Thank you for your kind words. You haven’t said where you are located. In Canada, generally speaking these receivers tend to command higher prices than the prices I’ve seen for similar units in the United States. I’m sure the prices there also vary by location, and local supply and demand. If I recall, I paid about $100 for mine. As you saw it didn’t need much work or materials, but be aware that you’re buying a piece of 45 year-old equipment which may develop problems or require recapping, new bulbs, etc. I would tell you that if you’re in the Greater Toronto Area, $100 seems fair. Yes, you might be able to find a comparable receiver at a garage sale for less but that would be pure luck. I just checked on Facebook marketplace and at this moment, there are two of these units for sale within 60km and the (asking) prices are $400 and $500 which I think is outrageous. The STA-78 a good-sounding decently powered receiver, and it is from the golden era of analog receivers. I would seriously consider it for $100 if you’re permitted to thoroughly test it first.

LOL. I had been stubbornly relying on my spirit level and T-square when measuring and cutting. There’s no point using these tools when the builder didn’t. I think he and his workers were more than mildly inebriated for much of the construction!

For a man who owns more vintage televisions than I can count, I also don’t watch much TV. I get much of my entertainment from KZbin or on DVD’s. In terms of TV servicing I sometimes watch Shango66 but I prefer (and would recommend) bandersentv as he is extraordinarily knowledgeable and has access to TV’s that are very rarely seen in Canada. I still have my vinyl but I must confess I don’t listen to them as much as I used to, often giving in to the convenience of digital electronics. But when I do, I don’t hear the scratches and hiss as “sonic imperfections” rather they are part of the analogue experience.

Thank you for the compliment and suggestions. I may try a warmer white lamp in the bathroom but I have to see how I feel about the 4000K for a while. All my bedrooms are 2700K and I like the warmth. Where you would suggest the grommets? I like your idea about frosting the glass. I've never done that and may give it a try. My house was built in 1864 and was originally built without bathrooms but 4 rooms in the attic (garret) for servant's quarters. Those rooms are now "galleries". If you're interested, I did two videos on one of them ("Renovation of my West Attic").

@@Mr.BrownsBasement Warm white is more comfortable the colour from Gas mantles is a higher temperature but has a nice blue/green component not match is modern lamps. I am in the UK and we stuffed the servants in the basement and the kids in the Attic nursery, there are 48 stairs between the two !. My house has only had 3 owners and is very much as was built, the Butlers pantry is still as was with call bells and huge dresser but full of detritus from items saved from destruction over the years. I will sort through it some day, the fitting you have is the style used in a porch and in some cases made of bronze. It looks more Arts and Craft than Victorian. My Lounge light originally had Gas mantles and was suspended on a counterbalance so the height could be adjusted, it had 6 jets !. It is of course converted to Electric but before LED it consumed 360 Watts but now 36 so my Electricity bill is much reduced. The house originally had 53 gas jets then mantles. I will take a nose at your other video. Best wishes from the UK

@@WOFFY-qc9te The history of old houses is fascinating and you are indeed lucky to live in one. My family is the 2nd owner of this house after the builder's with my grandparents buying it in about 1926. They threw away nothing, so I have spent literally the past 25+ years sifting through the interesting and unusual furniture, furnishings and ephemera but also stuff at the other end of the spectrum. And like your house, there are lots and lots and lots of stairs from the attic (garret) to the basement (cellar). It's a good workout going up & down. I hope you enjoy the videos. Best wishes from South / Southwestern Ontario, CANADA.

