TESTING A 1912 STYLE RADIO

[@fretlessfender]

Building a hardwired valve radio is one thing... designing and blowing your own valve is a totally different thing. Thank you Ron for being on the KZbins and showing us what it takes to make these things.... amazing!

[@CATech1138]

taking the next level to the next level

[@Xotzil-Privat]

Lucky America still having AM radio stations. Lucky to see Supervisor-Kitty who I was missing in last video 🙂

[@hazevthewolf178]

It's good to see that both you and your cat are doing well. This video really blows me away and lends new meaning to the term "home made". BTW I've watched quite a lot of your videos and have enjoyed them all.

[@apexmcboob5161]

That's very cool. I think of the dozens, maybe hundreds of electronic devices I've constructed, never have I hand made all the components. Kudos to you Sir!

[@sciencefollower]

FN - Not "Sir" but "Madam" please.

[@alanwheeler3309]

Your expertise on this old technology is great! I am a 73 year old electronic tech, I really like your videos!

[@jonathanhughes380]

Thank you Ron Soyland some young Kids are very interested in learning from the past and how things were done back then. Thank you for Sharing your knowledge and experience with us.

[@migsvensurfing6310]

You are such an amazing person. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@TimHollingworth]

That is truly amazing! A totally handmade radio. It would have been interesting to see the original schematic diagram, to see how they drew the components.

[@johnwynne-qx6br]

Amazing radio a true home made. Thankyou for sharing.

[@KeritechElectronics]

Genius level of simplicity, built from the grounds up :)

[@edmaster3147]

One of the last people able to produce old tubes. Great seeing it in action. Thank you for another amazing video.

[@Chicken_Massacre]

He mentioned at some point "Tyne - Saga of the vacuum tube" Great book I must say.

[@jamied2108]

Thanks for sharing your work with us. I am sitting here smiling and speechless. What I just viewed after the video of you making that tube is something very special. Take care sugar stay well !!

[@nudebaboon4874]

What a fantastic set Ron.👌

[@user-Atamigaputer]

Not exactly HIFI but brilliant work to emulate old tech Ron, please keep making this stuff for historical record making

[@monteceitomoocher]

Superb result, apart from the very expensive audion valve that's how ordinary folk had to do their wireless, make everything themselves, commercially bought components would be beyond the reach of all the the most wealthy, lot of knowledge and skill went into making that audion, glad you're keeping it alive.

[@chuck0mx]

Wonderfull... i like this radio... very nice...

[@Robb403]

You are an Incredibly skilled person that I am very happy to learn from.

[@tinygriffy]

Thanks for bringing a little history back to life ! ❤

[@aggie46]

glad to see you back...worried how you had fared as the storm hit the hieghts rather badly..

[@MrCount44201]

Wow, you are so talented; nice job. :)

[@401ksolar]

Like the old saying goes, don't breathe on it , but seriously those hand made components are inspiring.

[@UDX-340]

Beautiful radio and explanation , thank you .

[@noyjirat1903]

สวัสดีครับ ผมกดติดตามช่องของคุณ ในปีนี้ ผมรู้สึกได้ว่า คุณมีความชำนาญเก่งในเรื่อง วิทยุหลอดแบบโบราณ ผมว่าคุณอธิบายในแต่ละคลิปVDOได้ละเอียดดีมาก แต่เสียดาย ผมพูดภาษาอังฤกษไม่ได้ เลยฟังไม่รู้เรื่อง ที่คุณพูดสื่อสารออกมา แต่ผมเข้าใจว่าคุณเก่งเรื่องวิทยุมากมาย ผมอยู่ประเทศไทยครับ ถึงผมพูดภาษาอังกฤษไม่ได้ ฟังไม่ออก แต่ผมก็ได้เข้าดูภาพ VDO เท่านั้น เพราะใจผมชอบวิทยุ อยากเรียนรู้ซ่อมวทยุได้เหมือนคุณ จากFC ที่ประเทศไทยครับ

[@shaggydogg630]

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[@20kilovolt]

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[@tueiron]

Love your ingenuity, and well explained.

[@suzakule]

I'm glad that you are OK. i heard that the Houston area was hit pretty hard, We here in the Austin area were lucky and missed out on the worst of it, this time!

[@davidstacy8314]

Hi Ron your friend Dave from up North you did an amazing job on that radio you have amazing talent can't wait to see more may God bless you and keep you healthy always your friend Dave😅

[@Monaco-BuilditFixitDriveitEver]

This makes me think that there are so many things I wish I could do. So many things fascinate me. There are not enough hours in the day to learn everything, but thank you for putting this video together. It is fascinating! To know so much about something is very inspiring.!

