1967 Philco CRT Replacement Cataract Removal Vintage Roundie TV

replacing picture tube in television removing safety glass

[@2574mcu]

I'm a big fan of old electronics. I wish there was more people like you who gives these old treasures a second life. I really enjoyed watching you repair this set. Have a good day.

[@robcemento9605]

I never get tired of any of your videos!

[@atschirner]

Oh, take me back to the late '70's and riding around in the TV service truck with a fresh load of replacement CRTs from the warehouse. Best days of my life. Thanks.

[@waltschannel7465]

One shop we had locally was still doing significant CRT replacements in 1993!

[@MUN.A1988]

Even so there is't any one stiil using crts ..I still see your artfan of these ressurection the best. Also your comments while woirking I like it specially when an airplane crossing overhead you say plane blowing my mind

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

Watching new Ads is so cool on this, it actually makes you want to watch them

[@davidarnette327]

Psychedelic colors with birds chirping, kinda of peaceful in a groovy sorta way.

[@1956kirk]

That Philco turned out pretty nice. If you ever run out of that double sided tape, another thing that it's used for is to stick soap and paper towel dispensers on to ceramic tile walls in public washrooms. It is a thin layer of foam about 1/16 to 1/32" thick with the adhesive on each side. You would have to cut them down to the size you want cause they are about 6" square. Should be able to pick them up from a janitor wholesaler.

[@justsumguy2u]

I don't know why, but cataract removal on these CRTs is satisfying to watch (especially the removal of the glue)

[@The_SegaHolic]

It's like digging your nose, or watching somebody remove a booger that's been hangin on the edge of their nose (cliffhangers). Sooooo satisfying!

[@BobWiersema]

And solar energy was used. So that kind of makes up for it originally running on baby seal oil. :-)

[@killcar5nbike2]

So good chance given how good the red/green emission was and the fact the electronics are working that it was a low-ish hour set that just had a duff CRT.

[@MrDoneboy]

Man, I just love your dry humor, Ha!

[@ermyvids]

Shango066.... this is one of your better series, wards/philco. i liked it. all the detail. you explained everything very clearly. dont rule out the color TV work. lets see another series later this summer. (er)

[@amin1z]

The void between the safety glass and the airplane in the sky lool

[@Lockemeister]

Removing the safety glass, it is like you are working on the moon. Love it!! Yes, glad you did safety precautions. Very smart.

[@MikeJones-do1xv]

You can mess with those old CRTs without a problem all day... and guaranteed the first one I would touch would implode in my face putting me 6 feet under. Gotta hand it to ya... you’re most definitely the current expert in this field!

[@kareno8634]

Really 'Cool' job with the Cataract Removal! Didn't know TV Tubes were made like that. Don't have TV; Don't see commercials; What a treat. I'm not missing a thing!

[@LazorVideosDestruction]

"made in U.S.A," man wish I could see things like that often today

[@iroll]

If the minimum bare-bones price of a TV was $1,500, you probably would. But since you can get a 40" 1080P flatscreen Roku TV for less than $200, you probably never will again.

[@robcemento9605]

No way...once UsaGovCorperation allowed countries with slave labor to compete....we all became 3rd world. Vote conservative.

[@robcemento9605]

Love your channel!!! 💘 That tv was just Lazarused!! Great work!

[@isoguy.]

Just awsome, I could have watched a 12 hour video of you repairing this tv and safefty glass removal. Both this channel and your mining one are two of the best on utube. If it wasn't for utubes censorship in favor of big business product reviews Im sure your channels would attract at least a couple of million viewers. I try to plug your channels as often as is possible. Thank you for sharing this amazing fix.

[@waltschannel7465]

32:00 GLOWAGE!!!! Ohhhhh, the beauty! Seriously though, great video. I next get tired of seeing these old girls get brought back to life!

[@IrishvintageTVRadio]

Looking forward to watching this in full tonight after work. Good idea to let it warm up slowly in the sun. I see now why my idea of the hot wire wouldn't work. Blow up or implode, doesn't matter if you're picking glass out of your face!👍

[@reginaldlawrence412]

Another old tv saved good job Shango.

[@stephenwilliams5201]

Used to work for Sylvania tv. We used a hot tub with a small amount of acid. Then heated the shield till it it fell off. With little labor. We had a stack of them that was cleaned and buffed out. Reattached then off to regun for a new set of guns. Sold as remanufactured. With a 90 day warranty. And yes the material can" leak" off the " emitters" and grow weak. Tv shop stopped. and was after Mrs Clinton came to our factory. closed. Philips snuck out of town. went to Mexico. Then China. I fed a famly of 6 on that salary. Creeps just not satisfied till folks are broke and hurting. Harpo! Too bad we can't even show the Indian test pattern I liked him.

