Sony Sanyo Vintage Transistor Radio Diagnosis Repair and Junk Cars

[@Discretesignals]

I've stopped watching and reading all the news for about two weeks now. My overall quality of life emotionally has changed so much. Some people may say I'm sticking my head in the sand, but I find I can focus more on the things I like. It's like stepping outside a building to enjoy some fresh air and then looking through a window and seeing all the hateful fighting going on. I really don't want to go back inside.

[@seanobrien7169]

I did just that the day after the election. I'm just done, I really just don't care anymore. If this is the America they want then they can bloody well have it. Just leave me alone, I got my life to live. I still stay abreast of the news, I just quit immersing myself in it. Nothing I can do about any of it anyway...Just vote...And I live in a good state surrounded by good people. I am not going to buy into their hate and division crap...

[@MattExzy]

I feel like the media has a vir*s fetish. It's mostly low hanging fruit and easy to talk about, they just fill their slot holes with it now.

[@dh-_1011]

I stopped watching the news like 15 years ago! My life has been stress free since (as far as that goes)!

[@Mike1614YT]

even the commercials on TV have socialist propaganda. According to the Census, Whites are easily the majority of the population at 72%. But on TV everybody is brown. and gay.

[@KC4RAE]

@@Mike1614YT That's called marketing. If they seem to be more inclusionary, it'll make those people they target buy more of their junk. Do they really care about minorities? Probably. Do they care more about separating their money from them so they can have it? Absolutely.

[@cambo1200]

The horn is that Nissans way of begging for an EOL to end its miserable life.

[@JerryEricsson]

I come from a short line of Police Officers, ie. my Brother-in-Law was an officer, and I followed in his footsteps when I finished my tour in the US Army. MY BIL was of the old school of small town officers, for example when a car met him on the street and failed to dim his headlights, they would pull the poor soul over and if he were sober they would give him an AC then he or his partner would take their big black flashlight and smash out the headlights. Now my generation never did such things because by the time I pinned on the badge we had entered the age of major litigation. That said the town where we both began our careers was a cowboy town where you could kick a citizens ass and they would never complain because they would not wish to admit getting bested by a damn cop!

[@38911bytefree]

The only thing it deserves is being neutral droped to death at plakos venue.

[@SanderOlbermann]

I just had a shangoo 066 marathon last nite, yet another video, I never get tired watching them.

[@ATSNorthernMI]

Time to do a video on fixing the capacitor wizard. Probably already needs a recap. We were sitting around one day and heard one of those horns going off for a good 20 minutes and went to go see what was up and had one of those sitting in a parking lot with black smoke bellowing out of the hood. Within a few minutes it was fully ablaze with all the tires popping and plastic just melting off and the horn still continued to blow until there was nothing left.

[@teacfan1080]

I figured it couldn't be a car alarm, those usually time out. But jeez, talk about driving people bonkers in the neighborhood!

[@Landrew0]

No, it's not a Sanyo, but Sony was always troubled by the cheaper brands taking a larger share of the market. That's why they adopted many of the Sanyo tricks to get this model into the lower price range.

[@LakeNipissing]

The epic disaster the USA is facing right now is what happens when a president is installed like a portable toilet at an outdoor concert. It gets full of shit and needs to be removed.

[@hestheMaster]

Radios that never were built to last this long. Some still are kicking. Shango is the best. If it's dead and he can't fix it, it's toast.

[@LakeNipissing]

Dead on about Nissan "reliability". Friends have had Murano, Rogue, Pathfinder... all with CVT and electrical problems. They all dumped them.

[@Rev22-21]

Speaking of Murano's....a friend has one a 2005. After changing break pads he didn't pump the brakes up properly and sent me to the hospital after partially hitting me. That was 5 years ago. This past early June, we were rear-ended in that same vehicle while setting at a red light. The perp hit us doing about 70 mph. Afterwards, I now have a brused heart and suffered a heart attack from the impact. The Murano......? It's RR wheel assembly now sets under the floor board. Both seats were folded backwards. Next comes the legal and aftermath. Side Note: Please don't ask if the airbags deployed. So many stupid 'smart' people (like medical staff) ask that. My answer is.......THEY DON'T PUT AIR BAGS IN THE REAR OF CARS. Why would they?

