To learn electronics in a very different and effective way, and gain access to Mr Carlson's personal designs and inventions, visit the Mr Carlson's Lab Patreon page here: www.patreon.com/MrCarlsonsLab

@bzuidgeest

2 жыл бұрын

"Tiny Radio Restoration With Detailed Procedure" isn't that a bit of an oxymoron in your case? I have never seen a video of yours that was not "Detailed". Your videos are the longest I know on average.

@michaelkellner6881

2 жыл бұрын

@@bzuidgeest i love crystal-radios. Never had think to see such good description from souch a young guy ( transistor-radio-technics are mostly antiqe old "steam-radio" knowledge, i mostly heard from old veterans in technical museums :). Best way to understand electromagnetism is to study old radios :) Love It. Go on with this ! Greetings from Germany

@bzuidgeest

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelkellner6881 what is young to you? I would not think Mr Carlson young, but that is an estimation as I do not know his birthday

@michaelkellner6881

2 жыл бұрын

@@bzuidgeest Good Question.. mmm Young are all people for me born after 1960s for me :) After the 1960s you have a lot of tranistors ( Silcone-Valley-heaven ) , and fewer people teached on vacuum tubes. With vacuum tubes you can "feel" the electrons running trough the "steam-radio" (analogy). i had seen a radio, build only of a pyrite-stone a coil and a Aquarium ( as a capacitor ).. ( salt in the water ) if you want another frequency, sprinkle more salt in it.. this old Siemens / Phillips-Guys were Crazy ( Amazing ) they played with nature-laws because they learnd it from the root. i am happy if i see people under the age of 70 with such fluent knowledge.

@bzuidgeest

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelkellner6881 there is your problem😀. I was born in 1980. My definition of young is below 25 years old or so. Quite a sliding scale you see. If I had to guess(not my strongest point), I would assume Mr Carlson is of my age or older. Which doesn't qualify him as young to me, but certainly to you.

I find Working on these little guys relaxing even though it requires a lot of patience, concentration and discipline. That's a unique one with the battery in the middle. Appreciate the mention from the master himself!

@MrCarlsonsLab

2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome Shango, you deserve way more subs!

@hadireg

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍🍻

@stevem.1853

2 жыл бұрын

I've done some Google searches on what causes radios to go out of alignment with no satisfactory answers. Is it just aging of components?

@michvod

2 жыл бұрын

​@@stevem.1853 From my experience the ferrite slugs in the IF can slowly lose or change their permeability. This is 1-2% over one decade, but after 50-70 years the effect would be noticeable. Also capacitors in the IF can change their value, sometimes combined with the silver mica disease. There might be also other problems, such as leaky bypass capacitors loading high impedance circuits, or a capacitor going open, etc.

@stevehead365

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevem.1853 It's mostly the phantom twiddler

Wow that brings back memories while riding the school bus to High School back in the early '60s when the transistor was the coolest thing! Senior student, Gary, had just put together a 6 transistor radio from a kit to listen to on the way to school. I was really impressed! At the same time, I was into Ham Radio with all the big heavy stuff to homebrew. Gary later entered the NY State Science Fair that year and won first prize for building a bulky computer with wood dials etc. I built a Tesla Coil from old TV parts, cardboard tubing, and a Model T spark coil. At least I made Honorable mention haha.

@wazza33racer

2 жыл бұрын

Cool is building a working atomic pile in your back yard as an American teenager did a few years ago..........he did however by the Atomic Energy Commissions estimates shorten his lifespan by 20 years........

@derrekvanee4567

2 жыл бұрын

All your transistor bases are belonged to Gary

@waynemasters8673

2 жыл бұрын

@@derrekvanee4567 see above. Hundreds of LEDs in parallel. Autonomous LEDs belong to no one. Have a flying at 100 mph day like my LEDs do. Amelie! Amelie! Hit 'em with that +15 dB b-bass, bb-bass. Amelie Lens! I need my Spica grey 6 transistor radio back! I owe this to my patents because I took apart the one they bought me and I am forever cursed on YouthTube for it/Malcolm McDowell impersonation. Ok and cut! That was a good take. Let's try one more. Oh, untimely death/John Lennon. Hit'em!

