Geez thank you so much Manuel, coming from one of the radio restores i admire the most, it just puts a lump in my throat, it means the world to me, Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU !
Beautiful Raymond. The entire process is amazing to me. The grills and cloth look perfect. Once again the craftsmanship is a level above any I have ever seen. It’s going to be beautiful looking and sounding.
Hey Robb, hello again, and thank you so much for the elegies lol. Honestly I'm fairly new at this and there's a lot of room for improvement, but i like to think i'm learning from the best there is ; David and Manuel. I just finished re-shooting the final episode, i wasn't happy with the video quality, so i guess i'll spend God's day editing it. But it's for a good cause, I'm sure he'll forgive me 🙂
Great work! Remember with speaker grill cloth it needs to be acoustic fabric to let the sound pressure out correctly especially with high efficiency speakers driven by tube amplifiers..
Hello again Edward and thank you for the kind words. Yeah, getting an acoustically correct cloth was one of my concerns indeed. I brought the original cloth with me to my go to fabric store and showed it to the same nice lady that always helps me out. I've been there so often wielding a piece of old cloth, she knows what i'm looking for by now. After looking at the fabric and consulting with colleagues, she was categoric it was plain ol polyester. Granted the fibres might be ''slacker'' than when originally woven but it's basically polyester and that's what I got. I know there's a whole science behind speaker grille cloths and i understand it might be a concern for true audiophiles. With my 63 year old set of ears I don't consider myself much of an audiophile though, besides nobody can convince me the front grille cloth on my 4055 has any special acoustic qualities, from what I can tell it is a quite heavy cotton & polyester blend, with many rows or even thicker decorative embroidery patterns on top of it. No doubt this curtain like material stifles the sound to an extent, not so much audible on the low end of the spectrum, but definitely noticeable on the already weak (for the time) tweeters. The folks over at Luxury Radios believed this so much, the made the front cloth removable using an additional wooden board and velcro pads if memory serves. Very good idea, but i do not intend to go to that extent. Again thank you for your comment.
The cleaning of all that brass trim took an age but was well worth it. On my Grundig it seemed to take ages to get it started so I am not sure if it originally had a coat a lacquer on it. It is well worth the effort though and your work made it look as good as new. At the 27.15 min mark onwards you can really see the impact of all the rubbing which made a real difference to the appearance. Again well worth the effort of the finished result.
Hi again Swing Band, thank you for your delightful comment as well. Yes, you're absolutely right ,the brass is indeed gold plated and originally had a clear coating of some sort on top of it. Edward (Vintage-Tech) has explained it in details in his comment on episode 1. It made perfect sense when i started polishing the trims with Brasso; I mean i have polished brass with Brasso before and it always went well, not taking a lot of time at all compared to the trims on the 4055 which took over 10 hours. The first passes weren't removing much of the oxidation and i was wondering why, now that Edward schooled me on the matter i understand I was taking some of the oxidation off, but also most likely some of said clear coating. It became more and more obvious with time, there was something more to remove before getting to the actual plating than just normal chemical oxidation. From what i can tell not all of the protective coating was worn off, but whatever was left of it was chemically thinned by the oxidation and/or most of this oxidization was now below the clear coat, hence why it took so long to get to the actual gold plating to reveal its beauty. I knew something was going on just by looking at the rag i was using; At the beginning of the rubbing process it was a yellowish-brown colour, but later it became black like what i'm use to see when using Brasso or Mother's aluminium polish. All this to say, you're absolutely right, it was a long process but well worth it. Thank you again for you comment :-)
@raymondmenard5444 ah, I hadn't spotted the comments on episode 1 relating to a coating being on the brass. It was Damm hard work to begin with but on the upside once through it the brasso did its job wonderfully and has stayed Shiney for a long tome now. I really should do a video of my 8055 w 3d inside and out. It is waiting for its electrical restoration and the finish on the lid is really poor. That part of the cabinet will be a refinish job unfortunately but getting it to match the rest of the cabinet which is in excellent condition will be very difficult. But congrats on yours it looks really good.
@@SwingBandHeaven Yup exactly, although as Edward points out, once that protective coating removed, the brass will tarnish again, perhaps sooner, but hey I can live with polishing the trims again once a year or so lol. I for one would really like to see you 8055, what a beast it must be. Yeah, I know what trying to match restored/refinished pieces of would entails believe me. Hope you have luck with that part 🙂
@raymondmenard5444 yes my thought exactly. A bit of polishing once in a while is a small price to pay. I'll have more time on my hands after early December so I will try and do a video at that point. My 8055 has some interesting features which I can show in detail. I don't do the electrical work myself and currently have a capehart radiogram being restored by a chap here in the uk and once that is done the grindig will be next. I'll put a link to the capehart restoration as the guy doing it is posting videos on you tube. Check it out if you have time. Ps - You tube won't let me post a link. I will email you a link.
