GE Color Roundie TV Majestic Stereo Phono Acquisition Trip

Vintage color television and England made Majestic stereo phonograph combo unit.
In the end we're all just chalk lines on the concrete Drawn only to be washed away

[@badreality2]

Shango066:"The thermostat is my main concern." Me: *looks at his fuel gauge* "Are you sure that should be your main concern?"

[@guitarpro248]

Lmfaoo for real... PAST E 😭🤣🤣🤣

[@BenHelweg]

I get such a kick out of your commentary over these videos!

[@MsCori76]

It’s such a shame that Majestic was left out in the weather. It’s a really beautiful looking unit to own, I would love to have this in my house.

[@vtjmproductionsusa2390]

What a great trip this has been. Thanks!

[@FordSeniorMaster]

"Vintage General Electric television to re-purpose. Well.... we can't let that happen now, can we??" Love your comments and humor!

[@markrhine5809]

Shango066, very interesting video, I enjoy your channel so much, you are so good at getting these TV;s working again, the things I have learned from watching you is my enjoyment, just wanted to say thank you, have a great day!!!

[@eviljoebob]

Glad to see someone saved that set

[@Wildman9]

Cork sniffers always get pissed.Then you got the Vintage dudes who want original parts.It never ends.Let's just see if the thing even still works.Goodjob.🔌🔋

[@MrFlyboy1972]

Nice to see some old Ferguson stuff. The old factory (now sadly gone) was about 8 miles away from where I live

[@lookoutleo]

i remember those old ferguson radio grams el84 output stage. very basic radio but good celestion speakers. the garard turn tables good quality, basicly the best ones were dynatron with the garard turntable , great find thou and in good condition

[@tough213]

yes you are really into your work and I really like your sense of humor it is a really good change from all the snooty too serious people . great video as always

[@martinda7446]

No its not a 6BQ5 its an EL84 originated conceived designed and built in England by Mullard. ))

[@andygozzo72]

same thing 😉

[@edwardallan197]

The TV is a simple elegant design. My childhood neighbor had that GE. They got long use out of it.

[@anthonylawrence60]

thats a Fergi radiogram i can tell just by looking at it from the late 50s early 60s common as dirt over here in the uk

[@gordongate]

"Oh its metal!"......"which is a bonus", " yeah, rust not termites". My sides! , that was just a perfect shutdown with the beautifully applied sprinkling of sarcasm before the guy used the opportunity to haggle the price back up.

[@jeromecabral7464]

I'm a vintage TV fan thanks for sharing

[@stevenking2980]

That's a sweet stereo. I bet it sounds great. Celestion speakers are preferred by a lot of guitar guys (like me) have them in my rig. Really love this video guys. Good work.

[@stevenking2980]

I'd live to have those speakers and amp to play guitar through.

[@umajunkcollector]

Black Widow EOL!

[@kittyfanatic1980]

Not my vehicles. The newest I have here is a 2001(built 8-22-2000) oldest is 1986. Of course living in California it's much different due to the crazy emissions laws. As always another enjoyable video.

[@rayfenwick8761]

Ventura highway in the sunshine :)

[@MarkShannonroad_videos]

Darn spiders! Interesting how after a good many years and the harsh environments that both the TV and radio just fired right up. Like to see a Chinese built flat screen TV or an smart phone do that under similar conditions. Very cool!

[@GrandsonofKong]

Five Finger Death Cricket for the GE Roundie TV unveiling!

[@ronalddaub7965]

Your neighborhood and surrounding area makes me want to go play Grand theft Auto v good job

[@skycarl]

On the road ventures with killer spiders and plug n play artifacts. Very cool. Thanks............. Carl

[@vinu496]

I like watch old model TV set

[@jerrycarriera8648]

Along came a spider and sat down beside him and scared little Mr Shango066 away!!!

[@sethhorst6158]

Nice, I think that's one of the last CRT televisions to have a screen in the shape of a circle.

[@Thevinylking69]

Seems like the trip was worth it. Nice suprise to see the television and console stereo were in operable condition after sitting outside.

