Always enjoy your videos . My father used to build this kind of superhet radio in the 20s and early 30s . He often made them to special order for friends . He taught me such a lot in my youth . The hobby has always been with me . I love the square wiring done in those days . Looks so neat . Thanks for sharing your amazing knowledge with us . I have learned a lot by watching your uploads. Respect and best wishes to you from the UK ...
Lovely to see another Video Ron. I have to wait until tomorrow to sit back and enjoy it with my morning coffe. Sending you best wishes. x Since your last video our cat has crossed the rainbow bridge, so your kitty is even more special than usual.
I've never assembled anything more complicated than a breadboard crystal set, so I don't always understand what you're doing, but I love to watch you (and your rescue cat) at work.
This is one of the coolest looking radios I have ever seen. The oddly meshing caps were cool, and the wires that look like piping just make it cooler. Thanks for the video
You never cease to amaze me with your knowledge. It's so cool to see that set come back to life! Very nice-looking chassis. I think the original owner bit of more than he could chew with it.
I absolutely LOVE your channel. You do the same stupid stuff I do, like holding on to hot wires LOL. But you always figure it out and I love your analysis. One day I hope I'm able to to make my videos look as easy as you make yours look. Thanks!
There's something really pleasing to my eyes about the wiring of this radio. Almost reminds me of the refinery I used to work in, with all of the pipes. Lol Thanks for the video, for some reason... I never see when you post a new video. I'll see if I can fix that
I wish I could do a vulcan mind meld, and suck out all the radio knowledge from your brain, and copy it over to my brain. Thanks for explaining this radio, and all it's parts and functions. Keep up the good work and keep posting these great videos.
The schematic shown at 7:03 in shows a later design with 6 UV199 tubes and 3 201A tubes ( instead of UX120's). There is no need for a C battery in this 8 tube radio. Love those gear reduction variable air capacitors! Love the repairs on these ancient radio designs doing what very few people can restore properly.
'20s counterpart of Heathkit, huh? That's a real deal lovely radio. And after debugging it's a thing of beauty and a joy for ever. Nice to see you back, I was missing you! Hope everything is OK on your end :) Connections should never rely on solder alone to provide mechanical rigidity. When a wire breaks like around 19:05, I tend to wrap a few turns of thin wire to join both parts, then solder the whole thing together. Likewise, I wrap the end of the wire around another when making a T-junction. You've got a lovely power supply there, LED digital meters with a wooden enclosure brings back the '70s/80s aesthetic, and there's so many that it reminds me of Back to the Future :) (PS there's a typo in the title)
I like these wirings with non-insulated wires. I have receivers from this time, some with square section wires. They were made very aesthetic inside, not only outside.
I’m so happy to see another video from you. I always look forward to a seeing a new one. Thank you for taking the time and effort to post these they are very inspiring.
So glad you made a comment on another channel and issue i found by replying to you that i had been unsubscribed to this ,one of my favourite channels any way now I'm back
Wow! as a young kid in the early 1970's I remember seeing a few old trashed and discarded pre 1930's antique radio chassis in my backyard in the woods, one of them looked identical to that heterodyne kit radio with the mounted open bare wiring and those 4 prong Edison shaped tubes, a few tubes were still intact but the tuning caps and pots were all seized and deteriorated. Way back in the day a HAM radio guy lived at my location from the 1930's to 50's.
classic radio video 🥳 it would be neat to see the factories of the 20s making all these vintage parts... today people could remake stuff but it would different. the shadow knows mystery night.
Haven’t gotten all the way through it yet, so perhaps you address it in the video…but it’s supposed to be a voltmeter not an ammeter. The panel even has the engraved reminder to keep it at 3v or less. This is of course to protect the 199s from burning up.
Great video as always. Love that radio. I have 2 1920s battery sets. A kellogg Wavemaster and another I can't remember. I went as far as to reverse engineer the schematic for the wavemaster as the ones online didn't match. It is supposdly not a regenerative set, but I think it is. Need to finish it and the fix the other one someday. Just too many projects. It is missing a cap or resistor, it's a ;glass fuse' style and I'm not sure what it need.
Most likely a grid leak if it is the cartridge type resistor. It should be a 2 to 5 megohm value. The value is not critical. Anything in that range will work fine. You can find them on ebay.
I love your videos very much. You enjoy them as I do and wish you long life and really happiness. I laughed loudly about the cat blowing that fart. Radio fascinates me as one of the greatest inventions of mankind. I learned something new or strengthen the ones I know by observing you working.
