RESTORING A PHILCO CONSOLE RADIO
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Back to doing videos again after a bit of house remodeling. This session we restore a 1937 Philco console radio. It is completely dead, not a peep from the speaker. The cabinet is in very good condition so it is worth doing.
Finally! Now I put down everything I was doing, grab my popcorn, and enjoy 1 hour of relaxation!
O my god!! Long time no see, Welcome back my friend!!
I love watching these old restorations, when we were kids me and my brother would stare into the back of the radio to watch the glow of the tubes and the smell of the electrics warming up LOL God I miss those days, thanks glass slinger for the memories
Proprio come facevo io con un bel INCAR 8 VALVOLE E FINALE POSH POOL.
I did too, back in the early 80s
@@chrisingle5839.......io lo facevo, invece, 80 anni fa !!
Use to play with television with the back off. Miracle wasn't shocked.
As happy as I am to see you do a new resto- I'm equally happy to see a new frock. KEEP BEING YOU!
No, actually they are Ron's own distinctive work overalls, for Ron likes to show his legs off. So carry on, Ron, we like you as you are...a very-very clever man.
Please do some more glass work videos. I just love your work making tubes!
I need an autobiography video or something. I think you might have a very interesting life story.
34:27 “I remember back in the ‘60s I was paying $25 a joint”. 😂
Thanks Ron, another lesson in how it should be done. Good to see you post another video. Best wishes from the UK
I saw Assholetone open for Dexy's Midnight Runners back in 85. 😅
I don’t have any problem with wearing a dress at all as a matter of fact I love it. It’s great to see. I was just wondering if there is a story behind it? Or maybe a video on it
Thank you so much for the videos you make. You have a true talent and you are an absolute master at what you do. Not to mention your videos are both calming and funny. My husband and I love watching your videos and your kitties are so cute!
Nice to hear from you!! Hope you are well!!
so good to see you back - had missed you and was getting concerned for your health
Most enjoyable 1 hour and 16 minute commercial free entertainment in months. Bravo!
You did way too much work to sell that for only $50!
I sure wish he could find a better place to sell these so he could get more money, enjoy the process a little more, and not have to compromise his vast talent with economics.
@@sometimesleela5947 very
I have sold them for less
@@eringatewood5062 of course you have🥱
Just bent up a piece of thick copper wire from old electrical wire to use as a solder iron tip. Works ok but does not last long, but no cost.
Yes, I USED TO use pieces of #10 wire from romex. Now I'm old enough and have enough money to buy real tips! The money is rotting away fast so why not spend it on something useful while I still have some! :)
I totally agree with you. Thank you for your excellent videos.
I used to do that when I was a kid. One tip I sort of stumbled onto was that when it burned through, I would grab the two end with pliers and twist them together 3 or 5 turns and then snip the ends off making a sort of chisel end. They would last forever when I did that.
Glad to see you back. Always look forward to your vids. Wishing you well, Ron: from another Ron in Liverpool uk.
Someone just gave that to you? I must go to all the wrong places 😂 I've been hoping you'd make a video again soon!
Always love to see you at work, not messing about and not being stupidly cautious about voltages, yet giving great tips and sharing experience. All the best from The Netherlands. Looking forward to the next one.
I missed you! Glad to see you again Ron. Nice radio came out good! Love your cat.
Great to see you. Lovely radio and a handsome helping cat. No TV for me this evening.
Great outfit today. Love your work outstanding as always. Keep up great work.
Haven't seen you here for a while. Glad you are doing ok,really enjoy your videos..
I would love to smoke a joint with you! ❤
Me to would be a blast.
Great to see you again :):):)
Why do you not place cap sleeves for protecting from shorting?
Big Clive pioneered checking for stored charge on capacitors with the finger test.
I have a 1920s radiotrope you can have.
I bet ya Carlson would fiddly doodle around installing a fuse....Just kidding.. Love ya! Thanks for the vids!!
Please stop feeding your cat Taco Bell.
Ron, you rock!
I'd have left the phono input, though. Makes it more usable with modern equipment..ie: mp3 player, etc.
Love this gentleman, he is very sweet and a beautiful person and I just love it, thank you my friend.
