Don’t forget the South has the highest concentration of states that still allow smoking in bars, and restaurants, so you’d be free to chase that Oreo battered deep fried Twinkie with the rich satisfying flavor of a Pall Mall 100.
I have a neat idea. You should think about taking a road trip around the country with some transistor radios, a cigarette lighter to wall plug adapter, and some of your favorite radios. You can listen to all the different AM stations around the country in your car. I know here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, we have a ton of AM stations and even billboards promoting them. Give it a thought.
I used to work at a UPS sort facility. I don't remember any driver or others throwing packages. It just doesn't happen very often. My job was to repair/repackage destroyed packages, relabel and send. I've seen thousands of damaged packages. The #1 reason for damaged packages is poor packing. The #2 reason was the sort conveyors getting overloaded and causing a bottleneck jam. You get a couple hundred boxes coming down and JAM, the next boxes pile up and just beat the tar out of each other. There is huge pressure to get the trucks loaded so the drivers can start their routes on-time. If an airplane is late, that's when things get rushed hard. Imagine all your overnight packages showing up 15 minutes before the trucks start leaving. A huge wave of packages come down and that's all she wrote.
that’s probly nothing compared to an amizon delivery sort center, I was in the truck yesterday evening, a leaky box of laundry soap contaminated soaking thru the packaging of a dozen adjacent boxes and I almost slipped and busted my skull on the steel conveyor, it’s sooo bad man I wanna get outta there
@@dampandrew I worked at UPS 20 years ago. Things are a billion times worse now I'm sure. You be careful out there. It's easy to get hurt and messed up for the rest of your life. I think about that poor Amazon driver in Santa Monica. He could have died over stupid packages.
You should watch the FedEx videos of drivers tossing televisions and computer monitors across the fence. I've have had that happen before and it temps one to stand behind a tree with a shotgun to show that gorilla what the package would have felt if it were alive! USPS's sorting facilities aren't much better. If it comes bu air then you just have to hope and pray the package survives the "flight" from the inside of the cargo hold of the plane tot he tarmac! I've seen that before as well back before I totally quit flying altogether. The you add air filled boxes, as in NO packing materials at all such as Amazon and Publishers Clearing House and it's a complete miracle any of their items ever arrive intact.
That's the first time I've seen an across the line capacitor that is wired in the rectifier filament. The engineers didn't want it to scare the consumer so they used the rectifier as a fuse to prevent a loud pop and smoke. Interesting. That was okay in the 1960s when rectifier tubes were cheap and plentiful. No more worries with that film capacitor 👍. I learned something new today thanks
12:50 Your spot on about revitalizing AM. Also, cleaning up the electronic noise generators (switching power supplies) would help AM immensely. Of course I don't suppose the FCC going to do much to fix that issue.
my boy just sold a sony cassette player an he boxed it up so it can be dropped from 10 feet,,shipping is not nice on most stuff as they dont care ..love your vids keep it up
This chassis is used on a lot of RCA tube radios from 1959 to 1966. Bad capacitors and worn out tubes are common. Not surprised about the bad solder joints on the chassis either. There is a RCA radio out there where they tilt this chassis at a 30 degree angle to fit it inside the cabinet! Working on a 1-RA -55 and a 1-X-4EJ which has a peculiar gimmick wire on the end of the tuning cap that turns a toothless gear with two wraps of the dial cord which in turn moves another dial that has a red arched mark on it to show where you are on the radio dial. Totally strange design.
MEGURO is an extinct Japanese electronic component manufacturer most famously known for the brain circuitry used in the 1974 iteration of Mechagodzilla.
I still think that the FCC letting AM go to digital is a bad idea, as some will still go digital. Here in the DC area, AM is mostly dead, but we still have some good ones such as WKCW 1420 (a music station), WMAL 630 (DC's home for Rush Limbaugh), and others
I agree that it is a bad idea, but I can't see it happening any more than Brian can. How many people do you know that have a digital AM receiver? Why would a station want to alienate what little market it now has? Sure, some will do it, and will die sooner than if they didn't. But not many, especially after word gets around the industry that the obvious happens. I bet the FCC won't let them switch back to analog if they switch to digital.
