Interesting troubleshooting and repair. 👍👍 Love the Philips PM5544 pattern. TV stations in Australia used to show a variation of that (around the late 1970's) either before their regular programs or prior to ending broadcast each night. The pattern was a rough guide to adjustment of the picture size/position in B&W sets and some early colour models which suffered convergence drift.

Very well done! I am currently working on a late 1940's Zenith 12h092R AM/FM/ 78RPM Phono with the same crappy wires. It s definingly a job to replace them. The Zenith has long 9-wire cables that have 3/4" braiding on them. They had the same bad wires that I had to pull through and replace. That was loads of fun - NOT! Nice work with the capacitor block. We had a US company (Atwater Kent) that used them all the time back the 1930s too! I actually use a propane torch to get them out of the numerous boxes in those sets! Anyway, new subscriber here. Loved the video! Thanks for sharing it!

A real gem a genius at work

Cannot wait for part 2!

great video and i also enjoyed your talk at NARC i watched it last night on there channel

That's beautiful. I have another HMV, which has been hard to identify for me that is. I have found another advertisement so I thought I send a link to see. Mine works and have fitted a hidden socket to plug in a Bluetooth receiver. www.ebay.com.au/itm/264804119766

Nice job and I have like 4 set waiting to replace wire like you are doing I have noticed a lot 1940s sets have that poor rubber wire !

Friends of mine brought something similar to these from The USA one year and used them. Noma also made a talking O gauge plastic railway station.

you remind me so much of a guy in Norwich that use to have a shop called Bits n Pc's but he had a moustache. any relation?

Very interesting, thank you. I have never seen any of those glass resistors before. Funny that you mentioned Shango... he has plugged in radios with mains leads that are crispier than those wires - absolutely terrifying, even if he is using a series bulb.

They certainly squeezed a lot into a very small space in that small cabinet! Bet it got hot in there! At 11.40 is that a bit of warped 78 sculpture I spy on top of your oven 😂

Always wondered why some early resistor were encapsulated in glass. Thanks for showing that. I have tried the old pencil trick to build up a resistance value but that looks like it was tuned over a candle flame🙂.

Fascinating to see how different the components were! I have an Ultra radio from the mid 1930s, and the change around only 5 years later is considerable. Resistors with the colour code ('Body End Dot rather than stripes, though) and discrete capacitors, and a superhet design. So the technology in the 30s was actually progressing at a fast rate.

Always interesting to see the difference between American radios of that era compared to British electronics. What voltage was used in those days in most homes?

if I were to restore such a TV, the first thing I would do would be to check the picture tube

What a beautiful machine ❤

Cool radio

YOU SPED UP CLEANING THE TV HERE. **HOW DID YOU FIND MY FLUX CAPACITOR FROM ""BTTF1,2,3"" AND USE IT TO CLEAN YOUR TV. I TURNED OFF THE FLUX CAPACITOR 40 YEARS AGO. I AM GLAD IT IS STILL WORKING!!** -- MICHAEL J FOX

Looks much better with the dark speaker grill than the original one.

Now after all these years I understand what an Invicta is. You see there was a famous pirate radio station in London called Invicta.

I like it!

looks like same chassis, or at least almost the same as the pye p43 , apart from the painted chassis, pye didnt usually bother

My grandfather designed and built the Athall Radio in Blackpool, 1930's. Have you ever come across one?

I remember as a trainee engineer in the 90s , a Ferguson TX10, stuck together with nicotine 😮, it was vile. Tuner drawer was gunged up big style.

Fun little set, good entry level to radio restoration!

Did it have a input for phono. And your mains at 240 volt. And a new power line have builtin resistance.? American 115 volt had a restive mains line. And the plug had to have it prongs set right as the chassis was hot. Good looking set like to watch.

Your workshop looks fantastic.

Well done Rob great job and I agree there’s something about restoring an old tv, I think it’s the different stages you go through as it slowly comes back to life!

It looks more attractive as a chassis outside that ugly cabinet! Presumably invicta must have been in Kent with a name like that, I've never heard if them!

I was given a tour of their factory by their chief (I think?) designer, Paul Stevens, in the late 90's, and saw these monsters being wired and assembled, along with their guitar based Trident (which I owned), Speed Twin and Velocette amps. Though bass wise, I finally ended up with a Marshall VBA400 half stack, which I inherited from a friend. Love the look of those British racing green car and bike based amps of that TE era! Cool video by the way.

Put an fm tuner with it , very nice. On my HMV and 1950s, Kriesler, I also added a hidden socket to plug in a Bluetooth receiver. Everything works as normal but I have the option for something else. Hate to think cost to mail from UK. I did buy a regeneration kit set from the 6v6 shop and amazingly the tubes got here. Great video.

It looks like a fun radio! I'd like to own one.

I would have rebuilt it from the schematic.

Yes please ! I will take it …..

Nice plug for Radio Caroline! Still love to bring you that Ampex! Cheers, Rob.

Great video Rob, I love TV's as well. I just finished a multipart Kriesler TV on KZbin as well. Was a hit ! Keep up the great work ! Baz

Greetings: Invicta Radio model 14.

Thanks very much for this. I enjoy your channel and I hope someone takes this project on - I certainly would if it were here in Canada.

It looks a nicely built little set, I hope someone takes it on so it can live a little longer!

Sadlet its worth more in parts than as a radio .the mains transformer the speaker and output transforme and any vaves that test good. I agree that someone just strating out its a good set to learn on and cheaper than a Bush DAC90A.

Hi Rob, having been truly inspired by watching your work on Retro Electro Workshop I am pleased to now be subscribed to your channel. I find your work absolutely fascinating, it is great to see the expertise of yesteryear still going strong. I'm an electrician by trade, but would love to learn more about tv and radio repairs. Keep up the great work, I shall look forward to watching more of it.

Lovely. Was this made for the UK market i.e. 405 line?

I am looking to buy one of these gramophones very soon and I am wondering which one is best out of the models 145 and 157?

great video, with one arm behind your back while on the live chassis...reminded me of my dad always telling me "one hand in your pocket or behind your back" he was a tv engineer for rediffusion and radio rentals among others...i work on valve audio gear, but still catch myself, with dads advice ringing my ears!

Bucket of 0.047ufs

The first TV I ever repaired! Loved it. Great picture. Usual bottom cramp!

Such a great job you did!!

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That tester adapter looks afwully precarious. I'd be very worried about getting the cable tangled in the wrong way or bumping the big box and accidentally necking a CRT.

Great job! I restored my famiIlies similar older 368 model recently and noticed that the 41MP output valve has an internally connected screen grid so it's actually a Tetrode working as a Triode! Also on mine the speaker is mains energised which also acts as a choke which I don't think yours is. But a great design for its age able to pull in lots of stations with good selectivity with a bit skill.