1949 General Electric 'Locomotive' Television Restoration
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2022
- This is a bit of a longer video than I usually do. I went into more detail of the restoration process and now the television is working perfectly. I love these late 40s, early 50s televisions. Let me know what you think!
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Finally someone who didn’t turn the TV into a bar stand and painted beige
I fixed one of these in 59 when I was 10 years old rescued it from the county dump. Great to see one still around thanx.!!😊
So in 1949 they actually had an excellent tv picture. I always imagined those early tv pictures as fuzzy and jumpy. But I could sit and happily watch The Birds on that old tv set. Great job sir.
I watched a video of a guy restoring a tiny 7 inch TV from 1949, he played through a converter RUclips video and you could clearly read the time stamps at the bottom. They were really really small, but they were perfectly readable.
It's like the old gramophone records that are really crackly and crap, they're crackling crap now, because they're 100 years old, if you actually find a new old stock record, and listen to it on a old, wind up gramophone, that's been restored, they actually sound really good.
Some of the black and white televisions might've been crisper in image quality than color crt televisions we had in the 90's, because the electron beam just goes and paints an image directly onto the phosphors without obstruction, whereas color tv's had to pass them through this little grid to make sure the electron beam hit the right red green or blue pixel.
The Birds has now always been in color. Mandela Effect.
You can't judge the quality of what TV broadcasts looked like in 1949 on the basis of what the image looks like today on an old television. That's because a high-resolution digital transfer of a 35mm theatrical film like "The Birds", for example, could not exist 70+ years ago. What was on the air back then was nowhere near as sharp or detailed in the first place, regardless of what kind of set showed it.
@@hebneh The Birds was never in black and white anymore. Always been a color film now from the very beginning. Mandela Effect.
Glad to find another channel of someone saving these beauties.
Wonderful to see non-Greybeards working on and restoring these old sets... aaaand enjoying a few sips from a "Hazy Little Thing" as well.
Good on ya, Jack!
That is amazing. It's hard to imagine that TVs back in the 40s and 50s really did have great pictures!
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Thanks for working to preserve these marvelous historic electronic devices. I was 1 year old when this model came out. My parents purchased their first TV in 1949 or 50. It may have been this one. I have one short memory of standing in the playpen while my older siblings and parents huddled around that small television set. Television was so exciting in those days.
What a wonderful memory. I wish I could have experienced these sets when they first came out. It must have been truly mesmerizing for some who had never seen a television before.
Thank you for saving another beautiful piece of classic technology. These early Bakelite tv's are some of the most beautiful household icons of the 20th century (in my opinion) Especially the Bush TV12.
I just bought an identical 1949 in brown bakelite at the early television museum swap meet today and am planning on fixing it. Thank you for making this video as it is the best resource I have found yet for restoring one!
Yo! I really wish I could have gone this year but my wedding fell on October 15. Thanks for watching! Hopefully this video helps out in some areas. Let me know if you have any questions!
@@televisionforever Congrats on the wedding! I will probably ask some questions about the TV in a few days, but i'm not very far into restoring the set right now as it is my first restoration and I am still figuring things out.
They built these to last forever, what they didn't know was how fast television technology would change. Disposable was not a thing in the first half of the 20th century.
I have a 1929 tailors iron, it was made under Lenin in the USSR, and cos I live in the former USSR when it broke I could buy a new electrical connector 400 yards from my apartment for $2. They NEVER changed the electrical connectors on Soviet electronics from 1925 to 1992.
The idea they were backwards was mostly because their philosophy was repairability and longevity.
Bakelight is a high temperature composition. Over time the bakelight can get weaker causing cracks. I have a weller soldering gun model 8200n I aquired it when my grandfather passed away. He used the hell out of it and I used jb weld to patch up the cracked bakelight case. The jb weld is holding up real well. I love all the tube sets and love fixing them . Tubes are tough and there is a special feeling having tube equipment .
What a beautiful antique talking box with picture… It's beautiful thank you so much for fixing it…
When I was a teenager in the 60s I was given a Crosley 12 or 14 inch bakelite set. Like your GE, it was taller and deeper than it was wide. It had a Mallory continuous tuner that tuned from channel 2 right through 13, including FM radio between Channels 6 and 7. Wish I had it now, as I've never seen another. Thanks
Incredible level of detail! Love the close-up shots with the flashlight and good narration as you explore this ancient set. Thanks for sharing this. It's a classic! ~
Thank you so much!
