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  • čas přidán 2. 05. 2016
  • Testing picture tubes in abandoned houses, going through electronics in old dump and overview of what I brought home. There is an abandoned TV translator site on a peak some 20 miles away that I would guess served this area, nothing now, no digital OTA. Only satellite

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  • @shango066
    @shango066  Před 6 lety +71

    This site is a currently operating mine site in Nevada and is not open to the public, the employees stay in trailers now, not the houses used in the early days of operation

    • @ticn
      @ticn Před 6 lety +2

      Okay

    • @jellyjordy1154
      @jellyjordy1154 Před 5 lety +4

      Nevada? Isn’t that where in 1955 they did a test site nuke somewhere in Nevada

    • @edwatts9890
      @edwatts9890 Před 4 lety +4

      @@jellyjordy1154: January 27, 1951, until September 23, 1992; with above-ground testing until July 17, 1962. Yeah, there was a test or two. I participated in a few.

    • @qwertykeyboard5901
      @qwertykeyboard5901 Před 3 lety

      @@edwatts9890 wildlife: _thanks_

    • @edwatts9890
      @edwatts9890 Před 3 lety +1

      @@qwertykeyboard5901: You are quite welcome. That "job" was one of the best assignments I have ever had, and every precaution was taken to avoid injuring your kinfolk.

  • @macnerd93
    @macnerd93 Před 8 lety +94

    Literally looks like Fallout live action edition

  • @frankpitochelli6786
    @frankpitochelli6786 Před 5 lety +5

    Brings back so many memories, I still have my CRT checker..B&k.

  • @carlburgess9635
    @carlburgess9635 Před 8 lety +73

    Gotta let my wife see this, she won't believe someone else is as bad of a junk collector as me. : )

  • @jayster.k.wiseguy
    @jayster.k.wiseguy Před 6 měsíci

    thanks for explaining the various stages to complete my RCA 14-S-7070 G restoration~ 1959

  • @RODALCO2007
    @RODALCO2007 Před 8 lety +2

    Your video's are simply fantastic. Love every second of them. Pity that the vacuum bulbs were missing in that second TV with the good tube. You are the TV expert in fixing these devices. Amazing that the graveyard TV's tube necks weren't broken.

  • @AiOinc1
    @AiOinc1 Před 8 lety +46

    33:45 This works, why can't Windows 10?

  • @ZenithClarity
    @ZenithClarity Před 8 lety +6

    Great stuff!
    I hope you go back, still many goodies out there in them hills.

    • @ZenithClarity
      @ZenithClarity Před 8 lety +2

      +ZenithClarity1969 I got a freebie of a GE model 303 am radio/turntable a few weeks ago. Got it home and flipped it over, completely packed with mouse bedding. It had been living in a mouse infested basement for many years after the womans husband passed. She just locked the door to his basement workshop with all the goods still locked down there.
      I pulled the chassis and it was pathetic, packed full of bedding, holding thousands of turds and years of mouse piss had just eaten away most of the components inside. Still will be able to hopefully save the transformer and some other parts. Magically the cabinet is still pretty nice!! Now i need another one of those chassis.

  • @Barry7777777
    @Barry7777777 Před 6 lety +2

    Great memories of centering tabs, ion traps, convergence boards, etc. I always buy Sony because I saw so few coming through the shop.

  • @stevebailey325
    @stevebailey325 Před 6 lety +3

    I went through USMC radar repair school in the early 80s, they were still teaching us tube theory. :) love these videos!!

  • @MirceaD28
    @MirceaD28 Před 6 lety +2

    When you said that you are gonna take that GE radio you became my hero. I love old stuff. Hope you restore the clock. Hurts me to see all that sitting like that

  • @NorthRiverTV
    @NorthRiverTV Před 8 lety +6

    The portable at 24:45 is/was a Sears Silvertone 900 (model 42231) manufactured by Warwick circa mid-60's. Quite a good performer in it's day, both in reception and audio quality.
    Another great video!

    • @shango066
      @shango066  Před 8 lety +2

      +NorthRiverTV You nailed it, I had just received the sams based on the stamped chassis tag on the board.

  • @VintageElectronicsGeek
    @VintageElectronicsGeek Před 8 lety +4

    Sad to see all the vintage electronics like that! Looking forward to your future videos on these items!

