It's OK to just watch the news to avoid copyright hits, I don't watch the news anymore anyway. Your channel is actually my primary source for news for some time now.
Just think the last pandemic that TV played was Polio before the resurrection. It’s been 11 years since I owned a TV. Whenever I’m at a friends house and see one on it brings out the insanity in me. I’m with you Shango don’t mind the religion or politics but I can’t stand the cancel culture that’s tearing our country apart.
I think it's very counterproductive to let TV-watching monopolize one's time. These days, television stations are outdated business models that will do *anything* to get ratings and not go dark. (The polio vaccine was mass-produced beginning in 1955-56, three years before this TV set was sold.)
I had this exact TV, it was my Aunt and Uncle's they won as a prize. They had it for years and after my uncle died she gave it to me. It still worked great and I had it for many , many years in my workshop. I always have and always will love B&W TV, photos, etc. GE must have done something right when they made this TV.
Awesome contrast there. You don’t see mercury vapor lights that much anymore. My parents had one outside when I was a kid. I liked the weird green light.
That little dot fading away. I remember that from many decades ago. As a kid I was mesmerized by it. I couldn't stop watching until it had completely faded out.
i remember it from the 70's and the 80's as a kid would switch off all the lights in the room and see how long i could see it as it disappeared (arr the fun of being 53 lol )
Don't ever worry about saying what's on your mind. You have the right to say what you want, their rights are no better than yours. Keep up the great work, your videos are great.
My parents’ generation didn’t bring up politics or religion, out of politeness. Now, you avoid it to not be ostracized. It really should be somewhere in between. State your piece, and just agree to disagree.
Next time some muppet tries to start talking political garbage while I am eating lunch, I am going to drop trou and take a dump right there on the table.
Oh, I think everyone is. Personally, they ride up on my nose and block my vision. Even so; it’s better than getting COVID-19. Can’t wait for this all to be over...
I feel drawn to the thought of going on the podium in Congress and fart into the microphone. It would be awesome to be the one delivering the most sensible thing heard from there for years.
To me, when it comes to forums, it isn't being bothered by the politics or needing a safe space - it's the signal to noise ratio. If I go to a niche forum to learn about a niche topic, I don't want to have to sift through a bunch of off-topic flame wars to get to the nuggets of information. RUclips is completely different; shango can say whatever he wants and we can take it or leave it.
I’m a radio tech, and that’s my forte on my channel... but man did I enjoy this video from the technical stand points and it’s also very cool to see someone have knowledge on the old sweep/vacuum tube designs.
I guess the cheap bargain parts that GE sourced for this TV held up pretty well. The picture is no way perfect, but the halftones are acceptable. I really enjoyed your video.
I have two of those BK TV Analyst machines that have the flying spot camera in them.These scanners were used in very old broadcast telecines..I have the one like yoursthen a much older one that came from the college I attended during a surplus sale of their equipment.
I found an old Green Screen CRT computer monitor from the 80s by the side of a road nest to some train tracks on my first bike ride of the year. Retrned later that evening & picked it up. I will use these videos as refrence material in getting it to power up. It's defo been out in the wearther a for at least a few years, but then a C64C was restored from a simular enviroment. If you have prooven anything as long as the CRT works it is possible to bring these old TV's & monitors back to life even after they have been out in the weather for a while.
In the analog TV days, I would use an old Apple /// computer monitor (green P1 phosphor, but regular NTSC raster scanning) to identify weak TV stations (the long-persistance phosphor masked the image noise, colloquially called "snow", from the screen).
169.00 in 1959 is the equivalent of 1500 today... Service calls were 2.00 and an average repair would be appx 5-10 dollars... What a great time it was.😊
People just forget about being rational when discussing politics and stuff. Talking with you about those things must be awesome. And boy that everlasting white dot was nice
Maybe we can designate some of that Covid Relief money to the vintage TV resurection cause! We can call it VTM......Vintage TV's Matter! On a serious note love watching your vintage TV resurection vids!👍
Hey, for doing basically nothing to it, that's not a bad picture! It's watchable for sure! Of course I'm from the Rabbit Ear, TV Antenna on the roof generation so until we got cable you couldn't be too picky or fussy lol.
Great video thanks, and the previous one. Good tip with using a clear mercury vapour lamp as this means practically all the red/orange you see in the images are from the valve/tube heaters, great effect. I'm tempted to do this for some videos even though I get comments about appearing green on video calls!