[@anthonyboarman3833]

You mean the guns grow weak?

[@stephenwilliams5201]

@@anthonyboarman3833 absolutely. Radio tubes, tv tubes emit electrons. (Thorium coating. Heats up and free electrons are aimed at phosphor) to excite ,and emit the pretty color. To be exact there is series of phosphor such as p1 p2, p3, and p4 = different results. In your case there are rows of dots in a triads. Newer sets there are squares.(windows) each of three guns hit there respective spot to create the picture. Yes I was rocket man all that teck was just my job 7 days a week and fill 6 people's stomachs till NAFTA and Clintons old lady came to our factory and waved her magic wand and our company sliped across the borderline and we lost our jobs. To nafta

[@anthonyboarman3833]

@@stephenwilliams5201 How did they apply the phosphor to the tv tube?

[@stephenwilliams5201]

@@anthonyboarman3833 oh forgot to mention we accelerated from 90 units to 218 units per hour. And my average pay was , 234$ dollar per week. The candy was the over time at 24$ per hour. And learned to jump each time a bell rang the next cycle. Your case the neck is cut off and re guned with a 90 day warranty.

[@vaxick]

The Indian Head Test Pattern is still displayed on television....

[@ralphups7782]

When you had the television dialed in around frame 27:46, I think the birds were watching. When I was a kid, my budgie loved the television.📺🐤🐥🐦

[@chrisa2735-h3z]

What a beautiful TV I wish I had one like it! No flat screens for me!!

[@punker4Real]

Meh I like my CRT Flat screen THey were really working hard to turn CRT into flat panels we were really CLOSE to having CRT flat Panel screens LG has super Slim CRT screen I thought that was pretty cool I think by now they would be flat panels by now Honestly I hate OLED(burn in) and LCD screen they suck and can't reproduce Yellow very well like the CRTs can... unless you pay an arm and a leg for one of those sharp units yellow is more like brown on The Simpsons

[@chrisa2735-h3z]

I meant I don’t like modern flat screens lol. Crt ones are amazing!

[@CRSMovieProductions]

Just to here him say Crusty Pots.....sss LOL cracks me up you do a great job and your funny to boot I love it

[@RoughJustice2k18]

Not a bad picture for a Mongomery-Ward CRT in the Philco, and hardly any "blanking" of the TV picture in the camera this time. Video presented in "True Shango-Vision" complete with rear-view tube glowage. Awesome. :-)

[@Jimmyhaflinger]

i once managed to weld an open cathode connection with an 8kv high current shock from an electric fence charger between K and G1

[@nejiniisan1265]

Cool. Sometimes we manage to come up with creative solutions.

[@nejiniisan1265]

For prototypes, I used to burn hard to find pcb shorts with a high current.

[@abc-ni9uw]

Thanks shango. Glad to see you dressed in your classic Green jacket 😏

[@shango066]

Does it make horny for u?

[@abc-ni9uw]

Good question shango, no i can't say that it does. After having a real good think definitely not. Now whip out a TRINITURD and yes that'll turn me on some what. Peace

[@seatboi]

OOOhhh! I see! You remove , clean & REPLACE safety glass! Nice, Job, Man! Looks like new!

[@connorm955]

There was nicotine fuzz at my grandparents house in my uncle's old room on the speaker terminals where the wall meets the ceiling. And EIA 260 is Philco, original factory tube made by Philco.

[@williamsquires3070]

Yes, the blue cathode could come off. Also the rototweebulator could go off in a “no rototweebulating zone”, and they’ll come haul your TV off to be turned into a fish tank while a loud airplane flies overhead, or there’s a noisy dog barking, or someone using a leaf blower nearby. This is the curse of the shango066 channel. You heard it here first, folks! 😆

[@MrChief101]

Actually, Shang... if I may call you that... I like watching the commercials. It's the only time I really see "broadcast" ones.

[@MiharuNV750]

"Fill in this liquid into the void between the safety glass and, ehh... airplane in the sky" - lol!

[@sevilleandcoarthouse2960]

That tv looks.... Immaculate... Like new old stock

[@seatboi]

@8:25..."it'll give you a little "whack" but it won't kill you" LOL! It'll give u a good "SNAP" & cause you to almost drop the crt, LOL! I had 1 that I was stupid & young & I picked it up out of the cabinet w/o discharging the anode & the anode button touched my stomach & zapped me so hard in the stomach I nearly dropped it! (it was a 25XP22)

[@BobWiersema]

Currently 18 thumbs down from people that have no desire to fix their 1967 Philco. I find that very sad.

