RCA CTC16 Resurrection Round Tube Vintage Television Pt3 Carbon Tracking Madness

[@herbertsusmann986]

This has to be one of Shango's all time best resurrection videos. Who else would bother doing all this work!

[@michaelszczys8316]

I think it has to be a combination of the fun of making an old wreck like this do something and possible hope of something doing a fantastic burn ( or even explosion ) on camera.

[@swilwerth]

I wait for a new Shango's every week like a child waited for his favourite cartoon to be aired in the analog television back in the 80's

[@LanceHall]

Shangoday is my favorite day of the week.

[@martinda7446]

Everyday is Shangoday!

[@ralphhoskins2115]

Yes sir

[@davepike6170]

One of the very best days of the week, "Shangoday" 😊🤩

[@davepike6170]

I just started watching this part 3, on my '65 Zenith roundie, via KZbin and Chromecast and a HDMI to RF converter!😊

[@davepike6170]

Watching this on my '65 Zenith roundie, via KZbin and Chromecast and an HDMI to RF converter on channel 3!😊 I have an RCA ctc-16 roundie, "The Mandarin" with remote control, waiting for new capacitors to arrive, so I can get it up and running.

[@markrhine5809]

Dear Shango066, I really enjoy watching these videos, you are so talented in bring back to life these TV's Nice job!!!

[@darikdatta]

Thanks for making me check my playback speed at least four times.

[@herbertsusmann986]

I also was tracking the playback speed....Shango is definitely trying to mess with us!

[@XMguy]

I was like Shango needs to check his wow/flutter and speed. lol

[@n2n8sda]

Almost 2 hours of self igniting TV, thoroughly enjoyed it too. Absolutely heroic effort to get a picture on it. I'd had let it burn long before getting to that stage.

[@phononut]

Your statement about when the television went to sleep we were a free country was profound.

[@Nukle0n]

Profoundly dumb. Thinking that having to wear a mask means he lives in East Germany. Maybe if the White House wasn't full of idiots you guys wouldn't have to wear masks as much.

[@ShokaLion]

@@Nukle0n Agreed. Keep the politics out of it. Making a rule to protect against a global pandemic because people can't be trusted to be courteous to their fellow citizens isn't a question of freedom at all.

[@bryanpratt3933]

@@ShokaLion and @Nukleon - You can go to damn near almost any other media company or news organization and be surrounded by people who will parrot the same garbage political talking points that make you feel all comfortable and self righteous. This guy creates great videos which you get to watch for free - dude can say what he wants. And guess what? Your health is solely your responsibility - I have no obligation to not get you sick. California actually decriminalized passing on HIV - even when you KNOW you are infected. So if you are so worried, stay home. Don't tell anyone else how they have to live, and don't tell people making free entertainment not to talk politics. If it makes you squirm in your seat when people challenge the narrative, maybe you haven't thought it through enough on your own. Only one side of this argument feels the need to force the other into silence.

[@ShokaLion]

@@bryanpratt3933 It's really illuminating that doing one simple thing is too much inconvenience for some people. That almost knee jerk reaction to any authority at all. Whatever man.

[@bryanpratt3933]

@@ShokaLion be honest with yourself dude - if it's just "one simple thing" why do you feel so driven to write a comment about it? Because it's not a simple or minor thing. Compelling someone (in a public forum no less) to suppress their personal opinions and beliefs. That kind of authoritarian behavior and mindset is typical of those who support the massive infringements enacted upon the rights of small businesses and individuals in the name of "public safety". Only serious knuckleheads would continue to support those actions in light of the recently released emails - they clearly show how unnecessary and pointless those policies were. Even more so for those of us who had the courage to challenge them to begin with.

[@nunyon]

We need Shango066 merch. A shirt that says “Carbon Tracking Matters” is on my wishlist.

[@garp32]

Or, perhaps "Come to where the flavor is"... 🤣🤣

[@swilwerth]

I feel the cigarrete scent activating ... Motel room scent.

