Seth, yet another awesome video from you! I've always adored these German sets, from the late 1950's to the early and mid-1960's. I also can't believe how clean and mint your Toyota Tacoma is! My friend's '97 4x4 Tacoma was not as in good of a shape as yours is, but you manage to keep yours mint, clean, and maintained. Good luck to you on your new driveway.
Fascinating - loved watching this. I've been around records and record players all my life but never learned about servicing except maybe the basic turntable stuff. Way back when I was about 3 years old my Mum would prop me up in front of her big old Portadyne radiogram for me to put records on the changer (Collaro I think) and I never looked back. My dream is to own a late 50s/early 60s valve radiogram which has been completely restored to new condition inside and out. It will happen - one day...thanks for the memories.
One of my PC customers just gave me a mint '62 Sonata like this one. The cabinet is showroom perfect, but at least some filter caps are bad because of the AC hum... I'm blown away by how bizarre and crappy the innards are laid out and assembled. Looks like Telefunken outsourced the design to escaped asylum patients... Like you I'm gonna try to do the least amount of wrangling required to get it to work "pretty well." Just imagining the alignment process is overwhelming! And I have no experience at all with the changer mechanism. Thanks a bunch for posting this! I appreciate your efforts. Plus...loved the sporadic "sailor talk." Sometimes stuff gets real! --NT0Z
You're a brave one for fixing this one. A friend has one similar. A larger console. Grundig I think. It has something I've never seen before. A single tuning knob for four different tuner dials. It has a little "transmission" with gears that shift from one dial to another depending which selector is pressed, AM, FM, SW etc. Unfortunately the gears are disintegrating and it's not repairable. They are no picnic to work on.
Thanks for doing these German sets, I have always been a bit intimidated by mine, but you are making it look easy. Maybe I should give it a go on a recapping, it has always been pushed back on the shelf and I work on something I am familiar with. Last German radio I worked on was a Grundig. I thought I brought it up slow with a variac for about 30 minutes, but the main cap let go and spewed white powder all over inside the radio as soon as I took it off the leash on full power. I probably should have been feeling the can for heat, but now that is hindsight. Another great video, thanks....
Hi, thanks so much for this very helpful video. I have one on the bench right now. What a dog's breakfast, it looks like it just grew like topsy, with no thought given to repair at all! Can you help me understand better what you did to replace the "paper' behind the dial, please? What material did you use, how did you mount it? Would greatly appreciate your advice - thankyou in advance 🙂
OK, had time to read through the comments. Can see why Seth is too busy to worry with them. Holy shorted capacitor, Batman! Some of these folks need to get a life! Seth offers us the opportunity to join him in these great restorations and some people just bitch, piss and moan 'cause he, a successful restoration expert, doesn't do it 'their' way. His work is good enough for Glasslinger and Mr. Carlson, the two best of the best to praise him, but, yeah....
I have a massive telefunken console that I'd love to get restored, thanks for posting this. only 5 minutes in so far but this is interesting. my console stereo does work fairly well but the record player is chewed up, I'd love to know if I could hook up external speakers to it for a better sound with the old analog style radio it has those same plugs as the one shown in this video but I didn't find anything that made sense re speakers for it. cheers.
Oh my... so many things happened way too fast but not waiting the 15 seconds for a tube to warm up before calling it "sick" at 16:00 really triggered me... Man, take your time.
It was actually 20 seconds. Tube in socket at 15:50 and was declared "sick" at 16:10. The tube before that was starting to move the needle and conduct at 10 seconds and was fully conducting at 15 seconds. When you compare it to the other tubes it was a slow starter perhaps, but that means it was tired anyways.
@@zulumax1 Power tubes from different brands "light up" quite differently... For instance my daily driver FM radio with all of it's original tubes jump starts the Philips Miniwatt EL84 from 1953 for 10 seconds, before the rest of the circuitry... I hear the front end going without input for something like 5 seconds. A 1969 NOS Polam EL84 comes up with sound and you hear the volume cranking up. A NOS very strong 1989 Russian 6П14П-ЕВ (military grade EL84 analogue) needs 20+ seconds to start conducting. My point is... this restoration takes so much time and, finally, the tube testing goes on like an F1 race.
This is my other seldom used account. But anyway Mister radio responding. Anyway... The tube in question was drastically more sluggish than any of the others. It would probably have still worked. Even tubes that test very weak will usually do the job okay. But keep in mind most of the people that are getting these from us are not technical. I want to make sure they have the best-performing most reliable set so that I don't have to do a house call anytime soon
Some German radios used capacitor coupled audio outputs with high impedance speakers, believe it or not no output transformers! 😯😯😯 I have one, a Phillips Jupiter model.
