I don´t know, I write this out into the blue. I´ve been a regular viewer since many-many years. I appreciate the content you create, and the knowledge you teach to young electronics enthusiasts. There is just one thing that did upset me, and it´s your "request" video where you fixed an old oscilloscope. Don´t get me wrong, I´m 100% behind the support you give to the person who demanded this video, but what upset me, is that you´re obviously extremly picky when it comes to comments. Over the past years I´ve written a comment here, a comment there. Whilst one was more informative (and I think this was the first one I´ve ever written) where I told you you should be pleased with your few AM stations, bc here in Germany all had been shut off in 2015, the official ones, it is okay that you didn´t reply, but later, when I asked questions like "How is your amateur radio stuff going - especially ATV" ... or when you asked "suggest which radio I should fix next" and I replied "Please fix the rare regenerative receiver because people haven´t seen one of these on your channel yet"... you also didn´t reply. To me this was okay, bc people write 100s of comments here, and I thought "he´s very busy" (you claim that often). He just doesn´t have time to read *every* single comment. I was really upset, when I did read through many comments, just to find out that you seem to read every single comment, otherwise the 2-sentence request from the person "in need" wouldn´t have been noticed by you, and then you even made the 1hr20 minutes video "altough you are busy". I´m just super upset that bigger youtubes don´t cater to "smaller people" anymore. I bought stuff for "diode gone wild" because I thought he´s very open for receiving items. It were things I thought he sure may like - mainly high voltage generator "kit(s)" / pre built devices, but multiple contact attempts (send an email to his website, write comments) were completely unansered. I wanted (one day) to send an item to you, a homemade 6 transistor regenerative radio... that has the "special feature" that it does not use a single coil. The receiving part of it is a "RC" oscillator, and the frequency is tuned via a variable capacitor. I thought it´d be great and you´d make a vid about it, but now... I have a feeling even asking wouldn´t make sense at all. After the thing with your "requested oscilloscope repair", I stopped watching your videos... I don´t know if I´ll return... I need time (and no I´m not a snowflake, am millenial generation).
I do read every comment in fact I approved this one out of held for review. You're taking somewhat educational amateur social media entertainment way too serious. I'm just rolling with the flow and I'll get to what I get to when I get to it
I read your post carefully several times. I'm having a hard time connecting the event to your discomfort with it. It seems somewhat disproportionate but everyone's different I guess.
Don't take it personally if a CZcams or any content creater doesn't reply to your comments. Most content creators are doing this in their free time and even if they read the comments, they don't always have time to answer, or the answers to your comments / questions. It's not a personal thing if a content creator does not answer. Try not to take it personally.
Hi Shango- I’m a local fan from LA. I started my career in 1974 (16 year old girl) at a TV repair shop . If I competed my office work, I could apprentice….. My journey was Electronics classes in high school, trade school, college. Eventually I worked in Radio TV Broadcasting as an Engineer to feed my family. Love it!!!! Love your channel
Great story Mary. I could have gone the same route. I hung out in back of repair shop. Charles E Stone urged me to study electronics engineering. But when I got to college, calculus and chemistry were big turn offs. I did a career as a technical writer. Turning 65 in January. Electronics will always be a love.
I doubt the people at RCA even thought that their products would even work in 2023, yet they do. For a weak CRT, thats a great picture! Its amazing that a TV could be so clean yet be so baked. I appreciate all you do and for showing us your human side.
Must have been used in one of the few non-smoking households in the era, with no pets, and meticulous housekeeping, and then stored well when eventually taken out of service
@shango066,Im glad youre mentioning this. You're right. CZcams is getting extremely critical about what comments it feels should be posted Its too bad they dont share the same respect for freedom of speech that you do. As more and more voices are silenced its going to be nothing but fawning and praise.
Ancient portable TV, not a speck of dust or grime, inside or out?! I could be wrong, but the appearance of the white carrying handle, through my TV screen at least, seems to have been carefully cleaned. Not a speck of dust inside a high-hour set with tubes with obviously high hours and no dust on them? Could be low hour set with old tubes inserted, but that corroded tube says otherwise. I think cleaning technology is getting pretty good. My wife's Honda had a slight oil seepage from the valve cover gasket that attracted a lot of dirt. Dealer replaced the gasket, and when the car came back, the engine compartment was absolutely spotless, like a showroom car, and that car had 50,000 miles on it. I worked one summer circa 1976 at a car dealer and i saw cars being detailed, but this recent Honda engine compartment detailing was "off the hook". I wonder if this TV got similar treatment. You mention a very strong "electronics" smell...maybe carbon tetrachloride or some other chemical used to clean the set?
this set I think is in cosmetic and physically worth restoring. A new CRT and some caps. I really enjoy your channel, I don't write negative comments unless it is really constructive. I just appreciate your doing these videos as very few as much as you do and it is very educational and helpful to me at least. I could never pay you or thank you enough. And the few minor mistakes well I could never do better anyway and most mistakes you find and correct. You make great funny satire at times which I enjoy as I agree with the comments. Thanks a Billion..... Mike
Ok ,clean and intelligent criticism. " It is gassed out, Isn't that pretty " . All the other tubes working hard didn't get any praise . The one with gas in the room gets all the attention.
