REPAIRING A PILOT TV37 ANTIQUE TV

[@tonelives1023]

One of the very best shows anywhere. Like being over the shoulder of a master. Thanks

[@FSCforal]

Mistress lol

[@davidk6271]

The genius of this gentleman is he can make this almost understandable to an idjot like me. Long may his valves glow.

[@bjmartin5225]

Don’t you mean she . Be respectful .

[@lauramildon-clews7850]

That is the oldest television that I have ever seen. What a wonderful experience ❤️. All of my work is with diesel electric propulsion systems. You are so clever in what you do. Incidentally, I wear dresses to work as well, some of yours are really nice, take care

[@vasilis8208]

Wow, 3"!! amazing that people used to watch such small screens.

[@anderskarlsson9881]

Thank you, Ron. Watching the picture coming up on the tube give a little taste of the magic it must have been when these sets were new and the latest in communications technology. I could probably sit for hours and look att that small, green, screen and just dream about how it must have felt to see TV for the first time in those days. The magic of television is still there in that box.

[@jackierabbit450]

What a nice dress! I broke one of my own rules last night on that very subject. I always told myself that I wasn’t going to wear dresses, they just weren’t for me, four years ago I borrowed a dress once for a party and actually thought I looked very nice in it and didn’t think much of that infraction until last night. I was at Kohl’s with a friend doing a little shopping and found several very nice dresses over in the clearance rack, and two of them looked awesome on me! So I ended up with one thin shoulder strapped little black dress that would be nice for an evening out, maybe dinner and a show type of event, and one very nice black dress with lightly ruffled sleeves that would be very good for almost anything from shopping to hanging out with friends! I’m really looking forward to abolishing the old “I don’t wear dresses“ rule that I had for some reason, why did I ever think that? I never really knew that there was the appropriate dress for television repair, but you really have that figured out! Very 40s Correct piece of loveliness, you have amazing style, too bad I can’t drag you down to Kohl’s to help me pick out something nice for myself, you’d be a fantastic wing Woman!

[@glasslinger]

Cross dressing is a blast if you have the body for it! (tall, thin) I have been doing it since my 20's when I was a real cutie! Don't forget ebay, lots of nice dresses for bargain prices!

[@jackierabbit450]

@@glasslinger yes indeed! I started transition four years ago when I attended a party in that first cocktail dress, a very new experience for me to be sure. I’ve pretty much finished up my transition, all the surgeries that you could imagine (top, bottom, voice, face, electrolysis, tummy tuck, bbl and I’m currently sitting here one week after the second round of body contouring, so I’m very much looking forward to wearing things that fit me nicely, that might have something to do with me breaking the rule about dresses, I finally have the right body to put a decent dress on and be comfortable with… Of Course I’m turning 51 this year, I truly wish I was a bit younger but for my age I feel pretty good! I absolutely love watching you fix electronics, it’s an addiction for me, my hobby was building vacuum tube guitar amplifiers for many years, now I’m just focused on life goals and my new career in electrology, I am so glad I get to live vicariously through your fun repair videos, I also absolutely love watching Fran tear stuff apart and explain it, I could see the three of us getting in a lot of trouble and making a big mess over at Fran’s lab!

[@mikeread5132]

@@glasslinger Ron, I'm uncertain which I find more fascinating: vintage electronic equipment repair or vintage cross dressing.

[@nobodynoone2500]

Watching this on a CRT. Still nicer to look at (with high refresh rates). Thanks for keeping them alive, and more importantly, showing us how to!

[@bluetrepidation]

Best vintage electronics channel on You Tube.

[@ibanezleftyclub]

They are truly a wealth of knowledge, if only I lived close so could be their apprentice and soak up all the knowledge. Thankfully we have these videos so future generations can learn. Thank you for all that you do Glass!!