Wow first time I've heard of the flying-spot scanner tube. Could you maybe do a short presentation next time you use it? I just read, that the first photo from the far side of the Moon was taken by Luna3 using a similar tube. Fascinating.
When I was a kid I always thought the screen doing that when you shut the TV off was pretty cool. I've always wondered, what causes that dot to do that?
It's the order in which the high voltage dies. The raster shrinks because the voltage to the vertical and horizontal sections dies as the power supply capacitors discharge. The high voltage for the picture tube dies last (the CRT itself is a capacitor).
15:45 I thought they all did; you could usually add a UHF tuner with the dial sticking out of the side. Our Zeniths even had a knock-out in the back for the added terminals. Not that my parents would ever spring for such a thing I was permanently scarred by being the last kid on the block to get a TV with UHF in 1970. No Speed Racer for me.
I can definitely hear them.. or used to be able to. When I was younger I could walk into a house and tell if a tv was on.. I haven't been around a CRT tv for over a decade.. possible 2 decades so I don't know if my old ears can still hear that high pitched humm that I used to hear. Even at that time hardly anyone else could hear it and it was always plan as day to me.
Agreed Shango, freedom of speech will become mythology, I don't like to generalize but I get the feeling that a lot of my generation are just too soft, they never experienced hardship or really had to work, perfect for manipulation. Hopefully a few of us are watching your channel actually trying to learn something instead of consuming stupidity.
I would consider myself in the “soft” category and never experienced any major hardships, yet i enjoy watching this and appreciate the need for struggle for growth. Generations are always stereotyped and it’s not always accurate. I would argue that the most recent generations are harder to manipulate. I mean look how many skeptics are there now compare to say in the 1950s. In the US, people generally believed the government, religion, and companies. Now, there is general mistrust in anything the government, religion, and companies say whether you on the political left or right. Unfortunately, over skepticism leads to crazy conspiracy theories and ironically manipulation from those that claim to be against manipulation.
@@angelee1170 Meanwhile the majority pass their information and right to privacy off to big tech and big brother in exchance for a trendy social media app.
Between being “offended”, and the cancel culture we are currently in....it’s BS ! I miss the days when people could speak their minds. The “Political Correct” movement of the 90’s and 2000’s started this. The First Amendment is definitely under attack. Cool TV Shango. I love watching your videos and LOVE your commentary. It’s very refreshing to hear a CALIFORNIAN have some common sense values ! Let’s me know not everyone in your state is a snowflake ! BTW...I’d like to see you go through that TV and make run good again.
i agree this safe space stuff is dumb. my self i find your videos relaxing. my late grandfather used to tinker with tube radios and i would spend hours watching him fix them.
I am born and raised in Ohio, moved to Danmark in 06', on the news here they are not allowed to tell or show their names as it's seen as vanity, it's not about the newscasters, it's about the news. Oh and just an aside, no funeral homes or embalming allowed here either, that was a strange realization for sure but it actually makes sense. Just thought I'd throw that trivia in there lol.
like someone in the comments already said, an audience that watches vintage tv repairs is typically an audience with an iq above the average media-trash-consuming-person...so its funny how most of your viewers share or agree to a certain point on your political views...it only proves that in politics, and in life itself there is only a right side and we know which one it is
I am so glad you don't watch TV, only bring back classic electronics. TV bad. I know first hand. You are smart and funny. I learn from you. Thank you for sharing. Buy my funny books, since you don't watch TV!
Most forums I visit have a lounge, off-topic, or hot section where religion and politics can be discussed. You can attack the message, but attacking the messenger will get you a time-out.
I ran a writers group once and had to ban political discussion - which caused some people to leave. Now this was awful for me because I am a die for it supporter of free speech. But the political arguments actually took over the group. We couldn’t share or review our work because of the constant irate arguments that almost degenerated into shouting matches. It was either stop this debate or disband the group. In fact the “pandemic” shut us down but I’m still going over the situation in my mind. I’m a conservative constitutionalist and the whole experience has rattled me. I have to add that both disruptive elements were avowed leftists.
So long as the low IQ dumb insults are managed it seems ok. It can get complex with all the Bot and AI comments but I would rather have open discussion and offend some than be a control freak.
Where is no dialog there is a silent war coming. Morons are in all bands and in none band at the same time. I like the idea of schodringer positions. It comes conservative or leftist in superimposed state depending on what time you look at it.
Bringing the discussion away from party or candidate/politician back to the Constitution and common needs and concerns can help. I'm trying very hard in the real world and sometimes on RUclips. Sometimes I'm cool as a cucumber and sometimes not so much. Some people are very hard to reach out to and some with whom we disagree are also very condescending. It's a challenge! Especially when we're right! Right?! 😆 God Bless the United States of America!