[@cipherthedemonlord8057]

Thought Dodge had the worst electrical problems.

[@billdang3953]

You can thank former CEO Carlos Goshn for ruining a once great vehicle brand (just like Roger Smith and Jack Nasser ruined GM and Ford respectively).

[@jamespn]

Some people keep and care for their favorite electronics and enjoy them for decades. I’m so glad you’re reviving these electronics and giving them new lives. In our throw away society we’re too willing to continue to throw money away for the latest gadgets filling landfills with e waste.

[@thecelticprince4949]

Since Chevrolet dumped Holden Australia, 2 years back. All the GM management team can all go to hell.

[@mikeanderson8722]

I remember when Nissan was called Datsun, but that was the good ol' days!

[@juslitor]

Datsun 100A, sweet lil ride (Cherry over in the states me thinks )

[@dougbrowning82]

Datsun was a brand, not the company. It was a product sold in N. America, developed from a deal between Nissan and British Motor Co. Nissan produced Austin Somersets for the Japanese market, and developed the underlying technology into its own , new products for export.

[@MsCori76]

Yep, the good ol’ Datsun. 👍🏻

[@leonardgoldberg2879]

Nissans are rebadged Renault's and are super shit.

[@1956kirk]

@@MsCori76 Good ol Datsun till the frame rusted out.

[@pcdoodle1]

Feedback: I love it when the symptom is presented up front so I know what kinda thing in on a journey to learn.

[@jfs70ss]

A “breakthrough” simply means that a vaccinated person has tested positive for the disease-causing agent, not that they will become ill or transmit the infection to someone else. Most vaccinated people who are infected do not have symptoms, and those that do tend to have mild illness. Even with the Delta variant of SARS-Co V-2, the vaccines show good protection against symptomatic disease and death.

[@charleswillsonpeale5739]

We don't live in a democracy. We have a Constitutional Republic. "Democracy is the most vile form of government" ------ James Madison. Moreover; "Franklin, what have ye wrought" ? Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it".

[@godfreypoon5148]

Beat me to it. WE DON'T WANT a democracy, we want a constitutional republic!

[@mykd2999]

when someone on the news says "let me be clear," what he really means is "i'm going to lie to you."

[@roynexus6]

Great how-to and a general commentary. Thanks for posting!

[@aerofart]

It’s uncanny how many annoyances and social/political observations we have in common. Must be the result of living in SoCal too long (> 1 day).

[@cardboardboxification]

the idiots vote for morons

[@miata1492]

@@cardboardboxification . . . so the child is known as "Idiot morons."

[@LakeNipissing]

Larry Elder!!! It's time for Californians to take back California from the Marxists.

[@tarstarkusz]

@@LakeNipissing Larry Elder is a GOP stooge. What they really need is the NSDAP. That;'s about the only thing that could help California. Maybe Franco if we had clone him. Or Saint Augusto or better, Saint Anders.

[@LakeNipissing]

@@tarstarkusz Still a thousand times better than Newsom.

[@ionzaharia5078]

I enjoy every video that you post and your comments are gold !

[@h7qvi]

That broken coil would be easy to resolder by taking a turn off, as long as it's not soaked with hard varnish. Otherwise, solvent for the varnish is needed.

[@randomsteve4288]

The secondary had come off on both ends. And while you may take a turn off for the end on the top layer, getting a turn off is mostly impossible for the end on the bottom layer. Plus you would have had to glue the bobbin core down onto the frame ASAP to avoid further wires to rip off. In the last shot IIRC the bobbin was dangling by a single wire left out of 4 or 5. You need to know when to step away on having diagnosed but not fixed. No shame in that.

