Oh my! You sure brought back memories! Nicely done. Taking a homemade impossible and turning it into a working radio. Glad to see the note that you did not trash the old audio transformers so you might rewind them later. I would rewind by hand as that is less likely to snap the thin wire. A lot of work, but have had many years of hand winding transformers and my own RF coils. Thanks so much for posting this!
For an old man in a dress you do pretty good work lol. Fascinating and entertaining. Just not something you see every day down south. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing your knowledge. Keep on keepin on.
I saw that there was a new glasslinger video and became quite excited. I love your work and have greatly anticipated every video you've made since I found your vacuum pump system tour four or five years ago. Thank you for being amazing Ron
Thank you so much for the carefully detailed explanation of the double reflex circuit. I really appreciate that. And of course, I appreciate very much all these restoration videos of yours. Regards, Daniele 🙂
thankyou. i cant express enough how much i love your videos, when this popped up it took a second for me to remember! in the past six months my best friend died and my electronics hobby has picked up alot of speed. trying to find sams is crazy being in my 20s and not knowing anyone in person interested in electronics from back in the day. your channel is a beacon in my life. imma keep doing what makes me happy, please keep making these videos.
yeah Glaslinger, i loved the beautiful radio restoration it was great !! and me Ricardo sales franz gunart loved your service, congratulations, ah !! Glaslinger I'm your fan too okay, hugs
I am glad to see you are still making content. Your channel is one of the hidden gems on RUclips. The amount of knowledge, skill and craftsmanship you display in these projects is awesome and inspiring, and I am very grateful that you've shared it.
When I was a kid I gobbled up every broken and old electronic device I could get my hands on. If I was unable to get one working I’d take it apart for later use. I taught myself how to repair these devices by trial and error at first and by reading later on. I have a talent for repair it turns out. I could almost just look at the guts of these old tube radios, tvs and record players and without knowing how, figure out how to repair them. I can’t explain this gift and my wife is always knocked out how I can practically by placing my hands on her devices, figure what’s wrong and repair them. If I had not been totally led away from any interest in repairs, I might have made it a career choice. I use to design and build my own transistor radios too. I had all sorts of bins with tubes, resistors, transistors variable resistors and capacitors. My father found my stash of these things and threw them away. I entered law and eventually became a Judge, having a terrific career. But I still like to see videos like yours, repairing items as I once did, many years ago. I wonder how close to my young interests were yours
Same childhood interests. But my dad didn't steer me away from tech. I went into electronics engineering and worked a lot harder than I should have for a lot less money than a judge makes!
Please don't take this the wrong way. May I be your toy boy - I'm 72. Like many of the others below I have missed your videos. I don't have a tenth your knowledge and make many mistakes, like trying to tighten a live terminal (240V). It was refreshing to see an expert like you willing to show that somewhere along the line you dropped a clanger. If you believe you learn by your mistakes I should be catching you up at a great rate of knots. Thank you so much for returning to RUclips, you really were missed a lot you know. Keep well and all the best.
Before attempting to rewind the audios I used a little trick of connecting a Dynomotor or other source of fairly high voltage DC to the secondaries and a lot of times they would weld closed again usually without much loss of resistance. This didn't always work but I wasn't out anything by trying it and seemed to have good luck with this method. Usually I would arc one connection of the HV DC source to one terminal of the secondary until it would draw an arc then measure the resistance of the secondary until I got close to the proper value but don't leave it on too long or it could cook the transformer. The other thing I found that cleaned Bakelite face plates for 20's radios was Scotts Liquid Gold or very light oil but Scotts worked the best. Apply it to the face plate or other Bakelite material work it in and then use a clean paper towel or rag and wipe off the excess. I even used this on some painted surfaces such as metal horns or metal face plates with very good results but NEVER use it on Celluloid tuning dials as it will remove the numbers and you will do much crying. I strongly suggest to leave those types of dials alone do not clean them with anything other than a dry towel with nothing on it. Hope this helps someone out.