  • @aidanmontgomery9772
    @aidanmontgomery9772 Před 8 lety +3

    17:30 Lol, I have this exact tape deck, from around the mid 80s, it's a Japanese Sharp deck. All the controls are in the exact same place and look exactly the same. Even the Headphone and Center Mic jacks line up.

  • @djowdjow4880
    @djowdjow4880 Před 3 lety +1

    Santos,BRAZIl here🇧🇷. I am Eletronics techinican. Love❤old CRT TV's. 😃👏👏👏👏👏

  • @gilessmedley619
    @gilessmedley619 Před 4 měsíci

    I still have a 1950s Pye 8” TV set in a wooden case I used to watch as a kid. I often wonder if it will still work, but daren’t fire it up in case it explodes! Still has the instruction leaflet tucked inside. I’m sure it was made at the Cambridge Pye factory in the UK, my home city. It had a big heavy Perspex magnifier hanging over the screen!

  • @ronalddaub7965
    @ronalddaub7965 Před 3 lety +1

    This is one of the best ones you did this reminds me of Sandy shores on GTA and thats cool about bringing your inverter and a small battery

  • @TechneMoira
    @TechneMoira Před 8 lety +1

    Gosh. That big old rusty RCA would make a wonderful resurrection video. Imagine all those people laughing at "old stuff" seeing that one play again after 30 years in wind, rain and a merciless desert. I can't wait for you to get into restoring it.
    I almost wish I could cheer you on while you're doing it. It certainly would make for a nice series of videos on industrial archeology.
    Loved the video by the way... Like you said, it is not something you will ever see anywhere else, and it proves you can combine hiking in the desert with electronics.

  • @rfburns5601
    @rfburns5601 Před 8 lety +24

    Tune in again tomorrow as electronics archeologist Shango Jones brings you another episode of "Raiders of the Lost Parts".
    @33:10 - dust jumping out of the speaker - great!

  • @sirmugman
    @sirmugman Před 8 lety

    its nice to know that you can go out there and get this stuff so you don't have to break in or steal you just have to find the land/property owner and ask if you can have the items.

  • @Synthematix
    @Synthematix Před 8 lety +12

    this is your best video ever shango, love it, make more like this!

  • @Nathriel
    @Nathriel Před 6 lety +7

    This is like a real-life version of the Fallout series of games. Imagine a ghoul answering the door at 5:42

  • @antonvann2576
    @antonvann2576 Před 6 lety +14

    What is this place ? an old army base or something like that ? its weird a whole town would just Up and Leave !

    • @davidjames666
      @davidjames666 Před 4 lety +2

      the aliens took all the town folk back to their mother ship to stick large scientific probes in their orifices.

    • @davidjames666
      @davidjames666 Před 3 lety

      @@mrliberty8468 thanks for appreciating my insights. it is lost on most. You give me the motivation to continue on.

  • @keithjordan7545
    @keithjordan7545 Před 8 lety +1

    I'm looking forward to you working on that RCA, that should be fun! Neat to get stuff like that to work on.

  • @CassetteMaster
    @CassetteMaster Před 7 lety +1

    If I was there I would be scrounging around for old portable tape recorders!

  • @drfalcon4102
    @drfalcon4102 Před 8 lety +3

    that old Muntz stereo 8-track player , sure brought back some memories

  • @riverhuntingdon6659
    @riverhuntingdon6659 Před 8 lety +2

    So sad to see all those things just left to rot. Even the old fridges. My old Sony Trinitron from the late 60's was shudderring ! I noticed an old inside out speaker, possibly a Norelco /Philips too. Too far gone alas.

  • @northhankspin
    @northhankspin Před 8 lety +1

    That was awesome the TV coming to life like that.

  • @hydrolisk1792
    @hydrolisk1792 Před 8 lety +1

    I can't believe that you still got at least static out of that set that has been sitting for sooooo long!

  • @robot797
    @robot797 Před 8 lety +58

    poor poor tv's
    i would take them all home

  • @coinslotsandjoysticks2572

    I find old radios and TVs at goodwill and fix all the time nobody knows how to work on them anymore so I have people bring me stuff constantly that they don't want. I been repairing this stuff for 40 years

  • @msylvain59
    @msylvain59 Před 8 lety +18

    Go back there with a trailer and grab all the stuff !