I always thought that it was considered good practice to replace all electrolytic capacitors?
Also, isn't the speaker field coil sometimes used as an inductor as a part of the filter circuit for the high voltage DC supply? I'm pretty sure my old radio is arranged that way.
Yes on both counts. The field coil was replaced with a 1000 ohm 10 watt resistor as shown in the video. (simply pick a resistor the same ohms as the field coil. 10 watts is almost always plenty.)
great to see you back ron :)
another nice restore and great video Ron. Enjoy all of your vids... Much appreciated and thanks...just be careful of those shocks...
I've never seen a rectifier valve mounted to the transformer before, what a cool design idea.
Looks great.
I've seen it on TVs
Philco was known to do that in chassis for quite a few years.
If i'm not mistaken, the model number has the first two digits is the year it was made. I have a 42-380 Philco. So it was made in 1942 .
You are correct!
Technically, your radio would be for the 1942 model year, meaning your radio could have come out in the last few months of 1941, just like the 2024 cars are out now even though it’s still 2023.
@THOMMGB it's a console my great aunt had for her family. The transformer was reached and I found a different chassis for it at a estate sale of an old tv tv shop in Marion ohio. She must have been looking over me on that one. I had it repaired. It's got the old fm band to 100 kc and shortwave and am with a reproduction escutcheon. Does that model make it worth more?
@@jockoharpo2622 It’s probably not worth any more. Usually, a complete all-original radio is what collectors look for. The important thing is, are you happy with it and do you enjoy it? It’s a part of your family history. Take care of it if you can.
Ron, please explain how you get the sand out of the tuning capacitor bearings and wipers, and from inside of the potentiometers. The last thing I want inside a radio is grinding grit. No, the tuning capacitor wipers ("fingers") only contact the rotor shaft to connect it to chassis/circuit ground in multiple places. The stators are fixed in place, they do not move, each being connected by wire to its individual stage, such as antenna, mixer and oscillator stages (this is for novices to know). The wipers DO need to be lubricated with a electrical grade grease (no lithium soap) for them to maintain low contacting resistance by remaining free of corrosion. A paper capacitor "over 20 megs is good"? No way! It better be over 500 megs if you want it to last. Remember, leakage increases with temperature exponentially. In the case of capacitors polarized with high DC voltages and the radio is nice and hot a 20 meg insulation resistance capacitor at room temperature would be down around 5 megs or lower at operating temperature. A high leakage current will also cause heating of the capacitor. The heat will cause further insulation deterioration by electro-chemical reaction. Eventually the capacitor will drop to such low resistance resistors will start burning and possible other damage will occur (for novices to know). Well, you're not a completely incompetent old far, Ron. You're just a rush-to-get-the-job-done old fart.
Sthap pleeeze
Good to see you back on here! Love these old radios.
Really enjoyed watching you work again . Haven't seen you here for a while. Nice radio. Surely worth more than 50. Here in the UK it would bring much more in that condition . Would need a transformer for 240 volts though. All the best Ron .
Glass linger i got my uncles zenith Trans oceanic shortwave receiver it is battery operated I want to restore it let me no ware I can get Russian germanium transistors? When you have time?
Mr glasslinger my hobbies is painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb iam thinking 🤔 about getting my ham license 🎉🎉😊
Mr glasslinger your vintage philco console tube radio has two bands brocast band shortwave band is awesome my friend 🎉🎉🎉
I do my fuses the same way. I keep the end I'm slobbering down so the fuse doesn't melt. I have a 1930's slobbering iron I think it's about 200-300 watts that I absolutely love. Way better than my 250 Weller gun. However, you should try using 14 gauge solid house wire for your tips. You can bend them how you want and a LOT cheaper. I won't go back to buying tips. I even make my own slobbering iron tips. Right down to using a metric die to thread them for the iron. You can make them into different shapes for your own purposes and pry "guilt free" on components not having to worry about ruining the coating on the tip.
The only time I've seen UV glue is at the dentist. Nice to see it's available to the public.
Glass linger your antique philco console tube shortwave radio is awesome my friend
Yes! I have an unrestored 41-280.
