This logo has accompanied me all my life since my father bought a Baltika receiver in the early 50s. It was my first window into the world of radio. Then there were the amazing portable VEF-201 and VEF-206. These two are alive and well. But no broadcasting, alas. Thanks for the film, the level of technology was surprisingly high for 1936.
I retired about 2 & 1/2 years ago from electronics maufacturing; rather than radio, I worked for a major manufacturer of very high - end computer hardware ( troubleshot circuit boards that went into their systems at the component level). Fascinating to see the differences between vintage radio & preent - day electronics manufacturing (largely automated today).
@@StephenGachara I’m sorry, I couldn’t say; I retired in mid - January 2020, just about the time the initial stories about Covid were starting out of China. Company that I worked for was originally called EMC; they were bought out by Dell @ 6 ~ 7 years ago, now called Dell Technologies.
I Have Multiple VEF Radios And I Remember Tinkering With These radios In My Childhood, I Broke them so many because i was trying to retune them so i could listen to sattelites and phone calls - i didnt understand how anything worked, i wanted to tinker, TILL THIS DAY Im A Radio Enthusiast And i Have A Lot Of The Devices From THIS Factory That They tested Radio Signals And Radio Waves With..., This Video Is Filmed In A VEF Factory Wich Is Not Anymore For A Long Years. Its A Latvian Made Radio, VEF Stands For Valsts Elektrotehniska Fabrika Or (State Electrotechnical Factory) In English. Greetings From Latvia
Легендарный ВЭФ. Делал качественные, неприхотливые и надёжные радиоприёмники. Думаю не будет преувеличением сказать, что каждой второй семье был приёмники этого завода. Увы, его уже нет, насколько я знаю.
Это было на вершине эстетики XX века. В каждой стране был и свой стиль АМ радио. Самый изящный и тонкий в Германии.. Идеальный в США, с запахом шеллака.. Английский стиль - с линиями Катти Сарк.. Русский стиль искал свои формы тогда..
I wish that things were still made with quality by skilled craftsmen, so many things today are cheap, low quality and end up in a landfill in a few months
Now surface mount components and radio on a chip. Next to nothing in it on a PCB. Little in modern things in the way of space but so much higher component count I bet with radios with USB, MP3 playback, Bluetooth :) Old school, Had a lot of valves and resistors out of an old non working old for then (1990 at college) oscilloscope us kids 16 years old or so where given to take apart. Old but not that old. Late 50's I bet. Nice how things where done, wired point to point, legs going to where they need. No PCB. Old cheap production but quicker made in china now. Nice video. Got an amatuer radio transciever in the car and a handheld. Not this vintage though. 2018 onwards to last year!.
¡Gloria eterna! a todos, absolutamente a todos aquellos hombres y mujeres que por sus manos creadoras pasaron esas maravillas de la ingenieria. A ellos, mi inmensa gratitud y como tributo, todo mi empeño y pasión por el rescate y restauracion de todo ejemplar que a mis manos llegan.
Only an assembly of a few dozen completed component parts. The speaker itself would have taken an hour to assemble its component parts. The wiring that wasn't shown also an hour.
when I rebuild old radio's, I always use polarized molded plugs to avoid the "HOT CHASSIS" problem, the hot side is switched, and the neutral side goes to the chassis, unless the radio has a power transformer, giving line isolation safety.
@@gregoryclemen1870 Greg, I too also replace the line cord with a polarized plug no matter if the radio is hot or transformer driven. It is always good practice to plug any radio under test into an Isolation Transformer to protect yourself and your test equipment. I also use a Dim Bulb Tester just incase the death capacitor is shorted and I also remove the rectifier tube when testing the transformer just because the filter caps are most likely bad. If the transformer tests good then I move on to the IF cans testing resistance, of course with the radio unplugged and the filter caps discharged.
TR - Eski lambalı radyoları cok seviyorum 2022 yılındayız ve 1957 model grundig lambalı radyo kullaniyorum halen cok iyi calisiyor EN- I love old tube radios We are in 2022 and I am using a 1957 model grundig lamp radio it still works very well
back then, all radio's were "Q. C." inspected, and if any radio failed inspection, it was pulled off of the line for repair/ alignment. when repaired, the radio was put back into the main assy. line, nothing was waisted!!!. I bet the chassis was strong enough to be walked on without buckling, "PHILCO" did that back in the early days, they had as part of the inspection, the chassis would be "STEPPED ON" to check for buckling, before the chassis was populated with components!!!!!
