Grundig 3055 Vintage table radio restoration

[@JerryEricsson]

The Grundig were made back when the Television was something new. Radio's were still the mainstay of evening entertainment.I can recall the radio programs from the 1950's as I grew up on the family farm. We had no power in the house so had to rely on an old battery pack radio. Evening listening was done by the light of kerosene lamps, the family sat around the living room in the dim light and enjoyed the theater of the mind. It was grand! I still enjoy listening to old radio programs. The Grundig is indeed the top of the line in electronics from that age, even later. I was the proud owner of an old Grundig Reel to Reel that I picked up at a hock shop in El Paso back in the 70's when I was a soldier stationed at Fort Bliss Texas. A few decades later I purchased a little Grundig pocket radio, although no longer made in Germany, but China, it is still the best radio in the house. Am/Fm/SW 1 and 2 gives her all the power she needs and she is very sensative. The digital dial is very accurate.

[@arthureverett8220]

First time I heard of the scope trick to find the foil side of a coupling capacitor. Thanks for the info. I’ll have to invest on an lcd quick scope

[@MidnightVisions]

One thing not mentioned is even though the German made equipment was made for export to multiple countries, North American power grid changed gradually from 110 to 120 between 1930 to 1984. Many of the power supplies in this equipment is fixed at 110V. This led to accelerated component failure. My family had a Nordmende Stereo and the power supply could be adjusted for 100, 110V, 120V by a switch.

[@12voltvids]

This one has several voltage ratings. 110/120/150/220 and 240. Voltage is selected by moving the fuse to the proper fuse holder. The back cover showed where it goes. I didn't show the back of the unit but is was clearly labeled, and it is set to 120 V

[@mohinderkaur6671]

20 OHM resistor in mains lead fixes issue with mains voltage too high

[@andygozzo72]

@@mohinderkaur6671 yep, i have a few european (mostly german) radios designed for 220v, but here in the uk its around 240v so need either to fit a dropper in the set, or an adapter unit externally

[@eldontyrellcorp]

I have this radio and I'm listening to it every day. This has a very good sound, deep basses. It also has variable bandwidth for am/LW/sw listening (trebles control). It acts on the if filter with the help of a plunger core. Impressive design.

[@12voltvids]

These were great radios.

[@eldontyrellcorp]

@@12voltvids yes, collecting them, have 20 or 30 of them now (most impressive being the Saba Freiburg 14).

[@frankreiserm.s.8039]

How can you get rid of that 50Hz hurts hum? Is it an old transformer problem?

[@arthureverett8220]

I would install a 3 amp slo- blow fuse between the bridge rectifier and the secondary of the power transformer to protect it in event of a B+ short. The replacements are very expensive and hard to find and do not include postal fees

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

I saw this very same unit in a bar I used to frequent and it was on a shelf in the back room and I have had a close look at the controls and have often wondered about a certain control but I think you have enlightened me so I don't need to wonder about it any more, I was friendly with a television/radio engineer who was a client of my fathers and it turns out that they are no longer in business.

[@coptertim]

My parents loved music and Grundig was their favorite radio. They loved their rich deep sound and build quality. They would keep a set for a few years, buy the latest model and give away the old one. What I would give for those 1950s/60s tabletop radios today!! They were amazing. We forget the 50s and 60s records were recorded for the best sound on AM radio, not FM stereo and Grundig delivered the best AM sound.

[@12voltvids]

All radios can deliver fantastic sound on a.m. it's all about the bandwidth. Grundig had an if transformer that you could adjust the bandwidth on by turning a dial on the front of the radio which moved the slug up and down in one of the transformers which opened up the channel bandwidth. Thing is that only work when there was few radio stations once the band became crowded and there was a station every 10 kilohertz you really couldn't take advantage of that because the next station over would overlap what AM stereo came along they actually restored the wideband mode for many radios and I am stereo sounded absolutely fantastic. People think that just because it's amplitude modulation that the bandwidth is naturally limited but that's not the case they were limited by the broadcaster because of interference issues to adjacent channels once the spectrum started to fill up. TV signals were also transmitted by am and they had bandwidth upwards of 4.3 megahertz on ntsc. The reason they had to cut it at 4.3 megahertz is because the sound carrier went between 4.3 and 4.7 as an FM signal.

