One of my favorite Shango066 videos. Took me a year to find my own TR-712, in great shape and with the blue/gray cabinet. Can't wait to get it!

Is so nice to see these devices working at least one last time...

My parents had one of those for years in the kitchen.. was always on around supper playing CBC. Recognized it right away from your thumbnail. :D

You really really like saying the word “baked!”

@RoughJustice2k18

5 жыл бұрын

In one video, he mentioned a TV being 'extra crisp'.

1959, it was a very good year.

@markcollins5026

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I was 5 !

You brought it back to life ! Now is time to 3D print that case to have a full restoration and be proud of yourself. :)

@RoughJustice2k18

5 жыл бұрын

Shango doesn't do restorations. Leave that to someone else - like on _Phil's Old Radios_ site.

$1000 Rare Sony Radio. Working in Excellent condition. You got it man. Ebay here we come.

@nondescriptstraightwhitema6138

5 жыл бұрын

"Organically distressed original design"

@GeorgeGeorge-xj2bc

5 жыл бұрын

We have the gradma's singer sewing machine in excellent condition that bought in 1934 along with its payment bills.And thought that might get value as a vintage machine until i found that ebay sells brand new replacement parts because there are million machines outhere.Also the same and even worst with my Amstrad CPC464,so the vintaging occupation is not my lucky area.

@s.sestric9929

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome patina!

@RoughJustice2k18

5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget, recently recapped.

@s8wc3

5 жыл бұрын

L@@@@@@@K!!!!!!!!!!!!

When installed MP 37 I thought I would hear the voice of Brezhnev

At 22:00 you more or les gave up on it for obvious reasons. Then I looked at the remaining time on the video and then I knew that you would get it to work again, and you did!! Thank you for the upload!

You always amaze me! Thanks. Like entering the twilight zone. At first the voltages are bad, later okay! Your reasoning of why the voltages are off by following the flow, you mentioned it at least twice really helps us visualize the operation of the circuit. Keep em coming!

Thank you Shango, for doing these videos for us. I appreciate all the effort you put into them.

I love how you give up and then don't give up

Whack all the transistors with a pencil to break the whiskers loose. That one capacitor had one leg totally unsoldered.

@garymucher9590

5 жыл бұрын

Basically ALL the solder joints looks suspect. I've seen cold solder joints before, but this holds the record!

The reason we keep coming back is because you gave up 20 minutes in but the videos 50 minutes long you are the man man

Wow it was beautiful new

Shango manages to surprise me and I end up laughing like a madman.

Great videos.. Watching all of them from Viña del Mar Chil

About 30 minute mark, is why I respect you so much & am proud to consider myself a student of yours. What a birthday video, thanks man!

I really enjoy getting all the technical specifications and explanations in the diagnosis. Top notch repair done right, not just slapping a bunch of new caps on a board and calling it good.

I did seen one capacitor that was broken from the solder joint in this video where you started checking other capacitors. All and all, great video! Thank you for sharing!

Not a bad looking radio in its day. Amazed how well those simple circuits could work.

I love the videos where you change your mined. You are so adamant about not worth fixing, than the next frame you change your mined. Keep the videos coming.

My grandmother had one of these next to her bed. It was in prestine condition. I used to listen to it at night when I couldnt sleep when I stayed at my Grand parents. I think it was 60's anyways. I was actually sad to see it in such poor shape. Hers was not the greatest but it worked. I think they made several types. I wasnt far off on the date. My grandmother always took really great care of her stuff.

Morning Train was originally called 9 to 5 in the UK, but they changed it for the US because of the Dolly Parton hit.

@cardboardboxification

5 жыл бұрын

is the uk still upset we kicked out the red coats?

"i turned it on and the bird went nuts" 😂😂

@Elfnetdesigns

5 жыл бұрын

He's on his way to becomming one of those "never speak" restoration channels that are trending for unknown reasons.