Balthromaw , don't give up on the clock just yet. The motor shaft and gears might just need a cleaning and a drop of clock oil on each part that moves. That is, assuming the clock motor is not burned out. You can check this with a multimeter. If you can measure electrical resistance across the motor coil, the motor is probably ok, and this procedure should then work. I restored several clock radios this same way. The clock motors did not work when I got them, but every single one of them now do, by use of the procedure I just described above. Give it a try. It should work ok for you, too.
@@jeromewysocki8809 The Motor is done, connected the winding to a meter and I get nothing, and even still some of the clock parts are rusted away. The radio had mud in it... so not sure if some ones basement or something flooded at some point. its a miracle i got the chassi working as some of the traces was missing.
Strange. The dial has the Conelrad Civil Defense (CD) markings. They stopped putting them on after the 1963 model year. RCA must have used up all it's old stock instead of dumping them.
if that case is made from a soft plastic such as styrene/abs, i'd advise not using epoxy but 'melt weld' it with MEK or acetone, i've had epoxy break off from various plastics...
andygozzo72 , if you use acetone or MEK, be very careful. These are both powerful solvents. A drop of either one on an area of the cabinet you didn't want it to contact will permanently damage the cabinet. Other than that, I agree that either of these solvents, carefully used, will give a permanent, satisfactory repair. By the way, you might be able to use "clear nail polish remover" for such a repair, if the label on the bottle says it contains acetone.
@@jeromewysocki8809 oh, i know.. you HAVE to be careful with them,.. i've never known nail polish remover to work, yes it contains acetone, but its not 100% , it has other stuff in, mostly water, that stops its working so well....
andygozzo72 , maybe its that in recent years, they reduced the acetone content. Forty plus years ago, my wife spilled a small amount of nail polish remover on a stained and varnished wooden lamp table. The finish was destroyed almost instantly. Anyway, I see from other replies that other liquid materials would work. Old fashioned model airplane cement would work, too. I'm referring to the stuff that contains lots of toluene. But they probably got rid of this stuff, because kids used to get high sniffing the toluene in the glue. (Sniffing toluene fumes also starts dissolving the liver, not a good thing to experience!)
Commercial Radio and TV is commercials. I cannot imagine ever paying for tv again, unless they removed the commercials, which they will not do. I know PBS, and premium channels do not show commercials during the show. But premium channels are expensive.
AM stations are also likely to keep in mind their average consumer is of the age that they’re not interested in running out to buy a digital radio, or stream the station over a computer. They wanna hear their squak radio over the same GE tabletop set they’ve been using the past 30 years, while they eat their bowl of bran pellets in the morning, DAMN IT! 😁
They've got a real tough problem. If they keep targeting the 80-to-dead market, in 20 years the market will be dead with the exception of the one remaining listener someplace in the country. So they need to try to figure out how to again target a younger audience. But most of the younger audience barely knows that AM exists and mostly laughs about how crappy it sounds. Of course that crappy sound is a combination of crappy radios and crappy over-modulated stations playing things young people can't stand to listen to. But most stations will want to retain their current audience while trying to gain new, and I doubt many of the 80 to dead crowd are interested in mumble rap. I have a feeling we are seeing the end of an age, like my parents saw the end of commercial buggy lamp makers. There are still buggy lamp makers, but I think there are two of them, and they are guys working in their sheds, not some company in Hartford with a hundred employees selling thru the Sears & Roebuck catalog. AM radio is probably going the same way. These days music and entertainment means your Ipod or your cell phone, which you can maybe redirect the output wirelessly to your TV set or the display on your refrigerator door. FM radio probably isn't far behind AM.
I'd guess that the biggest incentive to go digital would be the power consumption of a 50,000 watt transmitter. At 10 cents per KWH and 50% efficiency, that would be $10 per hour, or $1,680 per week. I don't know what a digital transmitter consumes, but I've heard it's significantly less.
The AM broadcast band USED to be much better. That said, it would help if some of those stations would ditch the talk radio format, and bring back music.
