1966 General Electric C550G Clock Radio

[@chezsnailez]

Sweet machine! Lichen that bit of woodgrain. Found a nice enough 1970s GE clock radio that we keep in the kitchen tuned to WGY. Maybe the cord got yangle-tangled into that knot on the outside? They do get wiggly when you're not lookin'...

[@Madness832]

Of course, the clock works. Those Telechron movements have got to be bulletproof!

[@jeffreyhickman3871]

That's about as retro as it gets!! As if it's the "Back To The Future" of alarm ⏰ clock ⏰ radios 📻. I can just imagine the smell coming out of this when turned on, although it's probably solid state. This kind 👌 of looks like 👍 Bakelite plastic. Great 👍 internals, and fine circuitry. Your friend, Jeff.

[@janeoconnor6935]

That alarm was always such a jarring wake-up call!

[@DanOConnorTech]

It still is. I would much prefer to wake up naturally at the crack-of-noon myself. Thanks for the radio!

[@batterymakermarkii2654]

2:34 Bummer. In the time I was there, I had fairly heavy tube radios. People asked me if I was worried about them being stolen. I replied, "Not at all, and I'll know who they were. They'll be the ones hunched over with hernias..."

[@stevethefanman8955]

Awesome review and demonstration of this vintage clock radio ! I like the sound quality and structure of it . Pretty cool it still has the original power cord , I enjoyed the video and I just subscribed!

[@DanOConnorTech]

Thanks for watching!

[@stevethefanman8955]

@@DanOConnorTech No problem , I enjoy the channel.

[@ralphreinhardt6020]

Blast from the past. 😎👍

[@brunoprimas1483]

Nice. I wake up every day to a early 60's Zenith clock/AM radio. The clock mechanism works the same but the radio is a 5 tube model. I rebuilt it with the intention of selling it. However, it's better than the cheap modern alarm clock that we had, and I got rid of that one instead!

[@DanOConnorTech]

I have a couple of AA5's myself. They're hard to beat!

[@brunoprimas1483]

@@DanOConnorTech Mine is a model # N516.

[@thomaslucas6079]

That is something you never really see anymore clock radios. I wonder why.

[@Georgew2777]

All replaced by phones, kind of sad. I have a 1980s alarm clock radio that i got for $8

[@thomaslucas6079]

@@Georgew2777 I never had a clock Radio in my life but when we were kids my brother would ask for a clock Radio almost every year when he was a teenager. I was a small boy so that was the last thing I would want for Christmas. My parents shopped through spiegal catalog and western auto. When I was 8 years old my dad got a job at General Mortors. He worked there from the mid 60s till they moved the plant.

[@jnorthrop70]

Was it made in US?

[@DanOConnorTech]

I don't know. There aren't any obvious signs anywhere on it. The power transistor (the one in the heat sink) is marked Japan, but that doesn't mean much. I suspect by this time in the 1960's it was manufactured in Japan, but I could be wrong.