Hotpoint P56MEC - AWA 563MA Clock Radio repair - 1955
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- Don from Don's Old Radio Shed CZcams channel sent me an immaculate clock radio to repair and keep. It doesn't work and needs a full restore. The clock doesn't work either so I test out my horologists skills, there are a lot of bits in there, will I be able to fix it?
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I wished I looked as good as that unit given our ages. Great job again!
Haha... that would be nice, thanks Timothy 😀
You were right about that obnoxious alarm waking the dead, Dave! 🤣
Unfortunately 😄
Coffee with Dave, what a way to celebrate Veterans Day in the USA!!! I am an old Vietnam Vet, so Veterans day has always been a very special day for me. It is even more special when I turn on CZcams and see that Dave has posted another great video, thanks a million Dave.
I was not aware it was veterans day in the US, Happy Veterans Day' Jerry. Thanks 🙂
Its Remembrance day in the UK as well ....with everyone on tenterhooks as theres a demonstration competing with it as. well as the Lords Mayors show I believe in the City of London . Its unheard of to have a mass demonstration on this day competing with Remembrance day ..... the beginnings of a changing world and changing priorities I guess .
It's very sad that we have such DEMONstrations going on in London to remember the lives lost for freedom of speech. The disgusting Neo Nazis (ironicaly) seem to have the loudest voice.
When you think about it, they were the kind of arseholes who started WW2 in the first place. Brave young men and women lost their lives in the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force and the Army, to give these arseholes the freedom of speech to spread hate, and intolerance towards others once again.
So, so sad and sickening.
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Thank You for your Service to the Free World..from Canada..
Great video as usual Dave. I'm sure the dead were already awake watching your video getting some great radio repair tips. Looking forward to your next adventure. cheers
I can imagine the undead sitting in their crypts watching Radio Adventures 😂 Thanks Chris 👍🙂
Another "Timely" repair that went like "Clockwork" Dave. That's some fancy feature for a 50s radio.
Haha... thanks @1974UTuber 😀
15.8 ...Thanks Dave thorojghly enjoyed this 1 as ive always loved clock radios / teasmade .I look forward to the next project ...... as always .❤
Thanks Mei Chong. I have a Teasmade Goblin to do in the future 😀
Love your animations must be something in Australian DNA which strives to bring a little jocularity to the world.
Thanks Mack, everyone loves a good laugh 😄
LOL I love that! SIR Dave Tipton .My Grandad Had something like it WAY way back in the 1960' s I was a nipper then and used to get my hands slapped for fiddling with the dial .
Who'd thought I had royal blood 😀 I can imagine those knobs being an attraction to young hands 😄
Good tips on removing stubborn knobs and on clock repair. The secret to clock repair is in the oil. I learned that after repairing my grandmother's 100 year old wind-up wedding clock which hadn't run since the Great Depression. A thorough cleaning of the gears in a non-residue forming degreaser (brake cleaner, flux remover, e.g.) and then a few drops of Liberty clock oil on the axle points and in the mainspring and it sprang back to life. Hasn't slowed down except for weekly windings in the two years since my repair. As you know, clock oil has high viscosity and doesn't evaporate or gum up in time, so it is the preferred lubricant.
Like you, I cleaned and lubricated a mantle chiming clock a few years ago. That why I had the clock oil on hand. Thanks SY 👍🙂
Hello David. I agree with you; Don sent you a beauty! I really like the Ivory case with the symmetrical "art deco" like look. You're right. The condition is fabulous, and the right collectors are wishing they had your good fortune. Wonderful job on the circuit analysis and repairs. Like so many others, I enjoyed watching the clock disassembly, clean-up, relubricate & reassembly. BTW...don't ever get the idea that your fans get tired of watching you polish these old classics. That's always part of the fun! Thanks again Dave! -Chris
Hello Chris, thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I didn't even polish the case, I cleaned it and put it back together. The clock was a first, I don't remember pulling one down that far before 👍🙂
Don's little radio is a belter. The macro camera work with multiple screens when the clock started was impressive. Another great video.
