Box Of Small Radios Kensington AM Transistor Radio Repair

[@fiddlyphuk6414]

I found an 8 transistor Zenith Deluxe Royal at a local flea market that does honestly use all 8 transistors. Has an RF front end and a separate mixer oscillator for stability. Works like a champ and very good sensitivity. Someone's junk is now my treasure.

[@steve732]

Absolutely Shango's channel here is the best. My #1 of all of them. Truth, Humor and quality diagnostics.

[@cgschow1971]

My grandfather used to tell me, the most dangerous tool you can have is a dull knife.

[@PaulaXism]

I think the last 2 1/2 years have taught most of us that THE most dangerous thing to have around us is a dull brain. Luckily the people who come here don't have one of those.

[@stirlingschmidt6325]

Well done! It just isn't the weekend, without a shango double-header!

[@zulumax1]

Yes, indeed!👍

[@LyonsArcade]

I don't care, I'm a sucker for those little shiny transistor radios, LOL The best part of it is they don't take up much room so you can buy everyone of them you see if it's cheap....

[@KameraShy]

"City of New Orleans" was originally written and performed by Steve Goodman. One of the few good things to come out of Chicago. Later covered by Arlo Guthrie and others.

[@jimdayton8837]

Love that song!

[@eigos]

24:10 Never change, Shango! This is why I love your channel so much, the repairs are always fascinating to watch (I love audio equipment especially), and the comments and sarcasm are just making my day every single time! Big thanks for doing what you do, I appreciate it!

[@jdmccorful]

Ditto!!

[@bigsky1970]

Totally agree. I come here for the education and the entertainment value.

[@chuckermatinger3794]

YES! Transistor radios calm me down in this nutso world.

[@hestheMaster]

Great repair. Nothing on a circuit board is found bad by accident but by careful observation of the traces. Old E-caps being replaced is a given to make sure there isn't anything else bad either.

[@d.c.hammond130]

National treasure. I feel like some folks don't want to like him because he infers right wing PoV. Cancel Culture has its place condemning old racists and slave owners. But condemning such an intelligent and entertaining person for opinion is harsh. Unamerican.

[@thrillscience]

I love that tuning dial at @18:17 -- they spent so much care and attention for this important detail

[@TechGorilla1987]

@1:18 - When your knives are about as sharp as our dear leader, you're bound to have trouble with tape.

[@777jones]

Cool I had a Kensington unit like that as a kid. It worked. This was about 1990.

[@Rev22-21]

@18:00...... You're right. Like the saying goes " tell a lie enough times and it becomes the truth". @26:57 That particular version of City of New Orleans was sang by Arlo Guthrie. As far as sensitivity....I think it is pretty sensitive myself. Just sayin'

[@hmbpnz]

The irony is that you understand that but you appear to be on the wrong side of it.

[@uTube486]

@@hmbpnz I'm not part of this comment, I wonder what you mean by "wrong side of it".

[@hmbpnz]

@@uTube486 Sorry, thought that you were supporting Shango's idiotic claims of COVID being a hoax. I sometimes wonder if he just says this shit to rile people up. He seems otherwise intelligent.

[@minty_Joe]

Quote: Like the saying goes " tell a lie enough times and it becomes the truth". Genesis (the band) had a song that delve into that concept, they titled it, "Keep It Dark".

[@Suddenlyits1960]

My favorite color wise would be the Montgomery wards “airline”, I like the “honey tone” too. The airline is in excellent physical condition!

[@rfburns5601]

@ 27:04 - That was Aelo Guthrie. You woulda liked him Shango; he was the master of cryptic nonsense responses. He recommended walking into draft offices during the height of the Vietnam War, and saying "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant, excepting Alice!" , as a means of avoiding the draft. Check out Alice's Restaurant Mass-o-cree in three part harm-o-nee!

[@minty_Joe]

"...27 8-by-10 color glossy pictures, with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, describing the quote 'scene-of-the-crime' unquote." 🤣🤣

[@johnnytacokleinschmidt515]

The Honeytone and Airline radios are beautiful.