I can't get enough of Mr. Carlson's videos. He is like the Bob Ross of vintage electronics

@spytromics

2 жыл бұрын

If Mr. Carlson ever says "happy little trees" during a restoration, that'd be amazing!

@jimjess62

2 жыл бұрын

Amen to that

@edwatts9890

2 жыл бұрын

@@spytromics: Or "happy accident"!

@TheGalaxyhopper

2 жыл бұрын

dah!

As child in the 60's I had a transistor radio and would tune in the Grand Ol' Opry from Nashville on Saturday nights and put the radio under my pillow and drift off to dream with the crackling sweet sounds of the radio waves.

@Bartok_J

2 жыл бұрын

For us in Britain, the station many teenagers listened to in bed was Radio Luxembourg. The BBC played very little pop music back then, and no adverts. Radio Luxembourg did both. ♥

@philmann3476

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bartok_J Yep, in Chicago back then, it was either WLS (890) or WCFL (1000), and that would be in kilocycles, thank you. Guess that old transistor radio under the pillow trick wasn't that uncommon after all.

Shango's channel is fun, he revives so real basket cases with whatever works, he's really good at finding the problems. It's guy's like you that make KZread.

@MrCarlsonsLab

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Orange!

@kyoudaiken

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@hadireg

2 жыл бұрын

so true! hi quality passion & knowledge sharing content! can't thank 'em enough. Very likely whoever know Mr. Carlson's Lab channel will know shango's too.

@waltschannel7465

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. I like forward to you both.

@thomashenden71

2 жыл бұрын

Shango is albeit, a tad 'grumphy', however - it fits with whatever poor treatment the radios and TVs he is restoring, got... Amazing what can be revived, believe that was not before, in the days, as it would be deemed to expensive, even then... :-D

When initially pulled from the case, it reminded me of the old Star Trek communicator.

@thiesenf

2 жыл бұрын

Look at the 6:30 mark... I know that it's the wrong viewing angle but doesn't the upside down logo look actually look like the old time Starfleet logo???

@dogwalker666

2 жыл бұрын

@@thiesenf it does indeed 01:51

@pegtooth2006

2 жыл бұрын

I came here to say this. LOL 🖖

@Falcrist

2 жыл бұрын

YES! The sixties had a very distinctive style! 🖖

@waynegnarlie1

2 жыл бұрын

Too many coincidences here. The prop communicator flip cover had to have been made from the grille of this radio, and the logo proves it beyond a reasonable doubt for me.

What a memory. When I was in 10th grade, (1966) my girlfriend and myself would walk 4 blocks for lunch listening to a Motorola 9 transistor radio about the size you are reviewing. Man did that radio eat a 9 volt battery in about 10 hrs. I would love to find that radio again, as my wife misses it too.

Mr. Carlson is the best part of our day. My husband was in gown and housecoat about to have triple hernia surgery and the Cape Breton Regional Hospital canceled his surgery. Mr. Carlson has brightened his day. Thankyou Mr. Carlson. You make so many people happy.

@MrCarlsonsLab

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind comment Mary, I wish your husband well!

@lauram5905

2 жыл бұрын

Best of luck to you and your Husband, Mary. Best wishes from Halifax!

@iancastleton9052

9 ай бұрын

I have just had hernia surgery and I can confirm Mr Carlson is brightening up my day as I recover!

Doesn't matter big equipment or small radio. You attention to detail is INCREDIBLE.

Cool that you gave Shango a shout out. Both of you have excellent channels!

@jeffkamen2307

2 жыл бұрын

I like that he used Shango's "cap-jumping" troubleshooting method too.

@jeffreymcvey2267

2 жыл бұрын

I learned about Shango from Mr. Carlson during one of the lab tours. I really like the contrast between both of them! They've really help expand my knowledge. Very thankful for that.

@Seiskid

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffkamen2307 Yeah I liked that as well. Its such a great technique but its not one I ever thought of till I saw it done.

Mr.Carlson is the best man out there who explains everything in detail , without any annoying background music. His voice is music to my ears ...Best wishes from Singapore .

@mushtaqobaray7529

11 ай бұрын

They spoil their own videos with distractions from loud music, destroying the very purpose they are showcasing. Pathetic for the audiences patience.

At the beginning when you tried to tune in a station. That noise was today's top 40 you were hearing. BTW, Shango066 brought me here.