I wonder if the person who built the kit back then got it working or gave up. That is one expensive kit going by the number of tubes. My dad (born 1906) wanted to build a radio back in the early 20's when he was young but didn't have the know-how or the money as parts were expensive.
Thanks for The lesson! You better keep your finger away from The nonisolated wires. Sweden hade The first radio testsendings on The begining of The nineteentventees. Regards Bjorn
Challenge accepted. Ron says "Okay" 180 times in this video. (For reference, I also counted the times Ron said " 'kay," and the times where the camera cut-off an instance of "Okay." Your results may vary based on my personal criteria.) And, as a bonus, Ron says "All right" 51 times. Now... what do I win? (If it's anything less than a mint Sparton Bluebird, imma be pissed.) Also... if you see this comment, Ron- Know this was done with love, not malice. I watch most of your videos twice, anyway. This was just a fun 'lil game the second time 'round!
You are a genius in electronic technology and original manufacturing processes, please advise me on how I can reconstruct the cracked glass (display panel of broadcasting stations) of an old receiver? And one more question (although I have more questions); how to perfectly restore inscriptions on old measuring instruments (on glass, plexiglass, metals, PP, etc.)?
There are two ways that can be used. Easiest is a transparency overlay (made on the computer) with the printing. This works good for all colors except white. The second more difficult method is silk screen printing. This process can print all colors, unfortunately the process is quite critical and difficult to master for fine detail work.
Hi Ron your friend Dave here retired tech I was hoping to see another one of your amazing videos you're the best out there it was amazing seeing you get that old radio kit working please take care of yourself may God keep you and bless you always your friend Dave
Always enjoy your videos . My father used to build this kind of superhet radio in the 20s and early 30s . He often made them to special order for friends . He taught me such a lot in my youth . The hobby has always been with me . I love the square wiring done in those days . Looks so neat . Thanks for sharing your amazing knowledge with us . I have learned a lot by watching your uploads. Respect and best wishes to you from the UK ...
It is really very durable amazing Radio Technology in the 30,andearly 50,s when I have just born.thanks.
You never cease to amaze me, Ron. Your accumulated knowledge would fill an encyclopedia.
Lovely to see another Video Ron.
I have to wait until tomorrow to sit back and enjoy it with my morning coffe.
Sending you best wishes. x
Since your last video our cat has crossed the rainbow bridge, so your kitty is even more special than usual.
As a kitty lover (we have 6) I am particularly touched by your comment. Thank you and God bless!
I've never assembled anything more complicated than a breadboard crystal set, so I don't always understand what you're doing, but I love to watch you (and your rescue cat) at work.
You have taught me so much... just by watching you doing.
Love 'ya, Ron.
Keep up the good content.
Good to see you back on YT Ron. A great radio, it has such presence even before you turn it on!
I always enjoy your video Ron 👍
WOW! I'm glad you go your superhet working Ron. Its fantastic.
Thanks Ron ,Your knowledge is amazing ,These Rare radios are fantastic and I only know they exist because of you ,thank you
Thanks so much Ron, in this crazy world you are a welcome oasis. All the best from Austria.
This is one of the coolest looking radios I have ever seen. The oddly meshing caps were cool, and the wires that look like piping just make it cooler. Thanks for the video
Thanks for the excelent new video, Ron. We all here missed you, your extraordinary knowledge...and your smile!.
Très intéressant de voir c est radio fonctionner encore comme ça vivement une autre vidéo car très intéressant
WOW fantastic!! 😍 My heart is throbbing when the radio that is not playing sounds.
So nice to see you back :):):)
You never cease to amaze me with your knowledge. It's so cool to see that set come back to life! Very nice-looking chassis. I think the original owner bit of more than he could chew with it.
Welcome back, love that kind of construction. Hope to get a similar one one day
Those air variable capacitors are so beautiful...
Love watching what you do, keep up the good work 🇭🇲👍
I absolutely LOVE your channel. You do the same stupid stuff I do, like holding on to hot wires LOL. But you always figure it out and I love your analysis. One day I hope I'm able to to make my videos look as easy as you make yours look. Thanks!
Awesome radio. You did a great job restoring it.
There's something really pleasing to my eyes about the wiring of this radio. Almost reminds me of the refinery I used to work in, with all of the pipes. Lol
Thanks for the video, for some reason... I never see when you post a new video. I'll see if I can fix that
I wish I could do a vulcan mind meld, and suck out all the radio knowledge from your brain, and copy it over to my brain. Thanks for explaining this radio, and all it's parts and functions. Keep up the good work and keep posting these great videos.
