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Radium in a bag! Sealed for extra freshness!
The GE?
I'm surprised the Philco's clock didn't have Radium luminescent paint on the face and hands, though.
I like how all of us nerds watch the the same channels
Even though the cabinets are particle boards I still love it!
That GE model 50 Clock-Radio is an important piece of history. That model line was the first mass-produced "bedside" clock-radios that were fully automatic (wake to music all in one package). GE Started building those in late 1945 as the war was coming to an end (aluminum was still quite scarce for non-military applications, so no traditional tuning capacitor)....so to keep things cheap and simple, they designed the chassis to be a permeability tuned TRF set using available parts. With returning GI's and the fact civilian radio production stopped in 1942, the market was ready for something "modern". This was the beginning of GE's manufacturing "might" that put them out there as the most prolific builder of consumer clock-radios from the 1950s thru the 1980s.
I love smoker sets, I can spend a whole week cleaning them. Doesn't matter if they work or not it matters how clean they are.😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
It’s the same way with vintage furniture & nicotine glaze
it adds character
No need to clean them, just polish the resin. The patina is what makes them irreplaceable.
I prefer these kind of unboxing videos. Never know what'll be in the box, and Shango's commentary just makes it worth the while.
We had the exact television growing up. Lasted 25yrs. Has removable circuit boards for service. Has a slate top.
Before Shango even said it was a smokers set I knew it had to be! Welcome to flavor country!
That XL100 TV is Circa 1973 or 1974. I had a 1971 and a 1975 in the 70s Great TV. Very Bright clear picture. The 1975 model I had was bought from universal studios Calif and had video feed jacks In the back. The modules are easy to replace. Miss that TV. Used to watch the TV shows Emergency and Adam-12 on it as a kid. Worth saving.
That bell is actually an inductor in the horizontal section that forms the series resonant circuit used to commutate the SCRs. Presumably the metal part is a shield to prevent it from screwing with the CRT
For what little TV I'd care to watch, my "daily driver" living room TV is a 2001 Zenith 27" console. My grandfather bought it new when their mid-90s Zenith console suffered a spectacular power supply meltdown. By that point, both were well and truly just table TV chassis in a cabinet full of air. I'm told it was built in a Magnavox plant in Tennessee. It uses a Thomson picture tube.
Zenith actually kept making console sets until 2004. I think they were the last TV maker still doing so.
The later Zenith sets with either a Philips or Thomson jug are decent. The ones from the '90s with Zenith jugs were junk. I suspect what happened to yours is the jug shorted and blew up the power supply.
I worked servicing TVs for many years in the 1980s and 90s. Yes I remember the 90s zenith TVs when the company struggled to stay afloat as the last TV manufacturer that at least assembled in the USA. Typically boards and chassis made in Mexico and CRT/ some cabinets in USA. Their quality plummeted during that era late 80s early 90s.. People would still buy them though, because the previous Zenith they owned was built in the 1970s and went years or even decades without any problems. And those sets were indeed built well. The 90s TVs would last a year or two then self destruct with chassis going up in smoke. I was told at the time that the blown chassis were due to bad CRTs acring over internally. ( i refer to that as the white screen of death and witnessed many a zenith with that symptom) I will say a good thing about their TVs even at the end (which was 1994 or so before the LG buyout) was that they had very good lightning protection, often just blowing an easily replaced standard fuse, where other TVs would go up in smoke beyond repair.
I figured you didn't have the Goldstar tube in there, otherwise it would have flashed green and zapped the power supply in a year or two.
Replying to multiple comments here...my understanding is that the 1995 Zenith console died in the night when "off". Right up to the very end, it had a great picture and never gave a moment's trouble. Certainly, Zenith's larger picture tubes of the 1990s were bad news. I can't explain how it lasted as well as it did. It was the first TV I'd ever seen with MTS stereo capability, something only one or two stations around here used as recently as the early 2000s.
Unbeknownst to me, my grandmother bought something called a "Fireplug" some years before this failure. It was basically a fused inline power plug billed as something that would keep your TV from catching fire in the night. She dutifully plugged it inline with the TV's power cord. I thought it very silly at the time. Whatever went wrong, it popped the fuses inside the Fireplug _and_ the TV. Both had blown violently. When the new TV was delivered, the Fireplug with a new fuse went right back into use. Maybe it didn't do much. It certainly didn't seem as though it could hurt anything. (In the years since I inherited the 2001 Zenith console TV, the Fireplug has wandered off to points unknown.)
Nothing to see on tv. Its just part of the decor
That RCAXL100 color TV was once the focal point of their living room. Along with chair side ashtrays and cartons of Pall Mall cigarettes. 😁
Thanks Shango, always enjoy your quality videos. Others may do uploads of AA5,repairs but they are not you.
