During my 8 years in the US Army back in the 1970's I had two of these little sets. Different brands, of course. The first I purchased in Tokyo, it was brand named Crown, had a built in AM/FM radio came with a detachable 100-110 volt adapter as well as one that took I think it was 9 C cells. That one lasted a long time till one night whilst on arms room guard (duty where they locked you up between the arms room and the issue room with a .45 and 3 rounds of ammo, super booooooring duty and the TV was a life saver. The set smoked and stopped working. I tore into it and found a resistor had burned in half. I think I must have had the power pack set to 100 volts? It was, after all designed for use in Japan, not the USA. So I took the little guy to a TV repair center on Fort Bliss, the fellow there said since the set was never imported into the US, he could not get a schematic and was thus unable to determine which resistor to replace the burned own with. So I took the little guy home, sad that a set that had served me in my bunker in Nam as well as the Arms Room at Fort Bliss, and many times into the field during desert training was gone. Then I had this wild idea to simply bypass the damn resistor, so I stripped a bit of copper wire out of a larger wire and wrapped it around the two pieces that were once joined as a resistor and soldered it in. The little guy came back to life and worked as well as ever. I had a partner who worked with me after hours delivering furniture for Unite Freight Sales out on Montana Avenue in El Paso, he also had another part-time job as a night watchman for a small local airport, keeping watch over the aircraft. When he was over for coffee one day he spotted my little set and made me an offer I could not refuse for the little set. I sold it to him, last I ever saw of it, he had wired it in to his car and mounted it under his dash so he could sit back and enjoy his nights watching tv instead of airplanes parked on the tarmac. Later I found that I really missed the set, so one day I found a Panasonic mini TV that was olive drab in color, looked exactly like a piece of military gear. I purchased it and it came with me into the field many many times, I could sit in my radio teletype rig and watch TV, my wife would pre-cook some hamburgers for me and I would heat the atop a small lantern, stick them back on the bun and squeeze some ketchup from McDonald's. Since my rig was considered classified as I sent and received classified information, I always had it locked, when an officer would come for some reason or another, I could flip the switch on the little OD TV and they had no idea that it was not part of the very complicated configuration of the ANGRC122 Radio Teletype rig.
About 40 years ago when I was an electronics tech. we stopped working on those because of time and dependability issues. In my opinion, you are one of the best technicians out there. I thoroughly enjoy your videos. They say patience is a virtue, I say patience is a vulture waiting to swoop in.
What always amazed me about some early Japanese TVs from the 60s they were already solid state we were still using tubes in our TVs that we made here in the US up until the early to mid 70s
For the non TV repairmen, IF is intermediate frequency. Signals are converter from their native carrier frequency to a predictable/consistent frequency before being sent to the demodulating section.
You’re one of the neatest guys around, and so is Radiotvphononut. I like the resurrection of the radios, tv’s and record players, even the 1970’s plastic ones. Better quality plastic then. Like saving classic cars of the 1950’s and 1960’s you do one fantastic job on them, even if they’ve been baking out there in the desert for 45+ years. So much for junk tires, they can sit out there and rot. Keep the good videos coming, I’m a geek of electronics like you and Radiotvphononut. Learned of both of your RUclips channels in August of 2016, just a week or so after my mom passed away. If I find RUclips profitable, I may get myself a RUclips channel and join you guys. I’d like to see you resurrect the unresurrectable electronics. If not, hold onto them for they can be used for spare parts down the road.
The old saying is true "The transistors protect the fuse". I remember in early 70's having a 5" Sony Trinitron portable color set purchased from Lafayette Electronics. They were expensive around $450-$500. Memories!
Haven't been on the COVID19 Carnival Cruise but have been on the Noro Carnival Cruise. It caused me to be very "evacuative"...and i got to see what i ate the week before...
Even thought you said TIME VAMPIRE I still to this day like the selective deduction reasoning and logic of diagnosing the TV'S and radios you do., Worth the time.
"Is the Corona Virus sweeping across Europe?" ….YES! Bloomberg...what a joke! $500 Million spent for those annoying ads!! How many homeless, etc could that have helped? Well his money I guess he can do what he wants with it.