[@orange70383]

Years and years ago when the Goodwill auction site first started not many people were hip to it yet and for $17 I bought a box of nos tubes. From the pics I could see a few tubes that were desirable. When I got them I was more than happy to find 16 black plate 1950's RCA 12ax7's and 27 Amperex Bugle boy 12ax7/ecc83's from holland plus a several RCA 6lq6's. All the tubes were new untouched perfect, I've never been able to get a deal like that again.

[@jimspeakerfreak3058]

man i love five finger death punch

[@Nikkibausch]

Loving these videos

[@walterbatman7949]

Interesting pieces

[@matieupizil424]

Celestion speakers are great, I've never seen them in hifi equipment. A good few high-end guitar amp brands use them. Very popular in guitar and bass amps.

[@differentname8051]

Matieu Pizil my b&w speakers from the seventies use celestion HF and they made a huge amount of there own speakers

[@wa6gxq]

Nice haul, I would take the majestic off your hands if i wasn't 3000 miles away. I used to drive that haul you did for over 25 years. Don't miss that part of LA.

[@PilotInCommand777]

At 6:22 The Sherman Oaks Galleria.. I lived in Tarzana a few years back, Frequented that mall. Took the 101FWY (parking lot) home every day. I actually, really miss it.

[@senorverde09]

I drop everything when a new Shango video comes out. Great video. Hope to see the two of you working on these sets pretty soon.

[@rompn4x]

The sounds of the Cologne 2.8L V6 makes me miss my old Ranger.

[@MissDiorsChickenFeet]

LOL!!You guys are so funny-everytime you see a bug it's like kill it kill it!! I guess that Black Widow spider inside the old stereo was spinning a web where people used to spin a disc???Lol

[@Halterung01]

Wow, these things are indestructible.

[@TheCRTProductions]

Two very interesting finds, and the TV wasn't fish tanked. Hooray for Shango066 even if he doesn't follow the mandatory vintage electronic repair guidelines.

[@LanceHall]

Most guys are out late at night chasing woman. Shango is out late at night testing old CRTs.

[@RetroGamerVX]

Nice to see a new tv video and a road trip too. I don't usually kill spiders but I got bit one one of those little buggers once, bloody painful!!

[@godfreypoon5148]

14:50 - the spider.. over here (Aus) those little buggers come with a red stripe, and they're called Redbacks. And yes, they're the least of your worries here.

[@MsCori76]

Yeah & I hate the huntmans too. They can get so big too.

[@neilforbes416]

Redbacks? Slim Newton knew all about them! LOL

[@DoRC]

Man that radio is lovely..

[@ronalddaub7965]

That record player turntable is cool I've never seen one with that many choices on the cartridge

[@DavidRLocke]

I repaired a number of those European sets over the years. Telefunken, Grundig, Majestic, Nordmende, Blaupunkt, Delmonico, etc, etc.... They bore different names, but the chasses were almost completely identical. Early on the service info and schematics were sometimes hard to find, but I usually managed to troubleshoot and repair them without too much difficulty. Power transformer failure was common in these. (IMHO the US was the only country that ever made a decent power transformer. The Euro ones were failure prone.) Also the electrostatic tweeters in some models never worked that well if at all. Another difficult to repair failure involved bad contacts in those push-button switches at the bottom of practically every model made. Some of the sets had the smaller speakers with one large woofer (usually oval) at the bottom of the cabinet. The 2 output tubes were single ended for left and right mids and tweets, and there was a 3rd output transformer for the woofer. The L & R outputs were fed out of phase, and the polarity of the windings compensated for this. The effect was push-pull action for the 3rd (low frequency) transformer. The B+ fed through the center tap of the LF transformer primary, and the plates were connected to the primary ends through the primaries of the HF transformers. Some US manufacturers did this crazy arrangement as well. I never liked that practice. On an old TV set I never took the precaution of ramping up the voltage slowly. Just plug it in turn it on and see what comes up. Life sometimes needs excitement. Cheers!