[@MrBillmcminn]

Put me down for a Crackle Pony MasterCharge coffee mug

[@chiIinviIin]

@@MrBillmcminn I definitely want the Crackle Pony MasterCharge coffee mug

[@onefootinthegroove39]

Black beauty lives matter

[@pafoofnic]

Back in the late 70's I ran a T.V. repair shop an those solid state high voltage rectifier tube replacement sticks would randomly fail, sometimes before the set even left the shop. Thanks for another great video...

[@suadcokljat1045]

Using speaker instead of yoke to troubleshoot vertical with chassis outside TV - brilliant

[@nevillewaiting485]

Yep, he was going to use a regular audio speaker, just was wondering if there are any speakers that are not audio speakers :-)

[@robotjatek]

Wow, almost 2 hours. Gonna get my popcorn

[@aerotro]

I love watching your video's on dreary over cast days it brightens my day and reminds me of the days befor china ruined my hi-fi repair business in the 90's, when I had a dream of making a living for myself saving landfill from electronic waste then china started shipping garbage to us that was not worth repairing as it was so cheap. We are a dying species :(

[@beefchicken]

Don’t blame China. Blame corporate greed.

[@AiOinc1]

@@beefchicken Corporate greed was enabled by Chinese law

[@beefchicken]

No, that’s a cop out. If it wasn’t China, it would have been any other country where labour is cheap. And it’s not just corporate greed, the consumer is at fault too. I know a guy that goes on and on about how greedy corporations are ruining the economy, how dependent we’ve become on China, and how globalism is causing more problems than it solves, but when I bring up how he’s always buying stuff on AliExpress, he quickly changes the subject.

[@danmoreno2363]

It's very sad to see TV repair shops fade out. Thanks to China. I appreciate vintage TV'S and console stereos from the 60's they were built to last.

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

@@beefchicken this

[@supersonic_vienna]

With most of the US chassis you can happily populate tubes as you like. Thats a real advantage when debugging these guys. Most chassis in europe are serial heated. If you pull one tube nothing works at all as the heating chain is interrupted. Great video as always. Keep it up! :)

[@donaldsmalleypublishing401]

"Somebody's not well-endowed"... I write comedy books, and you are the only one who can make me laugh. Honestly.

[@tomhoehler3284]

Simply amazing. Your persistence is commendable! This thing would be in the dumpster if it were mine. Good job Shango, a 3/4 resurrection! Can't wait for installment 4

[@SpeakerFreak95]

“This is her stuff” I died of laughter because that cleaning lady comes here too. They keep multiplying!

[@RODALCO2007]

This TV was a true carbon-tracking bonanza. Great tube TV resurrection. Loved all the 1h44m of the video.

[@suzakule]

LOL! LOL! i tried one of those NTE-508s in my CTC-16XL and it did EXACTLY the same thing in 90 seconds, burned up and smoked! I'm back on a 3CA3, when your picture started to blur and fade, I knew exactly what was happening, because I saw it happen on mine!

[@mike289homebuilt5]

One My favorite videos. When tons of hard work combines with some luck and its a go! Real cliffhanger with smoke and powerloss at the end. I cant believe that carbon tracking "when just good enough" almost puts things in the trashpile. My antique is a clean 1986 G.E. tv. Im firing it up today.

[@trevorpfeiffer7613]

one of the best educational lesson i every had to do with vintage electronics 😀👍

[@peteb2]

Just gotta say WOW. I love to see the sheer amount of work by what must've been a bunch of very skilled & knowledgeable folks actually made this thing possible in 100s of thousands of units & today its all forgotten, consigned to landfill until one special guy comes along and makes one work again. Incredible to consider this wreck of a TV Chassis as a sample of what is our Historical Electronics Technology would in normal case just be gone & forgotten and lost forever but for the massive insight of how things were by Shango who then provides us his experience in this fantastic form of entertainment.

