When discussing why and how to safely remove and dispose of Asbestos Shango remarks "You wanna be responsible with it, you don't want to be doing lines of it "...Marvellous, proper life tips.
Fun fact. When Les Hoffman started making televsions he got a good deal on yellow tinted surplus aircraft plexiglass which he used as screen protectors. He turned a cost saving decision into a marketing gimmick by calling the unique colored lense "Easy Vision". By the way Hoffman was based in El Monte California
This person is a great professor, but unfortunately I do not understand him well because I do not speak English. I have been following you for years. Keep it up. Greetings from Tunisia in North Africa.
The WION guys must have been chuckling while packing your box. 9:37 my dad's childhood home was burnt to the ground by a curtain burner in 1935. Those were no joke.
There was also a spray you could Spray on your Real Christmas Tree to make it Smell like a Real Christmas tree that was VERY HIGHLY FLAMMABLE the equivalent to Spraying Gasoline on your Real Tree ... When Shango said the WION went from 240 or 220 and stepped down to 120 100% Curtain Burner all on a 20 gauge cord WTFLIPP Seen some Real Bad Crap Stuff here and there but nothing like a WION Cord Thats why today we have so maney warning lables on EVERYTHING
24:58 Try to get a hold of some non-standard and different wavelength lights. You would be absolutely amazed at what a difference it makes and how what is not visible in normal light will become visible with different light. Police and the post office use this technique. The post office is the most advanced of this technology in the US, possibly the world. They have a lot of stuff you cannot get, but there are a lot of different light options and colors available. You can also use camera filters.
Enjoy the goodies! I have way more radios than I have time to work on them. I figured the Jewel radio was gar better off in your hands than mine. Also, enjoy the new clip leads. Those are amazing. I was getting tired of watching you deal with those crappy ones for a few years now. You'll really like those I think! Jim and I descided you needed to get a Zinwell box in your hands. They smoke just about anything else. Very sensitive and made well. Happy holidays!
Bob Andersen (and you Mr. Shango) without a doubt are one of my favorite TV repair personalities. Not only is Mr. Bob Andersen Great at what he does but he is very easy to understand, No attitude just a great demeanor and enjoyable to watch. If you are in to vintage tv and have never watched any of bandersentv's videos you are missing out!
B.A. .... no attitude? really? Try disagreeing with him and see how there's no attitude, to that discussion? Seems fine with "You know, you're really great." comments, though.
@@willthecat3861 I don't see attitude and I am not trying to be argumentative but he is good at what he does and if I want to learn I listen to the expert in the craft that I am trying to learn. If he disagreed with a comment I said about a topic he is expert at I just have to listen because I want to learn. I know there is more than one way to do things but if I am trying to learn from Bob Anderson, I am going to learn it his way. Just my thought..
@@PilotInCommand777 Yup and sure... listen to the experts... but if your 'expert' claims that 2+2 =5 ... maybe you need to consider the limitations of experts... and appeals to authority. Someone said, "Trust but verify." ... and you don't have to be an expert to do that.
Well done for plugging Bob Anderson, been watching his channel for years, well worth watching! I am amazed that the metal cone CRT has any emission, there were a few UK sets that used one, never come across a good one in over 40 years of collecting vintage TV's.
Coast to Coast AM airs nightly from 1 to 5 AM Eastern. After the live show, it repeats in the western time zones. Originally launched in 1978 by Art Bell as West Coast AM, from Las Vegas, NV. In 1988, it became Coast to Coast AM, and production moved to Bell's home studio in Pahrump. After Bell's retirement production moved to Sherman Oaks, CA, with remote studios in Los Angeles, Los Vegas, St. Louis, and for a brief time, Seattle and St. Paul. Current hosts are George Noorie (weeknights and 1st Sunday), George Knapp (remaining Sundays), and Ian Punnett (occasional). Other hosts have come and gone over the intervening years. The announcer is Dick Ervasti.
I don't understand how US shipping is so expensive most items are to expensive to ship to the UK even if it is a letter, and from China it is almost nothing and quick.
A combination of union wages and anticompetition laws. Employee healthcare is expensive when you can throw a thousand barely documented student immigrants and a rickety Chinese boat at the problem instead, like Amazon. Even government subsidy isn't enough to keep the post office afloat and accessible these days, sadly.
Someone asked me why Shango nevers shows his face on any of his videos. I told him he was in the witticism protection program. Hear one at 2:54 in ! LOL Love Bob's channel. Great cross promotion Shango. Hoffman Easy-Vision glass looks like those old Blu-blocker sunglasses. It was added to prevent glare in a B&W picture. Really just a gimmick. The label for the Hoffman TV says chassis 151. Makes sense since that was used in a 1949 TV. Sams Photofact for it says it can be a model CT-800, CT -801, CT-900 or CT-901. Looking forward to a resurrection.