[@nozmoking1]

Ah, the memories. Years ago we tossed a 23" tube into a 12 yard dumpster that was already half-full of packing peanuts and chased it with a brick. It "snowed" for what seemed like an eternity. The best part was the peanuts absorbed most of the "boom" so no one else had a clue what happened.

[@azariayehezkel9064]

Shango066 Dont afraid nothing kill you God and we love you

[@johnflynn9561]

while working as a line TV trouble shooter at RCA -the most bizarre thing that happened was on a set that came of the line for a broken neck on the kine tube - it was sent to repair to have a new kine changed- after about and hour the set came back with another broken neck-_ in all this set had been through our station about 5 or 6 times before it ever got to me- after reading the tag and seeing it had gone through another troubleshooter 3 times without ever noticing he had sent it to repair for a new tube before I had it sent to the lab- the result was a yoke coil was wired wrong and was deflecting the electron beam to were it was acting just like a bottle cutter or hi power laser and neatly cutting off the neck of the picture tube just in front of the yoke . that was the only time that this had ever happened that anyone was aware off and was possible.

[@cashawX10]

...watched it to the end, so therapeutic :-)

[@69Dartman]

I actually really like the Beltron rejuvinater and I have 2 of them. I had, possibly still have, one of the BK set ups. It had some nice things to try and fix shorts but I had way better luck rejuvinating or cleaning the guns with my Beltrons. I bought a fully rebuilt and updated Beltron with all the latest crt plugs and updated manuals probably over 10 years ago knowing I probably would never use it again but my scrapped one I was given by a TV shop made my repairs better because I could save more sets and have them look good and still sell cheap. I did replace tubes on the better sets usually with rebuilt ones for 75 to 100 bucks. I don't think anyone rebuilds or sells crt's now and I haven't rebuit or fixed a crt set in years.

[@rolfsinkgraven]

A very nice result.

[@Subgunman]

Just out of curiosity, is anyone still making electron guns for rebuilds? Who was Hawkeye buying his from? I think the Vintage Television Museum in Hilliard Ohio bought his equipment.

[@tonyp7779]

why would anyone? the gun assemblies no doubt came from factories that were making CRTs. this is one reason the rebuilders went out of business.

[@paulcargo4233]

My wife just had cataract removal and Lasik surgery, now she is looking at the world through flies eyes. (insert clever baiting remarks here...)

[@michaelmcdonald2348]

i would like to see if a quick "bop" would bring that old blue gun back.

[@GigsVT]

percussive therapy... probably temporary fix at best. Easy to crack a neck banging on the guns too.

[@johnflynn9561]

in RCA's plant in bloomington in we had a thing we called a zapper (I was told that it was a car coil?) that would generate a spark that would jump about an inch from the metal tip to the pins of the picture tube -in hopes of burning off any short or dirt on the electron guns -but we never had a lot of luck with it working

[@zacharyradford1708]

EIA code 260 comes back as Philco so made by philco them selves.

[@BretFrohwein]

and no cataract... they managed to get one thing to be reliable.. lol

[@douro20]

I've probably had five or six AA5 radios which had TAR condensed on the tubes.

[@ver64]

Nice job

[@markmarkofkane8167]

Beautiful!! We had one that was somewhat similar, but not that pretty. Get a bomb suit. That will keep you safe.

[@degingerninja]

I feel like it would appreciate a full recap 😅

[@harshnemesis]

26:41 Lol Kia and quality are two different things were exactly my thoughts. "The kia goes in before the name goes on", thank you for commenting on this haha

[@micrashed]

Well done

[@midnightraiin4035]

Good job

[@chetpomeroy1399]

Shango did a really nice job with that old roundie television set. I wonder how much ionizing X-radiation bounces off of the back of the shadow mask of the CRT; although, by 1967 CRT glass on color TVs would have likely been doped with lead. Should the voltage-regulation circuit unexpectedly malfunction, exposure could be well beyond safe levels. A Geiger counter would have been helpful to measure such exposure.

[@jazbell7]

As I understood it at the time, the HV shunt regulator gave off more X-rays than the picture tube. Of course that is in a metal box and at the rear of the set.

[@chetpomeroy1399]

@@jazbell7 It is unsure as to whether the thin pot-metal enclosure housing the HV-shunt regulator provides sufficient shielding from exposure to potentially deadly levels of X-radiation for the techs who worked on that set. They do not appear to me to be made of lead alloy, more like galvanized steel.