[@jimmiddleton5093]

I just wanted to say hello for a change. I watch your videos faithfully and have learned so much from them. I rarely ever comment but always give you a 👍

[@jrocco36]

I have one of those Kensington AM radios with something like 15 or 16 transistors. It's crazy how many useless transistors they used to stuff into these radios.

[@Suddenlyits1960]

Yep,it was all about getting the transistor count up. Pure marketing decision. The more transistors it has the better radio it must be.

[@jrocco36]

@@Suddenlyits1960 I just pulled out the Kensington I have and sure enough 16 transistors. I also have a Mark T that has a mere 15. I picked up a 10 Transistor Juliette that has a sticker on the bottom that says " This Receiver uses a 10 transistor circuit wich complies with the FTC ruling on Transistor cont of Dec. 10 1968" so it looks like the FTC did crack down on ploy they where pulling off on radio customers. BTW the Kensington only has one stage IF and isn't any better then a 6 transistor radio.

[@randyab9go188]

@@jrocco36 I have an American made 10 transistor Jewel radio that when you remove the redundant transistors in the audio output and replace one transistor that is functioning as a diode you have a seven transistor set that performs like a seven transistor radio should. Nothing all that special.

[@Suddenlyits1960]

@JRocco 36,thanks for sharing the info on the sticker. I had remembered that the FTC cracked down on the inflated transistor count but couldn’t remember when exactly it happened. They’d just toss in transistors that didn’t do anything and weren’t even hooked up so they could claim their set had 14 transistors. More equals better in the average consumers mind.

[@hanginglow420]

I live in Southern Alberta,Canada and on most evenings can listen to KNX no problem!

[@d.c.hammond130]

Loud and clear down to the border. I hope they don't end the AM now that they are on 97.1

[@hanginglow420]

@@d.c.hammond130 Yes hopefully they keep the AM up and running, would be a shame to loose it

[@randyc8171]

I have a 1963 Wards Airline Cigarette pack storage transistor radio. Looks like a tiny table radio with a flip open top to store one pack of regular or king size cigarettes plus matches or a lighter. Plus a place to stick your initials from a furnished sheet of them. It is called a Solid State Table Radio model 1706. DC powered.

[@lawrencedoe8011]

Sensitivity good enough for Kensington Avenue.

[@NickNorton]

I like your Safety Knife. Seems OK for even a child to have, while running. 😄

[@briankeller788]

Nice PSA, but it's upside down.

[@johnnytacokleinschmidt515]

As it should be as it is indeed upside-down.

[@tectalabyss]

Hi Shango0. Love the videos. I like reading the comments to see how many get offended, " By the truth " Always good for a laugh. Liked,shared. All my best.

[@d.c.hammond130]

Surely no one is coming to You Tube for the truth??? LMFAO

[@tectalabyss]

@@d.c.hammond130 You know you really have a point. Thank you, even if it was to make me look silly : )

[@drsysop]

Tune was Arlo Guthrie - City Of New Orleans from 1972.

[@douro20]

I have one Sylvania radio from the late 1950s which has only four transistors as it uses one as both an oscillator and mixer. Not the best performer but still quite good for just a four transistor radio.

[@fiddlyphuk6414]

Sounds like you have NPR crapping up your AM band there.

[@jeffreyhickman3871]

Another treasure trove of radios 📻. I bet ya can recap all of these. My favorite radio is the one with an 8 on it. This high sensitivity radio also looks great, too. Just be careful with the knife 🔪, ya don’t want to scratch up your radios. The “8” gets pretty good reception, but I’m not even sure of capacitor condition. I’m not sure 🤔 what year the “8” radio is. I’ll guess circa 1975. Your friend, Jeff.

[@moisesalexandrewielckensci3237]

Very good, always has new information. I like these content with portable radios. Guaranteed learning.

[@johnnytacokleinschmidt515]

2:00 "Rock, bubble wrap, scissors!"

