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AWA 509M Radio Pt 1 Is this Australia's Edsel? What do you think?
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- Опубликовано: 8 авг 2024
- I picked up this awful AWA 'Egg Crate' from a junk shop on a road trip around Queensland's Scenic Rim last week. I attempt to get it working but my own incompetence gets in the way, can I get it to work again or is it back to the junk shop?
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This is a radio 📻 I really like. American made by American workers. Workers which put their pride and time into these real beauties. They were built out of real wood. Glass dial face, featuring a dial light. Really makes you feel so warm at 🏡 home. I’d be just as proud displaying this radio 📻 in my living room just as much as our American workers are proud to make them. It is a tube type radio 📻 with an all steel chassis, metal knob shafts, wooden knobs and complex dial cord system. Can come with a dial cord restringing diagram, depending which radio 📻 you get. That’s a plus. This radio 📻 must have been invented in Australia 🇦🇺, but probably doesn’t have to be used exclusively in Australia 🇦🇺. Yes, in my opinion, it’s worthy of being Australia’s Edsel. I do not think 🤔 the company made many of these radios 📻. Yes, quality. Beats today’s mass produced Plastic Chinese junk radios 📻 today, which will wind up in the dump before 5 years. Taken excellent care of, these nice 👍 radios could last generations, up to 10.000 years, if recap jobs are still performed by then. I know they would require many recappings between now and then, 70 years at a time, but these radios 📻 would be well worth it. It would save the population of each radio 📻 diminishing by 1, keeping them safe in homes 🏡, and out of the dump.
I hope this is still around in years to come Jeffrey. It's a little unusual looking but worth preserving 👍🙂
Good series, David. Looks like you're steering an automobile while tuning that main capacitor! Experience helps, but sometimes takes the fun out of troubleshooting. You're well on your way to becoming proficient at it. Stay healthy!
Haha... that's an old video John, it does look like a steering wheel 😄 I hope I've moved on since then. Cheers and all the best 😀
I’ve been binge watching your restoration videos David. You are a real inspiration! Going to start on my Kreisler plum pudding radio. Love to meet you if you are ever at the Brisbane hws auctions! Tim. VK4QP
Hi ctho admin, I just came from the HWS auction this morning, I bought a plum pudding there myself. Not sure when I'll get round to doing it though. I was up the front with my wife and surrounded by a pile of junk at the end of the auction 😁
David Tipton didn’t make the auction this time David. I have two vintage resto projects on the go at the moment, a breville, which I suspect will require a total rebuild, and the plum pudding which I suspect works but after watching your vids I think I’ll do a total recap from Carl’s capacitors. How do you deal with silver mica disease? Mr Carlson’s lab takes NP0 diaelectric caps and uses them in place of the mica ones. I know the values and stability of these caps is critical because they are in tuned circuits. Sometimes I think you are too modest about your abilities, I have learnt more practical day to day detail of restoration just watching you than from anyone else. Please keep the videos coming. Tim.
I think the next event is the Xmas party, so maybe we can meet up then. I've been using mica caps but you can certainly use NPOs, I know RS sells them but the micas are usually a little cheaper. If I find silver mica disease in an IF transformer I surgically remove the old cap and solder in new ones either internally or externally. Carl's black caps are great, they don't stick out like the bright yellow ones and he's great to do business with, I might add I'm not affiliated with Carl, I just like what he does. I am so glad you get something from my videos but keep in mind I'm just learning so I may be wrong form time to time but I'm getting better (hopefully). I'm working on two radio projects now and am about to start a third so hopefully will get a video out in the next week or so. Cheers 👍😃
What model is the Breville Tim?
That flamin' Galah sent you on a Fair Dinkum to Woop Woop trying to figure it out.
Though it had a few really "out there" issues, I knew that you would figure it out.
Oh, and thanks for the info about the 6V6 tubes (valves) and the issue with them. I will have to put that in my memory banks.
Hi Wayne, that was my first radio video, I was pretty green. I did get there in the end and it still works surprisingly 😂
Glad you still enjoyed it, thanks Wayne 👍🙂
Your work is good I can see for all vidios you are professional
Thank you so much Rajesh 😀
That stuff in the volume pot is tuner wash,used in rotary tv tuners back in the 70's.