Is it really that much activity at the repair bench in the museum or just a bunch of "old farts" being inconsiderate? From what you can hear there not working on anything.....
So you've never been around a bunch of old farts before? Go to your local v.f.w and find out for yourself. Kinda like moving to a small town and sstill being the new kid after 20 years.
@@Scott.Newmaster So, let me get this straight: a guy that has no videos has to spew his nonsense comment just for attention, and compares the radio museum to a V.F.W.? I got you.
Wen I was in the electronics service, we turned down down these German radios because we could not make money servicing them. I can't see why you spend so much time trying to servicinjg them when they were not made to be repaired. Way over engineer.
@@michaelpetersonjr Yes, But look how much time it took to do it. He could have repaired 4 domestic radios in that much time. Can't make any money that way.
@@MartinSBrown-tp9ji Well, then, how about *you* make a video of how to repair radios, whether domestic or imported, and see how much time it takes to repair one or a few while filming? And also try editing videos for about three to four hours in order to make the video come out right. Oh, that's right, you can't because you do not have any videos, but again instruct someone on how to repair sets? Isn't the Internet world offended enough already? Your comment is so laughable that I am no longer laughing.
@@michaelpetersonjr I did not knock the video or the work he was doing. At my age I don't make videos. I was in the electronic service 40 years ago and we just could not afford the time it took to service the German made radios. A dummy like you just can't understand what I was saying in my comment.
Seth, yet another awesome video from you! I've always adored these German sets, from the late 1950's to the early and mid-1960's. I also can't believe how clean and mint your Toyota Tacoma is! My friend's '97 4x4 Tacoma was not as in good of a shape as yours is, but you manage to keep yours mint, clean, and maintained. Good luck to you on your new driveway.
Fascinating - loved watching this. I've been around records and record players all my life but never learned about servicing except maybe the basic turntable stuff. Way back when I was about 3 years old my Mum would prop me up in front of her big old Portadyne radiogram for me to put records on the changer (Collaro I think) and I never looked back. My dream is to own a late 50s/early 60s valve radiogram which has been completely restored to new condition inside and out. It will happen - one day...thanks for the memories.
One of my PC customers just gave me a mint '62 Sonata like this one. The cabinet is showroom perfect, but at least some filter caps are bad because of the AC hum... I'm blown away by how bizarre and crappy the innards are laid out and assembled. Looks like Telefunken outsourced the design to escaped asylum patients... Like you I'm gonna try to do the least amount of wrangling required to get it to work "pretty well." Just imagining the alignment process is overwhelming! And I have no experience at all with the changer mechanism. Thanks a bunch for posting this! I appreciate your efforts. Plus...loved the sporadic "sailor talk." Sometimes stuff gets real! --NT0Z
You're a brave one for fixing this one. A friend has one similar. A larger console. Grundig I think. It has something I've never seen before. A single tuning knob for four different tuner dials. It has a little "transmission" with gears that shift from one dial to another depending which selector is pressed, AM, FM, SW etc. Unfortunately the gears are disintegrating and it's not repairable. They are no picnic to work on.
Ja es ist gut! Mid-century like goodness. Glad that you volunteer at the museum but your vids are better from your
workshop garage space.
Thanks for doing these German sets, I have always been a bit intimidated by mine, but you are making it look easy. Maybe I should give it a go on a recapping, it has always been pushed back on the shelf and I work on something I am familiar with.
Last German radio I worked on was a Grundig. I thought I brought it up slow with a variac for about 30 minutes, but the main cap let go and spewed white powder all over inside the radio as soon as I took it off the leash on full power. I probably should have been feeling the can for heat, but now that is hindsight. Another great video, thanks....
that is WAY better than any record player we had in 1962! it would have been playing all day at our house.
ok finished the video, thanks again for sharing, very helpful for my initial planning for that project if it even needs anything.
This was great fun, thank you!
Hi Seth. I always enjoy your videos. I have learned so much from them. I thought you might have played some Frank Sonata on it. LOL. 😂👍
Hi, thanks so much for this very helpful video. I have one on the bench right now. What a dog's breakfast, it looks like it just grew like topsy, with no thought given to repair at all!
Can you help me understand better what you did to replace the "paper' behind the dial, please? What material did you use, how did you mount it?