And not just Top 20, or 5 like it seems, even on the Christian station Family Radio. You get tired of hearing the same thing over and over again. Throw in some oddities guys!!
bob7872 , I really miss good old fashioned AM radio. A few generations ago, radio announcers were live and had real personalities. I loved listening to the likes of WGN and WBBM, both clear channel stations from Chicago. They had really good all night programming. My favorites back then were Franklin McCormick (WGN) and Jay Andres (WBBM). Yup, programming on those clear channel 50 kilowatt flame throwers was really great then.
The am radio receivers in new vehicles are crap, The sound is bad, and its not due to the stations, it due to the receivers. My old am radios at home sound great.
Yeah i've worked on quite a few of those RCA's with that chassis from the 60's Just about every cap is leaky and most all the resistors were way up in value. They didn't use the best components in these.
I used to work at a UPS sort facility. I don't remember any driver or others throwing packages. It just doesn't happen very often. My job was to repair/repackage destroyed packages, relabel and send. I've seen thousands of damaged packages. The #1 reason for damaged packages is poor packing. The #2 reason was the sort conveyors getting overloaded and causing a bottleneck jam. You get a couple hundred boxes coming down and JAM, the next boxes pile up and just beat the tar out of each other. There is huge pressure to get the trucks loaded so the drivers can start their routes on-time. If an airplane is late, that's when things get rushed hard. Imagine all your overnight packages showing up 15 minutes before the trucks start leaving. A huge wave of packages come down and that's all she wrote.
@@MikeF1189 I've occasionally in the past delivered packages to, or picked up packages at the UPS customer facility at the depot at ONT. The customer facility is a small change out-building to the main warehouse, with one loading dock and roll conveyor to it. Come 4:30 or 5, just before closing, they would back a truck up to the dock, stand the driver in the far front of the 20 foot box, and the two loaders would grab packages off the conveyor end and toss them to the driver to stack. Sometimes he missed one, but not too often. Then he'd toss the package on top of the current pile and reach to grab the next one that was already in the air. So yea, packages get thrown around, out where customers could see it done, back when they still had customer access, which like everything else is now closed due to the convenient Forever Disease we have now.
@@lwilton You know I was thinking about this and you're right. I guess it's sort of semantics about what is considered throwing a box or not. I was referring to the malicious destroying of a package. Technically speaking every single package is thrown multiple times through its delivery. That's just a fact of life. But the idea of a delivery driver deliberately damaging or carelessly handling a package just isn't connon. UPS drivers have a relationship with their customers and are embarrassed to bring a destroyed package for delivery. UPS is a huge company and you get all types.
@@MikeF1189 At a guess the major damage happens to packages from scuffing on decks, falling off docks, a stack in a truck falling over, or something like that. The trouble with old empty state electronics is that there is a lot of room inside a radio or the like, and nothing that is really there to support a tube or a phono arm. Even a 6 inch drop on a hard surface can pull a tube out of its socket or smash a phono arm around. A 6 inch drop upside down or on a side can do a lot more damage, even if the item is wrapped in 4 layers of bubble wrap. It isn't unusual for a chassis weighing 20 pounds to be held to a case with 4 small wood screws or a couple of sheet metal screws. As long as things are right side up that is fine. Turn it upside down and drop it a few inches and everything falls apart. Even if a seller wraps a package correctly, they really need to pad the empty spaces pretty well, including taking the back off and padding around tubes and the like. Most people probably don't know enough to do that. They should also use Fragile and This End Up stickers on the package. But there is a strong urban myth that those are signs to shippers to deliberately destroy packages, so they are seldom used. And I suspect that few people pay them any attention as they are tossing the package from the end of the conveyor into the front of the truck.
@@lwilton the fragile labels are completely ignored. It doesn't attract attention in any way. The handler just doesn't register that he/she ever saw it. There's just too many packages too fast. I assume you're probably correct about the damage internally to packages. I'm not real sure about that as my job only dealt with packages that were destroyed to the point where they needed to be repackaged or relabeled. If something was damaged inside the box but externally looks fine, I would have never seen that package. I remember once this nice old lady had made and jarred her own salad dressing and packed 12 canning jars full in a box just big enough to hold them all. They almost made it to the destination. They arrived in my short facility, was part of a box jam and few jars broke. The dressing leaked out and started spreading all over the belt. Hundreds of boxes and overnight letter envelopes were covered in 1000 island. Just imagine receiving everyone's paychecks from corporate covered in salad dressing. Smelled great, but what a mess. The label was wet and unreadable but there was a letter inside. So I called the old lady and she let us handlers have the unbroken jars as compensation for cleaning up the mess.
he's the Master , me, too! When the work bench gets too cluttered, I'll start using another one, and so on. "Clean up the work bench" you say? Gee, I never thought about that!!! 🙂😁😅🤣
@@fixman88 There are lots of stations that offer both the analog and HD carrier, but there aren't a lot of listeners for HD. This feature has practically disappeared from new radio receivers.
