Only you would pick up what most people would consider total trash. BUT, that’s a perfect way to get the experience and the challenge it takes to bring it back to life. I wish I had your knowledge.
It really makes me sad that someone loved this beautiful set enough to keep it going all that time and having all that servicing done only to have it end up being used as a urinal.
Well the only thing different about this tv is that the servicing does not look like it was done by a pro. It was common for TVs to be serviced pretty regularly back in the day. The repair shops even made housecalls like hvac techs.
One day there'll be no functioning tube tv like that. Only you videos will be proof these things ever existed and how they worked. Your videos could outlast tv a long time, who knows in 10000 years people watch this in awe. Hi people of the future. Cheers
Just can't believe these old sets are still sitting on the curb. There are no older sets here in New Zealand, and it kills me, when I see this. Happy for you man, urine and all. (Sighs wistfully).
Wish I could find these at all, here in rural Virginia I never see anything like this, when I do someone is selling it for hundreds of dollars thinking they struck gold. Luckily I do hit one antique market around my town that has a bunch of old radios in stock always with fair prices for their condition. I've wanted an old tube set television for a long time, hope I find one someday. If I lived near Shango I would probably end up adopting every set he doesn't want lmao, my collection is already pretty huge considering my pretty limited access to vintage electronics around here.
@@ixionn563 Interesting (Big Country, the USA). I've got about a dozen sets from about 1963 (B&W TV began in 1960). No roundies or valve (tube) color sets ever seen here - non existent . Color started in '73. All PAL (better picture, I suppose), no NTSC. The early 60s sets here, are cool, but seeing valve color roundies, or 1940s 50s sets on RUclips, is like a glimpse of heaven for me. All our TVs (picture (screen) tubes) are the rounded rectangle with slightly bulging top, bottom, and sides until the corners became somewhat sharper in the late 70s. 1940s TVs just blow my mind. I had a book from about 1946 (from USA) called "The history of television" of course I lost it when I was younger & less settled.. but it was amazing to me how early TV was established in the States.
I rarely comment but I watch all your videos, thanks for the unique mix of knowledge and dry humor, Shango. Because of you I have picked up a beautiful 1958 Unitra "Belweder" TV, first TV made in Poland after WW2 using only polish components (which is kind of a breakthrough because the big brother USSR didn't really want their satellite states to make anything of their own, just buy from them). I'm working up the courage to start resurrecting it.
8:30 If you’re a homeless person who contracted Mesothelioma after urinating on a TV/radio set with an asbestos sheet when playing mumble rap give us a call at the law office of Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe you could be entitled to a cash settlement
Those blue Aerovox capacitors are either early plastic film or paper-mylar, I found some NOS ones recently, tested them for leakage, at high voltage, and they were solid as a rock. The pink ones are probably Sangamo Little Cheifs, and those are garbage just like most of the bumble bees are.
Believe it or not I have an all original Canadian Westinghouse set, a model 501-M, and it used those pink Sangamos exclusively for paper caps. Believe it or not I am trying to restuff them, I'm drilling out the innards on a small lathe and I am planning on inserting new polyester caps inside. I hate the way those bright yellow things look in an old radio, plus the set is mostly original anyhow, so I thought I would try it just for the challenge. If all goes well I may try it with the Bumblebees in my Zenith T.O G-500, since it's one of the less common T.Os.
GREAT video per standard "Shango". I love how the Radio section as an option to the chassis is called out and how that signal is injected to TV audio amp is shown. I would love to have this thing if not covered in urine. The speaker images tells that story.! Thanks for the fun
@@mrnmrn1 Eh, who needs all sections of your LCD when you have off-angle viewing! But seriously, it is not a Fluke if it doesn't have a battery light on and half a display. Still damn good meters, or they were.
@@christopher88719 I've seen this Fluke in some of his videos without the battery warning, and it still had some dim segments on the LCD (not as severe as this time, but noticable). So it's probably a dirty, or displaced zebra strip.
The AM detector part of the radio does inject into the AF amp. BUT the FM If stage feeds into the Video IF stage at the sound IF frequency where it gets into the sound IF and FM detector. The TV tuner is shut down.
I don’t see why you can’t just save the crt/chassis for parts or a future video, salvage the hardware from the cabinet, and toss the hobo urinal of a cabinet.