14:40 . . . I have just subscribed to you *_again,_* Shango. I am sure this is the fourth time CZcams / Google has unsubscribed me from your channel over the last few years. Agree about the comment censorship, it is becoming ridiculous. It makes me furious when I take the time to write a few paragraphs to answer a comment (maybe technical information), and poof, everything is gone seconds or a minutes later.
@@tedbell4416I always liked Phil Hendrie. He was hilarious until he got too full of himself and insisted in announcing to the audience that the voices they were hearing as the guests were his. Once he did that it was harder for him to sucker in ignorant listeners and it just was never the same. He also used to take greater care and time to build up the absurdity of his guests stories and not push them to cartoonish levels so quickly. It got to be where callers,even the not so bright ones,would call him out on it. Once he started getting tv voice acting roles and his own (failed) tv show he seemed to lose interest in radio and got bitter and extremely difficult to work with. His work in the '90's was the best. When he was at his best he was a riot. His bits with Herb Sewell discussing Walter Bellhaven and his wife Bunny were hilariously warped.
I've been waiting years to see this video. However way it turns out, I know the TV is in the best of hands.👍👍 " Taylor " was my next door neighbors last name.
KNXT used to be the old call letters for KCBS 2 until 1984. I remember the old call letters. I just looked up KCAL former KHJ channel 9. The first call letters were KFI! From 1948 to 1951.
Good video, as always! Yeah, CZcams loves reorganizing its layout, making it harder and harder to use. The latest casualty seems to be the "Channels" tab that used to let people feature other creators or secondary channels in an easy to access page next to the "Videos" tab. Now, if a person has multiple channels for different forms of content, or want to recommend a friend or other interesting channel, you have to find it yourself if they don't feature it in the description. Very anti-collaborative.
Typical Corporate rot. You have armies of people who try to make it appear they are doing something productive and relevant, so they rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Nice parcel from WION Radio. Good looking TV. The glass is a bit too green. I used to watch TV on a green screen monitor, every time I looked away from it, everything looked pink. LOL.
Agreed, like staring into green computer monitors for hours in the Ancient era. As far as vintage TV’s go I prefer the sepia tint of the magnavox b&w TV’s of the 50s 60s
Well KNXT didn't start until October of 1951. Before that it was KTSL and before that it was KM2XBD. The chassis must have been assembled in 1949 and then the unit finally assembled & sold in late 51 or early 52.
What's weird though is I have a 49 Hoffman that uses the same dial which has the earlier KTSL on the dial for Ch 2... but ALL of the modern-day Los Angeles channels are labeled with call letters on my dial, whereas this one has the newer KNXT but the dial only has three stations. Seems like it would be the other way around. (?)
My gosh--remember a set like this when I was a child! The tv was in the basement-it was “our” tv for us kids to use. Dad nand Mom used a new metal case Zenith. That was Dads and Moms Tv as Iremember the Hoffman had a green screen-Easy Vision. Remember seeing Mickey Mouse club,Superman and Howdy Doody on this set. If there was a special show on we all watched it on the Zenith. It was true monochrome-didn’t have the green lens in front of the pix tube.
Shango, you sometimes puzzle your viewers. Gifts and you pan them. Cool Hoffman and you question the condition and construction. Sure, spritz it down and reform the back and the asbestos sheet. I love your channel and content and I know you KNOW so much! I love sarcastic comments. In 2023 the violets coming into the hobby get turned off by it and then turn the old TV they found into a pet bed for their ferret. We both need to find an honest median to save the sets we find. Keep sharing what you do brother! No personal criticism but just sharing some thoughts that were shared with me when I shared your content.
I subscribed to Bob Anderson a few weeks back on your recommendation and have been enjoying his black-and-white TV beginner series to learn me up. Thank you for the recommendation.
@17:51 - I used to be the guy that went in to stores with a plan-o-gram to decimate store shelves and relocate entire sections. One of the LARGEST restructuring things I ever saw was the "gluten free" aisle. That's when i noticed the quality of humans steadily declining.
I've also heard that the Tech HiFi chain used it as the name for their house-brand components, but maybe they just spelled it differently and never got sued. Even junky house brand components were probably better than most of the stuff sold under the Soundesign" brand, so they might have taken the infringement as a compliment.
Can't wait to see the underside of that chassis. Brings back great memories, Not to mention the YUMMIE asbestos. I am a subscriber to your channel and I do get notice on every new video. Thank You tube for that. I do watch Bob's videos as well but have not yet subscribed. I think I will do that right now. Thanks Buddy ! ( maybe after that I'll go take my muffler off. LOL )
18:00 I have a dolly that looks a lot like that, but it's really the bottom of an old console TV, which always had casters, that was left over after the rest of it was removed; if it could hold that boat anchor, it will carry some heavy things. That asbestos mat may be a bit of a hazard, but the idea was a good one. I still remember my neighbor's RCA siting in the driveway with a hole burned through the top. Maybe a piece of sheet metal would prevent a fire without giving anyone lung cancer. I ran into an article written around 1952, maybe from Billboard, describing how the number of FM radios being sold had declined in the prior couple of years. But when you looked at the numbers they listed, the number of actual radios had been increasing, while the number of TVs with FM had been declining as manufacturers started removing the FM band from their tuners. I imagine that there were still some sets that could tune most of the FM band with the fine tuning ring on channel 5 or 6.