I was looking though to see if they filled in the space on the corner, behind the curved veneer. That looked to be a potential weak point. They may have and I didn't catch it. I did see some manufacturing methods still used now, such as the veneer glue being heated to seal it on to the backing wood; I've seen the same thing done on furniture restoration videos. Riveting on parts that might have to be changed later? Yep, we definitely do that now as well (but at least rivets can be drilled out/ground off). Our problem these days is tack-welding and glue on parts that might need replacing later. We can get away with lighter materials and automated manufacturing now, just as in the 1930's they were making the best use of the technologies they had then. The big difference between then and now is back then they put some thought into *repairability*, which they outright don't *want* to do now.
@@SenileOtaku ,I agree with you 100%, the only time screws were used to secure parts, was when you bought a "KIT", and those did not come along until the 1950's. even back then, mass production was used to keep up with demand, just like the printed circuit board was used to speed up production, and cut down on rejected radio's, T.V.'s ect.
People just need to acknowledge that our history was stolen, most of the buildings and infrastructure we use made by the giants; tv and radio existed in the world long before 1700 AD
@@Enigma758 way more people were killed/sent into asylums during the last Great Reset of 1900, practically the whole US population was put away or died from war or disease.
@@togowack That's my point, we are better off as time goes on. We forget the barbarism of the past and only remember the warm and fuzzy. But that's not reality, just wishful thinking.
Cool video but the the aspect ratio is wrong. It took me a while to figure out why the framing was so off. It should be pretty much square during that time period.
Как раз ВЕФ развалился, когда русские ушли из Латвии. Собственно, как и большинство заводов на постсоветском пространстве. Как русские оттуда уходят почему-то всё разваливается.
@@user-hb1tt9fq3x СССР прекратил своё существование в 1991. ВЕФ прекратил своё существование в 1999 году. Незалежная Латвия уничтожила этот завод и это исторический факт.
Конечно они. Как и ЧМП, как судостроение в Николаеве, ракетостроение в Днепропетровске, авиастроение, и многое, многое другое. Только всё это в вашей альтернативной реальности. На самом деле всё ровно наоборот.
@@gukow1 Общался я как-то с латышами, и оказалось, что многие латыши, из молодых, как я понял, винят в уничтожении ВЭФа именно СССР. И аргумент у них довольно своеобразный. Из-за СССР VEF потерял свои связи с Западом. Не было бы СССР, он обязательно стал бы чем нибудь вроде Филипса, или Нокии. СССР убил перспективу, короче.
Sweet set I would love to have one of those sets here in the USA that was I think it was made in Germany that set nice quality too to bad there leader was a moron and jerk
2:54 ? Сдается мне , что эта технология радиоаппаратуры была придуманная в США и купленна как и в СССР в 1936 году )). А вы посмотрите, на все предыдущие радиоаппараты ? Хм но возможно я не прав..я не историк ..
So much skill and time went into making these marvellous old radios!
yes were designed by the Giants made by men just like most everything that was here before colonists ever arrived
This logo has accompanied me all my life since my father bought a Baltika receiver in the early 50s. It was my first window into the world of radio. Then there were the amazing portable VEF-201 and VEF-206. These two are alive and well. But no broadcasting, alas. Thanks for the film, the level of technology was surprisingly high for 1936.
Imagine the amazement of this in those days. This was high technology. Way before transistors.
I retired about 2 & 1/2 years ago from electronics maufacturing; rather than radio, I worked for a major manufacturer of very high - end computer hardware ( troubleshot circuit boards that went into their systems at the component level). Fascinating to see the differences between vintage radio & preent - day electronics manufacturing (largely automated today).
what country?
@@aaabbb4755 USA, In Massachusetts.
Hi Tom... any opportunities over there... Im in Kenya...
@@StephenGachara I’m sorry, I couldn’t say; I retired in mid - January 2020, just about the time the initial stories about Covid were starting out of China. Company that I worked for was originally called EMC; they were bought out by Dell @ 6 ~ 7 years ago, now called Dell Technologies.
