RESTORING A 1930'S DEWALD RADIO

[@hugovale8070]

Mister , you are the one . Im allways happy when a notification pops up ;=) . Beautiful piece .Thanks for shearing your knowledge and best regards from france .

[@robtitheridge9708]

Nice job Ron .I never get tired of watching your videos.

[@outthereassociates7155]

Top electronic AND woodworking skills! Always enjoyable Ron.

[@cyndicorinne]

I know, right? And Ron has some remarkable glass blowing and tube making videos to boot!

[@moeganim3509]

Thank you for showing how to repair the resistance wire and how to fix the cabinet, we enjoyed all the show especially Kitty, we love her very much, her voice like a music, thank you so much again.

[@mariahollyman7466]

Another great job and nice to see the boss got to be in the videos again

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

The master at work! Thanks for another great video.

[@CanalRadiotecnico]

Thank you very much for showing your excellent work! 😊👍

[@ry491]

Great to see another upload from you . I am going to sit back and enjoy it . Best wishes from Thomas in UK ..

[@davidstacy8314]

Hi Ron your friend Dave's here nice to see another one of your videos it's amazing what you did with that old radio you're so professional please have more videos always happy to see you and your videos and your cat may God keep you safe and guide you always your friend Dave God bless you

[@skip1835]

very cool restoration - - start to finish!

[@davidportch8837]

Another great job Ron...love the new brass dial surrounds. A super little radio. Looking better than new...thanks for sharing.

[@josephconsoli4128]

Awesome! You did an amazing job and saved a desirable little art-deco radio.

[@pkh4340]

I so enjoy watching you analyze and fix tricky problems! One thing I’ve learned….if it’s a challenge for you….then I should never mess with it….find a pro! (Like yourself!)

[@dmitriarkhangelski6023]

Excellent restoration, as always 👍👍👍

[@nitemover1]

Your video's are alway's amazing and educational. thank you for taking the time to teach us some of your knowlwdge and showing us your project's. Hello to boss kitty .

[@cristianstoian5507]

thank you for this video, what You are doing is wonderful, i am watching you with pleasure, i wish you health and strenght.

[@cristianstoian5507]

i'm from România.

[@GeorgeWMays]

Super enjoyable video. Thanks for this project. It is much appreciated.

[@cbsolo5628]

show us your collection some day?

[@johnfnoblessr9003]

I always enjoy your videos, I'm envious of your skills. I was very skilled in electronics and auto mechanics as well as being a Registered Nurse before my eyes gave out, but I was never any good at woodwork nor fabrication of metal or glass parts

[@someguy2637]

You make it look so easy. Thanks for posting this restore.

[@krz8888888]

I doubt they still made sbestos line cords in the 80's did they ?

[@car621000]

Congratulations on your great work, I look at you fascinated

[@metalman4141]

My favourite radio up to now Ron 👍

[@chuck0mx]

It is a beautiful radio... and very interesting

[@moristo]

Very nice complete restoring.

[@joohop]

Brilliant Ron Bless Up

[@tommynygaardjensen8398]

I saw that something the wood veneer bulged a few places it you could have cut up and filled up with wood glue and then use a couple of clamps to press until the glue was dry

[@glasslinger]

Yes. There were several swelled up places which is why I couldn't use a power sander to quickly sand the radio. That particular radio is not worth all that trouble to do a lot of veneer work. It looks great the way it is.

[@priestblood]

Hi Ron ,another great video it turned out fantastic I am very impressed with your workshop,what a great guillotine, when you going to treat us all to a shop tour I would love to see?,best regards & stay healthy

[@zx8401ztv]

Wow what a difference!, such a different looking radio :-D Ron you are a talented man. Loverly cat :-D

[@Super8Rescue]

Another great Video, thanks Ron. Sending you best wishes from the UK

[@santioriginal]

That's a very nice Art Deco style radio. Beautiful.

[@frankowalker4662]

Perfect restoration, Ron.

[@hestheMaster]

Dewald model 59 from around 1934. Has a bad resistance line cord. Struggling to keep it original and got it to work. Ron's cabinetry work is simply outstanding. I don't think I ever saw a chassis desiged to be put into a cabinet on its end.

