not to be rude or anything but we got a Samsung HDTV couple months ago and i LOVE it i notice ur monitor is a samsung if u dont mine me asking how much did u pay for it and where did u get it and also what is its size?
very interesting project you got there but I think the family friendly image went again with you referrin to "sucks the big one" and last time of you "holding it between your legs while making it longer" sheesh uxwbill are these videos now rated R haha j/k wit ya
@blazerlover25 Yeah, probably could have picked a better phrase to express my displeasure. Oh well. I'm human and as such, I've got not being perfect down to an art form. ;-)
(I know you're kidding, and this is intended to be a humorous reply.)
you may wish to look threw the bags, note the values of ALL electrolytic and tantalum capacitors, and purchase new ones before even assembling the unit.
@ouimetnick I'm really not that worried about it, especially in a low voltage, low current circuit such as this. I'll test each cap before it is installed. I'll be very surprised if any of them are bad. (Insert comment here about fools rushing in where angels fear to tread.)
Does the articles include this unit as well? I'd really like to read the article about the different noise reduction systems. Especially the ones not requiring a special pre-processed source signal.
cool! i'd love to see you do the color tv... ;) I'm just about to start building my own separates; i've going to start with the amp, then a digital music player for it, then maybe a turntable, etc.
@AdolfNinjaHitler It is a motor noise, specifically the tape motor. Sometimes it is much more pronounced than other times. It almost seems like the camera has an adaptive "notch" filter to cut that sound out, yet it doesn't always work perfectly.
@uxwbill i just wonder, cause i have this LEGRIA FS200 digital video camera whist i bought this year, and it makes same kind of motor noise what i hear in your camera, only louder.
@uxwbill I believe the motor noise varies slightly depending on how far you are along the tape, i.e. it might be quieter at the start of the tape and louder near the end, or vice versa.
I also wish I lived in a time where kits were readily available.
I remember being 6 or 7 years old (1997 I believe). My dad bought a FM Stereo Kit for Christmas. It it was a great learning experience. Took us like three months before we actually came up with a working unit, but it was a really nice bonding experience with my dad. Still functions to this day, though it never did work particularly well. Still proud if it nonetheless. :)
@rich6955 So far I do not know. I may ask some of the people who say they have this unit if they happened to buy it new. I'd be surprised if it was much less than $100 or so, possibly more. The instructions are a little on the terse side, but they'll do. They certainly aren't the *books* that Heathkit supplied back in the day.
Good 'ol Heathkit. How many times have I sat and marveled at all the wonderful stuff in their catalogs. The only things I ever built were two alarm clock kits (one 12 hour / one 24 hour). That was back in the late 1970's and they still work today. When you called the company at Benton Harbor with questions, you talked to a real person and got real answers. It's hard to believe now but not so long ago, American companies actually cared about their customers and took pride in their products.
@MAG315 Oh yeah, they had some really cool stuff. I can remember the tail end of those catalogs quite well. One of the things I wanted to build was a kind of tone generator that was driven by an attached sheet of Mylar. (At least that's what I remember it being--I know it had something to do with the varying properties of Mylar as it was handled.)
I'd like to think that maybe someone will get back into the kind of business that Heathkit was in, for a new generation.
@uxwbill I dunno William. Heathkit's "we won't let you fail" motto would require more commitment than most companies are willing to offer these days. Most just want to take your money and never hear from you until you're ready to buy something else. It would be great to have companies that cared about their customers like they did back when Heathkit was around but I'm not going to hold my breath.
@MAG315 Me either. Yet I've seen other things stage a comeback that I never thought would happen, so all I can say is that "anything's possible". I don't think you'll find me holding my breath either. :-)
@uxwbill ...and guess what? It's baby steps, but good old Heathkit would appear to be BACK! Check their web site and you'll see that they have announced their first kit in many years, a garage parking assistant device.
I hope their return to electronic kits for the everyman is a success.
@tubageek2006 It varies depending upon the method. Dolby C has almost never sounded good to me, with the exception of a Pioneer CT-W4000 cassette deck that seemed to handle it really well. I've had good results with Dolby B. The one time I've heard Dolby S, it was incredible and I'd like to get a Dolby S capable deck. To me, dbx worked quite well, but it was intolerable if played without decoding.
National Semiconductor's DNR system can also do an amazing job. I'd heard a taste of what it could do in GM's "fixed function" implementation, but I finally found a standalone dynamic noise reduction unit (after learning that they existed) and have been pretty pleased with the results. DNR works without preprocessing and exploits certain aspects of psychoacoustics to do what it does. There is probably a video coming up on that.
