A Sparton that rocks!

[@Jammerk40]

You rock Mr. Radio! Can't wait till your other video!

[@shermanmorgan6093]

Thanks for sharing. I’ve had this model radio for awhile. Need to get it going again.

[@michaelpetersonjr]

This is awesome! Even with the addition of Bluetooth in it, you brought it back to life, Seth. Love this one!

[@ethelryan257]

I don't mind the aux. input to these radios. AM, at least in my neck of the woods is only for conservative Christians and extremely far-right politics. Even sports has abandoned it. FM is very much line of sight and with our mountains standing as the do, there just isn't much to listen to on radio.

[@michaelpetersonjr]

@@ethelryan257 That's why nowadays most or all stream to their music on BT on older radios, and if they keep the tube radios playing for a number of hours without issues after the recapping job.

[@ethelryan257]

This was cool! It really is quite sensitive. Thank you for sharing with us!

[@richroj]

you did another outstanding job Mr. Radio. the sound is great and the cabinet looks wonderful. you are a genius 👍💯

[@mikemoran5439]

Wow. Nice piece. Found some of these on ebay for cheap!

[@mxslick50]

Edited to fix crappy writing from posting with my phone... I have this exact radio awaiting its turn for restoration right now. I have one touchy IF can and need to replace the paper caps. It does sound great.

[@1mctous]

Copyright strike? I can't go for that😉

[@hbhmhbhm]

What a great sounding radio! A fine restoration.

[@levimevis5192]

I find that a lot of those old Sprague and Cornell-Dublier Electrolytic Capacitors from the 1940s and 1950s that are in the metal cans are usually quite durable and can still be found to be functional to this day even after over 70+ years, even on radios here in the humid climate of Indiana where I live, I have found at least 8 Zenith tube radios from the 1940s to the 1960s that had the old Metal Electrolytic cans from Cornell-Dublier, or Sprague that were still functioning to this day, I have a 1950 Zenith Trans-Oceanic Model G500 that is still functioning with its original can capacitors in place (although I did replace all of the orginal Sprague Bumblebee caps except the ones in the tone-control circuitry, for durability sake even though each one still measured good yet on my 1932 Capacitor Checker.) I also have a 1952 Zenith "Bugeye" Clock Radio that I had picked up for $5 at the local Goodwill store I used to work at that when I bought it, it too was still working on its original capacitors (the majority of the capacitors in the unit were ceramic disc type capacitors with only a couple paper capacitors that were mainly the across the line caps, and the original electrolytic can cap was still working in the unit when I got it as well, but I had to replace it after it finally started slowly dying. I also have have a Magnavox "Berkley" AM/SW/Phono Console from 1948 that is also still working on its original capacitors. One question I have for you, why is it that you insist on installing a separate "MP3 player jack" on radios that already have phono jacks built into them? If it were me I would of just left those units alone and just let someone get an RCA to Phono cable and just ran the MP3 player or bluetooth receiver off the built-in phono jack, that way the radio stays all original looking and if someone who's finicky about originality got bought the radio they wouldn't have to worry about having non-original work done to it like having an "aftermarket" 3.5mm jack hacked into the radio spoiling the originality of the radio. If the person really wanted to listen to say music through a bluetooth receiver or an iPod all they have to do is just buy a $5 Stereo RCA to Stereo 3.5mm patch cable and a $2 Mono RCA to Stereo RCA Splitter cable and then plug the Mono RCA jack to Stereo RCA splitter cable into the built-in Phono jack on the radio and then plug into that splitter cable the Stereo RCA to Stereo 3.5mm Patch cable and then plug in your Bluetooth Receiever or iPod into the stereo 3.5mm jack and your all set. That's what I do with my radios, and obviously this would only be done on a transformer set.

[@zx8401ztv]

What a loverly radio.:-D it sounds warm but can produce clean crisp sounds without distortion.

[@josephtome9600]

Both AM IF transformers had silver mica disease in the set I restored. Also in spite of deoxit the band switch gave me al sorts of trouble.

[@2packs4sure]

That unit would've really benefited from new speaker cloth...

[@hestheMaster]

Except for the fact it says MC and KC at the end of each dial the model 141XX was way ahead of it's time in the looks and component department for a wood cabinet radio made in 1951. The radio chassis number is 8W10. This is the kind of set where using the area the E cap was to replace them above instead of below the chassis as there is little room. This can be done with a PC board specific to replacing multi section e- caps like the adapt-a-cap. You will have to do some research on that Seth.

[@ethelryan257]

I have always found it kind of cool when a radio uses a different descriptor than the usual AM/FM. Not that I'm a big fan of the 'M' confusion when it comes to values on an older schematic.

[@billd1367]

I have knobs for this radio.