[@volvo09]

But not if the broken coil wires are overlaid by others. Looks to be the case here Super delicate microscope and tweezers stuff.

[@h7qvi]

@@randomsteve4288 yes that would be a bugger. Then you'd have to remove all the turns, counting them for a new winding

[@blobscott]

That capacitor wizard buzzer sounds like the tone from the "Emergency Broadcast System" announcements. I'd leave it as-is!

[@chetpomeroy1399]

The noise from that sick capacitor wizard buzzer sure did bring back some Cold War memories!

[@tedbell4416]

The rants make my day great video as always

[@jeffreyhickman3871]

I really like 👍 those. It looks like 👍 ya can find these at yard sales without too much difficulty. Reminds me of when my mother bought me a similar radio 📻 in 1984 at a yard sale, in Glennallen, Alaska. Your friend, Jeff.

[@ford1546]

I enjoy watching you on youtube. your videos are so entertaining. I like the picture quality and the way you speak

[@DankNoodles420]

Hey nice shoutout to my boi louis! Keep up the good work Shango. Never give up!

[@gordonwelcher9598]

On the capacitor that is used to connect in parallel, if the ends of the leads are cut at an angle they will be sharp and make better contact.

[@kiteman357]

Big thumbs up for Larry Elder! I left San Diego 24 years ago and have never looked back. I hope Larry wins.

[@SamsArcadeFix]

shango066, don't ever change. You give me hope for California. It's they that must change.

[@probnotstech]

I think I remember Jordan Pier mentioning that the newer Capacitor Wizards have gone down substantially in quality. Yours seems to be an example of that. Shame, it sounds like the older ones were really good.

[@DankNoodles420]

Thats what happens when a company gets greedy and throws out its initial values. Money is the root of all evil or in this case the root of all cheap products lol

[@mariofilippi3539]

Thanks, enjoyed your troubleshooting video and your sense of humor.

[@hitechredneck6366]

K-VAX...love it! Really enjoy your style of humor and political rantings. It's nice to know that there are others out there that see this surreal reality for what it is.

[@Rev22-21]

You know if they keep making it sound like those who haven't 'vaccined' are the problem, then why are those who have been still catching it? They said it couldn't happen.

[@hmbpnz]

@@Rev22-21 Please stop with the stupidity.

[@miata1492]

@@hmbpnz . . . starting with the "stupidity" comment . . . .

[@hightechstuff2]

I love my Peak Atlas ESR tester. I've had it over 3 years now with no problems. Though, it is hit and miss with in circuit testing.

[@thecelticprince4949]

Nissan used to be number 2 back in the late 80s early 90s. however since Renault took over they've gone downhill real fast. Used to trust Toyota's until that issue of the computer going rogue and killing it's driver.

[@miata1492]

*its driver.

[@juslitor]

Dont know the car quality on that side of the pond but over here Toyota is by far the most reliable car on the market. Only brands even close are Mercs and some Vw´s models.

[@Rev22-21]

@@juslitor : Most former Mercedes owners are former for a reason.....and it ain't price.

[@dougbrowning82]

Nissan survives today because of their 1952 deal with British Motor Co. They were hired to produce Austin Somersets for the Japanese market, while developing the underlying technology into their own products for export to the rest of the world. The result was the Datsun. Renault also owns Lada, Russia's Fiat clone.

[@haweater1555]

Unfortunately, we have to test the radio by keeping it tuned to a news / talk station lest we get a copyright match to a music station.

[@chrisa2735-h3z]

You’re right it is definitely Sanyo I have a Craig reel to reel tape recorder from around the same time, and it has those same capacitors , Resistors, and a pioneer speaker!

[@joelowen475]

Coffee and breakfast always learning something new from him

[@MarkVaughnLive]

We need Shango merch. The first should be a tshirt that says "here" across the front

[@godfreypoon5148]

hyere, hyere, hyere, hyere, hyere

[@drp457]

I think he got that from Retochad.

