Just wow great music

What a beautiful piece of engineering. I love this radio … thank you for sharing.

A huge but very impressive machine in a beautiful setting. The sound reproduction is outstanding for something nearing 90 years old.

Those divides between the button holes are really thin and fragile and easy to break so i bet your heart will be in your mouthwhilst doing the enlargement of the holes. But even unrestored is a thing of beauty with its modern streamlined shape. Cant wait to see the next steps.

It is great that you not only have the control but also the extension cable - capehart obviously thought of everything! - and that it is all in good condition. With the book i think you're right with your approach to work on the control to make it operational andcset the book aside for a professional restoration as book binding is a specific skill and for such a unique item it would be worth the expense. Whilst the front cover is detached at least it is a clean break that didn't cause any other damage.

Don Jones from Canada bought my Capehart 400KNC in 2014. That unit has the extended control.

It might cost, but if I were in need of it I would try the West Lake Art Conservation Center in Skaneateles NY for the book/leatherwork. If they can't do it, they will know who can.

I wish I could find someone who repop's cloth ribbon cable, I have a Westinghouse WR-8-R that really should have a new cable as the original is very crunchy.

What a clever way of storing the control. I appreciate that this was a hugely expensive item when new but those features must have been mindblowing at the time!

My 400KNC came with this extended control. After making the openings a bit larger, buttons moved freely.

Graças a Deus tem pessoas como você que tem esse dom de restaurar esses toca discos para pessoas como eu que nasci em 1979 aqui no Brasil 🇧🇷 ter o privilégio de ver uma obra de arte de tamanha complexidade, parabéns.

bravo!!!... Fantàstic ràdio!!!!

One crazy bit of mechanics, I never knew these existed. What's the go with that crazy big pickup?

Its interesting to see how they achieved the countdown using the cam and a switch. Simple as well as robust and long lasting. Thanks for sharing that.

This remains endlessly fascinating watching all of the mechanism work. A tribute both to the original engineers and your skill keeping it working as designed!

I am always amazed at just how many intricate individual bits go to make up any capehart. With the 500 and the extra Amp it's even more complex! Out of interest what do these relays control? It will be interesting to see the play control as I've not seen one of those close up and how precisely they work.

I owned a Capehart 400K. Loved the smell of the components. I replaced all the relays as a few were making intermittent contact, especially the power on relay. I found it strange that all the 220k Ohm resistors were open. Other resistor were fine. My Capehart was originally a 400A, then the guts were updated to the 400K, then phono replaced in early 50s to a Lincoln changer so it could play all speed records. Originally, my Capehart was owned by Marlena Dietrick. I have a pic from her home showing the Capehart. Then when she moved to Europe, her director got it from her. My mom got it from the director who told her its history. He loved her, and kept her memory alive thru this machine with all the mods he had done to it. I have since sold it to Don Jones who lives in Canada. I had one other Capehart, a 400M, which was owned by founder of Ralphs Markets.

There can't be many people who know how to set these up correctly. From watching your videos I admire the quality of your work on these incredible machines. Thank you!

I love the record changer it's incredible I'm old timer when I was a kid in the sixties my sister's boyfriend had a Admiral turntable and it was for LPS only and it would flip the record but I can't find anything on the internet about it is 1966 have you ever heard of a Admiral record flipper changer for LPS it was Rosewood cabinet it had two mono tube amplifiers and a tube preamp also I never seen another one he was the engineer at General Motors have a great day thanks for the great video of that record changer is awesome

The operation of these these changers makes them almost a work of art to watch. Another superb restoration by the way. It looks magnificent. Just saw the end of the video and saw that interesting mod to the pick up. That looks like an interesting work around for a failed crystal.

Very nice job there! Good to see ya still at it, Good Job! <:)

No casing, just a phonograph on a stand ? This is quite unique for 1941. Can't even imagine the orig price for this. TOTALLY COOL !!!!!!!!

Sweet! I need to check on the buyer of my 500g and see how the restoration is going. 😊

Taking a chance on love - Georgie Auld

Where are you finding that radio station that plays old 40's music ?

Work of art, for sure

Wonder if those Amp chassis are as powerful as they look judging by the transformer size?

As for quality, in the late 50's and early 60's, Magnavox made some extreme quality components for their time as did others like Voice of music, Fisher etc... check em out,think you will be surprised, and impressed. Start with the Magnavox concert grand.

This is fantastic! Thanks for showing the mechanism during the cycles: fascinating engineering.

I love your old RCA test equipment.

To my knowledge, PP audio amplifiers prewar typically used interstage transformers for phase inversion. Was it unusual to use a tube as a phase inverter prior to the war, or was that commonly done? It does not entirely make sense why some Capehart amplifier chassis used quads of 6V6, where 2 6L6 would do at least equally good a job. The only explanation I can think of is there were 6L6 shortages during the war, with 6V6's being easier to source. But not many of these chassis were made to begin with.

Where are you currently with the restoration of this 500M unit?

incredible i never seen this before its like a jukebox i love it

wowww beautifulllll

That clockwork tuning dial, tho!🤩

Fabulous machine! What a piece of work! I cannot imagine restoring that record changer.

bravo!!!

A jewel

waw, fantàstic!!! ...

espectacular!!!! bravo!!

What a privilege to drive such a beauty. 🤗👍

I'd certainly think twice before taking that one on - however you know these inside out and I don't. What would you normally do to replace pot metal parts? I suppose alternative metals could be machined to replace them...

That is going to be tough to restore particularly with those pot metal issues. Not for the faint hearted thats for sure!

That one looks both inside and out like it just came out of a dealers showroom!

That underside is intimidating

That's a tidy unit. This immediate pre-war era of Capehart production was presumably their peak in terms of quality?

Those Miller 500 labels on the bottom of the chassis, they look they say November 20 something 2023. Am I misreading that? If they're new, I'm guessing they will let a future person trusted with the care of the Capehart know it was fully serviced in 2023? If so, that's a very thoughtful touch kind of like when clockmakers repair an old clock and their initials and the year is engraved somewhere in the works for a future repair person to find. It will be a very sweet moment when the Capehart shows off her abilities again.

Must be quite a treat to get one to work on that is so clean already!

Has anybody ever built a little FM transmitter for the early FM so you could use it ?