No one troubleshoots like you do. Your approach is entertaining and somehow lets me get something out of it.
As a kid I would raid the dump for radios and TVs. I would pull all the tubes I could find. In the smokers sets they were furry. I avoided those sets like the plague. From 5th grade on I always had a working TV in my room. I had a Zenith like the one you had in the video. I had it all the way through high school. It was awesome for album orientated stations. The clock radio is very interesting. I hate to say it, but I would go to klockit and upgrade the clock face.
I did the same thing! We had a dump less than 1/2 mile away, I looked for radios and TV's and stereo equipment. Harvested tubes and knobs from sets too far gone to bring home. I was successful repairing a few tvs and radios, as an 11-12-13-14 year old! Had my own TV early, and was never without a radio either! ❤😂
Not a bad haul. Excellent work!
Thanks Shango, your the only reason I watch CZcams!
I remember the Xl-100 and how RCA bragged over how bright they were. I did home services when they were popular, and people would have them cranked so high, i felt like i was looking at the sun.
This is when RCA finally passed Zenith in reliability from the tube days and the biggest problem on these sets was you had to resolder the connections on the pincushion transformer when it would get a vertical line top to bottom with no horizontal sweep.
I guess the CRT life would be pretty decent with it turned down a bit.
Shango's turn of phrase never fails to catch me off guard and get me laughing out loud. Never change, my friend.
just found a hallicrafters s-40b at estate sale for $20..I immediately thought of this channel. No signs of life I brought it up 60volts and chickened out.
I added a kill--a-watt to measure current draw/power consumption on my Variac. This allows me to quickly determine if a radio has a short.
rock and roll~
That RCA console is very nice. I still use my RCA Colortrak 1980 console daily. It is the "Limited Edition Cherbourg" GD936R. It has a nice big beautiful cabinet with stereo simulated sound. Everyone always says the sound is excellent and better than today's flat screens. The picture is excellent after all these years. It was bought brand new December 1979 and I still have all the paperwork and brochure, etc. I was able to source a NOS remote control about 10 years ago, so the remote is like new and works perfect. My set is really nicer than any flat screen and I will never stop using it. We (America) really made nice things year ago, sorry, but todays America is really crap, cars are another example.
The Philco clock radio uses a “spin to start” movement common on early electric clocks. It has been a long while since I have seen one in the wild that wasn’t “restored” with some crappy modern movement. If your buddy is having the clock worked on by some expert, tell him to run away if they try to dispose of it. These clocks are very easy to restore and rebush, if need be. But most horologists don’t like to deal with them.
My grandparents had a CTC48 like that but in a different cabinet. Very good picture. My parents bought a later model CTC68 (or something like that). Picture tube got bad early on that one. We wound up getting the older TV and it ran until the late 80s. I inherited that CTC68 and teenage me played video games on it and ran it into the ground. I can't wait to see this one resurrected. Will bring back memories.
"Mold has no effect on me."
Lucky you. I grew up in a house full of black mold, and it utterly destroyed my health as a child. To this day I'm hyper sensitive to it. It's sort of like having an asthma attack every time I smell it.
Finally some flavor country ,I can almost smell it heating up in the sun
I love this old crustacular stuff. Really liked the Barnaltasticular radio at 15:55. Dont have room to collect it so its fun to have these videos available. Thank you for taking the time to do these.
That coin op radio is a trip. That was a good haul. Funny you mention how the AA5 repairs are relaxing. I feel the same way. Usually easy and rewarding. I crank up the Bert Kaumpfert and and go into chill mode while sniffing solder fumes. - Thanks for sharing!
RCA Console - Welcome to Flavor Country...
Wonderful... bring it on
Can't wait to see these being brought back to life :) Valve technology is so much more interesting than modern stuff
Rust barnacles: new term learned.
If there is a record for most number of products sharing a model number RCA must have it for the XL- 100.
To me that brings to mind their 13" color set with that number, they must have made ten million of those and my and my brother must have fixed ten thousand of them.
Seeing those Technician's Notebooks makes me nostalgic for an era when companies supported their service people.
you said it you have enough to put out resurection videos for the next 10 years cool will watch them all!!!
The Zenith AM-FM radio has two freaking FM bands, from the late '40s when the new 88-108 mhz came out! I know, have just restored the same basic Zenith chassis for my nephew. Really great sensitive radio.
Nice haul, Dan, it would be great to see you bring some of these back to life. Thanks for all your great content, cheers, from Richard in the UK 🇬🇧 👍
Another Marlboro Man special! You need to really dive into this. Kaff! kaff!
2:07 what wild looking speaker baskets.
Those are swish-tastic!