I remember line-drawn 'one page' ads in suburban Philly newspapers for a long-defunct, but well-loved department-store chain named "Jamesway", which was based out of northern New Jersey. Around 1965, our area was blessed with one, with Soundesign, Juliette, and Lloyds radios of that vintage seen in similar depiction. That type radio, in those adverts, was sold heavily during "Phillies Baseball Season", before daily TV broadcasts became more common (1968/1969), when people took them out on the "porch", with Schmidt's, Piels, Reading, Ortleib's (yuk), Yeungling ($2.00 per returnable case) beer always at hand.
As for asbestos, and all the hysterics, I think of all the mechanics who did did brake jobs for decades, dealing with asbestos-infused pads. I came across some suspicious insulation in my house years ago and just sprayed it down with water. Overly cautious I did use disposable head covering, bib and a mask. Decades later, still breathing to comment about it.
Yeah, Bob Andersen has a really cool channel. I'll bet that old TV probably saw many, many episodes of _NBC News with John Cameron Swayze_ and _The Huntley-Brinkley Report,_ among other popular national and local TV programming of the time! Those early days of the Cold War were really scary at times!
Shango,I always tell anyone I meet thats into vintage electronics about both your channel and Bobs. Ive referred several people wanting their Predictas restored to Bob. As far as the censoriship thing goes,im having comments disappear that arent even critical. Getting reallt sick of youtubes censorship.
How do you tell? I only ever notice when I click a comment thread that the replies listed aren’t there. I’m not sure if they get held for review or what the deal is. Can you see when this happens to your own? Haven’t been unsubbed at all yet myself.
Great care package from WION. Looking forward to working on some of those interesting radios. That Hoffman is really interesting too. I've never seen on here in Alabama. Curious as how it will look with the colored glass. Thanks for a great video! Ted
I replaced the glass in my Hoffman with clear Plexiglas (I kept the original though). You can sort of get used to the tint of the Easy-View glass but it's still a little bit like you're watching TV on an oscilloscope tube or something. B&W just wasn't meant to be viewed in yellowish green. It was a good sales gimmick though. :)
Art Bell's show, Coast to Coast AM, was a pretty long radio show. Sometimes 4+ hours. I've been trying to put together on my computer a complete collection of all of the show until when he retired for the last time, which has not been easy because the stuff wasn't ever officially released to the public so the quality and completeness of the stuff online is not ideal. The show still exists under a different personality and their website has a lot of the old stuff but behind a paywall.
I wonder what the last year was the manufacturer stopped making paper capacitors and started making plastic film. I wish I could watch a documentary on the history of the capacitor
That was back in the Golden Days of Television, when what relatively little TV programming was available was often worth watching, unlike now. From 1931-48, today's KCBS had the W6XAO call sign.
So, just for fun, I tried finding your email address - I found it, but then I had to check the boxes for a 're-capcha not a robot test' 6 times. Then, the browser locked up and I had to restart! I guess they REALLY don't want info getting out!
13:50 . . . Shango bringing us Watts ! Imagine a *_power cord_* dropping 220 Volts to 110 Volts... sure that would get UL / CSA approval today!! Nice of WION to send that package. I have a _SounDesign_ multi band portable radio with the same logo from the late 1960s. That would be a _SounDesign_ you have there... and a very nice looking one.
@@kti5682 No. But I think a 2:1 ratio step down transformer would be a good compromise for both safety and avoiding radio frequency interference vs. a "heating element" power cord.
Phil Hendries satire of Art Bell was hilarious. General Johnson Jameson would invariably be the guest and of coruse it was sponsored by Peeman enterprises! I bought some of their bigfoot and yeti repellent and I must say it works great! I havent seen one yet!
That thing is a health hazard even with the asbestos sheet removed.. all the particles of asbestos dust that have rained down on everything in that set over the years all waiting to be stirred up the moment you move/touch anything inside that set. only way to make that set safe is to go and drop it in the ocean and let it soak for a while :P
@4:44 - I can imagine worse. I grew up in San Diego and dad used to take us to Padres games (mainly for the chicken) and a single Chargers game. I assume this is the same Padres from back in the day.
What a difference when compared to my RCA Victor 8TS30. My family had RCAs then and they most had the 'new' metal tubes: 16GP4, and 17CP4 I THINK the 16AP may have been the first. Thanks.