It's surprising you don't have a TV show for the sake of the fun we have watching you dig in to a classic tv or radio and all the noise around your area . It's very much a wild world we live in. It's hard to escape the stupid stuff that upsets us. You make it fun to watch. I hope others say that too. Your a showman. Get that camera stationary and have a video Grapher and let them follow you around while you do what you do.... Thanks
That's something I do, I see something I like either at the tip or side of the road & I grab it! If it won't fit in my Ford, I make it fit! LOL Love you always Shango. xoxo WD40 - "Now she is squirting" Hahahahaha, I could be dirty-minded here but we will just leave it for now ok!
Was nice to see some of the tubes in the tuner section were OEM Hoffman. I do not believe I have ever seen TWO 5U4's then again the high voltage cage sure was populated as well. Were Hoffman's made in California?. What a beast of a chassis... holy moly Another great adventure direct from the streets of L.A. shango066 the man the myth the legend, bring on part 2 we will be waiting
I'm impressed with the sensitivity and selectivity of that radio circuit -- for such a simple tuner, it seems to work quite well. In particular, the fact that it works so well after 71 years is a testament to that circuit's quality and design.
Confieso que cuando veo cosas como estas, de saber que existen verdaderas y valiosas joya de antigua tecnología, y que existe quien sea capaz de despreciarla y arrojarla a la basura, entonces no me queda de otra que pensar que he venido a este mundo a padecer y sufrir con lo que otros gozan. Quisiera rescatar y recuperar todo lo perdido en el tiempo. Mi gran pasión es la emisión de electrones por caldeo al vacio.
Le envío un cordial saludo y felicito de corazón por tan bella actitud de dar vida a lo inexistente para muchos. ! Gran trabajo de recuperación del circuito de frecuencia intermedis (LC) !
Why is it that the older the set, the less components are in it. That set looks empty inside, but then a set from The 1970's is full of circuit boards hanging all over the place. I surmise it is all the mind control circuitry they put in these days.
I've seen some tube color sets from the 50s and 60s and they can be quite literally filled to the brim with electronics. By the 90s everything was contained on a single probably 10x10 (at most) main board.
Aidan Montgomery yep, an early 1970's 12" tv was 2'x2' and 18" high. It was packed with modules that needed to be removed to get to some tubes. I remember it was also extremely heavy. They tried explaining the size by placing large speaker grills in the front under the knobs. It was a "portable color tv too" we really came far in electronics - almost like alien technology today
For someone from the UK there's so much weirdness in the part of this video where you pick it up. Firstly I don't remember the last time I saw something dumped by the side of the road like that; the local authorities would be handing out fines rather quickly and I would very much doubt someone would abandon a very old set like that, they'd be looking to get some coin for it on ebay. Of course in our wet climate it'd be screwed within 48 hours anyway. Then there's the whole business of homeless guys in a residential area - that's scary stuff, is that really an issue there?
@@shango066 Yup, part of the more general problem we have of an underclass of scum infesting out cities which no-one wants to do anything about. I'll take the pissing tramps if that's OK. Although despite living in the poorest county in England, my village hasn't seen a single crime in nine months, so not all of the areas left to rot by de-undusrialisation have gone to seed just yet.
Hey, that is Commiefornia. It was once a great place, but socialism at the state level has destroyed the state. Corruption is terrible in the blue states.
Incredible the end of the picture bulb didn't get knocked off, being pushed against the chain link fence like that, or just being recklessly handled to get it there.
That's a tookie glueger a great video buy Wango Shango z tango we are the priests of the Temple of syrinx all the gifts of life are held within Hoffmans walls
very good work, with the resurrection always amazes me 👍👍... afterwards 😉.maybe it could be put back to its second use as a territorial pissing post for the cats 😸
Save the whole chassis, I would say. BTW, that cabinet isn't in a hopeless (just homeless...) condition. It could be restored. Bob Andersen would love it for sure, too bad they are thousands of miles apart.
I always like watching your vids Shango. I have no idea what all the electrical stuff means but it’s interesting . Looking forward to part two . Happy Holidays 👍✌️
I love picking up old computers this way, sometimes I get lucky and end up with something worth saving but free crap is nothing to complain about provided there is nothing too nasty inside.
@13:53 that capacitor that is missing the other end. As you are pushing it back and say "wow" if you just push it a little further, you will see the end that is snapped off
Probably not in this vid but: EOL Black Beauty Retweebulate (I started saying this working on my own electronics, thanks Shango) 1 kHz test tone Creamated
Holy smokes! I know exactly where that is. That's Victory Blvd and Clybourn Av. I live not too far from there. I can't begin to imagine how that bum piss TV smells like. 🤢 Gawd! I cringed when you were poking around the very high voltage cage taking out vacuum tubes nonchalantly while that monster was on.