Had the pleasure of staying a night at the Wigwam motel in Holbrook AZ in 2004. Aside from the concrete teepees, old cars, and the angled bathroom mirror, my room at that time had a working B&W tube TV. I was dead tired from an extra long day addressing car trouble so I didn’t watch it long, but it was an authentic 50’s-60’s experience. I appreciate your comments off topic and expect next year to be awful enough for “do no evil” to be unusable
How is all of the glass and metal so clean and shiny in this TV if it has so many hours on it? Almost like it was used as an information monitor in a clean-room or something
It still amazes me to this day, that even when printed circuit boards became possible, point to point wiring was still used in the consumer electronics space for more than a decade after.
That requires a big investment in equipment and a bunch of training for the employees to work with the new production equipment. Plus a bunch of down time when the new equipment is being installed and the employees being trained. It takes time and money and so they keep it going the old way for as long as possible. Another problem is at the time, electronics manufacturing was moving to low cost countries aided by the traitors who were in charge at the time. Why invest in millions of Dollars of new equipment for a dying industry?
@@tarstarkusz pcbs started here in the UK '55 to '57 ish but KB(Kolster Brandes,, which was linked with STC and ITT) still made an odd few hand wired TVs until the very early 70s, i used to have one
Early PCBs were really bad. They were not suitable for the hot vacuum tube electronics of the era, since the phenolic base would burn and warp under high temperature. This is why many manufacturers like Zenith promoted point-to-point wiring as a feature for reliability
When I was a kid in high school, circa 1970 we went on a field trip to the RCA tube factory in Harrison, NJ. The factory consisted of buildings that were bought from Thomas Edison, probably built 1890. The floors were raw 3 x 12 planks laid across the main beams, with considerable gaps in between. I mean, this was RCA, 1970, possibly the most advanced electronics company in the world outside of military, and that place was quite simply primitive. Of course I was fascinated by the tube making machines, those were insanely cool.
@@alanpecherer5705 Well, you really don't need advanced facilities for making tubes. The writing had been on the wall for tubes in 1970 for at least a decade.
Shango helped me a while ago repair a tiny 7" Panasonic all tube with a bad vertical output transformer , he pointed me the video and that it was quite commob problem, so he does read and reply. Thank you
My grandmother had a set very similar to this when she lived in Randolph, MA. Hers did not have the UHF tuner, though. In the place of it was another speaker grill. She bought it around 1960 to replace her 1950's TravLer TV. I have slides of it when it was in the living room and a couple of years ago, I found a spending record of hers and she recorded that she spent around $160 for it in 1960. My uncle briefly used it in the 1970's when I was young, when their Magnavox set stopped working.
i am pretty sure that tv was 63 or newer. uhf could be added on with a sepperate converter. beautiful set. some house wife like june cleaver had it run all day while she did house work. like your show miss your cat.
I'm trying my best watching all of your videos til the end and thumbsing everything up. My father used to do this kind of thing back in the day and had all of the tester's and equipment setup in the basement and did many service calls in a van before I was born making sure the "ol' lady" can watch her program at 7pm. He started work at General Motors willow run michigan assembly and started on the line and when he started to slow down would flash the program of the new fuel injection system into the onboard computer, run a test, get a printout and then shove the slip into the glove box. I never understood what he really did until I seen your channel. It was quite a thing to watch a service tech show up at your door, open the back of the tv, read the schematic, and solder in something that fixes the tv so the family could watch quality programming together. Thank you for at least teaching me what my father went through back when he serviced tv's, stereo's, juke boxes, and anything else you plugged into the wall.
Years back When I was in the business we used to rejuvenate the b&w tubes with the 7 pin larger neck by setting the 467 to rejuvenate, letting the heater heat up for 30 seconds and just hitting the rejuvenate button quickly once or twice and had very good luck. Did lots of high usage security monitors that way and never had to replace a crt. The tubes with the smaller 7 pin neck, not such good luck. Thanks for the vids!
In my opinion, the true purpose of free speech is not to permit people to say whatever they want, but rather for us to hear the views of others who we may disagree with or at least help us see things from another perspective and hopefully change our thinking. Censorship, for whatever reason, inhibits this and only polarises people.
I would bet that TV was in a teen girl's bedroom. No smoke from the parents' cigs like the living room set would have. Still a nice looking piece. I think it still would be worth restoring if a better picture bulb could be had.
I had lots of new in box Sylvania 1b3/1g3's that went to air. Very common problem even when new in box. The ones I had were white milky in the getter area on bottom.
Great looking set. Always look forward to your videos. Totally agree with what you say about the comments. I always look forward to seeing where I can improve through others knowledge.
Those Shriners commercials rock, they keep it positive and the whole vibe is "Hey we're helping kids, if you want to help too send us money!" I love it. Very honest commercials in my opinion, no sarah mcglaughlin songs going on and starving dogs begging for money.
