REPAIRING A CROSLEY BANDBOX jr ANTIQUE RADIO

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  • Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2024

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  • @paulburrell1062
    @paulburrell1062 2 месяца назад +1

    Thank you for sharing your expertise and wisdom. I started out on tube radios in the 70s and made a career of bench electronics. I ended up doing computer work but it was totally unsatisfying. I retired earlier this year and just bought a Crosley Fiver that I plan on restoring. I wanted my grand kids to have the thrill of waiting for a radio to warm up, hear the initial crackle in the speaker and smell the dust burning off the components. This is a lost art that you are sharing and I appreciate your efforts to post the video!

  • @josephconsoli4128
    @josephconsoli4128 4 года назад +12

    You're a genius Ron. 99% of radio collectors would give up on that pot metal issue. Great work. Your such an inspiration with your determined approach. Thank you. By the way, I always liked that model Crosley. Treat yourself to the matching speaker. They often come up on eBay. I heard they often have the dreaded pot-metal issues too, but I'm sure that won't stop you!

  • @davedoughty1213
    @davedoughty1213 Год назад +3

    Your technical knowledge is amazing and outstanding!!! You are an encyclopedia of electronic knowledge and I hope you will continue to dazzle us with more restorations!!! Thank you!!!

  • @andrew18556
    @andrew18556 4 года назад +6

    Really enjoyed your output over the past few weeks,thanks a lot

  • @daviddenekamp5790
    @daviddenekamp5790 4 года назад +9

    I love your content! Please never stop! 💜

  • @Super8Rescue
    @Super8Rescue 4 года назад +5

    thanks again for the rush of recent videos. lovely!

  • @deadfreightwest5956
    @deadfreightwest5956 4 года назад +13

    49:00 - It's a sobering thought that everyone who designed, engineered, assembled, sold, bought (with the exception of yourself) this radio, and each and every component within, and probably the very companies involved, are dead. Yet this device, their brainchild, still exists and still works. I am reminded of a great toast: "To distant friends... though they are far away, we recognize them with our glasses."

    • @mrvaportrailz
      @mrvaportrailz 4 года назад +3

      Nice observation. I bet they never thought their work would last so long and I bet they would be pleased.

  • @DrTeddyMMM
    @DrTeddyMMM 4 года назад +4

    Sorry Ron, you're not allowed to croak... We all need you! Thank you for all you do.

  • @mariomessuti
    @mariomessuti 4 года назад +4

    The most beautiful work I have ever seen done on devices so rich in history. My heartfelt congratulations, I follow you from Italy and I don't miss a single of your shots. I envy you for the beautiful radios you find

  • @steve_ancell
    @steve_ancell 4 года назад +7

    Solid state may be regarded as state of the art but a valve set is a work of art.

  • @nickblackburn1903
    @nickblackburn1903 4 года назад +3

    You sir are a magician of the vintage radio world, well done! Love your videos.
    “Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into
    are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing
    for long years.
    And for this reason, some old things are lovely
    warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence

  • @garyrobinson8991
    @garyrobinson8991 4 года назад +6

    Another great video. May I ask, please, if you’re willing to share the schematic for your bench battery-eliminator ?

  • @deadfreightwest5956
    @deadfreightwest5956 4 года назад +3

    Ron, you are the Audie Murphy of radio restoration. When you want to take that hill, you take it, letting nothing stop you!

  • @lukahierl9857
    @lukahierl9857 4 года назад +12

    Can we please have a tour of your radio collection

  • @SeanB88
    @SeanB88 4 года назад +4

    Love all your projects, Ron! Happy to see more of them now we are all in lockdown. I'll be starting to work on my own Electronic Breaker very soon. Keep up the great work!

  • @MVVblog
    @MVVblog 4 года назад +2

    Brilliant repair! That tuning condenser , i think that the problem is the infamous ZAMAK. The problem with zamak is that some iron gaps, contained in the zinc of which the zamak is mainly composed, oxidize, and destroy the zamak from the inside making it swollen. I had this problem in an Akai reel-to-reel tape recorder. Some cams made of zamak had disintegrated.