[@glasslinger]

I see some other impressive videos on YT and think the exact same thing! :)

[@joefish6091]

'Homebuilt Wireless Components' Radio Press Series no.16, an interesting book from 1923, same type of DIY components as this.

[@davidportch8837]

That's a great result.. takes me back to some of the old radios that my Dad had in the early1950s when I was a child...nice to see kitty as well...thanks Ron...

[@waxore1142]

Remarkable! Well done! 100% home made. Unreal that you made all your own components.

[@pat3034]

You never cease to amaze!

[@adrianrevill7686]

I have not watched for a few years, great to see you are still at it. Such a shame you don't live in Lincolnshire UK I would love to learn even 1/2 your skills.

[@glasslinger]

I wonder how long UK will continue to exist with the boatloads of migrants! I watch several UK channels and see people are very upset. We don't get any coverage here in the USA on mainstream TV.

[@adrianrevill7686]

@@glasslinger UK is a nation of immigrants, it has been happening for thousands of years, those complaining should look at their own ancestry.

[@glasslinger]

@@adrianrevill7686 Not at the current level. This is termed an invasion. You are literally losing your country. It will be a muslim land in another year or two and then they will take over by sheer voting volume. It already has happened in London.

[@mlody969]

@@glasslinger Great Britain had so many colonies that it was called the empire on which the sun never sets (because it was always daytime somewhere in its territories). Since they exploited half the world for hundreds of years, perhaps they’re now paying the price for it?

[@michaellichter4091]

A complete success, the tube works very well. A nice look back at the beginnings of tube technology and its first application in radio technology.

[@derstrom8]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing the demo! Was eager to see how well the tube worked

[@Donno308]

Wow this was a really interesting one. I watched you make the Audion first then this. Taking things back to the beginnings of radio is fascinating. I would like to try my hand at some earlier receivers myself. I'm getting tires of fixing up 40's & 50's radios and this seems like an interesting direction to go.

[@theriverlab]

beautiful video, you are a great technician and a great person

[@zoeyzhang9866]

Nice restoration! I'm just wondering if any custom PCBs and 3DP/CNC'd part may help for future work? If so, we'd like to support free services (PCBWay zoey)

[@doogsm6013]

Hi Zoey: I just want to say thanks to PCBWay for the support and services you provide to the maker space and the products you provide at affordable prices. I believe it helps the hobbyist to gain access to something that was previously out of reach for a lot of us.👌👍👍

[@microcap1997]

Nice setup, I like the build of the tuning capacitor.

[@Radio478]

Great radio project, thanks from England

[@andygoldensixties4201]

a beautiful job indeed, congratulations from Italy, expecially for the amazing tube

[@alexandracrawford800]

Dear Glasslinger, I am so happy to see your demonstration of turning science mystery into practical fact. Some years ago somebody demonstrated constructing a complete workshop by casting aluminium into 'green sand' molds showing how by hand it was possible to create an engineering grade flat surface for the guide bed of a machine lathe. There was a logical sequence to the building of each piece of workshop equipment, leading to the possibility of constructing the next machining function at high precision! Illustrated books of men building sand molds with wooden geometry tools, casting geared wheels and machine frames of high tonnage weight... This was the very beginning of the industrial revolution from which the first machines then produced thousands of other machines. But the people who created those first big molds are like yourself, true heroes and heroines without whom none of what we apparently take for granted would have been at all possible. Thank you for making electronics and radio REAL. I would like to begin studying for my amateur radio license. You have made it accessible to me by your dedication and genuine skills. Would you consider teaching an online course to pass all your skills to the next generation... Lately electronics has moved away from accessibility into elite black box tech, beyond sustainable, out of reach. Your skills are absolutely sustainable providing for future proof radio and telecomms roots? Thank you for your marvellous demonstrations...Live Long and Prosper!

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

I don't know who demonstrated it, if it was on video, but was almost certainly based on Dave Gingery's series of books on building a charcoal furnace to melt aluminum (or bronze or brass) and pour sand molds, how to use those castings to create a lathe, how to use the lathe to make a shaper, how to use the shaper and lathe to make a mill, how to use the three to make a drill press, etc, and to increase the precision with a dividing head for gear cutting and cutting screws, et al, etc... When early tech is forgotten no one will understand modern tech, and the movie Idiocracy pretty much predicts what that world will be like.