@Elfnetdesigns

5 жыл бұрын

@@ct92404 I know that swhy Shango needs to make a couple to meme it out lol

Good video as always, Great fault finding. Keep up the good work 👍

Good video as always, i like your fault finding. Keep up the good work 👍

Thank you Shango. I for one, appreciate your resurrection videos. Makes me think about people restoring things after the great apocalypse or something for survival.

Yes, finally something to watch. Beer, Steak and youtube evening tonight :-D

@duanethamm4688

5 жыл бұрын

Go vegetarian!

@eivindamundsen7090

5 жыл бұрын

@@duanethamm4688 We aren't allowed to eat vegetarians here in norway. By definition they are peopole too.

@duanethamm4688

5 жыл бұрын

Saints are the people who can live with you and your funnies.

@keithbrown7685

5 жыл бұрын

@@eivindamundsen7090 I hear that their meat is too string-y anyway. : )

Really enjoy your dry sense of humor working on something as munted as this sorry ancient thing. Fantastic skills-set indeed!

An excellent vid and Sheena Eson sinning in Japanese my day is complete,thank you

@EngineeringVignettes

5 жыл бұрын

"Sheena Eston sinning in Japanese" A mental picture is forming in my mind... and its _not_ good.

Another fantastic video. Keep 'em coming.

I love your videos hope you never stop making them

Looks like someone with a decent 3D printer, some 3D modeling/design software and too much time could print a new case for it.

@Pisti846

5 жыл бұрын

Or simply build a wooden cabinet for the internals.

Thanks for the video, it’s making my wait at the airport fly by. Ok, I just got to the end and not feeling so good anymore.

Gilligan keeps breaking it. The Professor keeps fixing it.

@One-Crazy-Cat

4 жыл бұрын

DiamondBack662 putting the guts in a coconut sounds like a plan. Sell for big money.

Perhaps the transistors are whiskered internally, originally shorted but handling them cleared it enough for them to work?

FANTASTIC!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 BRAVO!

i like sony boomboxes, they have excellent quality and good looking. i have cfs1040s 27 years old and still working

If its baked then try eating it, baked transistors make a great snack.

Clean Install, we will be at Knowledge Fest Thank you for the content

There used to be a deal that someone would bring me a broken computer, typewriter or even radio. I would tinker with them a bit and usually they would start working. I usually never knew what the hell fixed them, and it soon became known as the "Chief's Effect" (I was a police chief for 10 years.) Those days are now long gone, once in a great while someone will recall my unusual gift and bring me an injured or ill device, and if they ask nicely I will tinker with them, usually with the same effect.

Nice one loved watching it.

Every video: "I give up, I can't fix it", then proceeds to fix it.

@robertgaines-tulsa

5 жыл бұрын

That's seems to be normal on this channel.

@EngineeringVignettes

5 жыл бұрын

@@robertgaines-tulsa I'm like that too. Drives my boss _nuts_

@waltschannel7465

5 жыл бұрын

That's the agony of electronics! 🤣

@cardboardboxification

5 жыл бұрын

when you are about to give up, is usually when you find the problem you are looking for

@dindog22

3 жыл бұрын

sometimes you have to walk away from something and think about it for a little bit

6:14 . . . The Sony was producing ultrasonic audio only capable of being heard by mourning doves.

Great video! In the beginning all that thing picked up was the Mourning Dove channel but you got it to pick up two news stations in two languages at once plus the super cheesy Karaoke network. Pretty neat radio, it actually sounds much better than I thought it would. Sony, ever the innovator!

Fantastic job

I was hoping Dragen McSnurglefarrfle would get to talk to some telemarketers.

I am amazed at the power of Sony, I know they build good shit but this is beyond good, and your skills brought it back to life, sort of, a major win!

Excellent cheers shango, loved the reductorototweebulating dial.

@RoughJustice2k18

5 жыл бұрын

He knows how to fix broken hoigy baimlers as well.

@pradolover

5 жыл бұрын

@@RoughJustice2k18 Not to mention the time he clinkoturbulated that Ford Explorer ignition switch.

loved the video Shang!