What's interesting about the LA Public Health Director, is that she has no experience in public health. It's like Bill Gates talking about medicine. I'm impressed by this 62 year old TV as well.
I mean she's been a doctor for almost 20 years, went to Harvard Med School, and has been in public health for at least 5 years....but yeah, totally like Bill Gates.
Where do you find Schematics at for these old TV's? I have a late 1960s black and white GE tv. I believe it's a XA-2 chassis. Worked for a few min then screen went blank, no sound. Unit turns on but no image or sound. Today I noticed the fuse would glow and it eventually popped. The circuit board looks small so I don't think it would be too much trouble to test each soldered on component.
No, it is smart. If you want to talk politics go to a political forum. I don't to listen or filter out someone's political rant when I want to learn something about TVs.
I wonder how many of these exist. I did a google search and only found the thumbnail of the video. There's a probably a lot of people with old TVs like this and they just don't do the whole RUclips / internet thing and post pics or videos online.
Just a passing thought....In the 30 years of flu vaccines my family and I have never had the flu. But never have we taken the flu vaccines either. Any money whether we'll take this bio weapons vaccine?
Have you ever considered...that because people around you got the vaccine and the virus count around you generally reduced that it made it less likely for you to get it? Or that you built a naturally immunity that many other people can’t? We been using vaccines for over 200 years and never had issues until the last few decades when conspiracy theories reached an all time high.
@@angelee1170 Nope, wrong. If you don't think something isn't going on with this vaxx then wow, you need to get a better understanding about this world.
That is a beautiful TV.edited out bull I would love to restore this one. I've already dreamt about making the casework and screen gleaming new...Oh well.
I wish I had as much air traffic over my house! I'd be so distracted trying to do anything to have to watch, even if its little GA aircraft. At around 24:00 there was a big old heavy radial airplane in the distance.
500,000 dead from covid? and yet I, nor anyone I know, has any idea of who a single one of these were. I've talked to a LOT of people about this...something's not quite adding up here...smdh
I asked everyone I know if they have ever suffered from hunger or met someone that did. Not one person told me they did. Must mean that world hunger doesn’t exist. Btw two of my friends had covid and one of them got really sick from it. I know of at least one person that has died from covid.
What? They don’t show you dead bodies so you think it’s a fake pandemic? Tell it to my neighbor who almost died from it and now walks around with an oxygen bottle.
That makes sense. No dead person I've come across has ever told me how they died. On a more serious note, I know (knew?) somebody who died from it. Considering the number given is about .15% of the population it seems feasible you wouldn't know any.
@@eDoc2020 I'm willing to admit you could very well be right, BUT, just seems a bit off to me. I have heard of a cook at a local bar/grill that died of covid early in this mess, but I have to verify it and I will eventually. I've also heard there's been a LOT of covid deaths reported that weren't really covid. Just seems to me given the numbers I should know of at least one 1st hand OR, of the many people I've talked to, THEY should know 1st hand or beyond of a covid death. No matter, I have yet to find any which way a single instance of 1st, 2nd, or even 3rd hand knowledge of covid death......weird.......
For the TV demo you should run some of ya own tv repair video's on the set, at least it wont get a copyright strike. I thought it was funny when you said I've had it off, I havent heard that in years. It might mean something else but in secondary school kids would always say so and so is havin' it off with so and so. I liked that this old set had a timer on it.
That old set will outlast a Chinesium modern flat screen tv even with old capacitors and tubes Today’s electronic products are garbage and non repairable if an smd. chip fails
That is true. A lot of vintage electronic goodies were well-built and designed with serviceability in mind (in most cases at least). Modern products don't come anywhere near the quality or standard that their older predecessors had.
@@RoughJustice2k18 Yeah but modern products are cheaper to buy. This TV probably cost a fortune back in the day, but now you can get a flat screen for less than 150 dollars and (at least in my experience) it will happily last around 10 years. Also, these old sets always required service and manteniance, which wasn't cheap either (especially when the picture tube kicked the bucket). Don't get me wrong though, I Iove old technology, but I'm not deluded enough to think it is better.
@Edgar Miller Well, you must be out of luck then. My super cheap "JVC" branded 32" has been going for almost 7 years now, and that's with daily use. I never really understand why people have so many issues with their appliances. Like, yeah I've had a few crt tvs fail on me in the past, but most of the stuff on my house is from the 2000s (well into the "programmed obsolescence" era) and is still working perfectly (fridge included).