  • @doe9de995
    @doe9de995 Před rokem +2

    Lots of people think you shouldn't take items from abandoned locations. I agree its stealing if someone cares for the item, but at the same time if you see something of some sort of value in an abandoned location weather its monetary value or personal its, a lot better if the item is recovered for a new life rather then left to slowly decay. I understand shango has permission here I'm just giving my thoughts. And after all is it really stealing if no one wants it cause if your leaving something to rot away in an abandoned place you clearly don't care about it.

  • @theawesometeg219
    @theawesometeg219 Před 6 měsíci

    Me going to an abandoned house and instantly listening to my intrusive thoughts “that’s a pretty nice tv”

  • @GrandsonofKong
    @GrandsonofKong Před 8 lety +7

    Loved the video and I have to admit, I'd be hauling a bunch of that stuff home too. Try to restore, or scavenge parts and if nothing else, recycle the metal rather than let them rot away in the desert.
    I would have grabbed the Muntz 8 track and maybe the Akai Cassette deck too.
    I think what happened to your RCA TV on the front was the black plastic got distorted sitting in the baking hot sun.

    • @TheRetroMacNerd
      @TheRetroMacNerd Před 8 lety +3

      I definitely would've gotten the two tape decks, and probably that poor lil Panasonic TV, believe it or not, I could probably fix it!

    • @ticn
      @ticn Před 5 lety +2

      @@TheRetroMacNerd The CRT was cracked.

  • @halfwayuphill
    @halfwayuphill Před 8 lety +7

    Throw Survivorman into the wilderness then come back in a year and he has a cabin, food, furniture and cooking implements. Throw Shango066 into the wilderness then come back in a year and he is watching TV, listening to a radio and 8 track tapes..... awesome !!!! :-)

  • @MsCori76
    @MsCori76 Před 8 lety

    Wow, I can't believe that tv turned on after sitting out in the weather all those years! Your a genius at this stuff, so I reckon you will get this tv running in no time. 😀👍🏻

  • @yzbryker04
    @yzbryker04 Před 6 lety

    It's like a blairwitch TV project docu😂...btw, i really like to see those vintage stuffs and wow! never been tried to use that CRT tester before. I just hooked the wires few turns from flyback to kick the heater pins...it really works,but then horizontal output transistor burst after a few days..again a back job😓

  • @brichardsfourty
    @brichardsfourty Před 8 lety +2

    I love watching your videos you are very smart with TVs📺📺📺📺📺📺📺📺😜

  • @DavidRLocke
    @DavidRLocke Před 8 lety

    You must love your work if you are going this far afield in search of usable kines. This was me 40 years ago. One table model monochrome I salvaged was at one point completely submerged for many weeks in a flooded basement. There was all of 2 inches of mud on the chassis. It was a Westinghouse 21" unit with an RCA Silverama kine. Because I really didn't care if it lived or not, but that I was an adventuresome cuss, I simply hosed the set out in the driveway, and left it to dry in the sun. I aimed a jet of water from a garden hose nozzle, and tubes when flying every which way. After it dried, I applied contact lube to all the sockets, controls and tuner, reinserted all the tubes, and plugged the darn thing in! That set worked. It worked perfectly. And ran well for 3 years before the seleniums failed with a series of loud pops and a fetid smell. The table model you show with good kine is in no worse shape except for the missing knobs. Try it. You might be surprised.

  • @Andrewausfa
    @Andrewausfa Před 8 lety +2

    That RCA!! I had to laugh when the audio came up, amazing.

    • @mrnmrn1
      @mrnmrn1 Před 8 lety

      +Andrewausfa If anything, the audio was the only thing which I expected it MAY work (I gave... say... 5 percent chance for it). What has blown my mind, when the horizontal deflection started squealing at 32:23, roughly at the right frequency ! It's incredible! I am really looking forward to a followup video on this TV.

  • @bombasticbuster9340
    @bombasticbuster9340 Před 8 lety +1

    You are doing good work. On a serious note we should look for as many vintage crt s as possible to service the special collections of tv s. I dont know of anyone except a tv museum that can rebuild or blow new cr tubes. Always a great ride watching you. Thumbs up Shango!!