@@Mr.BrownsBasement Good afternoon, what a nice description of your home, I / we are indeed fortunate to have a roof over our heads and even more blessed that they are homes with soul. I have lived here for nearly forty years at first as a tenant of a run down house and now the owner of house and land. I took it on myself to keep ahead of natures influences as the owner Peter was getting on and had no family or interest in the house just enjoying retirement with his wife, a decent chap and sadly missed. Pete left part of the house to me and I bought the remainder from the estate after many years of unnecessary games to get me out. I just didn't want to think about sorting and moving all my stuff and the house deserved a future. The basement was abandoned in WWII and was used as a workshop and a place where Pete's Father would make films. There are still DIY studio bits a pieces and Celluloid film cans ! ???? and a Morison shelter which was a kit of quart inch steel angles and plate big enough to squeeze four people in for a short time during bombing, Pete's dad used it for a work bench and it still has a belt driven lathe in place. The first casualty of the war was just up the road from me as my house was on the west to east bomb track for Cammell Laird shipbuilders Birkenhead or Liverpool docks over the river Mersey, the Luftwaffe occasionally got there maths wrong and would drop a 'stick' of bombs early especially if under attack from the 'Duck pond' gun battery up the road from me. The house opposite and the church were casualties, my roof was lifted and landed two inches out of place, now I have replaced the wooden roof plates so now sits squarely on the walls. Amazingly the original sash window glass is in place, the bedroom window is plate glass and so large that the sash has steel ropes. The walls are locally fired clay brick from the quarry that became the duck pond and has lime mortar the well fired bricks used for outside walls the weaker ones inside and for the foundations the plaster is two inches thick and now mostly back contact with the brick ?. The house has thirteen fire places not all used but most still in place, must have been a big job keeping those as the coal bunker is huge. The servants lived in the basement and the kids in the attic this house was built just when live in servants were declining but they still kept up the 'stuffy' Victorian attitudes even though they were no longer wealthy. You say your in Canada, the weather there is too say the least robust, I expect your house is brick with timber partitions and casements probably 'central air' heating (I have yet to explore your channel so behind the ball). Mine is no part hydronic but I use dehumidifiers to keep the lime plaster from drawing in moisture. The house is comfortably ventilated ha ha but dry and more healthy that the modern stock which is stuffy. Some house like mine are now double glazed with PVC, this is the worst thing you can do to a Victorian house, wood is best as for the gaps in the sash windows they get a roll of toilet paper in November. I have many photographs of things fixed and problems to be sorted, as I no longer have any family google sends me daily reminders of my companions Banjo, Cooper and Indi (English Pointers) with the occasional photograph of broken tile, leaks or damaged plaster etc etc etc ........ Back to your light fitting which you 'resurrected' without destroying its age I wish more restorers made use of wax instead of lacquer. I rebuilt the porch a few years ago, the sandstone lintels had failed and the six columns ten foot by eighteen inches with Doric/Greek Ionic capitals ! (translated from metric for you) had moved so the whole shows was succumbing to gravity. All was dismantled and rebuilt with the columns now supporting timber lintels with a slate roof and plastered ceiling. To top it of I made up a lamp fitting from scraps of bronze and and old Arts and Crafts fitting, after many adjustments to the chains I am happy with the job. One link can be too little or too much. I hope you and your commenters find this interesting, you and I know that homes like ours are full of little clues to past and I think we both feel a duty to keep things true and honest as we are just custodians of a house. Very best wishes to Canada, Liverpool have a special understanding and gratitude to the courage of those no longer here. For further information on the Battle of the Atlantic have a look at Western Approaches on You Tube. A friend of mine repainted the large convoy map.

Your house sounds spectacular and is probably much larger than mine. I am very grateful that my grandparents’ house and much of its contents stayed in the family and ultimately to me as her custodian. It was not without disasters though. In 1996 the furnace failed or the radiators couldn’t keep up with the frigid winter temperatures. The pipes froze and caused many tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of damage. The house was one step from demolition. I’m relieved we didn’t go that route. That was the end of the oil furnace and radiators, as they had all split. The scope of the damage was heart-breaking, and to add insult to injury, it was not a loss that could be covered by insurance. All that damage has since been repaired and I have gas/forced air heating now. The house is double brick construction. The brick was made locally. There were never any fireplaces. The house was originally heated by various wood-burning stoves connected to the 3 chimneys. The interior partitions are all 2x4’s or larger, and really are 2” x 4”, not the spindly 1.5” x 3.5”’s that are called “2x4’s”today. The front porch had ornate columns but they were rotted beyond repair and have been replaced by simple fluted columns. The roof was originally cedar shakes but is now asphalt. I don’t think it was designed to support slate. While my father was growing up, the cellar had an earth floor that routinely flooded. Now I have concrete floor (and sump pumps with a dehumidifier) which keep it dry and clean. I do appreciate you taking the time & care to share details of something so special to you and the steps you have taken to keep it presentable and preserved for the future.