Hi Jeffrey, Really! whoever put it in there sure used a lot of it, I hope they don't use it anymore. You sure it wasn't tuna wash? 🐟😄
I have seen quite a few of your you tube videos. I served in Vietnam with the US army as a Radar repair tech Then as an avionics repair tech during my 66 month tour of duty in Vietnam. I used to work on vacuum tubes or valves. My years working on the military equipment was 1965 - 1972. I love your videos because I love old radios. All the old programs were great to listen to. My radio listening goes back to the late 1940's to the late 1950's. I was wondering if you have ever worked on any American made radios. I found two Motorola valve AM radios 1) Motorola model# 56M1 roto-tenna (the carry handle is the antenna) it was on ebay listed by brand and model# 2) Motorola valve AM model# 68L11 this one was listed on etsy.com valued $228.00 usd. Also, one last thing, there is a you tube channel called "mr carlson's lab" he works on vacuum valve radios. He is a full blown tech and he explains everything he is doing some of his videos are up to 2hrs long. he loves to get lots of questions. I just thought you'd like to see his channel. Thanks for having such great videos, I love em all. Take care of you and yours. Paul McCarthy
Hi Paul, thanks for your comment. The 40s and 50 were the golden age of radio, I caught the tail end and loved it, no TV then. 5+ years in Nam was quite a stint, thank you. I haven't worked on any American radios, I haven't seen many around unfortunately. I watch Paul Carlson's work and have learned a lot from him, unlike me, he knows what he is doing. He often comments on my channel which is surprising, thanks Paul 👍🙂
Good heavens. My Uncle had a Motorola 56 M1a radio from 1955. I was just a little kid but it always shocked me when I touched the handle.
My 10 year old nephew is working with me today, getting an
education. He Marvels
As how I me , melt tine wire
to connect old wires, rocks, bricks and pieces of stone along with
soup cans and milk bottles . In the bend I get music and news from a paper cone. For
his English class he is writing the story about the wizard on Hood boulevard.
Haha, I guess that's what it looks like to a 10 year old Cosimo 🙂
Very reassuring that it’s not just me who cuts the wrong wire lol. Been a bit of an uphill struggle for you on this one but I have no doubt you have the talent to conquer it. An egg box radio? If the worst comes to the worst you can always make an omelette HI.
Cheers
Lynton.
A very early video Lynton, anything could happen 😃
I recognised that mystery stuff in the volume pot straight away. I believe that there is a technical name for it which escapes me at the moment, but here in Australia we just refer to it as GUNK.
I thought GUNK was the technical name 😄
I think someone put it there deliberately like as a lubricant/cleaner. It looks like degraded lithium grease
I thought you were working on a synth unit. You were making some whacky sounds there for a bit. Ha Ha! I’m kidding. Thanks for the video.
I had some audio issues back then 😄
I bet that new pot wouldn't have lasted 4 years! Just look at the physical difference between them. It's night and day. Great video. Like all the troubleshooting.
Thank you tarstarkusz 👍🙂
Thanks David. Successfully made the mod to my LSg-11 sig gen works well thanks once again. Ivan vk3arv
Ahh, good to hear Ivan, cheers 🙂
Thanks, nice one.
Thanks Chris 😀
I really dislike the idea of referring to yourself as "my own incompetence getting in the way." I think it's more that you are concentrating so much on one issue, you get tunnel vision. We have all done it, at least I have and on more than one occasion. I think you are more than competent and have proven that over the many projects you have completed. In the end, you figured out the issue and the radio sounds great. Job well done, David.