  • @rosieokelly
    @rosieokelly Před 8 lety +1

    Fascinating tour...thanks...!

  • @docfoot316
    @docfoot316 Před 8 lety

    My favorite place the junk yard , love it and look forward to your next video follow on from this .Thanks Shango006.

  • @teacfan1080
    @teacfan1080 Před 8 lety

    We got the best of both worlds with this one, exploring & electronics! If you can get the older RCA Victor (the one rats were using as a latrine) working, I crown you the best there is in restoration! At least it had an excellent picture tube in it. That alone is worth saving.

  • @mr.skeltal8687
    @mr.skeltal8687 Před 3 lety +2

    17:47 I have this same deck.
    Excellent piece of kit if you can get your hands on one.
    One of my personal favorites in both quality and ease of repair 😄

    • @isaacsorensen8377
      @isaacsorensen8377 Před rokem

      Wasn't even that old when they threw it outside.

    • @ticn
      @ticn Před rokem

      I've seen one listed on a website recently. Thought about getting one just because it's in this video, lol. I do have a slightly better kenwood at home but I particularly like the design of this akai

  • @KennethScharf
    @KennethScharf Před 8 lety +4

    Man that neighborhood looks like it was used by the AEC to test atom bombs back in the 50's!
    Well that's one good CRT you could put in the parts bin.
    Some of those graveyard sets were OLD, I mean 70 or 90 degree deflection B&W CRTs.
    Crap, a mad man Muntz POS!
    Good luck on those radio tuning capacitors being any good. Bet the plates are all shorting together.

  • @HerecomestheCalavera
    @HerecomestheCalavera Před 7 lety +2

    I'd be interested to know if that AKAI cassette deck worked. If not I bet it wouldn't have took much to get it going.

  • @videosuperhighway7655
    @videosuperhighway7655 Před 8 lety +91

    LOL TV repair man. Late by 30 years.

    • @MrWolfSnack
      @MrWolfSnack Před 8 lety +11

      TV repair people still exist.

    • @johnnydickerson2351
      @johnnydickerson2351 Před 7 lety +1

      +MrWolfSnack not any more

    • @JaxxtinGrand
      @JaxxtinGrand Před 5 lety

      I'm a new comment yeet

    • @JaxxtinGrand
      @JaxxtinGrand Před 5 lety

      32 years now

    • @lazerpeabody8062
      @lazerpeabody8062 Před 5 lety

      technical they still do but our tv's are so modern if our color line blows we can call the company or go to the local repair shop & get it fixed .

  • @fuzzwack1
    @fuzzwack1 Před 8 lety +1

    YES,some good videos coming!!! I love digging the dump vids!

  • @irfan-106
    @irfan-106 Před 6 lety +2

    nice video... its really fun to explore old tube based electrical equipment. I really enjoyed sifting through abandoned Iraqi bunkers and destroyed Kuwaiti farm houses back in early 1990s.
    If you do not mind, I would like to suggest better personal hygiene.

  • @Ben-rj7xs
    @Ben-rj7xs Před 5 lety

    I'm watching from western NY here, but I'm from So Cal it looks like you might be around the Mojave desert area.. Victorville Adalanto apple valley area.. it looks very familiar where your at.. AWESOME VIDEO..

  • @kurtjakins6396
    @kurtjakins6396 Před 8 lety +2

    its weird to think they would pile everything up then forget about it why not sell it all off when your done TV's stereos houses and all just my two cent. thanks for the vid please keep making them I am learning a lot about older electronics and it's awesome.

  • @Officinadoradio
    @Officinadoradio Před 3 lety

    My Congratulations on the rescues of Televisions ... I felt sorry for that big abandoned TV ...

  • @JessicaTG2008
    @JessicaTG2008 Před 6 lety +2

    Its funny, years ago, I wouldn't think of having anything but the newest or largest HD flat screen with all the goofy apps and gadgets... but now I think the coolest thing would be one of those late 70s/early 80s Zenith wood console 27" TVs but retrofitted with a HD tuner and screen, I'd be sure have one of those huge 35 lb Sony Betamax units as well, just for looks of course.

    • @alberttatlock5237
      @alberttatlock5237 Před 5 lety +1

      I've lost count of the amount of old valve sets I've ripped the guts out of, Smashed up and sent to the trash" only keeping the the old casing to sell to fishtankers or people who want to retrofit an LCD panel inside.