[@martinda7446]

I've watched this more than Star Trek IV

[@catfleas4195]

i have not seen a nuvista tv in years. I used to have one of those type of tvs it worked pretty good for having sitting in the elements of out side

[@blackvinylgrooves]

That;s a decent Garrard record changer in that console.Maybe late 50s just before stereo came in? I think Majestics may have been Garrard/Grundig consoles rebranded for the US market.Cabinet looks shot.Water damage maybe?Probably ony good for an organ donor unit.Southern California is console stereo heaven.So many more there than the rest of the US.

[@Farmradio]

Nice save. Most always gotta be ready for other stuff that may be "in the wings" with the items being advertised.

[@ldchappell1]

That California freeway stuff is no fun. We used to drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles back and forth twice a year on highway 101. It was usually 9 hours each way with a meal stop.

[@douro20]

Celestion speakers...they are the world's oldest speaker manufacturer.

[@teacfan1080]

I think you just found the nickname to the stereo. Hey, let's go work on the Black Widow for awhile!

[@AiOinc1]

I'd love to see more of these two pieces of equipment sometime.

[@rickyogles8854]

love the road trips

[@MsCori76]

These road trip videos are so cool, specially this one as it look liked I was in the car with you both travelling! **(I wish)** by the way, your fuel is heaps cheaper then what we pay here in Mudgee! I pay AU$1.60 a litre for BP 98 Premium.

[@gertiehull3853]

Lando on the the dashboard keep them coming your videoes are great!

[@ronalddaub7965]

Man that water is crazy I hear you on the FEMA prep coming from southern Illinois

[@jockoharpo2622]

looks like someone tried to stuff a huge green olive down the bathtub drain!

[@MilanCekic]

What a great video! Cheers, guys!

[@TheWardog1369]

The gas cost more than the TV and you criticize Elon Musk. I like ya more and more...

[@Retro_andy_1977]

I’m from uk and that radiogram doesn’t look familiar to me but it looks kind of regentone or something like that.celestion speakers are decent speakers made in England.the deck is a garrard rc121 or something like that.

[@pcno2832]

39:40 I wonder if any of these euro sets were ever made with one full range speaker and electrostatic tweeters for left and right channels. That would have been a way to get most of the stereo effect with only one output transformer.

[@crapcbm]

man you have the right music!!!

[@jburr36]

just plug it in and ask questions later. After it's been sitting outside

[@alexbleks]

4.27 a gallon is cheap as hell! Here in Norway its roughly 8 USD a gallon.... And we are a oil nation too!! Beat that, cheapskates xD

[@TheWardog1369]

Alexbleks don't you guys also pay for your schools(Universities), healthcare that way?

[@bratwurst2923]

Here it's 1.99 at high

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Does the government artificially keep the prices high with a massive gasoline tax?

[@davewm9589]

good haul for 35$ and gas

[@martinda7446]

Shango says 'Electrolytics are cool'

[@RobDJ1000]

love the music in this video!

[@robo3142]

Another cool video mr. realistic

[@larryparrish4738]

I think $4.27 for a gallon of gas started the Great Whatever. I have 2 1949 electrostatic tvs. They are soo cool and easy to understand

[@HurricaneSondra]

lol that tv makes that REALLY REALLY REALLY high pitch CRT ring like old ones did. your camera actually picks up that crt ring, sounds like a supersonic dog whistle lol

[@elevatoroperator2021]

Gas is around $2.80 here in Florida And Diesel and premium is around $3

[@pcno2832]

21:20 Many of the US manufacturers, especially GE, seemed to love those hex screws; I fucking HATE them. Always replace them with Phillips heads wherever I can.