@Edgar Miller Oh and your 19" color TV with "fairly mediocre resolution" would run at approximately $1900 in today's money, so thanks for proving my point :D
Jordan Pier shows how to do that in one of his videos. It can actually be complicated and shouldn't be attempted unless you have experience with Vacuum Tube TV's.
Depending on the TV, that can be dangerous. Some sets have a hot chases - meaning the signal ground is connected to the power line. A darn good way to get shocked or blow out your equipment. You'd have to find a way of isolating the composite signal jack while still allowing the signal though without distortion.
Ya have to get out of commyfornia shango!! Come on down to Florida... we live like Americans here buddy,,,, btw I agree with your politics totally.... there should be no safe spaces....that’s part of why there are so many snowflakes around..I remember when ya saw I guy with a beard... ya thought ,,, now that’s a tuff dude...that is not the case anymore....
No TV? How do you watch reruns of old TV shows or Three Stooges episodes? Smartphone, tablet or just go mine exploring. That's it. Explore an old mine with some buddies!
Your mask imitation was the highlight of the show. Love your honest and open opinions. Regards from Australia
Not bad for a TV set that survived the Cuban Missile Crisis!
The real question is how many TV EOLs happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
@@trcostan almost all of them
Heh
It's OK to just watch the news to avoid copyright hits, I don't watch the news anymore anyway. Your channel is actually my primary source for news for some time now.
The, 'let me get down on my knees', quip was laugh-out-loud.
Just think the last pandemic that TV played was Polio before the resurrection. It’s been 11 years since I owned a TV. Whenever I’m at a friends house and see one on it brings out the insanity in me. I’m with you Shango don’t mind the religion or politics but I can’t stand the cancel culture that’s tearing our country apart.
as always Shango very entertaining just curious is TV for sale
I think it's very counterproductive to let TV-watching monopolize one's time. These days, television stations are outdated business models that will do *anything* to get ratings and not go dark. (The polio vaccine was mass-produced beginning in 1955-56, three years before this TV set was sold.)
If cancel culture bothers you so much ... change the channel.
@@danytoob no need to change the channel and I won’t stick my head in the sand. Just stating cancel culture is a cancer in our country.
I had this exact TV, it was my Aunt and Uncle's they won as a prize. They had it for years and after my uncle died she gave it to me. It still worked great and I had it for many , many years in my workshop. I always have and always will love B&W TV, photos, etc. GE must have done something right when they made this TV.
I like that money shot, I like that green lighting with the tubes glowing, it’s cool, I like that old TV.
Awesome contrast there. You don’t see mercury vapor lights that much anymore. My parents had one outside when I was a kid. I liked the weird green light.
Same here, but really came for the dusty tubes. Thank You Shango for handling the tubes carefully so as not to disrupt the precious dust!
That little dot fading away. I remember that from many decades ago. As a kid I was mesmerized by it. I couldn't stop watching until it had completely faded out.
I still watch the "dot" until it's gone, on my vintage sets, that produce a dot when powered off. And, I'm over 60!😀
i remember it from the 70's and the 80's as a kid would switch off all the lights in the room and see how long i could see it as it disappeared (arr the fun of being 53 lol )
I love your channel. Thank you for calling Bullshit on the many things in our world today that deserve to be called Bullshit. I'm very grateful.
"You are free to do as we tell you". Spot on, I absolutely get it! The TV resurrection was great too! Love your videos.
Don't ever worry about saying what's on your mind. You have the right to say what you want, their rights are no better than yours. Keep up the great work, your videos are great.
My parents’ generation didn’t bring up politics or religion, out of politeness. Now, you avoid it to not be ostracized. It really should be somewhere in between. State your piece, and just agree to disagree.
Next time some muppet tries to start talking political garbage while I am eating lunch, I am going to drop trou and take a dump right there on the table.
Shit in the toilet and... no one bats an eye. Shit on the table and...... everyone loses their minds.
Wow, the proper tool to measure cathode current, you're getting soft! Thanks for the video
Hello from France. Here we are fed up with masks too. Have a nice week.
Oh, I think everyone is. Personally, they ride up on my nose and block my vision. Even so; it’s better than getting COVID-19. Can’t wait for this all to be over...
I feel drawn to the thought of going on the podium in Congress and fart into the microphone. It would be awesome to be the one delivering the most sensible thing heard from there for years.