[@waltschannel7465]

Right. With the Palestinian garb he used in the CRT cataract video. Maybe in Arabic? Really freak people out...😄

[@SpeakerFreak95]

I only ever see clapped out nissans here in New Orleans. All of them have body panels hanging off and falling off on the highway, you see a lot of them on the side of the road, we had one of these same cars develop the same “death scream” as that one, in the apartment complex I live in, we took the battery out after not being able to get the car to stop honking. This was at 3AM. Roughly 9AM I heard the horn again, as the people were trying again to fix the issue, they eventually got the car hauled off, on a flat bed, with the horn still going! It was a sight!

[@jamesatkinson6480]

In the early transistor radios from Japan, I imagine they shared supply of components. This one with the 'Sony' brand name is the first I saw with most internals 'Sanyo'. I have a Sanyo 'Transcontinental' 3 Band, 10 Transistor, where Toshiba manufactured some of the RF transistors (2SA170). I see this one has a 2SB187 pair as an audio output..

[@jimcraig9604]

My next door neighbor has a rogue like that one that she still drives. Most of my other neighbors have nissans too. I have owned two toyotas and one geo prizm. They have never let me down, and mostly have just needed the usual maintenance. I did have an '85 Nissan Stanza years ago, and the engine died three weeks after I bought it. I did also have a '92 Sentra that was a good c car for the year that I owned it.

[@MrJukeman]

i love watching your videos you are smart ..after watching you fixing the mercury record player i started working on mine i have 2 of them and both of them are slow i pulled the bottom case off the motor it was just a cover there is a small set of points with an adjusting screw i adjusted it a little now it plays the right speed and the cover snaps back on i guess the points were worn some..thanks for your videos

[@davidraezer5937]

I think Nissans biggest issue is their CvT’s. Subaru had issues initially but they have gotten better. I hate driving any CVT equipped car. Of course I don’t agree with any transmission over 8 gears in a car or truck. Just silly complexity and planned obsolescence

[@johnnytacokleinschmidt515]

Amazing how good 4 speeds simple single overdrive was in the eighties and nineties. Greatest thing ever. My 5 speed automatic is OK. Somehow Ford wanted it to go to first gear every time it goes below 15 MPH closed throttle. That sucks unless you want to play racecar. The large number of speeds undoubtedly gives optimization in many load and road speed conditions, but we fail to get more than 150,000 on our 6L90's in our delivery trucks. Too much 4-5-6-5-4 and I think.... There's not even a 1:1 ratio in there....

[@jonathaneastwood2927]

Nissans were good reliable cars until around 15yrs ago when they joined up with french car company Renault.. never been the same since..

[@johnnytacokleinschmidt515]

Remember Sentra's of the late eighties and into the nineties? Those cars really lasted.

[@fredfabris7187]

That CVT sucks, when they first came out they suggested it would improve economy, it didn’t. Add to that it’s a piece of crap. Modern transmissions are going through major changes, nothing conventional about them.

[@tedbell4416]

Totally agree with the transmissions these 10 gear transmissions are ridiculous.

[@redneckways1933]

Man you are great at this stuff. I am trying my best to find grounds on an old radio that I'm trying to fix lol. You make it look easy.

[@darikdatta]

A Blue ESR meter might serve you better than the capacitor wizard. I'm not an expert but mine works and I haven't heard anything bad about them.

[@JasonTHutchinson]

I built one from a kit, and it seems to work fine. I'm not so sure about the accuracy, but you can replace all the resistors in the kit with 1% ones fairly cheaply.

[@fractul22over7]

No need for 4K imo and you’re right that camera is impressive on close ups.

[@pyeltd.5457]

the videos are always compressed

[@Zickcermacity]

4K?? Shango needs that less than PhonoNut needs to go a step above 360/480! Come on PhonoNut - go at least 720p!

