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Hi Paul. FWIW I love these longer format videos. In a sea of OCD, "5 minutes is an eternity" here on RUclips, your stuff really stands out as being thoughtful and a good investment of time for the audience.
You're so right! I can't remember the last half-decent film I watched but I'll cling to every minute of these videos. Much respect Mr C - people like you (willing to share knowledge online) have taught me more than schools ever did!
I relly enjoy the rhyth of these videos. I might tone down the repeating sentences a bit as I have watched pretty much all of his videos. Then again if someone only watches one or two it's good to press the important points a bit more. Nothing suits everyone at the same time of course.
The steps you tool to fully restore this radio just blows me away! You have a passion for this you put more money and time into the radio than its worth. Well done Sir!
@@MrCarlsonsLab Gives me hope I want to learn electronics so bad. I do Marine repair for a living over 21 years and it took a major dump it went down 99% I need to get out of it. But every time I see these old radios for sale they are at give away prices and they are not selling . I dont know what magic ball you have to find people with money but every one I know is broke. I got one of those old school Radio shack labs to build circuits off of ebay its was NOS but I have so much to learn I still dont know how these circuits work. Thanks for the reply
Aaaaahk it was very painful . Heritage value in that it was an exposed component. Radio worth less now. Nothing wrong with it , no reason to replace it imho.
Wonder how many old radio shows that radio has played??? Burns and Allen, Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly, no telling how many others... Well done Mr Carlson :-)
In my opinion.. u r the best electronic engineer I hve ever come across.. God bless ur incarnation in this time being.. Thank you for the wonderful enlightenment..
I did a bunch of radio restorations 25-30 years ago and just recently got back into it with a couple of recent projects on those 1940s type radios. The speakers are definitely more fragile, I had to repair the cones with Elmers glue. One was a Hallicrafters S-53 that had been partially recapped, but they left a bunch that seemed harder to get to. it was tricky to align, and had an oddball 2.075 Mhz IF. The other was a GE Octal All American 5 clock radio. It was pretty much unmolested, but a couple of tubes were bad, the line cord was shot, and it needed recapping. I managed to find replacement tubes and pretty close capacitors out of my own stock. It is still missing a knob for the on-off switch but is otherwise attractive and complete.
I am only 23 years old and working in broadcast engineering, but I think these long form factor videos are wonderful. So full of information and knowledge. Any time I see a new Mr. Carlson's lab video posted I get all giddy and grab some coffee to sit back and watch the whole thing. Thank you Paul for your wonderful service and keep it up!
I recently bought a zenith to refurbish. It was 30 bucks. Going through most of the listings for tube radios is "oh we plugged it in and it makes static". Sometimes you wonder how when you see pics of the line cords. Thanks to you I can figure it out and are the reason I broke down and signed up with patreon.
I was not expecting a reply but good to hear from you. I am kind of going into this backwards and had broadcast engineering put on me. As dangerous as these little radios are its not quite as bad as replacing a tube in a Harris HT30 that took up a weekend not long ago. That barked a major arc and that was an experienced engineer with me. I taught myself a lot as a kid making simple circuits for my dads model trains and more recent the previous engineers/my Elmers at the station but they have retired or passed away now. I don't have a formal education and just now digging into your courses. If they are anywhere near as good as videos here on youtube then I should learn a lot. Thank you again for doing this a lot of this especially in the broadcast world is a dying breed. I am the only one left within 2-3 hours of here. Oh I am looking at the list of caps you use and ran them through digikey and they are not cheap. This may be answered in patreon I am still learning how to use it but have you thought about buying the stuff you commonly use in bulk and then sell them to us as a kit to get started and then we can refill it as needed online for those of us who haven't built the testers yet to grade our own? I have quite a few grab bags from Amazon but the components themselves are anyones guess. I would also gladly buy the protector circuits you made for your analyzers and other projects where at least the board was made and the SMD components done. I have a tremor in my hands and they are just too small for me to work on. Same for the other devices. If you were to offer them as kits I would throw money at you.
It's awesome that someone actually knows this stuff. I cant even get a decent police scanner because everything went to digital and that's even more complicated.
Mystery device is a feedthrough capacitor. A relatively high value, probably paper/oil dielectric. Typical use would be running AC power supply leads into a shielded cabinet. Sprague was a major manufacturer. Some incorporated a series inductor in addition to the capacitance from the center conductor to the chassis. A forerunner of the EMI/RFI Filter modules commonly used nowadays.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Mr. Carlson is beyond his time..... He doesn't look old enough to have the knowledge that he does about vacuum tube's, and at the same time, to have more than an equal amount about today's technology. I'm 74 years old, been in electronics all my life, and yet I still learn things from his video's. Where was this type of gifted individual when I was in college ??? I had great teachers, but none had the ability to get things across like Mr. Carlson. If only it were possible to go back in time........
