Repairing and Restoring Tube Radios - part 1

[MrGramaphone78]

Why would the speaker have several hundred volts running through it?

[123ravindra]

very nice..!

[Quaaludedude714]

these will get harder to find and become more uncommon :) QC

[chris061290]

for those of you who still have tube electronics you need to keep them. do not sell them because every day that goes on these will get harder to find and become more uncommon. i am 21 years old and i got a lot of tube radios. ima learn how to be vintage radio repairs man. i want keep this tube era alive even as new technologies come out.

[Teflon65]

This is fascinating to me, and you are a good instructor. I don't know if I have the mettle to ever fix an old radio, but I am enjoying this.

[jimmybobo]

Thanks for this. I have to pull these parts out to drop them off for repair. Found this a good primer!

[hydrolisk1792]

*Stops vid at 56 seconds* I would have loved to get that too insted of the xbox and PS3, lol That pad is asbestos!!! It should be removed with caution. Take a look at my vids, the Westinghouse WR-186 that I'm restoring had that same pad at the bottom, and I'm going to put a piece of sheet aluminum at the bottom as my fire shield. Just be really careful, there learks 200 - 300 volts in one of these sets.

[hydrolisk1792]

*Stops vid at 56 seconds* I would have loved to get that too insted of the xbox and PS3, lol

[6A8G]

This has a mains transformer so it wouldn't be a hot chassis???? But cannot drive home the safety message enough:)

John.

[pegasomarcelo]

SEE THIS:

Turn Radio into Guitar Amp:

youtube.com/watch?v=YHfoON7ukS­c



[Madness832]

Gee, I love the width of chassis, compared to that of the cabinet!

[bandet888]

The reason the speaker has a couple of hundred volts to is because some of the old style speakers uses an electro magnet called the speaker field instead of permanent magnets like regular speakers.

[skaterjedeon]

wow you have a tesor!!! of mlilion of dollars!!!

[hrbear]

How a romantic era...

[jks2]

wish i got that one for christmas!

[jenko701]

You have a great wife ,I restore these things, but my wife would never buy me some thing like this.

[Bondurs]

Greetings:

I have to ask what year this radio was made. I assumed that it was pre-WWII when I saw it, but I notice that is uses miniature glass tubes, which I thought weren't used until after the war.

[HobieTyourtube]

Best part of the "bargain! "----------you bet!!

Electrolytic capacitors?-we ALL dry up after 70 years?-hahah

Your "removal "process was-"Spot on! "

I am looking forward to "Part two!! "

Steve.

[ringbolt9]

man i love the design elect stuff today is all the same and boring .

[Thermionman1970]

@ringbolt9 You are right about that! These radios are works of art and they sound warm and rich and seem to add another dimension to music that sounds amazing!

[BaytekkDesigns]

The best gift one could receive. I love old tube radios & their repair!

[mritsfast]

I trust you didn't have this radio plugged in when you banged around on the metal chassis. Anyone working on one of these needs to caution these were a HOT chassis design. Current is flowing on the chassis as this was the design so its' components could get power. Please don't touch the chassis! You can get electrocuted!

[aliendaddy32]

No way... I've experienced a "hot chassis" first hand and don't plan on doing it again!

We're very safety conscious when working on our radios and it is never powered when we're just poking around, especially when the kids are helping.

[9020powrmax]

An "Isolation Transformer" is a Lifesaver when working on these type of chassis

[Thermionman1970]

@mritsfast Yes you need to be very careful, however this is a transformer operated set not one of those transformerless AC/DC sets that have a hot chassis that you have to be extra careful with.

[bandet888]

@mritsfast I used to like to collect old tv's. Anyway I had one that used a hot chassis (depends on which way the plug was pluged in. It had a cable plug in but I used it for an antenna. that means one of the antenna was connected to the chassis. pluged in the wrong way and the chassis is hot! Antenna touched a heat duct from the furnace and POW! No major damage and I figured out why it happened.

[giberish9]

That kinda of looks the radio from "A Christmas Story"

[edtronic]

yeha i agree

[mariopica]

Thank you very much for sharing. Awsome !

Best regards!!!!!

[BillBlaze]

Good Job! Keep up the good work!