[@SquantoTerror]

21:29 “Sanyo with the little biebly-squibler…it got rocks up in it’s watch”

[@dbridger620]

Sounds like someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Shango's a bit more crotchety than usual.

[@moshezaharia4666]

One thing that can kill these IF coils (and other coils) is the circuit glue they used. The darker the glue gets, the corrosive it is and it will eat the copper. I guess that as the glue deteriorated, it got fragile and that is why the bobbin was free. if you leave this glue on the circuit board it will eat the traces.

[@shango066]

Definitely never intended to last this long

[@chetpomeroy1399]

That might have been the original intent of the manufacturer; that is, make it difficult or nearly impossible to fix, forcing the consumer to buy a new one.

[@JerryEricsson]

In 1985 my late wife had her gall bladder removed. Back then it was major surgery. While she recuperated in hospital I asked if she wanted me to bring up a portable TV as the hospital did not furnish them back then. She said she would rather have a radio to listen to. I dug around and could not find a descent pocket radio, so I stopped by the Radio Shack and purchased a nice little SONY radio, it looked a LOT like that one but of course updated a bit. That was her radio for many years but it must have stopped working as we no longer have it. Later I found her a nice Garmin transistor AM/FM/SW. It was a bit larger but still on the small nearly pocket size. I now have that sweet little set by my chair and do play it from time to time when I am not playing my ESP32 built wifi radio that plays the type of music that I want to hear.

[@manuelvillanueva3753]

A good repair tutorial from start to finish.

[@VectraQS]

My roommate last year had a Nissan Juke (aka Nissan Puke or Nissan Joke). On his way to campus he heard a BANG! and the car went into limp mode. He thought the CVT ate it, and so did I. It was something else, can't remember what. He sold it and bought a 2005 Buick LeSabre with the 3.8 and never looked back.

[@DankNoodles420]

That 3.8 Buick isn't much of a improvement over the Trashissan lol

[@VectraQS]

@@DankNoodles420 On the transmission front, maybe, but the Buick 3.8 is one of the best damn engines ever made.

[@andyb7339]

Would of liked to listen to the car horn a bit longer, maybe I can buy one and connect it to a battery to listen to in my home

[@jamesatkinson6480]

I agree, I repaired and recapped a Sanyo model 10S-P10, as well as an 8 transistor 'All-wave' variant, with 2SB187 audio output transistors...

[@brianfletcher9774]

That song is kinda catchy….,I added it to my Spotify playlist. The Sony is motorboating..

[@markb6811]

Love your transistor radio repair vids!! Is the Westinghouse radio with the built-in cigarette lighter, light & clock in your que?? Would really like to see a repair on that badboy!!

[@uxwbill]

I've never seen a nonadjustable IF can like the one in the video. The service manual for a 2003 Chevrolet S-10 mentioned that if the horn were active for more than two minutes continuously, it'd set a diagnostic trouble code. I kind of wanted to try that and see, only I wasn't sure I could find a place deserted enough to make that kind of racket without bothering anyone... Maybe I could have unplugged the horn and it would still have sensed the relay being closed. I was thinking of getting the Capacitor Wizard. Now I think I'll give it a pass. I have the Blue ESR meter and while I haven't used it a lot, it works well.

[@hfvhf987]

In a few years you will have the have's and have not's, i'll always be a have not, no way they're sticking me with their poison!

[@steviebboy69]

The second radio reminds me of one my Father had it was a Hitachi, it was actually after I looked it up a HITACHI WH-822H SW/BC It was called the Kelly. I see one on the fleabay now for big money. It was used every day since he got it at around 18 and stopped using it around 50. Wish my mother had of kept it, and there was the original box as well for it. I used to listen to short wave on it when I was a kid.

[@FlatBroke612]

He was the wizard of a thousand caps...