[@208raven]

keep the videos coming ron love the long ones best,nice looking radio

[@jeffreyhickman3871]

Ya got a GREAT 👍 discount on that radio 📻 for $5.00, by the seller thinking that the power cord went bad. It wasn't the power cord that went bad, it was one of the built in capacitors that burned out. Your friend, Jeff.

[@cyndicorinne]

It is helpful that you show all the steps to the restoration, even on the computer.

[@dann2ptf]

Very familiar with those HP cap bridges where I worked at Dielectric Laboratories here in upstate NY. We also had Boonton cap bridges.

[@dass1333]

Another work of art saved by Ron and kitty.

[@RandallKC]

I love old tube gear. You must of worked on them for a long time. I micro solder now under a microscope but to be able to use a soldering gun like that on sone real gear would be fun. I follow your channel and enjoy your personality.

[@Greg-et2dp]

Glass linger the radio cabinet looks like new you did a awesome job my friend 😅😅😅

[@Greg-et2dp]

Glass linger your vintage Dewald shortwave receiver from 1930s is awesome my friend 😅😅😅

[@ThermoCoupleNZ]

46:57 first time I've heard a 1930's radio fart.... wow! nice work Ron 🙂

[@Ale.K7]

Beautiful restoration.

[@LaurentiuFrunza-bg1it]

Verry good total restoration i see from Romania

[@gertlungmaskin1210]

At 46:58 your beloved cat farted.

[@Joe-ep9lk]

Great to see you again :):)

[@LaurentiuFrunza-bg1it]

Great work in wood for radio

[@alanhoggard4554]

You can use masking tape to hold down your trim while the glue dries.

[@glasslinger]

Now why the hell didn't I think of something that obvious! Thanks for the tip!

[@alanhoggard4554]

@@glasslinger You are welcome. Thanks for all of the great vids.

[@desnick2316]

The restoration looks great, but that lower bezel looks asymmetrical and crooked. Is that how the original was also shaped?

[@MisterTalkingMachine]

In 220 volt countries they still sold all-american-5 series string radios and the ones I have seen include the fattest wire wouund resistor in the chassis, which oten goes bad when they are just a ceramic core and open to the air windings. I have rewound those, maybe something like that mounted on the chassis would be a more sensible replacement for a resistor cord.

[@glasslinger]

In some radios there is room for the resistor. This particular one is packed solid with parts. No room.

[@andytipping70]

Good to see you are still posting, havent seen many uploads from you recently was getting concerned. quick question - You changed the capacitors without testing them - i assume as they are old - yet you changed them for stock capacitors that are so old that the legs have oxidised. Why should your capacitors have any more life than the ones you removed? - what am I missing?

[@leon545b]

A "curtain scorcher" line cord. I figured at the beginning you'd encounter that. I restored a 1930's Sparton where the cord was just in too bad a shape to re-use. I used a capacitor to provide the required reactive current limiting in the filament string (not my idea - found on line), and used a repro cloth covered 2 wire line cord. A resistor with the requisite power rating would've been too large and generated too much heat. Luckily, the cabinet on my radio was in pretty good condition - I don't have the mechanical skills or tools that you do! What material did you use to make the decals?

[@glasslinger]

Inkjet printer transparency plastic. Any office supply store or ebay.

[@leon545b]

@@glasslinger Thanks! I'm behind the times on that stuff!

[@leon545b]

Great job, BTW!

[@alcyon1]

So nice.

[@Greg-et2dp]

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

[@johnnyphilippe4619]

Je suis fidèle à ta chaîne même si je comprends je recarde quand même c est ancien appareil qui reprend vie

[@shaun27ful]

Lovely video as usual. And you sure look pretty in pink

[@MrGigi-dz9cv]

Hello. I got myself a radio to play with. It needs a speaker. But, the schematics show 4 connections to the speaker. What kind of speaker is that ? I try to put a new speaker, but don't know how to connect it.

[@dylanlepert232]

Modern-day speakers are usually permanent magnet speakers, but some older speakers use a electromagnet and the extra wires are to power it. I don't think you can attach a permanent magnet speaker to a radio not made for it but there could be some way I don't know of.

[@rodbasham6817]

Ron, When you sprayed glue for the grille cloth, does the glue get on the wood edges of the grille cutout?

[@glasslinger]

Yes. Take a cloth on a screwdriver and wipe it off. It doesn't stick to the wood since it dries like a powder.