This set, while very high hours, was probably owned by a nice old lady with a pristine home. I mean, seriously clean innards. The TV, not the lady! I'd love to own something this old (a year younger than I) and enjoy it once in a while. The cosmetic condition is astoundingly good.
Never believe a CRT tester, I have several including the same B&K, which always reads low on quite watchable picture bulbs, The best test is in the set itself. I agree that the rejuve function does not last, but the clean & balance function does, probably because it is more gentle & does not burn off what is left of the cathode.
I have metal cone crt that the filament burnt a hole through the cathode and tests zero on the same B n K tester still makes a picture. Not a very good one though.
I think the holistic operation of the CRT depends on the HV. That giant potential literally sucks out an electronic flow. Note that early CRT experiments did not use filaments. Cold cathode acted upon by provocative anode voltage.
I just noticed Paul Carlson gave you a shout out in his last video. He was talking about doing a TV resurrection and he gave you an excellent plug for the place to go to see tv resurrections and restorations.
30 years ago I had a repair bench servicing the CCTV industry. I found that monitors with a high quality CRT can take a rejuvenation and live on. When vidicon cameras were still in service I tried rejuvenating vidicons and found that a quarter of my dead tubes could be salvaged and returned to service.
That was the TV we had when I was growing up. Ours was black where the blue is and it didn't have a UHF tuner. Of course back then Vegas only had 5 channels.
So, did your friend clean the inside of this TV before you performed this analysis? To be such a high-hour set it appears nearly unused. I thought I was on another CZcams channel... 🙂
I also fired up my 1950 Silvertone and found the 6BQ6 HOT went gassy as there was a spectacular purple light show going on inside! Not unlike that HV rectifier.....
Unless the cabinet has been restored, it would appear to be from that rarest of places in the '60s, namely a smoke-free home. This highlights my scepticism of trusting the results from CRT and tube testers. If that CRT had arrived out-of-set as it were, the test result would have had you knock the neck off and put it in the trash. Yet, although weak it is useable (and the supply of 19ins B/W CRTs is heading in only one direction). A CRT or tube can only be truly evaluated when it is in the circuit in which is being asked to perform. As always, thanks for the videos
At 20:30 the old HV rectifier definitely does some spark show and it's audible. This set looks amazing. I would really love if you make it work even if a new CRT is necessary. All tube set, great MCM look, clean. Don't give up on it, it's a beauty.
For me Shango is the George Carlin of electronic resuscitation videos. I can stop laughing. Sarcasm is very useful nowadays. and yes, YT looks like "1984". Let's see how long my comment lasts before it's ANDED with 0's
Green HV cap also very common on Admiral & GE B&W's. If you dont clean it up it will spread faster than syphilis. I thinks its moisture & material related. Other brands get it now & then. LFOD
Pretty hard to believe the emission was about zero with that decent of a picture. Man.. that thing almost looks like it came out of the box a few months ago.
4:01 - High hour or moderate hours with Contrast knob fully clockwise. I always run CRTs with contrast/picture set to midpoint, and use Brightness/Bias to set overall luminance.
Rumble does a lot of shadow banning. It's a large part of the reason that most channels stagnate . They don't grow. Regarding the side effects of the meds that pharma advertises, those can be the most alluring part of the drug. The fact that drinking the tea as a preventative measure to the panacea might bring EOL makes for a wonderful game of dice rolling. High stakes, but what the hek.
I have to wonder if this set was kept in some sort of laboratory grade clean room for all of it's original service life. For a CRT to be run long enough to blue the G1 cup there's always a thick build up of sooty dust on the CRT, neck hardware and chassis...Usually bad enough to not be able to be cleaned up to the level of cleanliness seen. It just doesn't seem possible for it to be so clean yet have high run hours symptoms on the tubes.
AI fuelled censorship - what could possibly go wrong? The humm of these sets, the glow of the tubes always brings back that weird Fallout 1/2 feeling. :D
I really dig that coil on the terminal strip at 3:27. You just don’t see many coils (inductors) like that anymore. The color dots probably indicate the price in dollars, not the inductance in microhenries. 😊
I had a hunch that the bad rectifier had gas when Shango tried to plug it in and received a shock. The positively charged CRT is connected to the tube's cathode, so the rectifier tube shouldn't have conducted.
That set certainly looked pristine at first then it revealed its true hours. Would be interesting to set up that HV rectifier tube in a test rig and run it to destruction, love the discharge colors inside the envelope. Thanks for your excellent videos!
DH - The scariest thing I have seen on CZcams was someone replying to me when I advised him / her that someone had made a decision to censor out a portion of the vid, (I forget if it was a cartoon, or something like "The Little Rascals") and that person said they were OK with someone censoring the vid for them.😱🤯
I was watching an old Match Game rerun the other day and they edited out Charles Nelson Riley's response to one of the phrases. I only noticed because the score lights had incremented an extra match. I can only assume he said something that is now considered offensive. I also watched a rerun of Jackass and they put a disclaimer before the show stating "this show may contain content that is reflective of a time period where value systems were different. Those with sensitivities may wish to view alternate content." Or something to that affect. Like seriously what is going on? It's like they're trying to erase everything that happened before 2010.