[@TheBlibo]

Absolutely a great vid About 40 years ago I bought one of those crt's to build an oscilloscope and after a few weeks of building I tried to test it and it didn't work because the crt was broken. I think I paid about £5 for the tube, I can't believe what they change hands for now Keep up the good work Zed

[@321CatboxWA]

I really enjoyed the journey . You are an excellent teacher. Keep up the fine work. Thank You for your time and wisdom ! 73's

[@nozmoking1]

The green screen reminds me of when we watched Saturday morning cartoons in the calibration lab on a rack mounted oscilloscope with 2 time base plug-ins for a raster and feeding video into a vertical amp with a $40K spectrum analyzer. Entertainment courtesy of the USAF...

[@priestblood]

Thanks Ron always look forward to your videos,what a great little TV,

[@Nc_303]

I love it how, at the end of the vid, you happen to show a commercial for broadband internet on the old TV. It really is a paradigm shift.

[@greggsvintageworkshop8974]

Really great job Ron, I love your logical troubleshooting technique.

[@JadeStrawberry]

Really cool project, Ron. It always amazes me how you take these lumps of vintage tubes and metal and get them looking and working perfectly. My kitty brought me a dead bird on the porch as a gift the other day, so your beautiful kitty loves you very much.

[@dwtees]

Hi Ron, Loved the video. Keep em coming.

[@paulkocyla1343]

Yeah, thank you so much for taking us on this tour. It was definitely an adventureous voyage!

[@hectorpascal]

That TV's only a year younger than me - but I haven't needed quite as much care, attention and replacement parts to keep ME going! Another great job, Ron...

[@neilgillmore]

Which frigging TV ?????

[@qzorn4440]

back in the radio-tv vo-tech days, we used a 40-100 watt incandescent light bulb in series with the unit under test to track-down shorts. the light ran bright until the short was removed...🤨 worked great to save blowing fuses.. thanks a lot, great video...:)

[@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject]

Very nice level of detail. You don't see that every day. Thank you for making and sharing this!

[@ericrawson2909]

I really enjoyed watching this one. The set is beautiful, no corrosion and I like the way the tuner is not a separate module, it looks more like an old radio set, just with smaller caps and inductors. Looking forward to more videos from you, you are a master of this old technology.

[@drboze6781]

As you say, it's one thing to troubleshoot an original set, but when somebody else has been in there, you have troubleshoot their work as well. Probably everybody who designed and built this set are long gone, but you gave it a new life. Well done.

[@ohger1]

I took in a radio to restore for a customer that had been a restoration attempt. Between the crappy workmanship and the wiring mistakes, I ended up cutting everything out of the chassis except the tube sockets and IF coils and started from scratch. Took less time that way.

[@RobertWardJones]

You explain things so well. I'm Impressed!

[@mattvoce1091]

Really good lots of fun watching your process . Excellent

[@jeffreyhickman3871]

Looks like 👍 one ☝️ of these should be in everybody’s household 🏠. Really bring back a lot of memories of the 1930’s, as if taking ya back to that time. Ya do such a great job 👏 on these TV’s 📺. Your friend, Jeff.

[@Audion]

Excellent choice for a TV repair video. 📺

[@hestheMaster]

Great on the fly repair techniques Ron. Nice to see the old girl working again.

[@malekdavarpanah4925]

Great Job. Enjoy watching you working on the equipment. I have 2 of the pilot sets in my collection . I repair them about 7 or 8 years ago & they are working good. I understand is a little challenge when some one else work on them with the little knowledge or none. To me is nothing that cant be repaired. You have to know how they work , know your electronics & how to Trouble shoot & you have it all. I enjoy watching you Repairing the equipment & solve all the problems. Not may of us left to be able to understand old tube sets and repair them. Thank you again for The Fantastic videos. 73 Mal KI7DYM

[@AjinkyaMahajan]

You Should Release a Series of Tutorials on Vaccum Tubes based devices. Impressive Knowledge. Thanks & Cheers✨✨

[@Greg-et2dp]

Glass linger vintage pilot 3 inch tv 37 black and white TV from 1949 is awesome my friend 🎉🎉🎉

[@RobR386]

Awesome repair, love valve tech, more so audio, I'm also subbed to Shango for vintage tube goodness. Great to see another CD, nothing like a good fitting dress.

[@kinasc1575]

Excellent work as always Ron, well done, a joy to watch and listen to and always very informative.

[@cyndicorinne]

Amazing troubleshooting job! I’m really pleased to see it working.