Thanks. But I think there is an unhealthy relationship between some of the bulbs stored in the basement.

Elegant solution!

It's hard to do a diagnosis remotely… but here goes: If the sound goes out it could be a bad connection but more likely it's a bad part. The schematics are really helpful. You can Google & download them and follow the signal path as you read my answer. The audio leaves the large CPU chip at U6 on pins 1 and 2. From there, it's coupled to an inverter by a small 1µF capacitor into an inverter. Next the signal goes to a transistor in the RF modulator (the silver box) and then is coupled by another 1µF capacitor inside the RF modulator straight to the audio out RCA plug. Do you have good audio there? If not, I'd replace both 1µF capacitors, and if that didn't fix it, the transistor (marked C1740; it's a 2SC1740). If the signal is good to that point, there is another 2SC1740 transistor before the RF-Out. Another option for you if you don't have a soldering iron is just to buy a replacement motherboard. I believe iFixit sells them for around $25 USD. I hope this helps… let me know!

@@Mr.BrownsBasement thank you so much friend, I don't know much about it as deep as you do. Now if I just replace the motherboard that will fix everything right? If so where could I get it? If you have a link maybe you could send that to me. Again thank you Mr Brown for all your help. I also see that I can buy the A/V replacement module. Could that fix it also?

Replacing the motherboard is about 90% of what’s inside the machine. If you get a working motherboard you will have a working machine. I just checked iFixit ( www.ifixit.com/products/nintendo-nes-001-motherboard ) and they are currently out of stock. They were selling them for only $25 which was a very good price. It’s not surprising that they’re all gone. The repair you need is not difficult. If you know someone with electronics troubleshooting skills they could fix it for you inexpensively. Even if all the related capacitors had to be replaced along with the two transistors, the total cost in parts would be under $3. I’d caution you against buying a motherboard off eBay unless the seller warranties their boards; while most sellers are reputable I’ve run into a few who are not. Are you in the Greater Toronto Area?

@@Mr.BrownsBasement no sir I'm located in Raleigh NC

@BlackOutlaw_ It was worth asking…

It’s a hidden surprise waiting for an unsuspecting repair person - especially for a person accustomed to solid state (i.e., low voltage) electronics. You’re right, it can really hurt!

Tell me about it! We were using this great big antique TV with a wooden enclosure (yes, THAT antique) as a power supply, and that thing would shock us multiple times after we powered it down even if we shorted it first. Those huge old capacitors were the poly chlorinated byphenol type and they would hold a residual charge for days. Built back when our stuff was meant to last. We learned pretty quick to hang a fat load resistor between the terminals for a few minutes after a run before we handled it. That thing was ROWDY.

Oil capacitors could be anywhere though I have seen them mostly in military gear. It’s possible the set you were working on also had a “doorknob capacitor” lurking underneath the HV rectifier socket. They look innocent enough but they backup whatever is stored in the CRT. As soon as I see one I know to keep my hands far far away. Hanging a bleeder on it is a great idea. Those big old CRTs also were an implosion hazard. I get nervous whenever I have to handle them.

@@Mr.BrownsBasement first time over heard of doorknob capacitors. I'll have to look that up. It was 20 years ago when I was fiddling with those crts. The only thing I can really remember is the pain. Haha

@jonnyphenomenon The old ceramic ones really do look like doorknobs. And with a typical capacity of 500pF to 1000pF at 15 to 20kV they should come with their own warning label!