I'm only 5:36 into the vid, but I would say being this old with no smoke damage and high hours, it's probebly been in a dentists waiting room. I can remember people smoking waiting for a doctor, but not a dentist.
If RCA made a good color TV set, then the black and whites are just as good as they. That dial looks like a clock, it's really cool. Overall a fancy set, for a black and white.
Definitely entertainment value from putting back the old 1B3 with the arcing/plasma through the gas! If I had this set, I would restore it, the CRT is producing a good enough picture to be worth it to me!
You can't see it but you can hear it ... Buzzzt .. buzzzt. Reminds me of that guy at the flea market selling umbrellas who ironically always seems to have a stand directly under the high voltage wires.
I really like the design if this set and yours is in fantastic condition. I had one similar but it was in boring colors,I think it was black and white,and didn't have uhf
I agree with you on CZcams regulating comments. I was told that I will not be allowed to comment after two warnings. Freedom of speech does not exist anymore. As a veteran of two conflicts I am disgusted at what America has become.
I am very curious if the picture tube would test differently after it had been playing for a while. It seems to happen quite often that the tester says "picture tube's dead" and yet it's still very usable.
I immediately thought two things: What extraordinary condition and I bet that plastic is very, very brittle. Looks like it could be. Plastics from that era did not age well and that technology is one thing that has actually improved over time.
First impressions with this, it just looks so very very clean. Hard to believe it is high hour when it is so clean inside. Just so little dust for a high hour set. Whereever this was kept, it must have been a clean environment and well looked after, just used until the tube died. I have to agree with you on censorship. I am always so cautious with what I type these days as so many times CZcams will block it
I don't know why I picture a jaded, sarcastic Luke Skywalker living on Ahch-To, fixing electronics as a hobby when I watch your videos. You kinda sound like him a bit i guess. And that's why you can get shocked, as long as it's on the robotic hand. 😜😉🖖
That thing might of seen a lot of the Jetson's, but I'd still watch it on that old tube today...yeah the jittery stuff needs a little work. The cleanliness is unreal for its age.
Finding a set top box to convert digital to analogue here in Australia is almost as hard as finding a CRT TV these days. They are well and truly extinct. I have a few, because I bought them new and remember the days before digital tv, mobile phones, internet. Lol I am old.
Anywhere with CZcams it's just about money. If they could do without any content any comments any interaction it would be done tomorrow. Remember Google took out of their mission statement do no evil.
The white plastic cabinet condition of Tv set is awesome, almost all similar Brazilian Philco of late 60’s plastic white sets became “yellowed” By the years.
It's as old as me and with a recap should be a great watchable picture for some time. Well until a tube goes out on it again. It is high mileage despite the beautiful almost NOS look of the cabinet.
I don´t know, I write this out into the blue. I´ve been a regular viewer since many-many years. I appreciate the content you create, and the knowledge you teach to young electronics enthusiasts. There is just one thing that did upset me, and it´s your "request" video where you fixed an old oscilloscope. Don´t get me wrong, I´m 100% behind the support you give to the person who demanded this video, but what upset me, is that you´re obviously extremly picky when it comes to comments. Over the past years I´ve written a comment here, a comment there. Whilst one was more informative (and I think this was the first one I´ve ever written) where I told you you should be pleased with your few AM stations, bc here in Germany all had been shut off in 2015, the official ones, it is okay that you didn´t reply, but later, when I asked questions like "How is your amateur radio stuff going - especially ATV" ... or when you asked "suggest which radio I should fix next" and I replied "Please fix the rare regenerative receiver because people haven´t seen one of these on your channel yet"... you also didn´t reply. To me this was okay, bc people write 100s of comments here, and I thought "he´s very busy" (you claim that often). He just doesn´t have time to read *every* single comment. I was really upset, when I did read through many comments, just to find out that you seem to read every single comment, otherwise the 2-sentence request from the person "in need" wouldn´t have been noticed by you, and then you even made the 1hr20 minutes video "altough you are busy". I´m just super upset that bigger youtubes don´t cater to "smaller people" anymore. I bought stuff for "diode gone wild" because I thought he´s very open for receiving items. It were things I thought he sure may like - mainly high voltage generator "kit(s)" / pre built devices, but multiple contact attempts (send an email to his website, write comments) were completely unansered. I wanted (one day) to send an item to you, a homemade 6 transistor regenerative radio... that has the "special feature" that it does not use a single coil. The receiving part of it is a "RC" oscillator, and the frequency is tuned via a variable capacitor. I thought it´d be great and you´d make a vid about it, but now... I have a feeling even asking wouldn´t make sense at all. After the thing with your "requested oscilloscope repair", I stopped watching your videos... I don´t know if I´ll return... I need time (and no I´m not a snowflake, am millenial generation).
I do read every comment in fact I approved this one out of held for review. You're taking somewhat educational amateur social media entertainment way too serious. I'm just rolling with the flow and I'll get to what I get to when I get to it
I read your post carefully several times. I'm having a hard time connecting the event to your discomfort with it. It seems somewhat disproportionate but everyone's different I guess.