I can't believe you'd make fun of that poor guy with a HOLE in his muffler Shango he was probably racing to the exhaust shop to get it fixed with whatever change he could scrape up 😵💫
I think the show you saw on the box for the KOGO AM 600 radio was Coast to Coast AM in its early days, the show that they liked to talk about aliens on and other strange supernatural phenomena
As someone who grew up in San Diego for my middle and high school years, I think that Kogo box was from the 1990s or early 2000s. I remember those names on the radio from back then.
Hey how would I go about cleaning the contacts on my television tuner? I can’t get any video to come out even though I have audio and everything hooked up correctly. Thank you!
As of 1953, the The Hoffman Electronics Corporation was located at 6200 S. Avalon Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90003. Apparently, the local chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous has their meetings there now.
I have a PC monitor where the focus voltage gets too high and triggers the spark gap in the CRT socket. Apparently one possible reason is that the voltage divider inside the flyback is broken or intermittent, though, I guess, the focus potentiometer still works. If the CRT has warmed up before the focus voltage gets too high, then the picture gets really bright and washed out for a second before the spark gap fires. Is it possible to build an external voltage divider and if so, what would the the ballpark resistors needed? I do not have the service manual for that monitor, but even if I did I doubt the resistors inside the flyback would have their values specified. I don't think I can find a new flyback for it.
Basically Priority Mail is now for the rich only. For the rest of us they now have something called "Ground Advantage" that of course travels slower but at least it is trackable...
post office to post office has international treaty decided annually what the interchange rates will be. main reason are some countries the cost of sending a letter would be too costly if it floated on and international rate. kind of like UN dues
When discussing why and how to safely remove and dispose of Asbestos Shango remarks "You wanna be responsible with it, you don't want to be doing lines of it "...Marvellous, proper life tips.
That one did make me laugh! Mind you, so do many of his quips.
Fun fact. When Les Hoffman started making televsions he got a good deal on yellow tinted surplus aircraft plexiglass which he used as screen protectors. He turned a cost saving decision into a marketing gimmick by calling the unique colored lense "Easy Vision". By the way Hoffman was based in El Monte California
I loved it when TV’s were built in cabinet’s like this. They went with the rest of your furniture. ❤
Housewives dictated what furniture could be displayed in "their" houses.
This person is a great professor, but unfortunately I do not understand him well because I do not speak English. I have been following you for years. Keep it up. Greetings from Tunisia in North Africa.
I could listen to you ramble forever. 😀
Me too
Same
Same here lol
Definitely
I'm more of a "rant" guy.
Art Bell absolutely owned night time radio back then. Legend.
Loved listening to Coast-to-Coast in the laye 90s.
@@rudolphguarnacci197Phil Hendrie was the best. He made radio purely entertaining and funny again.
I was on his show many moons ago.
I started listening to C2C in 1992..
@@KenSilvers hi Ken 👋
The WION guys must have been chuckling while packing your box.
9:37 my dad's childhood home was burnt to the ground by a curtain burner in 1935. Those were no joke.
There was also a spray you could Spray on your Real Christmas Tree to make it Smell like a Real Christmas tree that was VERY HIGHLY FLAMMABLE the equivalent to Spraying Gasoline on your Real Tree ... When Shango said the WION went from 240 or 220 and stepped down to 120 100% Curtain Burner all on a 20 gauge cord WTFLIPP Seen some Real Bad Crap Stuff here and there but nothing like a WION Cord Thats why today we have so maney warning lables on EVERYTHING
Correction Resistance Line cord i wanted to say not the WION Cord and yes the guy from WION must be LTFAO on the cord
Sad that a product that dangerous was ever sold.
@@robinsattahip2376 Yes Products were sold Very Dangerous i say from the mid 70s and as far back as you can go in time
Wishing you and your family and friends very Happy, Peaceful and Holy Christmas and the very best for the New Year Shango.
24:58 Try to get a hold of some non-standard and different wavelength lights. You would be absolutely amazed at what a difference it makes and how what is not visible in normal light will become visible with different light. Police and the post office use this technique. The post office is the most advanced of this technology in the US, possibly the world. They have a lot of stuff you cannot get, but there are a lot of different light options and colors available. You can also use camera filters.
Oh I love you, your videos are so great I can't get enough. You're the best thing in the world.
Enjoy the goodies! I have way more radios than I have time to work on them. I figured the Jewel radio was gar better off in your hands than mine. Also, enjoy the new clip leads. Those are amazing. I was getting tired of watching you deal with those crappy ones for a few years now. You'll really like those I think! Jim and I descided you needed to get a Zinwell box in your hands. They smoke just about anything else. Very sensitive and made well. Happy holidays!
Art Bell,, that brings back memorys
Bob Andersen (and you Mr. Shango) without a doubt are one of my favorite TV repair personalities. Not only is Mr. Bob Andersen Great at what he does but he is very easy to understand, No attitude just a great demeanor and enjoyable to watch. If you are in to vintage tv and have never watched any of bandersentv's videos you are missing out!