Ron, don't scratch the thin enameled wires, most probably you cut it partly and later, during the winding on lead wire, it was broken. Better to remove the enamel by soldering it on tablet of Aspirin. One more trick - make about 5 rounds of wire on fingers, then twist it, you will get strong wire for direct connection to terminal (coil's wire will be reinforced by additional strands). I like all your videos. Thank you!
a trick that may "fix" those secondaries is to charge up a 500pf disc cap to about 4KV and then dump that charge across the secondary. Sometimes that serves to "arc weld" the wire ends together.....I did this on a RE45 victor magnetic phono pickup that was open. I got the pickup working with slightly reduced output, but made the phono operable and it still sounded good. Someone told me that that style of RE45 series of radio/phono with the oddly shaped radio dial opening was referred to as a "fishmouth" by the local techs working in Springfield missouri area in the 1930s.s
I love the construction with the bakelite and brass standoffs, the tops of the tube protruding. I am still completely stumped by early radio and amplifier / tube circuitry
Glasslinger - Glad to see another of your videos! Really enjoyed the explanation of the circuit and the trouble shooting done to get it modified and working. Had to do a screen grab of the circuit diagram so I could follow along with your explanations. You have a lot of arcane and interesting vintage electronics knowledge twixt your ears Sir! I was hoping that the quality of your last video was a one off but this one is as dark and lacking in sharpness as your last one. The scenes in your wood shop are much brighter and seemingly almost in focus. Could you use more light in your shop shots as they are dark and is it possible your camera is set for 480p instead of HD quality? Thanks again for this most interesting video and looking forward to many more!
Sorry about the bad video. I am old (73) and my eyesight is horrible. I can't tell when the camera is focused or how bright the scene really is. It looks fine on my monitor when I'm doing the editing. There are sliders on the youtube control that you can bring the brightness up if you so desire. Only thing I can say to you is DON'T GET OLD! It's got terrible disadvantages! :)
@@glasslinger - The main disadvantage to getting old is that life isn't nearly as much fun as it was before we arrived here and time is running out! I will be 75 on 31 December and don't feel a day older than 90. 😨
@@mickbradford3167 I can't agree or disagree but I am 47 and life is much more fun for me compared to 20 years ago. Not because of circumstances but because of knowledge,wisdom etc.
I'm an ol' guy too... all these years learning, breaking, and building things... now we sort of have it figured out, and have the tools and the time... but the body is not willing anymore. As Ron said, eyesight is one of the victims... it is giving me a real trying time still doing surface mount. 1206 is sort of my limit anymore... 0805s are history.
I found your channel via your video on making a spherical envelope Audion tube, via searches and subsequent recommendations on tube radios, which I had found after following some rabbit trails from crystal/trench radios (a variable coil, blued steel blade, pencil lead, and a crystal earpiece will do the job, if you have a long antenna -- but don't forget the safety pin). One of the attractions tubes have for me is that it's possible (not easy, no, never, but possible, as you've demonstrated) to make your own, unlike a transistor of any utility. Not to mention I can better visualize what's happening inside the tube in operation. This circuit looks like it'd be cool for my first construction project, but I see it had some issues getting it to actually work. I've got a pair of 1T4 tubes on the way (low voltage filament, 22-45 volt plate miniature pentodes), along with sockets and magnet wire for coil winding; I'm planning for a regen with an RF amp stage (likely to get an audio amp stage as well, once the receiver works, so I can drive an internal speaker), and either coil taps or plug-in coils to let me tune from broadcast up to 10 meter. It's been forty years since I've listened to shortwave, and I've never built a radio with any active components (the crystal set I built in 1970 never worked) -- but my attention to detail is a lot better now than it was at age 10.
So much knowledge, experience and expertise. You should take on an apprentice and pass that knowledge on. Most of us are proficient in one area, you however are skilled in just about everything. So glad to see you are creating videos again. 😁
A 1920's radio reparation, with a pretty cat. What is the cat´s name?😺 You are a very professional audio and video restorer! It is possible understand what you made, because you are allways explain de various works. Like the cooking showed on TV. But more complicated, shure! With all appreciation, from a little collector and restorer of these Audio and vídeo machines. Santarém, Portugal, Europe.
The cat has a lot to say. It's nice to get things working again, original or not. I've watched a couple of your videos. I'm collecting old parts to make a one valve TRF. I've got a number of 4 pin valves for £2 - £3 each at radio rallies. One surprise is a valve which has a tungsten filament and marked BBC which dates it between 1924 and 1926. Incredibly the filament still lights up and the valve works. Bill, G4GHB.
Ohh I know that frustration of spending half a day trying to refurbish something only to end up failing. The British thing to do is have a cup of tea. Excellent work there Glass slinger.
I fully appreciate the amount of skill that goes into even your failures. Good stuff. And that circuit is genius.
Ron you should write a book - you have a wealth of knowledge that is hard to come by - years of experience - ATB
WHAT A KOOL 1920 HOMEMADE RADIO RECVER TEX ME MY CELL WHEN YOU HAVE THE TIME
Your videos are an absolute inspiration. I hope that future generations appreciate what you have left to them. 💕
I envy your having the skill to even look at that box and think "repairable radio". Amazing.
glasslinger home maid radio Receiver from 1920s cabinet look good that's cool
So glad you're back! Keep going!
glasslinger I hop you are keeping the home maid 1920s radio Receiver because it is cool
Congratulations on the major rebuild and I like how you kept it vintage with the old good components and wire.