The camera, the editing, the intro and outro, and the radio restoration are all tops. Oh... and the clock restoration, too. Sir David, we salute you.
Thank you Radio-Ged. It would have been funny if the clock didn't work on three cameras 😄
Thanks @SBCBears 🙂
Nice looking set. I was going to mention that the clock likely had Radium on the hands. But you beat me to the punch. I have a couple of
G.E. sets that have Radium on the Dial. Since the "Glow" went away long ago I usually paint over them to stabilize the Radium and help
prevent it flaking off. As always, nice job.
Thanks Vern. I didn't think to paint over them, they were like new though. The last time I did a clock with radium hands I did paint over them 🤦♂️Haha... getting old 😄
Horologists,Baker, and Candlestick Maker....And Radio Enthusiast ...There is No End to your Talents... well done Dave.
Thanks Sean 😀
@@DavidTipton101 YOU ARE WELCOME
Nice video with interesting content on working with the clock. Thanks for including that.
Thank you Joseph 👍🙂
Another job well done David. That radio must have been inside all of it's life that case looks perfeect for being almost 70 yrs old. Thanks for another great video.
Hi Larry, thank you. It may have been stored or in a dark room, there wasn't even much dust on it, it would have been nice to know it's history 😀
Congratulations on your Peerage, Sir Dave ! 😁
Ahhh... yes, I knew I had royal blood in me... somewhere 😄
Another quality production!
Thank you Colin 😀
"Son of a Peter Murphy" David, I absolutely love your humor!! LOL!!🤣 Nice job on fixing the radio and the clock. All the best from Gene in Tennessee.
Haha... thanks Gene 😄
Brilliant repair as usual, Thanks Dave and Don who I also follow 😃
Thanks Mike 👍🙂
Well done David, a bit of mechanical work on this video. Unusual motor for a synchronous with that open end
Thank you Craig. I thought so too 🙂
Thanks mate. Another great video. I always enjoy watching.
Thanks clasicradiolover 🙂
Muy buena la introduccion !!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Muchas gracias 😀
You aren't half joking about that alarm waking the dead. I had snoozed off a bit while watching with my headphones on (no comment on the content, its 2AM here! ) I was nearly full asleep when the damned thing went off. I sat bolt upright mid-snore, legs twitching. Me thrashing in bed woke the missus up. She gets concerned that I might be having another infarction. So yeah... It's an impressive alarm.
Thanks Dennis, so you are suggesting the alarm was reasonably effective? 😄
@@DavidTipton101 Perhaps slightly so...
Thanks for the tip on using a cloth to remove the knob. That's going to come in handy!
My pleasure Patrick, it works well 🙂
Once again job well done, that's a nice looking clock radi
Thanks Sheldon 🙂
Nice to see you tackling clocks too Dave 👍😊 Yes, way too much oil! 🤣
Thanks Chris. Yes, I wiped the excess oil away 🤦♂️😄
Well done, Dave! I was scared too when you opened the clock. What a beautiful radio! And as always very well editted!😂
Thank you Shannon 👍🙂
Hi Dave, lovely looking radio receiver..! Cool Layout and clock..Great fix, good to see another relic saved and working..Top job.Hope you're keeping well...Ed..uk..😄
Thanks Ed 😀
you know David some days I work about as well as cracked capacitor or old tired valve.... and as for horology ... I am a Libra ...great job David!
Thanks Chris 🙂
Great engineering nice model David sir also good condition on this Radio 📻 👍 😅 thanks for sharing this video David sir 👍 😊😊
Thanks Nath 😀
Astounding work, especially with the relative complexity of the clock gears, etc. Nice!!!
Thank you Mark 🙂
Great work on the repair to the Hotpoint radio David. Yes that radio and it's condition look like it had just left the manufacture. All i can say is wow !! It's in amazine condition and after a little bit of maintaince it will proberly go for another 60 odd years. They certainly made things to last in those days and unlike the rubbish that is sold today. As i have said great work ! and good that a fellow radio restorer has passed on one of these old girls to you. I look forward to the next radio that you will bring back from the dead.