This Radio factory located in Latvia "VEF" - Valsts elektrotehniskā Fabrika.; capital city: Riga.
Lai dzīvo Latvija!
Thanjs for letting us know. I've never seen that logo, which isn't too surprising.
@@altimetras завода нет
Not anymore. The plant survived in WWII, but not in our times.
Until now this factory continues
that radio is a: Vefar 2MD/36, VEF Radio Works (Valst Elektrotechniska Fabrika, ВЕФ); Riga 1935/36
I Have Multiple VEF Radios And I Remember Tinkering With These radios In My Childhood, I Broke them so many because i was trying to retune them so i could listen to sattelites and phone calls - i didnt understand how anything worked, i wanted to tinker, TILL THIS DAY Im A Radio Enthusiast And i Have A Lot Of The Devices From THIS Factory That They tested Radio Signals And Radio Waves With..., This Video Is Filmed In A VEF Factory Wich Is Not Anymore For A Long Years.
Its A Latvian Made Radio, VEF Stands For Valsts Elektrotehniska Fabrika Or (State Electrotechnical Factory) In English.
Greetings From Latvia
Легендарный ВЭФ. Делал качественные, неприхотливые и надёжные радиоприёмники. Думаю не будет преувеличением сказать, что каждой второй семье был приёмники этого завода. Увы, его уже нет, насколько я знаю.
While wishing for my lamp radio, I always wondered who produced it and how, thanks for this video

Amo rádios antigos, pena que não existem mais.
Great to see products so well built that they can easily be restored these days. I see the 2MD36 is a TRF set, quite hard to find that type of radio.
Это было на вершине эстетики XX века. В каждой стране был и свой стиль АМ радио. Самый изящный и тонкий в Германии.. Идеальный в США, с запахом шеллака.. Английский стиль - с линиями Катти Сарк.. Русский стиль искал свои формы тогда..
I wish that things were still made with quality by skilled craftsmen, so many things today are cheap, low quality and end up in a landfill in a few months
THose had better sound than modern ones..
it is truth
Eran obras de arte!!!
Very beautiful work vintage 💖
Nice video . Thanks for sharing.
Super quality!
كم..تعجبني...هكذا..فيديوهات....تذكرنا...بلماضي....😊
Excellent.... love from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳🚩🕉️🇮🇳🚩
Amazing! All hand made.
The old-fashioned way! A masterpiece of engineering!
Those radios were new then, but on other youtube channels they show how to restore them back into working order. 😁
Que coisa linda vendo esses filmes de gravação antigo
We didn't have a television in our house until 1966. We always had the radio on in our kitchen.
Now surface mount components and radio on a chip. Next to nothing in it on a PCB. Little in modern things in the way of space but so much higher component count I bet with radios with USB, MP3 playback, Bluetooth :)
Old school, Had a lot of valves and resistors out of an old non working old for then (1990 at college) oscilloscope us kids 16 years old or so where given to take apart. Old but not that old. Late 50's I bet. Nice how things where done, wired point to point, legs going to where they need. No PCB. Old cheap production but quicker made in china now. Nice video. Got an amatuer radio transciever in the car and a handheld. Not this vintage though. 2018 onwards to last year!.
Thank you!
Lindo video, de uma epoca romantica e saudavel que não volta mais!
СССР USSR
@@xfmmihhemhmorc7565 Not USSR.
When a wireless *was* a wireless and a piece of quality furniture.
Amazing
Registro histórico muito bom parabéns.
MARAVILLA
Back when Carpenters were employed in the electronics industry
Lovely music in the factory!
Simplesmente TOP 👏👏👏
amazing verry vintage radio
¡Gloria eterna! a todos, absolutamente a todos aquellos hombres y mujeres que por sus manos creadoras pasaron esas maravillas de la ingenieria.
A ellos, mi inmensa gratitud y como tributo, todo mi empeño y pasión por el rescate y restauracion de todo ejemplar que a mis manos llegan.
Awesome
Telefunken used to make excellent radios; great sound. My friend had two of those at home.
hermoso documento
Muito lindo o vídeo 👏👏👏👏
Muito bom!