[@brianmoore5498]

Nice radio repair and stand up comedy too

[@simeonchristensen5551]

I love your videos they are entertainment for me to watch and some of them are funny

[@d.jeffdionne]

The audio feeding through and appearing on the oscillator is because the power supply is being modulated. Lightbulb allows that, and then the bias follows the power supply.

[@mervynstent1578]

Taking about blood clots, must be climate change! 😂

[@ricardosalesdemello4130]

Ah olá shango boa noite, é velho amigo, gostei de ver você ter arrumado os Radinhos

[@mattryan4816]

Nothing but the best!

[@joeblow8593]

8:22 "See if we can spend $5,000 fixing a 50 cent radio" lol

[@gabrielleeliseo6062]

They want to pretend all the clotting just seems to be incidental.

[@UHF43]

Here in Europe they're blaming the climate change.

[@d.c.hammond130]

I'm the brains behind all REAL conspiracies.

[@LakeNipissing]

0:00 . . . *_From 'safe and effective' to 'suddenly and unexpectedly'._*

[@iamrichrocker]

VOA radio LA sends the truth...thx Shango

[@cjjones999]

“Tape is convenient, but it’s a pain in the ass.” -Shango066, 2022

[@BG101UK]

Great video as always, only one thing missed out of this one though .. can it pick up our favourite station? I'm sure we all know which one I mean. 😉

[@tarstarkusz]

Check out the highwaymen's version of City of New Orleans. It's a great song.

[@trevorecullinanesr]

Love your videos man. Look forward to all of them

[@Antony_Jenner]

Shango delivers every time!

[@jerrymalone8370]

I was hoping to hear the "This is a test" station!

[@auchterawer1150]

That Caltrans robot station is in the extended band, I think around 1610 KHz. This radio didn't seem to tune that high, until Shango tweaked the oscillator trimmer cap.

[@jerrymalone8370]

@@auchterawer1150 I didn't know Caltrans owned it. What's it all about?

[@k4vms]

The radio with the 8 on it, 8 transistor. I would think when connected to 6 VDC starts off loud and then slowly get quieter. That’s because there is a sudden input a surge of power maybe not quite 9 VDC but enough to drive the components as the surge goes away and it’s just a constant 6 VDC then the radio gets gradually gets quieter due to lack of voltage. Ricky from IBM, Ret in the Free Independent Constitutional Republic of Florida (no longer from Simi Valley)

[@auchterawer1150]

My first thought was an open emitter bias resistor. The bypass cap would charge up, raising the emitter bias until it got close to the base voltage, then the transistor shuts off. The problem with that idea is that unless the cap was really leaky, or had another discharge path, it would stay charged, and the radio would only do that once, until the cap's charge bled off. When he found the open trace, that was sort of like having an open resistor. I don't know if that was the ground trace to an emitter resistor though.

[@acoustic61]

That old radio is picking up 70's music! Twilight Zone!

[@thecelticprince4949]

Greetings from NZ via Santa Catarina Brazil.

[@Mrshoujo]

I always use my Tetanus Blade when opening boxes. ✔

[@chetpomeroy1399]

At 17:52, _"just keep repeating it"_ which was Josef Goebbels' strategy for manipulating "the masses." Ah yes, I remember Arlo Guthrie's _City of New Orleans_ back in 1972. Those were the days.

[@olradguy]

My Facebook posts to the libs sometime include the statement attributed to Goebbels " accuse the other side of which you are guilty" drives 'em nuts. 😁

[@Suddenlyits1960]

Sadly,that strategy seems be highly effective.

[@chetpomeroy1399]

@@olradguy Projection is a very effective tactic used by toxic, manipulative people.

[@hadibq]

Every repair has its fun and discoveries! With a bonus of witty comments from shango06 :)

[@iowalife6562]

No Clot shot here !

[@chezsnailez]

That 'Honeytone' is kinda neat-lookin', as is the Airline - you can't tune smarter... Snailie lichen... Shame they're not even crackle-pony working... BTW, that's Arlo Guthrie singing 'City of New Orleans'... song gives us the feels...