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That thing is so old it should be in a museum
Two of my favorite movies the birds and the hangover!
Thank you so much for sharing your God-given talent and skills with us, and saving these old radios and televisions.
Seeing "The Birds" on this screen makes me think of TVs when I was a kid in the late 1950s into the '60s - you see distortion in the image on the edges.
Yes this is the beginning of The Birds (she's gonna be attacked in a few min on the boat to the island) pretty much the way ì use ro see the movie on my parents b&w Bosch TV set.
I think our TV set was newer since th cathodic tube was squarish and not full round. All the knobs were on the side of course.
A very nice restoration with an excellent image.
Picture looks great for a TV that age.
Not going through an antenna makes a big difference.
Unusual TV design. Never have seen it says very few of these models survived. They sold very little of this model or 90 percent of them are buried in landfills never to be seen again.
Interesting repair - I have a feeling the reason there were 600 uF caps in the power supply was to help with the half wave hum bars in the picture... but it does work as designed. Geat job on the repair. Funny how the "newer" caps are almost 50 years old... from the looks of it, probably was just a regalar shop repair. 1976 was when I started repairing TVs (in high school) so I did see a few old sets- but any old enough to not have UHF would normally not be repaired where I was because the popular stations in the 70s were UHF. Cheers and thanks for making this.
Thanks for a wonderful instructional video. Love your vintage TV set. Please recone or replace the speaker. The previous owner did a terrible job of attempting a repair. You are quite an expert. Reminds me when I was an Industrial Arts major in college in the late 1970s.
Fantastic job, the set just oozes character.
Love the shape and style of this. Great job baby!
Amazing😂 video. My dad was a tv technician in the days. He had the tubes testers and such all over the house.
Strong video tubes are so rare! This one is like a jackpot!
picture is fantastic for a 70 year old set
It truly is. I love the focus adjustment that’s so accessible. I think that really helps make the image appear so great
To be honest, I didn't watch the whole video, only the ending where everything is working, and I have to say that everything looks great. Good job)
Even the cat is impressed with the finale look. I guess the movie title got his attention to....
Beautiful tv and work. I would love to own one.
those GE Locomotives ( thats what they are called) were nice performers , and still are once restored, I've done several!
Classy, sexy set. I applaud your taste and your high talent. Thank you for this, it was beautiful.
I liked your video nice old set which is rare thanks for sharing
Interesting set, enjoying it, thank you
lucky to find a prev.'repaired right' cool relic. all hard work done before you. you know your stuff. thanks.
I have one of these TV sets, although many years ago the case was replaced by a more square shaped wooden one. Looks good and works great!
So cool seeing this work
Thanks so much!
I'm 77 & my family bought their first t.v. in 1950, a 16" table model G.E. which cost $250.!
My grandparents bought a 12" RCA console, at the same time, which cost $300., I think!
Since I was 4, everything looked bigger then, but I can't believe that the cabinet of the 1949
model, pictured, could have been this small! It could have been called a "portable'!
do you know what was the average income back then?how long someone who worked at the factory had to work to afford tv for $300??
Amazing job and time travel thanks!!
That was a trip of a video. I want to be able to do this
Entertaining video! Thanks for posting
Very nice and cool!
49:58...I saw this movie when I was going to school near San Francisco 50 years ago- I'd have liked to visit Bodega Bay, but I wasn't driving yet.
Excellent work. I enjoy the longer, more detailed videos of yours. This was fantastic!
Thank you so much! I hope to make longer television restoration videos in the future! Very fun for me too
I got your videos through the algorithm, so hopefully soon you'll be getting the views and sub counts your content deserves
Hey thanks so much! I'll keep making videos as long as I still love repairing.
Cool old set and at 73 years old that is something to take good care of
So Awesome!