    • @dewlivewireftw
      @dewlivewireftw Před 4 lety

      I use old CRT’s from the 90’s to play retro video
      games and watch standard definition content.

  • @AudioMobil
    @AudioMobil Před 8 lety

    Wow...I never would have imagined the portable RCA would show some life. Maybe you can go back there and check some of the other picture tubes at the dump?

  • @DavidBerquist334
    @DavidBerquist334 Před rokem +1

    I had that exact same Akai cassette deck I wish I kept it

  • @webmonkees
    @webmonkees Před 8 lety

    Permission is a wonderful thing.
    I asked the local arcade vendor about lightening their pile of things going to the dump. They said okay.. I have a Galaga and an Asteroids for the cost of maneuvering it into the truck. To the vendor, they've made their money off the machine. A ridiculous amount, if the coin slot counters are accurate. That's why they rarely want to part with the working ones. Patience.

    • @iworkout6912
      @iworkout6912 Před 8 lety

      +webmonkees In Florida and maybe elsewhere, some young guys are buying old pinball/arcade machines and setting up a store. You play the machines for a set amount each day. Probably they had to spend time fixing some of the machines, but interesting to see how young the crowd is playing the machines.

  • @SeanBZA
    @SeanBZA Před 8 lety

    You could regun an old model of that with a flat tube and get a working TV set. Plenty would like a slightly used CRT for replacement. Wrap in some hefty bags and you can transport it.

  • @criticalshareholder6626
    @criticalshareholder6626 Před 8 lety +5

    I'd put those radio's on ePay and advertise them as 'the true definition of vintage' with a ridiculous price tag.

    • @Elfnetdesigns
      @Elfnetdesigns Před 8 lety

      +Critical Shareholder IRK some of the prices now on there are just stupid.

  • @TralfazConstruction
    @TralfazConstruction Před 4 lety

    Right now I am sorry that I didn't save the two Packard Bell computers we bought from Sears in the 1990s; they'd be _real_ artifacts now. This isn't even to mention the dual-floppy Franklin computer we gave to a relative after three years of use. That relative of ours reported that she couldn't do anything with the Franklin since it was completely obsolete.

  • @impetus444
    @impetus444 Před rokem

    Lmao when the dust started flying out of the speaker

  • @turbojoe2
    @turbojoe2 Před 6 lety

    So many electronics.. Love it.

  • @abandonedsc4261
    @abandonedsc4261 Před 8 lety

    That RCA is nothing short of amazing.

    • @Elfnetdesigns
      @Elfnetdesigns Před 8 lety +1

      +AbandonedSC They don't make them like they used to.. If they made today's flat screen TV sets to last like that China would go bankrupt!

  • @mylesross5712
    @mylesross5712 Před 3 lety

    This is a very interesting video for sure

  • @tonygingrich8226
    @tonygingrich8226 Před 2 lety

    Might want to bring a rad counter with you next time visiting this place

  • @fordfalcon85
    @fordfalcon85 Před 6 lety +1

    Vintage TVs and abandoned houses! I am a beginner in electronics but would love to learn vintage TV repair but no one around here seems to know anything about them anymore. Do you think you could create some videos for beginners to the hobby (like how to read schematics, components that are unique to vintage tvs, basic troubleshooting and repair, tools required etc)? Thanks.

  • @bones007able
    @bones007able Před 8 lety

    love the dust blowing out of the speaker....lol.

  • @CraigTube
    @CraigTube Před 8 lety +18

    At first, I didn't know how the hell you were going to test these where there's no electricity. Then you cracked out the 12V battery. I thought "You need way more voltage". Then out came the inverter. Did some mental math and.. WOW. Watched your videos for a while, but never commented (I don't think). Great stuff dude. Rock on!

  • @user-jk1fg6bm6h
    @user-jk1fg6bm6h Před 5 lety

    Отличный специалист, завораживающая природа

  • @nerdful1
    @nerdful1 Před 8 lety

    John borg
    Meant that it also jumped the B+ and filament supply probably to run the colorwheel.
    Funny now I have a colorwheel set (A Samsung DLP).