Ever work on a Sony 8-301W? Their first transistor set from about 1961, with an 8" screen in a rounded grey metal cabinet on a little chrome stand. Looks like something out of a Jetsons cartoon! I have two of them. I still watch a 1970 Sony 5" 510-U, perched on top of my kitchen microwave.
Sometimes you just have to walk away and do something else for a while then come back with a fresh take on things and it falls into place for you. Took me a long time to figure that one out.
Actually, those Ni-Cd battery packs are re-stuffable. There are plenty of places around that specialize in the practice if you don't want to do the job yourself. Those look like standard size C Ni-Cd cells in that pack.
I am constantly inspired by watching these videos. I've improved my own electronics repair skills just by watching, following, and then going into my shop to fix something. FWIW: My brother had one of these Sony Micro-TVs (the one on the left), and it was the first TV I watched Star Trek on when I was a kid. Provokes great memories, and it shows great diagnostic problem determination skills by Shango066! Keep 'em coming!
We had one of the Sony portable TV's, used it for years before we dropped it in a box. It sat in the garage for over 20 years before I pulled it out, dusted it off, hooked it up to a power supply and it worked like new. The workmanship was outstanding, truly built to last.
ESR is not the be all/end all of judging capacitors. Too many today assume that ESR being low means it is OK. Well, a shorted cap will have good ESR. Leakage will be ignored by most ESR meters, as will off-value capacitance. ESR meters are the simplest things to make but they won't tell you about many other failure modes. Meters that measure value MAY give you a clue: bad caps will have an elevated capacitance reading. Some will read 200-300 percent overvalue. Most are more subtle. Ideal examination requires something like a Z-meter (Sencore).
very good work though, but I think, you could have fix this ! The defektive output stage in the vertical and the working horizontal are the most critical stages, that you made working well, the if stage is not critical... The video-driver transistor works as an emitter-follower, every Si-pnp- would work here (BC558 or so..), the GT313 is way to fast as you said, but can produce some VHF-noise if not properly installed. I am glad to see the monitor-part work, though !
Those spade connectors are probably there so the person could use the TV with a 12v lantern battery. Probably way more economical than using C cells. Those big F cells in the lantern batteries are great.
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I remember the Sony micro TV, and it was a portable TV from the 1960’s before iPhone’s and iPad’s. I used to have a JVC portable TV from 1976, but I don’t used it too much anymore.
I wouldn't consider them hybrids because of the HV rectifiers, anymore than because of the CRT's. Back in the 70's I had a Heathkit/RCA 23" color set that was all solid state except for the CRT and a 3A3GT HV rectifier. I bet Sony used a 25mhz IF because of the low FT of those Germanium transistors in the IF stage.
The whispers ripple down through the ages... about this Shango066... who with a laying of the hands - and application of electricity - resurrects the dead... the decaying... who's parts long since scattered to time... but once a year, one was sacrificed... one HAD to be sacrificed... to the screams... and the glowing torches of the approving, smiling, nodding masses
my favorite toy of the summer/fall of '79. i knew it was from the late sixties, but if i knew the true age of it, i would have maybe used it less. ten C duracells would set me back maybe 15.50 or so. i remember having banana splits with my cousin dolores, and watching match game. in san francisco i watched tic tac dough, mork and mindy, and laverne and shirley on it tuesday nights. it took forever to warm up, and would have a little dot for five minutes when shut off. evon stewart said she paid something a little over three hundred for it. it was brand new, with the cord in perfect shape. she didn't have the original box. a sony micro tv was pretty slick to have.
Funny you brought these out, I've just got my hands on a Bush BN6520 A (late 1970s J. Arthur Rank Radio International special) miniature TV/clock/radio with 4" CRT and built in alarm and sleep functions. :) Never knew they made tiny TV's as far back as mid '60s though, the set on the right is super cool looking.
It seems like I remember a Sears microwave that had a very small TV built in. I always wonder how much shielding it took to not fry the electronics. I had a under the counter small TV with a tuner much like a radio that I could also tune in cell phones sold by GE.
Ha ha Sony went literal with the tripler...Never seen that before? Thinking about it...Mostly after doubler you went to a tripler and left it there regardless of how many stages...