  • @Rosscoff2000
    @Rosscoff2000 4 года назад +6

    What range of skills! Using a lathe to fix the radio - none of that 3D printer mucking about!

    • @franklinjosue4919
      @franklinjosue4919 3 года назад

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      I somehow forgot my password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me.

    • @neiljorge1115
      @neiljorge1115 3 года назад

      @Franklin Josue Instablaster ;)

  • @terryhall7177
    @terryhall7177 4 года назад +2

    Impressive machining and great editing made your work easy for me to follow. Very entertaining Ron.

  • @skip1835
    @skip1835 4 года назад +3

    Thanks Ron, I agree with Dr. TeddyMMM - please - no croaking !! I think you're awesome and I so enjoy all of your videos - - talk about a wide ranging skill set - - seen you make tubes, seen you make various parts from scratch - - not to mention the repairs of broken parts often employing JB Weld - - all that and then you make the electronic repairs seem as easy as rolling of of bed - fantastic!

  • @pkh4340
    @pkh4340 4 года назад +4

    All your videos are good....but this one is really good!

  • @ray_mck
    @ray_mck 4 года назад +3

    In the close-up shots of the tuning condenser vanes adjustments, I couldn't take my eyes away from the cracks in the metal and thought to myself, "Oh that's going to be a problem later." Turns out it was sooner than later :)

  • @rgraham9792
    @rgraham9792 4 года назад +2

    Thanks for all the rapid fire videos lately Ron!

  • @ionzaharia5078
    @ionzaharia5078 3 года назад +1

    I can watch you all day , you’re simply genius when come to real electronics , thanks for shearing your gift with us !

  • @frankkoslowski6917
    @frankkoslowski6917 4 года назад +2

    Very good camera management. It increases the focus on the job. Thus makes this video very compelling. Thx!

  • @prooftest9484
    @prooftest9484 4 года назад +4

    LOVE WATCHING YOU VERY MUCH IM 78

  • @donjohnson24
    @donjohnson24 4 года назад +3

    An even more interesting video this time, Ron, with the lathe work and milling - so absorbing watching your practical expertise. But the thing that struck me was the amount of engineering that went into the construction of the tuning condenser - so many brackets, bushes, bearings, shafts, unique grub screws, etc. (not to mention the dodgy pot metal), needed to create a component that would be so simply made nowadays. This has been an aspect of most of the old radios that you have repaired in your RUclips videos - I mean the sheer 'clunkiness' of their physical construction. Fascinating how engineering progress and plastics have changed the world!

    • @glasslinger
      @glasslinger  4 года назад

      Labor was a lot cheaper back then, even correcting for the inflation. While those old radios were very complicated for what they were, take a look at the insides of a CD drive or old VCR. The idea that these are made by the millions is totally unreal!

  • @jassenjj
    @jassenjj 4 года назад +2

    Your patience with a problem like this is just amazing. Most probably I would've given up with this tuning cap.

  • @johndengler4595
    @johndengler4595 4 года назад +2

    Bravo! Excellent save with the epoxy and wood sticks!!

  • @robertnjax1
    @robertnjax1 3 года назад +1

    You did a phenomenal job on the machined part which replaced the failed pot metal fitting. Love watching your videos - thanks for sharing.

  • @gianpaolomanzoni3331
    @gianpaolomanzoni3331 4 года назад +3

    Where do you find these wonderful radio receivers?
    Greetings from Italy

  • @edgeeffect
    @edgeeffect 4 года назад +2

    I like the way you started to say "variable capacitor" and then remembered this is an old-time set and corrected yourself to "tuning condenser" instead. :)
    I think, looking in old radios and seeing the plates of tuning caps was the very first thing that got me in electronics.... even before I saw a tube glow.

  • @monteceitomoocher
    @monteceitomoocher 4 года назад +1

    Another excellent restoration ron, that's definitely what you call an engineering solution!.

  • @pipesmokercowboychris
    @pipesmokercowboychris 4 года назад +3

    Wow that was awesome. It is neat that you have your own machine shop. I have some machining background. I'm trying to learn how to repair radios. I am an Extra Class ham radio operator and that is what sparked my interest in electronics and radios. I just found you today.