[@jazbell7]

@@chetpomeroy1399 I once had in my tube collection an HV shunt regulator tube with an integrated lead shield around the outside. It was about 1/4 in thick. What a heavy tube.

[@ratcom]

I've wondered the same for some time now. @shango066 maybe you could do a video about this subject sometime? Kind regards from a long time viewer in the UK

[@MyNikolaas]

PVA is what standard white Elmer's glue is. It's not an epoxy. And yes it does stand for Poly Vinyl Acetate. As I understand it's somewhat similar chemically to PVC what plastic pipes and vinyl records are made out of.

[@johnflynn9561]

you have scan lines( most noticeable at the top of the screen) usually caused by a bad diode on the chassic)

[@stopcensoringmyfreespeech3280]

Looks like a nice deep blue I like it. It looks good for what you said was a weak CRT. I thought you said the Montgomery Wards crt was low hours since it was not all blue looking on the metal in side it that is soldered to the pins I tuess its still weak though?

[@2574mcu]

Looks like a lot of work.

[@danilorainone406]

wooden popsickle sticks,flat,they bend a bit,,try them as wedges

[@twentymetricmiles2637]

i did works experience in crt tv dept of an ecycler...leading cause of smashed crt wasn't in removal but people getting anode zapped carrying the it!

[@patrickbonner3764]

Pretty cool Videos! Greetings from Germany. Paddy :-)

[@GaRbAllZ]

I know it is a long shot; but they way that blue gun is just dead, could it be possible there is a cold solder joint on the CRT pin going to the blue gun?

[@michael931]

I did react a little when he turned up the voltage

[@crist67mustang]

I did not understand. Blue cathod was died, not working, you said. But end of video I can see blue color working good, I can watch white tones what it wants to say three colors are ok. Take care when adjust color knob control, if it looks over-exited (colorized maximun) may be a factor cathods can kaput. I say this cause I had a similar problem. *©1967 Philco Corporation, Inc.* *©1967 I was born, February 3.* Santiago, Chile.

[@stphinkle]

You can play more than commercials. Use one of your own videos to show on your vintage TV. Use a computer to TV adapter or a TV out video card or record one to DVD and connect the DVD player to be TV input.

[@pcno2832]

3:20 PVA is basically Elmer's glue; I don't believe it has anything to do with epoxy. That's why you can use water to soften it.

[@5roundsrapid263]

I don’t think modern epoxy was invented until around the time this set was made.

[@rubenproost2552]

Epoxy also wouldn't develop cateract.

[@anukanaka3568]

Ух ты 1967 год ! ! ! :)

[@user-rc1dy7uu8s]

И даже цветной

[@robinsattahip2376]

High hour or not, that must have been a dependable set, that dust shows it's had little work.

[@brianandrews7099]

Polyvinyl acetate is used to make glues (think Elmer’s school and carpenter’s yellow glue), wallpaper paste, and ... best of all ... the rubbery chewy substance in chewing gum. Yummy! It should degrade faster in contact with microorganisms (bacteria), so adding some yeast to the bath water might speed up the delamination process; so long as the bacteria isn’t the glass-eating sort!

[@mrjason9382]

Nice

[@chevycaprice87]

Its really warm outside, snow almost gone.

[@paulcargo4233]

Speaking of watching paint dry...What is blue and smells like red paint?

[@proginx]

Blue paint?

[@brianfletcher9774]

Wanna check if your converter box is the cause ? Tap into the IF sections ( audio and video )of the TV. If it’s still there, it’s the converter, if not probably the tuner or audio circuit on TV ???

[@thunderkunt5416]

49:35 how cute !

[@xeroinfinity]

its nice to see another tv saved from the landfill. so is that front safety glass actually glass or is it some kind of plexiglas ? It does look like some tedious work cleaning that screen glue. And sorry if Ive asked that lens question before.

[@JacGoudsmit]

15:00 I'm surprised you don't get a copyright strike for that test tone.

[@johnflynn9561]

Do you have a hand held degaussing coil- one you can go around the tube and capture all the odd magmatism and then walk away from the tube a few feet before turning it off- I never did trust those built in degassers to get rid of all the stray magnetic distortion

[@adrianfrigo8373]

Not much of a contrast but still....is a usable picture.🙂

[@duanethamm4688]

Maybe adjust the AGC for better contrast?

[@EngineeringVignettes]

@16:25 - Like... wow, man.

[@robertdixon6536]

There is not one true colour and never will be till you change the damn CRT with a good one.