My pleasure. 😊

Thank you. No, I’m sorry I have no info on the spring. Here’s my suggestion: Check the service manual to see if the spring was a separately orderable part. if it was, you can get the part number. With the part number, you may be able to see which other Walkmans (or Sony products) had the same spring. If it was shared with other units, you may be able to pick up an inexpensive parts donor.

LOL 😂. Yes, a crime fighter needs a good night’s sleep and freedom from random duct cleaning scam calls.

I'm not surprised - given what a poor fencer he was.

I was recently told that the black disk that I scratched (😕) can be easily lifted with alcohol. When I summon the courage to try again, I have 2 OM-1’s that need the foam removed from their pentaprisms. It’s worth a try, and I hope it’s true. If so, it may help to improve your score… and mine!

Thank you for your kind words. I enjoy making videos and I hope it shows. Our good neighbours to the south often don’t know much about our vintage electronics. I’m hoping to change that. Honestly, I wish I had begun making videos a long time ago before completing some of my more spectacular Canadian sets. But going forward, more electronic Canadiana coming soon!

Thank you for your kind words. I want to respect a piece’s original design. I try to approach my repairs with pragmatism, trying to functionally and aesthetically refresh the piece without erasing the essential patina. On the topic of handling asbestos in the context of vintage equipment repair, it may merit a video (or “short”) of its own! I’ve dealt with asbestos pads like that before and follow a very similar process that you suggest to safely remove them. There are so many aspects of vintage tv/radio repair that sometimes I find it hard to stay on topic. It’s too easy to veer off and end up with a meandering video with no clear narrative. With this video I almost fell into this trap. I appreciate your comments and criticism and will try to improve the quality of my work.

Metalized film is great. You don’t have to replace. The refurb should be very straightforward, basically one electrolytic and the Corotron. Don’t forget to check the resistors as they may have drifted out of tolerance. You should be up & running in no time!

QT 100 software required macOS 7.1 + ‘020 processor (or later) and QT 200 software required macOS 7.5 + ‘040 processor.

@Mr.BrownsBasement did you see there was a guy who reverse engineered the quicktake 100 for the apple ii. I literally saw that after making this comment

@That_hasselblad_guy That’s hilarious! I love it. Please reply with the link!

I really appreciate your comments. I honestly cringed when I was reminded of the "other" mnemonic and was totally gobsmacked that the vast majority thought that it was okay. I guess old attitudes die slowly, much more slowly than I had thought. Your words of support do matter. Thank you.

It’s a decently performing unit. Not the most powerful but will drive speakers to fill a smaller space with more sound than you will probably need. Finding one in good shape shouldn’t be hard and won’t break the bank. Thanks for the comment!

Agreed, not something that should be taught in school!

Yes, I've heard the version of the mnemonic with anti-Black racism cooked in with the Misogyny. I'm so glad we finally have legislation to deal with it: Section 319 of the Criminal Code ("Inciting and Promoting Hatred")

After dealing with about an hour of really negative and unpleasant comments today, it's a pleasure (and relief) to read yours. Thank you, sincerely.

Agreed, a word is not equal to its act. Talking about rape is not the same as going out and raping someone. But words reveal an attitude. In this case, making light of it isn't treating rape as a serious crime. According to (supportingsurvivors.humboldt.edu/statistics#:~:text=An%20estimated%2091%25%20of%20victims,are%20female%20and%209%25%20male.) 91% of rape is perpetrated against women. I'm sure you don't hear a lot of women joking about it. So why are men joking about it?

Everyone here understands that the word is being used in a different context. Everyone also understands that if I say "I'm going to murder my brother for scratching my car", it's quite separate from actual murder. But murder has never been normalised, while rape has been. People don't contend with shame and guilt when reporting a murder. Police forces aren't notoriously uninterested in investigating murder. No-one dismisses murder as "20 minutes of action". There haven't been laws which say that murder is ok if the killer is married to the murdered party. The odds of being murdered are pretty damn low. We don't trivialise or normalise murder so using the word in a different context isn't problematic. Rape is trivialised irl. If we want to change that, we can start by not trivialising it in conversation.