Awesome restoration, thank you. It is amazing watching you easily and quickly get everything looking original, perfect! Such fun!
You are the most patient soul on the Earth! I would have gone ballistic after all that work for nought on those transformers!
I edited out the"ballistic" part of the video! :)
glasslinger LOL! Thanks for these videos. They are tremendously instructive!
Great video. Thank you for taking the time to record it for us. Very Interesting.
Please don't abandon your channel again.
Glasslinger your home made 1920s radio Receiver that you are Restoring is cool
Oh my! You sure brought back memories! Nicely done. Taking a homemade impossible and turning it into a working radio. Glad to see the note that you did not trash the old audio transformers so you might rewind them later. I would rewind by hand as that is less likely to snap the thin wire. A lot of work, but have had many years of hand winding transformers and my own RF coils. Thanks so much for posting this!
Your explanation of the circuit was so clear !
For an old man in a dress you do pretty good work lol. Fascinating and entertaining. Just not something you see every day down south. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing your knowledge. Keep on keepin on.
I saw that there was a new glasslinger video and became quite excited. I love your work and have greatly anticipated every video you've made since I found your vacuum pump system tour four or five years ago.
Thank you for being amazing Ron
glasslinger home maid radio Receiver from 1920s with broadcast band is good for DXing that's cool
Always so positive upbeat let’s get the job done approach fantastic.
You are a wealth of information and I truly enjoy everything you do
Thank you so much for the carefully detailed explanation of the double reflex circuit. I really appreciate that.
And of course, I appreciate very much all these restoration videos of yours.
Regards,
Daniele 🙂
thankyou. i cant express enough how much i love your videos, when this popped up it took a second for me to remember! in the past six months my best friend died and my electronics hobby has picked up alot of speed. trying to find sams is crazy being in my 20s and not knowing anyone in person interested in electronics from back in the day. your channel is a beacon in my life. imma keep doing what makes me happy, please keep making these videos.
For radio schematics go to the American Radio History .com website and they have the complete rider's manuals set online.
This is one of my top favorite channels. So glad to see this being recorded.
Nice old radio brought back to life. Thanks
Makes my day every time to see another radio come back to life :).
Great video I enjoy watching your videos keep up the good work.
My friend who owned a TV store and was so much like you. A huge collection of old tubes. RIP Finkbeiner.
yeah Glaslinger, i loved the beautiful radio restoration it was great !! and me Ricardo sales franz gunart loved your service, congratulations, ah !! Glaslinger I'm your fan too okay, hugs
i just cannot stop watching your channel
Love the wire straightening method! Great video!
I am glad to see you are still making content. Your channel is one of the hidden gems on RUclips. The amount of knowledge, skill and craftsmanship you display in these projects is awesome and inspiring, and I am very grateful that you've shared it.
watch lots of youtube videos,,your the best,glade to see you again,, keep coming back
Fantastic save! Thank you for sharing the journey.
Always amazed at your knowledge and glad to see you making videos.
When I was a kid I gobbled up every broken and old electronic device I could get my hands on. If I was unable to get one working I’d take it apart for later use. I taught myself how to repair these devices by trial and error at first and by reading later on. I have a talent for repair it turns out. I could almost just look at the guts of these old tube radios, tvs and record players and without knowing how, figure out how to repair them. I can’t explain this gift and my wife is always knocked out how I can practically by placing my hands on her devices, figure what’s wrong and repair them. If I had not been totally led away from any interest in repairs, I might have made it a career choice. I use to design and build my own transistor radios too. I had all sorts of bins with tubes, resistors, transistors variable resistors and capacitors. My father found my stash of these things and threw them away. I entered law and eventually became a Judge, having a terrific career. But I still like to see videos like yours, repairing items as I once did, many years ago. I wonder how close to my young interests were yours
Same childhood interests. But my dad didn't steer me away from tech. I went into electronics engineering and worked a lot harder than I should have for a lot less money than a judge makes!
I love watching these videos, ever thought about a live broadcast?
Too much fun, will watch again tomorrow night! Awesome video, it's a story telling episode. Great stuff! Ohhhh-Kay'
Gotta love that cat, he's the brains behind it all
The finished box looks much improved on the outside but open it up and WoW beautiful.
Always so happy to see you've released a video. Entertaining and educational.