@@gotham61 Sangean sells at least two different HD Radio models. I know because I own both of them. New car radios often have HD Radio capability. All HD Radio stations transmit the analog signal too; that's a standard thing.
I love black gospel music. Makes me jealous I almost want to move to the South. The endless deep fried Carnival Fair diet is also very attractive
Yes, with you on that! Some of the more modern black praise music ain't half bad either. I also like the really old black jazz music.
Don’t forget the South has the highest concentration of states that still allow smoking in bars, and restaurants, so you’d be free to chase that Oreo battered deep fried Twinkie with the rich satisfying flavor of a Pall Mall 100.
Now I'm hungry!
Oh yes, the mini donuts!
Thanks, I like how you think and your honesty. It's sorely lacking today.
Love seeing tube radio's
I have a neat idea. You should think about taking a road trip around the country with some transistor radios, a cigarette lighter to wall plug adapter, and some of your favorite radios. You can listen to all the different AM stations around the country in your car. I know here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, we have a ton of AM stations and even billboards promoting them. Give it a thought.
I used to work at a UPS sort facility. I don't remember any driver or others throwing packages. It just doesn't happen very often. My job was to repair/repackage destroyed packages, relabel and send. I've seen thousands of damaged packages. The #1 reason for damaged packages is poor packing. The #2 reason was the sort conveyors getting overloaded and causing a bottleneck jam. You get a couple hundred boxes coming down and JAM, the next boxes pile up and just beat the tar out of each other. There is huge pressure to get the trucks loaded so the drivers can start their routes on-time. If an airplane is late, that's when things get rushed hard. Imagine all your overnight packages showing up 15 minutes before the trucks start leaving. A huge wave of packages come down and that's all she wrote.
that’s probly nothing compared to an amizon delivery sort center, I was in the truck yesterday evening, a leaky box of laundry soap contaminated soaking thru the packaging of a dozen adjacent boxes and I almost slipped and busted my skull on the steel conveyor, it’s sooo bad man I wanna get outta there
@@dampandrew I worked at UPS 20 years ago. Things are a billion times worse now I'm sure. You be careful out there. It's easy to get hurt and messed up for the rest of your life. I think about that poor Amazon driver in Santa Monica. He could have died over stupid packages.
You should watch the FedEx videos of drivers tossing televisions and computer monitors across the fence. I've have had that happen before and it temps one to stand behind a tree with a shotgun to show that gorilla what the package would have felt if it were alive! USPS's sorting facilities aren't much better. If it comes bu air then you just have to hope and pray the package survives the "flight" from the inside of the cargo hold of the plane tot he tarmac! I've seen that before as well back before I totally quit flying altogether. The you add air filled boxes, as in NO packing materials at all such as Amazon and Publishers Clearing House and it's a complete miracle any of their items ever arrive intact.
@@richardcline1337 I would love to see that video. I can't speak for other carriers. I only worked at UPS 20 years ago.
@@MikeF1189, another one: www.fox13news.com/news/watch-fedex-driver-tosses-packages-onto-front-doorsteps
That's the first time I've seen an across the line capacitor that is wired in the rectifier filament. The engineers didn't want it to scare the consumer so they used the rectifier as a fuse to prevent a loud pop and smoke. Interesting. That was okay in the 1960s when rectifier tubes were cheap and plentiful. No more worries with that film capacitor 👍. I learned something new today thanks
12:50 Your spot on about revitalizing AM. Also, cleaning up the electronic noise generators (switching power supplies) would help AM immensely. Of course I don't suppose the FCC going to do much to fix that issue.
my boy just sold a sony cassette player an he boxed it up so it can be dropped from 10 feet,,shipping is not nice on most stuff as they dont care ..love your vids keep it up
This chassis is used on a lot of RCA tube radios from 1959 to 1966. Bad capacitors and worn out tubes are common.