The homeless always find unique things to urinate on. Items never one would thought that could serve as a urinal., such as a 1948 Hoffman TV set. A 5U4 sounds like a rectifier tube.
I want one of these so i can place it in my baby's nursary. I figure the electric hum will put him to sleep, and the high voltage will attract any dust onto the high voltage cage. It will only be on when we sleep.
My 1952 Motorola TV was in worse condition then this and looks brand new after I got my hands on it and restored it. Shame I don't live near by where I could take this off your hands.
One of the things you do is not to blow out the chassis and cabinet, that just gives me the willies, would blow it off with compressor and blow air gun. I hate, dust, cobwebs, mice/rat scat, rodent/insect nests and bugs eggs! It can be a little unsafe with rodent nest as far as diseases from them. It is a little fun, horrid and amazing. I still watch anyway....lol You are a great tech, I watch and learn something. I usually never fix TVs. I have fixed and restored radios, amps and test gear. Thanks for the vids.
Jesus... I found myself holding my breath, desperately wanting the needles to move! His resurrections are genius works of art. Especially a street resurrection. Kinda sounds like a Grisham story. btw, that cabinet is an extremely valuable arrogant, snotty, idiot hipster bar cart or something
Nice job closing the loop on all the discoveries you made along the way. As you say, too bad this set became a piss pot for the locals. It really isn't in that bad a shape. I'm surprised you're not overwhelmed with urine smell. If I was local to LA I'd be tempted to pick it up, and add a phono from radiotvphononut. Looking forward to the television portion. 😉😁
i really wish we could hear some sweet putrid noise coming from that old speaker in the cabinet but it looks like the wires were disconnected and watch it cough out a big nasty cloud as it died haha
i think people dont realize, that resistors do have a voltage rating. that why sometimes you see resistors in series in high voltage circuits to help absorb the high voltage drop across more than one. same with some in parrrallel. to absorb the high amperage
Hi. I just found this exact model, with an in tact record player in a small drawer next to the speaker. It’s in very good condition and has just been chilling in my recently-deceased grandpa’s basement all this time. No idea if it runs, but it was cool seeing your video here and realizing it’s a 1948. What do you think we should do with it? It would be nice to know that someone who appreciates it ends up with it. Sorry to be clueless. I admit to knowing nothing about this area of collectibles.
The woodwork looks relatively straight forward. I would have thought a swap in of the electronics with a new speaker into a new case would have been possible.
What metal picture tube is that? Looks like one that would fit the old Motorola I had when I was 14 and changed the picture tube even though I barely knew what I was doing. About a ‘49 Motorola Wish I still had the Spartan with the picture tube on end with mirror on lid. With what I’ve learned on internet I could probably fix it now. Picture tube still lit up.
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Part 2, resurrecting the television portion coming in a few weeks.
Hey shango066 can you do a video repairing a rca xl100 1974 tv the model number on the chassis is GU798s.
Does it have Pee M band too?
Only you would pick up what most people would consider total trash. BUT, that’s a perfect way to get the experience and the challenge it takes to bring it back to life. I wish I had your knowledge.
I learned all I know from junk electronics I’ve found on the side of the road, worst case scenario it’s a great learning experience.
It really makes me sad that someone loved this beautiful set enough to keep it going all that time and having all that servicing done only to have it end up being used as a urinal.
Christopher Fea I was thinking the same thing. I would try to bleach/sanitize the cabinet and send it out for refinishing.
Well the only thing different about this tv is that the servicing does not look like it was done by a pro. It was common for TVs to be serviced pretty regularly back in the day. The repair shops even made housecalls like hvac techs.
Big_B_Radical I remember as a kid in the ‘80s our local tv shop picked up and delivered. Sad that they’re all gone for the most part.
@@bojacque6474 Well ... I don't remember too much fondness for all of those places. As this Hoffman witnesses :)
"spider eggs inside the wafer switch"
Sounds like the title of a Zappa tune...
It does, indeed. I'd love to hear what Zappa's lyrics on that would be. Shango's prosaic musings will suffice quite adequately for now.
LOL!
