Testing old Color TV's and Microwaving a Boom Box

[1FenderGuy]

can i have those 2 tvs?

[Aussie50]

@1FenderGuy their long gone.

[1FenderGuy]

@Aussie50 Sucks, i am 13 and i am a vintage TV collector

[steviebboy69]

i remember ages ago burning an old set top box with the lid off. but some metho on it and lit it up the caps went off like this. and sometimes one would go off and about 5 seconds later i would hear something landing on the carport or house roof. they must have took off like rockets.

[ElectronicaGamer]

good job

[wisteela]

We'll soon to be getting loads of thrown away TVs here in the UK due to the digital switch over too.

That boom box went up nicely.

[wotldthe2006]

@wisteela Its the same here in the usa they went to that digital switch and alot went out as trash when you just had to get a box to still watch them I guess people want that Hd stuff these days.

[HugeK]

I have spent all night watching your videos, I am very jealous you get to play around with all this cool stuff, all very interesting! I used to love going to scrap yards as a kid and picking up old lawn-mower engines to try and repair or make go-karts with or electronic bits for silly projects. The house would be full of electric motors, washing machine pumps, gear assemblies from RC toys, parts of vacuum cleaners and old hi-fi speakers.You have a great workshop!I wish I was not now stuck in IT!

[pledge2u]

i have a sharp 27u-s60 and the high voltage output keeps blowing...any help you can give me...please respond

[douro20]

I just bought a very old NTK Candle 4" TV from 1966 (NTK=Nippon Transistor Ind Co. Ltd.) which has an HV problem- I traced it to a couple of bad caps on the deflection board and I should have it fixed in a week or so...

[demonicBerith]

Jolly good video chap, so cherrio rofl

[TheElectricnoob]

I have a whole box full of them green triplers ;p

[Aussie50]

@TheElectricnoob nice!, good for a super cascade!

[hellsmaw84]

gotta love the sound of burning caps! those big caps for the cap bank would set off a hell of a bang!

[Aussie50]

@hellsmaw84 nah, their vented ones, generally anything bigger than 1/4" X 1/2" is vented now.

[Jaytheozzi]

tv's are good, shame there are not any programs that are not full of wankers. i wouldn't call the radio environmentally neutral yet but it still makes for good viewing!

[mattyvt93]

Cool tv's!

Haha nice one with the cd player :P

[Lachlant1984]

As much as I hate TV, I'm sad to see analogue TV dying, I'm so sick and tired of seeing people in my street throwing old CRT colour TV's onto the nature strip and replacing them with these LCD and Plasma crappy TV's that will only last a year before they break. I'm hanging onto my NEC for as long as I can, it's only 5 years old, but thank God it's a CRT. My family once had a little Philips TV like that one.

[V8Jagnut]

old TV is good. dam that thing burned. lol at only Al Gore can smell it. what have i started.haha. i like your cooking shows.

[Aussie50]

@V8Jagnut lol yeah you get credit for that line :D

Microwave Cooking is fun :D

[V8Jagnut]

@Aussie50 rofl. cool. yer microwaves can be intersting to say the least.lol

[Fluidrazor]

@Aussie50 Find an LCD tv/monitor and take it apart carefully. There are several plastic sheets in there that if you turn them, it turns black and silver. Also there are 2 really cool "cold cathode" bulbs in there you can use to make a mini BRIGHT drop light for your area. And a nice 10mm chopping board. Pretty cool. Any luck on the induction heater/melter/welder?

[Aussie50]

@Fluidrazor I've still got the backlight from a 42" LCD but the driver dosn't respond to my poking and prodding :(

nah I haven't looked at the heater thing yet, but I have seen mini induction heaters tho.

[douro20]

@Aussie50

If you ever wanted to get a small induction heater, Ameritherm makes a couple models in the Easyheat (formerly Hotshot) line which run on single-phase power and put out 1.5 or 2.1kW depending on the model.

[TehMG]

That thing just kept burning on its own without any help? Wow. They really shouldn't be allowed to make flammable plastic electronic junk like this. Wouldn't take much to start a house fire should something inside of it overheat.

Anyways it got what it deserved. Cheap flimsy piece of low-cost plastic crap. Probably sounded like junk too.

[HDXFH]

Hook them up to a Set Top Box

[100PercentGreen]

@ 6:55 - Those must not be vented caps.

[Fluidrazor]

@100PercentGreen The vented styles would have spewed.  Those cracking are soild cans.

[atljunkbrent]

in our country they did away with antena you have to have a digital converter box or cable tv or satelite

[PutSome5tankOnIt]

I have an old radio/CD player similar to the one you nuked in the microwave. I haven't the heart to kill it. It still works. Almost never use it, but it was a gift from a friend... so I keep it around.

[Aussie50]

@PutSome5tankOnIt yeah I keep stuff like that. this one was a abandoned repair job, and destined for the scrap bin anyway.

[30GB]

did you pee on the fire?? LOL

[Aussie50]

@30GB lol I knew somebody would ask that since I didn't show the garden hose (too short)

but, yeah, its a garden hose on low.

[chevy82250]

That burning stereo must really stink! :)