Not surprised about the bad solder joints on the chassis either. There is a RCA radio out there where they tilt this chassis
at a 30 degree angle to fit it inside the cabinet! Working on a 1-RA -55 and a 1-X-4EJ which has a peculiar gimmick wire on the end
of the tuning cap that turns a toothless gear with two wraps of the dial cord which in turn moves another dial that has a red
arched mark on it to show where you are on the radio dial. Totally strange design.
I have the exact same chassis, different style though, mine has a clock. Super simple chassis, mine was from 66 with dates of 8, 1966 on the tubes.
That sounds pretty good!
MEGURO is an extinct Japanese electronic component manufacturer most famously known for the brain circuitry used in the 1974 iteration of Mechagodzilla.
I still think that the FCC letting AM go to digital is a bad idea, as some will still go digital. Here in the DC area, AM is mostly dead, but we still have some good ones such as WKCW 1420 (a music station), WMAL 630 (DC's home for Rush Limbaugh), and others
I agree that it is a bad idea, but I can't see it happening any more than Brian can. How many people do you know that have a digital AM receiver? Why would a station want to alienate what little market it now has? Sure, some will do it, and will die sooner than if they didn't. But not many, especially after word gets around the industry that the obvious happens. I bet the FCC won't let them switch back to analog if they switch to digital.
SW Virginia has a lot of decent AM stations.
I have that same radio chassi , cept mine came with a clock . Clock is dead but the radio works decently
Balthromaw , don't give up on the clock just yet. The motor shaft and gears might just need a cleaning and a drop of clock oil on each part that moves. That is, assuming the clock motor is not burned out. You can check this with a multimeter. If you can measure electrical resistance across the motor coil, the motor is probably ok, and this procedure should then work.
I restored several clock radios this same way. The clock motors did not work when I got them, but every single one of them now do, by use of the procedure I just described above. Give it a try. It should work ok for you, too.
@@jeromewysocki8809 The Motor is done, connected the winding to a meter and I get nothing, and even still some of the clock parts are rusted away. The radio had mud in it... so not sure if some ones basement or something flooded at some point. its a miracle i got the chassi working as some of the traces was missing.
Strange. The dial has the Conelrad Civil Defense (CD) markings. They stopped putting them on after the 1963 model year. RCA must have used up all it's old stock instead of dumping them.
You still gotta clean your camera lens... check the top right.
Geesh all this stuff getting broke is frustrating
I’m sorry this happened to you again
Enjoying your radio repair videos :) glad you got your refund, but that seller was cheap. They should've let you keep it for parts.
It looks like a GE type IF can in there. Bet that’s the culprit.
if that case is made from a soft plastic such as styrene/abs, i'd advise not using epoxy but 'melt weld' it with MEK or acetone, i've had epoxy break off from various plastics...
andygozzo72 , if you use acetone or MEK, be very careful. These are both powerful solvents. A drop of either one on an area of the cabinet you didn't want it to contact will permanently damage the cabinet. Other than that, I agree that either of these solvents, carefully used, will give a permanent, satisfactory repair.
By the way, you might be able to use "clear nail polish remover" for such a repair, if the label on the bottle says it contains acetone.
@@jeromewysocki8809 oh, i know.. you HAVE to be careful with them,.. i've never known nail polish remover to work, yes it contains acetone, but its not 100% , it has other stuff in, mostly water, that stops its working so well....
plastic model aircraft cement may also work,
or 'pvc pipe cement', i have some of that, that works as it contains MEK and other adhesive compounds..
andygozzo72 , maybe its that in recent years, they reduced the acetone content. Forty plus years ago, my wife spilled a small amount of nail polish remover on a stained and varnished wooden lamp table. The finish was destroyed almost instantly. Anyway, I see from other replies that other liquid materials would work. Old fashioned model airplane cement would work, too. I'm referring to the stuff that contains lots of toluene. But they probably got rid of this stuff, because kids used to get high sniffing the toluene in the glue. (Sniffing toluene fumes also starts dissolving the liver, not a good thing to experience!)