Best wishes. Stay healthy and be well. Watch the Shango066 videos. I hope you have enough parts and projects to stay entertained during the shut-down. God Bless
I think you would have fixed it quickly if nobody had gotten into it and tried to fix it before you. The aluminum foil on the fuse is a good indicator of that.
Strange you mention the Elna caps all being bad from this era, '75 onward they have all been good in the equipment I've found them in. And Shango, if you were "smart money" the world would be a much poorer place. Your persistence & determination are what we come to watch, if you can't fix it not many could!
I just recapped a Roberts 6000 portable tape deck and it had a ton of these Elna caps. They were all either open or waaaaayyyyy off value. It's just like Shango was saying I ended up pulling out the Sam's and ordering all of them from mouser.
@@equid0x That's probably what's wrong with the Rheem Roberts eight track I have, it's early 70s vintage, built by Akai. I hope it's not one of the Sanyo ICs that's popped.
@@equid0x It's an interesting turn, the vintage solid state stuff is to electrolytic cap replacement what tube equipment is to paper cap replacement, if not worse. I can remember having tube sets from the 1940s still functioning on most of their original caps in the late 80s and early 90s, but the caps in a lot of S.S stuff from the 60s was already starting to fail by then.
Nice sets. Your symptoms asside from the no power are identical to what i encountered on mine. On my 5-303 i had a bad vertical output transistor. After replacing the transistor i now get a full raster for about 10 min before i start having vertical linearity issues. Sometimes noodling the pots brings it back. I suspect more bad caps (haven't re-capped the whole set yet) and some flaky trim pots.
Could be some out of tolerance resistors as well. On my 5-307UW I replaced the resistors in stages on the deflection board testing after replacing several resistors. With each replacement the raster got a little better.
I don't know if you this dude but the flashing white lines on top of the picture is data for the closed captioning you cant see it on the new crt TV's cause you can't mess with the v hold thats how they hide that data stream is just outside where the picture is the dude from technology connections a RUclips channel has a hole video that explains it
A few weeks back some of my friends and I were talking about getting one of these in a civics class I have (were all in our mid teens). So instead of doing our work we just looked at them on ebay!
That one tv looks like someone hooked up a coaxal directly to the antenna input from a cable connection or from a output from a vcr i did that with a old thirteen inch i found in trash when i was a kid cause i wanted to pick up cable on it my mother new about that issue she told me i needed a pig tail to do something like that
When the fuse blew because it started failing, the aluminum foil must have worked (for a little while). My parents tell me in the old knob-and-tube houses when they got broiler that would need 20a circuit someone put a penny in the fusebox lol!
i have one like the small one, slightly different, case is black vinyl covered, instead of the wood effect, vhf is ok but uhf seems dead, looks a fairly major job to get the uhf tuner out, ... i have a 'monitor' very similar to the larger one, just has video and audio input, no tuner/if parts...
@ I guess if you can prove a case of Republican voter fraud and i can prove a case of Democratic voter fraud then does that make you a liar? God Bless.
@ We have a case right in Connecticut that's going to our state superior court. Linda Szynkowicz former state rep bringing the case. Information looks very clear. LINDA@FIGHTVOTERFRAUD.ORG Will that suffice? Thanks
@@watershed44 I agree. We have a highly corrupted government. Democrats and Republicans have been holding hands under the table so to speak. I missed Mr 12 oz response. Democrats want open borders. No ID voting. They want non residents what are called illegal aliens to be able to vote and have all rights Americans have and have free health care. Those illegal aliens are generally held from prosecution because the courts tell the police not to bring the cases because the people can't pay and don't show up for their dates. But the Democrats would never do anything related to voter fraud. Motor voter, early voting, absentee voting. It goes on. Yes I'm a Trump supporter and an Infowars listener and supporter. And a Christian. So God Bless Donald Trump and America!
Another great video! I appreciate the amount of time you put into these, I like the fact you don't give up just because it wasn't easy. Even as butchered as this is you breathed some life into it. Great diagnostics again, thanks as always for sharing!