I think we should 3D print a new housing that would be fun that would be fun

That’s a radio worth seeking out…especially after it won 🏆 the DX championship in the desert

Awesome job man like

So cool. I like bringing almost completely dead looking radios back to life. I also find that newly made alleged transistor substitutes (particularly germanium) do not work as well as the originals. For one Zenith 500 hand wired I had I had to hunt down and buy NOS transistors and hand pick the ones that worked best int he RF/IF stages. Good work!

Several companies made these back in the late 50s and early 60s. A friend of mine had a channel master, that was like this. Pretty decent radio in fairly sensitive, I restored it for her and it was a fun project

Used to heat em w s iron those old germanum xistors often recover.

"--the bird went nuts..."

@ronalddaub5049

4 жыл бұрын

Its a rf, bird detector

For some reason I kept laughing the last 15 minutes, man I love those videos! :)

Now on Craigslist: Antique radio for sale. Normal wear and tear. This is a RARE collectors item. NO LOWBALLERS. I know what I have.

@cardboardboxification

5 жыл бұрын

$79.95

Rat piss will destroy the IF transformers similar to battery acid

I remember you restored a console radio and had LA Oldies disco Saturday night on and played that disco song that seemed to never end. The Google song finder couldn't identify the song even though the song was playing clearly on that vintage radio. However, it was able to identify the song on this radio despite it being all garbly googly.

A large obstacle to the repair of these radios is a Board made of foil getinax. Thin tracks of copper foil fly off after the first re-soldering. Yesterday repaired a similar radio , now tracks have to be glued with cyanoacrylate. Laughed at the domestic germanium transistor MP 42 (as he there fell ?! heh ) like for video.

Those old ass germanium transistor's will do exactly what you experienced, they check bad but yet still work, the missing 2.8 vdc came back after you removed the first one, I bet throwing the heat from the iron on it caused it to start conducting again. Great job as always!

As said, tin whiskers I reckon. The heat from the iron has probably cleared them, temporarily of course. Often tapping them will cause the fault to manifest itself. Really really common on the AF11x series seen on a lot of 60's UK sets

I always want to put a mini Fred Astaire head under those top hat transistors. Many won't understand that.

@MrUbiquitousTech

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/eX-Er81uj8q5pM4.html

I have a Sony TR74 from 1957/58, that also has those 2T NPN germanium transistors

This was so much FUN! thanks now for an 'Adult Cocktail'. ; ] Glad to see Organ Donation put on hold for a Swing with Frankenstein, err ~ Two Timin' Jammin'.

I had one of these a while back. Cute radio, didn't work very well. Probably had dried out Japanese electrolytics in it but I never bothered to change them. Nice reverse painted dial though.

radio: I'm not dead!

@seanmccoy3523

5 жыл бұрын

Garbled User no it was just ran over by an car or 3

That poor old radio needs a lot of T.L.C but hey, least it still works! xxoo ❤️

Now I have only been tinkering with AM raidos since around 1958 when my dad let me begin servicing the old battery pack tube set that we used for our only source of entertainment on our farmstead up in rural North Dakota, where the electrical service failed to come to our place. It has been my experience that when you replace a leaky cap that has failed, you must remove it from the circuit because it places resistance in the circuit, and also allows DC voltage to leak across the leads messing up the balance of the entire set. Just a thought, this could be the problem, or part of it at any rate. Also if you salvage caps from old boards, you should use a leakage detector to see if they leak DC. A cap can check great but still leak DC, and if so can mess with your circuit as well as, in some cases put AC to the entire set and make it a bit dangerous with AC units.

Excellent video. This is reality, indeed. 36:00 in and look at all the bad solder joints on that board! And the cracked caps on the top of the board, bad transistors... I am surprised this thing words at all. Geez.

There's a really interesting documentary about the history of the Japanese semiconductor industry, and I remember it mentioning there was an event when transistors in radios started failing en masse sometime in the 1950's. This is probably not the case here but it's still a worthy watch.

I have got away with using pnp 2n2906 in place of AF117 in some applications. Perhaps 2N2904 could work for those, though the bias might need adjusting.