If that was even remotely tru 4:48 you would have a higher rapist rate among poeple working with that chart ? because in your logic they treat it is casual act. You are mixing casual use OF THE WORD vs the act it self yes word can have some long time effect to shape the brain perception but you are almost calling out poeple rapist and misogyn for just saying the word at some point you need intent and action and that part is missing in your electrical circuit

Well put. Thank you.

It sounds to me that your teacher had misgivings about the memory aid. I wonder then why he chose to teach it to you.

Very good advice. Thank you for your comment.

A very interesting and poignant comment; " labelled him as something to the effect of being too book smart and or having no common sense. These young men stole the gentleman's satchel, spat on it and placed it into the garbage when he was not aware of their movements. " That was me in 1962, then made worse when my middle English accent and was made fun of at a new school in the north of England. However when the uncouth individuals got themselves in a pickle it was my skill in negotiation and use of language which saved them a beating, they eventually learnt to be more respectful as I could without foul language or violence (not my thing) humiliate them among there peers, this proved to be an effective deterrent. As for colour codes, for a young mind to take on such strong programming stating unsociable and disrespectful actions hard wires the subconscious in a very harmful way. When I look at a resistor I still hear those distasteful words. "The collective and persistent presence of these contradictions in our environment tends to normalize them." So true

If I win I’ll need a vice-president if you’re available.

I’m glad this North American thing didn’t make it across the pond. I agree with you: totally inappropriate. But a surprising number of comments defend this mnemonic, including a quite a number of insulting and disrespectful comments I’ve deleted.

Not a problem. I will make sure I never see another one of your videos.

Thank you for keeping your comment respectful.

My videos are driven by my interests and suggestions made to me by viewers. Thank you for your suggestion.

Your comment is interesting and I hope you'll forgive me for taking a couple of hours to think about it. "Equity" means being fair and impartial. That's all it means. That's it. I assume that YOU prefer to be treated with fairness. Please correct me if I'm wrong. You DO prefer to be treated fairly by your teachers, bosses, employers and by the police. Is the issue that treating someone ELSE with fairness somehow costs you something? In your comment, you mention "disadvantaged" people. Do you mean people who aren't treated fairly? Would you want to trade your place with someone who is "disadvantaged"?

Thank you for your compliment. You’re right, a mnemonic only works if it’s remembered. But is this particular mnemonic SO special and SO good that it should still be used to the exclusion of others that don’t contain references to sexual assault?

@@Mr.BrownsBasement I've heard various versions over the years, but I don't remember any of them. Maybe it's because I heard that one first. There is a lot of talk these days about this is offensive, or that is offensive, people have gotten weary of it. I think it comes down to how you internalize it. I don't, it's just a silly mnemonic. But I don't mind if others do. Have you heard the one, There was a young woman on Venus...

Fair enough. I think you’d be surprised by how passionately some folks are defending this mnemonic. If you scroll through the comments I’ve left most of them. But I’ve deleted a few that are unpleasant and insulting, that don’t talk about the mnemonic at all but about me for daring to make this video.

​@@Mr.BrownsBasement The way the internet works, the extreme viewpoints get amplified. The middle of the road doesn't engage, and the machine wants engagement. Maybe we need a circuit that clips or clamps the extreme spikes. I try to ignore them, otherwise you'll lose focus on your goal.

The internet needs a big fat MOV!

I routinely read resistors when I’m doing repair and rarely make mistakes. Except with this video where I mistakenly said blue grey brown was 6.8KΩ instead of 680Ω. I don’t know what I was thinking! But you’re right, most of the time there’s little need for a mnemonic. A digital multimeter will be handy for through-hole resistors and SMD’s have legends silkscreened on them.

Thank you for your comment. The purpose of this video was to comment on something I think is wrong. I’m sure there are issues that you have strong feelings about and would explain if someone asked you to. So go ahead … why do you feel this is moralizing?

