Barn Finds Vintage TVs Radios and Test Equipment Analysis

[@mammam6472]

TO HELP IN THE RESURRECTIONS....AND THANKS FOR THE SPECTACULAR VIDEO....

[@thedogbarked123]

GE Radio Mouse Unit : Funding the Madness - Still Better Than Netflix

[@donmoore7785]

FOUR eye tubes in one piece of equipment. Who needs an O-scope? Sweet collection.

[@LyonsArcade]

That Crosley is ready for prime time. Beautiful little t.v. , I hope you're able to get her going!

[@danielknepper6884]

Quit blocking people

[@stephenhall6595]

Your the best US vintage TV and Radio repairer on You Tube.

[@andyk3950]

1931 radio gets my vote. Great score of electronics!

[@cocusar]

I actually feel really positive about all of these specimens, not only because you'll get some fun out trying to resurrect them, but also because it means a lot of content for us to enjoy. Thank you shango!

[@KeyboardBuster]

Ditto, thank God it fell into shangos hands and not some soulless copper scrapper goof. It's made me cry blood thinking of the goodies from the 20s to modern vintage getting destroyed for a little bit of copper

[@volvo09]

That Radio Shack Nascar scanner was intended to pick up the bands nascar teams would talk on so you could hear them doing their thing at a race.

[@GinnyHazleton]

I have a newer version of that radio with more bands on it. They can be hooked to a computer and programmed with the driver's name, frequency, and car number. They can be used to scan or you can type in a car number to hear them. You could listen to the officials and the comms driver and pits. Probably not too useful anymore as everything is digital and encrypted now.

[@whitelion7976]

I was using a TV like the 2 at the beginning of the video during my US road trip in early 2000 and I found it at a service station in a trashcan. It got dropped and cracked the PC board. After using a gas soldering iron sitting on the end of the veranda of the station jumping tracks and people watching me I plugged it in the cigarette lighter jack and it jumped right on a station.. nice car tv.

[@GoodLuckBP]

I enjoy your videos Thank you. I left So Cal many years ago. A fellow HAM.

[@W1RMD]

I have to ask myself why do I always wait until dinner time to watch your videos. Cool looking stuff though, and condiments come at no extra charge! Thanks for showing. Your videos are never boring!

[@JerryEricsson]

When I was just beginning my work life, I worked at a truck plaza in Minnesota pumping fuel and gas We sold those little TV's and 8 track tape players, I was very good at pushing these items and actually got promoted to supervisor in about 4 months for my sales technique. While I never made my profession in sales, it was fun at the time.

[@donmoore7785]

You probably could have sold used cars if you were able to sell that trash.

[@nickb.8876]

39:23 that Philco is a 54C. Neat little set, watch out for open coils. Especially in a Diaper lovers special like that. Great stuff!

[@scottlangille9900]

What year 1930's?

[@nickb.8876]

@@scottlangille9900Probably 1933/34

[@bradstearns5384]

The Packard bell then the 2 scopes then the old wooden radios. Great video.

[@bandersentv]

12JP4 used a little snap button HV connector and had no ion trap so they always have burns. I'm sure yours was replaced with a 12LP4 and they spliced in the more common anode connector.

[@bandersentv]

Did you forget you resurrected the same model Crosley a couple years ago? Crosley uses a 6AF7 eye tube. Similar to a Dumont RA-103 and very well made.

[@MrCrystalcranium]

Yeah…commented on the brass screens behind the top ventilation slots

[@BillMorse-jr2ou]

this is a treat - thank you, Shango, for posting.... 1948 Crosley 87CQ radio/record player console with early FM headed for destruction. Five dollars ransom paid. After replacing the missing 5Y3 rectifier and a slow power up, the radio played SW and FM. AM? I suspect it was disabled by a technician who foresaw the coming of talk radio..... that's a joke, son.

[@michaelpedde2313]

The Philco Radio's Model number is 57C made in 1933.. I hope this helps!

[@radiotvphononut]

That Sears set was made by Sanyo (564 chassis number prefix) and I think it's one of the last Sears tube sets from about '75 (a bargain-basement set).

[@rdg2124]

Awesome finds, thanks for sharing. That 1931 GE radio looks interesting, can't wait to it resurrected.

[@foureyedchick]

When I was in High School there was a teacher who taught us how to use AV equipment. His name was Mr. Baurenfiend. Most kids called him Mr. B, but some called him Mr. Barn Find, not kidding!!! I thought of him when Paul uploaded this video!