Elna capacitors are highly regarded in high end audio applications. I cant say so much for the old Japanese grey ones but ELNA silmic capacitors are nice for high end audio
23:19 turns out my hearing is still in very good shape; went from watching this on a TV to a computer with headphones and now I can hear that distinct high-pitched CRT screech trying to split my cranium 🙃
I have my Grandmother's old Sony B&W portable. Much bigger screen. Not sure but I think it's 10 inch approx diagonally. Not sure if it still works. Keepsake. She never used a battery pack. Just plugged into 120 volt A/C.
I have a sony model # TV 72OU .. turned it on, nice bright raster, but vertical is kinda squunched .. skwunched? it looks a tad skwunchy. no tear-down yet.
Just found your video, great you got the picture working! I've got one very similar to the other model. Mine is a 5 - 303E which I've had since the early 70's! Not sure what I should / can do with it, any ideas? thanks and regards, Geoff from Merimbula Australia
I just had to Subscribe to your channel. Absolutely superb work and great video on getting this Micro portable working. I'm more of an Audio engineer when it comes to electronics but I'm old enough to remember the TV engineer coming round our house when I was young (1978/79)...thanks!!
I had a 501U (510U?), White and blue plastic with a detachable base that was the battery pack. Carried it everywhere when I was a teen. Sony wanted you to buy an adaptor to attach an external antenna, I hacked a speaker wire with a phone plug into a TV cable splitter for my own adaptor.
During my 8 years in the US Army back in the 1970's I had two of these little sets. Different brands, of course. The first I purchased in Tokyo, it was brand named Crown, had a built in AM/FM radio came with a detachable 100-110 volt adapter as well as one that took I think it was 9 C cells. That one lasted a long time till one night whilst on arms room guard (duty where they locked you up between the arms room and the issue room with a .45 and 3 rounds of ammo, super booooooring duty and the TV was a life saver. The set smoked and stopped working. I tore into it and found a resistor had burned in half. I think I must have had the power pack set to 100 volts? It was, after all designed for use in Japan, not the USA. So I took the little guy to a TV repair center on Fort Bliss, the fellow there said since the set was never imported into the US, he could not get a schematic and was thus unable to determine which resistor to replace the burned own with. So I took the little guy home, sad that a set that had served me in my bunker in Nam as well as the Arms Room at Fort Bliss, and many times into the field during desert training was gone. Then I had this wild idea to simply bypass the damn resistor, so I stripped a bit of copper wire out of a larger wire and wrapped it around the two pieces that were once joined as a resistor and soldered it in. The little guy came back to life and worked as well as ever. I had a partner who worked with me after hours delivering furniture for Unite Freight Sales out on Montana Avenue in El Paso, he also had another part-time job as a night watchman for a small local airport, keeping watch over the aircraft. When he was over for coffee one day he spotted my little set and made me an offer I could not refuse for the little set. I sold it to him, last I ever saw of it, he had wired it in to his car and mounted it under his dash so he could sit back and enjoy his nights watching tv instead of airplanes parked on the tarmac. Later I found that I really missed the set, so one day I found a Panasonic mini TV that was olive drab in color, looked exactly like a piece of military gear. I purchased it and it came with me into the field many many times, I could sit in my radio teletype rig and watch TV, my wife would pre-cook some hamburgers for me and I would heat the atop a small lantern, stick them back on the bun and squeeze some ketchup from McDonald's. Since my rig was considered classified as I sent and received classified information, I always had it locked, when an officer would come for some reason or another, I could flip the switch on the little OD TV and they had no idea that it was not part of the very complicated configuration of the ANGRC122 Radio Teletype rig.
It is a nice memories with the air field watching duty...and the days went by very fast...sure you're still longing for those days.
About 40 years ago when I was an electronics tech. we stopped working on those because of time and dependability issues. In my opinion, you are one of the best technicians out there. I thoroughly enjoy your videos. They say patience is a virtue, I say patience is a vulture waiting to swoop in.
Shango is a legend in the southland.
ZULFIQAR pitafi 🇵🇰
His social satire is just as entertaining as his electronic/mechanical skills...
It's definitely part of the show.
Agree.
Shango066 has the best channel!! I want a Shango066 T-shirt lol ( with the tri-color Zenith logo)
I second that!
What always amazed me about some early Japanese TVs from the 60s they were already solid state we were still using tubes in our TVs that we made here in the US up until the early to mid 70s
The COVID19 Carnival Cruise, my lemonade shot out of my nose, thanks alot! lol
Barb Chester 😀😂🤣
Lol Geesh
And one of the really sad things is: She has no idea what Sony is talking about.