@@shango066 ha ha😍
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Don't take it personally if a CZcams or any content creater doesn't reply to your comments. Most content creators are doing this in their free time and even if they read the comments, they don't always have time to answer, or the answers to your comments / questions.
It's not a personal thing if a content creator does not answer. Try not to take it personally.
Damn, whoever owned that thing took really good care of it!
Hi Shango-
I’m a local fan from LA.
I started my career in 1974 (16 year old girl) at a TV repair shop .
If I competed my office work, I could apprentice…..
My journey was Electronics classes in high school, trade school, college.
Eventually I worked in Radio TV Broadcasting as an Engineer to feed my family.
Love it!!!!
Love your channel
Great story Mary. I could have gone the same route. I hung out in back of repair shop. Charles E Stone urged me to study electronics engineering. But when I got to college, calculus and chemistry were big turn offs. I did a career as a technical writer. Turning 65 in January. Electronics will always be a love.
Cool!
Shango due to this being in such good condition its well worth dropping a new crt in it, its a nice little set actually.
Strange it's not dusty inside. Mustabeen an incredibly clean home.
I doubt the people at RCA even thought that their products would even work in 2023, yet they do. For a weak CRT, thats a great picture! Its amazing that a TV could be so clean yet be so baked. I appreciate all you do and for showing us your human side.
Must have been used in one of the few non-smoking households in the era, with no pets, and meticulous housekeeping, and then stored well when eventually taken out of service
@shango066,Im glad youre mentioning this. You're right. CZcams is getting extremely critical about what comments it feels should be posted Its too bad they dont share the same respect for freedom of speech that you do. As more and more voices are silenced its going to be nothing but fawning and praise.
When I see the adverts for any meds.... I sometimes think the disease symptoms are better than the medicine side effects.
Ancient portable TV, not a speck of dust or grime, inside or out?!
I could be wrong, but the appearance of the white carrying handle, through my TV screen at least, seems to have been carefully cleaned. Not a speck of dust inside a high-hour set with tubes with obviously high hours and no dust on them? Could be low hour set with old tubes inserted, but that corroded tube says otherwise. I think cleaning technology is getting pretty good. My wife's Honda had a slight oil seepage from the valve cover gasket that attracted a lot of dirt. Dealer replaced the gasket, and when the car came back, the engine compartment was absolutely spotless, like a showroom car, and that car had 50,000 miles on it. I worked one summer circa 1976 at a car dealer and i saw cars being detailed, but this recent Honda engine compartment detailing was "off the hook". I wonder if this TV got similar treatment. You mention a very strong "electronics" smell...maybe carbon tetrachloride or some other chemical used to clean the set?
Back when they had the guts to make a T.V. that wasn't black plastic! It may be out of style, but at least it HAD a style!
2000s Disney TVs in green Shrek
@@pyeltd.5457And they are as hideous as Shrek too.
So great to see you here, I watch your pinball videos, mostly the EM stuff, great content.
this set I think is in cosmetic and physically worth restoring. A new CRT and some caps. I really enjoy your channel, I don't write negative comments unless it is really constructive. I just appreciate your doing these videos as very few as much as you do and it is very educational and helpful to me at least. I could never pay you or thank you enough. And the few minor mistakes well I could never do better anyway and most mistakes you find and correct. You make great funny satire at times which I enjoy as I agree with the comments. Thanks a Billion..... Mike
Ok ,clean and intelligent criticism. " It is gassed out, Isn't that pretty " . All the other tubes working hard didn't get any praise . The one with gas in the room gets all the attention.
I be fair, the guy in a crowded waiting room with gas also gets all the attention.
Fart in a crowded room and see who gets the attention.
I wish I had a good CRT to put in that set. It is so clean it is worth restoring if you can find a tube.
Tube isn't even bad tbh, that was a really good picture
Not to shango066.
Had the pleasure of staying a night at the Wigwam motel in Holbrook AZ in 2004. Aside from the concrete teepees, old cars, and the angled bathroom mirror, my room at that time had a working B&W tube TV. I was dead tired from an extra long day addressing car trouble so I didn’t watch it long, but it was an authentic 50’s-60’s experience. I appreciate your comments off topic and expect next year to be awful enough for “do no evil” to be unusable
How is all of the glass and metal so clean and shiny in this TV if it has so many hours on it?
Almost like it was used as an information monitor in a clean-room or something
It still amazes me to this day, that even when printed circuit boards became possible, point to point wiring was still used in the consumer electronics space for more than a decade after.
That requires a big investment in equipment and a bunch of training for the employees to work with the new production equipment. Plus a bunch of down time when the new equipment is being installed and the employees being trained. It takes time and money and so they keep it going the old way for as long as possible.
Another problem is at the time, electronics manufacturing was moving to low cost countries aided by the traitors who were in charge at the time. Why invest in millions of Dollars of new equipment for a dying industry?