I had an XL100 with sightly different console. We used it daily for 30 years until the picture tube got so dim. Never had a repair. I always thought the instant on is what kept it repair free but at the same time consumed a lot of electricity over its 30 year life.
I did a Zenith 3 band like that . Just finished about a month ago. Biggest challenge was getting the 3 alignments for the 3 bands. Took 4 days. But it does sound incredible now!
Awesome set!
Those particular RCA 25 inch XL-100 sets were good and reliable. I never cared that much for RCA's, I prefer Magnavox or Zenith. RCA's never had good Reds, they were washed out. I had a neighbor who had one of those looks that one. That is a 1970 or 1971 set, they were pretty reliable though. The neighbor still had his 1970 XL-100 until he bought a brand new RCA ColorTrak 2000 25 inch set with onscreen remote, etc. That was a great set and had a great picture. The ColorTrack 2000's for some reason had better color and sharpness. All in all both his RCA's were very reliable.
5:14 *Extra big ass tuning capacitor!* And holy crap! About that console TV still being in use until 2024.
I have the same model rca tv and i use it on a converter it still works great!
There were two versions of the Philco model 50 chassis. The early one was a TRF with two 24 RF stages, a 24 detector and a 47 output tube with the usual #80 rectifier. The later chassis was a superhet. It had a double tuned front end, but no RF stage. A #24 was an autodyne converter, followed by a #35 IF amp at 175khz, a #24 detector and $47 output tube, with a #80 rectifier. Rare to see a three gang tuning cap with no RF stage. GE model 50 is a TRF, some of them had a 35Z5 instead of 35W4 before GE ran out of some Octal tube types and sub'ed miniatures by resocketing.
You need this like Custer needed more Indians.
very cool Shango thank you.
That Philco clock radio looks really nice.
Thanks for this good memories 😊
Definitely looking forward to the faves! Great stuff!
Marlborolicious
Oh man got some cool stuff I really like the old radios just in the conversation.. although the radios don't have much cash value the feeling of bringing it back to life is priceless...
Awesome finds! Looking forward to seeing all of them resurrected!
That's a beautiful philo mantle set well worth restoring it
The CTC48 came from the early 70"s. I worked at an RCA dealer when these were new.
A lot of interesting stuff there. Look forward to seeing them in the future.
Great stuff
Welcome to flavor country
What an interesting bunch of apparatuses you found. Really looking forward to any videos resurrecting these ones! Very nice.
If I am not mistaken, Hallicrafters TV's & radios were sold as "do it yourself" kits that you assembled from supplied parts. Usually for a cheaper price than buying an assembled product.
I expect the Marlboro Man to appear any second!
A few things there look interesting.
That Philco is gorgeous
A good preview for the next season of shango066. Looking forward to it all.
Wow!
تحياتي لكم من العراق صديقي مهندس تلفزيونات توفى في امريكا في ولاية مشكان
Looks like fun in a box.
Clock radio bonanza. Can't wait for the resurrections.
o m ... oooo 1930 cool old staf ...... cool in s max
I've been able remove the tobacco smell from equipment by placing it in a garbage bag with a cup of white vinegar for about a week has always worked for me. I guess the vinegar evaporates in the enclosed space and does whatever it does.
When you remove it the device will smell like vinegar for a few days but when that dissipates the tobacco smell is gone.
I have two of those "G.E." slug tuned radios, and they perform like a "T.R.F." set, also I have a floor model "CROSLEY" clock/ radio that stands 6 feet tall,( 2 feet wide" and the cabinet is very ornate. I like CROSLEY stuff being that I am from CINCINNATI OHIO!!!!!. the factory is still standing at ARLINGTON STREET( empty), there is talk of turning the building into a museum, just like the old "KING" recording company.
I still have one CRT in my house. I use it for my Sega Genesis. But I also have a Roku that connects to it via RCA/Composite. The text is a little hard to read on that Roku, but overall it works. Especially if you play a movie, it comes through really crisp.
its very similar to the rca chassis in my 1975 Canadian Westinghouse set
That's some nice things you've got there, Shango.
I like the the Philco clock radio, it will be very interesting video making it work again
Some cool stuff here. That white clock chassis radio is trippy...
GREAT SHOW!
Five tube all American AND
Getting to see your junk!
Horizontal output trace and retrace SCR. I worked on lot's of them.
I have one of those GE model 50s, it can only hear local stations and they kinda run into each other. I took the chassis out and recapped it so it doesnt have an electrolytic sticking out of it now. I think it looks cooler out of its cabinet! I use it to monitor my AM transmitter!