Thanks Stephen. It was in amazing condition, I would love to know the backstory, whey it was so clean and undamaged 🙂
When turning on various electric clocks over the years, more than once I noticed clock hands would bump backwards before moving clockwise but never knew why. Thanks Dave, you solved one of my life secrets! Great repair work and video work!!
Haha... you can now rest easy 😀 Thanks Allen
Neat way of pulling those stubborn Knobs off Dave. Manuel Caldeira over at EO&N usually pinches two of his wife's best silver tea spoons and using the spoon ends gently levering against the case. Filing all these techniques away for the future. Been following Don in his rooster shed for a while now.
Hi Bob, thanks. I thought that was the best way to tackle that particular large diameter knob.They have a fairly heavy spring clamping the shaft and any sideways pulling easily snaps the plastic at that spot. I would not have attempted to lever against the plastic dial in any case. I wonder if Manuel's wife thinks he is some sort of Uri Geller understudy with all the bent tea spoons laying about the apartment 😂
Thanks Dave! Nice tip on taking knobs off. Your clock repair is kind of a "blast from the pass" for me, when I was young I rebuilt mantel and kitchen clocks to make a little extra money. You are right, just a little oil on the pivots, and a small amount of grease on the worm gears. What a great guy Don is!
Thank you Steve. I hoped someone would suggest the correct clock lubrication, thanks. Don's a nice guy 👍🙂
After thought. The spoon method would probably have cracked the dial, I use string or a bread bag tie, but a rag seems to work just as well.
@@electrosoundaust I would never lever on the dial to remove a knob. Yikes!
I don't know about this one, but the socket on the back of clock radios were usually hooked to the clock. The idea was that you could hook up your coffee pot and have it turn on with the alarm, so your coffee was hot when you got up.
Yes, I think the one Don did switched the socket power with the alarm 👍
Hi Sir David, that was as usual a very nice radio repair. And as usual a god job.👍
Glad you enjoyed it Claes, thank you 🙂
Dave, if you ever get tired of working on radios, you need to look into audio book narration or voiceover work. I can literally listen to your broadcasts without video and still get a really great picture in my head of what you are doing.
Haha... me doing voice overs, my wife tells me to shut up as it is 😀 Thanks Greg.
What a beautiful looking radio, and you've done a wonderful restoration job on that David!
Thank you Michael 🙂
I just saw this!! The clock ⏰ has a Telechron motor. It has a GIGANTIC dial cord pulley!! I assume that the clock ⏰ has a dial light 💡. It’s getting closer to Thanksgiving. Gobble Gobble!! Your friend, Jeff.
Thanks Jeff 🙂
That's not a Telechron motor and in fact it's very different. _All_ Telechron motors (even the first demonstrated prototype) self-start in the proper direction. This motor sometimes starts backwards and needs the spring to correct it.
Hi Dave. Great video! I laughed myself silly! Nice work on the clock. I was trying to work out why it sometimes started in the wrong direction and how it related to the function of that spring around the worm drive. Very timely (sorry) because my clock has stopped working. That's CLOCK, Dave. It was running fine until I adjusted the time, then it stopped. I also think there must be a mechanism to disengage the worm drive while adjusting the time, but maybe I' wrong - it might just be a friction clutch or something. I never pulled mine completely apart so I don't really know! Anyway, I'm glad you liked the radio and had a bit of fun with it! Cheers.
Hi Don, where have I heard that name... 🤔
Oh no, you want your clock back? err... I sold it.
I get it... CLOCK, what else would it be 🙄
There are a few spring friction plates connecting the shaft to the gear to allow it to rotate independent of the drive mechanism for adjusting the time and alarm 🙂
Thanks again for sending the radio and I did have fun with it. Don't be afraid to pull the clock apart, they are simple enough 😀
Great work David - some good hints there for others re removing knobs. A man bravely going where others are scared to travel (taking the gears apart)... as you say a nice radio. I've just come home from a week in hospital so really good to have my spirits lifted up by watching your posting. Just a thought re oiling you can use an eye dropper or a plastic syringe. Have a good one Dave!
