Let me make this simple, you will kill or severy injure yourself working on hot chassis radio without an isolation transformer. The phono input will work if you happen to have an old crystal cartrage phonograph, will not really work with a modern magnetic head, the output is too low, 😂 good luck

You spent 20~25$ to much, these usually go for 5 to 10 at hamfests or radio club auctions/meetings. I suggest you join your local club lots of help and good source of stuff to repair😂 and spare partsband saftey advice. by the way all AM and FM radios are superhytrodyne tube or otherwise. As well electrolytic caps thoug the may be covered in paper are not paper caps, the paper caps are the coupling caps between stages. You are also playing a very dangeous game playing with a hot chassis radio that is not hooked up to an isolation transformer.

On your cap the markings are circle, square, triangle. If a four section the 4th is blank. Always remove the old one & change them all ! LFOD !

Nothing worse than a broken Dial Cord 😮

My Grandmother had one of those on the refrigerator...i remember using it in the 1970s... can't believe I am sending this 😮

I love old radios... especially Multi Bands

I do not know if you have a schematic for your set. Nostalgia Air is one site to find them , and download .If you do not find yours there, you can go to radio museum, and look for it there. There should also be your dial string information. Also, please completely remove that cap, that will allow you to place individual caps in there Looking forward to the rest of this.

I have this overseas Hunter original from this era. The motor hums but doesn’t turn. Upon partial disassembly the rotor is very difficult to turn by hand. I was planning to clean the bearings and shaft as advised. If it is in fact seized is the fan trash? This is the polished brass model so I would prefer to repair if possible.

one thing to watch out for in valves/tubes is 'grid emission', in valves with many hours use, mostly in power output valves but 'can' affect signal types, after a few minutes run the first grid can tend to go positive or 'less negative' resulting in excessive anode current, causing eventual damage to other compinents this doesnt always show up with any effects on the audio except when it gets severe...this 'issue' is not commonly known of or mentioned in servicing books 'back in the day', some class it as 'insulation leakage', which can also occur, but grid emission is where the electron emission coating slowly 'boils off' and deposits on the grid, so making it a very weak cathode, so causing some current flow to anode/screen, the small 'all glass' valves seem to be more affected than the larger types, likely due to closer electrode spacing ..... so its always a good idea to measure these grid voltages after a few minutes run to see if any may be afflicted, if the earlier stages afflicted, it may result in gain/volume dropping off

Oh and a heater-cathode short can cause havoc.

If suspect a B+ HT supply filter cap can measure it in situ,. With tubes it doesn't need "low esr", just have the uF. Can patch in a trial cap across the old one with foot long wires. Most likely more than half the electrolytics are fine for another 60 years. Incandescent light bulb great for discharging any HT.

I have one of these that needs a new belt . Is it easy to fit . Do I need to remove the whole player unit or just the back cover. Thanks. Interesting video .

Tyler, did the coil/stator come out easily after you unscrewed it or did you have to do any special procedure to remove it? Thanks In advance for your answer.

Hello, I am restoring the same type fan. I was wondering how you removed the plaque/plate on the side in order to paint the housing?

1 month ago i repair or restor an old Ph 90 RL 150 some caps and feerit antena problem ....tank for vid

How do I know if my original classic Hunter fan is American made or overseas?

Cool, as a kid I had a transistor radio. I think mine took a 9 volt battery though lol. Now I play music on my cellphone and bluetooth it to a JBL flip5 that hangs down around my neck when I take my doggy for a walk lol.

Nice

I love seen those old electronics, that's what i grew up with

I believe everything is digital nowadays

What again?? I would scrounge thrift shops and work at fixing.. its better than beer n bars. Keeps me home at 73 years young hihi😊😊

Couple things to look for, the glue that holds the inductors can become resistive with age and shift the oscillator or cause low injection. That sealed tuning capacitor can get internal oxidation and cause erratic tuning. I'll be surprised if it's a semiconductor causing this. Paid for school working at an electronic repair shop with Navy B school instructors who owned the place years ago. Still do some vintage Corvette radios now and then. Fun stuff. Try a hair dryer over selected areas, aged capacitors in the RF, oscillator stages may wake up. Try a tap test with a non-metallic tool and see if anything shows up.