Commercial Radio and TV is commercials. I cannot imagine ever paying for tv again, unless they removed the commercials, which they will not do. I know PBS, and premium channels do not show commercials during the show. But premium channels are expensive.
The problem with ebay feedback is there is LIMITED space to leave all of what you want to say...
AM stations are also likely to keep in mind their average consumer is of the age that they’re not interested in running out to buy a digital radio, or stream the station over a computer.
They wanna hear their squak radio over the same GE tabletop set they’ve been using the past 30 years, while they eat their bowl of bran pellets in the morning, DAMN IT! 😁
They've got a real tough problem. If they keep targeting the 80-to-dead market, in 20 years the market will be dead with the exception of the one remaining listener someplace in the country. So they need to try to figure out how to again target a younger audience. But most of the younger audience barely knows that AM exists and mostly laughs about how crappy it sounds. Of course that crappy sound is a combination of crappy radios and crappy over-modulated stations playing things young people can't stand to listen to. But most stations will want to retain their current audience while trying to gain new, and I doubt many of the 80 to dead crowd are interested in mumble rap.
I have a feeling we are seeing the end of an age, like my parents saw the end of commercial buggy lamp makers. There are still buggy lamp makers, but I think there are two of them, and they are guys working in their sheds, not some company in Hartford with a hundred employees selling thru the Sears & Roebuck catalog. AM radio is probably going the same way. These days music and entertainment means your Ipod or your cell phone, which you can maybe redirect the output wirelessly to your TV set or the display on your refrigerator door. FM radio probably isn't far behind AM.
I first thought the pcb was broke off
I'd guess that the biggest incentive to go digital would be the power consumption of a 50,000 watt transmitter. At 10 cents per KWH and 50% efficiency, that would be $10 per hour, or $1,680 per week. I don't know what a digital transmitter consumes, but I've heard it's significantly less.
I had a newcomb tube player that had an intermittent filter cap
The AM broadcast band USED to be much better. That said, it would help if some of those stations would ditch the talk radio format, and bring back music.
And not just Top 20, or 5 like it seems, even on the Christian station Family Radio. You get tired of hearing the same thing over and over again. Throw in some oddities guys!!
bob7872 , I really miss good old fashioned AM radio. A few generations ago, radio announcers were live and had real personalities. I loved listening to the likes of WGN and WBBM, both clear channel stations from Chicago. They had really good all night programming. My favorites back then were Franklin McCormick (WGN) and Jay Andres (WBBM). Yup, programming on those clear channel 50 kilowatt flame throwers was really great then.
The am radio receivers in new vehicles are crap, The sound is bad, and its not due to the stations, it due to the receivers. My old am radios at home sound great.
Am is dead in my area plus it easy to stream muisc online with shoutcast or icecast or digistream sam broacasters software
I went thru the same thing on ebay...and ebay would not let me leave a negative feedback for the seller i was dealing with.....how about that one...
Yeah i've worked on quite a few of those RCA's with that chassis from the 60's Just about every cap is leaky and most all the resistors were way up in value. They didn't use the best components in these.
Why does UPS throw packages? I could only wonder how long before my company would fire me for throwing anything!
I used to work at a UPS sort facility. I don't remember any driver or others throwing packages. It just doesn't happen very often. My job was to repair/repackage destroyed packages, relabel and send. I've seen thousands of damaged packages. The #1 reason for damaged packages is poor packing. The #2 reason was the sort conveyors getting overloaded and causing a bottleneck jam. You get a couple hundred boxes coming down and JAM, the next boxes pile up and just beat the tar out of each other. There is huge pressure to get the trucks loaded so the drivers can start their routes on-time. If an airplane is late, that's when things get rushed hard. Imagine all your overnight packages showing up 15 minutes before the trucks start leaving. A huge wave of packages come down and that's all she wrote.
@@MikeF1189 I've occasionally in the past delivered packages to, or picked up packages at the UPS customer facility at the depot at ONT. The customer facility is a small change out-building to the main warehouse, with one loading dock and roll conveyor to it. Come 4:30 or 5, just before closing, they would back a truck up to the dock, stand the driver in the far front of the 20 foot box, and the two loaders would grab packages off the conveyor end and toss them to the driver to stack. Sometimes he missed one, but not too often. Then he'd toss the package on top of the current pile and reach to grab the next one that was already in the air.