Hi Don. Just one extra safety step. If the radio was ever to get plugged into a house outlet that was wired incorrectly, the chassis would be closest to the hot line. One end of the external antenna connection connects directly to the chassis, and the other through that safety cap to the jack (Fahnestock clip) on the rear of the radio.
Hi Paul. What a lovely radio and video too. I wish the UK kept hold of its vacuum tube equipment, but all that is around here is silicon and the occasional germanium 😒 also looked like some form of feed through capacitor! 🤔. From Paul her in the uk.
Замечательный дизайн! И сейчас выглядит вполне современно! Лампа 12SQ7 сделала революцию схемотехнике супергетеродинов. Набор джентльмена: xSQ7, xSK7, xSQ7, 5OL6 В СССР 6А7 6К7 6Г2 6Ф6
Smart move not playing with the tuner needle. I wish I was that smart. Thanks for the tip on the adjustment, I'm sure it'll be quite helpful once I manage to get the thread and needle back on
Just found your channel. Longtime UD watcher. Love your content. Your shop looks like something out of military repair shop back in the day. I thought for sure when you were rolling the dial at the end you was going to find Wolfman Jack howling out the next record he was getting ready to spin. Thanks for the download.
You can get micro tubes which are wire ended and will run of batteries that might be an idea, I can think of a Mixer upgrade with three ECC88 configured to operate like a SO42P Balanced mixer and also provide the Local Oscillator and will cut out a lot of junk in the IF leaving only what is wanted and making it easier to set up.
My life at the moment is about photojournalism in the realms of Sea-Doo Fish Pro jet skis - fishing, spearfishing, catch n’ cook - yet when the Mr C bell rings, it all goes electrical
as a foreigner, with time i learned to understand a big variety of english accents and manners of speaking, i want to point out how clear MC's spoken english is, i always feel like no single sound is skipped, i consider him also a voice talent, among other things
Trivia answer: A feedthru filter capacitor used to pass power through a metal enclosure while filtering out high frequency interference. I have seen these in army surplus equipment like transmitters/receivers and dynamoters (a motor/generator). ====== Your Nixie Tube is featured in a recent youtube by "Techmoan" entitled "Nixie Tube Spectrum Analyzer" ruclips.net/video/6kVIciuZtwM/видео.html
Hi Paul, you have a bunch of viewers who watched a video by MUSTIE1 who found an old SILVERTONE radio ( circa 1930) and attempted to fire it up. The two of you could do a DUO video on restoration / safety tips . It would be cool to see a joint video and see how it would boost both of your ratings. Thanks J K
I haven't read every single comment, sorry if there are already comments about it, but I honestly think that these kinds of old radio's or this style at least would look very good in a very modern styled living room interior with black and white colors, in my opinion. What a great piece of history. Very nice!
Re the "paint job". Makes me wonder more generally if you ever seek out the more detailed history of the items you repair/restore? Would give a lot of interesting insight into the "why's and wherefore's" of the item and remove some of the conjecture - especially if you made contact with the original owner/s
Whoa! A new restoration video from Mr. Carlson's Lab?! Life gets put on hold for the next 1 hour and 33 minutes. Entertaining and educational, very good, very nice, thank you.
“Wow , what a mess” Classic Mr C right here. Lmao. Instantly horrified. “Oh look at that “ “Awe that’s nice “. Lmao. He’s like (Paul , you are ) the Gordon Ramsay of radio repair Just way more subtle. And no one to actually yell at. Again. I’m proud you are one of us. A Canuck !
Looking at the mess in the chassis, I'd have gotten out the schematic and checked all the component values against it. I wouldn't have trusted that anything was done correctly once I'd seen that cap that was way out of spec.
What I am absolutely curious to know is what is that piece of equipment you have what looks to my left as I'm facing my screen it has two meters on a top what it looks like to me is a face of some sort looking at you you know what the two eyes for the meters in the nose for that big dial in the middle and then the outside plugs as the mouth tell me if you see the same thing nice job on the video by the way love watching your videos look forward to them every time I see them on RUclips
Congratulations!!!!is weird to see a a guy of your age handling very old electronics that reminds me my grandfather he was very good working with the blaupunkt vitrolas
The station sweep at the end of every restoration is really defeating... after all that trouble making the receiver perfect just to realize that there's mostly only garbage to listen to on the air... :(
Wow... that trivia answer was amazingly timely... I'd not long watched a video on Techmoan's channel about an IN-9 based spectrum analyzer by "Mr Nixie" How cool!