[@hugovale8070]

No words , thank you ron greetings from portugal

[@TheCubbyman61]

Marvelous! I love builds like that, I have built some one tube regenerative radios, but nothing beats a radio with a homemade triode.

[@thakyou5005]

As someone who's all about pioneering technology, I don't quite know why I really like old stuff like this and old techniques. Is it simplicity? Am I reincarnated? Idk

[@TheStuffMade]

That is so cool, love it. 👍

[@frankowalker4662]

That's such a cool radio. Nice work building it.

[@tomweickmann6414]

Quite amazing. The most DIY radio I have ever seen. You should rent that out to movie companies as a period piece prop. Reminds me of the radio set the Norwegian spy had in Sink The Bismark.......before the Nazis burst in and machine gunned him to death.🤧

[@Me11oIngenuity]

Love the video!

[@MrDuffman83]

Nice!! I'm building one radio like that with the home made triodes. This video will be veeery helpful. 1 valve radio would be nice, like the Reflex receiver. And the cat is lovely, by the way

[@Movieman1965]

Fantastic work on that radio! To believe that's enough to pick up broadcasts.

[@OVAGADRORIYYAD]

sincerely thank you for your effort deployed in the electronic field I have always followed your video for a long time.// MOROCCO //

[@stanleygerrick6053]

It's amazing what they we able to do so long ago. Human ingenuity. 73's!📻

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

Absolutely stunning work. Good job! Love to see that hand built variable condenser. And to build your own capacitors and resistors! Wow. Haven't seen the audion vid but surely is as impressive. Excellent.

[@richardsmith7783]

Welcome back my friend? I wish i was as smart as you are back when i was 30 years old!

[@va3ngc]

Beautiful. I would love to get an audion (reproduction or otherwise). Great work.

[@glasslinger]

This is possible. I am trying to figure how to email someone on YT. They don't make it easy!

[@jeffhaskins5236]

This is so cool! Thank you for sharing!

[@pjosephlthewonder5082]

I have recreated the early crystal sets from several of the books I have collected. Now I have to do this set! Peace

[@NoCurtain]

"Unbelievable" I hear myself say over and over when I watch what you do. But I believe it after seeing some of your videos, all the while becoming more inspired. Although it may be more grounded for me to hear you speak of something you cannot do. I have come to believe, if you had enough time and materials, you could create any modern CPU out of only discrete components.

[@rivards1]

IIn the days (like 1912) when EVERYTHING had to be made by hand by hobbyists, how did they know when their homebrew part had achieved 2Meg Ohms or 2200 pF? What did they use for testing or checking?

[@yuriivanov12]

There were books with instructions how to make parts, simple formulas, etc. There wasn't need also for high accuracy of resistors and capacitors in such radios as this.

[@glasslinger]

They used their HP 8 digit Digital VOM! What else! :)

[@CATech1138]

with large amounts of adjustibility tolerances can be low and still work

[@atmylab]

Fabulous, thank you for sharing.

[@EzThomas.]

Amazing...including the cat! 😻

[@oddo710]

Yes. It was Armstrong that figured out what the Audion was capable of doing.

[@catherineladd5300]

Good to see the supervisor over-seeing the work. Missed her in the vacuum tube video last week.

[@clyde1406]

Outstanding! So neat. Would sure like to learn more of this!

[@PilotInCommand777]

I love how the kitty sits on the chair and talks to you!

[@kenw.1112]

VERY COOL ! YOU DID A GREAT JOB MAKING THAT RADIO!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@Z00L..ChUpAcUpS]

Would love to see you do the same thing but with an amplifier with your homemade tube's that would be fun to see love what you have done 👍

[@electronics-by-practice]

nice project , does the humidity affect that 2Mohm resistor u can coat it with resin or wax , u can make the variable capacitor with half circle shape instead of square plat for more linearity . I'm happy cause they still maintain high power AM radio for us to experiment radio reception , just imagine how many tubes u need to recive DAB radio :-).

[@krz8888888]

I thought the getter was only for outgassing of the tube internals and not micro leaks

[@wolfgangrichter6088]

If you would connect the outer foil of your tuning capacitor to the lower impedance side of your circuit, reception would be twice as good. );

[@timhull8664]

How good is that, a hobby taken to its max.. if only there was something decent to listen to..A.M in the uk is dead.

[@wechselrichterschaltungen]

Leider hier in Deutschland auch kein AM mehr..schade.