[@srfurley]

Interesting set, I would have guessed it was older than that. These days, with people watching videos on their ‘phones we’re almost back to the same size picture! Until recently there didn’t seem to be any videos from you less than about one year old. I was worried that you might have fallen victim to the virus or something, but recently some new ones have appeared. Glad you’re ok. Nice dress by the way.

[@donalddesnoo5303]

Had a friend had one of these as boy a dozen people would come to watch one of these on a weekend un believable where we've come in tech . My first a 7tele tone w magnifier 🎉 this was the first TV I saw ever later had a TV repair shop now 81yrs old

[@TeslaTales59]

Looking forward to seeing this TV working! Nice test equipment in the background too..

[@Darylvb]

It's always very enjoyable to watch you work!

[@brucehutton2089]

Hi I don't know your name, I am Ashleigh. I really like your dress. As I have explained before we go back 100 years well that's what it feels like to me. Many years ago in Australia when colour TV came out(1974) we had unscrupulous theives sold NTSC colour TV's in Australia of cause our colour system was PALD. I don't know or remember how many people asked me to fix their new colour NTSC TV they had bought overseas. Then I would have to fix a TV someone who didn't know what they were doing stuff up a perfectly good set. I luv your videos stay safe Ashleigh 💕🙌💖

[@reacey]

I love the TV stuff, eagerly awaiting the 50s TV repair.

[@moasias9306]

Thank you so much for this video, those are the most difficult problems and you got it all, you made it look so easy, but really they are so difficult, thank you again, still some confusion about horizontal and vertical., we love the kitty so beautiful.

[@guimbadriver]

wow electrostatic delfection system oscilloscope picture tube, very nice tv set sir...five star work...

[@7c3c72602f7054696b]

I really want to restore something like that in the future, done a few radios and a bit of test equipment but not a single CRT TV as of yet. Looks like a lot of fun, thanks for sharing.

[@Greg-et2dp]

Glass linger you are good at restoring vintage shortwave receivers and alignment of vintage shortwave receivers and vintage TVS my friend 🎉🎉

[@Greg-et2dp]

Glass linger your utube videos are awesome my friend 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@frankowalker4662]

Nice TV, The greem CRT adds something special to the overall effect. Great repair.

[@tarstarkusz]

As if being a 3" b&w roundy wasn't bad enough. Some genius had to decide to make it green! This must be a very rare set. It is hard to imagine who this is(was) aimed at. A 7" one is also a low end cheap set and can reasonably be watched a few feet away. This thing has to be viewed within a foot or so. It is really no more portable than any other tiny set. There wasn't much in the way of programming in 1949 to even watch. It doesn't have a radio in it.

[@frankowalker4662]

@@tarstarkusz I've got a 3 1/2 inch B/W TV with AM/SW radio from the 70's. As a family we used to sit round it on caravan holidays watching horror films in the 80's. We used to get realy scared because we could'nt quite see what was going on. LOL.

[@tarstarkusz]

@@frankowalker4662 You mean one of those "boom boxes" with the litte CRT TV sets in them? I have a few of them. The smallest one, I think is about 4" but also has a cassette deck and an AM/FM stereo as well. This one doesn't appear to have an AM radio in it. I have some 2" jobs, but they are LCD pocket machines.

[@frankowalker4662]

@@tarstarkusz I wish it was a boom box, It's a small crappy Crown CTV-14. It's on google images. LOL.

[@tarstarkusz]

@@frankowalker4662 It's hard to get a sense of scale in those photos. I have a 5" model kind of similar which I bought for I think 14,99 in the late 90s/

[@davidstacy8314]

Hey Ron your tech friend Dave here I enjoyed your video very much that's always nice to see a genius at work being tech myself over the weekend I repaired an old zenith metal case one it's a lot of fun ron look forward to seeing another video continue to be safe and may God bless and keep you thank you

[@danniepate5343]

Were have you been . Missed you. Glad you are back.🙋

[@andy16666]

Fascinating old TV. Great work!

[@marciobadin8832]

Your videos are very special, you are very creative.