As I said in another comment, I really like the long form of many of your videos. Thank you for making them. What a nice radio, very pretty. And a superb restoration, such neat wiring, as all your projects are. I never knew the interesting history of Majestic, but according to the Wikipedia article which I just read, an early product they made was the B battery eliminator, which had been designed by William Lear (who later founded Lear Jet). And I never knew they were the second largest manufacturer of radios in the United States, behind RCA, in the late 1920's. They were producing 4,000 radios a day in their Chicago factory and employed 11,000 workers to do that. Over the time from the 30's to the 50's the company had its ups and downs economically and at one time was forced by the court to liquidate and the trustee sold their factory and other assets to Zenith, who used it to expand their business. I believe it was a later version of Majestic that eventually became the US importer of Grundig radios, which became Grundig Majestic! I know there are dealers who sell restored radios (hopefully well restored like you do). But you have been able to find so many non-restored and interesting radios to restore; I am curious how you come up with so many interesting radios? Last, I know you sometimes restore radios for collectors, but do you keep all the radios you own and restore or do you sell them?
Absolutely love these long format videos. Exactly as you suggest I grab a bite to eat and a cup of coffee, throw it up on the TV in the lounge and just kick back and enjoy the content!
Your work always inspires me to go the extra mile with all of my projects; electronic or otherwise. Thanks again for all your great work with this channel and with the Patreon channel. Great explanation of the line cord replacement.
Bassman , I quoted you when talking with another ham at an ARC auction, "I promise to do a Paul Carlson level restoration if you sell me your receiver!" de KQ2E
Are you old enough to remember the public tube-testers in many stores? If your radio or TV broke, you'd take the tubes to the store, test them on a simplified machine for consumer use and buy new ones if needed. Many people probably missed the HV rectifier in its cage and the hard-to-see tuner tuner tubes. Damn I'm old to remember those.
That's a really neat looking Art Deco style radio. Thanks for the discussion on the audio transformer and how it is wired. I was not aware of the multi-faceted role they play and you probably prevented me from making a regrettable error somewhere down the line. Also, can I ask where you get your carbon resistors? Nearly all the kits I see online are metal film types from China and are temperature sensitive. I could really use an assortment of carbons in my stock. Thanks for another great resto video!
Hi SY. The resistors are NOS, so nothing purchased recently. You will notice the carbon composition resistors (the majority) are high accuracy types. The best place to find this stuff is in surplus sales. Ham swaps are another good source.
LOL, I hate to think of how many views for EACH video are mine :P There is so much information that I watch each video several times and often back up to hear things again! This video is no exception, a whole lot of information that is professionally presented. KUDOS Mr Carlson! I am PROUD to be a Patreon!!!!
The european AC/DC sets straight up connected one pin of the line input directly to the chassis. To make it worse, the plugs used in Germany were (and are!) totally symmetrical so impossible to polarize. They DID isolate the chassis relatively well when the radios were new, but this included wax seals above the set screws in knobs etc. which were seldom replaced correctly. Also more often than not, the external inputs were tied directly to the chassis to. The only safety precaution here was a "ACHTUNG! Verwende nur Tonabnehmer nach DIN" = "Attention! Only use pickups conforming to DIN." The american design with the separate ground bus and no external inputs at all, besides the inductively coupled antenna were way ahead of this.
had to resub AGAIN for the what?... 4th time now youtube ??? -----> was wondering why i didnt got ANY notification anymore -------> so i looked you up Manually ;) anyways -------> runs to the kitchen to fetch me a beer and a bag of potato chips 1 hour and 33 minutes of joy-----> hitting play in 3,.. 2 ,.. 1 ,.. Quiet on the set !!! ----------> aaaaaaaaaaand ........Action
I love your videos and I know there is much conjecture about this subject and it’s my fault and not yours, but it drives me bat shit crazy listening to you pronounce the word solder. I’ve been in electronics for 45 years and 99% of the people don’t pronounce the L.
Keith Miller yes but you also have Al you men E um and La boy A tories. And put your luggage in the boot and engines under bonnets where we put our feet in boots and our heads under bonnets. 😉. Your cars have wings and our airplanes have wings. You had King George and we had president George Washington. My post was a joke.
Today we will be replacing these high tension line power conditioning capacitors, now remember if you take on a project like this, you do so at your own risk. 😂🤣 Love your vids Mr. Carlson!
Great stuff. That radio wouldn't look out of place in a design museum. Funny enough Techmoan has a recent video featuring an audio analyzer that uses those indicator tubes you revealed at the end.
@ 5:10 "Dee-Cal", Not deckle. Sorry. I'm the middle child. My sister is in Canada and my brother is in Meh-Hee-Coh. (There is a little Phlegm sound on "Hee". Canada is pronounced just as it is spelled. :-) Don't get me wrong. I Love South America. Venezuela needs help. Nicolas Maduro. He needs to go. Is the new "professional" out there? Natalie Portman? You should be pro by now. Anyway! Awesome Radio. Beautiful. Oh, you already said that. Carry on, my mentor. I am seriously considering getting back into electronics. To learn tube circuits, if anything. Huh, I am already learning a boatload! I'm here, right? :-) Mr. Carlson is the Best!