Great shoutout to Shango066. He also has an incredible channel.

Love the "Star Trek Symbol" where the battery goes...and how the radio looks a bit like a TOS communicator :)

@tinygriffy

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, sharp eye ! Indeed quite Star Trekky Maybe it was Gene Roddenberrys first radio he listened to scifi radio shows on ^^

@allanrichardson9081

2 жыл бұрын

I only saw it for a minute, but I don’t remember seeing the asymmetrical rear points, or the star in the middle. So I don’t think it’s connected to Star Trek. Interesting coincidence though!

There's no question you would be hard pushed to find anyone with the knowledge and experience of mr Carlson.

wow something different today as usual great

Oh, oh, a tiny one. Usually Mr Carlson is working on the bigger stuff, so this is neat! :)

You and Shango has always been my two favorite radio repair/restore channels.

As obsolete as they are, these tiny radios are still miracles of human ingenuity. Very enjoyable and instructive video. I think you are a genius.

Ah, yes... One thousand _cycles!_ Music to my ancient ears!

I like how Mr Carlson reccommends viewing Shango channel and immideately proceeds to poke a cap into the defective circuit :-D

i love shango! you and him both are national treasures

@l3p3

2 жыл бұрын

*international treasures

@paulgrodkowski3412

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Walczyk! Is Walczyk a Polish name?

@Walczyk

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulgrodkowski3412 yes but i am just an american with a polish grandfather!

Came here from Shango066 channel and not disappointed. Thanks.

I used to repair lots of these radios starting when I was a 12 year old. My Dad taught me from the age of 8 when he bought me a "Denshi Block" electronics kit for my Birthday. Brings back the memories! Many thanks indeed Mr Carlson.

Thank You for mentioning Shango. His channel led me to yours. Been watching you both for years.

I discovered Shango's channel a few years ago because I like vintage TVs and I like repair videos (and I like to repair vintage electronics). First I was reluctant to watch the radio repairs as I thought they would be kinda boring (and they often are kinda long), but Shango's sarcastic comments, his way of trolling phone scammers and his mumble rap always make my day. Better than most of what's on TV. Some other similar channels worth checking out are radiotvphononut and Jordan Pier.

Hello, Mr. Carlson, I'm a huge fan of your videos, (and Shangos as well) and I've been working on electrically restoring old vacuum tube radios and amplifiers and what not since I was 13 years old and I'm now 32 years old (going to be 33 in a couple of weeks on the 27th of September). I just recently finished working on an old Scott 299-D Stereo Integrated Amplifier and Also a Bogen AP-30 Stereo Integrated amp, and both of them supposedly had the same issue which was bad humming, well it turned out to be an issue with missing tube shields on the 12AX7 preamp tubes and speaker wires that were grounding each other out. The Scott which actually had an issue other than humming turned out to be an issue with bad coupling caps on the output tubes and a shorted coupling cap on one of the phase inverter tubes, so I replaced those capacitors and the amp just came to life. The Scott was actually having issues with one of the output tubes in the left channel red plating and arcing and and no audio, I repaired that issue and then the right channel (which was working previously) decided to die, and that was because the 4 MFD 450V Electrolytic coupling cap for the right channel's phase inverter tube (6GH8A tube) had gone open, I repaired that and now its working fine. I also worked on a 1950 Zenith Trans-Oceanic Radio model G-500 that all I had to do with that was repair the dial string and that's it, its still working on all of its original parts yet including filter caps and tubes. Have you worked on any of those aforementioned units before? If so I would love to see the videos of those repairs.

That buzz at 2:04 awakened a forgotten memory from the 60's of a battery-powered bicycle horn/buzzer. Instead of a thumb-operated handlebar bell, one could warn others by pressing on a black button, and the wired, front-fendered contraption would go eeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! similar to that radio beep.(BTW Shango brought me here)

Everything else aside, that's just a really attractive little radio - it just looks smart. What a nice piece of industrial design.

A very long time ago, I built a Sinclair 'Micromatic' Pocket Radio. It was actually so small that after a couple of days it disappeared. I had put it somewhere and searched frantically but never found it again. True story. Very nice that someone is showing these old small transistor radios the love they deserve.

@johnnytacokleinschmidt515

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry you lost your radio! Was it ever found?