[@michaelszczys8316]

Really, you could go to a museum and see the front of one of these things in another 50 years or you can find an old Shango video and dive right into the works. ( and the burns )

[@garp32]

I never would have thought of the speaker trick for horizontal output monitoring. Makes perfect sense though. Pretty dank trick there mr. 👌

[@andymouse]

Thats the thing, makes perfect sense, now he's showed me !

[@delreycustomshop7624]

This resurrection is like his Sargent pepper

[@chetpomeroy1399]

He would make the Lonely Hearts Club Band proud!

[@TheScavenger71]

A Day In The Life indeed!

[@TheGuitologist]

I finally get to see Shango wash a TV! Excellent!

[@MrDoneboy]

Never, ever power wash electronics...NO NO NO!

[@fanofoldfans9238]

I especially enjoyed the Monster energy drink audio codec. I think the rat piss infused fiberglass pc boards are conductive even after pressure washing the surface piss and scum off. It's amazing it doesn't just go up in smoke all at once. Part 5 it should have a decent picture until the rat piss becomes conductive again. Great watching this one!

[@williamsquires3070]

This is why I love pressure washing old TV chassis filled with dirt and rat nests; it makes for much better entertainment that just watching a working TV. I’m just waiting for a brief, bright flash as the whole set becomes one, big carbon arc lamp, directly across the mains! 😆

[@barthier9877]

Unbelievable that this television is working again, very good work, chango 66 always has very nice videos

[@felixthecat2589]

Dude, I cry of laughter when I watch him work. For some reason the way he talks and the shit catching on fire every time he turns it on makes it for me.

[@joebrock9784]

My friend I bet your neighbors love you since you're the outdoor TV repairment and you are fixing this stuff all the time in the yard

[@davidwalker6887]

Fascinating viewing. I love your dedication to reviving these old recked TVs. And I am happy to watch tube testing all day. 😁

[@PaulWannenburg]

None of your work is boring. Learning all the time.

[@markanderson350]

The patience and determination displayed here is beyond belief. My uncle had a ctc 25 we dumped in the 70s after he died. Problem after problem. I don't think it would run more than a few months without a breakdown and he was an electronics tech with a degree in engineering. A box of spare parts and tubes was kept beside the set. The picture was great when it ran and no buzz in the audio, I agree, but it would not stay running long.

[@michaelszczys8316]

My neighbor had a 70s ish set the next generation still using tubes and it worked good but it had one tube that had too much load on it , I think 6GB8 or something and he had to put a new one in every couple hundred hours of running.

[@snogcel1]

And to think this is the technology that put men on the moon! I applaud your patience and tenacity in working with all this old '60s stuff - I was a TV repair guy back in the '70s, and have had many nightmares involving old RCA and Zenith TVs. May newcomers to classic vacuum tube electronics derive benefit from all the experience and expertise you have in working with this stuff. Ah, the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth . . .

[@michaelszczys8316]

Speaking of men on the moon, watching these old color sets reminds me of watching Neil and Buzz come down the ladder with ' live from the moon ' on the screen as I watched it at my friend's house on their 1955 RCA color that was quite worn out and the convergence was all wacky - like looking at some of those old 3-D black and white movies without the glasses. I went home and watched more on my dad's new portable black and white, then I could actually tell what it was.

[@a4000t]

Just the time you put into these old sets to make them work only to later toss them later is amazing.

[@lowheadroom]

I wish you offered some on line classes about the fundamentals of TV repair! You are a wizard man!

[@111000100101001]

Also, for tiny stuff or just the tube sockets, an old waterpik filled with cleaning solution works great!

[@vancouverman4313]

It's amazing how many of the same symptoms aging humans and tubes experience...weak emission, slightly gassy, carbon tracking and an open heater.

[@cardboardboxification]

And eventually EOL

[@vancouverman4313]

The worst way to go would be in a puff of smoke when you're plugged in!

[@SquantoTerror]

41:48 “Let’s see what goes up in smoke today” *Buzz* *Crackel* *Pop* (magic smoke escapes).

[@RegiPavan]

That was Awesome!

[@martinda7446]

This was a masterpiece. The terminal strip phenolic can absorb water. I've come across this more than once. The bubble was just made by the heat and gassing from the other side.