Ron I made your electronic circuit breaker, and it sure increased my bench capability. Would also be interested in the internals of your custom bin module for the Tek rack.
Sorry so late. Happy Christmas and New Year from England. I enjoy your rebuilds a lot, it's nice to see the past come alive. Keep up the good work. Best Regards.
Hello sweetheart? i just popped in to check on you, And i wanted to wish you a very Marry Christmas. I hope your year was a fulfilled one with all kinds of dreams answered for you. God Bless have a great week......
Eliminate the phono input? Well that's no good. :( I do appreciate the work you're putting in to saving this though. :) And, as you said, for a $50 radio, you've done well by it.
For Soldering gun tips I would use hard copper wire #12 or #10 purchased from the craft store (or ebay), bend it to shape and it made good cheap tips for the soldering gun. You could try Electrical wire but I thought it is too soft.
The Weller commercial tips are made with metal that does not dissolve in liquid solder as fast as bare wire. I have tried both and the tips win out every time.
50 bucks. I'll send you money man that is so cool you teach me a lot of little tricks. And amen on the Weller guns my dad used em. I use them. Thank you for the lessen in older radio work ©️🌹♥️
To clean radio knobs of encrusted dirt, I use an old toothbrush and some liquid dishwashing soap. They look perfect after a little scrubbing.
Where do you sale this type of radio at? I want one from you, one that is a German Grundig SW radio.
Welcome back. Missed your videos. Thanx Ken from gpt ms.
Great job Ron! I love that 30 Ma power supply and the other ones you've built. The Sprague .05 yellow cap is 1960's vintage. I have ones like it in my early 1963 Johnson Invader 2000.
Beware of that cap! They dry out inside and lose capacitance. They don't short out, just become useless over time.
I've replaced mine. I've heard the orange print ones last a lot longer, but I don't take chances as they're cheap to replace with modern components. Thanks for the warning.@@glasslinger
Yet another old set resuscitated and given a makeover! Good job you have a LOT of spare parts hidden away in that attic!
I dont know how i havnt seen your channel yet but im glad i found it. You are a master with this stuff. I just subscribed.
Hey, Ron, I was beginning to think you had retired! Glad to see another video.
why not use duct tape on the drill bit to limit the depth and avoid breaking the cone?
Glass linger your utube videos are awesome my friend
And i love electronics. I quite often are doing the same thing u r doing.
Good to see you back Ron, always love your videos
Hola Glas. hace años que reparo radios Europeas y Americanas el ultimo es un Volsenpfanger nazi de 1939, saludos Cecil
I think it's really cool that you're into fixing these things. It's very interesting. I think of these old radios and things is kind of like artwork… There's so interesting. You're very good at doing it I hope you continue Fixing them They need you… Great video
A shock a day keeps the doctor away. Another amazing restoration.
Found a 1933 Philco Cabinet and Circuitry
l excellant except for speaker
you are a true renaissance man
I get a big kick out of your no nonsense approach to things, happy new year
Nice one Ron even made the balsa wood look good .
BAD...blaming the cat for your FART!
Very nice to see you again. Transformer with octal socket. Cool. Love your work. ♥️🌹©️
Always good to see Ron at his bench, looking forwards to any new videos where Ron make new radio tubes.
so you replace the cap with 10 megohms resistance, but leave the one with 70 kilohms resistance (350V / 5mA). Not sure I agree with that decision....
The cap with the low resistance is a cathode bypass capacitor. It has about 15 volts across it. If it was in a position with high voltage I would surely replace it!
@@glasslinger Thank for the clarification!
You did a nice job, as always.
Man That cat can fart!! LOL!
Sending all the love Ron! What a sweet radio!
Sanblasting? How was this done? Did you take it to someone?
All it takes is a fairly large (5 CUFT minute or more) compressor and a sand blasting gun off ebay. You learn by doing.
Very cool 💯 😎
i have been fixing radios televisions and record players for some 50 years . i have never seem a lady fix what you are doing right now wow that's is the best wow
That's no LADY!
Nice work Ron. This one gave you a pretty good fight for no more than it was worth lol.