- and right into your display, as it happened with the TV too.
For the non TV repairmen, IF is intermediate frequency. Signals are converter from their native carrier frequency to a predictable/consistent frequency before being sent to the demodulating section.
"Our current limiting is this Chinese wire" Ah, the old Shenzen fuse. Keeps you safe and keeps you warm!
oh no
Bought a Samsung B&W Micro TV back in the early 80's? I think. Sold it to a friend years ago and it's still going strong.
You’re one of the neatest guys around, and so is Radiotvphononut. I like the resurrection of the radios, tv’s and record players, even the 1970’s plastic ones. Better quality plastic then. Like saving classic cars of the 1950’s and 1960’s you do one fantastic job on them, even if they’ve been baking out there in the desert for 45+ years. So much for junk tires, they can sit out there and rot. Keep the good videos coming, I’m a geek of electronics like you and Radiotvphononut. Learned of both of your RUclips channels in August of 2016, just a week or so after my mom passed away. If I find RUclips profitable, I may get myself a RUclips channel and join you guys. I’d like to see you resurrect the unresurrectable electronics. If not, hold onto them for they can be used for spare parts down the road.
The old saying is true "The transistors protect the fuse". I remember in early 70's having a 5" Sony Trinitron portable color set purchased from Lafayette Electronics. They were expensive around $450-$500. Memories!
I have one on the bookcase next to my desk. Last time I watched it was 25 years ago!
Haven't been on the COVID19 Carnival Cruise but have been on the Noro Carnival Cruise. It caused me to be very "evacuative"...and i got to see what i ate the week before...
I can't really imagine, but it must have been a miserable experience.
Even thought you said TIME VAMPIRE I still to this day like the selective deduction reasoning and logic of diagnosing the TV'S and radios you do., Worth the time.
This comment..right here. That's why I love this channel. REAL troubleshooting techniques. 🤓
"Is the Corona Virus sweeping across Europe?" ….YES! Bloomberg...what a joke! $500 Million spent for those annoying ads!! How many homeless, etc could that have helped? Well his money I guess he can do what he wants with it.
State of the art circa 1966.
Jesus, how many junk calls do you get?
Such a shame that someone twinko-torculated it before you did. I love these early portables
Small picture? Naaa, you see everyone struggling to watch media on their smart phones, they'll be blind in no time flat........
Ever work on a Sony 8-301W? Their first transistor set from about 1961, with an 8" screen in a rounded grey metal cabinet on a little chrome stand. Looks like something out of a Jetsons cartoon! I have two of them.
I still watch a 1970 Sony 5" 510-U, perched on top of my kitchen microwave.
Had one of these when I was a boy. Bought it for £2 hahha
People watched "The Flintstones" on that set.
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Me too! I don’t know what it is.
I always love the way you give up several times on some of this junk just to get it working in the end.
Keep up the good work. I love the channel!
Sometimes you just have to walk away and do something else for a while then come back with a fresh take on things and it falls into place for you. Took me a long time to figure that one out.
@@69Dartman
Agreed.
There's times I've given up on something, came back later went right to the problem and fixed it.
Owned both of these models when I was a kid. They lasted about 6 months each and then died. Nice video Shango066. Take care.
“Battery is not replaceable” ... Are we already in the Apple World ?
if that was made by Crapple, you'd have to throw it away after 6 years, because it's no longer supported
@@Mike1614b 6 year? that's a lot....
My kids will be lucky to get that long out of me haha
Actually, those Ni-Cd battery packs are re-stuffable. There are plenty of places around that specialize in the practice if you don't want to do the job yourself. Those look like standard size C Ni-Cd cells in that pack.
AND ANDROID
Thanks Shango, you make my week more enjoyable.
You should have told that lady on the phone that you want to go visit some rich persons holding corporation in the Cayman Islands.