[@qzorn4440]

now there is a story about the life, music the radio played and people that purchased this radio 😚 why did the cat run away when you said cut a couple of feet off the power cord? 😯 very nice job... 🧐

[@Greg-et2dp]

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

[@peterhaan9068]

Ron - Is it possible the switch, whose shaft you cut-off, was a "distant/local" antenna switch? Another nice repair on a classic radio!

[@LaurentiuFrunza-bg1it]

Fine artist in electronic so good so verry good

[@Madness832]

Him messin' w/ that asbestos curtain-burner was makin' me nervous!

[@SwingBandHeaven]

Brilliant video I love watching the attention to detail you do. My only comment would be that I think the stain color is too dark and I think blonde would of looked better . Not a criticism just my personal preference

[@jonathanInLondonUK]

Yep, the dark stained wood against the original blond had a real sense of Art Deco.

[@hectorpascal]

@@jonathanInLondonUK Yes, keeping it "blond" is my preference too. The beautiful speaker fretwork design and the original cabinet coloring was definitely screaming out "I'm Art Deco"! (But at least it now works... 🙂)

[@jamesmdeluca]

Greetings: Instead of a signal tracer for finding a break in a wire, you can use an inexpensive AC voltage sniffer ($3.98 shipped from China). Be sure that only one source of AC is connected to mains when testing. Good for finding that break in the resistive line cord. BTW: Alternative to an internal dropping resistor is an internal non-polarized dropping capacitor of 14 ufd 150vac. [Motor caps work here.]

[@glasslinger]

The motor capacitor is HUGE and won't fit in the cabinet.

[@KeritechElectronics]

Cats know how to cat, haha! Nice job on that one.

[@IU3EVR]

there are two coils for sw , clearly visible

[@moeganim3509]

Haha I notice that too

[@desnick2316]

And it looks like the dial had the scale for SW too, it was just rubbed off

[@FinnoUgricMachining]

For cleaning those capacitor leads I would recommend using fine steel wool. And, if the oxidation is really stubborn, maybe some fine (1000 grit) enery paper. One just has to take good care that either the fine steel hairs nor the emery paper abrasives enter the radio. Edit: Cleaning with a knife blade is not that effective as it cleans a very small area per pull whereas steel wool covers much more area.

[@MrGigi-dz9cv]

What i used to do, is flex the tube, while connected to the ohmmeter, to find the bad place. Another thing, i do is gently pull the wire from it's end. Usually, the breaking is somewhere close to one end, so the broken wire will just come off.

[@MrGigi-dz9cv]

When restoring old things, i think people should stick with the original look of the item.

[@celsoneves2368]

Show perfect!.

[@krz8888888]

Surprised the ornemental speaker wood is whole for $5, good score!

[@audiophile1024]

How much fun it must be to bring the dead back to life. It's fun to watch too.

[@BjornBlomstrand]

You work exelent with The Woodcover. I Wonder what People called it when it was new? The birdhouse perhaps. Regard Bjorn

[@bblod4896]

What is a resistance line cord for?

[@suzakule]

they were for keeping the local fire department vary VERY busy on the 20s and the 30s! :P

[@hestheMaster]

Used to reduced the voltage so the tubes work at the proper voltage (and limit current running through them). They get pretty warm because of that. The voltage used by the tubes is only a total of 55 Volts. The line cord has to eat the difference from household line voltage ( 125 VAC). So about 70 volts.

[@suzakule]

@@hestheMaster "KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK"

[@milantrcka121]

Ah, wondered about that too. The tubes must be used to running battery voltages rather than line power. Saves on power transformer, sets the tablecloth on fire...

[@greggaieck4808]

Me and my cousin are going to a Swap meet June 19 20 22 Sunday at 8 am in Milwaukee

[@phonotical]

No short wave so you just cut it off? Why!

[@glasslinger]

That short wave band (2-4mhz) was the old police band. There is nothing there any more. No reason to complicate matters trying to get that working.

[@phonotical]

@@glasslinger 🤣🙈

[@ShadowsOnTheScreen]

Amazing! Is there anything he can’t do?

[@LaurentiuFrunza-bg1it]

Design so good for this radio i colect some...

[@Rev22-21]

Curtain burner?