Radio restoration is a work of love: certainly no profit in it! :)
@@glasslinger I know that’s right lol
Great video thank you.
I've got 25 radios that need your help! LOL! just great work! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Think this a Philco model 37-610J. Only write that since it has a large shadow meter dial and the center bottom knob is
offset to the other two knobs. Boy it needed help. That was a really good coverup on the balsa wood patches Ron.
It was priced right and so much better than going to a landfill.
golly...
you have stash of parts in
◇attic
◇shed
◇??
WHAT ABOUT THE BASEMENT heehee
Do you make the dresses you wear
Some of them. It is a very large amount of work to make one, much more work than repairing a radio! Now, a plain sack dress is easy, 30 minutes work. It's like a long T shirt.
Wow Welcome back sweetheart? I'm Happy to see you back in a video! I see your beautiful kitty is still helping you. >>>> IF ANYONE that can post pictures on the channel I been trying for 7 months to send this beautiful Lady a picture of a BIG tube that she has NEVER seen like this one. If anyone could post a picture for me i would really really appreciate it..... Thank you all And Thank you sweetheart for another great video......
Sir i wish i could help you out. I hope someone will let you post your special tube. I would love to see it my self.
Sometimes the price per unit when you buy 10 or 100 is as much as 1/4 (or less!) the price of buying just one (especially for SMT parts). Then it's a no brainer to buy in bulk!
In a transistor circuit, 10m ohm of leakage wouldn't be a problem. Not so in a tube circuit. 29:00, did you forget the output tube (6F6? 6K6? 6V6? 6L6?)?
I make my own soldering gun tips out of #12 or #10 solid copper wire. I hammer the tip flat.
Hi Ron your friend Dave from up North and amazing video it was nice to see a professional restore that radio like your work I retir😂ed from it myself I was a radio TV man thank you for the video I enjoyed it very much may God bless you and keep you safe 1:16:29
its a delight to watch an Elmer work his magic. on that balsa patch. try 'poly shade' polyurethan with stain combined. it doesn't soak in like stain but instead tints the poly. basla is a sponge ,so controlling color is hard
The timing on this video being posted is wonderful! I just pulled this exact model out of storage and am looking into how to go about repairs, thanks for the upload, and rock on!
Glassinger, My father recently died and he restored old radios from the 20's. I have many parts, tubes and test equipment that i am trying to find a home for. I've no idea how to contact you besides a comment. Is there a way to send you a personal message? Please let me know...
I haven't found a way to do it without exposing my email to massive spam. (the last time I gave out my email address I began getting over 200 spams per day!
What part of the country are you in ?
@@ericschulze5641 Houston TX
@glasslinger omg, I'm in Spring! I would love to bring you this beautiful piece in need of restoration.
Glass linger my hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb iam thinking about getting my Grms license
"Bypass capacitors: you don't have to worry about the value" at about 12 minutes in. With the caveat that they sometimes feed directly into a tone shaping network containing capacitors of comparable values...
Great video as always,love watching them! For fifty bucks I'd definitely take the radio. Farm radios and these big ones are impossible to get here. !looking forward to seeing your next video
Regarding speakers cones... Fossil prep people use acetate beads melted in acetone to make a plastic coating.
Muy bueno lo que hace maestro,excelente trabajo.que pase una feliz navidad y un prospero año nuevo.adrian de argentina.
Great job on the Philco. The early designs are somewhat intimidating to me.. take care thanks for sharing
Roñ the if frequency should be 470 kç on thàt philco
I suspected that because two of the adjustments were at that. I think it is a 37-60 chassis but am not sure. No model number anywhere. No big deal. Nobody looks at the dial marks now days!
@@glasslinger Those 37-60 were in the cathedral ones only. Easily mistaken because the rectifier tube
being mounted on top of the power transformer. Bottom three knobs are not in the same alignment as a
37-60 . Code -122 or code -126 for slimmer chassis. Probably model 37-610J but even with all that not
100% sure. Yes the IF freq. is 470 kc.
Hi! I like how you video yourself working, you look like you have been doing this stuff a very long time. Take care Brendan
How can I contact you, for repairng of a hot chassis (tube) radio