@@tarstarkusz pcbs started here in the UK '55 to '57 ish but KB(Kolster Brandes,, which was linked with STC and ITT) still made an odd few hand wired TVs until the very early 70s, i used to have one
Early PCBs were really bad. They were not suitable for the hot vacuum tube electronics of the era, since the phenolic base would burn and warp under high temperature. This is why many manufacturers like Zenith promoted point-to-point wiring as a feature for reliability
When I was a kid in high school, circa 1970 we went on a field trip to the RCA tube factory in Harrison, NJ. The factory consisted of buildings that were bought from Thomas Edison, probably built 1890. The floors were raw 3 x 12 planks laid across the main beams, with considerable gaps in between. I mean, this was RCA, 1970, possibly the most advanced electronics company in the world outside of military, and that place was quite simply primitive. Of course I was fascinated by the tube making machines, those were insanely cool.
@@alanpecherer5705 Well, you really don't need advanced facilities for making tubes. The writing had been on the wall for tubes in 1970 for at least a decade.
Shango helped me a while ago repair a tiny 7" Panasonic all tube with a bad vertical output transformer , he pointed me the video and that it was quite commob problem, so he does read and reply. Thank you
My grandmother had a set very similar to this when she lived in Randolph, MA. Hers did not have the UHF tuner, though. In the place of it was another speaker grill. She bought it around 1960 to replace her 1950's TravLer TV. I have slides of it when it was in the living room and a couple of years ago, I found a spending record of hers and she recorded that she spent around $160 for it in 1960. My uncle briefly used it in the 1970's when I was young, when their Magnavox set stopped working.
According to the inflation calculator, that would be a bit north of $1,600 today.
@@russellhltn1396 Bidenomics at work.
i am pretty sure that tv was 63 or newer. uhf could be added on with a sepperate converter. beautiful set. some house wife like june cleaver had it run all day while she did house work. like your show miss your cat.
Ocrevus Never Heard of that one. May cause Cancer and Infections, some serious. May cause disability or Death. sounds like some really great stuff
Love when you talk about the pilitics and real issues
I don't know a thing about TV repair but I love Sat. morning Shango.. 👍🏼
For a high hour tube that pic is still great, I hope you end up restoring it. That's a sweet set. Would love to find something like that
Given the pristine physical condition, I think it would still be worth restoring.
I wonder if a "newer school" CRT would work (and fit) something from the 90's ...nah..
If anyone can, it would be Shango.
Perhaps, but you might be better off finding a tube and chassis from something else.
@@russellhltn1396 that makes a lot more sense. I've been baked!
@@russellhltn1396 It's very surprising how clean the chassis is given that it's a high hour set. When a chassis is baked, it usually looks baked.
Don’t apologize for the rants, if we can’t complain at least you can
I'm trying my best watching all of your videos til the end and thumbsing everything up. My father used to do this kind of thing back in the day and had all of the tester's and equipment setup in the basement and did many service calls in a van before I was born making sure the "ol' lady" can watch her program at 7pm. He started work at General Motors willow run michigan assembly and started on the line and when he started to slow down would flash the program of the new fuel injection system into the onboard computer, run a test, get a printout and then shove the slip into the glove box. I never understood what he really did until I seen your channel. It was quite a thing to watch a service tech show up at your door, open the back of the tv, read the schematic, and solder in something that fixes the tv so the family could watch quality programming together. Thank you for at least teaching me what my father went through back when he serviced tv's, stereo's, juke boxes, and anything else you plugged into the wall.
Years back When I was in the business we used to rejuvenate the b&w tubes with the 7 pin larger neck by setting the 467 to rejuvenate, letting the heater heat up for 30 seconds and just hitting the rejuvenate button quickly once or twice and had very good luck. Did lots of high usage security monitors that way and never had to replace a crt. The tubes with the smaller 7 pin neck, not such good luck. Thanks for the vids!
I think thicker CRT necks were better engineering.
Wow, that thing is mint. And it is mint.
EDIT: man, the cosmetic condition had me fooled, too. Where were they running this thing, in a clean room?
In my opinion, the true purpose of free speech is not to permit people to say whatever they want, but rather for us to hear the views of others who we may disagree with or at least help us see things from another perspective and hopefully change our thinking. Censorship, for whatever reason, inhibits this and only polarises people.
I watch your vids for over a decade now and i am impressed that you are still burning for your hobby. 😊
Wow, that is about as mint as it gets for a 1961 TV. Looks like it has already been through SpatsBear's dishwasher system.
Thanks!
That is SOOOO COOOOOL looking of a set! Mesuem quality!
I would bet that TV was in a teen girl's bedroom. No smoke from the parents' cigs like the living room set would have. Still a nice looking piece. I think it still would be worth restoring if a better picture bulb could be had.
Nah, smoke gets everywhere when the furnace kicks on.
What a beautiful unit!
In CZcams land. You will have NOTHING and you will be HAPPY.
I had lots of new in box Sylvania 1b3/1g3's that went to air. Very common problem even when new in box. The ones I had were white milky in the getter area on bottom.
Another excellent video, Mr. Shango066
That set is pure eye candy. 👁🍬
Hello shango long time viewer across multiple accounts i love your content and you have taught me a thing or two that i wouldn't have known otherwise
Great looking set. Always look forward to your videos. Totally agree with what you say about the comments. I always look forward to seeing where I can improve through others knowledge.