@kentbetts

2 жыл бұрын

I built the Sinclair scientific calculator in 1968. It had trig and log, sq root. Kit cost was about $69. At the time it was a very powerful calculator and quite a useful device. It was about a third of the size of this AM radio in the video. 5 digit fixed decimal with 2 digits of exponents of 10.

@nevillegoddard4966

Жыл бұрын

@@kentbetts Yeah I remenber longingly reading the ads for those Sinclair calculator kits! It was probly in the late 70's or early 80's. It would have been so cool to build my own calculator at the time. Wasn't there a Sinclair (8 bit!) microcomputer kit around then too? ZX80 maybe. Geez before that I'd been programming the 'Canon Canola (100?)' micro computer with Canon cardboard punch cards about the size of a bookmark. Each line of code on the punch card had 7 or 8 little rectangles that could be pressed out & removed to represent a zero, etc! The teacher would give us a paperclip we would open out to push the little squares out. We had a folder to look up all the commands & codes. I remember the frustration if I punched out the wrong one! D'oh! Syntax or punchcard reader errors invoked an annoying message if you got it wrong. It might have been early assembly language, but we still had to convert it all to binary for the cards! Ancient history now!

... Wow!... I had almost the exact same radio which my Mum & Dad bought for me around 1960 from a shop very near Kings Cross Station England... that little beauty was my pride and joy... a time when 'Made in Japan' was seen as like 'Made in China' is today... my, how things have changed

Shango is the real deal, colourful and competent. Rare breed

When I was about 8 years old back in the early 1960's My Uncle Don who worked at Sylvania gave me one of these transistor radios for Christmas. I was amazed with it and it became a fascination for radio for the rest of my life. Including becoming a HAM. Thanks Mr Carlson. Well done as usual....

@MrCarlsonsLab

2 жыл бұрын

Your very welcome BP.

Good shout out to Shango. I enjoy his videos regularly, along with Radiophononut's. Thanks again for the doing these videos, and peace :)

Delighful FLEETWOOD radio , and equally delighting you spent time showing us and fixing Mr Carlson.... brilliant

Love these 60s transistor radios. I remember getting a similar one in '65 and it was like a youngster today getting an iPod or iPhone - it brought 'personal' to music and allowed a generation to listen to 'their' music. Didn't expect to see one on Mr Carson's Capacitor Channel :)

Very well done Paul. I have always liked the amount of detail that you put into your restoration videos.

Nooo !! Not Duracell please, I haven’t seen one that haven’t leaked acid. Plz use Energizers, less likely to leak or better yet rechargeables. Thanks for doing this restore and link to someone that also do this. Love your work !!!

@graxjpg

2 жыл бұрын

Workaholics are my favorite!

@douro20

2 жыл бұрын

I use heavy duty batteries in all of my vintage transistor radios.

@davidwalle5025

2 жыл бұрын

I have had better results with the cheap hf batteries than duracell.

@WitchidWitchid

2 жыл бұрын

I used to work for Duracell back in the 1980s. Every now and then we'd get a bunch of leakers from the plant and jlhave to figure out what went wrong. The stuff that leaks out is electrolyte. Its not an acid but rather as strong alkali base, I.e.pottasium hydroxide

so much fun to hear and see a truly professional do a good job describing circuit function and restoration work.

This is one of your best. Not only fixing but keeping to original. Great job!!!

I love these videos, such a great variety in your material. This particular one reminded me of a day maybe 45 years ago when I was trying to trace an underground 220V 60 amp service cable to my house. I didn't have a line locator so after some head scratching I grabbed a cheap AM radio and put it near a line source and tuned it till I heard the 60 hz buzz. I turned on the electric oven to create a large amp draw and went outside and started sweeping the radio with the bar antenna down back and forth near the ground till I heard the 60 hz buzz and started marking and walking and sweeping. It worked like a charm! I felt half-way smart that day solving a problem with a simple hack. Thanks for the nice memory!

@TheGalaxyhopper

2 жыл бұрын

you guys know all the "tricks"!

Interesting seeing Mr. Carlson taking on a project this small. My husband has a Toshiba 6TP-309 from 1959 I think? Likely it needs new caps. In Canada the same radio was also sold as Seabreeze.

Awesome! My grandfather carried that radio around with him everywhere. I remember sitting outside with him watching the sun set while listening to Cincinnati Reds games on that trusty little guy!