Estou a procura de um video desse assunto.
Achei este
Muito obrigo por compartilhar ele.
My dream job.
Eletronica a unica magia real em todos os tempos
Jawa timur menyapa,14,07,22.
setelah pulang dari pantai DAMAS.
Only an assembly of a few dozen completed component parts. The speaker itself would have taken an hour to assemble its component parts. The wiring that wasn't shown also an hour.
Those hot chassis radios were dangerous. heck, back then everything was dangerous.
Yeah but you never touch the chassis until you need to replace a tube,anyways to change a tube you need to unplug it
It has a transformer in the power supply so it wasn't a hot chassis.
@@gameyord7182 Or if the bakelite knob came loose and fell off the brass volume control shaft, you then have 220 V AC exposed for you to touch.
when I rebuild old radio's, I always use polarized molded plugs to avoid the "HOT CHASSIS" problem, the hot side is switched, and the neutral side goes to the chassis, unless the radio has a power transformer, giving line isolation safety.
@@gregoryclemen1870 Greg, I too also replace the line cord with a polarized plug no matter if the radio is hot or transformer driven. It is always good practice to plug any radio under test into an Isolation Transformer to protect yourself and your test equipment. I also use a Dim Bulb Tester just incase the death capacitor is shorted and I also remove the rectifier tube when testing the transformer just because the filter caps are most likely bad. If the transformer tests good then I move on to the IF cans testing resistance, of course with the radio unplugged and the filter caps discharged.
Estou em 2050 , como conseguir uma reliquia dessa, aqui tudo é digital.
TR - Eski lambalı radyoları cok seviyorum 2022 yılındayız ve 1957 model grundig lambalı radyo kullaniyorum halen cok iyi calisiyor
EN- I love old tube radios We are in 2022 and I am using a 1957 model grundig lamp radio it still works very well
back then, all radio's were "Q. C." inspected, and if any radio failed inspection, it was pulled off of the line for repair/ alignment. when repaired, the radio was put back into the main assy. line, nothing was waisted!!!. I bet the chassis was strong enough to be walked on without buckling, "PHILCO" did that back in the early days, they had as part of the inspection, the chassis would be "STEPPED ON" to check for buckling, before the chassis was populated with components!!!!!
I was looking though to see if they filled in the space on the corner, behind the curved veneer. That looked to be a potential weak point. They may have and I didn't catch it.
I did see some manufacturing methods still used now, such as the veneer glue being heated to seal it on to the backing wood; I've seen the same thing done on furniture restoration videos. Riveting on parts that might have to be changed later? Yep, we definitely do that now as well (but at least rivets can be drilled out/ground off). Our problem these days is tack-welding and glue on parts that might need replacing later.
We can get away with lighter materials and automated manufacturing now, just as in the 1930's they were making the best use of the technologies they had then. The big difference between then and now is back then they put some thought into *repairability*, which they outright don't *want* to do now.
@@SenileOtaku ,I agree with you 100%, the only time screws were used to secure parts, was when you bought a "KIT", and those did not come along until the 1950's. even back then, mass production was used to keep up with demand, just like the printed circuit board was used to speed up production, and cut down on rejected radio's, T.V.'s ect.
Мастерство кинооператора просто завораживает! (сарказм)
How it's made: Radio Vintage documentary= How Carpenters work video. (Y)
Great skills!
Ohhh, that music! A hallmark of pre-war documentaries and travelogues. Another world entirely.
"How it's Made" 30's edition.
Back when things were built to last.
Memories 🥰🥰🥰
que buen video
I think the black looking thing behind the speaker is the bluetooth IC.
I loved the pre-CNC jigged router work. 8)
I don't think I knew that the Finnish made many radios.
These arent Finnish radios, but Latvian.
The boxes are marked for Helsinki, Finland and Tallin, Estonia.
In Finland you had Salora, whom later pioneered their expertise with mobile phone technology..the rest is history, as they say! #Nokia
🙏🙌
Bacana. Outros tempos.
Bro intha video pakka pottatharku🙏
Good old days when things last.Now days,everything is,a scammy, ripp off,junk that do not last or perform good.
A wonderful bygone age where everything was at a sensible pace. A sharp contrast to the lunacy of today.