@THEtechknight I'm debating it. Right now, I think that if they test good, I probably would use them. But if not, or if it seems too chancy...I'll get fresh ones. I probably already have many of them from other repairs.
@uxwbill There is no such thing is debaiting on 29 year old electrolytics. Ive repaired and restored sooo many vintage electronics that had capacitors fail from age.
never trust NOS electrolytic type capacitors. Your standard ceramic, mylar, metal film, etc are ok. .
@THEtechknight Electrolytics fail with age because the dielectric inside them dries out. If these have been sealed in a plastic bag all their life, then that shouldn't be a problem.
@vwestlife Ya, on most occasions, but sometimes they leak out as well... if the bag was perfectly hermetically sealed, then i dont see it being an issue, But otherwise i do.
Awesome! I remember seeing Heath kits, I beleive I may have a radio electronics mag or two that has the kits listed. I had a couple of the radio shack kits also, with the springs and jumper wires, My AM crystal radio still works to this day, very faint but it does work!
@dosman01302 I built an AM crystal radio set as a youngster, not sure who made it, but it might well have been from RadioShack. (I always wanted one of those "Science Fair' things they used to sell. At my most recent visit to an RS store, I did see something like those being sold...and really thought about picking it up to do things I never got to do as a kid!)
That crystal set had a very large cool factor. I loved listening to it. That it didn't require batteries was cooler still!
I assembled a heathkit digital clock in my youth. I completely screwed it up! Brought it back to heathkit so they could fix my mess, which wasn't cheap.
Good luck, I don't think you'll have much trouble Sir William.
@linuxlove4004 It does, and I hadn't even thought of that! (I wonder who borrowed whose logo, or if that was just an amazing coincidence? I am pretty sure Seagate was in business then.)
Still debating on the capacitors...if they're good, I see no reason not to. These aren't the paper and wax or "bumblebee" caps that were so unreliable.
i hope to see a very long video of you building this i know some don't like long videos maybe make a short one and a long one for those who like long videos
@mikeluscher159 Funny story...there was an honest-to-goodness DeLorean DMC-12 at a used car dealership around here. It was in great shape. I photographed the heck out of when I was 18 or 19. They offered to let me drive it, and I so SHOULD have taken them up on it. Might have been a once in a lifetime experience!
If I ever see it come up for sale again, and I know about it...you can bet there will be a video.
@uxwbill please do, also 1 other question, do u think acceptably of dlink's nas systems? cuz i bought there DNS-325 cuz freenas didnt work out for me?
@mikeluscher159 im going to say your better off bulid a cheap pc and running freenas or something like windows home server or even a basic os like windows 7 on the sytem and share the drives on the netwrok then mess with a nas box
@bigjake52 i wish i asked sooner, i gave my friend my old pentium d 512k 250gb media center pc, for the dlink box, but it seems to be a bit more stable, and reliable, and with a built in ftp server and ddns service, for $222 delivered, i think it was quite a deal
@mikeluscher159 My opinion of ready made NAS devices isn't too high. You're locked in to what the vendor wants to include, and if the quality isn't where it should be, you're usually at their mercy to fix it. They might or might not...and if they do, the fix may be in the form of a whole new model as opposed to a simple software fix for the old models. They also tend to lack sufficient processor speed and (in some cases) memory.
@uxwbill ahh, well now that i got a hdd for it i can get the specs, its a 1.9 intel based processer, and 1gb of ram, ur freenas system didnt have that much power, so i would see it as to suffice?. and gigabit lan ports, and a built in ftp server which soon i will find useful, if only vz fios would provide a gigabit router :(
@uxwbill I saw a DeLorean in the used car lot of a Dodge dealership some 15 years ago, and I haven't seen one since. I hear you can still buy the cars from a company here in the US. They brought all the parts over from Ireland. They cost about $60,000.
I grew up during the heath kit times and tinker toys I built one of the black and white TV a long time ago I was very heavy in electronics in my young years I guess that help me get into the NUCK program on submarines and made it 7 years on them . I worked in a few mom and pop tv radio places as side work and its sad those are dieing off as the years past by. You will have fun with that kit.
PLEASE!! DO A video of the 5000 btu goldstar i wanna compare it to the zenith version
wizard101emily 5 months ago in playlist More videos from uxwbill
not to be rude or anything but we got a Samsung HDTV couple months ago and i LOVE it i notice ur monitor is a samsung if u dont mine me asking how much did u pay for it and where did u get it and also what is its size?