[@cbsolo5628]

kitties are special critters. get a second chair and leave kitty to its chair

[@ricardosalesdemello4130]

Ah! olá glaslinger, boa noite, adorei ver você ter arrumado o Radio, ficou ótimo!.. más glaslinger eu adorei ter visto também a 🐱 oncinha... ela é muito bonitinha Oh! hello glaslinger, good night, I loved seeing you fix the Radio, it turned out great!.. but glaslinger I loved seeing the 🐱 leopard too... she is very cute

[@sciencefollower]

Very much appreciated please.

[@pibbles-a-plenty1105]

I re-tin (solder coat) oxidized component leads instead of scraping them. If the leads are so bad they won't take solder I clean away the oxides with ScotchBrite and then re-tin them before installing the component.

[@tipfox9212]

I really like your pragmatic approach to restoring old radios ;-) There is nothing more boring to me than a 'rare set' - which doesn't work. Originality is one thing for me but functioning is a bigger one. I know there are other opinions ... BTW.: I watched a video of a flea market in the UK. They sell old sets (well, the housing) with blue tooth moduls and transistor amps in them - and the people buy them like crazy.

[@gerardomurillohernandez5807]

Que lindo gatito es muy amable.

[@hotpuppy1]

Not a big fan of resistor line cords. Even new, they would be a fire hazard.

[@desnick2316]

Curtain burner

[@احمداللامي-ف3د]

عاشت يداك تحي لكم من العراق

[@jgarr9216]

where did you learn all your skills ?

[@glasslinger]

Years and years of working with the stuff!

[@andreacosta74]

Be care with the Asbesto’s powder! Kind regards from Roma 🇮🇹

[@NOMOREPAM]

I would replace to whole.power cord. I don't like fire hazard on my place.

[@sometimesleela5947]

I'm usually a stickler for exact restoration, but fire hazzard+asbestos+unreliability means you're way better off with a sandbar resistor tacked inside the chassis. I love Ron, but this had me screaming at the screen

[@greggaieck4808]

Glasslinger my hobbys are painting pictures and lisining to shortwave and ssb iam thinking about getting my ham license I have 4 shortwave receivers

[@greggaieck4808]

Glasslinger your 1930s Dewald shortwave radio Receiver is cool

[@greggaieck4808]

Glasslinger the radio cabinet looks nice I like the color that's cool

[@tonyfoo7204]

❤😊

[@PatrickClutch]

Is it the same company that currently produces power tools?

[@jeffreyhickman3871]

DeWalt is who makes power 💥 tools 🧰. Your friend, Jeff.

[@toddd7444]

coooooooooool dial🤩😍

[@jamesmdeluca]

Greetings: I like to use schematic PDF pages as my (coloring book). I use Adobe Reader's commenting facility to color the B+, B-, AVC, chassis/gnd & signal paths. I also use available voltages to guess current draws and calculate voltage dropping capacitors for use with silicon diode substitutes for tube rectifiers. As this is all on paper, I am not ruining anything here. I do appreciate your videos but wince at some of your methods. At 71, my fine motor skills keep me from working on these deserving units myself but get my FIX watching you. Is you capacitance bridge doing ESR testing for you? Any help with chassis or model info as I have not found a photo match to that cabinet.

[@glasslinger]

On some radios I do the color coding on the schematic too. I use colored pencils.

[@jamesmdeluca]

Greetings 2: You can find the break point using a signal tracer with a signal source fed into one end of the resistance element.

[@michaelmacdonald3408]

Put wet soap on the wood screws they go into the wood much easier.

[@midac7069]

A high voltage transformer is useful for finding such breaks. High enough to jump the gap.. look for the smoke.

[@tipfox9212]

I that a joke ? Any cheap DMM with NCV will find the gap without smoke and not knowing the lenght of the gap ;-)

[@cx144]

From France, Dear Madam, is it possible to transform an old AM tube station into FM ? I have been watching your channel for a long time and admire your knowledge!

[@glasslinger]

Possible and practical are two different concepts! Possible, yes, practical, no!

[@MrGigi-dz9cv]

Just leave it as it is. Much higher value.

[@Greg-et2dp]

Glass linger my hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb and I have 5 shortwave receivers iam thinking about getting my ham license

[@Greg-et2dp]

Glass linger iam going to san Diego CALIFORNIA in October 19-23 2023 for five days with my cousin and his wife we are flying there 😅😅😅