I have enjoyed your videos for many months, and you remind me of my old H.S. Electronics/Electricity teacher. Everything kinda makes sense in the way it’s presented. I have an older 16MM sound projector that my Grandfather used to show films in 1931. That makes it a very early sound projector,and it uses an electro-magnet speaker, and very old style tubes. I have not tried to use it in decades, and the sound system started failing before that. It’s a basic projector and worked well for it’s time. The hum that developed was likely the capacitors drying out, and the sensor that was used began to fail and the sound died. Do you know if there would be interest in restoring the unit for posterity? I have kept it in the family and have many of the old films that my grandfather showed to tenants on his South Carolina island. That, in itself, is a long story 🙂. I’d be interested in your thoughts. Steve Kaeser Maryland
You can fix those (long necked) pot axles by cutting the axle below the (presumably broken) fork and then drilling and tapping for a new piece of rod. You do the same for the replacement rod, and thread the two together with some thread lock. Once that's done, you gently saw a new fork. Have done it. Works really nice, and in some countries, you can even get specific kits for this kind of job, well, used to, i haven't done this in 5 years.
Another really enjoyable video Paul. In my country the entire AM band has been given over virtually to minority culture representation talkback which means if you only speak English there's very little in the way of material to listen to if you restore a neat old receiver. My next project will have to be a flea power AM tx-r to relay some old era-genre music etc
Nice restoration. I wonder if anyone has used an IN9/13 as a tuning indicator instead of a magic eye? Todays mystery part looks like an rf feedthrough capacitor, maybe out of some of your broadcasting equipment to block noise?
Do u ever consider any of the 40s and 50s fm radios or even the early 60s and late 50s fm stereo radios I know alot of people who have a hard time repairing and aligning these kinda of radios the German and philcos seem quite hard for people to get right the tube versions of course. They also seem to be getting more popular
Sir, I came across your channel about a year ago, you create content for free and I am not a rich man otherwise I would help out, but you have single handedly reignited my passion for engineering, it is nice i feel like a graduate again, thanks buddy, I share your enthusiasm! Keep up the good work
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My guess at the device at the end is that there's a coil inside that thing, and the two screws are the terminals, so it's some kind of choke.
Hi Paul. FWIW I love these longer format videos. In a sea of OCD, "5 minutes is an eternity" here on RUclips, your stuff really stands out as being thoughtful and a good investment of time for the audience.
You're so right! I can't remember the last half-decent film I watched but I'll cling to every minute of these videos. Much respect Mr C - people like you (willing to share knowledge online) have taught me more than schools ever did!
lelelelelelel muh ocd Im so quirky!
I relly enjoy the rhyth of these videos. I might tone down the repeating sentences a bit as I have watched pretty much all of his videos. Then again if someone only watches one or two it's good to press the important points a bit more. Nothing suits everyone at the same time of course.
This content is great. I haven't seen all of his vids, but will eventually. I'm starting with the longest ones first tho!
I'm a bit emotional, but I've almost cried when I first saw this Tube Tester. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life.
Think what the present generation misses out on... so much of the beauty of life!
When I was growing up I built a knight kit tube tester, e.g. gen and etc.
The steps you tool to fully restore this radio just blows me away! You have a passion for this you put more money and time into the radio than its worth. Well done Sir!
You should see what people offer me for these. Thanks for your kind comment Roger!
@@MrCarlsonsLab Gives me hope I want to learn electronics so bad. I do Marine repair for a living over 21 years and it took a major dump it went down 99% I need to get out of it. But every time I see these old radios for sale they are at give away prices and they are not selling . I dont know what magic ball you have to find people with money but every one I know is broke. I got one of those old school Radio shack labs to build circuits off of ebay its was NOS but I have so much to learn I still dont know how these circuits work. Thanks for the reply
The mains line cord removal was so satisfying.
Aaaaahk it was very painful . Heritage value in that it was an exposed component. Radio worth less now. Nothing wrong with it , no reason to replace it imho.
Wonder how many old radio shows that radio has played??? Burns and Allen, Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly, no telling how many others... Well done Mr Carlson :-)
In my opinion.. u r the best electronic engineer I hve ever come across.. God bless ur incarnation in this time being..
Thank you for the wonderful enlightenment..
Thank you Fred!
Anyone else feel like going and buying yet another antique radio too work on after watching Mr. Carlson's videos?
I did a bunch of radio restorations 25-30 years ago and just recently got back into it with a couple of recent projects on those 1940s type radios. The speakers are definitely more fragile, I had to repair the cones with Elmers glue. One was a Hallicrafters S-53 that had been partially recapped, but they left a bunch that seemed harder to get to. it was tricky to align, and had an oddball 2.075 Mhz IF. The other was a GE Octal All American 5 clock radio. It was pretty much unmolested, but a couple of tubes were bad, the line cord was shot, and it needed recapping. I managed to find replacement tubes and pretty close capacitors out of my own stock. It is still missing a knob for the on-off switch but is otherwise attractive and complete.