OK Karen, neither the Internet nor KZbin are built around your personal interests. For which I am truly thankful.

Thank you for your comment. I'm not telling anyone they can't use it if they want. I'm saying there are alternatives that don't make co-workers, colleagues and classmates feel like they don't matter.

@@Mr.BrownsBasement That’s just projection.

@@pchris6662 I disagree. According to ( supportingsurvivors.humboldt.edu/statistics#:~:text=An%20estimated%2091%25%20of%20victims,are%20female%20and%209%25%20male.) which seems to be a reputable source, 91% of rape victims are female. Generally speaking, do you hear women joking about rape? Why not? Do you think women are comfortable while men around them are joking about rape? So do you want to be one of those men?

I don't want to get mad; i'd like to see things change. Perhaps you missed the meaning of my gentle jabs about voting in the American election. I can't vote in the American election because I'm not American! I agree with you: Your best tool is your vote. I would encourage everyone to exercise it at every opportunity otherwise it will be taken away. Thanks for your comment.

I'm going to be an optimist and hope that people do care. Thank you for your comment.

Even though attitudes seemed to be a lot different 2 generations ago, it seems they haven't changed very much at all.

The last part of the mnemonic, taught to me by Gunny Boggess was "but violence gets worse".

There are plenty of variations but I hadn’t heard that one.

I'm not crapping on men. I happen to be one myself. I am commenting on the attitude and behaviour of some men, fortunately not all. But thank you for your comment.

I too would be interested to know where and when this mnemonic made its nasty debut. And yes, I’ve heard the version that adds racism to misogyny, like insult adds to injury. I won’t lose sleep over being “woke”! 😊

Fortunately, now there are alternatives for Violet and the Boys that aren’t so cringeworthy and inappropriate!

Sometimes the difficult (and inconvenient) thing is doing the right thing. It's right to vote with your conscience and your wallet. Thank you for uplifting comment.

@@Mr.BrownsBasement Actually, I left out the most important part. I don't kid myself that the sporting organisation noticed, or that it was even equipped with ears to hear me. But I told my reasons to everyone I knew. I figure that culture is the sum of its parts, and each part can and does influence the parts around it. So hats off to you for what you're doing here.

Like each vote, every little statement makes a difference. I commend you for not blending into the majority who would prefer to let silence speak rather than their deeds.

I hadn’t heard this “Bad Beer” version. And yes, you’re right. Teaching the colour code this way would be frowned upon in most jurisdictions!

You’re most welcome. I had debated for some time before making this video. But in hindsight I’m glad I did.

In other words, out of character. Sometimes I get things right by accident. Thanks!

This is one of those instances when I’d love to see a flurry of copycat videos to repeat and amplify the message. I think of long ago when women fought en masse to question and change gender roles and to forcibly debunk stereotypes. The overt sexism in education, industry, advertising, management, and medicine was palpable. They made tremendous progress. How disheartened they would be to learn that many men are in denial and still cling to outdated ideas and continue to espouse misogynistic beliefs. I think your observation that people become isolated within their specialties is right on the money. Instead of seeing the big picture and how their specialization fits into it, they see the small picture and can’t see much of value beyond theirs. Thank you for your comment!

Great idea! The simple solution is often the best!

I had never heard that before but I like it. You’re right, the other version is appalling. Thanks for the comment.

No room for ambiguity on this one. Thank you!

i don't know how to reply. Could you clarify please?

I may not agree with you, but thank you for your comment.

Fortunately, I don't need the memory aid either - though I did make a mistake in the video saying blue grey brown was 6800Ω when it's only 680Ω. Oops. As cringeworthy as the BBROYG mnemonic is, it can become the springboard for a conversation. I'm happy (and relieved) to say that about 90% of the comments so far have been supportive which shows attitudes are moving in the right direction. Many of the 10% that aren't have a message and tone I've heard before. Fortunately for the colour blind there are multimeters! Thanks for your comment.