I personally very much enjoy the tube test segments. thank you for including them
I don't know if the camera makes it look better but that picture tube definitely looks like it has some life left in it, maybe more than you think.
Those Shriners commercials rock, they keep it positive and the whole vibe is "Hey we're helping kids, if you want to help too send us money!" I love it. Very honest commercials in my opinion, no sarah mcglaughlin songs going on and starving dogs begging for money.
This set, while very high hours, was probably owned by a nice old lady with a pristine home. I mean, seriously clean innards. The TV, not the lady! I'd love to own something this old (a year younger than I) and enjoy it once in a while. The cosmetic condition is astoundingly good.
Great video as always mr shango
Great video as always. That set is actually in very fine condition, actually.
Never believe a CRT tester, I have several including the same B&K, which always reads low on quite watchable picture bulbs,
The best test is in the set itself. I agree that the rejuve function does not last, but the clean & balance function does, probably because it is more gentle & does not burn off what is left of the cathode.
I have metal cone crt that the filament burnt a hole through the cathode and tests zero on the same B n K tester still makes a picture. Not a very good one though.
I think the holistic operation of the CRT depends on the HV. That giant potential literally sucks out an electronic flow. Note that early CRT experiments did not use filaments. Cold cathode acted upon by provocative anode voltage.
I like the look of that set. Shame the tube is at the end.
Thanks for sharing the set! Cheers for a great video!!!
🍻 -Al Cox
I just noticed Paul Carlson gave you a shout out in his last video. He was talking about doing a TV resurrection and he gave you an excellent plug for the place to go to see tv resurrections and restorations.
30 years ago I had a repair bench servicing the CCTV industry. I found that monitors with a high quality CRT can take a rejuvenation and live on. When vidicon cameras were still in service I tried rejuvenating vidicons and found that a quarter of my dead tubes could be salvaged and returned to service.
That was the TV we had when I was growing up. Ours was black where the blue is and it didn't have a UHF tuner. Of course back then Vegas only had 5 channels.
So, did your friend clean the inside of this TV before you performed this analysis? To be such a high-hour set it appears nearly unused. I thought I was on another CZcams channel... 🙂
You know if they say it MAY lead to death.... it's DEFINITELY LEADING TO DEATH
Like you always say, baked like a toddler in a hot car---that's what this set is
I also fired up my 1950 Silvertone and found the 6BQ6 HOT went gassy as there was a spectacular purple light show going on inside! Not unlike that HV rectifier.....
Unless the cabinet has been restored, it would appear to be from that rarest of places in the '60s, namely a smoke-free home. This highlights my scepticism of trusting the results from CRT and tube testers. If that CRT had arrived out-of-set as it were, the test result would have had you knock the neck off and put it in the trash. Yet, although weak it is useable (and the supply of 19ins B/W CRTs is heading in only one direction). A CRT or tube can only be truly evaluated when it is in the circuit in which is being asked to perform. As always, thanks for the videos
The live view counts and likes are a hoot. I've watched both climb for the whole video. It's the very first time I've seen such a thing.
What A Beautiful Set
Hey Shango, just watched the latest Mr. Carlson’s Lab video. He gave you and Bob Anderson a nice plug for your channels.
At 20:30 the old HV rectifier definitely does some spark show and it's audible.
This set looks amazing. I would really love if you make it work even if a new CRT is necessary. All tube set, great MCM look, clean. Don't give up on it, it's a beauty.
I completely agree with you about the handeling of comments 👍
For me Shango is the George Carlin of electronic resuscitation videos. I can stop laughing. Sarcasm is very useful nowadays. and yes, YT looks like "1984". Let's see how long my comment lasts before it's ANDED with 0's
Green HV cap also very common on Admiral & GE B&W's. If you dont clean it up
it will spread faster than syphilis. I thinks its moisture & material related.
Other brands get it now & then.
LFOD
Pretty hard to believe the emission was about zero with that decent of a picture. Man.. that thing almost looks like it came out of the box a few months ago.
4:01 - High hour or moderate hours with Contrast knob fully clockwise. I always run CRTs with contrast/picture set to midpoint, and use Brightness/Bias to set overall luminance.
Rumble does a lot of shadow banning. It's a large part of the reason that most channels stagnate . They don't grow.
Regarding the side effects of the meds that pharma advertises, those can be the most alluring part of the drug. The fact that drinking the tea as a preventative measure to the panacea might bring EOL makes for a wonderful game of dice rolling. High stakes, but what the hek.
Well they do what they do because that's what they do and when they do it that way that's how they do it
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@@shango066 JESUS CHRYSLER!! MY BELLY BUTTON LOOKS **EXACTLY LIKE YOURS**
I have to wonder if this set was kept in some sort of laboratory grade clean room for all of it's original service life. For a CRT to be run long enough to blue the G1 cup there's always a thick build up of sooty dust on the CRT, neck hardware and chassis...Usually bad enough to not be able to be cleaned up to the level of cleanliness seen. It just doesn't seem possible for it to be so clean yet have high run hours symptoms on the tubes.