[@TheRadioShop]

That is a heap of vintage stuff. Like the old Clough Brengle equipment. I have the CB-10 signal generator. Did a tear down on it a few years back. Thanks for showing.

[@Fredy5100]

What a find... lots of history right there. My vote for first resurrection is that little Philco TV. There is something especially appeling for me in little roundies... Thank you for sharing all of this!

[@directcurrent5751]

Roundies!

[@1McMurdoSilver]

I vote for the 7" Philcos and the early two Clough Brengle scopes

[@keithjordan7545]

I like the Clough Brendle scope and the RCA Chanlyst. I'd like to see them working, the RCA is rare!! Designed to be a one stop radio fixit tool.

[@Suddenlyits1960]

Shango,The Philco table radio at 37:55 is a Philco model 54C from 1933

[@Suddenlyits1960]

That Philco needs a rat trap more than an ion trap.

[@bandersentv]

Oh man that poor Philco 702. Collectors love the Rider Chanalyst - 4 eye tube goodness.

[@herbertsusmann986]

That Crosley uses a DuMont RA-103 chassis. Solid chassis.

[@50shadesofbeige88]

Best line of the whole video: "Mmmm flavor country".

[@telocho]

The Norelco will be hard to ressurect. It needs another chassis as TV receiver. The tube inside the Schmidt optics will instanly burn whenever the raster is missing. There is protection circuitry to prevent this, but that can fail too and in general make fault finding difficult. You would at best use a sacrificial tube during fault finding. Searching for Protelgram will give lots of info on this. The EHT line transformer is made for 25kV which was high for the time, so it is canned an submerged in oil. Later it was analyzed in a lab by someone and it did not contain PCB’s. Dates around 1948-1953. I have myself a Philips TX701 but in non working state.

[@kevinkier6790]

I hope you do a fourth of July special video. It always warms my heart! 🎉🎊

[@TrevorsBench]

Lol, I love how they stamped "USA" on all those transistors in that HK Nobility radio. Notice they were stamped after they were soldered in

[@blobscott]

"Wow.. that is just so horrible, I might have to buy it." hahaha. I vote to give the graph-o-scope things a wake up call. I used to have a TEK 535 with some interesting plugins and tossed it because I thought it would be best to unclutter my life. Permanent regret.

[@johnsampson1096]

I believe the Chanaylst was unique, you could hook it up to all sections of the receiver, and observing the eye tubes would help identify a defective stage. Quite a feature in its day..................

[@mikefinn2101]

Nice barn find some good history. The 1931 radio is very rare and I hope you get it working. Love it when they tac in a cap instead of replacing. I hate it when they do that. another great Saturday Morning with Shango.

[@rayislooking2]

I love the test equipment most then old radios then transistor radios then TV Thanks for sharing

[@billmyke746]

@4:00 May I suggest, Eol material. Or perhaps impact mitigation testing vs. rotational inertia. (Lawnmower test.)

[@allanransby7119]

I find the test equipment very interesting. I've worked at an electronic company, repairing old fashion tube-color tv and audio. I'd liked the audio-division best. I believe that somehow I was good at repairing loudspeakers and amplifiers. My interess in Tandberg products really came up, and I bought all my own equipment: Oscilloscope, power supply etc. and then I've got marriaged and all the good stuff went down in the basement until it was flooded. I've lost all my components and equipment, so now I'm following youre side every week, and maybe some day I'll get back and build the amplifier I sometimes dream of. Good old fashion discrete components and really high-end stereo sound. Also on vinylplayer. Somehow it sounds better in my ears.

[@eigos]

13:21 ...the silence foretells the stuff Shango's about to say next. I just love this content so much...

[@JerryEricsson]

We had a little scope like that built into our Radio Teletype rig. It was used to tune the NSK/FSK signals before transmission. I thought it was cute but never really got a lot of use out of it. The fact that I learned OJT instead of attending the training center on that radio set, I guess I never really knew what the hell it was supposed to do. All I knew was how to operate it, I learned over in nam when they were pulling out troops and not replacing those who went home. I cross trained from switchboards to land line teletype, then to Radio Teletype. It. was a good thing as when I got back to the States and got my sergeant's stripes I got Communications Chief MOS and had my own section.

[@Kinann]

6:24 My dad's bedroom tv, making us the first family to have a 2nd TV, a Zenith of course. Watched the winter olympics on Wide World of Sports on that thing.