[@coptertim]

@@12voltvids @12voltvids : 3I can remember when there were only a few am stations in the L. A. area and now every available spot is filled, fm too. One of the most powerful, 50Kw KNX hit our answering machine, telephones and TV sets. I grew up with a sw radio running half the night. When the sw stations ended their nightly run I would move on to am dx listening. When I was about 12 I began buying 1930s/40s sets, swapping out bad caps, weak tubes and sell them, sometimes I made as much as $20, imagine that! Now that I have the time I'm setting up a bench and doing it the right way, learning the theory and not just tossing parts at dead sets. Channels like yours have become a valuable part of that process. This time I'm starting with old transistor and similar projects. I have a lot to learn before I start back with the tube sets. I need an isolation transformer, bulb and a variac first before I do anything with high energy devices. Going back to am radio, during the early 1960s, there was an am stereo station near our Long Beach, CA home. My parents had two radios in the living room, one set just below the frequency for the right channel, the other above for the left. With that combination they enjoyed a clear stereo signal carrying their favorite classical music. I have a good start on equipment and lots of valuable info available. I love bringing old sets back to life. Great fun. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us.

[@douglasallen9428]

Whoa.... I consider Grundig to be the Mercedes-Benz of all other table radios out there - fantastic!

[@umajunkcollector]

Wasn't Blaupunkt in Mercedes?

[@douglasallen9428]

My bad!!!

[@12voltvids]

They are great old units. This one is 60 years old and sounds fantastic. All the tubes are original, and the only dead tube was the tuning eye.

[@12voltvids]

Yes, Blaupunkt in Mercedes. My dad had an old 69 merc. Had a Blaupunkt AM radio and he added a Kraco 8 track. Speaking of 8 track. I have one of those too. An 8 track RECORDER deck. I should fix it just for fun.

[@markrutzen3294]

SABA and Nordmende ( the bigger Models ) were also extremely good

[@Evan420]

Saba probably made the best german radios, but Grundig is really up there too. Love it!

[@televisionforever]

I'm restoring a Grundig 1097U, I'm wanting to replace the selenium rectifier that is a B250C75. What diode bridge replacement should I use? I've read using four 1N4007 will work but may need to add a resistor in? What are your thoughts?

[@12voltvids]

I just used a full wave bridge. Sure the voltage is a little higher but still well within the limits of the tubes and capacitor.

[@televisionforever]

@@12voltvids Ahh okay thank you! So even though the original rectifier is 0.08A, 250v, I can replace with a bridge that is 2A, 1000V?

[@12voltvids]

@@televisionforever yes. It won't draw more than a few milliamps. Tubes are high voltage low current devices.

[@televisionforever]

@@12voltvids Okay great! Thanks for the help!

[@fotoralf]

Nice video. thanks. Do note that this radio doesn't have three speakers, as mentioned in the audio, but five. There are two electrostatic tweeters, the brown flat units to the left of the woofer, as seen from the rear. They're only active when the radio is switched to FM and have most likely gone quiet because the internal foam insulation has disintegrated.

[@Hannah-lq2ps]

Beautiful! I have a question for you. I have an SO160. The previous owner spliced a multi speaker selector to the HIFI/Stereo box located on the back (lower right hand corner). This box has capacitors which I imagine regulate power to the different speakers. Do you know of a diagram floating around the web that could guide me confirm the correct wiring?

[@DrOSLA]

excellent job, thank you very much.

[@frankreiserm.s.8039]

Heathkit used to sell nice electronic kits that you could build, and I always had success building them. A point-to-point wiring, thermonic radio like this would really be fun to build as a kit. i remember my Grandfather's old Radio Electronics magazines where it said, in the electronic school advertisements, build your own vacuum tube TV and radio. When I took my National Radio Institute course in Video Audio Servicing, they sent me a stereo system and only had me take some voltage measurements at test points. Nothing else. I wish that they instead spent the money by sending me videos like yours.

[@nor4277]

I loved your videos ,I just wish it was a lot closer,and I love seeing old parts that are replace ,and the new part being installed.

[@justscrollrandom]

Do you want radio its too old and big like this if you want tell I am from India

[@frankreiserm.s.8039]

Although I built a current-limiting light bulb, I do not trust that I did it correctly. Please do a quick video on how to build one and how to use it. Thank you.