B.A. .... no attitude? really? Try disagreeing with him and see how there's no attitude, to that discussion? Seems fine with "You know, you're really great." comments, though.
@@willthecat3861 I don't see attitude and I am not trying to be argumentative but he is good at what he does and if I want to learn I listen to the expert in the craft that I am trying to learn. If he disagreed with a comment I said about a topic he is expert at I just have to listen because I want to learn. I know there is more than one way to do things but if I am trying to learn from Bob Anderson, I am going to learn it his way. Just my thought..
@@PilotInCommand777 Yup and sure... listen to the experts... but if your 'expert' claims that 2+2 =5 ... maybe you need to consider the limitations of experts... and appeals to authority. Someone said, "Trust but verify." ... and you don't have to be an expert to do that.
Well done for plugging Bob Anderson, been watching his channel for years, well worth watching!
I am amazed that the metal cone CRT has any emission, there were a few UK sets that used one, never come across a good one in over 40 years of collecting vintage TV's.
MY coffee was getting cold waiting for Saturday Shango so happy to finally watch makes my day
Coast to Coast AM airs nightly from 1 to 5 AM Eastern. After the live show, it repeats in the western time zones. Originally launched in 1978 by Art Bell as West Coast AM, from Las Vegas, NV. In 1988, it became Coast to Coast AM, and production moved to Bell's home studio in Pahrump. After Bell's retirement production moved to Sherman Oaks, CA, with remote studios in Los Angeles, Los Vegas, St. Louis, and for a brief time, Seattle and St. Paul. Current hosts are George Noorie (weeknights and 1st Sunday), George Knapp (remaining Sundays), and Ian Punnett (occasional). Other hosts have come and gone over the intervening years. The announcer is Dick Ervasti.
WION has MY vote! Kudos to an awesome group! 🙏👍
I don't understand how US shipping is so expensive most items are to expensive to ship to the UK even if it is a letter, and from China it is almost nothing and quick.
Bideninflation.
A combination of union wages and anticompetition laws. Employee healthcare is expensive when you can throw a thousand barely documented student immigrants and a rickety Chinese boat at the problem instead, like Amazon. Even government subsidy isn't enough to keep the post office afloat and accessible these days, sadly.
Someone asked me why Shango nevers shows his face on any of his videos. I told him he was in the witticism protection
program. Hear one at 2:54 in ! LOL Love Bob's channel. Great cross promotion Shango. Hoffman Easy-Vision glass looks
like those old Blu-blocker sunglasses. It was added to prevent glare in a B&W picture. Really just a gimmick. The label for
the Hoffman TV says chassis 151. Makes sense since that was used in a 1949 TV. Sams Photofact for it says it can be
a model CT-800, CT -801, CT-900 or CT-901. Looking forward to a resurrection.
14:40 . . . I have just subscribed to you *_again,_* Shango. I am sure this is the fourth time CZcams / Google has unsubscribed me from your channel over the last few years.
Agree about the comment censorship, it is becoming ridiculous. It makes me furious when I take the time to write a few paragraphs to answer a comment (maybe technical information), and poof, everything is gone seconds or a minutes later.
@12:11 - Dr Laura had the second highest rated radio show behind the Great Rushbo.....in 1998. I feel old now.
No doubt man I remember those days, and Art Bell was massive overnight
@@tedbell4416I always liked Phil Hendrie. He was hilarious until he got too full of himself and insisted in announcing to the audience that the voices they were hearing as the guests were his. Once he did that it was harder for him to sucker in ignorant listeners and it just was never the same. He also used to take greater care and time to build up the absurdity of his guests stories and not push them to cartoonish levels so quickly. It got to be where callers,even the not so bright ones,would call him out on it. Once he started getting tv voice acting roles and his own (failed) tv show he seemed to lose interest in radio and got bitter and extremely difficult to work with. His work in the '90's was the best. When he was at his best he was a riot. His bits with Herb Sewell discussing Walter Bellhaven and his wife Bunny were hilariously warped.
@@Suddenlyits1960 That dude has talent for days. Before I found out it was a gag, I really found some of the stories really funny even if real.
I've been waiting years to see this video. However way it turns out, I know the TV is in the best of hands.👍👍
" Taylor " was my next door neighbors last name.
KNXT used to be the old call letters for KCBS 2 until 1984. I remember the old call letters. I just looked up KCAL former KHJ channel 9. The first call letters were KFI! From 1948 to 1951.
Wow, thank you for the plug and revealing the secrets of finding contact info. It would be nice if you could contact youtubers directly.