Another great informative and detailed restoration video by the Amazing Mr. Paul Carlson! Thank You!
I am only 23 years old and working in broadcast engineering, but I think these long form factor videos are wonderful. So full of information and knowledge. Any time I see a new Mr. Carlson's lab video posted I get all giddy and grab some coffee to sit back and watch the whole thing. Thank you Paul for your wonderful service and keep it up!
Glad you're enjoying Nicholas!
I don't know what that is, but I found one in the Mohave Desert several years ago. Picked it up and it lays in my tool box from my RV
I like when you get vintage stuff to work on.
I recently bought a zenith to refurbish. It was 30 bucks. Going through most of the listings for tube radios is "oh we plugged it in and it makes static". Sometimes you wonder how when you see pics of the line cords. Thanks to you I can figure it out and are the reason I broke down and signed up with patreon.
Glad to be of assistance James!
I was not expecting a reply but good to hear from you. I am kind of going into this backwards and had broadcast engineering put on me. As dangerous as these little radios are its not quite as bad as replacing a tube in a Harris HT30 that took up a weekend not long ago. That barked a major arc and that was an experienced engineer with me. I taught myself a lot as a kid making simple circuits for my dads model trains and more recent the previous engineers/my Elmers at the station but they have retired or passed away now. I don't have a formal education and just now digging into your courses. If they are anywhere near as good as videos here on youtube then I should learn a lot. Thank you again for doing this a lot of this especially in the broadcast world is a dying breed. I am the only one left within 2-3 hours of here. Oh I am looking at the list of caps you use and ran them through digikey and they are not cheap. This may be answered in patreon I am still learning how to use it but have you thought about buying the stuff you commonly use in bulk and then sell them to us as a kit to get started and then we can refill it as needed online for those of us who haven't built the testers yet to grade our own? I have quite a few grab bags from Amazon but the components themselves are anyones guess. I would also gladly buy the protector circuits you made for your analyzers and other projects where at least the board was made and the SMD components done. I have a tremor in my hands and they are just too small for me to work on. Same for the other devices. If you were to offer them as kits I would throw money at you.
@@JamesHalfHorse Thanks for your input James!
It's awesome that someone actually knows this stuff.
I cant even get a decent police scanner because everything went to digital and that's even more complicated.
Mystery device is a feedthrough capacitor. A relatively high value, probably paper/oil dielectric. Typical use would be running AC power supply leads into a shielded cabinet. Sprague was a major manufacturer. Some incorporated a series inductor in addition to the capacitance from the center conductor to the chassis. A forerunner of the EMI/RFI Filter modules commonly used nowadays.
Or it could be a high current rectifier diode, perhaps?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Mr. Carlson is beyond his time..... He doesn't look old enough to have the knowledge that he does about vacuum tube's, and at the same time, to have more than an equal amount about today's technology. I'm 74 years old, been in electronics all my life, and yet I still learn things from his video's. Where was this type of gifted individual when I was in college ??? I had great teachers, but none had the ability to get things across like Mr. Carlson. If only it were possible to go back in time........
Hi Paul...This was so enjoyable. A great teacher. Thank you. Looks like old High-current diode..
I Love Allen Bradley. Awesome components.
Thanks Paul! Very nice restoration! The component looks like it might be a HV diode of some sort.
Very good restoration! Exellent work. Well done sir.
@1:06:39 a rewarding and gratifying moment. Well done Paul. Can you expand on using a safety cap on the antenna... All the best. Don
Hi Don. Just one extra safety step. If the radio was ever to get plugged into a house outlet that was wired incorrectly, the chassis would be closest to the hot line. One end of the external antenna connection connects directly to the chassis, and the other through that safety cap to the jack (Fahnestock clip) on the rear of the radio.
Hi Paul. What a lovely radio and video too. I wish the UK kept hold of its vacuum tube equipment, but all that is around here is silicon and the occasional germanium 😒 also looked like some form of feed through capacitor! 🤔. From Paul her in the uk.
Thanks for your kind comment Paul!
Замечательный дизайн! И сейчас выглядит вполне современно!
Лампа 12SQ7 сделала революцию схемотехнике супергетеродинов.
Набор джентльмена: xSQ7, xSK7, xSQ7, 5OL6
В СССР 6А7 6К7 6Г2 6Ф6
Excellent. A lot of good safety tips too.
Smart move not playing with the tuner needle. I wish I was that smart.
Thanks for the tip on the adjustment, I'm sure it'll be quite helpful once I manage to get the thread and needle back on
very interesting mr carlson thank you
Just found your channel. Longtime UD watcher. Love your content. Your shop looks like something out of military repair shop back in the day.