40:22 It may be kereoke but anything beats Shana Easton's screechy voice. Sony went all out with that thing: nice dial, almost-normal-sized AF transformers and a really beefy speaker for such a set. Even with two stations coming in at once, I can tell it sounded pretty good. Those AM/FM clock radios Sony was selling in the mid 1960s, the ones with the "deluxe" walnut case that looked a little home-made didn't sound nearly as good.

when you said way low I couldn't help but think of the Furbish word for sleep hahaha

Desperatley in need of "plastic" surgery

@RoughJustice2k18

5 жыл бұрын

Kim Kardashian has more than enough plastic for several radios.

i really find your videos very intresting keep it up buddy mad how u get this stuff working

probably the Ge npn transistors are grown junction types, typically using American process of those days

Great video. Thanks. Would it be possible to use npn sillicium transistors by changing the values of the base resistors ?

I don't know...... That's actually quite an appealing "rat look, steampunk workshop radio"! Without word of a lie, we once had a radio in similar condition (late '70s into early '80s). We never changed the station, never turned it off by switch - Just plugged it in in the morning, and unplugged it in the evening. It ran for years in that condition and never missed a beat. "Old Fido" we called it....

Nice Radio 📻😊

You are the manl Shango066 this is definate proof that you can polish a fecies

Sony emotional support radio lives

That radio is a survivor like a Timex watch.

You’ve got a Sony of your owny …

Win, lose, or draw, your troubleshooting process is phenomenally instructive, and you've pulled off a good many rescues I'd have never even thought possible. I've worked on electronic stuff for getting on to 50 years now, starting as a teenager dragging home TV sets found in the garbage just like the ones you do. I don't much enjoy it any more but watching your vids is the next best thing and the commentary is choice! I appreciate the effort you put in. Plus I am weirdly fond of the desolate section of LA you live. Where is that, Gardena?

Nice radio.

You're like a modern-day version of an electronic Frankenstein, Shango066, LOL! Bringing dead electronic corpses from the dead. I can almost hear those circuits weakly whispering: "Who disturbs our peace?".

Hey buddy thank you for the video. In your experience what is or are the most sensitive am radios? Is it really the Panasonic rf-2200? I hope you can help,”. Thanks, Joe in CT

excelente video, repare el plastico, se puede reconstruir toda la parte de plastico? (y)

Daring google to try to catch a Copy right strike. I think the computers will be very confused.

Don't these old metal transistors get tin whiskers in them? Maybe just moving and manipulating them fixex them

@WolfgangMahringer

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same....

@Membrane556

5 жыл бұрын

I read that happens and they can some times be treated to blow out the whiskers. www.markhennessy.co.uk/articles/vintage_transistors.htm

@Elfnetdesigns

5 жыл бұрын

heat from desoldering will temporarly open the internal shorts "Blow out" but it does not last. They need to be replaced with original parts or silicon with some conversion or the whole unit scrapped. The radios in it's physical condition is not worth full restoration and would be best used for parts to bring another radio back to life..

I've seen many situations where the leads on really old transistors corrode under the solder and loose contact to the PCB or become intermittent. Resolution is to re-solder the semiconductor leads. Just a thought of an old radio guy.

A brief look at a Baked, Toasted, Cooked, Frazzled, Roasted, Seared, Poached, Griddled and completely shot........Sony TR 712 from 1959 !

I can't wait to see how you'll restore that cabinet. Epoxy?

I found a blue one at a flea market. Made in Ireland!!

So most of this older transistor stuff up thru the mid-60's or so has germanium transistors, which could be expensive or even un-obtainable. Especially if the application is higher power like an audio amp. So is it practical to consider re-biasing the given circuit sections for Silicon Transistors over Germanium to return it to functionality? From what I've read is that if the battery voltage is too low it may not work given the higher base-emitter voltage of 0.2V to 0.6V of Silicon. Just looking of an opinion.

Dang. You got her singing. I was gonna' offer you $ for her just to harvest those two audio transformers. ;-)