[@johnmcgiv1]

Great video as norm can you do a video of dropper circuit as I would like to see your approach. I have an AEG German Radio it’s 220v I-changed Selenium for 4007 diode about 40v difference I would like to know if I should fit full rectifying diodes please advise.

[@danmackintosh6325]

That thing really is a beauty, love the ferrite antenna setup. Just coming from the Pye P75 video & I reckon the paper coupling cap is probably the reason the audio output transformer is open on the old record player I mentioned to you a few days back. (not looked that deeply other than diagnosis yet but it has to be the coupling cap as it's the only one in there apart from the 2 part 'lytic can!). Just hope the tube isn't fubared because of it too, it's a UL84 which I believe is a sub 100mA version of the EL84 I see in this set as a begin watching... Cheers again for sharing your knowledge, I'm picking up a little every time I watch!

[@jonka1]

There can be several resons why a primary goes open. Yes heavy anode current is one. I have rewound many transformers and a common problem is damp attacking the copper wire where the enamel coating is damaged or cracked. Another cause is impurities in the copper causing electrolytic corrosion. I have seen some windings with literally dozens of breaks due to poor quality wire. Frost will cause failure if the wire is very tightly wound due to thermal contraction snapping it deep inside the winding.

[@widecast]

It sounds like your extra light has a very hummy ballast.

[@dannylightyear3108]

I had the exact same radio back in 2019 nice

[@endall39]

This Grundig is amazingly similar to a Telefunken Opus that I have. However the Telefunken model has 6 speakers in it, 3-way with woofers, mids and tweeters. The chassis and internals are otherwise very similar and in some way identical. Were they related companies back in the day?

[@arthureverett8220]

This model is common for power transformer failure , bridge rectifier failure and carbon tracking in the selector switch network. Also famous for leaky or shorted caps

[@JerryEricsson]

You know back in the 70's when I was a soldier stationed at Fort Bliss, being a communicator, the officers all thought we were radio and TV repair men as well as our Army Duties, so they would bring in their equipment and drop it off at the Commo shack and asked that we have it fixed by Friday. One thing I discovered was that all the Officers thought they didn't have equipment unless they had a Grundig radio and Reel to Reel setup. We often got them from newly arrived officers who just came from a tour in Germany where the equipment was sold. Much of our time was spent simply switching them over for 110 volts from the European Voltages. Funny all those big wigs could not follow directions on the back of the sets, they would get them to their new quarters plug them in with an adapter thinking that would fix it. I often just put on a US plug and did the switch, charge them ten bucks for my effort and be the hero for a week.

[@12voltvids]

The grundig were good. I have a Normandy which as everyone knows is basically a grundig. I hope to restore it one of these days. It has been sitting in the shop for 3 years now since my father in-law passed away and my wife brought it home. Project for this winter i think. Now that summer is winding down I will be spending my days off more in the shop working on various projects i have on the go.

[@Anonymousboy96]

The tip with the oscilloscope is really good!

[@coondogtheman]

That tape input is that a line level signal? I'm guessing that the phono is standard phono level signal. Could you hook something like an MP3 player to this.

[@12voltvids]

Tape head and magnetic phono I believe.

[@coondogtheman]

12voltvids those to me are not line level. My mom had a JCPenney stereo and the tape player hooked to the receiver via RCA cables. I believe the signal was phono level. It would be cool to hook an iPod to something like this.

[@12voltvids]

Did I say line level? No! I believe they are magnetic pickup level. I didn't test them as I don't have anything to plug into it, but they hummed when I switched to the input.

[@DasMrOSi]

It was meant for crystal pickups, so "kinda" line level

[@mishap601k]

Yes you can, I had a CD player connected to mine. You'll have to build your own connector though.

[@SmileMakerABQ]

what source did you use for your replacement caps and rectifier? Do you have a listing of how many caps and their values? Thanks for any information. I have a 5088 needs restoring/restringing.

[@EsotericArctos]

When you replace the rectifier with silicon, do you use a dropping resistor to compensate for the lower forward voltage drop of silicon diodes?

[@12voltvids]

No, the voltage will be a little higher but still well within the range of the capacitors and tube plate voltages.