I would give the knowledge to you free! I have no financial interest in the videos. Any ads are put there without my permission by youtube.
@@glasslinger You are sharing your knowledge with the rest of us, that will have to suffice. Thank you.
The schematic shown at 7:03 in shows a later design with 6 UV199 tubes and 3 201A tubes ( instead of UX120's). There
is no need for a C battery in this 8 tube radio. Love those gear reduction variable air capacitors! Love the repairs on these
ancient radio designs doing what very few people can restore properly.
Super cool. I loved that project. Thank you very much for sharing it.
Great video as usual really look forward to seen them
'20s counterpart of Heathkit, huh? That's a real deal lovely radio. And after debugging it's a thing of beauty and a joy for ever.
Nice to see you back, I was missing you! Hope everything is OK on your end :)
Connections should never rely on solder alone to provide mechanical rigidity. When a wire breaks like around 19:05, I tend to wrap a few turns of thin wire to join both parts, then solder the whole thing together. Likewise, I wrap the end of the wire around another when making a T-junction.
You've got a lovely power supply there, LED digital meters with a wooden enclosure brings back the '70s/80s aesthetic, and there's so many that it reminds me of Back to the Future :)
(PS there's a typo in the title)
*Great to see it Working again! Thank You!* I don't know why i still expect to hear News from era of Radio. lol : }
Great video! Loved watching as always. Thank you!
cool radio...love those tuning caps, never seen a remler before, thanks for the good shows
An other fantastic job Ron keep them coming.
I always enjoy your videos. I think you are so wonderful people. Your videos are so most practice.
I had fun watching it. true tech enthusiast
As a Korean fan and long-time subscriber, I always support you. Regards
super cool radio Ron... love that tube line up - thanks for sharing with us...
I like these wirings with non-insulated wires. I have receivers from this time, some with square section wires.
They were made very aesthetic inside, not only outside.
Really enjoyed watching this Ron, thanks so much. Love from the UK.
I’m so happy to see another video from you. I always look forward to a seeing a new one. Thank you for taking the time and effort to post these they are very inspiring.
NICE JOB, LOVE THOSE TUNING CAPS.
you are a good human being, keep up the good work
So glad you made a comment on another channel and issue i found by replying to you that i had been unsubscribed to this ,one of my favourite channels any way now I'm back
Wow! as a young kid in the early 1970's I remember seeing a few old trashed and discarded pre 1930's antique radio chassis in my backyard in the woods, one of them looked identical to that heterodyne kit radio with the mounted open bare wiring and those 4 prong Edison shaped tubes, a few tubes were still intact but the tuning caps and pots were all seized and deteriorated. Way back in the day a HAM radio guy lived at my location from the 1930's to 50's.
classic radio video 🥳 it would be neat to see the factories of the 20s making all these vintage parts... today people could remake stuff but it would different. the shadow knows mystery night.
Thanks for this! Have you restored or can you restore a 1925 Grebe? 🕺
''why did they make thing so crappy''
Love seeing someone acknowledge that shoddy manufacturing has always existed, haha.
hello MR GLASSLINGER i love to watch your videos from Australia
Great job Ron!!! Greetings from Rome (Italy)!!!😉👍👍
I enjoy your videos Ron. Keep them coming!
I love the tuner condensors. If the style type doesn't have a name I think they should be called shuffle type as in card shuffle.
Nice work, Ron, did enjoy this video.
Can you do a new recap and the cans in a future video?I I am questioning myself on recaping my 40s Zenith.
Another fascinating video! Would love to see a short video on soldering techniques….I’m so bad at soldering.
Haven’t gotten all the way through it yet, so perhaps you address it in the video…but it’s supposed to be a voltmeter not an ammeter. The panel even has the engraved reminder to keep it at 3v or less. This is of course to protect the 199s from burning up.
Greetings from germany. You are a great engineer. Very enjoyable video too as always. Thanks.
Great video as always. Love that radio. I have 2 1920s battery sets. A kellogg Wavemaster and another I can't remember. I went as far as to reverse engineer the schematic for the wavemaster as the ones online didn't match. It is supposdly not a regenerative set, but I think it is. Need to finish it and the fix the other one someday. Just too many projects. It is missing a cap or resistor, it's a ;glass fuse' style and I'm not sure what it need.
Most likely a grid leak if it is the cartridge type resistor. It should be a 2 to 5 megohm value. The value is not critical. Anything in that range will work fine. You can find them on ebay.
That's a beautiful layout for a home kit radio.