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@Matthew55904 It was given to me in a nonworking state. My only investments were the cost of new capacitors and my time. watch?v=yy4ofzvNV60
uxwbill 6 months ago
very interesting project you got there but I think the family friendly image went again with you referrin to "sucks the big one" and last time of you "holding it between your legs while making it longer" sheesh uxwbill are these videos now rated R haha j/k wit ya
blazerlover25 6 months ago
@blazerlover25 Yeah, probably could have picked a better phrase to express my displeasure. Oh well. I'm human and as such, I've got not being perfect down to an art form. ;-)
(I know you're kidding, and this is intended to be a humorous reply.)
uxwbill 6 months ago
@uxwbill it's all good ya naughty electronic's fella haha
blazerlover25 6 months ago
you may wish to look threw the bags, note the values of ALL electrolytic and tantalum capacitors, and purchase new ones before even assembling the unit.
ouimetnick 6 months ago
@ouimetnick I'm really not that worried about it, especially in a low voltage, low current circuit such as this. I'll test each cap before it is installed. I'll be very surprised if any of them are bad. (Insert comment here about fools rushing in where angels fear to tread.)
uxwbill 6 months ago
@uxwbill Wow, thanks! Will be an interesting read.
P55CxE9 6 months ago
I found some info for that Joseph Gorin on the web I found his email address also if it still is any good if you want the info just let me know.
Comptekhs 6 months ago
Fuck you sound exactly like vvtheduckvv, exact same voice, it's weird!
rockemsockemredneck 6 months ago
@rockemsockemredneck I'll have to listen to his videos and see what I think.
uxwbill 6 months ago
Fantastic Bill! I cannot wait for another great video!
Fusem286 6 months ago
That's really cool NOS stuff.
The1970sInfatuate 6 months ago
was this what you were bidding on, on ebay in you reel to reel tape video?
NobbysPcHelp 6 months ago
@NobbysPcHelp No. I haven't received that yet. It will probably be here today.
uxwbill 6 months ago
It's really cool to see one of these in a box.
BlueFoxTV 6 months ago
Does the articles include this unit as well? I'd really like to read the article about the different noise reduction systems. Especially the ones not requiring a special pre-processed source signal.
P55CxE9 6 months ago
@P55CxE9 I believe they do. When I've scanned the packet, I will send you a private message.
uxwbill 6 months ago
cool! i'd love to see you do the color tv... ;) I'm just about to start building my own separates; i've going to start with the amp, then a digital music player for it, then maybe a turntable, etc.
ashleycox432 6 months ago
that company is still around today they make desktop computer sound cards
giannolamichael 6 months ago
This'll be a challenge, I'd check those caps too, that's a good kit!
HDXFH 6 months ago
You should stain that wood and put on what the stuff is that makes it shinny and glossy.
MacintoshUser1986 6 months ago
i wonder where thats weird, "motor like" noise cames when ever using videocamera?
AdolfNinjaHitler 6 months ago
@AdolfNinjaHitler It is a motor noise, specifically the tape motor. Sometimes it is much more pronounced than other times. It almost seems like the camera has an adaptive "notch" filter to cut that sound out, yet it doesn't always work perfectly.
uxwbill 6 months ago
@uxwbill i just wonder, cause i have this LEGRIA FS200 digital video camera whist i bought this year, and it makes same kind of motor noise what i hear in your camera, only louder.
AdolfNinjaHitler 6 months ago
@AdolfNinjaHitler I also use a Canon FS200, and the built-in microphone does have an audible "whooshing" or hissing noise audible in quiet scenes.
vwestlife 6 months ago
@uxwbill I believe the motor noise varies slightly depending on how far you are along the tape, i.e. it might be quieter at the start of the tape and louder near the end, or vice versa.
vwestlife 6 months ago
WOW, first off good luck, that is going to be interesting, if you get time can you do a video on that tv you where talking about first?
Also iis 1982 a good year because is that when you where born?
redneckbryon 6 months ago
@redneckbryon I may make a video about the TV. It would be interesting to look at if nothing else. I was born at the end of November 1982.
uxwbill 6 months ago
oh crap , with instructions it will never work , guys never read the instructions you know that !! lol
towrecker 6 months ago
I see there is an editing mistake in this video. Oopsy.
uxwbill 6 months ago
*6:41
TheHackWhite 6 months ago
The pre amp at 3:15 is the one I have I think it's a carver c-4000 or 3000
TheHackWhite 6 months ago
I also wish I lived in a time where kits were readily available.