Completely agree!
People just need to acknowledge that our history was stolen, most of the buildings and infrastructure we use made by the giants; tv and radio existed in the world long before 1700 AD
1936, the rise of fascism and the start of a devastating world war with 10s of thousands killed.
@@Enigma758 way more people were killed/sent into asylums during the last Great Reset of 1900, practically the whole US population was put away or died from war or disease.
@@togowack That's my point, we are better off as time goes on. We forget the barbarism of the past and only remember the warm and fuzzy. But that's not reality, just wishful thinking.
❤️❤️👍❤️❤️
WOW !!!!!🧐🧐🧐😱😱😱😱😱
Крутой рекламный ролик
🤩👍❤❤❤
Decommunized like everything in Latvia
Вечная память заводу...
Anyone know where this came from? Or where I can find it without the timecode?
I think you wont find it without that timecode. it came from some online archive, don't remember exactly tho
Товарищ Гебельс раздавал радиоприемники бесплатно, в каждую квартиру. Возможно принудительно. Как раз в те годы.
Awsome, music is a bit wierd.
notice how not safe he was feeding the wood through? no push stick things where done so unsafe back then but we built country`s like that.
Esses rádios eram bem baratinhos na época feitos para o povo comprar rádios populares vosempenfagem
USSR
This was made to last...
Nunca vi una bocina con un transformador en el lugar de la bobina que bueno saber.
This is very clean and ohonest job.not like todays stuff All made china.
post the original 4:3
Kaunas?
The cameraman gets a C-
.pagawa din ako boss box mag kano paris na bax
Che anni
Is this a german radio being made!?
Latvia
@@SallySallySallySally Thanks
@@SallySallySallySally Would your name be Sally by any chance?.
Yes very likely
6:30 it's already 3G technology.. 😄
Cool video but the the aspect ratio is wrong. It took me a while to figure out why the framing was so off. It should be pretty much square during that time period.
Это завод VEF рига латвия СССР USSR
Это завод VEF, вы правы. 1936г. До оккупации рашистами оставалось 3 года.
6:54 die deutche voschneu ufa
Había mejor herramienta que ahora
Люди жили, робили приймачи VEF, а потім прийшли московіти та все зруйнували
Как раз ВЕФ развалился, когда русские ушли из Латвии. Собственно, как и большинство заводов на постсоветском пространстве. Как русские оттуда уходят почему-то всё разваливается.
@@gukow1 Це все брехня, та путінська пропаганда!
@@user-hb1tt9fq3x СССР прекратил своё существование в 1991. ВЕФ прекратил своё существование в 1999 году. Незалежная Латвия уничтожила этот завод и это исторический факт.
Конечно они. Как и ЧМП, как судостроение в Николаеве, ракетостроение в Днепропетровске, авиастроение, и многое, многое другое. Только всё это в вашей альтернативной реальности. На самом деле всё ровно наоборот.
@@gukow1 Общался я как-то с латышами, и оказалось, что многие латыши, из молодых, как я понял, винят в уничтожении ВЭФа именно СССР. И аргумент у них довольно своеобразный. Из-за СССР VEF потерял свои связи с Западом. Не было бы СССР, он обязательно стал бы чем нибудь вроде Филипса, или Нокии. СССР убил перспективу, короче.
Haha
Sweet set I would love to have one of those sets here in the USA that was I think it was made in Germany that set nice quality too to bad there leader was a moron and jerk
These radios were made in Latvia.
How did somebody manage to sneak out this film of modern day North Korea?
2:54 ? Сдается мне , что эта технология радиоаппаратуры была придуманная в США и купленна как и в СССР в 1936 году )). А вы посмотрите, на все предыдущие радиоаппараты ? Хм но возможно я не прав..я не историк ..
It makes no sense to put this to music.
even silent films of the early 20th century had music with them (usually played live).
now a 12 yr old in china makes your radio for $1 an hour pay
Yep, thanks to the Clinton’s pushing for their entry into the WTO, everyone else will soon lose their future.
@@danielknepper6884 Your comment make my laugh aloud!
Добро пожаловать в Евросоюз. VEF RIP
Yea jbl. 👈$20000004😮
.pagawa din ako boss box mag kano paris na bax