Neat video, thanks for sharing, look forward to the next
I love your videos! Great work. Thanks!
Very interesting :)
Thanks for the videos, I always enjoy watching them since they are interesting 😅
What anice work you do I hope continue
Thanks for another nice video. I love wood electronics.
You are a legend. Thanks for another great video and knowledge share.
Miss you 😐Best wishes Form a German Fan
Take the screws out Fit the meter, then put the screws back in
Awesome radio. Wish they still had kits like this.
that was really cool - - thanks Ron
That is some bit of kit Ron..
Thanks for another wonderful vid :)
"glue thinks nothing of UV light, INSTANTLY regrets it" lol
Glasslinger your Superhetroeyne radio Receiver is cool
Oh man I think I here game 3 of the 1926 worlds series.
Another great video.
Sweeet! Please never stop uploading ^^
I love your videos very much. You enjoy them as I do and wish you long life and really happiness. I laughed loudly about the cat blowing that fart. Radio fascinates me as one of the greatest inventions of mankind. I learned something new or strengthen the ones I know by observing you working.
I wonder if the person who built the kit back then got it working or gave up. That is one expensive kit going by the number of tubes. My dad (born 1906) wanted to build a radio back in the early 20's when he was young but didn't have the know-how or the money as parts were expensive.
I saw an ad in a 1925 magazine for UV99 tubes for 45 cents each! But back then that was a day's pay for a lot of people!
May you could me send a diagram of power supply to use in tube radios please
I just love your videos :):)😘
Thanks for The lesson! You better keep your finger away from The nonisolated wires. Sweden hade The first radio testsendings on The begining of The nineteentventees.
Regards Bjorn
45 volts is all that is present in this radio. No worry about getting shocked!
please...what type model osciloscope is that at 51:00 ? i love it
An HP 54622D. It is now obsolete, I replaced it with a new Keysight DSX1202 with the 200mhz upgrade. Now THAT is a scope to love!
Thank you for making this!
Brilliant. I love these types of radio. They look more mechanical than electical. Ha ha.
Guess how many times the word “OK” was used in this video and win!
Challenge accepted.
Ron says "Okay" 180 times in this video.
(For reference, I also counted the times Ron said " 'kay," and the times where the camera cut-off an instance of "Okay." Your results may vary based on my personal criteria.)
And, as a bonus, Ron says "All right" 51 times.
Now... what do I win?
(If it's anything less than a mint Sparton Bluebird, imma be pissed.)
Also... if you see this comment, Ron- Know this was done with love, not malice.
I watch most of your videos twice, anyway. This was just a fun 'lil game the second time 'round!
@@Jason1920 GIVE THIS MAN HIS PRIZE.
Eight days later, and still... no prize.
those funny butterfly tuning condensers
You are a genius in electronic technology and original manufacturing processes, please advise me on how I can reconstruct the cracked glass (display panel of broadcasting stations) of an old receiver? And one more question (although I have more questions); how to perfectly restore inscriptions on old measuring instruments (on glass, plexiglass, metals, PP, etc.)?
There are two ways that can be used. Easiest is a transparency overlay (made on the computer) with the printing. This works good for all colors except white. The second more difficult method is silk screen printing. This process can print all colors, unfortunately the process is quite critical and difficult to master for fine detail work.
No cables...amazing radio!
Thank you so much for another great video. 73 Malek KI7DYM
You can use a 3Q4 in place of a UV199 with an adapter if necessary.
Utter blasphemy! :)
Ron, can you prove it was the cat?
Hi Ron your friend Dave here retired tech I was hoping to see another one of your amazing videos you're the best out there it was amazing seeing you get that old radio kit working please take care of yourself may God keep you and bless you always your friend Dave
Thanks, Great video as always.
Bacana contrução esse rádio na época, show
What's the fascia made of, is it bakelite?
Yes.
great video
What kind of wire is used on the connections.
23:10 ... we got a new transformer... NEW! NEW? Places 75 year old minty mint component in place!
It was NEW to the radio!
Are you from Pomona California
Nope. Houston TX.
What is a "non-grid leak cartridge"? You called it a regulator to reduce the filament to 5 volts. Is it just a resistor?
Thanks for the video. 😎
I have 3 of those Remler tuning condensers (Im old school condenser)
Pico farads? Go ahead and say Mickymikes. You're among friends by this time. LOL
The most amazing person on Utube!
Thanks for the video. No health and safety on the old radios. You could get a tingle from the B+!
Only the weakest tingle! Only 45 volts used on the radio.
That's a mazing work