I remember being 6 or 7 years old (1997 I believe). My dad bought a FM Stereo Kit for Christmas. It it was a great learning experience. Took us like three months before we actually came up with a working unit, but it was a really nice bonding experience with my dad. Still functions to this day, though it never did work particularly well. Still proud if it nonetheless. :)
eliw4232 6 months ago
@rich6955 So far I do not know. I may ask some of the people who say they have this unit if they happened to buy it new. I'd be surprised if it was much less than $100 or so, possibly more. The instructions are a little on the terse side, but they'll do. They certainly aren't the *books* that Heathkit supplied back in the day.
uxwbill 6 months ago
Good 'ol Heathkit. How many times have I sat and marveled at all the wonderful stuff in their catalogs. The only things I ever built were two alarm clock kits (one 12 hour / one 24 hour). That was back in the late 1970's and they still work today. When you called the company at Benton Harbor with questions, you talked to a real person and got real answers. It's hard to believe now but not so long ago, American companies actually cared about their customers and took pride in their products.
MAG315 6 months ago
@MAG315 Oh yeah, they had some really cool stuff. I can remember the tail end of those catalogs quite well. One of the things I wanted to build was a kind of tone generator that was driven by an attached sheet of Mylar. (At least that's what I remember it being--I know it had something to do with the varying properties of Mylar as it was handled.)
I'd like to think that maybe someone will get back into the kind of business that Heathkit was in, for a new generation.
uxwbill 6 months ago
@uxwbill I dunno William. Heathkit's "we won't let you fail" motto would require more commitment than most companies are willing to offer these days. Most just want to take your money and never hear from you until you're ready to buy something else. It would be great to have companies that cared about their customers like they did back when Heathkit was around but I'm not going to hold my breath.
MAG315 6 months ago
@MAG315 Me either. Yet I've seen other things stage a comeback that I never thought would happen, so all I can say is that "anything's possible". I don't think you'll find me holding my breath either. :-)
uxwbill 6 months ago
@uxwbill ...and guess what? It's baby steps, but good old Heathkit would appear to be BACK! Check their web site and you'll see that they have announced their first kit in many years, a garage parking assistant device.
I hope their return to electronic kits for the everyman is a success.
uxwbill 6 months ago
I wish you luck. what is your opinion of noise reduction. i generally dont care for it because it seems to cut off too much of the high end for me
tubageek2006 6 months ago
@tubageek2006 It varies depending upon the method. Dolby C has almost never sounded good to me, with the exception of a Pioneer CT-W4000 cassette deck that seemed to handle it really well. I've had good results with Dolby B. The one time I've heard Dolby S, it was incredible and I'd like to get a Dolby S capable deck. To me, dbx worked quite well, but it was intolerable if played without decoding.
uxwbill 6 months ago
@uxwbill (cont'd...)
National Semiconductor's DNR system can also do an amazing job. I'd heard a taste of what it could do in GM's "fixed function" implementation, but I finally found a standalone dynamic noise reduction unit (after learning that they existed) and have been pretty pleased with the results. DNR works without preprocessing and exploits certain aspects of psychoacoustics to do what it does. There is probably a video coming up on that.
uxwbill 6 months ago
I didnt exist in 1982, I came to life in 1985. Speaking of heathkits, I have a 6V6 push pull monoblock which was a heathkit buildable kit.
THEtechknight 6 months ago
I wouldnt use the original electrolytics that came with it, i would order new ones to replace the old ones.
THEtechknight 6 months ago
@THEtechknight I'm debating it. Right now, I think that if they test good, I probably would use them. But if not, or if it seems too chancy...I'll get fresh ones. I probably already have many of them from other repairs.
uxwbill 6 months ago
@uxwbill There is no such thing is debaiting on 29 year old electrolytics. Ive repaired and restored sooo many vintage electronics that had capacitors fail from age.
never trust NOS electrolytic type capacitors. Your standard ceramic, mylar, metal film, etc are ok. .
THEtechknight 6 months ago
@THEtechknight Electrolytics fail with age because the dielectric inside them dries out. If these have been sealed in a plastic bag all their life, then that shouldn't be a problem.
vwestlife 6 months ago
@vwestlife Ya, on most occasions, but sometimes they leak out as well... if the bag was perfectly hermetically sealed, then i dont see it being an issue, But otherwise i do.
THEtechknight 6 months ago
@uxwbill I have also had vintage macintosh machines new in the box never used with bad leaking capacitors.