[@tarstarkusz]

49:05 Using arcade machines and monitors as a benchmark, I'd say very, very high to wear out a CRT. Most of these arcade machines were run 16 hours a day or more for years on end. Same with monitors. A lot of people just left them on all the time so they didn't have to wait for the boot the next day (in office buildings). Most of them still work fine when they are found. Though, to be fair, monitors and arcade machines went out of current generation in a relatively short time.

[@bradstearns5384]

Arcade crts were made at the same time when house hold crts started lasting longer. My parents had a sears 27" console tv from 84 to 2000 and never had to adjust brightness on it. Damn thing ran for at least 8 hours a day. It had a vertical deflection cap dry up in about 92 that got replaced but that was it. We gave it away to a neighbor in 2000 and it still had a great picture.

[@tarstarkusz]

@@bradstearns5384 All of the early Atari B&W arcade machines used a B&W TV. But you are correct about the later ones lasting longer as the technology matured.

[@wx4newengland]

Ohhh I see the kitchen tv my folks had, the 5 inch portable sets. Our sets were branded “ Lenox Sound” with a date of March 1989

[@wx4newengland]

One thing I remember is that the speaker sounded really good. Also did really good at pulling in fringe UHF stations

[@mauryfeskanich4523]

I would love to see the Chanalyst get a full restoration. If you’re not really into that, maybe see if Paul Carlson is interested? In any case, nice haul! I look forward to the future videos!

[@donmoore7785]

I think that is targeted for parts!

[@markpirateuk]

Great haul, some real nice early TV's, my vote is for one of those.

[@PSG159er]

“Presidential sampler” 😂😂😂

[@tarstarkusz]

I want to see you get that projection TV working with the TV shown at 55:20 The one that you believe was initially driving the projection TV. That is by-far the coolest thing in the whole trash pile.

[@Foxonian]

I used to get those little b/w tv's back in the 90's at flea markets. They were small enough to fit in my locker at work and I could watch them during my lunch break. Of course the CRT's tended to fail on them after hard use but they were dirt cheap back then sold under a lot of names fro Unatech to Avalon.

[@alejandrodelta8928]

38:07 Oh yeah baby, that cord is ready to plug in "shango-style" 😄

[@ricardosalesdemello4130]

Oh yeah shango, gostei,, seus vídeos são ótimos, e adorei ver os equipamentos eletrônicos & antigos abraços shango adoro seus vídeos Oh yeah! shango, I like it, your videos are great, and I loved seeing the electronic & antique equipment hugs shango I love your videos

[@QsTechService1]

Definitely can't wait to see that projector up and running that looks like some Sweet old technology

[@Vet-co9ik]

Shango066, your comments you make crack me up. Can't wait to hear more about the cone free speaker. Would also be cool to eventually see the Norelco projector in action.

[@stevencarlson5422]

Oh for sure want to see the projector and the set going with it working, but the simple Packard bell would be fun

[@2packs4sure]

That Crosley is a clone of the Stromberg Carlson TV12, now what the Stromberg was a clone of I don't know ,, but it's got the inductuner which I think was a Dumont or Mallory design and channel 1 which is cool..

[@markmarkofkane8167]

Wow! Over an hour! 👍 The pair of tvs's after the projection type: looks something like my dad's slide projector. The shape, the handle on top. Really cool stuff

[@douggrisack5916]

I have one those in good condition. Works good.

[@connorm955]

Interesting. A Sears (Sanyo) tube set. I wonder how many of those are still around. I mostly see solid state Sears TVs.

[@albear972]

Those small Deluxe TV's were all over the place from 1984-1990. They were sold by a couple of dozen brand names. And the good old days, I had a Bearcat 800XLT scanner when I was a teen. I loved listening to cell phones and cordless phones on it. It was very, very entertaining! I may have heard some talk about a drug deal or two, also fights over the phone. Gawd! I can only imagine how nasty those TVs with the rat crap smell. 🤢How about resurrecting that TV with the humongous electric chair transformer?

[@LyonsArcade]

The part at the end where you were talking so much game to the guy was hilarious

[@mydogpeaches1]

i just have to honestly say i have been an avid viewer for some years now and i really enjoy the content especially the commentary sometimes i just can’t stop laughing because it is just so good i honestly enjoyed the presidential platter that had me struggling to breathe i also have learned from your experience in your method of testing and have applied this to my own personal ways in testing in diagnostics of electrical problems in automotive systems so i appreciate you sharing your experience on youtube anyway you asked what to resurrect and i would honestly love to see more of the ge radio that things roughly had a hard time but would really be amazing resurrected

[@richardmiranda5357]

Nice finds... Just wanted to add a comment about the Philco Radio with no model on it. It is the Model 54C from June 1931, AKA cigar box pee-wee. Can't wait see the "resurrection" of this radio.