I loved my blackberry AM radio from Radio Shack. I listened to it countless hours, I wish I still had it.

Thank you so much for sharing this! I had that same radio when I was a kid. I got it early 80's at a yard sale and it worked perfectly. I don't know where it wound up, but I used it through the 80s and vividly remember listening to it while fishing. I can't get rid of things like I used to. They are treasures, now. This was a real treat to see and such a blast from my past!

Great video Mr Carlson. I remember having several 6 transistor radios very similar to this one back in the mid 60's. I would listen to the pirate stations broadcasting from ships in international waters around the UK. Radio Caroline North / South, Radio London, Radio 270 and Radio Luxembourg. I would constantly tweak the IF stages to get the best signal possible. Unfortunately I only had a metal screwdriver and would crack the ferrite cores. Usually just as it was out of tune! And they would always put that annoying wax in there to make the job even more difficult. That's the reason I went through so many "trannies." Happy days being 11 years old at the time...

Nice that they didn't leave an old 9 volt battery inside to corrode everything. This especially good because it is placed right in the middle of the radio. Looks NOS. BTW Shango is da man!👍🏻 I always appreciate the electronics knowledge demonstrated by both Mr. C and Shango! My tower computer and flat screen TV both have SMPS's and play havoc with my bathroom radio on the AM band. So I usually listen to FM on it instead.

You and Shango are my only sources for this stuff well done both of you!

Cool little radio Paul. Nice to show the thought process on troubleshooting this. Shango does have interesting videos. Thanks for sharing.

@jockoharpo2622

Жыл бұрын

Who is Paul?

What a cute little radio. It looks like a Star Trek Communicator! I love Shango's channel as well. How cool that two of my favorite electronics channels are friends. If I was a millionaire It'd be so cool to throw a bunch of money at Mr. Carlson and commission him to make some "cost no object" tube amplifiers and watch him design and build it on his channel. How fun would that be? or not IDK.

Very nice job Paul! In my oipinion you are the guy for a perfect restoration of old equipment and shango is the guy for analyzing what went wrong and do the minimum to get it back running. On an educational level I find both of you to be amazing teachers and craftmen on a very high level. Greetings, Michael

I love this channel and channels like it. Hell, I have learned a lot about modern electronics, even through your bringing back to life old equipment. But, by watching you rebuild and repair old electronics and their much more simple circuits, it helps make modern stuff seem less complicated.

It is so interesting to see how you go about fixing these old radios... The schematic inside the radio was a nice touch by the manufacturers forward thinking that their radios would be serviced and kept operational past it's purchase... today's electronics are just the opposite: they are intentionally obfuscated, some are potted, part numbers are erased, digital components encrypted or JTAG fuses blown, etc. There's no way in... And a schematic? Ha! No chance... You have to buy a new one, and surprise! There's a new model with a different style (and incompatible) connectors with likely new and incompatible software so you have to buy everything all new again! Lather, Rinse, Repeat...

@MrCarlsonsLab

2 жыл бұрын

Well said Ray!

@KallePihlajasaari

2 жыл бұрын

The reason why we we want right to repair formally recognised.

@jamesmdeluca

2 жыл бұрын

Greetings: Any chance you are the famous JRM from Compact Satellite Services?

@raymitchell9736

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmdeluca no sorry, I guess my name is very common.

@8NTITGR8

2 жыл бұрын

Q

Yay, I knew it was going to be a good day.

I think my grandad has one of those! Wonderful restoration as always, Mr. Carlson!

Hi Paul, great job. As you know, I like to restoration videos the best, you are THE master of electronics. You Paul, as I expect the best from you and you never disappoint. Great installation on the webs and look forward to more from the new Lab. Take care Paul and thank you.

Love yours and Shango's videos. Keep up the good work.

@MrCarlsonsLab

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Back in the day they were called "transistor radios." I had several in the 60s and 70s. Thanks for the video.

@nevillegoddard4966

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes we'd just call them 'transistors'! "Hey mate don't forget to bring your transistor with ya to the beach!...".

I really appreciate the fact that your quick explanations of different aspects of what you are looking for. Sad as it sounds, I actually learned a few things from you today. Thank You as always for sharing!