I like how you hide new components inside original components, or something that disguises it. Very nice work.
Please don't take this the wrong way. May I be your toy boy - I'm 72.
Like many of the others below I have missed your videos. I don't have a tenth your knowledge and make many mistakes, like trying to tighten a live terminal (240V). It was refreshing to see an expert like you willing to show that somewhere along the line you dropped a clanger. If you believe you learn by your mistakes I should be catching you up at a great rate of knots. Thank you so much for returning to RUclips, you really were missed a lot you know. Keep well and all the best.
Before attempting to rewind the audios I used a little trick of connecting a Dynomotor or other source of fairly high voltage DC to the secondaries and a lot of times they would weld closed again usually without much loss of resistance. This didn't always work but I wasn't out anything by trying it and seemed to have good luck with this method. Usually I would arc one connection of the HV DC source to one terminal of the secondary until it would draw an arc then measure the resistance of the secondary until I got close to the proper value but don't leave it on too long or it could cook the transformer. The other thing I found that cleaned Bakelite face plates for 20's radios was Scotts Liquid Gold or very light oil but Scotts worked the best. Apply it to the face plate or other Bakelite material work it in and then use a clean paper towel or rag and wipe off the excess. I even used this on some painted surfaces such as metal horns or metal face plates with very good results but NEVER use it on Celluloid tuning dials as it will remove the numbers and you will do much crying. I strongly suggest to leave those types of dials alone do not clean them with anything other than a dry towel with nothing on it. Hope this helps someone out.
Fantastic restoration I really enjoyed the video. Keep em coming Thanks for posting
That was one beautiful rebuild. Love your cat he sounds like a child
I love watching your videos. Wether it is making tubes or restoring old radios but, Everytime your cat shows up meowing it makes me laugh
Great Job, hope to see more from you .....excellent work on these old collectibles .
Lol......you are extreme!!! I love your work. Thank you so much for sharing!!
Glad to see you again. Great work onto that piece of history...
Another wonderful restoration!
Great work as always Ron!
Whoever made that nearly 100 years would be proud of you - Kudos.
Glad you are back! Really enjoying your videos!
Ron, don't scratch the thin enameled wires, most probably you cut it partly and later, during the winding on lead wire, it was broken. Better to remove the enamel by soldering it on tablet of Aspirin. One more trick - make about 5 rounds of wire on fingers, then twist it, you will get strong wire for direct connection to terminal (coil's wire will be reinforced by additional strands).
I like all your videos. Thank you!
Beautiful job! Great to have you back!
Very nice I love videos that actually can teach a person a few new tricks.. nicely done.
Lovely to see your with us again more please.
I've been looking all over for this channel. Glad I found it..
I just found your channel. I like to collect and restore antique electronics, and I definitely feel like I could learn a lot from you!
Loved the transformer rewinding details - I did wonder how practical it would be to repair such fine windings. Also love the cat interruptions
so much effort on the transformers….. great Job!!
So happy to see you back at it making videos :) What a beautiful job.
Nice work, as usual xx
Amazing work. Hope you continue to share with us going forward. All the best to you.
It is awe inspiring to watch a true master demonstrating the art.
Glass linger you are good at restoring vintage shortwave receivers and alignment of vintage shortwave receivers my friend 😅😅😅😊
You really know your stuff, excellent video.........thank you......................................Berni
Damn it, I got worried ... Thanks for returning back.
Glass linger your Homemade receiver is awesome my friend 😅😅😊
a trick that may "fix" those secondaries is to charge up a 500pf disc cap to about 4KV and then dump that charge across the secondary. Sometimes that serves to "arc weld" the wire ends together.....I did this on a RE45 victor magnetic phono pickup that was open. I got the pickup working with slightly reduced output, but made the phono operable and it still sounded good. Someone told me that that style of RE45 series of radio/phono with the oddly shaped radio dial opening was referred to as a "fishmouth" by the local techs working in Springfield missouri area in the 1930s.s
Wow, fantastic explanation. Excellent way of explaining it. Even i could understand it. LOL
I love the construction with the bakelite and brass standoffs, the tops of the tube protruding. I am still completely stumped by early radio and amplifier / tube circuitry
Glasslinger - Glad to see another of your videos! Really enjoyed the explanation of the circuit and the trouble shooting done to get it modified and working. Had to do a screen grab of the circuit diagram so I could follow along with your explanations. You have a lot of arcane and interesting vintage electronics knowledge twixt your ears Sir!