[@ZXRulezzz]

and we chanced to watch him one day wondering it probed those caps and its beeper broke this wizard, was, in fact, not feeling fine

[@SpeakerFreak95]

Drove a Nissan rental once. What a lifeless wobbly noisy classless vehicle. Slush box automatic transmission, which was new at the time, was already changing gears roughly when downshifting, the Seats were uncomfortable too, no matter how you adjusted it. Rattly plastic interior that drove me almost mad.

[@krz8888888]

Probably elitely made by Tatung with those green capacitors

[@William103f]

luv the horn. great video. just needed a plane.

[@rogertyler3237]

Wen Ever I Go To Thrift stores I Always Cary Battery's Around With Me. To See If The Stuff Works Before Buying It. Then You Won't Get Stung On Stuff Like That.

[@KC4RAE]

My 4th Gen Maxima is at 230,000+ miles. It needed what all cars need with that many years and distance, but the engine and transmission are all still good. My 1997 Buick LeSabre with the 3.8 Series II still runs decently. Now what Renault did to Nissan after they bought it is like what Fiat did to Chrysler. I've driven a lot of brand new Chrysler products and I couldn't stand them. Jeeps were especially bad. I drove new Nissan and really did not like them either. Overall, these new cars are way over valued and don't have the longevity, but they know this when people can get new cars so easily and stay in debt for the rest of their life. It's the new American Dream.

[@shango066]

But you don't count because you work on those cars yourself. If you were paying a shop to do all of what you have done to them to keep them going you would have every credit card made maxed out and be a debt for life. When discussing the reliability and operating cost of a vehicle you have to consider the average user who doesn't work on their car

[@dedmazai9212]

(Cui bono?, Cui prodest?) Who benefits from this? If the thing doesn't break for decades. Why buy a new one? And if for 5 - 10 years ?? Who will you give your money to for a new thing. ?! Why do you have to buy and replace burned out light bulbs so often? If nothing breaks. Who is losing profit?

[@KC4RAE]

@@dedmazai9212 There's a certain expectation that if you're paying $50,000 on a high margin vehicle, like a SUV or pickup truck, it'd better last a while. That's not the case. They are not designed well and they have issues before the first year's worth of payments are made. I can't remember what caused a brand new (4 miles) Jeep Grand Cherokee to roll around, but it wouldn't go into park and I couldn't engage the parking brake. The entire thing is controlled by the engine's computer. There's no linkage anywhere. So it rolled around in the driveway until I put a brick behind the tires.

[@equid0x]

@@shango066 For years I drove Hondas which basically never needed anything besides brakes, tires, batteries, and wipers, but I hear they're garbage now, too.

[@Musicradio77Network]

I got my transistor radio today, and it’s an International Transistor Corp. (ITC) AP-120 and it’s an AM/Police radio, but FM is on the back which is kinda weird. It works, but needs to spray the controls, but it lacks FM.

[@nevillegoddard4966]

Hey Shango, why don't you build yourself the 'silicon chip magazine' esr tester? They work fantastic. I've built 2 of them; one for work & one for me! You can still buy the kits for them from Altronics (in Australia) for 105 AUD with the product number K2574. I couldn't recommend them too highly!

[@dirtydon8661]

Open that capacitor wizard and you might find what mine looked like. Mine looked as if a blind, 2yr old Chinese kid assembled it! I was lucky and had a older model. I made one good tester out of both. Was a pain but it’s a good tester now.

[@jinglesalas]

Reading some of these comments one can almost hear the sound of jackboots. At about 20 minutes I heard the famous Shango words "I may have to quit on this one", heavily paraphrased obviously. I had a strong feeling you were not going to give up on the Sanyo. The video did not dissappoint. Great work and thanks for giving us another educational alternative to the idiot box.

[@hmbpnz]

Help! I'm a conservative being repressed!!!!!!

[@kano8474]

Thanks for the new video Shango.

[@crooner2007]

I wonder if that Sony was made/assembled in Hong Kong. It may explain the assortment of different branded parts and unusual construction techniques...