Good video, as always! Yeah, CZcams loves reorganizing its layout, making it harder and harder to use. The latest casualty seems to be the "Channels" tab that used to let people feature other creators or secondary channels in an easy to access page next to the "Videos" tab. Now, if a person has multiple channels for different forms of content, or want to recommend a friend or other interesting channel, you have to find it yourself if they don't feature it in the description. Very anti-collaborative.
Typical Corporate rot. You have armies of people who try to make it appear they are doing something productive and relevant, so they rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
as i say it...apparently software had to justify the budget...too bad different and better are not the same
Cool that you're boosting Bob, @bandersentv you're right his channel is great.
Nice parcel from WION Radio.
Good looking TV. The glass is a bit too green. I used to watch TV on a green screen monitor, every time I looked away from it, everything looked pink. LOL.
Agreed, like staring into green computer monitors for hours in the Ancient era. As far as vintage TV’s go I prefer the sepia tint of the magnavox b&w TV’s of the 50s 60s
Oh hell, really? Pink? 😮
@@agoogleuser704 Yeah. LOL. It's very strange.
Hell yes to the moving things around at the store. lol
Pure comedy gold 😂 as well as educational as always!
Well KNXT didn't start until October of 1951. Before that it was KTSL and before that it was KM2XBD. The chassis must have been assembled in 1949 and then the unit finally assembled & sold in late 51 or early 52.
What's weird though is I have a 49 Hoffman that uses the same dial which has the earlier KTSL on the dial for Ch 2... but ALL of the modern-day Los Angeles channels are labeled with call letters on my dial, whereas this one has the newer KNXT but the dial only has three stations. Seems like it would be the other way around. (?)
Nice old set! These old sets sometimes give you an idea of how people thought back then.
5:44 There was an fm receiver with almost the same design in soviet union, it was called the Riga-302
My gosh--remember a set like this when I was a child! The tv was in the basement-it was “our” tv for us kids to use. Dad nand Mom used a new metal case Zenith. That was Dads and Moms Tv as Iremember the Hoffman had a green screen-Easy Vision. Remember seeing Mickey Mouse club,Superman and Howdy Doody on this set. If there was a special show on we all watched it on the Zenith. It was true monochrome-didn’t have the green lens in front of the pix tube.
Yep, the Kids got the Crappy Hammy down and the Adult got the good Stuff GD what a great memory
Remember Flash Gordon? Ming The Merciless was my role model growing up. Still is.
Bandersontv... Yup! Love it! Don't watch as much as I would like but always a good watch!
I like these sets and look forward to the video of it working again
This is awesome!
Shango, you sometimes puzzle your viewers. Gifts and you pan them. Cool Hoffman and you question the condition and construction. Sure, spritz it down and reform the back and the asbestos sheet. I love your channel and content and I know you KNOW so much! I love sarcastic comments. In 2023 the violets coming into the hobby get turned off by it and then turn the old TV they found into a pet bed for their ferret. We both need to find an honest median to save the sets we find. Keep sharing what you do brother! No personal criticism but just sharing some thoughts that were shared with me when I shared your content.
Gotta love your social comments.
Fun even if at times I don’t agree it’s lovely to hear what others are thinking.
I subscribed to Bob Anderson a few weeks back on your recommendation and have been enjoying his black-and-white TV beginner series to learn me up. Thank you for the recommendation.
@17:51 - I used to be the guy that went in to stores with a plan-o-gram to decimate store shelves and relocate entire sections. One of the LARGEST restructuring things I ever saw was the "gluten free" aisle. That's when i noticed the quality of humans steadily declining.
Me too, late 70s & early 80s. Clerks hated me, customers hated me, even the stray dogs hated me.
KNXT was the call sign for KCBS from 1951 to 1984.
Shango "Realtone" started using the "Soundesign" name in 1961-62. They changed their name to "soundesign" in 1968.
I've also heard that the Tech HiFi chain used it as the name for their house-brand components, but maybe they just spelled it differently and never got sued. Even junky house brand components were probably better than most of the stuff sold under the Soundesign" brand, so they might have taken the infringement as a compliment.
I really enjoyed the tours of those radio stations.
Can't wait to see the underside of that chassis. Brings back great memories, Not to mention the YUMMIE asbestos. I am a subscriber to your channel and I do get notice on every new video. Thank You tube for that. I do watch Bob's videos as well but have not yet subscribed. I think I will do that right now. Thanks Buddy ! ( maybe after that I'll go take my muffler off. LOL )
I'm looking forward to this one!
18:00 I have a dolly that looks a lot like that, but it's really the bottom of an old console TV, which always had casters, that was left over after the rest of it was removed; if it could hold that boat anchor, it will carry some heavy things.
That asbestos mat may be a bit of a hazard, but the idea was a good one. I still remember my neighbor's RCA siting in the driveway with a hole burned through the top. Maybe a piece of sheet metal would prevent a fire without giving anyone lung cancer.