[@espenbgh2540]

OK, we only see what he manage to repair, but so far he's done extremely well with a lot of old stuf I've never seen before.

[@felixthecat2589]

Watching you work is mind bending! Freaking amazing!!!

[@genevasimmonds8208]

just love your work, so much knowledge

[@ajith24pj430]

wow what a journey...u r transferring d knowledge to d whole...its amazing...tnx

[@FennecTECH]

That looks like really nice work! The previous one did. Like they really wanted to do a good job!

[@LA6UOA]

Nice job! I admire your patience!

[@ralflang5524]

your skills are quite impressive, thx for so much content!

[@johndaniels972]

Yay!! A new video! Just popped up on my feed. Thanks for your amazing effort!

[@johnfnoblessr9003]

enjoy your vids, i from Snyder, Tx.. I've been working on all electronics since the 70's and still enjoy doing and watching and you make some of the most informative vids I've seen on youtube

[@sr633]

Nameing off the numbers of these tubes takes me back to radio club in Highschool. Two brothers were the "brains"in the club.Their dad was shortwave radio ham.

[@volvo245glt]

Why all the comments about the dress? It's totally irrelevant what people wear and the reason they do. It's the year 2021 so just deal with it. I came here to watch the repair of a very unique TV, and that's what I got. Nice job and great video!.. 😀👍

[@glasslinger]

A lot of these comments come from countries other than the USA where the population is not as open minded as here. Give them another hundred years or so!

[@savneetsinghrairai6823]

@@glasslinger 🤣🤣silly people never mind

[@zognaldblormpf5127]

You base your morality on the date?

[@zognaldblormpf5127]

@@glasslinger In 100 years the United States will no longer exist and with it goes system that enables people like you.

[@glasslinger]

@@zognaldblormpf5127 You are fucked up in the head! Full of HATE for anyone different than you! People like you are what cause war! Get off my channel! GO AWAY! You are not welcome here!

[@stevekoehn1675]

OLD STUFF - F YEA! Vacuum Tubes and selenium rectifiers. Getting shocked by 500 Plate Voltage. THATS LIVING

[@bobbyvarnell9350]

Another good one, Ron.

[@diecksl]

Great video as always! Fixing old electronics entertains me more than any modern show on Netflix. But maybe I am just a bit odd 😂

[@xnavynuc]

If you’re odd because you like these videos better than the modern shows that are on, then I’m odd too and so are at least 25,000 others!

[@spvillano]

Excellent grasp of analog television theory, something I found despairingly infrequent in TV shops I've dealt with or worked for! One thing going for that unit is, no plastic to grow brittle and fail in the dial cord pulley system! ;) If memory serves, the plastic of choice in that unit's era remained bakelite for a while after, before finally surrendering to more modern and fragile plastics.

[@Luzt.]

You rock, Sir!

[@Strike_Raid]

That set is in great shape for being so old; looks just a couple years old.

[@Initial_Gain]

Hey buddy thanks for your videos with your know-how. Recommend you make sure you charge well for your hard work and first and for most take care of your health also. Nice cat! 🐱

[@whatleyglen7148]

I worked on TV's when I was a teenager into the 70's. At that point I lost interest and moved on to audio which I had more interest in. However, I very much appreciate anyone who worked on TV's back then that weren't just tube-jockeys like Ron here. My boss at that point I can see now, as were most tv techs of the 60's-70's, really didn't understand how tubes or certainly transistors worked. They were more 'Method' repairers. Interestingly enough back then with tubes being swappable, a guy could still fake his way through most common repairs. The rubber hit the road or them in the face, when it came to the deeper issues in IF or oscillator circuits when they had to know some theory. Many of those cats had to quit when the hybrids and eventually the total solid state TV's came out. I felt for them. I went on to tech school and gained the theory necessary to carry-on past that stage.

[@TrakThora]

Nice video on a great set. Thank you Ron.

[@hotpuppy1]

Nice piece. I have a 1949 Motorola with 7 inch CRT and plastic case. Looks nice. Haven't got motivated to get on it yet as the CRT needs to be checked first. It has a boatload of paper caps in it to change. It is also one with no power transformer in it.