[@jggmobile]

Shango you need a sharper butter knife. Love the videos.

[@zulumax1]

I wonder what chain store sold Kensington? Gamble/Skogmo for the yellow Coronado which you have a video up. Good catch on the visual of the broken trace, these do get dropped quite often, so not unexpected or surprising failure there. Great video man!

[@andrewagner2035]

Greetings from Cape Town.

[@davidhollfelder9940]

Ship using double sided Velcro around the bubble wrap. It’s easy to undo, and all is reusable.

[@zulumax1]

One of those rubber bands that comes around asparagus would work too. If I use clear tape, I always leave a folded over tab to grab on to, and you don't need the tape to go round and round.

[@Tony770jr]

What do you do with these radios after they are repaired? Do you sell them?

[@705johnnyboy]

i bought a cool amfm aristone walkman radio a few months ago ,i use it at night to drift of to sleep,sometimes the bbc world service stops me lol ,sounds nice...

[@thatguywill066]

The old clot shot

[@brigganthewolf1461]

I have a similar issue with my 1972 Sony CF-350, except it's with the FM band where the upper and lower extremes can't be picked up at all, and in the middle of the band, the stations are either strong and clear, or marginally listenable. AM works fine. I also have a Sanyo M-7735 that is completely dead, and the Cassette door is jammed and won't eject. There is a tape inside it. I've also got a GE 3-6025A with the early digital tuner and it acts strange as well, won't pick up anything but some random ass weak station that it's locked to on FM, and AM is in 9Khz intervals rather than the 10Khz here in the US. Bare in mind it worked perfectly the first few days I had it. Now both bands act bizarrely, and most of the buttons below the display don't do anything whereas that was not the case before.

[@canuhonk7433]

Joe says to Hunter: "Guess what your sister said while she was losing her virginity." Hunter: "Dad, please don't'" Joe: "Exactly!"

[@volvo09]

nice repair. kind of a useless radio though... looks like one of those you have to put on a table and stay still to tune, then when you pull your hand away or walk to the other side of the room the station is gone.

[@dontknowbrian]

The resurrection channel for transistor radios! Come one come all and bring your unworthy radios with you! Lol

[@p1nesap]

A few months ago I emailed you about a '66 GE transistor radio reed speaker fix and inquired about how you receive viewer projects. How does your viewer project submission/mailing process work?

[@joebrock9784]

Change the tune of the pastors on one of those mushrooms to the badger for a capacitor, a Russian capacitor, since we were so fond of those, and always thinking about Bayou

[@hydromakers]

When I saw the first radio, I knew what was wrong with them all (Is that good or what).

[@SpinStar1956]

Would have been very-interesting to actually know what line in the circuit that trace-break was at. It is interesting to note that a serviceman can encounter some of the most-bizarre symptoms that when described to an engineer are beyond his belief. If you really want to know electronics, find all manner of electronic devices and do exactly what Shango does--bring them back into operation. However, Shango could save himself a lot of trouble, if instead of all this troubleshooting stuff, he'd instead just give the radio a shot of 'clotzine!'

[@mikefinn2101]

Great quick fix, will be doing the other two radios?

[@cardboardboxification]

I think my car keys are sharper then that knife

[@tarstarkusz]

Just so you know, "Bob Dylan" is actually named Robert Allen Zimmerman! They always try to hide their identity. He totally sucks. I don't know why anyone ever liked Zimmerman!

[@d.c.hammond130]

For many years, he has been living in the elite customs he once attacked. Believing a folk singer is Messiah material never ends. Woody Allen: "Look here comes god out of the men's room."

[@AIJenkins]

@10:09 Yet both crocks are red. 🎈 lLove your vid’s.

[@jamesplotkin4674]

Geez, I'd have thought you would know a dull knife is dangerous. Get hold of a good utility knife with a sharp blade and you'll have a happy life ;-)

[@WoodyFletcher]

The opening reminded me that I need to sharpen my knife : )

[@Steven-re7xt]

I dont know. I have a kit radio with local osc, and filtered final. a chip. +Filter and it runs rings around the super het. From the same co hi hi...and i find that the less parts the less system noise...