This video is very old so I don't remember much about it. I was very new at that point so wasn't sure what I was doing. Tunnel vision is a trap and in my professional career we often had to stop and review what we were doing and see if we were approaching it the right way. Thanks TGG 👍🙂
Thanks David
You are welcome Ivan 🙂
Sir, you have the patience of Job....about halfway through your video, that thing would have been out my 3rd floor window
Haha... thanks grs6262 😄
Hi David, What a challenging set of issues - congratulations on your perseverance. I don't think you should claim any incompetence - many would have given up at the first or second hurdle. One gentle suggestion on safety.... When I work on a mains power radio I always check whether the chassis, spindles (or even grids) might be live with a neon tester before touching. This is less of an issue with transformer powered radios but is a big issue with American Fives with a potentially live chassis depending on the mains plug orientation. I have had some close encounters with the other world and now am very cautious before touching anything that might have potentially deadly voltage on it. As an alternatively touch any suspect metal with the back of the hand so any muscle reaction pulls you away rather than on to a deadly embrace... Just a thought and hope I don't sound patronising ...
Hi David, thank you. This was one of my first videos and is cringeworthy. I have a neon tester and use it when I need to stick my finger in the works. You make a very good point and I always flick my finger on the set or shafts before grabbing them until I know it's safe. I have a few AA5 sets now and have done one already with 3 to go. They need an extra level of caution as you said. Thanks David 🙂
@@DavidTipton101 Thanks for your feedback. I currently live near Athens. Please get in touch if you are over here in Greece and we can swap stories of our radio experiences. I have a collection of some early British transistor radios - including some classic British Perdio manufactured designs
@@davidsanderson625 That sounds nice, I assume with a glass of Ouzo, (I haven't had Ouzo for years, I think we mixed it with Coke back in the 70s). I have printed you email and will keep a copy. Sas efcharistó 🙂
Like watching your videos. I know nothing about electronic repair, you make me want to learn. Just wondering how doing these repairs here in the U.S.A. would differ since we operate on 120 volts
I am surprised how many watch yet don't know much about radios, I didn't figure on that. US radios are much the same in most respects, after the war a lot of US radios went to transformerless designs, referred to as All American 5s for 5 tubes. We stuck to transformer designs. The voltage difference didn't affect the way they work. Thanks 1957wade 👍😃
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G.Day David enjoy your videos .how do your connect the LSG-11& victor 3165 frequency counter ?
Hi Ivan, I connected to the signal input of the 'RF Fine' pot inside the LSG-11 and ran the lead into the front of the counter.
Some folks might consider this the "Hyundai Excel" of vintage radios. It would normally take someone with a will of iron to restore that but I hope you get it working.
Haha RJ, is a Hyundai Excel better or worse than an Edsel? At least the Excel looked pretty good on the day 😉
@@DavidTipton101 Both Excel and Edsel have their good and bad points - but they are considerably better and more reliable (in most opinions) than the Leyland P76 ever was or could be.
@@RoughJustice2k18 Haha... good point 😀
I don't know, with the 50's sci fi movie sound effects going on there I might just leave it as is!! Just kidding! As for love it or hate it, I don't hate it but I can't say I am a huge fan of the aesthetic either, lol. It's still a cool old radio, a piece of history! It's very cool for me here in the states to see these radios we have never even heard of here. Awesome video! Thanks for sharing with us!
Hi Jack, I can't apologise enough for the sound in the early videos. I initially purchased two new mics and they both sounded like that. I would test and test and it would be ok then spend a few hours recording and it came out like it did 🤦♂️ I think I have it sorted now thank goodness 🙂 Thanks for persevering 😄
@@DavidTipton101 No! I was referring to the feedback oscillation that sounded like the soundtrack for Forbidden Planet before you fixed the set! LOL. People pay good money for snyths that sound like that!! lol. Your video sound is fine to my ears!
Ha ha, OK thanks Jack 😄
@@DavidTipton101 No. Thank you for sharing your restorations with us! We do appreciate it!
Edsel is beautyful but different, so it is with this AWA 509M it has this different loock that I like. It is not like anything else. But that is me.
You nailed it Harald, it is different but unique. Thanks 🙂
This radio sounds like something to be used in a move after the world ends lol 😂
Hi SBR, I'll be the first one to watch it 😉
Bien amigo grasias chao juan
Es un placer Juan 😃
Nice
Thanks Rssuthar 🙂
good job with lot of troubles
Hi Ivan, it wouldn't be fun without lots of trouble 👍😄
I spot the callsign 2HR, just to the right of 2DU on the third(lowest) tier of the NSW stations list. 2HR was based at Maitland(from memory) but went broke around 1952 or 1953 so went off the air. It was replaced by 2NX, which was also based at Maitland and had its transmitter at Bolwarra Heights, but though by rights still a Maitland station, 2NX moved its studios to upstairs rooms at near the eastern end of Hunter Street, Newcastle in the early 1960s. I think the office/studios were on the northern side of Hunter Street, just a few doors west of Telford Street.