[@tarstarkusz]

1:00:35 The nice thing about that speaker is they are really easy to re-cone and you could even make the cone yourself.

[@migsvensurfing6310]

Scopes! I love the scopes !

[@pcno2832]

22:56 That reminds me of an RCA record player I had when I was a kid. The wooden case had a 1947 date stamp on it, but the V-M changer had 4 speeds, suggesting the early 1950s, so that case must have sat around for 4 years waiting to be stuffed.

[@KentTeffeteller]

That RCA phono you own, was 78 RPM only. When LP and 45 RPM records came into use, that phono had a 4 speed record changer installed in the 1956-1957 era to play modern records on.

[@andrewprettyquick2070]

RCA R5 - If you don't want to restore that, I would do the cabinet and caps on it. Thats so sweet. Like... Gothic arches and stuff. Sandpaper, turps, old speaker cloth and varnish. A dream job. Quintessential. Quaint.

[@chrisingle5839]

I think the little oscilloscope with the green front would be fun. Curious how the waveforms would appear.

[@jeffreyhickman3871]

That’s quite a pick of radios 📻 and TV’ a 📺. I never 👎 find such great 👍 yard sales. That projector 📽️ sounds like 👍 a GREAT 👍 school 🏫 find. Your friend, Jeff.

[@Barbarra63297]

I'd like to see any of those tabletop radios brought back to life.

[@waltschannel7465]

Clough Brendle Oscopes Those pieces were the most interesting to me because of their rarity, and the restoration interest.

[@jackallen6261]

For my money I'd like to see the old tube radios Frankenstiened back to life first...I really like the old Crosley TV's but yeah I know there's not much chance of that any time soon so yeah! Radios it is for me!! Love the channel

[@n2n8sda]

30s radio sets are my favourite! So much progress made in that decade

[@buddyvanspankeren8255]

My favorite to work again wouldt be that cathedral radio ...

[@Benthejeepster_87]

A few moths ago I went and brought a philco cathedral model 37-60 all original working condition with some wear on it

[@Desert-edDave]

@Shango066 That radio appears to look like a Philco 57C based on the cabinet design.

[@agostinodibella9939]

A nice collection of vintage entertainment devices.

[@hestheMaster]

Would like to see a video on that GE T-12 ( Midget). It even has it's original wood knobs despite it's baked appearance. It is rare to see one. The Clough-Brengler oscillograph is full of cheap plastic encased wax paper capacitors. Who wouldn't want a RCA Chanalyst? I have one and it is in much better shape. Needs a full recapping. That very old wood Philco radio with the metal back is a model 54C, the middle version with the photofinish front, from 1933. Great video Shango.

[@randyab9go188]

Excellent!! A 1" scope using a 913 tube. Always wanted one of those for the novelty value.😊

[@HavingFunRepairs]

All I will find entertaining, but the test equipment for sure has my interest.

[@CLUBNEON-m6i]

Just sharing my experience with aging CRT's: got my first tv set for Xmas in 1994, it was a Broksonic CTVG5454 with a crappy Chinese tube that never had vibrant colors, it was a 21inch with a skinny neck and I used it as a daily driver till 2010 (4-5 hours on, contrast at 100% and brightness in the middle) and, before that, was used occasionally to watch my collection of VHSes. It was finally thrown in the dump in 2021 during a renovation, and the CRT wasn't holding the convergence, colors were a bit washed (specially the red gun) but it was still producing a picture. During this time it had some work done: capacitors around the STR ic, flyback and horizontal output transistor.

[@CLUBNEON-m6i]

And yes, I know these old 1940s to 1960s CRT's weren't as strong as the later ones, but I figured it might get you guys an idea of how many hours these sets might have. And for the Gen Z: people would use their tvs as they use their phones today! I wouldn't be surprised if a set from 1948 would be left on 12 hours a day, everyday.

[@johnnytacokleinschmidt515]

​@@CLUBNEON-m6iI'm not too sure. In the early days there wasn't 24 hour a day television. Sometimes just a few hours in the evening. And people were more conservative with their time and attention.