[@mrclubike]

Thanks!

[@jeffreyhickman3871]

P.S.,”Let’s see if we can spend $5000.00 to fix a 50 cent radio”. LOL 😂 😂😂. Your friend, Jeff.

[@phillanassa759]

Not Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie.., of 'Alices Restaurant' fame, also 'Coming into Los Angeles' . Radio kids between certain ages, I'm 54, remember all those songs. Love the rant "repeat it enough people will believe its true" True enough in the Millennial/Snowflake era.

[@roneckler9937]

If a transistor has the center lead cut out is that typically used as a diode, and can you check transistors with a VOM? I don't have a transistor tester that's why I ask.

[@beamer.electronics]

A diode can be made using either the transistor base to the collector or the base to the emitter - the spare lead doesn't need to be cut, but you can if you want. With this info: It's best to check both of those internal diodes with a DVM diode checker feature. If you only have a voltmeter (a current meter would be better), you would need to build a small test circuit. Hope this helps.

[@gregoryclemen1870]

nope!!!! it is arlo guthrie,"CITY OF NEW ORLEANS" and it is copyright protected

[@gregoryclemen1870]

written by steve goodman released on reprise records, (ASCAP) 1972, sony now owns the rights to this tune

[@rfburns5601]

the turette's is strong in this one.......

[@marjla]

🤣

[@chriscimino7854]

This little radio made me laugh. It sounds like it's big brother with a 60cycle hum when it's electrolytics go bad but this one is higher frequency hahahaha 😆 the entire radio oscillates. Hum from a battery hahahaha

[@worroSfOretsevraH]

Hey shango, could you do the Alpinist {Алпинист} 321 next? It has a FET input!

[@tedbell4416]

📻 👍

[@MrPillowStudios]

What is a transistor?

[@kd5ozy]

please sharpen that knife! It's giving me anxiety! haha

[@TonySkiens]

I live in Belgium and the pigeons sound the same as here

[@TechGorilla1987]

@21:17 - Politicians, much like baby diapers, must be changed often and for the same reasons.

[@Nirky]

That was Arlo Guthrie, son of Woody Guthrie.

[@robinsattahip2376]

What! You're not going to start at 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 volts to reform the caps? I think I'm starting my period.

[@markanderson350]

My brother had a small AM/FM Kensington with a real fake leather case.

[@richysradioroom]

Knx am is 100 years old now.

[@auchterawer1150]

That in itself is impressive, but Charles "Doc" Herrold was broadcasting in San Jose, California as early as 1909-1912. His station later became KQW, which is now KCBS. There was a gap during and right after World War One, where Doc was not on the air, but his original pre-WWI station is still usually considered as the first broadcast station keeping a regular schedule.

[@auchterawer1150]

Voice was being transmitted before 1909, by Fessenden, Poulsen, and others (around 1899-1906), but not as what we think of as "broadcasts" today.

[@richysradioroom]

@@auchterawer1150 He was listening to the radio station knx. Knx Los Angeles just turned 100 years old. But thanks.

[@auchterawer1150]

I had a longer message before the Herrold one, which mentioned KNX, but YT shadow-banned it (made it invisible)

[@d.c.hammond130]

K is west of Mississippi. Usually.

[@stall-u-rated1986]

Arlo Guthrie- city of New Orleans..

[@fiddlyphuk6414]

The City of New Orleans lives on thru Amtrak

[@MrHeem94]

"Somethings not working right there" I think this reality has a few busted capacitors.

[@mortwin6054]

nice vid as all ways got my self a radio of ebay but cant find any thing on line about it LOL |:)

[@tpcdude]

Tuning just like cracking a Mosler safe...

[@chevguy8587]

Sweet

[@aristocrat_000G]

butterknife, ahoy

[@Jimmyhaflinger]

city of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie

[@aarongunter5582]

I have a blood clot back in 2018 in my right leg