Fix (at least) the smaller Sony TV to a composite video monitor! Get rid of the tuner section and install two RCA sockets onto the back of it! 😉
I am constantly inspired by watching these videos. I've improved my own electronics repair skills just by watching, following, and then going into my shop to fix something. FWIW: My brother had one of these Sony Micro-TVs (the one on the left), and it was the first TV I watched Star Trek on when I was a kid. Provokes great memories, and it shows great diagnostic problem determination skills by Shango066! Keep 'em coming!
Gotta love some mrs miller in the morning
GREAT Performance by Sony and Shango! . . . Who to vote for; You decide. = ]
We had one of the Sony portable TV's, used it for years before we dropped it in a box. It sat in the garage for over 20 years before I pulled it out, dusted it off, hooked it up to a power supply and it worked like new. The workmanship was outstanding, truly built to last.
Im waiting for his coming film:)
"The covid 19 catastrophic cruise" Directed by Shango 066
from Sony Pictures Entertainment Co.
ESR is not the be all/end all of judging capacitors. Too many today assume that ESR being low means it is OK.
Well, a shorted cap will have good ESR. Leakage will be ignored by most ESR meters, as will off-value capacitance. ESR meters are the simplest things to make but they won't tell you about many other failure modes. Meters that measure value MAY give you a clue: bad caps will have an elevated capacitance reading. Some will read 200-300 percent overvalue. Most are more subtle. Ideal examination requires something like a Z-meter (Sencore).
very good work though, but I think, you could have fix this ! The defektive output stage in the vertical and the working horizontal are the most critical stages, that you made working well, the if stage is not critical... The video-driver transistor works as an emitter-follower, every Si-pnp- would work here (BC558 or so..), the GT313 is way to fast as you said, but can produce some VHF-noise if not properly installed. I am glad to see the monitor-part work, though !
Those spade connectors are probably there so the person could use the TV with a 12v lantern battery. Probably way more economical than using C cells. Those big F cells in the lantern batteries are great.
Great repair attempt and the TV works. Very old deac battery cells.
Ahhh, sit down with a beer, some popcorn and a Shango video. Must see TV !
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Who I have the pleasure to speak with ? .... "This is Sony" .... "Hello Sony !" ...... LOL
I remember the Sony micro TV, and it was a portable TV from the 1960’s before iPhone’s and iPad’s. I used to have a JVC portable TV from 1976, but I don’t used it too much anymore.
MTN Productions Plural nouns aren't spelled with Apostrophes.
I wouldn't consider them hybrids because of the HV rectifiers, anymore than because of the CRT's. Back in the 70's I had a Heathkit/RCA 23" color set that was all solid state except for the CRT and a 3A3GT HV rectifier.
I bet Sony used a 25mhz IF because of the low FT of those Germanium transistors in the IF stage.
The whispers ripple down through the ages... about this Shango066... who with a laying of the hands - and application of electricity - resurrects the dead... the decaying... who's parts long since scattered to time... but once a year, one was sacrificed... one HAD to be sacrificed... to the screams... and the glowing torches of the approving, smiling, nodding masses
Well done Sir!You (just about) got a picture on it.
my favorite toy of the summer/fall of '79. i knew it was from the late sixties, but if i knew the true age of it, i would have maybe used it less. ten C duracells would set me back maybe 15.50 or so. i remember having banana splits with my cousin dolores, and watching match game. in san francisco i watched tic tac dough, mork and mindy, and laverne and shirley on it tuesday nights. it took forever to warm up, and would have a little dot for five minutes when shut off. evon stewart said she paid something a little over three hundred for it. it was brand new, with the cord in perfect shape. she didn't have the original box. a sony micro tv was pretty slick to have.
Funny you brought these out, I've just got my hands on a Bush BN6520 A (late 1970s J. Arthur Rank Radio International special) miniature TV/clock/radio with 4" CRT and built in alarm and sleep functions. :) Never knew they made tiny TV's as far back as mid '60s though, the set on the right is super cool looking.
It seems like I remember a Sears microwave that had a very small TV built in. I always wonder how much shielding it took to not fry the electronics. I had a under the counter small TV with a tuner much like a radio that I could also tune in cell phones sold by GE.
Ha ha Sony went literal with the tripler...Never seen that before? Thinking about it...Mostly after doubler you went to a tripler and left it there regardless of how many stages...