Hi Kenneth, thank you. I trust your hospital visit wasn't too serious and you recover quickly. Even an eye dropper might be too big. I thought I had a little needle adaptor for the clock oil bottle but it wasn't with the bottle. Someone suggested a toothpick which is about the right amount. Take care Kenneth 🙂
Thanks for this one Dave. It’s a really impressive and useful little set.
Thank you Geoff 👍🙂
Beautiful old clock/radio Dave. Great work and excellent job on the clock mechanism.
Hi Gregg, thank you. I was happy with the clock 👍🙂
Wonderful surprise this chilly 28F morning! The wife and I have been binge watching old episodes for weeks. Thanks Dave!
That's pretty cold, it's about 80 here. Thanks @knifeswitch5973 😀
@@DavidTipton101 Winter is just getting started in northern Minnesota. We’ll be sub-zero pretty quick here. Come and visit! There’s a radio in it for you LOL
As always a very satisfying video Dave. It was quite interesting to watch the work you did on the clock. Years ago I dabbled in a little vintage radio repair and one radio had a clock that was completely frozen. My solution was to separate the motor from the clock mechanism and heat it on a hot plate and slowly add a lubricating oil.
Thank you lakrfan 49. Agreed, heat will melt the dried grease 🙂
Great video once more
Thank you Maarten 😀
Nice work again, David.
Thank you Brian 😀
Nice work David. Especially on the clock. They can be very tricky. Also a veteran here. Vietnam era and Desert Storm. 73 de KB7ICI.....Bill
Hi Bill, Happy Veterans day. Yes the clock repair could have gone either way 😄
Hi Dave,
A super video of vintage Electronics friendship and exchange. You achieved a first class repair/restoration on your Hotpoint clock radio, as did our good pal Don: he achieved a first class repair/restoration on his Bush VHF64 radio.
In their way, both videos contributed towards my Remembrance weekend.
Regards from Phil.
Hi Phil. I spoke to Don the morning my video was to go up. He told me he was releasing his video as well. We seem to do that quite a lot, unintentionally of course. Thanks Phil, I'm glad you enjoyed both videos 🙂
Hi Dave, nice work again, and good to see the clock working as well. I have one exactly the same in Blue colour with the clock working as well . Great to see Doctor Dave working with Doctor Don, two of the best in my opinion. Thanks for the video again it’s wonderfull to see history restored.
Thank you Dom. A blue one would be nice and Dr Don was very generous
Thanks, David, an excellent video. Out of interest, here in the UK the Hotpoint brand is for fridges, washing machines, and all other white goods, but has never been used for radio.
Thank you Nigel. Hotpoint here was a brand of British General Electric in Australia. The radios were made by other companies as far as I know. This one was made by AWA in Australia 👍🙂
G'day, sorry to hear that you're all less than chipper downunder at the moment Dave. This Covid is not on, it's just not bloody on at all.
Very interesting and hilarious last vid. You really did brighten our day, and raised many laughs here in Pomland!
Cheers Dave
Warmest Regards and Love To You All
Wayne & Nina
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Hi Wayne & Nina, I'm pretty good now thanks, just a few remaining covid cobwebs to clear away. I had a bit of fun with this video, I don't know if people like it or not but I enjoy doing it. I'm happy you both enjoyed it, thank you 👍😀
Perfect! You should start a channel as a watchmaker... Besides that, everything looks easy, but we know that is in your hands that thigs get easier than they are in fact. Thanks for the video.
Thank you @radiosantigos1894 👍🙂
Good video as always, Sir Tipton! I have had good luck using toothpicks to lubricate clock mechanisms.
Yes, I remember now, thanks woodhonky 👍🙂
As a suggestion to lubricating the gears David, I use Militec 1. On virtually all things metal, It's a dry lube technology, I've used it on cars, Trucks, anything with a motor and anything that is metal and has wear and tear.
Ok, thank you Celtic Prince 👍🙂
Thanks!