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@neilforbes416 The Upper Hunter had its own station based in Singleton, 2HR, owned by Hunter River Broadcasters Pty. Ltd. The station launched on 30 August 1937. The owners included the Singleton Argus and the Robinson family. Three years later, they moved to Lochinvar, near Maitland.
Hunter Broadcasters had purchased the two stations during the early to mid-1950s, and decided to move both stations away from their existing locations. The 2HR license and transmitter was moved to Bolwarra, in order to serve the Newcastle market. 2HR was given a new callsign, 2NX. The 2CK license and frequency was moved to Muswellbrook, and also received a new callsign, 2NM.
The callsigns were devised by station manager Ken Robinson, who had served in the Australian Army. His army identification number included the letters NX. Therefore, the Newcastle station was given the 2NX name. 2NM's callsign was created only after trying out other combinations that could smoothly follow 2NX. 2NM could also represent 2 Newcastle Muswellbrook.
2NM was launched on 14 January 1954, from facilities located along the McCully's Gap road just outside Muswellbrook.
In 1971, Hunter Broadcasters were taken over by Catholic Broadcasting Company, a division of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney. During this time, while during the day 2NX and 2NM were operated separately, from 6pm overnight, 2NM relayed 2NX's programming, and was identified as 2NXNM and as Upper Hunter 2NX.
In 1978, the station moved from 1460 to 1458 kHz, as part of a nationwide radio frequency adjustment. Two years later, on 2 August 1980, 2NM changed its frequency again from 1458 kHz to 981 kHz to improve reception in parts of the Upper Hunter. A new 5000 watt transmitter site was commissioned on Begalla Road, next to the Bengalla coal mine. The old 2NM tower on McCullys Gap Road was not torn down until 2009. The old transmitter building still stands to this day. 1458 kHz was reassigned as the Newcastle frequency for ABC NewsRadio.
The overnight simulcast of 2NX came to an end in July 1989, due to the opening of Newcastle's first FM station, New FM, which was taking listeners away from 2NX, and as a result, 2NX changed formats to compete.
In the early 1990s, the station was sold to Grant Broadcasters, and moved to new studios in Muswellbrook. It is a breeding ground for young radio talent, names to come out of 2NM include: Brendan Jones 4MMM, 2MMM, and breakfast "Jonesy and Amanda" WSFM, Jamie Angel 2MMM Content director and Paul "The bull" Stanley. In the mid-1990s, the station opened a supplementary FM station, Power FM, on 98.1 kHz (coincidentally sharing the same numbers in its frequency as 2NM), which lead to 2NM focusing on an older demographic.
In 2009, the station began an online stream of its programming, along with sister station Power FM.
In November 2021, 2NM, along with other stations owned by Grant Broadcasters, were acquired by the Australian Radio Network. This deal will allow Grant's stations, including 2NM, to access ARN's iHeartRadio platform in regional areas. The deal was finalized on January 4, 2022.[1] It is expected 2NM will integrate with ARN's Pure Gold Network, but will retain its current name according to the press release from ARN.
I hope you find this interesting
@@top40researcher31 As I recall while riding to Maitland by train in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s(before I moved to Port Stephens), looking out of the train to the right was a broadcast transmitter tower located somewhere east of Victoria Street railway station, East Maitland. It *did not* belong to Station 2NX as that station's transmitter was at Bolworra, even after the studios were moved from Maitland to Newcastle East. The transmitter tower in question belonged to the defunct station 2HR, which was a Maitland station before 2NX was established and went broke, and off-air about the time 2NX was established. The only other centre that had its own station was Cessnock with Station 2CK, but that station too fell on hard times and closed but I'm not sure when. Singleton did not have a radio station.