Well your oscillator and mixer work else you would not be able to dial in any stations. For the other things. Measure voltages and find out why they differ. Watch out for the AGC which could be the reason that IF stages are under biased which may be the case as you have no sensitivity. Avoid changing transistors unless they are defective which you can easily find out with a multimeter. Changing transistors in the IF might require realignment. If you have an electronic engineering degree this should be easy

The 3904 is ok-ish for AM. At 10.7 MHz IF they are not quite there, and at 100MHz they need to be pushed with at least 5 to 10mA current to obtain some kind of amplification. In short: they are general purpose, but with some reserve. If you happen to decide to substitute the FM RF and Osc transistors, a proper substitute that's easy to buy and I've tested and used many times with success is the MPSH10 or its current reference KSP10. If you may wish to keep the original transistors, you will need to increase the current flow by reducing the base bias resistor in the mixer transistor. I have not seen the schematic but cheap radios use just one with high value. In a radio I repaired with the same symptom as yours, the base resistor was 680k, and reduced to (I think it was) 330k started to work again. Old and early silicon transistors, specially those you have with the epoxy dome style package, tend to go bad with lower gain, and since manufacturers tried to make the radio draw the least current possible to have better battery life, they biased transistors a bit too starved to give optimal performance.

I also have an old model AM FM radio. The if still uses a full transistor and it misses the IF settings and makes me dizzy. The radio is just for collection.

Haha no way. I know it's been 8 years but on a whim trying to find more information about this specific model i stumbled upon your video. My model has this same exact issue, down to the motor noise sounding exactly the same. Always thought that was the way it was supposed to sound. Thanks dude!

I thought I knew about most cassette tapes, having been a recording enthusiast since the early sixties. I still have two cassette recorders, a Nakamichi Dragon and a Nakamichi 582, but I only use the Dragon these days. Anyway, I have never heard of a Type 0 cassette tape. I remember I mostly used TDK SA, Memorex, That's, Sony, BASF. I still have a couple of "That's MRXP' still sealed in cellophane.

you should flush the oil out and put the new one in maybe jt will work

over seas fans are weird af they are like the cursed version of the original ones i js dont really like them but they are interesting

Hey, I went to that store to and saw this fan

I still have this 2nd gen Charleston, although it’s not hung up but put up safely in storage. It’s a very powerful fan

Nice! I picked up my first Fasco yesterday A antique white 3rd gen Charleston which is pretty minty and dated 4/87

The "flywheel" in this case = rotor

Hi ! Can I use your clip in my video with credit and link ? What happened before-after this ? Do you have comment ? Where did this happen ?.

Good to feature? Full credit's included! Thanks in advance!!

Hi , May I have your permission to use this clip in a compilation? Linked and credited . Thanks!

Should really spend the time to get yourself a MK4 Intake, Way better flow

I am very interested to see this. My Original is one of these but a later 2017 model. Because I live in the UK getting an original Original is impossible - they don’t exist. We lived in the States when I was a kid and my fan obsession started then. I have a huge collection of desk fans including imported Laskos, Galaxy, Sears, Lakewoods, etc. My Original was actually destined for sale in Spain (a 240v model) and while it isn’t as powerful as an American fan, it’s well built - body wise anyway. The blades that came with it are MDF but I managed to get a set of five genuine Walnut blades from Florida on eBay so they’re decent at least.

My Original is a white 52” model too. You did a great job

found this legend on my reccomend

Did you have to add any new parts to the axle or can you use the factory sprocket?

It happened to me once. I also remember a day I had to reverse the direction of the motor manually to unstuck the tape without damaging it.

I tried out a pre recorded Bruce Springseen tape from 1992 the other day and it had dropouts all the way through. When I took it out I realised the pressure pad had disintegrated onto the head and pinch roller, so I had to use a cleaning tape on my boombox. That tape later got put in the bin.

I was using a tape of The Cars to test my Sanyo Sportster Personal cassette player, which is about the same age as this. My one has a buzzing noise that you can only hear from the left channel and the right channel cuts out sometimes and you have to twist the headphone plug to get it to come back on. So far I've replaced it's belt, adjusted the speed and cleaned the head, capstan and pinch roller.

Great Deal on those😀

I don’t think the 46th week is in December. You do the math.

Actually, there's very little room where the oil could go if it passes the O-ring, because the only place it could go is between threads of the switch housing and the shaft, which is very little.

It's sentimental. You had it right the first time

i have owned and heard worse quality tapes tbh. this tape sounds better than most of my pre recorded tapes

1:04 Off to complete the full circle around the earth with that much fuel!!