AI fuelled censorship - what could possibly go wrong? The humm of these sets, the glow of the tubes always brings back that weird Fallout 1/2 feeling. :D
Nice looking Set !
Looks new. Lovely!
I really dig that coil on the terminal strip at 3:27. You just don’t see many coils (inductors) like that anymore. The color dots probably indicate the price in dollars, not the inductance in microhenries. 😊
And there was me thinking you knew what you were talking about, clearly not. That picture on start up was very decent.
I had a hunch that the bad rectifier had gas when Shango tried to plug it in and received a shock. The positively charged CRT is connected to the tube's cathode, so the rectifier tube shouldn't have conducted.
That set certainly looked pristine at first then it revealed its true hours. Would be interesting to set up that HV rectifier tube in a test rig and run it to destruction, love the discharge colors inside the envelope. Thanks for your excellent videos!
Looks like one of those plasma balls, doesn't it? Basically has become one.
Censorship is rampant everywhere! It is AI driven! This will probably be censored! Great video!!!!
DH - The scariest thing I have seen on CZcams was someone replying to me when I advised him / her that someone had made a decision to censor out a portion of the vid, (I forget if it was a cartoon, or something like "The Little Rascals") and that person said they were OK with someone censoring the vid for them.😱🤯
I was watching an old Match Game rerun the other day and they edited out Charles Nelson Riley's response to one of the phrases. I only noticed because the score lights had incremented an extra match. I can only assume he said something that is now considered offensive.
I also watched a rerun of Jackass and they put a disclaimer before the show stating "this show may contain content that is reflective of a time period where value systems were different. Those with sensitivities may wish to view alternate content." Or something to that affect.
Like seriously what is going on? It's like they're trying to erase everything that happened before 2010.
I'm only 5:36 into the vid, but I would say being this old with no smoke damage and high hours, it's probebly been in a dentists waiting room. I can remember people smoking waiting for a doctor, but not a dentist.
Interesting insight!
If RCA made a good color TV set, then the black and whites are just as good as they. That dial looks like a clock, it's really cool. Overall a fancy set, for a black and white.
Definitely entertainment value from putting back the old 1B3 with the arcing/plasma through the gas! If I had this set, I would restore it, the CRT is producing a good enough picture to be worth it to me!
That tv spent it's first 28 years in a box. Only way to explain it's minty fresh flavored cabinet... lick test 🤪
You can't see it but you can hear it ... Buzzzt .. buzzzt. Reminds me of that guy at the flea market selling umbrellas who ironically always seems to have a stand directly under the high voltage wires.
I really like the design if this set and yours is in fantastic condition. I had one similar but it was in boring colors,I think it was black and white,and didn't have uhf
I had this model set a while back my cabinet was all black and white
Wow, that set and I are of the same vintage!
Set it worth putting a tube in, looks very clean
Kinda dig that tv. Nice conversation piece 📈📉📻
I agree with you on CZcams regulating comments. I was told that I will not be allowed to comment after two warnings. Freedom of speech does not exist anymore. As a veteran of two conflicts I am disgusted at what America has become.
CZcams is a private enterprise. You may speak freely with your folks.
So a company platform is now the measure of constitutional rights? Quit the anger.
I am very curious if the picture tube would test differently after it had been playing for a while. It seems to happen quite often that the tester says "picture tube's dead" and yet it's still very usable.
I immediately thought two things: What extraordinary condition and I bet that plastic is very, very brittle. Looks like it could be. Plastics from that era did not age well and that technology is one thing that has actually improved over time.
Please post a picture of your roof antenna. I love roof antenna images.
First impressions with this, it just looks so very very clean. Hard to believe it is high hour when it is so clean inside. Just so little dust for a high hour set. Whereever this was kept, it must have been a clean environment and well looked after, just used until the tube died.
I have to agree with you on censorship. I am always so cautious with what I type these days as so many times CZcams will block it
Lovely set.
I don't know why I picture a jaded, sarcastic Luke Skywalker living on Ahch-To, fixing electronics as a hobby when I watch your videos.
You kinda sound like him a bit i guess.
And that's why you can get shocked, as long as it's on the robotic hand. 😜😉🖖
Cool!!! The vhf plate looks like an addison dial plate
That thing might of seen a lot of the Jetson's, but I'd still watch it on that old tube today...yeah the jittery stuff needs a little work. The cleanliness is unreal for its age.
Finding a set top box to convert digital to analogue here in Australia is almost as hard as finding a CRT TV these days. They are well and truly extinct. I have a few, because I bought them new and remember the days before digital tv, mobile phones, internet. Lol I am old.
Might check the thrift stores.
Anywhere with CZcams it's just about money. If they could do without any content any comments any interaction it would be done tomorrow. Remember Google took out of their mission statement do no evil.
The white plastic cabinet condition of Tv set is awesome, almost all similar Brazilian Philco of late 60’s plastic white sets became “yellowed” By the years.
It's as old as me and with a recap should be a great watchable picture for some time. Well until a tube goes out on it
again. It is high mileage despite the beautiful almost NOS look of the cabinet.