"You know Mao's great leap forward? We should do that in America"
To me, when it comes to forums, it isn't being bothered by the politics or needing a safe space - it's the signal to noise ratio. If I go to a niche forum to learn about a niche topic, I don't want to have to sift through a bunch of off-topic flame wars to get to the nuggets of information. RUclips is completely different; shango can say whatever he wants and we can take it or leave it.
I’m a radio tech, and that’s my forte on my channel... but man did I enjoy this video from the technical stand points and it’s also very cool to see someone have knowledge on the old sweep/vacuum tube designs.
7:18....Reminds me of the old Outer Limits program "Do not attempt to adjust your TV ...we have total control...." LOL
Alfred Hitchcock didn't want you to adjust your TV either!
I guess the cheap bargain parts that GE sourced for this TV held up pretty well. The picture is no way perfect, but the halftones are acceptable. I really enjoyed your video.
When you miss the sound of the airplanes passing over, turn on this tv. Might even get the proper anound of lead fumes out of it.
I have two of those BK TV Analyst machines that have the flying spot camera in them.These scanners were used in very old broadcast telecines..I have the one like yoursthen a much older one that came from the college I attended during a surplus sale of their equipment.
Resurrected "sort of"? Hell no, son- that thing is older than I and it's playin' just fiiiine. Nice work Shango, as always. Be well
I found an old Green Screen CRT computer monitor from the 80s by the side of a road nest to some train tracks on my first bike ride of the year. Retrned later that evening & picked it up. I will use these videos as refrence material in getting it to power up. It's defo been out in the wearther a for at least a few years, but then a C64C was restored from a simular enviroment. If you have prooven anything as long as the CRT works it is possible to bring these old TV's & monitors back to life even after they have been out in the weather for a while.
In the analog TV days, I would use an old Apple /// computer monitor (green P1 phosphor, but regular NTSC raster scanning) to identify weak TV stations (the long-persistance phosphor masked the image noise, colloquially called "snow", from the screen).
169.00 in 1959 is the equivalent of 1500 today...
Service calls were 2.00 and an average repair would be appx 5-10 dollars...
What a great time it was.😊
For not changing one capacitor, the screen looked halfway watchable.
People just forget about being rational when discussing politics and stuff. Talking with you about those things must be awesome. And boy that everlasting white dot was nice
I find the everlasting white dot offensive.
@@Retep4565 Oh gawd, I got cancelled
Thx 4 showing capacitor reforming .. used to think that was more or less hogwash/snipe hunting …
One of the main reasons for watching your videos are your witty comments. You just have to like them.
Maybe we can designate some of that Covid Relief money to the vintage TV resurection cause! We can call it VTM......Vintage TV's Matter! On a serious note love watching your vintage TV resurection vids!👍
You forgot the #.
#vintagetvsmatter - sounds like a worthy cause.
You are so funny........I love your cool sense of humour! xoxo
Outro was the bomb
Hey, for doing basically nothing to it, that's not a bad picture! It's watchable for sure! Of course I'm from the Rabbit Ear, TV Antenna on the roof generation so until we got cable you couldn't be too picky or fussy lol.
I use rabbit ears for my modern 4K TV
Great video thanks, and the previous one. Good tip with using a clear mercury vapour lamp as this means practically all the red/orange you see in the images are from the valve/tube heaters, great effect. I'm tempted to do this for some videos even though I get comments about appearing green on video calls!
Wow first time I've heard of the flying-spot scanner tube. Could you maybe do a short presentation next time you use it? I just read, that the first photo from the far side of the Moon was taken by Luna3 using a similar tube. Fascinating.
When I was a kid I always thought the screen doing that when you shut the TV off was pretty cool. I've always wondered, what causes that dot to do that?
It's the order in which the high voltage dies. The raster shrinks because the voltage to the vertical and horizontal sections dies as the power supply capacitors discharge. The high voltage for the picture tube dies last (the CRT itself is a capacitor).
15:45 I thought they all did; you could usually add a UHF tuner with the dial sticking out of the side. Our Zeniths even had a knock-out in the back for the added terminals. Not that my parents would ever spring for such a thing I was permanently scarred by being the last kid on the block to get a TV with UHF in 1970. No Speed Racer for me.
I love hearing Shango's commentary on these videos reacting to the news media.
42:23 I swear I can smell the old tube tv smell!.... Lol! Great old set. Good work, sir.