I thought for sure when you were rolling the dial at the end you was going to find Wolfman Jack howling out the next record he was getting ready to spin.
Thanks for the download.
Mrister Carlsons lab your utube videos are awesome keep up the good work 👏 🙌 👍 my friend 📻
Woohoo, new restoration video! Had a really bad day today, but no better way to end it than this! Thank you, Paul!
Another fascinating and educational video in nice long format. I soak these up like a sponge :-) Cheers
Dude this is so enjoyable
Respect for you.🙂👍
Its a beauty !
Well done sir!
You can get micro tubes which are wire ended and will run of batteries that might be an idea, I can think of a Mixer upgrade with three ECC88 configured to operate like a SO42P Balanced mixer and also provide the Local Oscillator and will cut out a lot of junk in the IF leaving only what is wanted and making it easier to set up.
Paul, i love your vids.. much love from germany :-)
wonderful radio in all ways! Subscribed!
Great job Mr.Carlson´s!
This was so enjoyable. Mr. Carlson is a superb teacher.
Even today it looks futuristic..
My life at the moment is about photojournalism in the realms of Sea-Doo Fish Pro jet skis - fishing, spearfishing, catch n’ cook - yet when the Mr C bell rings, it all goes electrical
Who was the designer of this receiver? It is soo timeless!
Mr Carlson is a real pro, everything is well thought out and presented in the best way.
Lots of tips and techniques. A great teacher. Thank you.
as a foreigner, with time i learned to understand a big variety of english accents and manners of speaking, i want to point out how clear MC's spoken english is, i always feel like no single sound is skipped, i consider him also a voice talent, among other things
That's when horror shows were on the radio... looks like the show remained well after the broadcast was over.
Anyne spotted the similarity of the shape of this receiver to Zap Brannigans space ship Nimbus in Futurama?
Niiiice.
Trivia answer: A feedthru filter capacitor used to pass power through a metal enclosure while filtering out high frequency interference. I have seen these in army surplus equipment like transmitters/receivers and dynamoters (a motor/generator).
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Your Nixie Tube is featured in a recent youtube by "Techmoan" entitled "Nixie Tube Spectrum Analyzer" ruclips.net/video/6kVIciuZtwM/видео.html
Always makes my day when a new Mr. Carlson's Lab video pops up. Thanks for that!.
Always excellent, and informative content. Love your vids!
Trivia: It's a feed-through capacitor, used bring power into a chassis while bypassing high frequencies to the grounded chassis terminal.
Paint's so good I thought it was Catalin!
Very, very interesting. I just wonder though, if you also re-painted the case or left it as you found it.
Hi Paul, you have a bunch of viewers who watched a video by MUSTIE1 who found an old SILVERTONE radio ( circa 1930) and attempted to fire it up. The two of you could do a DUO video on restoration / safety tips . It would be cool to see a joint video and see how it would boost both of your ratings. Thanks J K
I haven't read every single comment, sorry if there are already comments about it, but I honestly think that these kinds of old radio's or this style at least would look very good in a very modern styled living room interior with black and white colors, in my opinion.
What a great piece of history. Very nice!
Brilliant Paul. Best channel on youtube!!
Re the "paint job". Makes me wonder more generally if you ever seek out the more detailed history of the items you repair/restore? Would give a lot of interesting insight into the "why's and wherefore's" of the item and remove some of the conjecture - especially if you made contact with the original owner/s
feedthrough capacitor. A transmitter?
Whoa! A new restoration video from Mr. Carlson's Lab?! Life gets put on hold for the next 1 hour and 33 minutes. Entertaining and educational, very good, very nice, thank you.
“Wow , what a mess”
Classic Mr C right here. Lmao.
Instantly horrified.
“Oh look at that “
“Awe that’s nice “. Lmao.
He’s like (Paul , you are ) the Gordon Ramsay of radio repair
Just way more subtle. And no one to actually yell at.
Again. I’m proud you are one of us. A Canuck !
Looking at the mess in the chassis, I'd have gotten out the schematic and checked all the component values against it. I wouldn't have trusted that anything was done correctly once I'd seen that cap that was way out of spec.
What I am absolutely curious to know is what is that piece of equipment you have what looks to my left as I'm facing my screen it has two meters on a top what it looks like to me is a face of some sort looking at you you know what the two eyes for the meters in the nose for that big dial in the middle and then the outside plugs as the mouth tell me if you see the same thing nice job on the video by the way love watching your videos look forward to them every time I see them on RUclips
Hi Adron. That's a regulated power supply with many outputs. Thanks for your kind comment!
@@MrCarlsonsLab you are sure welcome I do enjoy watching and listening to your videos very entertaining and I learned a lot from you
That radio just looks cool. What a timeless masterpiece.
PERFECT AS ALWAYS !!👍👍 And a feed threw capacitor / condenser one use is to block RF noise
I nearly cried when you showed the underneath, it had been butchered.