[@thrillscience]

Wow! Of all the parts that could fail from sitting around, I wouldn't have thought the IF transformer would be a problem unless it was mechanically damaged.

[@kennethevoy]

This guy makes a broken car horn entertainment.

[@billybassman21]

The same thing happened to my old neighbors Ford Explore a few years ago one night with the horn getting stuck. On that one the horn element started failing after about 3 minutes.

[@josericardogs1435]

That horn element will outlast the gear box. The horn is probably made by Bosch while the CVT is hardly made of metal.

[@billdang3953]

And then, there are those that defend such things as CVT's and direct injection. they say that if these things break down or cause you problems, IT'S YOUR FAULT!

[@CoreyDeWalt]

My 89 sentra has been pretty good. Most of my trouble has been in timing chain guides and CV axle failure. At least I can fix it myself unlike a cvt.

[@CoreyDeWalt]

I need to go through the ecm soon like you did in an earlier video and check for leaky capacitors

[@frazzleface753]

Nothing wrong with old school Nissan. Those things were built like tanks. The quality started to fade when Renault took them over.

[@derofromdown-under2832]

It's a pity the capacitor wizard isn't up to standard, especially due to it's high cost. You'd think it would be right up there for good quality test equipment... An excellent diagnosis on the Sony radio. A very good fix by using a sacrificial transformer... WELL DONE... 10/10

[@flukep1228]

Scotty Kilmer on his channel say the same about Nissan cars too. There junk. And you can't fight with a guy like Scotty Kilmer that work on cars for over 60 years.

[@guiorgy]

Hello from Louis Rossmann!

[@jeffreyhickman3871]

Great 👍 looking Pioneer speaker 🔊. Back when at least somewhat better quality went into these things. The speaker 🔊 is permanent magnet 🧲. Your friend, Jeff.

[@christinecortese9973]

🎵You’re listening to KVAX, channel 1984🎶

[@bobbyk6585]

I came for the diagnostics but the running commentary is very entertaining.

[@ElBeardo81]

That little rant got you a follow.

[@LakeNipissing]

Maybe build the capacitor checker Mr. Carlson offers plans for ? No sound, but it seems to work pretty good for capacitor leakage testing.

[@russellhltn1396]

I think shango066 is more interested in ESR. Carlson's tester doesn't check for that.

[@tonysvinyl2214]

Shango I love to hear you rant on a number of things and I would so enjoy it. And your thoughts on it. Tho your channel is tvs radios and such.

[@jasonbass2973]

Cool to see these radios working again.

[@MsCori76]

The horn on my VW Beetle, sounds better then that Nissan! 😂 Way cute 🥰

[@tinagladu3744]

GREAT rant

[@OldSkoolF]

Excellent vid... I love the sarcastic dark sense of humor... It is a trademark of us Gen X-ers... Don't ever change to satisfy others.. There's enough of us crusty old codgers to form our own country...

[@rainy2355]

Your camera is insanely good for close ups

[@willemslie]

I had a virtually identical radio as a kid in the 70s (in the UK) and I'm sure it was branded Sanyo.

[@joshbaker2437]

Honestly your one of the best at handholding lol

[@npc1336]

New to the channel This video is awesome Thank you for what you do

[@iratodd8867]

I own a 2015 nissan sentra, it has 70,000 miles on it. It threw a mass airflow sensor code, replaced the sensor and it didn't like the aftermarket sensor so i had to put the oem one back in after cleaning it, and now it works fine without a code. Sure the cvt is a bit jank when accelerating quickly from a dead stop, but that doesn't matter to me.

[@frazzleface753]

Check back in with us around 100k.

[@frank3770]

@Shango066 what about a q&a episode??? I know you are a private kind of person, but with this HUGE quantity of material and effort you put on this Channel i think a lot of people want to know more about you and your technical background

[@NickNorton]

29:20 "I'm sure the owners too dumb to know how to disconnect the battery" Too dumb to disconnect the battery or pull a fuse and if it's not that. It'll be nonsense like:- Frightened to touch it in fear of electric shock.