I can definitely hear them.. or used to be able to. When I was younger I could walk into a house and tell if a tv was on.. I haven't been around a CRT tv for over a decade.. possible 2 decades so I don't know if my old ears can still hear that high pitched humm that I used to hear. Even at that time hardly anyone else could hear it and it was always plan as day to me.
I was a bit surprised to see that soviet К73П-2 film cap used for signal testing☻
We like Soviet stuff over here
Agreed Shango, freedom of speech will become mythology, I don't like to generalize but I get the feeling that a lot of my generation are just too soft, they never experienced hardship or really had to work, perfect for manipulation. Hopefully a few of us are watching your channel actually trying to learn something instead of consuming stupidity.
People worldwide just want to be "safe", and they don't even understand what that means. China is the best example of that, but we are close behind.
@@waltschannel7465 "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
I would consider myself in the “soft” category and never experienced any major hardships, yet i enjoy watching this and appreciate the need for struggle for growth. Generations are always stereotyped and it’s not always accurate. I would argue that the most recent generations are harder to manipulate. I mean look how many skeptics are there now compare to say in the 1950s. In the US, people generally believed the government, religion, and companies. Now, there is general mistrust in anything the government, religion, and companies say whether you on the political left or right. Unfortunately, over skepticism leads to crazy conspiracy theories and ironically manipulation from those that claim to be against manipulation.
@@angelee1170 Meanwhile the majority pass their information and right to privacy off to big tech and big brother in exchance for a trendy social media app.
@@1956kirk You said that while using RUclips which required you to make a google account.
The most entertaining happens on the backside of the TV!...thx for the video!
Between being “offended”, and the cancel culture we are currently in....it’s BS ! I miss the days when people could speak their minds. The “Political Correct” movement of the 90’s and 2000’s started this. The First Amendment is definitely under attack.
Cool TV Shango. I love watching your videos and LOVE your commentary. It’s very refreshing to hear a CALIFORNIAN have some common sense values ! Let’s me know not everyone in your state is a snowflake !
BTW...I’d like to see you go through that TV and make run good again.
Sometimes you just want to get away from the politics. Media spews it in your face every chance they get.
Why must you comment about politics even though we're trying to get away from it? Keeps the conversation going.
i agree this safe space stuff is dumb. my self i find your videos relaxing. my late grandfather used to tinker with tube radios and i would spend hours watching him fix them.
I liked the backside tube view. Reminds me of getting in trouble for looking through the back of the set when I was a kid.
I am born and raised in Ohio, moved to Danmark in 06', on the news here they are not allowed to tell or show their names as it's seen as vanity, it's not about the newscasters, it's about the news. Oh and just an aside, no funeral homes or embalming allowed here either, that was a strange realization for sure but it actually makes sense. Just thought I'd throw that trivia in there lol.
good job I wish someone was making or rebuilding CRT again
There is a TV museum that has been rebuilding theirs with tubes going all the way back to the 30s and they look crisp after all said is done.
The 6BZ6 had an open filament but was sent to the Oval Office anyway. Yet no one could understand why the vintage television wasn't working properly,
like someone in the comments already said, an audience that watches vintage tv repairs is typically an audience with an iq above the average media-trash-consuming-person...so its funny how most of your viewers share or agree to a certain point on your political views...it only proves that in politics, and in life itself there is only a right side and we know which one it is
I am so glad you don't watch TV, only bring back classic electronics. TV bad. I know first hand. You are smart and funny. I learn from you. Thank you for sharing. Buy my funny books, since you don't watch TV!
The glowing dusty tubes under green light was beautiful.
Thank you Shango!
this guy can fix anything
Most forums I visit have a lounge, off-topic, or hot section where religion and politics can be discussed. You can attack the message, but attacking the messenger will get you a time-out.
I was just going to say this.
im currently working on a GE M3 chassis. i was fun watching each electrolytic fail one by one. One was dead from the get go.
I ran a writers group once and had to ban political discussion - which caused some people to leave. Now this was awful for me because I am a die for it supporter of free speech. But the political arguments actually took over the group. We couldn’t share or review our work because of the constant irate arguments that almost degenerated into shouting matches. It was either stop this debate or disband the group. In fact the “pandemic” shut us down but I’m still going over the situation in my mind. I’m a conservative constitutionalist and the whole experience has rattled me. I have to add that both disruptive elements were avowed leftists.
So long as the low IQ dumb insults are managed it seems ok. It can get complex with all the Bot and AI comments but I would rather have open discussion and offend some than be a control freak.
Where is no dialog there is a silent war coming.
Morons are in all bands and in none band at the same time.