[@fft2020]

Hey Shango Do you have any video of a repair of that bright dot that stays in the center of the screen when you switch off a tv ? I have one hybrid b/w from the 70s that does that I've heard its just some bleeder resitor for the CRT gun that went bad... but I can't find any information Thanx

[@1L6E6VHF]

13:00 Red, green, and BLEW

[@nejiniisan1265]

What happens if you try to fill the space between the protective lens and the CRT with clear resin again?

[@punker4Real]

it will need to be repaired again later on

[@nejiniisan1265]

@@punker4Real, lol, you are thinking too much long term, maybe in 30 years it would need to be repaired.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

@@nejiniisan1265 I can't imagine anyone without special equipment being able to accurately and reliably fill it with epoxy without there being all kinds of air bubbles and other problems.

[@MultiPetercool]

@@gregorymalchuk272 Maybe a vacuum bag food sealer pump could pull the bubbles out.

[@adamwheeldon]

more shango goodness 👍

[@TheHexCube]

Do colour units of this vintage have shadow masks?

[@superhet7281]

EIA 260 is Philco.

[@simonstergaard]

Why dont you slice it of with a big wire cheese cutter type of tool. Like when you cut foam with a glowing nichrome wire.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

I believe the hot-wire method is indeed the preferred method of repair when fixing cataracts on Zenith picture tubes. Their epoxy is apparently different from the others.

[@MrNeptunebob]

But I thought roundies were gone by then, all of the color TVs were square tubes.

[@andrewdupuis1151]

I so was lucky old pic tube cracked air went in few years ago

[@kg4yhr]

Nice job but the hyper speed camara is better LoL 😁

[@gravis346]

With the old tube, do an implosion EOL video.

[@duanethamm4688]

Can't help thinking someone will start rebuilding these tubes again for big bucks. Hate to destroy the few tubes we have left though space consuming for sure.

[@goyadressunofficial]

@@duanethamm4688 Especially with the excellent red and green measurements on that CRT.

[@Thujaplicata1]

Here's an idea to try, why not use a solvent like acetone, or xylene? That would dissolve that epoxy pretty quick I'd think.

[@waltschannel7465]

Except then you'd have to be exposed to acetone or xylene...

[@guitarpro248]

Ironic to see an iPhone commercial in a vacuum tube tv imagine how huge a vacuum tube cell phone would be that's capable of all that an iPhone can do

[@talonfluff]

I had a CRT tv literally set it self on fire during normal operation.

[@QuadMochaMatti]

I remember my late mother telling me a few times that she and my late father had a TV that did that, too. Actually, she may have also said that there was an audible, small "pop", immediately before.

[@LMacNeill]

When I was a kid, maybe 5 or 6 years old, back in '75 or '76, we had a '64- or '65-model Zenith 25-inch console TV in our basement. One day I went down there to watch TV, and about 15 or 20 seconds after turning it on it started popping and sparking -- crazy!! Scared the hell out of me! I ran upstairs and told our maid that the TV was on fire! Luckily, before anything truly bad happened, a fuse popped somewhere and it shut off. I was scared to death of TVs for *years* afterwards. Hated to get near one to turn it on. In the early '80s when we got our first remote-controlled TV (a Sony Trinitron), I was so relieved that I'd never have to be near a TV again when I turned it on.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

That happened to me.

[@duanethamm4688]

Must have been a color Admiral tar baby flyback TV.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@duanethamm4688 Might've been, I don't remember the make or model of it off hand.

[@brianfletcher9774]

Hey Shango, great video. Question...CRT sets emit X-ray radiation ? Or just the HV tube by the fly back ?

[@tickertape1]

Brian Fletcher X-rays are only really a worry if the voltage is above 20kv

[@tomfranco4866]

I just had to change 1 of these on my rca ctc16 last week picture bulb in it had gone to air 🤨

[@fixitbrokeitfixit]

You should do a high speed implosion video with the bad CRT

[@RoughJustice2k18]

Shango has not yet done an EOL video this year. Maybe the dud CRT would be a likely candidate?

[@kokodin5895]

white wood glue has been romoved i wonder how long it would take to refill it with white pva glue and just leave it to dry 2-3 years?

[@TheShivABC]

I love your videos but it sucks you have 720p 60fps, the internet here at the hospital is only good for 720p 30fps or I'm stuck at 480p

[@charade993]

Yay

[@Patrick_AUBRY]

I love the entertainment value of you repairs of vintage propaganda tubes ! Questtion: the tube is not strong enough to not implode and we need a protective cover? Only for the roundies?

[@waltschannel7465]

All CRTs built after about the mid 1950s had safety glass bonded to the tube. I hate that I just said, "all". Somebody's gonna bust me for that!! 🤣