[@timhull8664]

@JaneChristensen. sure there are, but his unit doesn't transmit, and even if it did the power that it uses might get a signal next door.. I was talking about commercial radio.. HAM in the UK uses 420-450MHz AM commercial is up in the 535 - 1705 MHz range..

[@Baa5280]

I live in Los Angeles. If I touch the input of an amplifier i hear KNX news radio !!

[@fibrodad1354]

Welcome back

[@yardleybottles6025]

My jaw just dropped. Homage to the Master Craftsman!

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

Aye!

[@sonofeloah]

Now then, time to make either a triode or a tetrode audio amplifier?

[@m00iwi00m]

Oh! You listen the sounds that was sent form 1912! 🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@Andrew-h3q6b]

The only way this could be more gloriously Heath Robinson is... If you were to build a model steam engin to gererate the B+, and a flame-triode for the amplifier(That way you don't need a heater filement). Then you'd have what might be the first ever steam powered radio.

[@prabhakarv4193]

Very nice and informative

[@jozefbubez6116]

Would be interested to know how th ethermionic tube is made and what vacuum pump do we need? In a 1924 'mag' they describe a pump with no moving parts but requires 4 to 5 lbs of mercury!

[@doogsm6013]

I'm a little late to the party Glasslinger but just want to say that is one impressive build! P.S. I'd love to see you do a rebuild on that power supply as I was thinking iI could use a variable, multi-output all in one power supply for testing vacuum tube circuits to substitute for a crate full of multi-tap transformers. Anyhoo good health and stay safe. Mike

[@guitarsid]

Very nice, what kind of wire is used for connecting and for the coils. I have some cloth insulation wire from 1929.

[@redneckways1933]

That is amazing.

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

Ron, you may not be happy with the PSU but it looks very impressive. Lovely set you built all those years ago very interesting component construction do you remember your first Crystal Set ?. . Best

[@bharathba4762]

Hello Sir, nice radio. Sir i need a guidance and suggestion with respect to my Murphy TA224 Tube Radio. 0.05mf wax capacitor for the tone corrector, the same PF is not available in India. So what is the alternative available for such capacitor. Thank You

[@David-wr1cq]

You can make non standard capacitor values by wiring them in series/parallel, Google " capacitors in series and parallel" it would help if you can get a cheap LCR tester.

[@senilyDeluxe]

A .047 should work just as well. Capacitors had huge tolerances back then so they had to design the circuits to tolerate these...

[@robtitheridge9708]

An excellent video an amazing job,

[@glasslinger]

Oh well, an anachronism won't hurt anything! I didn't have any of the hard rubber that was used back that far!

[@coolbluelights]

Amazing! i've built many one tube radio kits but I could never get one to make a sound. idk if they just don't work or they don't go loud enough for me to hear them.

[@danielependola1580]

Glasslinger il genio e il mago delle Radio a Valvole !!

[@russedmonds227]

Great work! I think that rotating coil variable inductor is called a variometer also what kind of antenna did you use for this? amazing!

[@MutaMutt22]

How Very Peaceful, "We Should Just Use That To Go To Sleep"

[@TheTreegodfather]

Nicely done 👍🏻

[@ricardosalesdemello4130]

Ohh yeah! Glaslinger, esse é um lindo Radio

[@ricardosalesdemello4130]

Oh thanks friend glaslinger

[@ricardosalesdemello4130]

Oh yeah! Glaslinger, esse é um belo radio, ah sim eu também gostei de ver a 🐱 oncinha

[@DeadKoby]

I wonder if there was much to listen to in 1912.......

[@Dan40049]

Just the Titanic's distress calls...

[@bigguyprepper]

This was super cool!

[@brianbloom1799]

Thats amazing rod, If we Have a war, Everyone better make friends with you, Cause you can throw parts together to hear whats going on, in the World

[@moristo]

Hi Ron, at that time they should be able to make a local oscillator using one tube so that will make it more selective

[@mancalleddave5]

Have you read The Voice of the Crystal by H. Peter Friedrichs ? book describes the basic theory and construction of equipment from virtual garbage, i.e., hanks of wire, bits of metal, a magnet, a chunk of fool's gold, a shoe polish tin, a cigarette lighter

[@glasslinger]

Have not seen it. I will look it up! It sounds like some good ideas for a radio!

[@brendanbarker2095]

love it, made me research the development of the tube

[@jamest409]

Aww rescue kitty TNR good for you thank you!