So yea, packages get thrown around, out where customers could see it done, back when they still had customer access, which like everything else is now closed due to the convenient Forever Disease we have now.
@@lwilton You know I was thinking about this and you're right. I guess it's sort of semantics about what is considered throwing a box or not. I was referring to the malicious destroying of a package. Technically speaking every single package is thrown multiple times through its delivery. That's just a fact of life. But the idea of a delivery driver deliberately damaging or carelessly handling a package just isn't connon. UPS drivers have a relationship with their customers and are embarrassed to bring a destroyed package for delivery. UPS is a huge company and you get all types.
@@MikeF1189 At a guess the major damage happens to packages from scuffing on decks, falling off docks, a stack in a truck falling over, or something like that.
The trouble with old empty state electronics is that there is a lot of room inside a radio or the like, and nothing that is really there to support a tube or a phono arm. Even a 6 inch drop on a hard surface can pull a tube out of its socket or smash a phono arm around. A 6 inch drop upside down or on a side can do a lot more damage, even if the item is wrapped in 4 layers of bubble wrap. It isn't unusual for a chassis weighing 20 pounds to be held to a case with 4 small wood screws or a couple of sheet metal screws. As long as things are right side up that is fine. Turn it upside down and drop it a few inches and everything falls apart.
Even if a seller wraps a package correctly, they really need to pad the empty spaces pretty well, including taking the back off and padding around tubes and the like. Most people probably don't know enough to do that. They should also use Fragile and This End Up stickers on the package. But there is a strong urban myth that those are signs to shippers to deliberately destroy packages, so they are seldom used. And I suspect that few people pay them any attention as they are tossing the package from the end of the conveyor into the front of the truck.
@@lwilton the fragile labels are completely ignored. It doesn't attract attention in any way. The handler just doesn't register that he/she ever saw it. There's just too many packages too fast.
I assume you're probably correct about the damage internally to packages. I'm not real sure about that as my job only dealt with packages that were destroyed to the point where they needed to be repackaged or relabeled. If something was damaged inside the box but externally looks fine, I would have never seen that package.
I remember once this nice old lady had made and jarred her own salad dressing and packed 12 canning jars full in a box just big enough to hold them all. They almost made it to the destination. They arrived in my short facility, was part of a box jam and few jars broke. The dressing leaked out and started spreading all over the belt. Hundreds of boxes and overnight letter envelopes were covered in 1000 island. Just imagine receiving everyone's paychecks from corporate covered in salad dressing. Smelled great, but what a mess. The label was wet and unreadable but there was a letter inside. So I called the old lady and she let us handlers have the unbroken jars as compensation for cleaning up the mess.
capacitor voice I call it or cylon voice by your command
United Parcel Smashers
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Nice
Although I seldom comment I've always enjoyed your videos. But really, Bubba, you gotta clean your workbench....thanks and God bless.
AW, BUG OFF!!! THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A TIDY ARTIST- AND RTPN IS AN ARTIST!!!
Another thing I have in common with Bryan is a very messy workbench, er' two workbenches!
he's the Master , me, too! When the work bench gets too cluttered, I'll start using another one, and so on. "Clean up the work bench" you say? Gee, I never thought about that!!! 🙂😁😅🤣
They are eventually going to pay radio similar to Sirius XM. You cannot get an am band anymore on the cheap cd boom boxes
Babbling ends at 4:20 not that we mind
mm no traduccion???? watsss?
Who the heck has a digital OTA radio receiver? HD-Radio (digital FM and AM) was a massive flop. Streaming is the digital future for radio.
Funny...where I live there are several HD Radio stations I listen to regularly.
@@fixman88 There are lots of stations that offer both the analog and HD carrier, but there aren't a lot of listeners for HD. This feature has practically disappeared from new radio receivers.
@@gotham61 Sangean sells at least two different HD Radio models. I know because I own both of them. New car radios often have HD Radio capability. All HD Radio stations transmit the analog signal too; that's a standard thing.