Wow! thank you for your support lakrfan 49 👍😀
Hello David another excellent Repair on electric clock,Don Parcel with video message by Acme bought shade of Road Runner Cartoon he was good user of Acme products but didn’t work as planned,My Grandfather was Watch Repairs as his hobby he had very large hands I memories of him using a Jewels Loupe repairing a tiny Whist Watch,Wonderful work David,Ian,
Thanks Ian. My ACME package blew up in the end too 😅
Its interesting to see a "hotpoint" radio. Here in the US, GE only seemed to have used the hotpoint name for electric appliances (usually for kitchens not clothes washers/driers). In the US, GE also owned the the telechron clock brand and that's usually what they used in their US clock-radios. Telechron clocks are fairly interesting in that they have a transmission (for lack of a better word) that was a sealed unit full of lubricant, and there are ways you can refurbish the inner lubricant by either drilling holes into the transmission or doing a baked heat-cool down-baked heat cycles to get the assembly to "suck in" fresh lubricant through its joints.
I seems the Hotpoint name was used in several countries. A clock with a transmission, amazing. Thanks sgath92 🙂
I've seen a Hotpoint TV or two on Shango's channel so it's probably an era based thing. Philco also made fridges but we don't know then for that. Regarding Telechron modules, the normal term is "rotor". It's just the true synchronous rotor plus a few of the gears. They're not filled with lubricant, in fact if you add too much they start having run problems.
Don is a great watch
Thanks Ian 👍🙂
hi dave, i used to be in aviation and at the time salvaged an old 8 day clock from an instrument panel, the clock didn't work but thought it would be great for a desk clock. took it to numerous places to get fixed and nobody would touch it, i thought i had rabies. but you've got to hear the geiger around that thing even at a distance. i did,t mess with anything like that again, as always, like ur uploads.
Thanks Dave. Yep, good advice 👍
Hi David. Don - what a guy! That clock/radio is in many times in better condition than the four I have - although I do have 2 NOS clocks for them. I'm told that because the various states had their own electrical regulations at the time, the power outlet for the tea maker was omitted from some of them. The five valve versions are great performers, the four valve versions, not so great. I was convinced the bad sound at the start was the speaker. All the yellow speakers come away from the frames, I replaced some of them with Jaycar car speakers in the end. Kudos for having the courage to work on the clock, I've been to scared, but watching you make it look easy....
Hi Andrew, thank you. Yes Don is a good guy all right. Interesting thought about the power socket on the back. I have a number of radios with provision for one but not fitted. This had no provision at all. The clock turned out to be rather easy 🙂
Greetings:
Clock motor has congealed lubricant. Usually without disassembly heat applies to to the motor should soften the lubricant, add some new oil. Allow heated motor to absorb as much oil as it wants.
Thanks for the tip James 🙂
Hi David. You were lucky to get such a nice clock radio. It came up really well. I'm visiting my family in Perth till the end of December haven't done that for Ten years. Take care, hi to Karen.
Hi Phil, yes, Don sent me one of the best original condition radios I own. I was very fortunate. Thanks Phil, enjoy your trip to Perth 👍🙂
Hello Dave... Maybe use silicone based grease on the clock gears as that does not harden over time. Loving your work as always!
Thanks Marty 🙂
They shall not grow old,
As we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
Laurence Binyon
Don't know what that has to do with old radios, but for me (Wayne who served in the RAF) it means loads.
Cheers Dave, hope all is well downunder?
Warmest Regards & Best Wishes.
Wayne & Nina
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Hi Nina and Wayne. Amazing that someone can cobble together words so eloquently and mean so much. A big day here too of course for Remembrance Day.
All good here, I am recovering from covid and my wife has a bad cold, apart from that everything is just chipper 😂
Wile E. Coyote approves the shipping packaging. After all, he was a big Acme fanboy. Seriously, another great video.
Thanks Jim 😄
Getting stuck into that clock. I thought we’d change your name to David the brave. Very versatile.Yes we all need to listen to our wives or risk the consequences.
Haha... sage wife advice Bob. The clock was pretty straightforward. Thanks Bob 🙂
Hi David. To easily remove clear coat from brass or copper, just throw it in boiling water. It'll come right off. No elbow grease needed.
Top tip... thanks 1959Berre 👍🙂
What a great little radio. Great job on the clock too. Thanks Dan for sending him that radio.