I like the idea of schodringer positions. It comes conservative or leftist in superimposed state depending on what time you look at it.
Bringing the discussion away from party or candidate/politician back to the Constitution and common needs and concerns can help.
I'm trying very hard in the real world and sometimes on RUclips. Sometimes I'm cool as a cucumber and sometimes not so much. Some people are very hard to reach out to and some with whom we disagree are also very condescending. It's a challenge!
Especially when we're right! Right?! 😆
God Bless the United States of America!
H yes-nice picture and sound on that GE TV-GOOD GOING!
Your comments are hilarious!
I was 13 I put another CRT in a TV identical to this.
Informative and hilarious, thank you Shango
What's interesting about the LA Public Health Director, is that she has no experience in public health. It's like Bill Gates talking about medicine.
I'm impressed by this 62 year old TV as well.
I mean she's been a doctor for almost 20 years, went to Harvard Med School, and has been in public health for at least 5 years....but yeah, totally like Bill Gates.
@@OnTheRocks71 Not a medical doctor. Basically a politician.
good job restoring that old tv
Where do you find Schematics at for these old TV's? I have a late 1960s black and white GE tv. I believe it's a XA-2 chassis.
Worked for a few min then screen went blank, no sound. Unit turns on but no image or sound. Today I noticed the fuse would glow and it eventually popped.
The circuit board looks small so I don't think it would be too much trouble to test each soldered on component.
Speaking of the Sencore VG91, do you have any documentation for it?
I don't think so I will take a look
The "blue gloved" master tech. strkes again with excellence!
to say "no politics" in any group is a political statement
No, it is smart. If you want to talk politics go to a political forum. I don't to listen or filter out someone's political rant when I want to learn something about TVs.
Love that money shot-hot,dusty ,FIREBOTTLES-Bet the dust smell is there!
I wonder how many of these exist. I did a google search and only found the thumbnail of the video. There's a probably a lot of people with old TVs like this and they just don't do the whole RUclips / internet thing and post pics or videos online.
That TV is old enough to remember Biden's FIRST presidential campaign
If I was that TV and after however many years of being dead to turn on to that, I would just ask to be EOL'ed and put out on my misery
Just a passing thought....In the 30 years of flu vaccines my family and I have never had the flu. But never have we taken the flu vaccines either. Any money whether we'll take this bio weapons vaccine?
Have you ever considered...that because people around you got the vaccine and the virus count around you generally reduced that it made it less likely for you to get it? Or that you built a naturally immunity that many other people can’t? We been using vaccines for over 200 years and never had issues until the last few decades when conspiracy theories reached an all time high.
@@angelee1170 Nope, wrong. If you don't think something isn't going on with this vaxx then wow, you need to get a better understanding about this world.
Same here. The last flu I had was 1997 and I've never had a flu shot.
Last time I had a cold was 2010.
@@orange70383 You need to stop being so paranoid and listening to crazy baseless conspiracy theories.
That is a beautiful TV.edited out bull I would love to restore this one. I've already dreamt about making the casework and screen gleaming new...Oh well.
If that was Donald Trump on the TV set you'd have licked the screen.
triggered
@@MrHBSoftware Rattled
That's funny!
You said that as if it would be a bad thing, Brucie.
I probably would have spit on it instead.
Every TV resurrection video should end like that! Love it.
An associate of mine, Rich makes me a cocktail he calls a "Mike Fisher" who is also a friend of his.
Decent picture on a set with original caps, that just needed a few tubes and a capacitor wake up!
I love the sarcasm about the stupid masks.
It’s completely stupid if you have any basic understanding of air filtration ...
It’s just a spit guard
@@cardboardboxification No, plenty of medical studies on this.
Best outro ever on shango channel? :D
I wish I had as much air traffic over my house! I'd be so distracted trying to do anything to have to watch, even if its little GA aircraft. At around 24:00 there was a big old heavy radial airplane in the distance.
Somebody probably watched Apollo 11 land on the moon on this set.
I wonder how many LCD TVs will survive to be resurrected in 60 years.
Higher gain RF Amp valve on the tuner. They were both low ..... but the RF valve is more likely.
500,000 dead from covid? and yet I, nor anyone I know, has any idea of who a single one of these were. I've talked to a LOT of people about this...something's not quite adding up here...smdh
I asked everyone I know if they have ever suffered from hunger or met someone that did. Not one person told me they did. Must mean that world hunger doesn’t exist. Btw two of my friends had covid and one of them got really sick from it. I know of at least one person that has died from covid.