One day there'll be no functioning tube tv like that. Only you videos will be proof these things ever existed and how they worked. Your videos could outlast tv a long time, who knows in 10000 years people watch this in awe. Hi people of the future. Cheers
Just can't believe these old sets are still sitting on the curb. There are no older sets here in New Zealand, and it kills me, when I see this. Happy for you man, urine and all. (Sighs wistfully).
Wish I could find these at all, here in rural Virginia I never see anything like this, when I do someone is selling it for hundreds of dollars thinking they struck gold. Luckily I do hit one antique market around my town that has a bunch of old radios in stock always with fair prices for their condition. I've wanted an old tube set television for a long time, hope I find one someday. If I lived near Shango I would probably end up adopting every set he doesn't want lmao, my collection is already pretty huge considering my pretty limited access to vintage electronics around here.
@@ixionn563 Interesting (Big Country, the USA). I've got about a dozen sets from about 1963 (B&W TV began in 1960). No roundies or valve (tube) color sets ever seen here - non existent . Color started in '73. All PAL (better picture, I suppose), no NTSC. The early 60s sets here, are cool, but seeing valve color roundies, or 1940s 50s sets on RUclips, is like a glimpse of heaven for me. All our TVs (picture (screen) tubes) are the rounded rectangle with slightly bulging top, bottom, and sides until the corners became somewhat sharper in the late 70s. 1940s TVs just blow my mind. I had a book from about 1946 (from USA) called "The history of television" of course I lost it when I was younger & less settled.. but it was amazing to me how early TV was established in the States.
You always amaze me with how you can get things working when it seems there’s no hope AWESOME video 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I rarely comment but I watch all your videos, thanks for the unique mix of knowledge and dry humor, Shango. Because of you I have picked up a beautiful 1958 Unitra "Belweder" TV, first TV made in Poland after WW2 using only polish components (which is kind of a breakthrough because the big brother USSR didn't really want their satellite states to make anything of their own, just buy from them). I'm working up the courage to start resurrecting it.
I don't know how it was in Poland, but Tesla in Czechoslovakia made TVs using all domestic components since 1953.
You always find the coolest old sets.
Now you know why Shango wears gloves when he works on TVs and radios .
8:30 If you’re a homeless person who contracted Mesothelioma after urinating on a TV/radio set with an asbestos sheet when playing mumble rap give us a call at the law office of Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe you could be entitled to a cash settlement
Bill McMinn HEHEHEHEHE
RIP, "Cah Tawhk"...
@@QuadMochaMatti One of the last informative, funny, non-biased shows on NPR that I remember.
Bill McMinn , actually I thought it was the law office of "Sess, Pool, and Drain." 😀😀😀
It's amazing how all of this and more fits in one little device that you can carry on in your pocket man silicon circuits are amazing
Over 70 years old, and you get it working in less than an hour. You’re a rare breed.
5Rounds Rapid well, less than an hour in RUclips time!
Those blue Aerovox capacitors are either early plastic film or paper-mylar, I found some NOS ones recently, tested them for leakage, at high voltage, and they were solid as a rock. The pink ones are probably Sangamo Little Cheifs, and those are garbage just like most of the bumble bees are.
I've seen those Little Chiefs in a couple of AA5 sets, no good for sure.
Believe it or not I have an all original Canadian Westinghouse set, a model 501-M, and it used those pink Sangamos exclusively for paper caps. Believe it or not I am trying to restuff them, I'm drilling out the innards on a small lathe and I am planning on inserting new polyester caps inside. I hate the way those bright yellow things look in an old radio, plus the set is mostly original anyhow, so I thought I would try it just for the challenge. If all goes well I may try it with the Bumblebees in my Zenith T.O G-500, since it's one of the less common T.Os.
GREAT video per standard "Shango". I love how the Radio section as an option to the chassis is called out and how that signal is injected to TV audio amp is shown. I would love to have this thing if not covered in urine. The speaker images tells that story.! Thanks for the fun
Can we crowdfund Shango a 9V for his Fluke 27?
LOL... And it also needs a good zebra strip cleanaing as well.
@@mrnmrn1 Eh, who needs all sections of your LCD when you have off-angle viewing!
But seriously, it is not a Fluke if it doesn't have a battery light on and half a display. Still damn good meters, or they were.
@@christopher88719 I've seen this Fluke in some of his videos without the battery warning, and it still had some dim segments on the LCD (not as severe as this time, but noticable). So it's probably a dirty, or displaced zebra strip.