[@hotjazzbaby]

Great! You brought it back to life! 👍🏻

[@ronalddaub9740]

I saw a auction that Shango went to that was selling stuff from a TV station and he bought one of those pilots, those are cool.

[@garyfrombarry1]

Made Me Spit My Tea Out. Ron Said, "Going To Grab Hold Of That Knob" !

[@zognaldblormpf5127]

I think he grabs hold of a knob every time he puts on a dress if you know what I mean.

[@RobsFixitShop]

I've watched all of glasslinger's videos and I love them, but I am a little surprised he didn't blow a new tube that had white phosphor:-)

[@conundrum112]

Another great job as usual.

[@harikuttanpillai3492]

Gem of a person

[@stendekemalheiroshugo1238]

Congratulations, nice job!!!👏👏👏🤜🙌✅

[@josephconsoli4128]

Impressive skills there with one of the most collectible TV sets. You'll notice the picture wants to "tear" on these, but a juggling of tuner and contrast controls will usually cure that. I believe the green CRT's are oscilloscope replacements. Even those are rare nowadays. I turn mine on with a Variac as not to have it's filaments blasted like a radios pilot bulb. A wise thing to do if you use the set.

[@vincea3037]

Good one Ron! Enjoyed it immensely! 73

[@williamsmith4640]

Around 1950 ( my HS senior year) a local movie theater gave a Pilot TV ( 2 or 3 inch) away the price at that time was $100 a small fortune , at a time when wages was less than 75 cents an hour

[@dcallan812]

I cant tell you how happy I am, that we dont have to watch you fix the 3 inch screen while watching on a 3 inch screen. 👀🤣 👍👍

[@phillipyannone3195]

That was a good one. Well done!

[@dennisqwertyuiop]

Great repair

[@Theoobovril]

Much enjoyed as usual, Ron...

[@Managua-f1n]

You are a genius! I wish to be as you.

[@carmeloterrana3385]

Buongiorno, mi sono iscritto al canale da poco e voglio faccio i complimenti per la sua preparazione tecnica, io sono un appassionato di vacum tube e adesso la seguo sempre dall' Italia .

[@FixitFrank]

Yes! Just in time for lunch! Thanks Ron

[@Dr.-Smart]

perfect explanation about bad capacitors

[@roadinstallatie]

You are the best, greetings from Amsterdam

[@eritronc]

Very important content, thank You, grettings from Chile!!

[@NathanOkun]

This kind of work is opposite tom, for example, Engle's Coach Shop, where ye rebuild buggies and wagons, He has to know a wide range of completely different jobs that are each not tremendously complex, while the work shown here has more focused operations, but they are extremely complex and interact with one-another so that you in many cases have to fix several different problems to get something to work, in a rat's nest of complex circuitry. I am continually amazed by the successful resolution using both kinds of mental activity!

[@MrAnalogDan12]

Hello Ron. When I was a kid, my great-grandfather told me that the first TV he ever saw was not black and white but black and green... Maybe it was something similar to this one.

[@stanleygerrick6053]

Watching you fix that old TV set is like going back in time! Terrific! You have to give the geniuses then who initially invented TV and then went on so far as to perfect it to the level of your old 1949 TV. Quite a human accomplishment when you think about it. When you and your kitty sit on your front porch, does he count the cars as they go by? Just wondering. Heehee!

[@aussiedazvk4djh889]

Looks very nice Ron. 👍🏻

[@TheFanOrTheMask]

great work, as always.

[@FindLiberty]

I'm a big fan of electrostatic deflection CRTs. I have a larger model. The chassis is a better candidate for conversion to support the higher scan rate required to add an HDMI input for 4k.

[@mousepirado]

Congratulations, from Brazil.

[@tonelives1023]

More rube building would be my vote. Like some killer 12ax7s then we could auction them off …..bet you would get big bucks for them buddy !

[@AIJenkins]

The internal build looks quite “modern” for such an old set. TV’s from the 50’s and early 60’s pre circuit board era don’t seem to be as well thought out. Thanks for the share!

[@glasslinger]

I find it has a lot to do with the particular manufacturer. Some had real "rat's nests!"