[@vcdios]

the huge main speaker is impressive!

[@12voltvids]

That was small back in the day. Most of those old radios have a 15 incher.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

"3d Klang" is "3D Sound", great vid & great radio. Back when Grundig used to make them, themselves in Germany. That's when they were built to last or at least be revived! 😀

[@DasMrOSi]

87.5 - 100 MHz UKW (FM) has been the standard since 1949, since 1968 they allowed this to be expanded to 108 MHz. Greetings from Germany. Still need to fix my Saba Freudenstadt 8...

[@12voltvids]

Yes I figured that, and since this was a 1955 model that the owner had when he lived in Germany this explains the tuning range.

[@neodonkey]

I think there were two expansions, as some of my older FM radios only go up to 104Mhz. So 100, 104, then 108 I think. (In the United Kingdom at least).

[@VolkerBrueggemann]

1949-1964: 87,5 - 100 MHz 1964-1968: 87,5 - 104,5 MHz since 1968: 87,5 - 108 MHz FM-Stereo introduction 1963-1968

[@dannylightyear3108]

I still have the original vacum tubes as well.

[@jake359nl]

Check the mostright pushbutton (FA), doesn't that stand for Ferrite Antenna? Perhaps you can switch between internal and external antenna that way...

[@12voltvids]

The FA button turns off the AFC on FM for accurate tuning. You have to hold it down as it does not latch. If you notice to the left of the tuning dial a light turn on for MW and LW reception. Under that light it says Ferrite Antenna. There is supposed to be a pointer in there that spins when you turn the read part of the volume dial that spins the ferrite antenna, but the pointer is missing.

[@jwhite1016aol]

Im 3 years late to the party with this comment but you and Shango066 both did videos on this similar radio about 4 months apart. His was in July of 2017 and this one in October. Just hoping someone out there appreciates me pointing this out, both are 10 of 10 videos.

[@12voltvids]

I actually say his video after publishing mine. Shango is a tube jockey, loves his old stuff. I too like to save old tube radios and TVs. There is just something about the old tech.

[@jwhite1016aol]

@@12voltvids I just recently came across both channels and I'm combing through older videos on both channels and happened to notice this coincidence. Good stuff.

[@arthureverett8220]

That Grundig radio looks like a very low hour use set and the chassis is very clean with no cigarette paste on it. Hopefully it won’t be a chamber of horrors like Shango 066 experienced. His was a very high hour set

[@markpirateuk]

You should add some series resistors to the silicon rectifier, as it is much more efficient than the original selenium rectifier. The B+ voltage will be too high without them.

[@12voltvids]

The B+ will be higher yes, but I also changed out all the capacitors and went from 400V rating to 630v and the b+ increase is still well within the plate rating of the tubes. It's only running 365 volts now. I don't know what the selenium would have provided because I didn't measure, would be lower for sure, but 365 isn't going to damage anything, as all the caps now are rated 630.

[@andygozzo72]

i would say thats far too high, more like 240 to 300, i have a 2043W(similar, but different, if you get what i mean.) and its ht is 260 out of the rectifier...

[@michvod]

365V? That much voltage would run the tubes down really fast! Usually these radios run at about 280-260V B+. Schematics say 287V when on AM and 281V on FM direcly out of the rectifier. 100 ohm 5W resistor would probably be enough to lower the B+. Check your transformer tap if it is perhaps set to 110V instead of 125V. Better a bit lower than too high. Replacing the selenium with silicon without including the series resistor is a botch job, especially when the voltage is then 80V higher than in schematics!

[@andygozzo72]

exactly, far too high, tubes are far more tolerant and will work with an overload...but only for a while...it maybe within the max plate voltage rating, but the circuit would be designed for lower voltage, maybe even running near max plate dissipation at the design ht, so it will most certainly be well over at 365...

[@andygozzo72]

it wont damage the caps but will 'fry' the tubes.....

[@yutan15silvia]

I want the microphone of the video camera set to monaural. When you are watching with headphones, your voice is heard from the right channel. It's hard to hear.

[@12voltvids]

No option to do that. I can set to stereo or 5 channel surround. I edit with cans and have no problem hearing.

[@yutan15silvia]

I understand. Your vids are very interesting and helpful. Thank you.