I had one of these Fleetwood transistor radios, including the leather case w/handle. 👴 Shango, Glasslinger, Dave Tipton, Mr. Carlson-- incredible.

You're actually missing several zeros with modern microprocessors. The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (which was introduced 2 years ago and is not even the top model) has 10 billion transistors. It really is incredible to see how much that has progressed...

@pedrosmith221

2 жыл бұрын

And yet, I saw a video of someone PROBING a single transistor. Search for "Unreal Precision - Analyzing a Single TSMC 7nm Transistor". Mindblowing.

shango's a legend, if jesus had a chassis he could bring him back from the grave

@tinygriffy

2 жыл бұрын

I have a rack and I am ready to be recapped.. sufficient ?

Excellent repair job, thanks for showing the whole procedure. Congratulations..

Shango's channel is what got me watching vintage tech restoration videos. Its great that the skills still exist to service this stuff. I bet modern tech won't be being serviced in 50+ years from now. Anyone making these videos deserves respect as they're documenting what will probably become a lost skillet.nice to know that people still care about this stuff. Most modern tech isn't designed to be repaired by anyone as it's regarded as disposable.

Mr Carlson, So on the schematic, which cap was it that went bad?

@Drottninggatan2017

2 жыл бұрын

Good question. Might it be one of the things marked 30M and has a striped symbol?

@eDoc2020

2 жыл бұрын

@@Drottninggatan2017 I think so. Based on the description of how it connects it must be the one on the bottom towards the left. EDIT/Addendum: it's the one right above the word "battery".

i bought a mini Tube radio for my wife but it requires a weird battery voltage and it does not have a AC adaptor although there is port for one. After seeing this video I am getting itchy to see if this radio could be brought back and updated. I will search for a Schematic and see what else I can learn about it. Really do appreciate your postings. You are like a Technology Minister! calm and deliberate with a clear mission, figure out how it works, evaluate how it is performing and see what needs to enhanced or repaired. Very Professional. Thank You, D

That brought back a lot of memories; Thanks! 6 transistor radios were the mid to high end portables. The five & dime stores (equivalent to today's dollar stores) sold 2 transistor radios. The signal would go through each transistor several times at different frequencies. They were tolerable in big cities where the AM stations were nearby and had 50 KW transmitters.

This radio is smaller than my wife's heart but is bigger than my mother in law's brain! I'm sure many of you can relate:-) L.

Shango66 channel is cool but .radiotvphononut's Channel is even cooler especially when hes discussing ups and the post office ha ha .but mr C has the tidest bench

@WxWaterFire

2 жыл бұрын

And *the* best audio. Anywhere.

@shaunsiz.itsbetterbytube2858

2 жыл бұрын

@@WxWaterFire I am at a bit of loss on the best audio bit . did you mean the best audience regards shaun

@Af00112

2 жыл бұрын

@@shaunsiz.itsbetterbytube2858 No- the best audio quality! It's something many of us have noted in his videos.

@shaunsiz.itsbetterbytube2858

2 жыл бұрын

@@Af00112 👍

Mr Carlson, you have just brought back the memories I had when I was a teenager working on the summer job at radio manufacturing factory in Hong Kong, thanks a bunch

@MrCarlsonsLab

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Albert!

Hello, Mr. Carlson's Lab, as I just wanted to say that I highly enjoyed your electrolytic capacitor surgery on that vintage 6 transistor pocket portable! Both the capacitor readings and the alignment procedures were both informative for me personally-speaking! Your radio repair took me back to the 60s as a young boy when I used to go beyond just replacing batteries out of curiosity as to what made the radio work, i.e., transformers, tuning capacitor, capacitors, resistors, & so forth! I would end up breaking my radio(s) whereas my parents were very reluctant to repair and/or replace my radios! LOL! I plan on enjoying your KZread channel indeed! Thanks...

Loved every minute of this. even though I don’t really understand radios yet, you are helping me get there!

Loved the repair, excellent troubleshooting. Reminds me of when I was a kid in the late 50s and I would go to the salvation army junk piles where they would toss out things that were not a quick fix and I would get them home and work on them, with my little VOM from Lafayette electronics, I am long since retires with an MS in EE, What I learned as a kid served me well all my life.

Really brings me back to my youth. I had a number of those tiny transistor radios, used them till they quit working, then tore them apart and soldered the wires back on ( battery ones were always the first to go). Miss those days!