You have just raised the bar as far as cabinet restoration goes. Absolutely amazing job 👍 👍 👍
Geez thank you so much Manuel, coming from one of the radio restores i admire the most, it just puts a lump in my throat, it means the world to me, Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU !
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Beautiful Raymond. The entire process is amazing to me. The grills and cloth look perfect. Once again the craftsmanship is a level above any I have ever seen. It’s going to be beautiful looking and sounding.
Hey Robb, hello again, and thank you so much for the elegies lol. Honestly I'm fairly new at this and there's a lot of room for improvement, but i like to think i'm learning from the best there is ; David and Manuel. I just finished re-shooting the final episode, i wasn't happy with the video quality, so i guess i'll spend God's day editing it. But it's for a good cause, I'm sure he'll forgive me 🙂
Great work! Remember with speaker grill cloth it needs to be acoustic fabric to let the sound pressure out correctly especially with high efficiency speakers driven by tube amplifiers..
Hello again Edward and thank you for the kind words. Yeah, getting an acoustically correct cloth was one of my concerns indeed. I brought the original cloth with me to my go to fabric store and showed it to the same nice lady that always helps me out. I've been there so often wielding a piece of old cloth, she knows what i'm looking for by now. After looking at the fabric and consulting with colleagues, she was categoric it was plain ol polyester. Granted the fibres might be ''slacker'' than when originally woven but it's basically polyester and that's what I got. I know there's a whole science behind speaker grille cloths and i understand it might be a concern for true audiophiles. With my 63 year old set of ears I don't consider myself much of an audiophile though, besides nobody can convince me the front grille cloth on my 4055 has any special acoustic qualities, from what I can tell it is a quite heavy cotton & polyester blend, with many rows or even thicker decorative embroidery patterns on top of it. No doubt this curtain like material stifles the sound to an extent, not so much audible on the low end of the spectrum, but definitely noticeable on the already weak (for the time) tweeters. The folks over at Luxury Radios believed this so much, the made the front cloth removable using an additional wooden board and velcro pads if memory serves. Very good idea, but i do not intend to go to that extent. Again thank you for your comment.
The cleaning of all that brass trim took an age but was well worth it. On my Grundig it seemed to take ages to get it started so I am not sure if it originally had a coat a lacquer on it. It is well worth the effort though and your work made it look as good as new. At the 27.15 min mark onwards you can really see the impact of all the rubbing which made a real difference to the appearance. Again well worth the effort of the finished result.
Hi again Swing Band, thank you for your delightful comment as well. Yes, you're absolutely right ,the brass is indeed gold plated and originally had a clear coating of some sort on top of it. Edward (Vintage-Tech) has explained it in details in his comment on episode 1. It made perfect sense when i started polishing the trims with Brasso; I mean i have polished brass with Brasso before and it always went well, not taking a lot of time at all compared to the trims on the 4055 which took over 10 hours. The first passes weren't removing much of the oxidation and i was wondering why, now that Edward schooled me on the matter i understand I was taking some of the oxidation off, but also most likely some of said clear coating. It became more and more obvious with time, there was something more to remove before getting to the actual plating than just normal chemical oxidation. From what i can tell not all of the protective coating was worn off, but whatever was left of it was chemically thinned by the oxidation and/or most of this oxidization was now below the clear coat, hence why it took so long to get to the actual gold plating to reveal its beauty. I knew something was going on just by looking at the rag i was using; At the beginning of the rubbing process it was a yellowish-brown colour, but later it became black like what i'm use to see when using Brasso or Mother's aluminium polish. All this to say, you're absolutely right, it was a long process but well worth it. Thank you again for you comment :-)
@raymondmenard5444 ah, I hadn't spotted the comments on episode 1 relating to a coating being on the brass. It was Damm hard work to begin with but on the upside once through it the brasso did its job wonderfully and has stayed Shiney for a long tome now. I really should do a video of my 8055 w 3d inside and out. It is waiting for its electrical restoration and the finish on the lid is really poor. That part of the cabinet will be a refinish job unfortunately but getting it to match the rest of the cabinet which is in excellent condition will be very difficult. But congrats on yours it looks really good.
@@SwingBandHeaven Yup exactly, although as Edward points out, once that protective coating removed, the brass will tarnish again, perhaps sooner, but hey I can live with polishing the trims again once a year or so lol. I for one would really like to see you 8055, what a beast it must be. Yeah, I know what trying to match restored/refinished pieces of would entails believe me. Hope you have luck with that part 🙂
@raymondmenard5444 yes my thought exactly. A bit of polishing once in a while is a small price to pay. I'll have more time on my hands after early December so I will try and do a video at that point. My 8055 has some interesting features which I can show in detail. I don't do the electrical work myself and currently have a capehart radiogram being restored by a chap here in the uk and once that is done the grindig will be next. I'll put a link to the capehart restoration as the guy doing it is posting videos on you tube. Check it out if you have time. Ps - You tube won't let me post a link. I will email you a link.
@@SwingBandHeaven Oh wow ! That's great, looking forward to watching that video for sure. Maybe I know the restorer...