@@mrnmrn1 Oh yeah for sure. I agree. It is really common on those.
The Fluke could be a resurrection found on the curb side- GOOD ENOUGH
The AM detector part of the radio does inject into the AF amp. BUT the FM If stage feeds into the Video IF stage at the sound IF frequency where it gets into the sound IF and FM detector. The TV tuner is shut down.
Yep I thought I talked about that? At least we know the front end of the TV is working as evident by Channel 6 coming in
Shango066 Have you ever worked on a really old TV that had channel 1 on it?
I don’t see why you can’t just save the crt/chassis for parts or a future video, salvage the hardware from the cabinet, and toss the hobo urinal of a cabinet.
It's surprising you don't have a TV show for the sake of the fun we have watching you dig in to a classic tv or radio and all the noise around your area . It's very much a wild world we live in. It's hard to escape the stupid stuff that upsets us. You make it fun to watch. I hope others say that too. Your a showman. Get that camera stationary and have a video Grapher and let them follow you around while you do what you do.... Thanks
That's something I do, I see something I like either at the tip or side of the road & I grab it! If it won't fit in my Ford, I make it fit! LOL
Love you always Shango. xoxo
WD40 - "Now she is squirting" Hahahahaha, I could be dirty-minded here but we will just leave it for now ok!
@@hauptuhrdotnetblog6700 Hi, it’s good to see another Aussie on here as well. Stay safe mate. 👍🏻😊
Was nice to see some of the tubes in the tuner section were OEM Hoffman. I do not believe I have ever seen TWO 5U4's then again the high voltage cage sure was populated as well. Were Hoffman's made in California?. What a beast of a chassis... holy moly
Another great adventure direct from the streets of L.A.
shango066 the man the myth the legend, bring on part 2 we will be waiting
That’s so awesome man you have a Mercedes sprinter I want one so bad
I'm impressed with the sensitivity and selectivity of that radio circuit -- for such a simple tuner, it seems to work quite well. In particular, the fact that it works so well after 71 years is a testament to that circuit's quality and design.
Confieso que cuando veo cosas como estas, de saber que existen verdaderas y valiosas joya de antigua tecnología, y que existe quien sea capaz de despreciarla y arrojarla a la basura, entonces no me queda de otra que pensar que he venido a este mundo a padecer y sufrir con lo que otros gozan.
Quisiera rescatar y recuperar todo lo perdido en el tiempo.
Mi gran pasión es la emisión de electrones por caldeo al vacio.
Quite amazing! You've done it again! Hoffman rides again!
Nice work again Shango, thanks for sharing it and have a great Thanksgiving!
Le envío un cordial saludo y felicito de corazón por tan bella actitud de dar vida a lo inexistente para muchos. ! Gran trabajo de recuperación del circuito de frecuencia intermedis (LC) !
Excellent faultfinding again, and commentary. My Sunday night TV show with a Shango066 Hoffman radio Resurrection, look forward to part 2.
Great video Shango. I knew you would get it going again.
Thanks for sharing always enjoy your videos.
Why is it that the older the set, the less components are in it. That set looks empty inside, but then a set from The 1970's is full of circuit boards hanging all over the place. I surmise it is all the mind control circuitry they put in these days.
Well, this is a b&w tv and they are very simple....
I've seen some tube color sets from the 50s and 60s and they can be quite literally filled to the brim with electronics. By the 90s everything was contained on a single probably 10x10 (at most) main board.
Aidan Montgomery yep, an early 1970's 12" tv was 2'x2' and 18" high. It was packed with modules that needed to be removed to get to some tubes. I remember it was also extremely heavy. They tried explaining the size by placing large speaker grills in the front under the knobs. It was a "portable color tv too" we really came far in electronics - almost like alien technology today
@@davidjames666 That is because it is alien technology.
@Tyler Mathis and like, 2 monolithic ICs and an eeprom
For someone from the UK there's so much weirdness in the part of this video where you pick it up. Firstly I don't remember the last time I saw something dumped by the side of the road like that; the local authorities would be handing out fines rather quickly and I would very much doubt someone would abandon a very old set like that, they'd be looking to get some coin for it on ebay. Of course in our wet climate it'd be screwed within 48 hours anyway. Then there's the whole business of homeless guys in a residential area - that's scary stuff, is that really an issue there?
We are still quite a bit rougher and unrefined compared to the UK. This is still a bit of the Wild West with different culture overlays
@@shango066 Meh, I wouldn't go that far, we're just unrefined in other ways :)
@@jasejj knife Wars? Knife murder capital of the world?