Fantastic job!
Mrister Carlsons lab my hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb iam thinking about getting my ham license 😅😅
Congratulations!!!!is weird to see a a guy of your age handling very old electronics that reminds me my grandfather he was very good working with the blaupunkt vitrolas
The station sweep at the end of every restoration is really defeating... after all that trouble making the receiver perfect just to realize that there's mostly only garbage to listen to on the air... :(
Wow... that trivia answer was amazingly timely... I'd not long watched a video on Techmoan's channel about an IN-9 based spectrum analyzer by "Mr Nixie" How cool!
I saw that one, too!
As I said in another comment, I really like the long form of many of your videos. Thank you for making them.
What a nice radio, very pretty. And a superb restoration, such neat wiring, as all your projects are.
I never knew the interesting history of Majestic, but according to the Wikipedia article which I just read, an early product they made was the B battery eliminator, which had been designed by William Lear (who later founded Lear Jet).
And I never knew they were the second largest manufacturer of radios in the United States, behind RCA, in the late 1920's. They were producing 4,000 radios a day in their Chicago factory and employed 11,000 workers to do that.
Over the time from the 30's to the 50's the company had its ups and downs economically and at one time was forced by the court to liquidate and the trustee sold their factory and other assets to Zenith, who used it to expand their business. I believe it was a later version of Majestic that eventually became the US importer of Grundig radios, which became Grundig Majestic!
I know there are dealers who sell restored radios (hopefully well restored like you do). But you have been able to find so many non-restored and interesting radios to restore; I am curious how you come up with so many interesting radios?
Last, I know you sometimes restore radios for collectors, but do you keep all the radios you own and restore or do you sell them?
This one looks much more simpler than the receivers from the 30s I saw you repairing before. Another amazing job. Thank you.
That is one sexy radio. If radios could be sexy that is.
sti....stick your insulated screwdriver in it
Absolutely love these long format videos. Exactly as you suggest I grab a bite to eat and a cup of coffee, throw it up on the TV in the lounge and just kick back and enjoy the content!
Could you do a video restoring a Hammarlund SP 600? Or a Collins R 390/390A?
Really love the professional way you do restorations. Absolutely amazing!
They are on my "to do" list.
@@MrCarlsonsLab , Might as well go right to the best of the best! If you can find one and do it right, we'd all love it so much! de KQ2E
Your work always inspires me to go the extra mile with all of my projects; electronic or otherwise. Thanks again for all your great work with this channel and with the Patreon channel. Great explanation of the line cord replacement.
You're very welcome Mr Bassman.
Bassman , I quoted you when talking with another ham at an ARC auction, "I promise to do a Paul Carlson level restoration if you sell me your receiver!" de KQ2E
Very high frequency capacitor? I don't know, but very neast and clean work, the radio is megnificent!
Are you old enough to remember the public tube-testers in many stores? If your radio or TV broke, you'd take the tubes to the store, test them on a simplified machine for consumer use and buy new ones if needed. Many people probably missed the HV rectifier in its cage and the hard-to-see tuner tuner tubes.
Damn I'm old to remember those.
Hi Robin, I do remember. And I own one as well.
That’s one beautiful radio. 🤓
That's a really neat looking Art Deco style radio. Thanks for the discussion on the audio transformer and how it is wired. I was not aware of the multi-faceted role they play and you probably prevented me from making a regrettable error somewhere down the line. Also, can I ask where you get your carbon resistors? Nearly all the kits I see online are metal film types from China and are temperature sensitive. I could really use an assortment of carbons in my stock. Thanks for another great resto video!
Hi SY. The resistors are NOS, so nothing purchased recently. You will notice the carbon composition resistors (the majority) are high accuracy types. The best place to find this stuff is in surplus sales. Ham swaps are another good source.
LOL, I hate to think of how many views for EACH video are mine :P
There is so much information that I watch each video several times and often back up to hear things again!
This video is no exception, a whole lot of information that is professionally presented. KUDOS Mr Carlson! I am PROUD to be a Patreon!!!!
What a nice radio Paul,,,, and another bundle of information thrown in as well. Thanks again pal.
Happy to share Carl!
I am impressed with how clear the radio sounds, and all the channels across the band,well done.
I'd be interested to find out about your experience living on the international space station.
lol...I was gonna say at the beginning it looks like he's in the command module of Apollo 11...
Is there a way to take the white paint off and bring that back to original color
The european AC/DC sets straight up connected one pin of the line input directly to the chassis. To make it worse, the plugs used in Germany were (and are!) totally symmetrical so impossible to polarize.
They DID isolate the chassis relatively well when the radios were new, but this included wax seals above the set screws in knobs etc. which were seldom replaced correctly. Also more often than not, the external inputs were tied directly to the chassis to.