  • @Wimpzilla
    @Wimpzilla 4 года назад +2

    Awesome Masterwork.
    Please stay safe, much love. ❤️

  • @catfishdinner7394
    @catfishdinner7394 4 года назад +1

    I love watching your channel, as a novice radio restorer it's just blows my mind what you can do. Thank you.

  • @CASHSEC
    @CASHSEC 3 года назад +4

    Engineering the tuning gear support and resolving the tuning capacitor was the best.

  • @majordisappointment8692
    @majordisappointment8692 4 года назад +2

    thanks nice machining job on that condenser tuning assembly.

  • @christophernorton33
    @christophernorton33 3 года назад +1

    Very nice repair. You sure put your amazing skills to good use.

  • @stevmarsh1910
    @stevmarsh1910 4 года назад +1

    Nice radio. Execllent work on the condenser. Seems like you can make anything! Thank you!

  • @thomthumbe
    @thomthumbe 4 года назад +1

    I’ve restored/repaired a few radios in my life. Nevertheless, I’m nowhere near your level of expertise. I would do some things differently, but above all....I very much believe anybody can learn something from anybody else. I have learned several things from your videos! Thanks for taking the time to share! It is very appreciated!

  • @robtitheridge9708
    @robtitheridge9708 4 года назад +2

    another great job Ron

  • @allthegearnoidea6752
    @allthegearnoidea6752 4 года назад +3

    I cannot help wondering how many radios you have left in that attic of your. Thanks for sharing stay safe regards Chris

    • @estpst
      @estpst 4 года назад

      must be stacked to the rafters

  • @dan96dyna91
    @dan96dyna91 3 месяца назад

    I don’t think some people appreciate skill when they see it,but I do
    Your a very talented and knowledgeable person
    I don’t think I could do half the things you do in your videos
    I enjoy your videos,they are relaxing for some reason

  • @thomthumbe
    @thomthumbe 4 года назад +1

    I am “open-jaw” stunned with how good this channel is! Very impressive at the very least! Thanks! I have two old radios and a wire recorder that has been waiting years in my house. I now have the desire to get it done!

  • @michaelsimonds2632
    @michaelsimonds2632 4 года назад +2

    Thank you so much for sharing your expertise! I learn a great deal from each of your videos.

  • @joohop
    @joohop 4 года назад +2

    Brilliant Ron I Love Your Work
    Bless Up Earthling

  • @hestheMaster
    @hestheMaster 4 года назад +1

    Who would of thought you needed a lathe to fix this baby? But there you go Ron worked his magic again!👍🏻📻🎼

  • @charleslauter5035
    @charleslauter5035 4 года назад +1

    Wow! You fix radios that most other people would not even try. Thanks. CAL

  • @shana_dmr
    @shana_dmr 4 года назад +2

    Every time I see tuning condenser repairs I thank the person that invented varicap tuning :)

  • @BlueSkyScholar
    @BlueSkyScholar 4 года назад +7

    The cause is the casting was poisoned with tin and/or lead causing internal corrosion usually because the foundry handled both sometimes in the same "pot".

    • @edgeeffect
      @edgeeffect 4 года назад

      Well, that's the whole point of pot metal, isn't it?
      "What metal is this?".... "whatever old scrap is in the pot!"

    • @glasslinger
      @glasslinger  4 года назад

      This makes sense because you can find some of the radios that have no swelling at all of the metal. They got made with a good batch!

    • @BlueSkyScholar
      @BlueSkyScholar 4 года назад

      @@glasslinger The effects didn't start to surface until 15-20+ years down the road, very slow process makes it hard to troubleshoot.
      It wasn't until the 50's that it was figured out, WWII material shortages, they were casting lead, tin and zinc whatever was available in the same equipment and those castings rapidly deteriorated, held together long enough to win the war at least.
      The damage was done diecast "pot metal" would be branded as terrible. With proper hygiene modern Zinc pressure castings are of great quality and last a long time.