[@MsCori76]

You would be amazed how many people don’t even know how to open the bonnet on their cars. 😂 Gee, I do my own regular services on both my cars, it ain’t that hard either! 👌🏻

[@equid0x]

The 360 cranking amps of a car battery can definitely kill you. Grabbing battery posts with wet hands ill advised. If a 9V square battery can make your tongue tingle what do you think a big one can do?

[@NickNorton]

@@equid0x You obviously posted that comment just to poke a Hornets nest.

[@equid0x]

@@NickNorton Did I? Or, do you just have no idea how dangerous DC voltage can be to a layman? If you don't believe me, then take the Pepsi Challenge. I'm not responsible for your stupidity.

[@NickNorton]

@@equid0x DC voltage is dangerous. If the potential is high enough to cause current to flow through your body stimulating your nerves and muscles. You'd have to puncture the skin first and shove wet paddles across the victims organs to kill them with 12V

[@maxedoutmegablith6473]

Shango my Hero! The Cap Wizard, I have 2 and I have a counterfeit version which is exactly the same thing and uses exactly the same board and components. I mean exactly, the only thing different is the NAME on the case. The case is the just a different color. Anyways, IF you contact Cap Wizard I would guess He will make it right. He seems a good guy but he can be tricky to understand so Take heed. I have never really had an issue with none of the Cap Wizards or the counterfeit one. They all have worked fairly well over the years but they used more made in the USA components back then also. Have 2 of them, the counterfeit and an Original since like early 2000's? Anyways, as you know for a lot less money you can get as good if not better ESR meter that does a ton of other things for a LOT less money. Not sure Why the Cap Wizards are so expensive considering the newer ones are no longer using Made In USA components in most cases. Heck, even the analog meters are outsourced. Imagine that a dang analog meter having to be outsourced DO WE NOT MAKE ANYTHING? I guess no if it requires work hahahahah. At any rate I love your video's and love your sideline comments so funny most of the time and actually when you do comment about current events you are pretty spot on. Like I said, Shango you are my favorite Electronics teacher! Not to mention my favorite KZbinr! Love your channel, love the fact you do old school and you explain things and make it easy for a novice to understand. THANKS MY FRIEND! keep up the great work and keep making us happy! Love you man! 73!

[@falcon63191]

That radio looks to be identical to a 1964 Westinghouse H-902P6GP I repaired a few months back. At the time, I too thought is was a sanyo.

[@joemazza1011]

I had a question for you I wanted to try to email you but I don't know how to do that. I have a Sony ICB 350 w walkie-talkie and I'm pretty sure it's the transistor the audio transistor the code on it (c945 and tp247). I've tried looking this transistor up having a hard time finding it I found one that has c945 on it and the bottom code is g r 331 would that possibly be the one I just thought I'd ask if I can get some feedback from you to see what you would think I would appreciate it thank you so much . I enjoy watching I always seem to learn something every time

[@lanceyeakel7674]

when looking up transistors like that, add a 2s(c945) and you will find the datasheets. from the datasheets you can use the information to look for a suitable replacement. voltage rating, hFE (gain) and frequency bandwidth are important to get close, and even then it's likely that the bias point will need to be adjusted. you can usually find 2sc945 transistors in crt monitors and tv's that people throw out, most times there's still working components on the board.

[@blazertracer1]

Probably a Sony radio with a lot of Sanyo components or a Sony OEM'd out their radio production to Sanyo. And for a Pioneer speaker seen a lot of these radios with Pioneer speakers.

[@argoneum]

Nice to see those old receivers repaired :) -- shame there isn't much to listen to lately though. Except for Beethoven maybe.

[@michaelrobertson575]

Well done on getting the little Sony Radio working. I wonder if the Local Oscillator quenching problem was a design flaw?

[@jonathaneastwood2927]

Nah just needs more capacitors replacing