  • @raykacoluccicarrazzonicarr2003

    #beautiful thankYou kiss #Brazil

  • @DawsonsMemes
    @DawsonsMemes Před 3 lety

    I remember this being in my recommendations like 4 years ago

  • @MavDude
    @MavDude Před 8 lety

    Man I absolutely love this!! More vids like this please.

  • @brettsalter3300
    @brettsalter3300 Před 6 lety

    With your mike picking up all the wind noise outside, and rummaging close up among the junked technology, it felt quite spooky, more apocalyptic than many larger budget films trying for the same effect.

  • @gustavogoncalves3083
    @gustavogoncalves3083 Před 5 lety

    This is really nice! A graveyard of TVs?! Ghost city and a few treasures. Your channel it is the best! Regards from Brazil =)

  • @wisteela
    @wisteela Před 7 lety +1

    Excellent stuff. Subscribing.

  • @connorm955
    @connorm955 Před 3 měsíci

    I used zoom spout oil on a non-working sharpness pot of a JCPenney General Electric television and it fixed it. I researched if you could use mineral oil (what zoom spout is) is safe for such things and found no answer so i attempted to use it and it was fine thought i should really invest in some CRC

  • @tronixfix
    @tronixfix Před 6 lety

    We need more videos like this!

  • @albear972
    @albear972 Před 3 lety

    19:20 I think all those caps need to be replaced. Seriously, cool to see very old e-waste from the past. I admit, as a very young kid back in the early 80's I used to find dozens of vacuum tube TV's on the street and in dumpsters. I loved kicking off the back open and get the vacuum tubes to throw at each other, with my other young friends at the time. At some point I think I had about 300 and I loved throwing them to see em' explode and smashing them.
    I guess old electronic tech collectors would not like that.

  • @jhon2891
    @jhon2891 Před 8 lety

    this is so exciting, can't wait to see what happens in the next couple vids

  • @SoddingaboutSi
    @SoddingaboutSi Před 8 lety

    I think this has been your most interesting video to date

  • @oschiri66
    @oschiri66 Před 2 lety +1

    22:27 That's a Madman Muntz 4-Track player.

  • @DavidBerquist334
    @DavidBerquist334 Před rokem +1

    Both tape decks are 1979 1980 models

  • @42luke93
    @42luke93 Před 5 lety

    I hope no vandal destroys it, just take it home!

  • @MrSilverballmania
    @MrSilverballmania Před rokem

    Smelltastic on the drive back I bet

  • @bryanjones372
    @bryanjones372 Před 8 lety +3

    You should have grabbed that Metal Cased Zenith Bugeye portable that was laying face down in the dump. They are good performers. It would probably work if the cut wires to the crt socket and tuner were replaced.

  • @latinochico
    @latinochico Před 5 lety +2

    I had to pause the video to go and hug my CRT tv

  • @TananBaboo
    @TananBaboo Před 5 lety +1

    27:57 "when I get in a mode when I need to be punished" lol.

  • @999ADAMANT999
    @999ADAMANT999 Před 5 lety

    Recommended for me today by Yotube, definitely Fallout site, search everything for ammo, books, stimpaks! This old CRT could be a computer, use science on it :)

  • @emorris272
    @emorris272 Před 8 lety

    Enjoyed the tv hunt!

  • @eddiewalpole
    @eddiewalpole Před 7 lety

    32:34 Oh my, that long forgotten high pitched CRT sound!

  • @christopherrasmussen8718

    Hard core service

  • @timembry506
    @timembry506 Před 3 lety

    Looks like fun

  • @audubon5425
    @audubon5425 Před 8 lety

    21AMP4A - I believe that would replace some of those 2 volt Phiclo pieces of crap in a set with a regular cabinet (non-Predicta.)

  • @RODALCO2007
    @RODALCO2007 Před 8 lety +4

    The speaker works !!

  • @bobba84
    @bobba84 Před 5 lety

    This would make the most epic of horror film locations!

  • @amigojapan
    @amigojapan Před 6 lety

    what an adventure

  • @madmatt2024
    @madmatt2024 Před 4 lety +1

    I can't understand why they would take the effort to empty out all of those houses just to throw the stuff into a pile to rot when they were going to let the houses rot anyway.

  • @jesssimala9180
    @jesssimala9180 Před 6 lety

    I love that place