This old radio should be restored back to its original glory days no Bluetooth

These radios were built and constructed as fine furniture to occupy an honored place within the family home, delivering real-time news and entertainment that print media couldn't do at the time. Glad they're making a comeback as accent pieces!

@tilsonrobotics6859

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mr T 😉

I say make them usable again!!!!

Everyone seems to have bluetooth on the brain. It is a shame the radio was not restored to it's original form WITH OUT BLUETOOTH!

@MrPeaceLock

6 ай бұрын

Because it can only catch AM frequency... Nowadays there are so little AM stations.

@patrickmorrissey2582

5 ай бұрын

I’m sure it’s because people don’t want to spend the money. I have one similar to this but mine has a turntable in it also. I would love to have all three, Bluetooth, am/fm and play records, that would be sweet!

@howardoller443

12 күн бұрын

@@MrPeaceLock There are plenty of AM stations available. I had an old AM-only radio restored and I get stations all around the USA and Canada.

@MrPeaceLock

12 күн бұрын

@@howardoller443 not in Portugal for example

@howardoller443

11 күн бұрын

@@MrPeaceLock Good to know. :)

Very impressive indeed.

@tilsonrobotics6859

9 ай бұрын

Thank you

Great job!

This is exactly what I want to do to the one similar that I have, the only difference is that mine has a built in record player. This is awesome. I will use this as a reference!

@tilsonrobotics6859

5 ай бұрын

Great, I would love to see a picture of it when your done!

I see people fussing about you making the radio blue tooth. And you should make it original. Well I think it's ok to make them original too. But think about it. Even if you have it restored to perfect original condition, the beautiful music that this radio was intended to play just is not there any more. The am band is mostly news and sports talk now, and also th amount of man made noise on the am band is so bad now, that it is going to be near useless to try and use this radio the way it was in the 40s. So I say make it Bluetooth. Then play that beautiful old music and the radio shows like jack Benny. Fibber mc ghee and molly. So many great shows that you will never hear on the modern àm band. I have that same radio set that you are using. Mine used to work many years ago. Now it's just to look at. Blue tooth could give a beautiful radio another chance at life. Please tell me y'all's opinion about what I have said. Rusty in Arkansas

@tilsonrobotics6859

Ай бұрын

Thanks Rusty, I totally agree with what you said, that's exactly why I put Bluetooth in these old radios . Its like having a vintage car with a new sound system in it.

No bluetooth. You can allways attach external bluetooth, to the audio input of this radio If you want. Let the radio be as it was intended.

So did you get the original tube radio and amp working and add the bluetooth as an input, or did you hook the speakers up to a modern amp with the bluetooth? It looks nice.

@tilsonrobotics6859

Жыл бұрын

Just hooked it up to the modern amp, sounds great!

@autouniondkw102

5 ай бұрын

He used a modern amplifier. On the plus side, the original radio chassis is still there. It could be repaired with new capacitors and resistors as required and re used, although a original speaker would need to be sourced. Bluetooth signal can then be fed through the pick up input. Looking at the original chassis, it looks to be a class AB push pull output stage, so it would have quite a bit of power and a bit thumpy.

@stphinkle

2 ай бұрын

@@tilsonrobotics6859 There are different ways of thought on this. Some people insert a modern amp and disconnect the old radio. Others mod the existing radio and run the bluetooth through the tube amplifier by adding a switch and feeding the bluetooth audio signal into the tube amplifier which also sounds good but more vintage. For people that mod the original, it is best to mod models with a power transformer. If you plan to mod a series string amp (such as an AA5), you need to add an isolation transformer.

Well done!

@tilsonrobotics6859

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!