Hi Ripley, thanks. Don was a brick sending sending me the radio and in such excellent condition 😀
Wow ! Another very entertaining video Dave, i just love watching the minute hand move. Also while watching you take the clock's mech apart it reminded me of the turn tables fixes you have done, in a way it's very similar. What a great idea your wife had, looks really good, like if it were original and being made of wood it's safe too, good job both of you. I agree for its time it was quite an ingenious concept, must have been one of the very first radio with an alarm especially one that turns on the radio. Nothing new under the sun right ? Have a great day, thank's for sharing, God bless.
Hi Raymond, thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. The clock was a small mechanical computer. A similar clock today would have similar features but be completely electronic. Thanks Raymond 🙂
So here I am out in the Great White North of Canada, with barely any reception. Where sometimes I’ll get two bars out of four bars on my phone…
…But, I did manage to get signal long enough to watch another one of your great episodes.
Note to self. Next time I should bring my Trans Oceanic. I would just have to figure out how to find one of those military issue batteries or similar.
Wow, that's dedication Neil. I hope it was worth it. Thanks Neil 😀
@@DavidTipton101 Funny that I also received an alert from another CZcams site from across that other “Pond”, “Cutting Edge Engineering” that came through during the wee hours this morning.
You “Land Down Under”Lads” really have some powerful Mojo!
This god awful service provider barely runs faster than dial up but, we’ll worth it to be outside in sub zero temperatures, holding my phone up high and circling around searching after that ever elusive “second bar” on my phone.
Cheers!
Brilliantly explained as ever, love the humour. England
Many thanks for your support Maurice 👍😀
And congratulations increasing subscribers 👏
Thank you Nath 👍😀
great suprise Dave and subscribed to dons channel too, another great job, look at you a clock repairer too, if we dont see you before have a great christmas
Thank you George. Oh God, is it Christmas already, I just put the tree away from last year (note to self.... put tree away in January) You will see me before then 😀
Excellent video Dave. Nice to see you've taken up clock fixing as well as all your other skills.
A beautiful clock radio from a bygone age that's better than some up to date models.
Thanks to Don (as well), his channel is already on my subscription list.
🙂👍
Thank you Tim 👍🙂
Dave, I noticed a lot of 'roundy resistors' that are notorious for going high in value. I watch Don as well.
Hi tubedude, the resistors were all good. Thanks 😀
1:00 I listened to his advice
and I know that you are up to the challenge
Thanks Kahlid 😀
Blimey, I thought for a bit that the clock noise was the electronic version of the ticking clock sounds I remember from my grandparents house 😊 great job as usual. Thanks again and have a great weekend.
Sound like your Grandparents needed a new clock there Manuel. Thank you. I'm not sure it will be a great weekend, I developed covid early last week and I'm pretty sure I got it from watching your video when you had covid 😄
@@DavidTipton101 : very sorry to hear that. You really should watch some videos with a mask on 😊
@@electronicsoldandnew 🤣🤣🤣
Interesting radio, Hotpoint in England is better known as a washing machine brand.
Thanks Christopher. Yes I understand that now 🙂
Interesting that the vintage radio is branded “HOTPOINT” a vintage and current white goods brand over here in 🇬🇧, and the clock has “smith’s English clocks” written on its internal plate ~ a 🇬🇧 vintage brand of mains clocks, battery powered ones have replaced it
Smiths clocks were quite common here in those days Samuel 🙂
Fabulous job, Dave! Your work on the clock was exemplary! I didn’t know that the Hotpoint brand existed anywhere else but the USA. I think it was a GE brand here as well. It’s always interesting to see power transformers in all those relatively simple Aussie sets. No All Australian Fives, eh? ;-)
Thank you Super Het. We did produce a few 'AA5s' apparently, I haven't seen one but they are about. The big problem is dropping the 240 Volts down to 120 to start with 🙂
_Great, couldn't be better. Well done._
Thank you Dominico 🙂
Sir David! Nothing wrong with that 😂
Haha... thanks Paul 🙂
Very nice work.
Thank you Vincent 👍🙂
As always , great detective work and well explained .