[@ivanigorpollick6690]

1st class sounding radio-Grundig of course

[@arthureverett8220]

Shango 66 serviced the same radio a few years ago. It turned out to be a chamber of horrors Multiple circuits failed at once. He did a 2 hour video on it The power transformer burned up and multiple circuits failed after he replaced the power transformer

[@12voltvids]

Yes they can be nasty.

[@georgemkirko9645]

I am not sure why change all capacitors, I have similar radio and only two capacitor were bad..

[@12voltvids]

The paper in the wax/paper caps go electrically leaky and this will avalanche the tubes drawing excessive current. This can easily red plate a tube and cause it to fail as well as burn out transformers ect. So they all have to go, no exceptions. I am normally not one to replace all caps. In vintage tube gear i so for all the paper types and black beauties.

[@alfrede.neumann8439]

Nice Radio! Nice Projekt! Thanks for your good explanations. Max Grundig also made the Video 2000 System. It was not bad, but he had no chance against the others.

[@TerryMcKean]

Beautiful set, no doubt. :-)

[@markanderson350]

Most German radios had a rotatable ferrite and three speakers. Its Norde mende not normandy

[@rogerandlyndabeall3840]

When you take out the selenium rect it has a volt drop of up to 70v and silicon has 0.7 volt--- check your plate voltages

[@infinitecanadian]

The Germans don't make radios; they make art that receives radio frequencies. Databits had a Grundig unit, and if I remember correctly (I may be wrong) each channel preset _had its own tuning knob_ so you could adjust each one to the channel you desired.

[@leandrolindemann4312]

Wonderful Radio!!!

[@12voltvids]

Made a few dollars overhauling this one. I could have charged him twice as much and he probably wouldn't have batted an eye. I love the old tube sets myself.The sound quality is second to none.

[@frankreiserm.s.8039]

How on God's green earth can you replace the selenium rectifier with a solid state rectifier when its rise time is too fast for the vacuum tubes, such as for the mixer tube? I tried restoring an old thermonic tube radio and screwed the whole thing up. For one thing, even though I watched your video and Mr. Carlson's Lab video on the subject, I could not figure out the polarity of the mylar capacitors that i was replacing all of the paper caps. with. I replaced the destroyed electromagnet speaker with a modern-day perminant magnet one, not realizing that the electromagnet was part of the power supply, and I replaced the selenium rectifier with a diode. My tube checker could not check all of the tubes. Now I know, after watching videos on the subject, that I should have reconed the speaker, or at least glued paper towels all over it. Physics wise, I love thermonic technology. A woman is dropping off a 2003, 300 CD changer off for repair on Wednesday. All belts need replacing. Those things are bitches. Wish me luck.

[@TheEvilGrandmother]

interested i buying a tefifon?

[@zx8401ztv]

Smashing job :-D The chassis is really clean, the plating has done a good job :-D. Old grundig equipment has always been good quality, but they were taken over so who knows if they produced anything good after that :-(. There old reel to reel tape recorders were good old beasts (valve days), they lasted bloody years :-D. Philips produced some interesting stuff too, but they had a bad habit of using one valve for 20 different functions, so when it died everything stopped dead, not clever :-(

[@neodonkey]

Grundig ended up selling radios made by the Chinese. One supplier was Sangean, who actually make really nice radios by Chinese standards (especially their higher end stuff), but not up to the standards of these old beauties. Looks now as if Grundig are just a zombie brand owned by Beko and used on home appliances. Sad.

[@nor4277]

I here that brand went out of business, I have a mutiband portable myself ,got a few,years ago on a half price sale, they also made the redcross emergency radios,have one of those too.,I love the brand

[@neodonkey]

Yeah that red cross radio s actually a rebranded Eton radio. Cheap Chinese things, but they perform pretty good.

[@gavincurtis]

As much as I love modern technology, things made from a time when people really cared vs maximum profits for share holders with bean counters peering over every engineers work to cut corners..... sigh. So much better back then to make something.

[@12voltvids]

I hear you.

[@JerryEricsson]

When I was a boy, I shorted that selenium diode, I had no idea what it was, but it looked cool, man did it STINK when she blew up, damn near took my had off, at least that's the way I remember it. I took a pair of pliers and put one end of a grip on each end. SPARK BANG SMOKE STINK, mom hollered up the stairs, asked what the hell I was doing, it was hard to explain the smell.