@@neilforbes416 singleton radio. The station commenced operations on September 6th, 1937,
@@top40researcher31 Singleton was, and is too small to have a station of its own. 2HR was a Maitland station. Its transmitter site was at East Maitland(the tower long since dismantled and removed). The only other town outside Newcastle to have its own radio station was Cessnock with Station 2CK.
A question that I always think of, how do not get shocked by the capacitors?
Hi clasicradiolover. It's quite simple, you charge them like a battery then touch the two leads. It's quite an experience. A capacitor consists of two plates separated by air or an electrolyte, think of the plates in a car battery. You apply a DC (or AC) voltage to the leads and it will hold a charge, because the charge can be several hundred volts in a radio if you short the leads with your fingers it will discharge through you and you will feel it. It feels like a static discharge when you touch a door handle or similar and get a shock.
@@DavidTipton101 so I suppose you have a way to discharge them BEFORE you touch them?
Sorry, I meant to say dielectric not electrolyte in my response above. For small value electrolytic capacitors you can just short them out but larger ones are better discharged using a resistor of 5 to 10k of a few watts. Some circuits will have a bleed resistor built in or the capacitor will bleed down within the circuit. I have had some radios hold a charge for quite a while though.
Wouldn't an electrodynamic speaker work just as well as one with a magnet?
Sorry Landrew0, I don't remember much about this video, the radio still has the original speaker in it I think. I imagine an electrodynamic speaker and a PM speaker of the same period would would work pretty much the same. The electro speaker has the advantage of adding a choke to the circuit and that would need to be compensated for if the speaker was changed to a PM speaker. I hope that answers your question 👍🙂
I've got a dim bulb, my brain😬
Ha-ha... Good one 984francis 😄😄😄
Speaking of the dim bulb could you sketch out how yours is put together? I found one on line at antiqueradio.org>dimbulb but it didn't have your switching capabilities.
Hola hello amigo aqui en chile la letevicion publica es horrible por eso meguntan los radios usted es un gran maestro lo felisito yo soy mecanico de bisicletas chao amigo mio
Hola mi amigo. La televisión también es terrible en Australia, prefiero escuchar la radio también. Gracias
This is Aluminiumoxyd. Use EDTA to cleanup and a good contact grease to protect the slider and the resistor layer. NOT mecanical clean.
The only EDTA I can find is in powder form and is for human consumption. I use Deoxit which should do a similar job. I will try to get something better to clean the sockets 🤔
@@DavidTipton101 I use alltimes EDTA, but you are right, is a powder for humans consumption, to mix into water. Is the finest to clean oxidised metal that i know. I will use it for all electronic parts. After cleaning with clear water, i put the parts in a oven by 70°C to dry theme, for 3 to 5 hours.
That's a great tip wthnel, I'll see if I can get some 👍😀
First ever case of guano in a volume control. Mind you, here in the US given the dreadful programming (actually, it isn't that good) on the broadcast band, it would be appropriate.
It could have been guano, I don't know what it was but it was nasty 😣 I feel your pain with the programming. we are slightly better here but for how long 🤔🙂
love your videos man, but think you would save yourself a lot of grief by changing all caps older than about 1970, and measure alll the resistors, before trying to start it up for the first time. and you run the risk of burning out transformers and tubes by starting it with such old leaky caps. even the dominos fail sometimes, and resistors can often go out of wack if the radio have been stored in strong heat or high humidity.
Hi Alf, thank you. This was a very early video so I was even greener than I am now and don't remember what I did exactly. I always change all the paper and electrolytic caps, the micas I leave unless they play up. I measure the resistors as I replace the caps. Thanks Alf 🙂
Radio sounds like it's seeing a lot of pretty girls!
Yeah, sorry 984francis, the wife walked by 😃
GUD
Thanks User 🙂
intermittent problems are always the worst!
They try my patience woodhonky, it can take days to track them down sometimes 🙄🙂
Hia david
Abdul
Hi Abdul 😃
Like watching your videos. I know nothing about electronic repair, you make me want to learn. Just wondering how doing these repairs here in the U.S.A. would differ since we operate on 120 volts
Thanks 1957wade 😃
Sorry 1957wade, I didn't answer your question. Hawkturkey has covered it perfectly though.