[@pilotsmoe]

Yup, it becomes even more conductive if something pissed on it, as piss is highly conductive

[@jeffscomp]

Those things had awesome pictures back in the days. Still looks nice.

[@dcfuksurmom]

yeah if he ironed out the kinks (convergence, deflection) and got color demod working, it would look pretty good despite the weak crt.

[@michaelszczys8316]

I remember one of my aunts had a nice older but kept in perfect tune late 50s or early 60s color TV. I used to watch color TV in department stores and I swear her TV seemed to have better picture than the brand new ones.

[@mysticvirgo9318]

If I had the space, the skills and the shipping monies, I would adopt the poor little set :)

[@wendellporter4875]

me too those sets cant be found here in nova scotia

[@christopherrasmussen8718]

Old sets are pretty basic. Nothing like today. They are all laid out. Not always logical but close. All that today fit on a chip you can hold palm of your hand. I grew up helping my grandad fix TVs in the 60s and 70s. He gave up when ICs came on in the early 70s. I just got a pile of old radios and TVs. Terminal strips conductive?? Wow.

[@MrFreemanishere]

"Something popped over here, Let's see if it still works!" 😂

[@zutronius]

Neat work! I just picked up a late 50s Westinghouse and an early 60s Electrohome tube b/w tv. Both seem to work so far. Enjoying your shows!! Thank you for doing this.

[@whosaidavery]

Shango's commentary during the report towards the end had me rolling man!

[@Rev22-21]

"Let's see what goes up in smoke today".... my new motto. ....... It's beginning to look like there's nothing Shango can't fix. Well maybe stupid.... but nobody can fix that.

[@fredfabris7187]

Could be motto for 2020

[@michaelszczys8316]

Sounds like a good one, right along with " close is good "

[@NickNorton]

1:04:46 Great video as always. Thanks for showing the "Automatic rodent management system". I'm sure RODALCO2007 would approve of this device.

[@ocotillo8291]

This has been one of my favorite resurrections yet! Keep up the good work sir!

[@PapiDoesIt]

Now I don't feel so bad about running a radio through the dishwasher.

[@tonywright8294]

Papi Uuhmelmehahay Thought you meant you ran the radio through the dish washer electronic circuits !😂😂

[@darrelfrank8252]

Just looking at this is cool it's neat to see stuff that this new on a set that people would have watched 50 years ago with the round screen very cool thank you for publishing looking forward to part 4

[@drboze6781]

Funny thing how memory works. I recall peering at a portable radio in the daylight basement of my grandparent's house, which was originally a duplex. Granddad told me not to plug it in, as it had suffered from a flood in the basement. My dad, who was really skilled mechanically as well as electronically, once said of Granddad (his father) "you could gift him an Estwing hammer and within a year the head would rust off!"

[@nefaurora]

Dude, I never laughed so much...when you said your comments at around 1:35 to 1:38...lol... So True! You have a dying art...It's great that by doing these videos, You pass on your vast TV Repair knowledge... Tony K., Melbourne, Florida :)

[@cfd_novotroitsk]

Excellent, now make an AV mod, and it will be a gamers' choice))

[@chiIinviIin]

LMFAO

[@chipdrusano]

I never knew a prehistoric television set like this could still work with a clever bit repair!

[@MrRobertver]

OMG !! Grande y poderoso changou. Grande tu sapiencia en la bulbófora antigua. Master and powerous shangoou. Genius of the bulbofora antique vintage..

[@robinsattahip2376]

Yes, a fine instrument like that must have exact line voltage. (smile) Thank you for the entertaining video, I was fixing those in Manhattan Beach TV downtown at age 12, fifty years ago. Zeniths were so much better back then.

[@michaelrobertson575]

Well done Shango! I really do admire your determination in trying to get decrepit examples of Valve based Radio/T.V. Sets to work. Don't fall foul of the Civilian Mask Enforcers!