No matter how small the repair Mr. Carlson makes it interesting.

I am just amazed on the attention to details the old transistor radios possed. Even the cover on most were made from leather. Hard to believe that such small touches made such a difference in the look and feel of the product. I still have my first AM and FM radio which plays just fine. Would bet you everything I own and my life that today's product quality will never be that stellar. Nice work Mr. Carlson's Lab. Thank you for educating us on this type of products.

Very interesting and helpful. I have couple that I am working on. Thank you Mr. Carlson for another GREAT segment.

I love working on the small transistor radios. I got my first one in 1970 when I was 12 yo. I restore them, then put them on a shelf.My favorite is an old Arvin c. 1960. It plays great. I enjoyed this video very much. I also have been subscribed to Shango66 for several years now.

Another cool one Paul. Quality in a tiny package. Thanks!

I agree with Shango066, you are a master. Watching you work is mesmerizing. How is that much knowledge contained in one brain? Truly amazing.

Mr. Carlson's videos are always great. Looking forward to see more tiny radios with full adjustment!! One ting to have in account is to check the consuption of the output differential pair, those germanium transistors are prone to leak!!!

I really enjoyed your repair. I learned some things from your repair. thank you very much.

What a great bit of deja vú from back in the day and even prior. Who all remembers homebrewing with PNP germanium transistors like the Raytheon CK-718 (predecessor to the venerable CK-722)? And the first hobby grade RF transistor, the CK-768? Thanks for the memories Sir!

This is just incredible! These videos were something that I have always been looking for! Ever since the first time that I have seen the inside of a radio and saw all of the parts inside I always wondered how they work. Now I see that sometimes these parts fail and need to be repaired or replaced. I am sure that it takes a lot of scientific knowledge to know how to troubleshoot and fix these things and even more knowledge to originally design and make these radios and the components inside. Lots and lots of scientific knowledge. Thank you to this guy in the video and to KZread for making it available.

You analog guys always amaze me. I never understood it completely, but digital was no big deal.

in 1969, my grandfather got me a small transistor radio. They were proud of transistors because it said "Transistor Radio" on it. It worked fine. I wish I still had it.

Nice "little" restore! Thanks for the link to Shango. He does in interesting restores too!

Back in the 1970's took a correspondance class in electronics & color TV. Put together a 25" Heathkit TV, O scope, tube & transistor tester and a radio like the one you have. Everything worked but the radio. Only got static on it and never spent any time on think they called it alignment. Asame that young people now a days never learn to solder or use a basic meter. Every Christmas used to put 2 sets of train tracks with 4 switches and lights inside plasticville buidings together. Started playing with trains around 8 years old. My electrician dad would draw a picture then explain how to do it. Luckily the low voltage side of train transformer had a circuit breaker that tripped when I wired something wrong ( dead short ). Great vid.

I thought an approach between Shango and Mr. Carlson would never be possible. So different techniques to vintage electronic repairs, but so didactic in both cases. I like to see my different tastes converge hehe

Nice video. I have been working in the satellite communications industry for the last 22 years. This kind of thing is right up my alley. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from overseas. ~Mike

Thanks for giving Shango066 a shout out!

Beautiful specimen. Love those AM radios.

Mr Carlson you're making the impossible, possible. Thank you.

Absolutely brilliant little radio I had something similar as a kid! Nice work

A fascinating video, it transported me back in time to when my new wife and I where living with her folks and our new son was at the foot of our bed, as he slept wife and I would listen to a small miniature blue radio to radio station Luxembourg playing the 'Fool on the hill' by a famous band. A great video with a wonderful unexpected time travel experience. Thank you!

Thank you for this nice radio restoration tutorial! Hope to follow again soon. Greetings from Lima - Peru -South America.

Oh wow I had one in the 70’s and loved it … I would listen to it at midnight when Art Bell was on…. Great stuff

Funny I remember struggling with spectral analysis back in uni, I just could not visualise it using modern programs... And here is a video showing it so clearly.

I am a regular viewer of Shango, love his comedic way of work. When my eldest sister was taken by brain cancer her daughter brought me a small box of those little radios. I rehabbed 5 of the seven, two were beyond my capability and are laying in a pile of parts stuff. They are fun to play with though.