Would greatly appreciate your advice - thankyou in advance 🙂
Nice Job !
OK, had time to read through the comments. Can see why Seth is too busy to worry with them. Holy shorted capacitor, Batman! Some of these folks need to get a life!
Seth offers us the opportunity to join him in these great restorations and some people just bitch, piss and moan 'cause he, a successful restoration expert, doesn't do it 'their' way. His work is good enough for Glasslinger and Mr. Carlson, the two best of the best to praise him, but, yeah....
How did you wire the auxiliary for the bluetooth? Im attempting to do the same.
I have a massive telefunken console that I'd love to get restored, thanks for posting this. only 5 minutes in so far but this is interesting. my console stereo does work fairly well but the record player is chewed up, I'd love to know if I could hook up external speakers to it for a better sound with the old analog style radio it has those same plugs as the one shown in this video but I didn't find anything that made sense re speakers for it. cheers.
Hi, I have this console, do you restore these for the public? I also have external telefunken speakers.
how to adjust the Counterweight of this machine? (como ajustar o contrapeso)
B&K 1655 is a great unit.
Oh my... so many things happened way too fast but not waiting the 15 seconds for a tube to warm up before calling it "sick" at 16:00 really triggered me... Man, take your time.
It was actually 20 seconds. Tube in socket at 15:50 and was declared "sick" at 16:10. The tube before that was starting to move the needle and conduct at 10 seconds and was fully conducting at 15 seconds. When you compare it to the other tubes it was a slow starter perhaps, but that means it was tired anyways.
@@zulumax1 Power tubes from different brands "light up" quite differently... For instance my daily driver FM radio with all of it's original tubes jump starts the Philips Miniwatt EL84 from 1953 for 10 seconds, before the rest of the circuitry... I hear the front end going without input for something like 5 seconds. A 1969 NOS Polam EL84 comes up with sound and you hear the volume cranking up. A NOS very strong 1989 Russian 6П14П-ЕВ (military grade EL84 analogue) needs 20+ seconds to start conducting. My point is... this restoration takes so much time and, finally, the tube testing goes on like an F1 race.
This is my other seldom used account. But anyway Mister radio responding. Anyway... The tube in question was drastically more sluggish than any of the others. It would probably have still worked. Even tubes that test very weak will usually do the job okay. But keep in mind most of the people that are getting these from us are not technical. I want to make sure they have the best-performing most reliable set so that I don't have to do a house call anytime soon
That left knob is volume, not on off.
hello beautifu telefunken , brazil
where are the output transformers?
Some German radios used capacitor coupled audio outputs with high impedance speakers, believe it or not no output transformers! 😯😯😯 I have one, a Phillips Jupiter model.
Top is hosed
WALL-KEE-GAN
my parents are from Des Plaines, It would be an insult if I did not know how to say Waukegan! :P
Is it really that much activity at the repair bench in the museum or just a bunch of "old farts" being inconsiderate? From what you can hear there not working on anything.....
Really, dude? 🙄
So you've never been around a bunch of old farts before? Go to your local v.f.w and find out for yourself. Kinda like moving to a small town and sstill being the new kid after 20 years.
@@Scott.Newmaster So, let me get this straight: a guy that has no videos has to spew his nonsense comment just for attention, and compares the radio museum to a V.F.W.? I got you.
No. Giving examples you could compare.
@@Scott.Newmaster 🤣😂
you don't know how to say Waukegan?! FOR SHAME! :P
Wen I was in the electronics service, we turned down down these German radios because we could not make money servicing them. I can't see why you spend so much time trying to servicinjg them when they were not made to be repaired. Way over engineer.
Lol, at least he got it to bring back to active service again.
Really?
@@michaelpetersonjr Yes, But look how much time it took to do it. He could have repaired 4 domestic radios in that much time. Can't make any money that way.
@@MartinSBrown-tp9ji Well, then, how about *you* make a video of how to repair radios, whether domestic or imported, and see how much time it takes to repair one or a few while filming? And also try editing videos for about three to four hours in order to make the video come out right. Oh, that's right, you can't because you do not have any videos, but again instruct someone on how to repair sets? Isn't the Internet world offended enough already? Your comment is so laughable that I am no longer laughing.
@@michaelpetersonjr I did not knock the video or the work he was doing. At my age I don't make videos. I was in the electronic service 40 years ago and we just could not afford the time it took to service the German made radios. A dummy like you just can't understand what I was saying in my comment.