I use my Yaesu FT-767gx ham transciever as the transmitter. It (without the TX unlock switched on,) will transmit down to 1.5MHz. I run it less than 5 watts, more like 100mW-1W just enough so the squirrel fan doesnt ramp up. I built a base loaded 9ft verical with 4 15' radials. Connected with my MFJ-941ek with the lid off. I can get it to tune SWR down to 1.2:1! I have to take the tuner lid off or it wont go under 2:1 swr!
barnacle madness and the banana slicer
Nice video Shango 066
"Black mold doesn't affect me. I could do lines of the stuff and wouldn't even feel it." LOL.
Not only cigarette smoke caked up on all surfaces but back then all the commercials coming out of the picture tube were of smoking. Many featured the cowboy "Marlboro Man." I was a two-pack-a-day guy and at 2024 prices that's a cost of $16/day. Back then most EVERYBODY smoked... all the time...
In Canuckistan a pack is around 25 maple syrups. $16 seems like freedom prices. Probably delivered by bald eagles too.
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I have 2 of them ge clock radios pretty neat
Love the big ass smokers' choice consoles you end up getting on your channel!!!
Surely the unfiltered Pal Mals sealed all the components in a glorious shellac further extending the sets years.
So much to take in, so much cool stuff. The white GE clock radio is definitely worthy of restoration. It's a 4 tube TRF set, and the cabinet is Plaskon. The Zenith at the end is way cool as well with both FM bands. With minor modifications, Zenith actually used that same chassis for almost 20 years (minus the prewar FM band). They were good performers
Was going to comment that one looked like it had 2 FM bands on it. I have similar slightly newer one of those that only has 1 band. I went through it some years ago (came out of one grandpas workshop) and it works OK but the FM drifts until it warms up for a while.
@@eeengineer8851 Zenith only offered the 2 bands for a couple of years; they were hedging their bets, waiting to see which band would take off. Early FM sets didn't have AFC, so they drifted quite a bit
Interesting haul there! Those GE "permeability tuned" radios are cool, I have a couple of them, they like a long wire, 6 to 10 foot antenna, are not very selective, I'll be difficult to separate all the stations in your area! You may do better with a shorter antenna wire. These are TRF instead of superheterodyne radios I believe, but fascinating nonetheless. Bought my first one for 50 cents at a garage sale in 1970, at age 10! 😊
Real quick cool vedio ,no editing few cuts with the pause,yehh that's Shango006
The radio that looks like it was underwater probably makes an interesting and long video (Titanic Special) 📻👍
Do what you can when you can. 👍
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Its got the GLASE. They had a really cool remote. I found one at a yard sale that was built in 1976 with the speaker phone built in.
It's Shango Saturday... wait, no Shango Sunday for me. By the way, that last was miner video was awesome.
I think the coin op radio is pretty cool. Hope you do a video on it. The case would be valuable to someone with a broken one. Looks like it's entirely bakelite
I use to repair VCR machines and I could tell the ones that came out of smokers homes....that tar and nicotine really get inside the machine.
GE clock radio 👍
I can’t make heads or tails out of that little GE radio. At first I thought it was an early 60’s Japanese 5 tube AM radio that happened to have a GE clock in it, but when you flipped it around nothing about it made any sense - not the era it’s from, not the tube compliment, not the construction, nothing. Looking forward to that and all this stuff!
get that RCA telly plugged in asap!
There is a quick and dirty technique to get the Telechron clock motor in the GE to work if it’s seized up. Get the rotor nice and hot with a heat gun- that’ll liquify the old oil inside and force the heated air out. As it cools, add sewing machine oil to the cup around the output pinion and it’ll be drawn in. Usually it’ll wake them up, sometimes they’ll still be pretty noisy afterward though.
That L.A. branded Bakelite Coin-Op set is super badass. You ought to do a repair video on it. Never seen one like it, might be worth a couple bucks. I find those L.A. made sets are pretty fun as there's a bit of a mystery to them.
The nicotine covering on just about everything acted like a preservative on the RCA television. Phewy! Wow that is a rare Philco clock and AM radio model 551 from 1932. Radio chassis is the model 51. Also the cathedral model 52B and table
top model 52C had this chassis. Cabinet is worthy of a full restore by a capable wood refinisher. Shango is so right about
the pethlora of radio repair people on CZcams now. So many don't do the right things in their videos. A causitive effect of
all of this is that if you want purchase a tube radio anywhere in a shop or on line the prices are nutso now! 😠 The GE
model 50 was a typical city only radio alarm clock circa 1948. Original parts with 4 tubes means for local reception only
with that tuner. Lovely walk down the lane with the patron saint of miraculous resurrection. I know I couldn't do them.🥴
I think that TV is "high-hour" over 40+ years, i.e. not really used every day, the phosphor isn't dark and doesn't have letterbox burn-in from using a digital set top box. I've seen modern CRT's still in daily use with bad letterbox burn-in, mainly in old people's homes.