[@brianbloom1799]

You did a great job, Getting that tv running, I do love watching your videos. Very talented Man

[@tarcisiomarques8784]

This is one of Shango best videos...a clever work like Sherlock Holmes following clues of a crime....

[@Pablo-he7gm]

You are the best. You have the ability to turn a tragedy into fun hehe. So enjoyable, not boring at all. Eagerly waiting for new videos. Regards from Argentina.

[@Derrick6162]

Now give it the old sledgehammer... If it was me I'd drag it behind the truck for a bit! Love your videos 😍

[@markmarkofkane8167]

I saw the first 2 episodes. I never got around to seeing this until today. Still got PT. 4 to watch too. I have to say, you are very dedicated. 👍 P.S. yep, our freedoms are history.

[@jayhiz3514]

My grandfather said, once u let the smoke out, you can't put it back in.. lol

[@ikarosalpha8783]

the automatic rodent management system haha that is what i'm going to call my cat now lol

[@dkd1228]

"Trained civilians". Stalinesque.

[@miata1492]

More like the East German Stasi . . . .

Sturmabteilung?

[@chezsnailez]

Oceania's 'Junior Spies'...

[@WS-ij1fu]

"A well regulated Militia"

[@billmyke746]

Germany 1938

[@mechtrician1]

Awesome resurrection man. You've given a whole new image and level to carbon tracking.

[@Synthematix]

You did good shango, cleaning before starting to work is the best idea ever, water wont damage anything as long as you let it dry properly or use a hot air gun to dry it

[@stevesje71]

1:09:41 bang! What the hell? That was not the tv 🤣 I did think it was for a second! Great videos

[@martinda7446]

Also I know it's dangerous to the envelope but I push the pins in a little all round for good connection. I'm sure many will tell me off, but it always makes a nice tight fit.

[@michaelszczys8316]

He needed a teeny tiny super skinny round file for those sockets.

[@maniatore2006]

Wow you do an excellent job, it is so entertaining, thank you for that video.

[@milesprower6641]

we never will know, the surprise, that one man found.

[@michaelszczys8316]

" Let's power wash some electronic circuitry and then run hundreds of volts through it, what could go wrong ?" Just love the Shango artistic comments on burning electronic components - " should have checked the burning capacitor - but it's so much fun to watch them glow red " " let's see what goes up in smoke today " Instantly something starts flashing. Also - Dremel tool use number # 16009 - removing carbon tracking on circuit boards.

[@michaelszczys8316]

" I know watching this is kind of boring compared to sparks and fire "

[@teacfan1080]

Introducing the all new RCA Victor Carbon Tracker Master television, a whole feature in entertainment! However, do not use on humid days, if the TV sat in mouse wee wee for decades or if you power washed the chassis. Other than that, you'll be fine! This is far better than anything you can watch on TV nowadays, this has been an EPIC series!

[@mymessylab]

San Pellegrino, Italian water 🇮🇪. This tv has seen too much of water isn’t it? Great resurrection, again 👍

[@slaznum1]

I mean, I mean this in all seriousness this is more entertaining than anything on television if you’re an electronics guy I think we need to have a keg of beer and some stadium chairs and watch you do one of these live how can It get any better?

[@slaznum1]

Sped up Shango really needs to be my new Siri voice

[@davidraezer5937]

Shango when are you starting a merch store. Your first item can be shadow masks.

[@dorothydale4683]

nice to see resistors and capacitors that you can actually see

[@TechneMoira]

Despite his acidic humour, he does demonstrate tenacity in the face of carbon tracking adversity. He also shows resourcefulness and a good insight into the working of a colour TV. Entertaining and interesting. I would find a solution to the X-rays emission though, that is definitely not healthy. A 1mm thickness lead shielding would already do the job. Maybe an electrode out of an old lead-acid battery?

[@dampandrew]

Nah xrays ain’t bad dawg, I used to goe to college to study radiography, my thyroid and my ballsack is perfectly healthy even after I was in operating room with dat C-arm and the portable unit and fluoroscopy, these scattered radiation did not attenuated my chromosome

[@michaelnak2681]

I remember working on these sets in the 70's in community college, im grateful that I didn't electrocute myself .