@shango066 how can i get in contact with you about donating something to the channel
Cheers from one of Italy's RED ZONES :DD
Best wishes. Stay healthy and be well. Watch the Shango066 videos. I hope you have enough parts and projects to stay entertained during the shut-down. God Bless
@@johnnytacokleinschmidt515 I do other kind of projects but as long as we're able to get to work I think I'll be busy enough :)
Anyway thank you!
A year later and still in the red zone
This is the perfect way to watch the debates.
You install surplus Russian transistors and Bernie appears on the screen!
Good one
Haha
Danish
Ironically the Russians don't believe much in Communism so much anymore, but Bernie does.
Can we PLEASE go BACK to the 70's?
Upgrade the fuse covered in foil for a .22cal round .
I think you would have fixed it quickly if nobody had gotten into it and tried to fix it before you. The aluminum foil on the fuse is a good indicator of that.
Here here here... Lets put it on a plate... Nice.
Strange you mention the Elna caps all being bad from this era, '75 onward they have all been good in the equipment I've found them in. And Shango, if you were "smart money" the world would be a much poorer place. Your persistence & determination are what we come to watch, if you can't fix it not many could!
I just recapped a Roberts 6000 portable tape deck and it had a ton of these Elna caps. They were all either open or waaaaayyyyy off value. It's just like Shango was saying I ended up pulling out the Sam's and ordering all of them from mouser.
Give them another 10 years and they will fail the same way.
@@equid0x That's probably what's wrong with the Rheem Roberts eight track I have, it's early 70s vintage, built by Akai. I hope it's not one of the Sanyo ICs that's popped.
@@a.fritzbecker8986 Probably the caps. My deck was completely dead before recapping.
@@equid0x It's an interesting turn, the vintage solid state stuff is to electrolytic cap replacement what tube equipment is to paper cap replacement, if not worse. I can remember having tube sets from the 1940s still functioning on most of their original caps in the late 80s and early 90s, but the caps in a lot of S.S stuff from the 60s was already starting to fail by then.
She probably just hung up because the Covid 19 Catastrophic Cruise was booked up. Bummer.
I love your groovy way of testing capacitors... so much quicker and calms the aggravation to have music playing
That poor TV started to cry as soon as the debate began..
Nice sets. Your symptoms asside from the no power are identical to what i encountered on mine. On my 5-303 i had a bad vertical output transistor. After replacing the transistor i now get a full raster for about 10 min before i start having vertical linearity issues. Sometimes noodling the pots brings it back. I suspect more bad caps (haven't re-capped the whole set yet) and some flaky trim pots.
Could be some out of tolerance resistors as well.
On my 5-307UW I replaced the resistors in stages on the deflection board testing after replacing several resistors. With each replacement the raster got a little better.
I don't know if you this dude but the flashing white lines on top of the picture is data for the closed captioning you cant see it on the new crt TV's cause you can't mess with the v hold thats how they hide that data stream is just outside where the picture is the dude from technology connections a RUclips channel has a hole video that explains it
A few weeks back some of my friends and I were talking about getting one of these in a civics class I have (were all in our mid teens). So instead of doing our work we just looked at them on ebay!
Can you figure this out?? Why do I like to watch your channel so much do I have a mental problem??😜
That one tv looks like someone hooked up a coaxal directly to the antenna input from a cable connection or from a output from a vcr i did that with a old thirteen inch i found in trash when i was a kid cause i wanted to pick up cable on it my mother new about that issue she told me i needed a pig tail to do something like that
Humor drier than a 43-year-old Sanyo electrolytic capacitator. Gotta absolutely love it!
Yay! Mrs Miller for the capacitor test!
Isn't the forward voltage drop between base and emitter germanium transistor is around 0.2V to 0 3V?
When the fuse blew because it started failing, the aluminum foil must have worked (for a little while). My parents tell me in the old knob-and-tube houses when they got broiler that would need 20a circuit someone put a penny in the fusebox lol!
i have one like the small one, slightly different, case is black vinyl covered, instead of the wood effect, vhf is ok but uhf seems dead, looks a fairly major job to get the uhf tuner out, ... i have a 'monitor' very similar to the larger one, just has video and audio input, no tuner/if parts...
the battery holder on my small one takes removable standard C cells, the nicad pack mustve been an alternative option...