Thanks @hooshangyadegar1250 👍🙂
Grew up with a similar clock radio in the 1940s, so it was fascinating to see the clock's innards. Kudos for the great tear-down, lubrication, and reassembly of the mechanism.
Thanks Moshe. I don't have a lot of experience with clocks so it was nice that it worked 🙂
Everyone knows ACME from the Roadrunner show. But there is a string of supermarkets in America in the Mid-Atlantic region calling itself Acme Markets, inc. I once worked for them as a teenager.
That's cool, who could forget ACME exploding tennis balls. Thanks tarstarkusz 🙂
Lovely radio David. Enjoyed the restoration on that one. Thanks.
Thanks Derrick 😀
It is really a very good little radio I must say. Well done Dave.
Thanks John 😀
I still don't understand why you don't have 1 + million subscribers...
It's a bit of a niche I guess. Limited interest in old radios. Thanks Andres 🙂
@@DavidTipton101 I don't know anything about old radios but your videos are so cool and I'm learning something new...
Looks similar to the UK HMV clock/radio I restored a while back, the Smiths clock movement looks the same as your set, I also had quite a job to get the clock working correctly, I soaked the mech in I|PA, worked a treat to get the hardened grease off.
I do prefer the look of your set, so much nicer than my dark brown HMV.
Thanks Mark 😀
Hi again David👋🏻🥳i have a tip you maybe Can use for yellowed or dull plastic, the “8 bit guy” on CZcams restores Old computers and they are often yellowed like the teeths in a chainsmokers mouth 😂 he gets that plastic factoryfresh 😃👍🏻 im also into restoring, mostly vintage clocks, wristwatches and pocket watches so im always experimenting and on the lookout for magic tricks 🎅🏿👍🏻over and out from me for now , keep up the great work
Hi Grassy. Does he use hydrogen peroxide? I have used it a number of time with good results. This radio was in excellent condition and was still the correct colour. Enjoy your hobby 👍🙂
Australian radios seem to have better styling than ours in the US.
I like some of the American styles, grass is greener I guess 😄 Thanks Kenneth/
Great repair, Dave! Your clock disassembly and reassembly was impressive. Dave I liked your gray very long test lead grabber probes. They seem to be flexible too. Please tell me who makes them and a supplier. You have some very interesting tools that I don’t see over here. I am in the U.S. Thanks.
Thank you Thomas. The grabber was part of a multimeter test kit I bought. The kit name is: MULTICOMP PRO MP770733. It only seems to be showing up in Europe and Australasia but you should be able to find it locally. Amazon maybe? 🙂
feel the Hotpoint should be picked out in Gold.
It would look nice but not original. Thanks Highpath 🙂
What a gorgeous thing, I am a fan of ivory bakelite. A stylish addition to any bedside cabinet I think, and so practical. Dismantling the clock looked scary but you made it look easy, which I'm sure it wasn't. 😊
I agree, it is a nice radio Pauline and a nice colour too. The clock was pretty easy, I took some photos but used them to confirm that it was correct. Thanks Pauline 🙂
Don't worry about other people Dave, it was bonzer mate! Humour is very Marmite, you either love it, or hate it (DILLIGAF) it's great!. In our oppinion (just OUR OPPINION, others may not agree), the best way to learn anything is to add a dash of humour.
Glad you're both getting better. Bonzer news mate!
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Warmest Regards & Best Wishes.
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I don't worry that people like or unlike the extra bits, people just skip over parts they don't like. But I do enjoy editing the videos and learning about the software so it's fun for me. I do try and present a quality product and viewers appreciate that, I know that much. Thanks Nina and Wayne 🙂
Nice job Dave.
Don’t forget if you return it to Don you need to make the clock run 2hrs slow for Perth TZ 😂😂😂
Haha... I'll keep that in mind Simon 😂
Hey Dave, another great vid. What a gem that radio is. Dunno about the last bit of the vid where you show us what you look like. I'd rather just see your hands while you do the repair, if its all the same to you? Thanks mate. LOL
Thanks Geoff. What I look like? When I arose from my crypt you mean? I'll have you know I cut a dashing figure.... 40 years ago 😂
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