[@tkelly411]

all this durable old stuff,much of it still works, the markets of 'firstline' av surround,5.0 electronics, and the pursuaders in advertising who convince consumers to spend 3k$ for 'state of the art' playtoys that go 403 after a year,,older devices will take a drop on the corner from 4 feet & still work,title it 'back in the day'

[@ryans413]

This is LA isn't it I recognize this from GTA 5 lol

[@MsCori76]

Ryan Scherbluk I use to play that game on PS4. LOL 😂

[@samgates1915]

its flavour county

[@samgates1915]

flavour country

[@joshuaryanferguson3702]

i do have a table top zenith k731 radio it works pretty good an sounds amazing an tunes to alot of am fm stations in Oklahoma an no i didn't make that radio

[@pcno2832]

37:30 Sounds as if some oldies station was trying to re-create the '70s AM-radio experience by playing Don Mclean at 48 RPM the way they did it back in the day. That thing has a beautiful sound, rubbing noises aside, I'm guessing it's really a re-branded Bush, Pye, Sobel or some such thing. The "cheshire cat" radio control layout seems more continental, but I guess everyone imitated it at one time or an other; I've even seen US-made RCA export models (no Nipper emblems) with it. I have a US made Majestic from the 1940s, but it seems that after the war, they were just an importer or maybe the name was used under license. PS: Never heard of Ferguson, but if that "radiogram" is any indication, they must have been pretty good.

[@robot797]

that is a good looking tv

[@abandonedsc4261]

It's funny how all this CRT stuff is coming up at almost give away prices. i picked up some old 70's zenith sets from Goodwill for 75 cents a set the other day I lucked up the week before on a tube 1968 Ge 18in B&W for $1 I even saw a Goodwill store selling a few Sonys and Funai made sets for 10 cents.

[@godfreypoon5148]

Well, it's midnight here and shango has just put up a video. Damnit, gonna be tired tomorrow.

[@toddt6730]

Rodalco is kool ,he says your one of his American friends

[@Tim3ru]

Hey, that CRT could do with some degaussing on the down right corner especially, right? I love the speakers on this, just love the sound of those good, old Celestion and Goodmans speakers :)... And the output tube could be a ELL80, a double output pentode, those were common in stereo radios here. :D

[@neilforbes416]

Correction needed here: Uber is pronounced phonetically as "OOBER", not "YOU-BER". The word is German and means "over" or "above" in English. As for the car ride-share setup, I could care not one bit about it myself.

[@vincenzostagliano5011]

Amazing dust it off plug it in n it works

[@Synthematix]

You need to do more vids like this

[@thatonethattalksalot7656]

Keep them safe PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! That type of technology is so rare now days that we become so numb to our new generation using things that break after a year of use, the old tv's and other electronics were built to last for years, i bet that if an iphone were built in the early days, it could outlast the cheap trash technology of today!

[@samgates1915]

keep trash talking

[@Synthematix]

As long as its not made by REALISTIC all will be well ;)

[@billybonewhacker]

lol pumpjacks are like our statebird here in Oklahoma. their in shopping center parking lots!

[@differentname8051]

I love the old phonograph, what a twat to let the water destroy the cabinet.

[@tarstarkusz]

Why would you burn the motor out if the thermostat was stuck open? I used to own a Shelby Charger that had that problem and the engine basically never got hot, at least not during the winter. I was driving one night for hours and I pulled over to get gas and I don't remember what made me think of it, but I checked the radiator and it was cool. So I popped the radiator cap off and the anti-freeze was ice cold.

[@shango066]

its almost as bad to run an engine cold as hot.

[@tarstarkusz]

Oh. I didn't know that. Thanks.

[@shango066]

acids and water build up in the oil, parts dont expand to their designed tolerances, cold metal wares faster, gas doesnt burn as well...on and on

[@james42519]

interesting gas is $2.29 here. i got gas last week for $2.05 with 20 cents off at kroger when it was $2.25

[@garymiller7880]

Donna Summer to FFDP... lmao...

[@bones007able]

hope you guys restored that stereo...

[@LanceHall]

You killed a silverfish?

[@matocaussade]

Very entertaining your videos and illustrations, but you should try to summarize more, they are very long at times. greetings from Chile.

[@hannonm]

Don't forget to check for tin whiskers

[@ronalddaub7965]

Crush your car today and have it come back as a crosley cruiser

[@douro20]

nuts...I would had liked to had used a 1987 Mercedes-Benz 300TD- very cheap to run and extremely reliable.

[@galardo3303]

FFDP? i liked your videos before now i love them! \m/