@@shango066 Yup, part of the more general problem we have of an underclass of scum infesting out cities which no-one wants to do anything about. I'll take the pissing tramps if that's OK.
Although despite living in the poorest county in England, my village hasn't seen a single crime in nine months, so not all of the areas left to rot by de-undusrialisation have gone to seed just yet.
Hey, that is Commiefornia. It was once a great place, but socialism at the state level has destroyed the state. Corruption is terrible in the blue states.
Incredible the end of the picture bulb didn't get knocked off, being pushed against the chain link fence like that, or just being recklessly handled to get it there.
By far my favorite episode
work it back and forth a couple hundred thousand times! :D
i just love these videos
shango man, shango man
driving in his shango van
picks up TVs when he can
and dances to the sweet sound of aircraft noise
That's a tookie glueger a great video buy Wango Shango z tango we are the priests of the Temple of syrinx all the gifts of life are held within Hoffmans walls
It's got wires that get hot and bulbs that glow orange. What can this thing that Shango found be.
Great resurrection, you really deserve to have a lot more subscribers.
very good work, with the resurrection always amazes me 👍👍... afterwards 😉.maybe it could be put back to its second use as a territorial pissing post for the cats 😸
SAVE THE TRANSFORMERS
Save the whole chassis, I would say. BTW, that cabinet isn't in a hopeless (just homeless...) condition. It could be restored. Bob Andersen would love it for sure, too bad they are thousands of miles apart.
"More than meets the eyes"
@@mrnmrn1 I second this, there could always be a part that could help out another set
I always like watching your vids Shango. I have no idea what all the electrical stuff means but it’s interesting . Looking forward to part two . Happy Holidays 👍✌️
8:30 enough for at least 10 mesotheliomas
Season's greetings Shango, thanks for another great installment, de KE0RFZ.
When he shorted out the light bulb, and said "that really got the party started", I spit out my coffee.
Smells like it needs some Nature's miracle sprayed on it.
Acid?
Gas?
I’d keep the chassis and burn the cabinet, could always use extra parts.
Peter Popoffs miracle water
@@Synthematix peter *popoff* the eternal scammer.
@@raymondleggs5508 Dont know how that spunk trumpet gets away with it tbh
I wouldn’t mind that power transformer when you dump it!😎😜
You can use it for a ham radio.....
hb120877 I can think of several uses, would hate to see it go into dump
I love picking up old computers this way, sometimes I get lucky and end up with something worth saving but free crap is nothing to complain about provided there is nothing too nasty inside.
Would love to at least have the AM/FM tuner module... I have a tube amp with a pre-amp stage that tuner would work well with
Part two ?
Great video
It's Monday mornings with Papa Shango66
Hoffman model r151, "The Pisspost"
You should save that radio and put it in a display box for show and tell , that would be cool👍
3rd. Waiting for some electronic necromancer magic
That was some homeless persons home.
Or where their pet rats went to sleep for the night.
El virus de honta, AND el virus de mica.
Your an electronic miracle worker.
@13:53 that capacitor that is missing the other end. As you are pushing it back and say "wow" if you just push it a little further, you will see the end that is snapped off
shango066 bingo:
curbside pickup
dead spider
asbestos
airplane
piss (rodent or human) or cigarette glaze
car alarm
tv channel 6
shooting in the news
natalie //agirisan Don’t forget about the robodial telemarking calls
You forgot CATARACTS!
Also:
Rat turd
Cathode emission
Dead
Vacuum bulb
Picture bulb
natalie //agirisan also Baked!
Probably not in this vid but:
EOL
Black Beauty
Retweebulate (I started saying this working on my own electronics, thanks Shango)
1 kHz test tone
Creamated
Holy smokes! I know exactly where that is. That's Victory Blvd and Clybourn Av. I live not too far from there. I can't begin to imagine how that bum piss TV smells like. 🤢
Gawd! I cringed when you were poking around the very high voltage cage taking out vacuum tubes nonchalantly while that monster was on.
The homeless always find unique things to urinate on. Items never one would thought that could serve as a urinal., such as a 1948 Hoffman TV set. A 5U4 sounds like a rectifier tube.
I want one of these so i can place it in my baby's nursary. I figure the electric hum will put him to sleep, and the high voltage will attract any dust onto the high voltage cage. It will only be on when we sleep.