    • @BlueSkyScholar
      @BlueSkyScholar 4 года назад

      @@edgeeffect And that's why they fell apart... but not until it was out of warranty.

  • @hotpuppy1
    @hotpuppy1 4 года назад +3

    Nice radio. It should go somewhere prominent on display instead of in the attic. Problem with dying with a bunch of toys is that the heir may not have the appreciation and just toss all that "OLD JUNK" in the trash. Seen it a lot.

  • @robertanderson5631
    @robertanderson5631 2 года назад +1

    Just imagine how many people have had their hands on that in seeing what was involved to try to fix it and could not be bothered I'm surprised it wasn't dismantled as a parts unit a long time ago great work enjoy your watching your videos keep up the good work

    • @glasslinger
      @glasslinger  2 года назад +1

      The radio could have sat in someone's attic for 50 years untouched!

  • @jeffreyhickman3871
    @jeffreyhickman3871 4 года назад +3

    I am very entertained by your videos. They take me so far back in time. Back to the 1930’s, although I was born in 1970. Just turned 50 on my birthday 🎂 on June 5th. You’re a very interesting person, taking the time on all these radios 📻 and radio restorations. I’m a geek 🤓 for all old radios like these. I liked the little Westinghouse refrigerator radio and the really nice 👍 wooden armchair radio. Nothing could fit the house 🏡 any better. Really hate all these junky Chinese radios of today. There are a great 👍 many radios of yours I like, as well. I found it very interesting when you were trying to build a homemade battery pack. To no avail, it seemed, until ya found one very thin wire was wired to a wrong terminal. I understand the frustration, though. I’ve been there with those kinds of things. Think 🤔 ya re routed the wire, making your hard earnings come to life. Keep these really great videos coming. They’re so good 😊 that I’ll probably be watching them until I die.

    • @ctbcubed
      @ctbcubed 4 года назад

      Happy Birthday! I turned 72 on June 5.

  • @PradeepYadav-db1zr
    @PradeepYadav-db1zr 4 года назад +1

    Quite amazing to restore hundred year old radio requiring more mechanical work than radio engineering which has been done so professionally. I wonder how this man is having milling and leth machine and working on it to make required gears and. the job of repairing gang is challenging one which is also made to perfection, hat's off to this man.

  • @saulomoura9402
    @saulomoura9402 2 года назад

    I think that you are not simple technician but electronic magician . I feel so happy when I watch yours videos. Good luck.

  • @aussiedazvk4djh889
    @aussiedazvk4djh889 4 года назад +2

    G'day Ron. Your an man of many talents.

  • @Wackscave
    @Wackscave 4 года назад +2

    Thats one of the better radioes i have ever seen... Good work as always. Show us your collection plees

  • @matiasdehais329
    @matiasdehais329 4 года назад +1

    great job Ron! Excellent reparation in the tandem capacitor!

  • @VegasCyclingFreak
    @VegasCyclingFreak 4 года назад +2

    That's just such an odd radio... so unlike the ones I think of from the 30s-40s. Nice solution on the broken tuner knob.

  • @murrij
    @murrij 4 года назад +4

    Thank you for sharing your craft..

  • @dhaynes4515
    @dhaynes4515 4 года назад +1

    Great combination of machining and electronics. Thumbs up!

  • @waltschannel7465
    @waltschannel7465 4 года назад +3

    Why would the pot metal in the tuning cap swell? Really nice job by you, Ron!

    • @GigsTaggart
      @GigsTaggart 4 года назад +1

      look up zinc pest on wikipedia. They fixed it by the 60s

  • @kenclark9075
    @kenclark9075 4 года назад +1

    Awesome video. I enjoy your channel a lot. I'm just getting started with old radio repair. I just completed a restoration of a Hallicrafters S-38B.

  • @Mortemar
    @Mortemar 4 года назад +1

    C'est toujours un plaisir de voir ton travail sur RUclips, merci beaucoup. =)

  • @bobvines00
    @bobvines00 4 года назад +1

    Ron, this was a very interesting repair! If you ever want to try to make your own castings for small parts, Micro-Mark has some very low melting temperature alloys. If memory serves, we're talking about ~160°F to melt _or_ something that will melt with a propane torch. They've also got the molding materials too. (I don't get anything from them for this "ad," but am just a happy customer.)