THEtechknight 6 months ago
Awesome! I remember seeing Heath kits, I beleive I may have a radio electronics mag or two that has the kits listed. I had a couple of the radio shack kits also, with the springs and jumper wires, My AM crystal radio still works to this day, very faint but it does work!
dosman01302 6 months ago
@dosman01302 I built an AM crystal radio set as a youngster, not sure who made it, but it might well have been from RadioShack. (I always wanted one of those "Science Fair' things they used to sell. At my most recent visit to an RS store, I did see something like those being sold...and really thought about picking it up to do things I never got to do as a kid!)
That crystal set had a very large cool factor. I loved listening to it. That it didn't require batteries was cooler still!
uxwbill 6 months ago
You showing that rain on camera is like dangling a plate full of food in front of a hungry man......*cries*
Jerkwad152 6 months ago
@Jerkwad152 Sorry about that. If I could send the rain your way, I certainly would!
uxwbill 6 months ago
good look and i hope it works
joshhsega 6 months ago
That should be a lot of fun. I assembled a few kits, but nothing like this even.
CenTexVideo 6 months ago
@CenTexVideo I'll probably start sorting out parts tomorrow and testing the caps that came with it.
uxwbill 6 months ago
I assembled a heathkit digital clock in my youth. I completely screwed it up! Brought it back to heathkit so they could fix my mess, which wasn't cheap.
Good luck, I don't think you'll have much trouble Sir William.
dwayne0t 6 months ago
The Symmetric Sound Systems logo looks like the old Seagate logo.
I don't suppose you'll be using the original electrolytic capacitors?
linuxlove4004 6 months ago
@linuxlove4004 It does, and I hadn't even thought of that! (I wonder who borrowed whose logo, or if that was just an amazing coincidence? I am pretty sure Seagate was in business then.)
Still debating on the capacitors...if they're good, I see no reason not to. These aren't the paper and wax or "bumblebee" caps that were so unreliable.
uxwbill 6 months ago
i hope to see a very long video of you building this i know some don't like long videos maybe make a short one and a long one for those who like long videos
creedrulz6000 6 months ago
11/82 was also a semi sad M/Y. for it was the beginning of the end for the delorean :(
mikeluscher159 6 months ago
@mikeluscher159 Funny story...there was an honest-to-goodness DeLorean DMC-12 at a used car dealership around here. It was in great shape. I photographed the heck out of when I was 18 or 19. They offered to let me drive it, and I so SHOULD have taken them up on it. Might have been a once in a lifetime experience!
If I ever see it come up for sale again, and I know about it...you can bet there will be a video.
uxwbill 6 months ago
@uxwbill please do, also 1 other question, do u think acceptably of dlink's nas systems? cuz i bought there DNS-325 cuz freenas didnt work out for me?
mikeluscher159 6 months ago
@mikeluscher159 im going to say your better off bulid a cheap pc and running freenas or something like windows home server or even a basic os like windows 7 on the sytem and share the drives on the netwrok then mess with a nas box
bigjake52 6 months ago
@bigjake52 i wish i asked sooner, i gave my friend my old pentium d 512k 250gb media center pc, for the dlink box, but it seems to be a bit more stable, and reliable, and with a built in ftp server and ddns service, for $222 delivered, i think it was quite a deal
mikeluscher159 6 months ago
@mikeluscher159 My opinion of ready made NAS devices isn't too high. You're locked in to what the vendor wants to include, and if the quality isn't where it should be, you're usually at their mercy to fix it. They might or might not...and if they do, the fix may be in the form of a whole new model as opposed to a simple software fix for the old models. They also tend to lack sufficient processor speed and (in some cases) memory.
uxwbill 6 months ago
@uxwbill ahh, well now that i got a hdd for it i can get the specs, its a 1.9 intel based processer, and 1gb of ram, ur freenas system didnt have that much power, so i would see it as to suffice?. and gigabit lan ports, and a built in ftp server which soon i will find useful, if only vz fios would provide a gigabit router :(
mikeluscher159 6 months ago
@uxwbill I saw a DeLorean in the used car lot of a Dodge dealership some 15 years ago, and I haven't seen one since. I hear you can still buy the cars from a company here in the US. They brought all the parts over from Ireland. They cost about $60,000.
criind 6 months ago
I grew up during the heath kit times and tinker toys I built one of the black and white TV a long time ago I was very heavy in electronics in my young years I guess that help me get into the NUCK program on submarines and made it 7 years on them . I worked in a few mom and pop tv radio places as side work and its sad those are dieing off as the years past by. You will have fun with that kit.
ncrdisabled 6 months ago
wow sounds like fun and i am 12 but i made a velman kit bug and it was fun i love your videos
thedeadhp 6 months ago