You can use it as a diaper bin too.
My 1952 Motorola TV was in worse condition then this and looks brand new after I got my hands on it and restored it. Shame I don't live near by where I could take this off your hands.
You are a genius !
I like the doorknob caps in the HV section - those were usually reliable.
Excelente todo lo que haces saludos desde Argentina 🖐👍
You’re a Retro Wizard 🧙🏻♂️
Top man awesome
One of the things you do is not to blow out the chassis and cabinet, that just gives me the willies, would blow it off with compressor and blow air gun. I hate, dust, cobwebs, mice/rat scat, rodent/insect nests and bugs eggs! It can be a little unsafe with rodent nest as far as diseases from them. It is a little fun, horrid and amazing. I still watch anyway....lol You are a great tech, I watch and learn something. I usually never fix TVs. I have fixed and restored radios, amps and test gear. Thanks for the vids.
Blow off a chassis and cabinet with asbestos dust all over the place? I'll leave that for you
"The only reason I'm getting this is because I have another one" 😂
Jesus... I found myself holding my breath, desperately wanting the needles to move! His resurrections are genius works of art. Especially a street resurrection. Kinda sounds like a Grisham story. btw, that cabinet is an extremely valuable arrogant, snotty, idiot hipster bar cart or something
Complete with real urine scent
Nice job closing the loop on all the discoveries you made along the way. As you say, too bad this set became a piss pot for the locals. It really isn't in that bad a shape. I'm surprised you're not overwhelmed with urine smell. If I was local to LA I'd be tempted to pick it up, and add a phono from radiotvphononut. Looking forward to the television portion. 😉😁
As for the capacitors in the IF, .10's should be the right fit I have seen many mica bypass's use .10 disc capacitors
Thing: contains asbestos dust. Shango066: “should take an air compressor to it”. Maybe the asbestos is what makes it revivable.
Good job
i really wish we could hear some sweet putrid noise coming from that old speaker in the cabinet but it looks like the wires were disconnected and watch it cough out a big nasty cloud as it died haha
You will
Marty, it's the flux capacitor !
Plywood cab, gotta love that.
it's taken me awhile to figure out, but I am now sure this is Frank from Pat the Nes Punks channel..
This was probably north of US$ 500 in 1948, about US$ 5300 today.
You should look into the workings of a Hallicrafters SX-28. Those are a real nightmare.
I'm looking forward to the spitzen sparken filled TV troubleshooting follow up.
i think people dont realize, that resistors do have a voltage rating. that why sometimes you see resistors in series in high voltage circuits to help absorb the high voltage drop across more than one. same with some in parrrallel. to absorb the high amperage
I like how the chassis was clearly designed to have the CRT sitting right on top of it instead of that tuner chassis
What-WHAT?!!? That Faygo in the intro. ICP approved resurrection lol.
Hi. I just found this exact model, with an in tact record player in a small drawer next to the speaker. It’s in very good condition and has just been chilling in my recently-deceased grandpa’s basement all this time. No idea if it runs, but it was cool seeing your video here and realizing it’s a 1948. What do you think we should do with it? It would be nice to know that someone who appreciates it ends up with it. Sorry to be clueless. I admit to knowing nothing about this area of collectibles.
Also cant wait for the part 2 of the hoffman piss post resurrection
I heard Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five as you were turning the dial. I believe the song was "the message".
It looks like the speaker "went to air".
Or it went to urea...
Hey Shango, what's the name of the doohickey you use to test the capacitors? I'd like to buy one. Thanks in advance.
When you throw these old sets into the trash do you save any of the components, tubes?
1:39 - Ive never seen an AC condenser unit mounted on the roof like that lol
Good EOL material
The woodwork looks relatively straight forward. I would have thought a swap in of the electronics with a new speaker into a new case would have been possible.
To have one in good condition. Would be great.
Once you get your thermal seeker thingy fixed , can you do a video about it ?
Interesting how California has such a homeless problem yet it also has alot of abandoned houses.
Looks like an old Dumont I found in the junk. Same kind of cabinet layout
What metal picture tube is that? Looks like one that would fit the old Motorola I had when I was 14 and changed the picture tube even though I barely knew what I was doing.
About a ‘49 Motorola
Wish I still had the Spartan with the picture tube on end with mirror on lid. With what I’ve learned on internet I could probably fix it now. Picture tube still lit up.
A Nice old TV
Muy bueno