I was hoping that the quality of your last video was a one off but this one is as dark and lacking in sharpness as your last one. The scenes in your wood shop are much brighter and seemingly almost in focus. Could you use more light in your shop shots as they are dark and is it possible your camera is set for 480p instead of HD quality?
Thanks again for this most interesting video and looking forward to many more!
Sorry about the bad video. I am old (73) and my eyesight is horrible. I can't tell when the camera is focused or how bright the scene really is. It looks fine on my monitor when I'm doing the editing. There are sliders on the youtube control that you can bring the brightness up if you so desire. Only thing I can say to you is DON'T GET OLD! It's got terrible disadvantages! :)
@@glasslinger - The main disadvantage to getting old is that life isn't nearly as much fun as it was before we arrived here and time is running out! I will be 75 on 31 December and don't feel a day older than 90. 😨
@@mickbradford3167 I can't agree or disagree but I am 47 and life is much more fun for me compared to 20 years ago. Not because of circumstances but because of knowledge,wisdom etc.
I'm an ol' guy too... all these years learning, breaking, and building things... now we sort of have it figured out, and have the tools and the time... but the body is not willing anymore. As Ron said, eyesight is one of the victims... it is giving me a real trying time still doing surface mount. 1206 is sort of my limit anymore... 0805s are history.
Thanks for your very good explanation of the circuit.
looking already forward for your upcoming video!
always love your videos I learn something new every time
Another lovely restoration
You Sir, are some kind of radio God. I hope you have an apprentice you are teaching your knowledge to.
I found your channel via your video on making a spherical envelope Audion tube, via searches and subsequent recommendations on tube radios, which I had found after following some rabbit trails from crystal/trench radios (a variable coil, blued steel blade, pencil lead, and a crystal earpiece will do the job, if you have a long antenna -- but don't forget the safety pin). One of the attractions tubes have for me is that it's possible (not easy, no, never, but possible, as you've demonstrated) to make your own, unlike a transistor of any utility. Not to mention I can better visualize what's happening inside the tube in operation.
This circuit looks like it'd be cool for my first construction project, but I see it had some issues getting it to actually work. I've got a pair of 1T4 tubes on the way (low voltage filament, 22-45 volt plate miniature pentodes), along with sockets and magnet wire for coil winding; I'm planning for a regen with an RF amp stage (likely to get an audio amp stage as well, once the receiver works, so I can drive an internal speaker), and either coil taps or plug-in coils to let me tune from broadcast up to 10 meter. It's been forty years since I've listened to shortwave, and I've never built a radio with any active components (the crystal set I built in 1970 never worked) -- but my attention to detail is a lot better now than it was at age 10.
Hats off!You sir are amazing!
so glad you are back Ron
13:22 Those core wires are made of Norwegian Iron?
Whoa, did you just roll your own coil?! Hat's off and lots of respect to you for that skill!
So much knowledge, experience and expertise. You should take on an apprentice and pass that knowledge on. Most of us are proficient in one area, you however are skilled in just about everything. So glad to see you are creating videos again. 😁
A 1920's radio reparation, with a pretty cat. What is the cat´s name?😺
You are a very professional audio and video restorer! It is possible understand what you made, because you are allways explain de various works. Like the cooking showed on TV. But more complicated, shure!
With all appreciation, from a little collector and restorer of these Audio and vídeo machines.
Santarém, Portugal, Europe.
Awesome to see you back
That's a nice little radio good job
The cat has a lot to say.
It's nice to get things working again, original or not. I've watched a couple of your videos.
I'm collecting old parts to make a one valve TRF. I've got a number of 4 pin valves for £2 - £3 each at radio rallies.
One surprise is a valve which has a tungsten filament and marked BBC which dates it between 1924 and 1926. Incredibly the filament still lights up and the valve works.
Bill, G4GHB.
Very good! Do a youtube on your construction!
@@glasslinger Yes, it would be an idea, thanks for the reply.
glasslinger I like to listen to shortwave and listen to ssb iam thinking about getting my ham license
YT has made your latest videos show up late on my inbox Ron!, I am so sorry for not noticing and I am equally happy to see you back!!!
u do it so easy.Amazing!!!
Ohh I know that frustration of spending half a day trying to refurbish something only to end up failing. The British thing to do is have a cup of tea.
Excellent work there Glass slinger.
You are realy great Ron!
Awesome job on the transformers
Okay Glasslinger eu adorei meu amigo ficou novo e ficou ótimo você é um técnico joia! gostei de ver meu amigo meus parabéns
Muy buen trabajo genial!!
Awesome restoration
fantastic restore
I like that your work bench is messy like mine😜
You have the patience of a saint!!
Glad you're back!