I ran into an article written around 1952, maybe from Billboard, describing how the number of FM radios being sold had declined in the prior couple of years. But when you looked at the numbers they listed, the number of actual radios had been increasing, while the number of TVs with FM had been declining as manufacturers started removing the FM band from their tuners. I imagine that there were still some sets that could tune most of the FM band with the fine tuning ring on channel 5 or 6.
USPS. You don't know when you'll get your mail. But yet they want more money.
Great video! Thanks!!
I just subscribed to Bob's channel.
USPS has poor service??
Canada Post: "Hold my beer."
as harmless as something else we cant talk about
Merry Christmas Shango!
I remember line-drawn 'one page' ads in suburban Philly newspapers for a long-defunct, but well-loved department-store chain named "Jamesway", which was based out of northern New Jersey. Around 1965, our area was blessed with one, with Soundesign, Juliette, and Lloyds radios of that vintage seen in similar depiction. That type radio, in those adverts, was sold heavily during "Phillies Baseball Season", before daily TV broadcasts became more common (1968/1969), when people took them out on the "porch", with Schmidt's, Piels, Reading, Ortleib's (yuk), Yeungling ($2.00 per returnable case) beer always at hand.
“You don’t want to be doing lines of it” you crack me up. 😅
As for asbestos, and all the hysterics, I think of all the mechanics who did did brake jobs for decades, dealing with asbestos-infused pads. I came across some suspicious insulation in my house years ago and just sprayed it down with water. Overly cautious I did use disposable head covering, bib and a mask. Decades later, still breathing to comment about it.
My favorite is the fuzzy snowman ☃️ wrapped around old water heaters
Another Hoffman? The first one was one of my favorite video series you did. Can't wait to see.
They used to make cigarette filters out of asbestos
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Yeah, Bob Andersen has a really cool channel. I'll bet that old TV probably saw many, many episodes of _NBC News with John Cameron Swayze_ and _The Huntley-Brinkley Report,_ among other popular national and local TV programming of the time! Those early days of the Cold War were really scary at times!
Beautiful TV!!!
Shango,I always tell anyone I meet thats into vintage electronics about both your channel and Bobs. Ive referred several people wanting their Predictas restored to Bob.
As far as the censoriship thing goes,im having comments disappear that arent even critical. Getting reallt sick of youtubes censorship.
How do you tell? I only ever notice when I click a comment thread that the replies listed aren’t there. I’m not sure if they get held for review or what the deal is. Can you see when this happens to your own? Haven’t been unsubbed at all yet myself.
Looking forward to seeing it being resurrected!
Guess it was made by Sanyo for Craig, i think Craig was just an American company importing electronics from Asia, just like Midland, Realistic, etc.
Great care package from WION. Looking forward to working on some of those interesting radios. That Hoffman is really interesting too. I've never seen on here in Alabama. Curious as how it will look with the colored glass. Thanks for a great video! Ted
I replaced the glass in my Hoffman with clear Plexiglas (I kept the original though). You can sort of get used to the tint of the Easy-View glass but it's still a little bit like you're watching TV on an oscilloscope tube or something. B&W just wasn't meant to be viewed in yellowish green. It was a good sales gimmick though. :)
Here we go! yes!!
Art Bell's show, Coast to Coast AM, was a pretty long radio show. Sometimes 4+ hours. I've been trying to put together on my computer a complete collection of all of the show until when he retired for the last time, which has not been easy because the stuff wasn't ever officially released to the public so the quality and completeness of the stuff online is not ideal. The show still exists under a different personality and their website has a lot of the old stuff but behind a paywall.
I wonder if anyone still has the cassette sets they used to sell by mail order?
My favorite was ghost to ghost
I wonder what the last year was the manufacturer stopped making paper capacitors and started making plastic film. I wish I could watch a documentary on the history of the capacitor
The 600 Cogo headphones are circa 2001.
I'm doing this as you speak! I have four ahead of me for 2024
KNXT is the old call sign for CBS LA channel 2.
That was back in the Golden Days of Television, when what relatively little TV programming was available was often worth watching, unlike now. From 1931-48, today's KCBS had the W6XAO call sign.
So, just for fun, I tried finding your email address - I found it, but then I had to check the boxes for a 're-capcha not a robot test' 6 times. Then, the browser locked up and I had to restart! I guess they REALLY don't want info getting out!
Shango more secret than Roswell. CIA protected.
13:50 . . . Shango bringing us Watts !
Imagine a *_power cord_* dropping 220 Volts to 110 Volts... sure that would get UL / CSA approval today!!
Nice of WION to send that package. I have a _SounDesign_ multi band portable radio with the same logo from the late 1960s. That would be a _SounDesign_ you have there... and a very nice looking one.
Nowadays we have high efficiency switching regulators, would our grandparents have accepted its EMI on their AM reception?
@@kti5682 No. But I think a 2:1 ratio step down transformer would be a good compromise for both safety and avoiding radio frequency interference vs. a "heating element" power cord.
