. I AM GLAD IT IS STILL WORKING!!** -- MICHAEL J FOX
Looks much better with the dark speaker grill than the original one.
Now after all these years I understand what an Invicta is. You see there was a famous pirate radio station in London called Invicta.
I like it!
looks like same chassis, or at least almost the same as the pye p43 , apart from the painted chassis, pye didnt usually bother
Pye owned the Invicta name. They are pretty much identical in chassis design. They also owned PAM, and launched the first transistor radio under that brand, just in case transistors didn't work/catch on. They were concerned about damaging the Pye name if they (transistors) turned out to be a flop.
@@vintagetvandwireless yeo, i know, there were a few models unique to each brand, i dont have the first pam transistor, the 710, but the second one the 720,, plus 3 of pyes first transistor model...
My grandfather designed and built the Athall Radio in Blackpool, 1930's. Have you ever come across one?
I remember as a trainee engineer in the 90s , a Ferguson TX10, stuck together with nicotine 😮, it was vile. Tuner drawer was gunged up big style.
Fun little set, good entry level to radio restoration!
Did it have a input for phono. And your mains at 240 volt. And a new power line have builtin resistance.? American 115 volt had a restive mains line. And the plug had to have it prongs set right as the chassis was hot. Good looking set like to watch.
Your workshop looks fantastic.
Thank you!
Well done Rob great job and I agree there’s something about restoring an old tv, I think it’s the different stages you go through as it slowly comes back to life!
It looks more attractive as a chassis outside that ugly cabinet! Presumably invicta must have been in Kent with a name like that, I've never heard if them!
I was given a tour of their factory by their chief (I think?) designer, Paul Stevens, in the late 90's, and saw these monsters being wired and assembled, along with their guitar based Trident (which I owned), Speed Twin and Velocette amps. Though bass wise, I finally ended up with a Marshall VBA400 half stack, which I inherited from a friend. Love the look of those British racing green car and bike based amps of that TE era! Cool video by the way.
Put an fm tuner with it , very nice. On my HMV and 1950s, Kriesler, I also added a hidden socket to plug in a Bluetooth receiver. Everything works as normal but I have the option for something else. Hate to think cost to mail from UK. I did buy a regeneration kit set from the 6v6 shop and amazingly the tubes got here. Great video.
It looks like a fun radio! I'd like to own one.
I would have rebuilt it from the schematic.
Yes please ! I will take it …..
Nice one....OK....just reply here in the comments, stating you're aware that it's for restoration or parts, and we'll get the ball rolling. 👍👍
@@vintagetvandwireless I know it is for Restoration…… I will send you an E-Mail on the shop site as soon as I can - I am on the air right now!
👍👍 I know who you are now 😊, so no worries about you taking it!
Nice plug for Radio Caroline! Still love to bring you that Ampex! Cheers, Rob.
Great video Rob, I love TV's as well. I just finished a multipart Kriesler TV on RUclips as well. Was a hit ! Keep up the great work ! Baz
Cheers Baz! 👍🏻
Greetings: Invicta Radio model 14.
Thanks very much for this. I enjoy your channel and I hope someone takes this project on - I certainly would if it were here in Canada.
It looks a nicely built little set, I hope someone takes it on so it can live a little longer!
Sadlet its worth more in parts than as a radio .the mains transformer the speaker and output transforme and any vaves that test good. I agree that someone just strating out its a good set to learn on and cheaper than a Bush DAC90A.
Hi Rob, having been truly inspired by watching your work on Retro Electro Workshop I am pleased to now be subscribed to your channel. I find your work absolutely fascinating, it is great to see the expertise of yesteryear still going strong. I'm an electrician by trade, but would love to learn more about tv and radio repairs. Keep up the great work, I shall look forward to watching more of it.
Lovely. Was this made for the UK market i.e. 405 line?
It's beautiful, isn't it. It was, however, designed for the 525 line, USA standard.
@@vintagetvandwireless Thank you. Lovely restoration though and fascinating to see it working here in the UK.
I am looking to buy one of these gramophones very soon and I am wondering which one is best out of the models 145 and 157?
I thick you'll find the 157 the better machines as it was a smaller version to the 163/203 range that had a full re-entrant horn.
great video, with one arm behind your back while on the live chassis...reminded me of my dad always telling me "one hand in your pocket or behind your back" he was a tv engineer for rediffusion and radio rentals among others...i work on valve audio gear, but still catch myself, with dads advice ringing my ears!
Bucket of 0.047ufs
The first TV I ever repaired! Loved it. Great picture. Usual bottom cramp!
Vertical deflection was never very good in tube B&W sets. The bottom of the picture would always "ride up" and become compressed and/or fold-over..