This reminds me of the old black-and-white TVs that my dad had when we had a storm that knocked the power out he took the little black-and-white TV and hooked it up to a car battery just so I could be entertained by watching The Dukes of Hazzard.
there's dots and dashes by the text which indict what function the part of the knob does. - Horizontal the top, vertical ◯ base of the knob. Might already be known, but I noticed. I think it's a nice little detail, that adds some minor instruction.
I find it hard to believe they had TV in the 40's, I had the idea tv shows started in the 50s, what did they watch in the 40's? And the picture looks so defined, looks like cable tv... Weird and fascinating.
Jack well done 👍👏
Wonderful 1949 GE television set. Screen is Ok! The first TV mechanical set was nade by Jhon Loggy Bird, and you watching Birds Hitchcok. 😋
Your house looks nice, guy.thank you, greetings from 🇨🇱 Santiago Chile SouthAmerica
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the video!
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I love this one!!
I wondered how a 1949 TV could have a rectangular picture, and then without the exterior cover I saw that in fact the tube is round. The image, however, is rectangular so the unneeded edges of the tube are just covered up.
Just found your channel. I subscribed,liked and shared. All my very best.
I had a set just like this TV as a kid. The speaker was on the side. I like the up front speakers.
Thats a great small TV!
Very nice tv :)
Very nice, I did watch the whole video. You have yourself a new sub.
Your talented... very good video
What I find intersting, looking at these old electronics is that they look so old and primative but the people who bought them where identical to us
damn what a beuty. i can definitely see the appeal of smaller sets. you have the same resolution as a bigger one but just closer together making the image super sharp :)
Great job on your restoration. It turned out great. I'm about half way through the recapping on a 805 I just picked up. Getting ready to bypass the original rectifiers with diodes. What was the final value you ended up using for the voltage drop resistor? Thanks.
Freaking sweet 🤘
beautiful general Eletric tv . thank you brazil
Amazingly , u probably could get all that jumbo mess onto a chip single today. 😊
The 1949 General Electric should be rebooted.
Those Orange Sprague Atom caps have date codes from the mid 1970's. They're antiques too. They needed replacing.
Nifty! You and shango066 oughta team up on a video!
That would be a dream. He’s much smarter than I am with restorations. He’s a huge inspiration to me.
Awesome
With the case removed, it looks so sexy .. a giant eyeball :)
ps: thanks for the vids ..love those old TVs.
When you were testing the CRT you accidently had the "meter" switch on S and not N which is what gave you the pegged emissions reading. Otherwise, this was a great restoration!
In the B&K manual, for this tube, it’s supposed to be in the S position
@@televisionforever Weird, my 465 manual doesn't have the asterisk next to 10BP4A or 10BP4
@@Lazyoliver666 My mistake! I just rechecked the manual and you're right. For some reason, I thought it had the asterisk. Nice call.
@David Wanklyn ...NOBODY'S INFALLIBLE-(!)
3:21.. that might have something to do with the high humidity in Florida-(?)
One day small boy 1953-4 in living room was a one eyed monster.
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Wow,I had to comment on how clear and crisp the picture is on a 1949 television.I was wondering why you didn’t try turning on the unit when you first started instead opened it up and began changing out resistors etc?Was this a precautionary measure?If so your work paid off.Great to see these are being saved.Thanks
Hi Jack, please how do you sand the very tiny springs and zippers after soaking in the rust removal liquid, thanks !
Amazing restoration! You and a few others inspired me to go out and buy my own tv to restore. After searching for a few months I found an RCA 730TV2 for sale. I bought it and started to read up on it on Antique radio forums and someone said that if you moved the Ion trap you wouldn't get a picture on the screen. Well naturally I had already fiddled around that area. Is that true and how easy is it to set back in it's correct position?
Hey thanks so much! and yes, if everything is working properly, you hear high voltage but no picture, adjust the ion trap. Try to see if there is a dust mark where is was left for years on the picture tube neck before you moved it (if you moved it). Put it to that position and rotate it around the tube neck until you see a picture. Remember to have the brightness control all the way up to be able to see. When the ion trap is in the right position, this is where your image will be the brightest. Then you can turn the brightness control to a viewable level. The ion trap is directing the electrons towards the front of the picture tube which illuminate the phosphor. Let me know if that helps you.