What? They don’t show you dead bodies so you think it’s a fake pandemic? Tell it to my neighbor who almost died from it and now walks around with an oxygen bottle.
That makes sense. No dead person I've come across has ever told me how they died.
On a more serious note, I know (knew?) somebody who died from it. Considering the number given is about .15% of the population it seems feasible you wouldn't know any.
@@eDoc2020 I'm willing to admit you could very well be right, BUT, just seems a bit off to me. I have heard of a cook at a local bar/grill that died of covid early in this mess, but I have to verify it and I will eventually. I've also heard there's been a LOT of covid deaths reported that weren't really covid. Just seems to me given the numbers I should know of at least one 1st hand OR, of the many people I've talked to, THEY should know 1st hand or beyond of a covid death. No matter, I have yet to find any which way a single instance of 1st, 2nd, or even 3rd hand knowledge of covid death......weird.......
My neighbor lost her parents and my sister lost a co-worker.
For the TV demo you should run some of ya own tv repair video's on the set, at least it wont get a copyright strike. I thought it was funny when you said I've had it off, I havent heard that in years. It might mean something else but in secondary school kids would always say so and so is havin' it off with so and so. I liked that this old set had a timer on it.
Good job. Awesome video
That old set will outlast a Chinesium modern flat screen tv even with old capacitors and tubes Today’s electronic products are garbage and non repairable if an smd. chip fails
That is true. A lot of vintage electronic goodies were well-built and designed with serviceability in mind (in most cases at least). Modern products don't come anywhere near the quality or standard that their older predecessors had.
@@RoughJustice2k18 Yeah but modern products are cheaper to buy. This TV probably cost a fortune back in the day, but now you can get a flat screen for less than 150 dollars and (at least in my experience) it will happily last around 10 years. Also, these old sets always required service and manteniance, which wasn't cheap either (especially when the picture tube kicked the bucket). Don't get me wrong though, I Iove old technology, but I'm not deluded enough to think it is better.
@Edgar Miller Well, you must be out of luck then. My super cheap "JVC" branded 32" has been going for almost 7 years now, and that's with daily use. I never really understand why people have so many issues with their appliances. Like, yeah I've had a few crt tvs fail on me in the past, but most of the stuff on my house is from the 2000s (well into the "programmed obsolescence" era) and is still working perfectly (fridge included).
@Edgar Miller Oh and your 19" color TV with "fairly mediocre resolution" would run at approximately $1900 in today's money, so thanks for proving my point :D
Is the picture at the beginning from the 60s as well.
That default picture with Biden is really creepy and eerie. Crazy times that we're living in.
What phone were you recording with at the end? It really does have amazing low light sensitivity
Ha Juri (sp) Rand used to be on the news here in Pittsburgh, he was probably working his way up the newscasters ladder when he was here.
You may want to clean off the dust. It was never designed to run reliably under a cover of undefinded and partially conductive dust.
Like Retro Vintage CRT TV Cool Yea.
10:13 capacitor done gone klinky dinkler mcshorty boimler.
Never been socially acceptable so why start now! BTW I’m 73. I remember when we had “discussions” w/o offense.
what did you end up doing with this tv?
Could you do a video on how to add a composite video input to an old non solid state TV?
Jordan Pier shows how to do that in one of his videos. It can actually be complicated and shouldn't be attempted unless you have experience with Vacuum Tube TV's.
Depending on the TV, that can be dangerous. Some sets have a hot chases - meaning the signal ground is connected to the power line. A darn good way to get shocked or blow out your equipment. You'd have to find a way of isolating the composite signal jack while still allowing the signal though without distortion.
"...i have a final expense policy..." Well, whoop-ti-DOOoo!
Ya have to get out of commyfornia shango!! Come on down to Florida... we live like Americans here buddy,,,, btw I agree with your politics totally.... there should be no safe spaces....that’s part of why there are so many snowflakes around..I remember when ya saw I guy with a beard... ya thought ,,, now that’s a tuff dude...that is not the case anymore....
No TV? How do you watch reruns of old TV shows or Three Stooges episodes? Smartphone, tablet or just go mine exploring. That's it.
Explore an old mine with some buddies!
Except for the news, I hardly watch any TV. So many chancels have just gone to garbage. I watch a lot more RUclips then TV.
You watch TV as much as I do, and when I turn it on it drives me nuts. I just make fun of everyone who appears lol
It would be interesting to see the inflation adjusted price
@@bigsky1970 LOL you beat me to it.Yeah, $1500+