The only safety precaution here was a "ACHTUNG! Verwende nur Tonabnehmer nach DIN" = "Attention! Only use pickups conforming to DIN."
The american design with the separate ground bus and no external inputs at all, besides the inductively coupled antenna were way ahead of this.
had to resub AGAIN for the what?... 4th time now youtube ??? -----> was wondering why i didnt got ANY notification anymore -------> so i looked you up Manually ;)
anyways -------> runs to the kitchen to fetch me a beer and a bag of potato chips
1 hour and 33 minutes of joy-----> hitting play in 3,.. 2 ,.. 1 ,.. Quiet on the set !!! ----------> aaaaaaaaaaand ........Action
My National NC109 looked way worse when i got it. Took me a couple weeks of evenings to fix it . Some people should just leave the cover screws in lol
I love your videos and I know there is much conjecture about this subject and it’s my fault and not yours, but it drives me bat shit crazy listening to you pronounce the word solder. I’ve been in electronics for 45 years and 99% of the people don’t pronounce the L.
Here in England everyone pronounces the L, so it must be a regional thing. I remember Fran Blanche talking about this a short while ago.
Keith Miller yes but you also have Al you men E um and La boy A tories. And put your luggage in the boot and engines under bonnets where we put our feet in boots and our heads under bonnets. 😉. Your cars have wings and our airplanes have wings. You had King George and we had president George Washington. My post was a joke.
Today we will be replacing these high tension line power conditioning capacitors, now remember if you take on a project like this, you do so at your own risk. 😂🤣 Love your vids Mr. Carlson!
Great stuff. That radio wouldn't look out of place in a design museum. Funny enough Techmoan has a recent video featuring an audio analyzer that uses those indicator tubes you revealed at the end.
@ 5:10 "Dee-Cal", Not deckle. Sorry. I'm the middle child. My sister is in Canada and my brother is in Meh-Hee-Coh. (There is a little Phlegm sound on "Hee". Canada is pronounced just as it is spelled. :-) Don't get me wrong. I Love South America. Venezuela needs help. Nicolas Maduro. He needs to go. Is the new "professional" out there? Natalie Portman? You should be pro by now. Anyway! Awesome Radio. Beautiful. Oh, you already said that. Carry on, my mentor. I am seriously considering getting back into electronics. To learn tube circuits, if anything. Huh, I am already learning a boatload! I'm here, right? :-) Mr. Carlson is the Best!
His repair is a complete rebuild form the ground up! love it! I would actually like to have a radio made and designed by Mr. Carlson!
I have enjoyed your videos for many months, and you remind me of my old H.S. Electronics/Electricity teacher. Everything kinda makes sense in the way it’s presented.
I have an older 16MM sound projector that my Grandfather used to show films in 1931. That makes it a very early sound projector,and it uses an electro-magnet speaker, and very old style tubes. I have not tried to use it in decades, and the sound system started failing before that. It’s a basic projector and worked well for it’s time. The hum that developed was likely the capacitors drying out, and the sensor that was used began to fail and the sound died.
Do you know if there would be interest in restoring the unit for posterity? I have kept it in the family and have many of the old films that my grandfather showed to tenants on his South Carolina island. That, in itself, is a long story 🙂.
I’d be interested in your thoughts.
Steve Kaeser
Maryland
You can fix those (long necked) pot axles by cutting the axle below the (presumably broken) fork and then drilling and tapping for a new piece of rod. You do the same for the replacement rod, and thread the two together with some thread lock. Once that's done, you gently saw a new fork. Have done it. Works really nice, and in some countries, you can even get specific kits for this kind of job, well, used to, i haven't done this in 5 years.
Another really enjoyable video Paul. In my country the entire AM band has been given over virtually to minority culture representation talkback which means if you only speak English there's very little in the way of material to listen to if you restore a neat old receiver. My next project will have to be a flea power AM tx-r to relay some old era-genre music etc
Nice restoration. I wonder if anyone has used an IN9/13 as a tuning indicator instead of a magic eye? Todays mystery part looks like an rf feedthrough capacitor, maybe out of some of your broadcasting equipment to block noise?
…."Will Robinson....its does not compute!!"..…...now we know who the Robot's short fat grandfather was...
Do u ever consider any of the 40s and 50s fm radios or even the early 60s and late 50s fm stereo radios I know alot of people who have a hard time repairing and aligning these kinda of radios the German and philcos seem quite hard for people to get right the tube versions of course. They also seem to be getting more popular
I wonder what causes yellow powder on metal chassis and is it really that dangerous
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, experience, and projects with us.
Sir, I came across your channel about a year ago, you create content for free and I am not a rich man otherwise I would help out, but you have single handedly reignited my passion for engineering, it is nice i feel like a graduate again, thanks buddy, I share your enthusiasm! Keep up the good work
You're welcome Bjorn!
Hello, do you know where I can find replacement if transformers for my majestic model 5a410?