[@cmans79tr7]

When i was a little tyke i developed a respect for latent high voltage in the TV yoke when the TV repairman showed us how he grounded it to the chassis with a large screwdriver. I was just lucky i didn't touch any charged capacitors, which i don't remember him warning us about😬. Good thing as an adult i consulted YT before monkeying with the condenser unit of my central home AC. Coulda been ugly, as it was the capacitor that was on the blink, but thanks to YT i knew to ground discharge it before monkeying with it.😇

[@ronaldspencer547]

After all this work you should restore it as a monument to your patience and skill and keep it!

[@Korium84]

Boom! Ohh......that was not the tv!

[@justsumguy2u]

I never liked most RCA vacuum tube equipment from the 50's/60's--they charged a lot of money for their stuff, and what you got for that money was crummy printed circuit boards. But RCA wasn't stupid--they knew that most tv's were retired when the CRT went bad, and the pcb's would hold up for at least that long

[@Ryan96se]

Wow Shango066. You should keep that old thing with all the hard work you've put into it. Wonder how many other smoke shows it plans to perform for you in the future video? :-)

[@CarlosAvellanet]

I used to dunk my Drake and Swan tube radio chassis in water with Simple Green then let them dry for a couple of days. Never a problem.

[@electrofan7180]

Wow, that washing was so satisfying!☻ Just like sandblasting of rusty stuff.

[@MVVblog]

1:04:45 The automatic rodent management system make my day!

[@fredflintstone8048]

Gas welding tip cleaners should work well in 'rodding out' the tube sockets. They're also good for cleaning the passages in carburetors. Fires in the IF cans helps dry them out.

[@michaelszczys8316]

I was thinking he needed tiny round file, forgot about tip cleaners.

[@fredflintstone8048]

@@michaelszczys8316 It's a good idea, but I've not seen files as small as tip cleaners which really are just tiny flexible files.

[@michaelszczys8316]

@@fredflintstone8048 well, that's what I was thinking he needed. Tip cleaners was a good answer

[@ernestmccollum2397]

Slightly gassy? Reminds me of myself. lol. Love those old tube testers. Great Job.

[@doomguy1001]

1:49:03 *distant explosion* “…. that wasn’t the TV.” Gold!

[@Pablo-he7gm]

I feel like a kid would. I would like so much to dig into your stash hehe. Give us a tour!

[@justincase3880]

OMG, I thought you were kidding about the pressure washing …

[@senilyDeluxe]

Shango: Come on baby light my... TV: BrrrrzzzzzzzZ!

[@ralphups7782]

Also, I liked the way the set lit a cigar for it self.

[@CoreyDeWalt]

Shango for president!

[@TomLoveday-y7y]

Make the TV great again, rat piss and endless carbon tracks, no problem, 🤣 I was on that beach when the media falsely claimed it was full of people. It was actually empty. They cut in stock footages. And the beach ban was actually only a few days. I spent my time on the beach, almost every day, in that time 4 years ago. It was very empty, with the exception of some locals and some homeschoolers. No parking problems at all! It was great, all that natural vitamin d too. Most were fooled into believing the beaches were closed, when in fact they were not.

[@lewispommells234]

What happened to that NOS soviet TV set you had a couple years back? Would love to see that running.

[@davidweston9115]

Every time you say "resurrection" you should have a clip of Jonathan Winters saying "RESURRECTION... NOW" from the movie "the loved one." He says it better than anyone I have ever heard. As if he could part the sea with his voice.

[@obsoletebutneat]

Have you considered a Water-Pik for tube sockets like that...?

[@jamesmdeluca]

Greetings: Post press. wash: I still advocate for IPA rinse as it absorbs moisture.

[@ShadowsOnTheScreen]

Thank you for making this video. I learned a lot AND I was entertained!

Despite this TV trying it's best to not broadcast 2020 TV by partial immolation, it was forced against its will to show the craziness that's going on in present day.