Kitchen tv sets is what I called em as a kid my mom always had one on top of the fridge
turn it in to a securty tv to see watts going on round your front door when u playin with your tube sets lol.....
That tv set depict those rats as they are, crooked. And swinging between left and right.
What kind of vacation service were you calling at the 42:00 minte mark?
Do you got the Covid19 Catastrophic Cruise.......
My god sony were years ahead of anyone else, brill video cant wait till you fix the other one.
Big Question: Will we live until. November 3? Who will count the votes ?
The Democrats will miss count the votes including all of the fraudulent ones.
@ I guess if you can prove a case of Republican voter fraud and i can prove a case of Democratic voter fraud then does that make you a liar? God Bless.
@ We have a case right in Connecticut that's going to our state superior court. Linda Szynkowicz former state rep bringing the case. Information looks very clear. LINDA@FIGHTVOTERFRAUD.ORG Will that suffice? Thanks
Both sides of the coin shekel are filthy. Most people still don't get it.
@@watershed44 I agree. We have a highly corrupted government. Democrats and Republicans have been holding hands under the table so to speak. I missed Mr 12 oz response. Democrats want open borders. No ID voting. They want non residents what are called illegal aliens to be able to vote and have all rights Americans have and have free health care. Those illegal aliens are generally held from prosecution because the courts tell the police not to bring the cases because the people can't pay and don't show up for their dates. But the Democrats would never do anything related to voter fraud. Motor voter, early voting, absentee voting. It goes on. Yes I'm a Trump supporter and an Infowars listener and supporter. And a Christian. So God Bless Donald Trump and America!
LOL....it's like the electrons talk to you
Another great video! I appreciate the amount of time you put into these, I like the fact you don't give up just because it wasn't easy. Even as butchered as this is you breathed some life into it. Great diagnostics again, thanks as always for sharing!
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yes it's an interesting troubleshooting.
Even if at the end the image wasn't good enough.
Thanks for this vid.
Just made my day s66
Personally id pull the tuners and add AV jacks.
Saw that pitiful hacked up little thing and you’re talking about all the bad caps and transistors and I thought it was just hopeless. Just amazing!
The triumphant return of Mrs. Miller. Nice capacitated tweebulation.
Major RetroChad mode usage today. Lol
Nate Newman What happened to RetroChad?
Helps him stay in that special place..... I think...
My new death metal band name Caustic Crust
Elna capacitors are highly regarded in high end audio applications. I cant say so much for the old Japanese grey ones but ELNA silmic capacitors are nice for high end audio
This is like watching The Forensic Files
23:19 turns out my hearing is still in very good shape; went from watching this on a TV to a computer with headphones and now I can hear that distinct high-pitched CRT screech trying to split my cranium 🙃
Shango I can get free sams PDFs for stuff
I liked Drew Carey better than Gayle King on "Whose Line Is It Anyway".
Gayle King's only talent is knowing where to lick Oprah.
I have my Grandmother's old Sony B&W portable. Much bigger screen. Not sure but I think it's 10 inch approx diagonally. Not sure if it still works. Keepsake. She never used a battery pack. Just plugged into 120 volt A/C.
I have the same one on the left at the start of the video
I just saw that black Sony at a local junk shop for 50 dollars!
The Mustie of the electron world
I have a sony model # TV 72OU .. turned it on, nice bright raster, but vertical is kinda squunched .. skwunched? it looks a tad skwunchy. no tear-down yet.
Just found your video, great you got the picture working! I've got one very similar to the other model. Mine is a 5 - 303E which I've had since the early 70's! Not sure what I should / can do with it, any ideas? thanks and regards, Geoff from Merimbula Australia
sweet
I just had to Subscribe to your channel. Absolutely superb work and great video on getting this Micro portable working. I'm more of an Audio engineer when it comes to electronics but I'm old enough to remember the TV engineer coming round our house when I was young (1978/79)...thanks!!
respect from Montenegro MNE
I had a 501U (510U?), White and blue plastic with a detachable base that was the battery pack. Carried it everywhere when I was a teen. Sony wanted you to buy an adaptor to attach an external antenna, I hacked a speaker wire with a phone plug into a TV cable splitter for my own adaptor.