[@GinnyHazleton]

If my parents and grandparents were any example... Their TVs went on as soon as they got up in the AM, off for work, then back on as soon as they got home until bed time. I remember the big zenith blew its tuner half way into the 1994 Superbowl and it was from the mid 70s. Doing the math, its almost 50,000 hours. The pic was still good but there was no UHF and it became the new TV stand.

[@pcno2832]

11:35 Is that a direct connection to the deflection plates? I thought I'd heard of scopes being used that way.

[@ShadowsOnTheScreen]

I think seeing one of those oscilloscopes work again would be neat.

[@josephtome9600]

For the entire decade pf the 90's one of those 5 inch B/W sets was my shop TV. The CRT has a direct heated cathode and thus the set was easy on current. In the end I gave it to a homeless guy. It was still going strong.

[@joeblow8593]

27:24 That Crosley must be pretty old, it has channel 1

[@gabrielleeliseo6062]

@shango066 I don't know if anyone commented on the model for the heterodyne Philco, but it's Model 54C from January 1934.

[@directcurrent5751]

I'd like to see one of the olde televisions restored. More tubes the better.

[@Pablo-he7gm]

Cool stuff. I really lile the look of the oscilloscopes. Related to resurrections, the most interesting one for me would be the Norelco as I've never seen a b/w projection TV in action. But that would mean to also resurrect the little set that was sitting on top of it... too much work and a lot of uncertainties also, I know.

[@kinasc1575]

What an absolutely brilliant collection of old electronic stuff, and thanks for the nudge on oscilloscope Museum, I'll have to see if they've got any info on mine.👍🏻

[@audubon5425]

16:00 - Sears code 564 is Sanyo

[@petemiksich5760]

The Sears set was manufactured by Sanyo, according to my archival data.

[@Skyler_Hagen]

That chanalyst deserves a proper restoration, that’s a dream of mine to own one of those.

[@socalwill9876]

Re: Hours/runtime - My parents moved into the house I grew up in in 1980 with a brown plastic-bodied 19" hybrid color Zenith, we didn't replace it until 1993. In the Our-TV-Is-Always-On 80's, it did dinner-to-bed workdays and breakfast-to bed weekends; that comes out to right around 40,000 hours, or nearly 5 years if nonstop. It had only one repair during that time and worked without issue/showed no signs of deterioration for years after that. My mom smoked and we owned cats, so it would've gotten the Flavor Country achievement from the repairman as well.

[@SpinStar1956]

Shango: I would implore you not to destroy the RCA Channelyst. These are actually great units and were to a degree the zenith of the radioman's test-bench. I would restore it and actually use it. Look up the manual and sales blurps, you will see the utility of the unit. I have one and I really like it! As far as choice goes, I favor the little 1" O'scope but everything you got is pretty good and I think you should work on what you want! Anyway, great videos and channel; so carry-on man! 73...

[@pcno2832]

15:26 It's kind of slick the way they combine the VHF and UHF dials. Not of much practical advantage, but impressive nonetheless.

[@davepike6170]

I'd love to see that little Clough-Brengel "Oscillograph" working too!

[@cfd_novotroitsk]

38:40 It's a Philco model 59C or 58C from 1934 or 1935

[@erikdenhouter]

I hope you did not mis the little one on 58:37. Beauty with that sort of young corn plant in the grill. And the most interesting case for me is the cabinet on 1:04 , the Norelco Dual View. Looks like that cabinet is solid oak.

[@Martin-io4wc]

At 59:07 I saw what looks like an SWL RX. That might be of interest to me. After that one or two of the transistor radios….

[@Martin-io4wc]

Correction, it may be a ham transceiver….

[@hugh007]

That Norelco projection thing looks related to Philco products, from the knobs to the Loctal tubes. I had a 1948 48-xxx Philco with a 10BPB that used those things.

[@dougbrowning82]

Norelco was Philips brand in the USA. It was used to prevent confusion with Philco, which Philips eventually bought out. We always had Philips in Canada.

[@telocho]

This is from Philips, not Philco. The projection units were known as Protelgram. Searching for that keyword in google gives lots of historic info. Protelgram uses something called Schmidt optics. The line output transformer is made for 25kV, very high in those years, and it canned and submerged in oil. It was made probably between 1949-1953.

[@MrCrystalcranium]

I’m working on my 50T-702 and I thought mine was dirty! Mud dauber wasp nests…that’s a new one. Never seen that inside a TV or radio.

[@TrevorsBench]

Reminder to self, don't eat breakfast while Shango does his evaluation videos