1948 zenith console AM FM radio
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2017
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I was born in 1951, so that's probably why I see true beauty in that radio! Love the look, I wish it were setting in my living room!
You crack me up with your dry humor,about the people listening to mindless wrap going a long ways in life.Made my day.started laughing out loud ,my wife wondering if I'm nuts,no it's just Shango giving me the best laugh I've had in awhile.
I loke the look of the Zenith over the RCA unit.
I can never get enough of the troubleshooting stuff, love it. That's interesting about the filter capacitor position affecting operation, I don't think I've ever come across that before. A happy ending for a classic Zenith console.
'People who like that will go a long way in life"..lol...best statement of the video...
That 40Mhz band is neat. Our DOT and some local bus lines still uses that old VHF low band here. Making mistakes is just part of the hobby sometime. we've all done it. You're still a great technician. As always great video!
I have a 1946 Zenith console with both FM bands as well as AM. It was a very familiar sight to see the wires that had the crumbling insulation. It was in the 70s that I got it, I was in high school and took on the task to rewire it totally. Very intricate job but very successful. While I was doing it, I did a full recap, wax paper and electrolytics and used all Sprague Orange Drops to replace the wax
I have a Stromberg Carlson AM/FM set from around 1950 that uses permiable (slug) tuning for both FM as well as AM, there is no tuning capacitor in the tuner. It's a little different then that Zenith one, it has a rack and pinion gear that moves the slugs in and out of the coils rather then that rocking plate affair the Zenith has.
Loved following the camera's eye around as you were giving it the smoke test. I think it's beautiful. Zenith really had their cabinetry down. I still have the absolutely gorgeous mahogany cabinet from our old home TV, a 1952 model. Perfect condition, but no chassis or picture tube. I've been toying with the idea of mounting a flat panel LCD TV I have laying around in place of the old screen. Like to include a modern mini AV amp-switcher-tuner to fit behind the door that hid the old TV controls.
Shango, I love how you will admit when you are wrong and show people that restoring this stuff, even by a professional, will have faults and some complications. I always appreciate these videos as I know working on this stuff isn't a 2 hour event, but takes much longer with the joys of editing.
I think that SPIDER EGG SACK needed replacement.
Here is something interesting you may or may not know, You live in California right? The wildfire water and fire suppressant drop planes out there and throughout Nevada use VHF-Lo band 42 - 48 MHz to coordinated with fire crews on the ground so they don't dump on the crews but on the fires instead. Also there are still plenty of rural fire departments on Lo band out there.
yup. the original cobra carts were called radionic. good luck finding them
I have one similar to this, a 9H081, but a real oddity. Apparently long ago, something happened to it's cabinet, and whoever owned it liked it enough that he built a custom tombstone style table cabinet for it, out of an old tv cabinet. The tv tube chart is still inside. With the 12" speaker behind a daisy flower design cut into the wood front, wavemagenet antenna and all, it has a magnificent sound for a "table" set. It's one with the miles of rubber wire, though.
I have been playing around with Internet Radio now for several weeks. I found a project to build one using an ESP32 coupled with a VS1053 decoder board and a small amplifier. The amount of old radio out on the web is tremendous. My build can add up to 70 presets, and has a small digital oled screen added so I can keep track of my place. Hooking one of these up to these wonderful old radios could really take a person back, playing a station such as "Have Gun Will Travel" or "Gunsmith" "Suspense" is also there along with classic comedy such as "The Great Gildersleeve, and Fibber McGee and Molly. There are also some classic rock stations, I found one that plays the tapes from AFVN (Armed Forces Radio Vietnam) from the years that I served over there during the war. Man does that take me back, in fact I sent a link to a buddy of mine from Nam who recently suffered a stroke and lost much of his long term memory. For some reason, I am the only one from his Army Days that he can remember, but after he listened to a few days of that station, much of his memory of that time is beginning to wake up. The human mind is a wonderful thing if treated right. As you may be able to tell, I am an official "OLD FART" who grew up listening to the radios you rebuild. Back then the Radio was to us, what television was to the 70's. Our home place was built in 1908 by Grand Dad and was never wired for power, so we had a battery pack radio for entertainment, kerosene lamps for light, and a windmill near the barn for water. It was a great time, and man those old radio shows really take me back to my youth.
Nice! Take note newbies....we all do it. Gotta love a crafted man who has humility and shows what all of us...and if your trying to get into old electronics...can....and will happen! I have done a lot of stupid things, let alone a simple hookup mistake. Love that you teach by showing that an expert...but anyone can make a mistake. Love how you have always had a great attitude to help those who may be new or don't know it's ok. I'm going to try and do better on that myself.
Good work! I feel like I need to take some of my pre war radios on the shelf waiting for restoration. Usually I buy old radios that are in real bad condition. And then it is a good challenge to restore them. And then what a satisfaction if I managed to save another rarity :) Sometimes it would take ages, but I usually empty all old capacitors and install new ones inside, so it would look very original even underside. Thanks for an inspiring video :)
I like your videos here from Brazil,your English is very easy to understand,and you teach very wel how to fix the problems.Good to see tubes devices I never seem before this down this land.
I love turntables especially the cobramatic I had one when I was a kid and it sounded so good with a 10in speaker
Bet that this radio will shock most of the people with a sound quality that they are not expecting or have never experience before, result of listening to crappy phones, laptops, cheap PC speakers and BT speakers. I mean, I dont think that people is chasing any sound quality today, all the good PROSUMER audio brands are gone, or resell garbage. Audio systems from these days just wont pass from a light show and some miserable punch experience. And on the other side there is no music to feed them ... LOL. I guess trhe punch and the light are good enough ! Amazing job Sir as usual.