  • @timmack2415
    @timmack2415 4 года назад

    This is a common problem with these. Pot metal degradation has a few of these sitting in my workshop while being ignored for a few years. This is a fantastic video of the process. You have a lot of patience, Ron. I'm more of a curse and grunt person. I wish I had the machining abilities you possess. You're amazing! I'm fine with the electronics and cabinet restoration, but this is way above my abilities! I'm in awe!

  • @FarnhamJ07
    @FarnhamJ07 4 года назад

    Amazing work on both the radio and video! Thanks for sharing with us all!

  • @johnsampson1096
    @johnsampson1096 4 года назад +1

    Great job on the tuning capacitor! I thought you were going to have to design a digital AM tuner!!!

  • @greggsvintageworkshop8974
    @greggsvintageworkshop8974 4 года назад

    Beautiful job. Awesome machining skills, Great restoration!

  • @qzorn4440
    @qzorn4440 4 года назад +3

    best repair videos in town...i really enjoy the off the wall glass design work videos and the metal-glass physics of the how to stuff. ps. ron, do you make telescopes, that would make some interesting videos? thanks.

  • @musicsoundelectronics5590
    @musicsoundelectronics5590 4 года назад +1

    Another brilliant repair!

  • @michaels.8952
    @michaels.8952 7 месяцев назад

    You did a great job on the gear housing it lined up perfect!

  • @terryblackman6217
    @terryblackman6217 2 года назад

    Great to see you work on this lovely old radio. I reminds me of a biscuit tin radio.

  • @bones007able
    @bones007able 4 года назад +2

    ah... the old pot metal cancer...older akai R2R have the same problem with their control knobs ... pot metal cams disintegrate...you truly are a jack of all trades

  • @binarybox.binarybox
    @binarybox.binarybox 4 года назад

    Enjoyable video, Ron, thanks. I liked your design of the gear mount.

  • @vikingsraven
    @vikingsraven 4 года назад +2

    Another great video. At 23:28 you managed to trigger google on my phone to adjust the volume lol. I watched that bit 3 times and it did each time.😂

  • @davidk6271
    @davidk6271 4 года назад +1

    Tremendous work. Well done.

  • @MartinLegare
    @MartinLegare 4 года назад +1

    Wowm great job. I was realy wondering how you'd fix that clip. Was expecting some JB weld, but no on that place. the machined part was simply genious ! thanks for sharing !

  • @davidstaton9843
    @davidstaton9843 4 года назад

    Ron you are a great man, love watching all your vids much respect .

  • @matthewrichardson828
    @matthewrichardson828 4 года назад +3

    It would be crazy if the dude who originally designed this radio was alive to watch this guy fix it.

  • @mikedevita5558
    @mikedevita5558 4 года назад +1

    Thanks for your videos Mr. Glasslinger

  • @VoltageGoat
    @VoltageGoat 4 года назад +2

    I always jump my sons case for wasting so much time on the internet watching dumb videos as he's always in the rabbit hole. All I can say now is.... I can't jump his case anymore. I find myself watching one after the next... Uhhhgggg. Thanks Ron. I love blowing my weekend watching one after the next.

  • @phonotical
    @phonotical 4 года назад +1

    could baking the air capacitor help?
    doesnt it get hot in use with no air ventilation

  • @andromedaturnbull3512
    @andromedaturnbull3512 4 года назад

    On a serious note though Ron I love the part you machined for the dial. It's a far better solution than the original design and will last for years to come, unlike the original pot metal fittings. Regarding pot metal castings, I'm not sure whether this would have been useful in this particular instance but I've found encapsulating pot metal parts in resin works quite well. It has the effect of both filling the cracks and stabilising the part against failure. Ideally the viscosity of the uncured resin needs to be low enough so that it flows properly into all of the little crevices of the part but once it's set, you can then file/ream out the resin for where screws need to go etc.