[@12voltvids]

They are NASTY when they blow and that is not an exaggeration.

[@arthureverett8220]

They smell worse than a ripe fart

[@JerryEricsson]

I have the modern version of that radio, it is a small transistor Grundig with AM/FM and SW it also has temp and world time built in. It is Grundig but made in China. Still a wonderful little radio but does not put out the wonderful sound of their old European quality radio!

[@rawr51919]

1:19

[@12voltvids]

Really. My dad had a 1959 Merceded D190 diesel, and then got a 1969 Mercedes diesel. In Canada. I learned to drive on that car, and learned what happens when the oil control ring breaks, and the car starts running on the crankcase oil. A runaway. Never a pleasant thing on a diesel.

[@rawr51919]

12voltvids So the Mercs had diesel cars as well? Interesting.

[@12voltvids]

Rudolf Diesel worked for MAN engineering back in the 1800's when he perfected t he compression combustion engine that was named after him. A long time customer of mine is the grandson of the founder of MAN, and he has a large portrait of his grandfather standing with Rudolf and the first successful diesel engine. He was telling me once when I was working at hos house that his portrait is one of 2 commissioned, and the other one is in the MAN headquarters in Germany. They are now a subsidiary of the Volkswagen group.

[@rawr51919]

12voltvids Huh. Which is probably why Volkswagen's the only modern brand that carries diesel car engines these days. (Well, unless Mercedes still has some...)

[@12voltvids]

After dieselgate there are not too many people buying them here. GM has the Chevy Cruise Diesel. It has been on the market for a few years. Myself I will stick to my Volt.

[@gabrielcuevas5837]

9:57 me gusta su Relog.

[@andypalm7061]

now that's cool!

[@markmarkofkane8167]

Beautiful set. Selenium rectifier? Aren't those the ones that smell like rotten eggs when they short? I had one in a motorcycle. I have old popular mechanics books that mentions them . Didn't say it was harmful. But, Better safe than sorry! P.S. my favorite station is KSHE-95. Which what that should receive . (St. Louis MO station)

[@fotoralf]

There's a popular pun amongst German radio technicians: the German word for rectifier is "Gleichrichter", whereas "gleich riecht er" means it'll stink soon.

[@KYIMGMG]

Would you like to show Grundig 3400 for me

[@FULLCEZAUM]

Raridade, muito show parabéns

[@mohamadmohamad9591]

Nice

[@ajmalsalim181]

ഐ like this video

[@tjsogmc]

I have a Grundig with the motorized tuning. Yes, German engineering is the best... until you have to change that #%*!ing dial string and cables. It took me 4 days- I would work on it until I was frustrated, then do another project. Finally I got the god$%#*ed dial cords on.

[@12voltvids]

German engineering my ass. Never again will i own a German car. One was enough of a headache.

[@tjsogmc]

@12voltvids I work for a German company I believe that their engineering is done as payback to the world for them losing the war...

[@12voltvids]

The same can be said for the Japanese. They killed the American electronics manufacturing industry with cheap Panasonic and Sony TVs. They sold them at a loss in the us to gain market share and put the domestic companies out of business. I saw a documentary a few years ago about Panasonic. To get around embargos I can't Japanese companies in the '80s what Panasonic did and Mitsubishi was they bought American companies that were in financial difficulty. Panasonic bottom Motorola TV division I started assembling their televisions for the American market in the states using American workers. They still made the picture tubes in the States but they shipped the chassis over from Japan. The same television in Japan sold for double the price that they were selling it for in the states. Eventually over a couple years they started doing less and less in the states even shipping the picture tubes over and assembly and soon it was just put in the chassis in a box. Canada had embargos as well. To get into Canada Mitsubishi bought Electrohome. They rebranded their televisions Electrohome and continued the brand name for about 10 years. Of course they sold their own Mitsubishi brand as well concurrently after about 10 years when they were no longer required to keep the electrohome brand name they discontinued it and a few years later when sal started to fall they actually pulled out of the Canadian market completely. back to this documentary on Panasonic what's the domestic manufacturers close their doors the price was jacked up. As the documentary closed off saying they may have lost the physical war but they won the technological war. No arguments there.