Sprague atoms are great caps. If they're not stressing the rectifier valve I'd have left them
love it
Picture quality was great, the lack of content back then was the downside!
Man you are a genius and my hero. I really want one of these vintage TV’s unfortunately I was informed that I only have few years left due to some underlying health issues but before I leave this world my only wish is to own one of these vintage TV’s. I have a 1967 Console record player and unfortunately the turntable needs some work so if you know how to fix it please let me know.
Thanks so much for the love! I'm very sorry to hear about your health. I hope you're able to come across a working vintage television. For the record player, I'm not very versed in record players, only radios and televisions. I would say the problem might lie in the power supply section as once record players have a good power supply, the rest of it is mechanical and should at least spin the record. If it does, but you don't have sound, the problem is probably somewhere else.
@@televisionforever Thank you 🙏 and please let me know if you would like to sell one of your vintage TV’s?
Connect a VIC-20 to it and do some computer programming on it.
That's how I learned to program on an old black and white TV.
I think the 10k on the resistor refers to 10000V insulation resistance.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK NEVER LOOKED BETTER
I have a10" round tube like that, with P7 phosphor. It would be fun to watch TV with P7; I wonder if it's compatible?
Nice objet and old souvenir for many people too...as like for me....i remenber just watch zorro ( with the actor William) in black and White..i was very young --with one Telefunken TV in B/W 😊in 1966 ....in France / here normaly the signal is an new numeric tuned.TNT télévision numérique terrestre//..and the old system was tuned in hertzien mode ...😢i got a..nostalgie about it...it was good too but...not very strong and precise despite the stabilisator and the Electric Protected installation //// it's also good with a medium wide flat brush
The "10k" was probably the tolerance (+/- 10%.). I believe I've seen power resistors marked that way before.
That’s for the birds
i would like to watch movies with this
Is this last pictures out of the wall or is this 130v?
Last shots of the movie playing are just line voltage from the wall.
How many atoms does this TV consists of?
Worth putting the bluecheese set in a box with an ionizer to remove the odor?
This set screams Duck! And cover!
A uma dessa aqui no Brasil, parabéns amigo.
Hello, I own a 1952 RCA tv but all I can get is sounds of the shows on it but not picture on the screen what do you think can be wrong with it?
Also the screen does show the lines and sometimes static
Also the original antenna is detached and we a newer rca antenna attached
Has the television been restored? Do you get light on the screen but no picture? If you’re getting sounds from the coax hookup, the tuner is working.
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IF YOU CAN. FIND THE TUBES AND COMPONENTS AFTER DECADES SINCE IT WAS MADE
🤔uma dúvida qual sinal de antena é nós dias atuais para assistir nela ,digital ou analógica mas onde o sinal analógico acabou não tem mas oque fazer ?
Make sure you replace the selenium rectifiers
i found a similar tv to this. same chassis but different case. its going to be my first tv to restore. i do many radios.
I'd say this model is a good first candidate. Easy to work on and a great performer once restored. I started with radios before moving to televisions too.
@@televisionforever the one i found is the ge 10t5 and i am currently looking for replacement electrolytics. any recommendations on where to get them from? mine actually came with mostly ceramic and poly capacitors but mostly original electrolytics.
@@fanman8677 Replace the cans with individual modern electrolytics. The entire electrolytic can replacements are pretty expensive and only really retains the original look of the chassis. Most of the cans have around 1-4 electrolytics inside so getting individual ones to replace each one won’t be a problem. Antique Electronic Supply has a good selection of replacement caps and electrolytics. Also Mouser does as well but the website is a bit difficult to navigate. Also, justradios has very good prices.
@@televisionforever i ended up using parts express and got some new electrolytics based on what was in the schematic and in my tv as the capacitors in it were mostly original. however i still feel very lucky about mostly ceramic and poly capacitors in there. i also got some for my 1960s console radio with el84 tubes.
@@fanman8677 Usually ceramic caps last and are pretty on spec. Any paper or oil filled caps need to be replaced. I replace odd electrolytic values with easy to find replacements. 4uf with 4.7uf. 8uf with 10uf. 20uf with 22uf. 30uf with 33uf. 40uf with 47uf. Electrolytics have a good amount of tolerance with their value so you have some wiggle room.