  • @JulesB-zv9dp
    @JulesB-zv9dp 4 года назад +1

    Loving these video's thank you 🙂👍🏽

  • @krz8888888
    @krz8888888 4 года назад +2

    I am using a cheap 1947 aa5 as a practical radio in the sched, works great

  • @dansteffee9759
    @dansteffee9759 2 года назад +2

    Great work ..So radio in a box ..25lb power supply extra ?

  • @mikeburgess7331
    @mikeburgess7331 4 года назад

    Ron, thanks for another great video! Please keep the videos coming.

  • @PicaDelphon
    @PicaDelphon 4 года назад +1

    My Question is Ventilation for the Tubes,, How Hot does it get if I run it all Day..?

  • @nevillegoddard4966
    @nevillegoddard4966 2 года назад

    Bandbox junior! I thought it was gonna be a guitar amp! D'oh! But no, hey Ron excellent video! And that tuning gear mod - absolutely superb - Wow!

  • @pilkjaer
    @pilkjaer 3 года назад +1

    Amazing video. Thank you for sharing!

  • @Aleksanti
    @Aleksanti 4 года назад +2

    Hey Ron, i have been watching your videos for a long time now, and just wanted to say good job. I do miss your vacuum videos btw! I also have a suggestion for some future videos, sense i just god started in the high vacuum world, i noticed that there are not many videos on YT about diffusion pumps in detail. I live in a country where it's impossible to obtain a used diffusion pump or any high vac pump. I've noticed that you have a lathe, so maybe you could make a video on making a DIY small diffusion pump?

    • @glasslinger
      @glasslinger  4 года назад +1

      Been there done that. Not worth the effort. You can get somewhat better vacuum than a mechanical pump with a homemade diffusion pump but not what you need and not worth how difficult it is to make a good one. Best to work at saving your money and ordering one from the USA or E.U. They are cheap on ebay but the shipping will be expensive.

  • @edwinrodolfocampossolis8832
    @edwinrodolfocampossolis8832 4 года назад +2

    Beautiful Radio ❤❤❤❤

  • @Landrew0
    @Landrew0 4 года назад +2

    No foolin' around. Just gettin' 'er done!

  • @stephendeakin2714
    @stephendeakin2714 4 года назад

    I'm always amazed how someone came up with controling electricity with mechanical parts. I remember having an old tube radio given to me by grandfather. It was playing away one day in my old tool shed when smoke started to accompany the music, that was the end of that. You were lucky to drill small hole in the nylon bush anywhere near centre as tool post appeared to be fowlling the drill chuck, anyway all went well.

    • @mgm5457
      @mgm5457 4 года назад

      Look into a microwave receiver or transmitter, where open or closed spaces of various sizes and bends as wave-guides create electrical components such as resistors and capacitors - then it really appears to be magic ... begin to realize I only have a mediocre understanding !! LOL

  • @EngineeringVignettes
    @EngineeringVignettes 4 года назад +1

    Nice repair, did you manage to find a way to not need the grub screw to retain the nylon insert? I missed the part where you machined that...
    It's nice having lathe and milling machine to just knock out a replacement part like that.
    Cheers,

    • @electronicengineer
      @electronicengineer 4 года назад

      It appeared to me that ultimately the delrin bushing was a "press fit" into the aluminum shaft housing assembly. Either that or we both missed the set screw part...

  • @scharkalvin
    @scharkalvin 3 года назад +1

    According to Riders, this set used '199 tubes, not '01's. But I guess if you have the right power supply, they are interchangable.

    • @glasslinger
      @glasslinger  3 года назад

      I didn't notice. The set had 01's in it when I got it so I assumed that was what it used.

    • @scharkalvin
      @scharkalvin 3 года назад

      @@glasslinger Makes sense, those '199's are as rare as hen's teeth today, and twice as expensive!

  • @jonbos2876
    @jonbos2876 3 года назад +1

    Mini channel locks are awesome you don't know how much you need them

  • @miafss
    @miafss 4 года назад +1

    Superb work!

  • @dennisqwertyuiop
    @dennisqwertyuiop 4 года назад +2

    just the best work i seen