@@LakeNipissing Actually my grandparents had an autotransformer to compensate for voltage fluctuations.
And was listening to art Bell at 6 am this.morning
I almost tercocrinculated my terobosis clicking on this publication.
Asbestos- “You don’t wanna be doing lines of it.” Good to know. 👍😂
Shango, bester Mann!
If you ever consider adopting this one out I would love to get it restored!
My Grandparents had a Hoffmen tv from the 50's
That set is a beast. Surprised that CRT has any life left.
Phil Hendries satire of Art Bell was hilarious. General Johnson Jameson would invariably be the guest and of coruse it was sponsored by Peeman enterprises! I bought some of their bigfoot and yeti repellent and I must say it works great! I havent seen one yet!
That thing is a health hazard even with the asbestos sheet removed.. all the particles of asbestos dust that have rained down on everything in that set over the years all waiting to be stirred up the moment you move/touch anything inside that set. only way to make that set safe is to go and drop it in the ocean and let it soak for a while :P
@4:44 - I can imagine worse. I grew up in San Diego and dad used to take us to Padres games (mainly for the chicken) and a single Chargers game. I assume this is the same Padres from back in the day.
Was that a reference to its my life by no doubt?😂❤️
15:58 "Caught in the crowd, it never ends."
The Hoffman went into service either in 1950 or 1951, given the call letters on the dial.
What a difference when compared to my RCA Victor 8TS30. My family had RCAs then and they most had the 'new' metal tubes: 16GP4, and 17CP4 I THINK the 16AP may have been the first. Thanks.
I can't believe you'd make fun of that poor guy with a HOLE in his muffler Shango he was probably racing to the exhaust shop to get it fixed with whatever change he could scrape up 😵💫
He probably sold the cat to get enough money to fill his rebelsus prescription
Fleeing ICE. This is Colliefornia.
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I got a 8w handheld lamp that uses the cord as resistor. It gets warm
I think the show you saw on the box for the KOGO AM 600 radio was Coast to Coast AM in its early days, the show that they liked to talk about aliens on and other strange supernatural phenomena
You can still find Sbestos in old houses in the Caribbean in the 80 s asbestos insulation was normal
My 1950s condo is full of asbestos. I don't bother it and it doesn't bother me.
I remember being taught about in 7th Grade Social Studies as the Wonder Material. Fireproof. Mineral. All Natural.
great shout out to Bob Anderson , he creates very good content
KNXT was Max Headroom's Chanel.!!🤣🤣🤣😂😉
Twenty Four sparkle pony Mastercard, baby
MasterCharge
As someone who grew up in San Diego for my middle and high school years, I think that Kogo box was from the 1990s or early 2000s. I remember those names on the radio from back then.
Yes, definitely from that era since the Padres logo changed in 2004 when they moved to Petco Park.
Hey how would I go about cleaning the contacts on my television tuner? I can’t get any video to come out even though I have audio and everything hooked up correctly. Thank you!
As of 1953, the The Hoffman Electronics Corporation was located at 6200 S. Avalon Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90003. Apparently, the local chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous has their meetings there now.
all the dust coming off this old Hoffmann TV is made me cough. I hope it could be fired up. Still watching..
The “I take the muffler off my car…” Can be applied to many other individuals, like the Harley owners or the muscle car or truck guys
Not only are we paying twice to ship items now, but it seems people are packing items more crappily. Makes me want to go off on a RTVPN Rant!
It really doesn't hit you until you try to send something USPS. Like it did to me, last month. Absurd.
I have a PC monitor where the focus voltage gets too high and triggers the spark gap in the CRT socket. Apparently one possible reason is that the voltage divider inside the flyback is broken or intermittent, though, I guess, the focus potentiometer still works. If the CRT has warmed up before the focus voltage gets too high, then the picture gets really bright and washed out for a second before the spark gap fires.
Is it possible to build an external voltage divider and if so, what would the the ballpark resistors needed? I do not have the service manual for that monitor, but even if I did I doubt the resistors inside the flyback would have their values specified. I don't think I can find a new flyback for it.
Someone gives you a hoodie and you shit on hoodies. Real class act.😂
I’m sure he still liked it, he was just being funny.
can only watches videos and take cheao shots at the creators when i don't get the joke....classy
The senders took NO offense...we love Shango's sarcasm and the fun he has with EVERYTHING he presents to viewers.
Oh hey that’s cool! Let me try this game! Maybe you didn’t notice the 😂.
The "curtain burner" and "genitals/muffler" comments alone were worth the admission price. Classic Shango on this one.
Basically Priority Mail is now for the rich only. For the rest of us they now have something called "Ground Advantage" that of course travels slower but at least it is trackable...
post office to post office has international treaty decided annually what the interchange rates will be. main reason are some countries the cost of sending a letter would be too costly if it floated on and international rate. kind of like UN dues