[@biggysground]

You need to clean the switches and do the alignment.

[@12voltvids]

I provides the level of service requested by the client. Would you spend 2 or 3 hours totally dismantling the switch block to clean it or break out the RF generator for a measly 50 bucks?

[@biggysground]

@@12voltvids It's a shame the customer short stroke fixed it, no I don't blame you but the video title restoration is a little off, just saying. It would have been nice to see the alignment done.

[@12voltvids]

@@biggysground you do know that the alignment normally does not need to be adjusted. What causes it to drift is those old caps. The old wax ones drifted all over the map. Now that caps are replaced with modern caps they will not drift like the old ones. Also, people that collect these radios do not use them as daily drivers. They are more show pieces. I have 6, none are plugged in. They get turned on when I want to show them off and that is it. About the only time alignment is needed is after someone has messed with it. When I worked in the business we used to see many of these old beasts. 1 our of 50 needed an alignment and those were usually messed with by other shops. I rarely had to touch if strip on TV's either, but tv needed alignments much more often than old am radios did. So did FM stereo circuits.

[@biggysground]

@@12voltvids I know many would disagree with you but customer is always the boss.

[@12voltvids]

@@biggysground I love the ones that come in and say replace anything you think it might need. Those customers are few and far between. The last time I had one I lost my shirt because I did a total rebuild on the unit (a sansui 9090db) receiver and then after the work was completed the owner decided it was time to cry the blues because he didn't have the money and wants to pay me over time. I said sure you can pay me off and once it is paid in full you can have it. You know what, I still have that receiver. He ended up paying me 100 bucks which barely covered the transistors that were all blown. I could get over 1000 for the receiver today.

[@ajmalsalim181]

Hi sir

[@vaporghost5230]

Classic Line Hack moves on such a Fine Radio..Used Capacitors In the B+ ! Dont forget to use those random TV VCR screws to replace the ones you lost on your filthy desk.. I try to be Positve with comments but this Destruction Line Hack "Repair" is just too much.. How do you turn it on Really ?...!

[@12voltvids]

No screws lost. All required capacitors replaced, The B+ ones are fine.Its the paper ones that cause the trouble. I don't have an open cheque book to change every part. This is something you people don't understand. If I could charge 200.00 to replace all the capacitors I would. This already went to a shop that told him it was going to cost over 200 to restore it and he walked away. I get these radios and devices in, and I am told fix it for 60 or 70.00 max. If it is going to cost more than that then don't do it. I tell them for that I can change the critical parts that need to be changed, the paper caps and a selienium rectifier only, and they are fine with that. You have to remember that these old radios are owned by old people, that are on fixed incomes, so they won't spend the money to fix it. The owner was told what it would cost to change all the capacitors and what just the minimal caps would cost and they chose the lower cost. That is the way it is. I do exactly what I am asked and no more. What I do, bu NOT ripping my clients off is repeat service, and they tell their friends which gets me more business.

[@chandershekher6662]

Veery nicy

[@abdelkaderelbachir9523]

I'm in 🙋

[@umajunkcollector]

like many AA5's copied RCA, the German radio's seemed to have copied Telefunken.

[@12voltvids]

Will be interesting to see how MY Normende radio is built. I will be working on that one soon. Soon as I can dig it out from the middle of my garage. Has a bunch of other units stacked around it. My wife is bugging me to overhaul it, as it was her parents, and they gave it to us. She even has a place picked out to put it. Like this one, it has those push buttons to select the band, but this is a floor radio, and it has a record player, but that piece is currently missing. I believe it is in my storage unit somewhere.

[@tommyn.j3628]

Give IT new clear coat

[@edwinrodrigocampossolis7169]

¿THIS RADIO IS TO BULBS?

[@maniatore2006]

Made in Germany ;)

[@Swybryd-Nation]

Made in Haiti

[@흑석김용호]

ecc85 tube A lot of trouble

[@12voltvids]

The biggest trouble on these units is the shit tube sockets. No way to tighten the socket pins as they are sandwiched between 2 pieces of wafer. So the tubes come loose.

[@muhammadrafique3903]

Great Sir RAFIQUE MASTOI DG Khan Pakistan 🏝🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

[@rikky866]

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