I've encountered stuff like this before and it is just absolutely horrifying, especially if you think about what somebody's lungs must be like after all of that smoking.
@BertGrink
3 жыл бұрын
I could tell you how my lungs are after 50+ years of smoking. (cough cough)
@IvorySoul696
3 жыл бұрын
Don't understand how people can put this stuff into their body even after 70 years of education all throughout school of why not to do it. It's not like smoking is new and we don't know what it does to you. As a nurse, I can doubly not understand as I've seen real smokers lungs and held them in my hands. Just makes me dumbfounded. When I talk to doctors about this the most common response is "It won't happen to me!" and yet my father, grandmother, grandmother-in-law, and grandfather in-law all died within three years of each other from smoking related diseases. Pulmony fibrosis and COPD mixed with some congestive heart failure. And they all said, "It won't happen to me, it's just the media trying to scare us".
@vhfgamer
2 жыл бұрын
As an amateur radio guy, I actually appreciate the smoker ham radios. Just about everyone smoked in the 1950s and 60s, which means all these old tube radios have the glaze on them. And I find the glaze protects the circuitry from corrosion and damage.
@MrLurchsThings
3 жыл бұрын
Keep it and give it a full resto. It’s such a cool little TV.
@Vermilicious
3 жыл бұрын
I'd watch a "deep clean" and service of this for sure. I suspect everything needs a wash, boards included. It might be a "fun" project, Adrian!
@DavidPlass
3 жыл бұрын
I was hoping for a full deep clean too!
@canadianman000
3 жыл бұрын
Im hoping to see him strip it down and dunk it in a bin full of something. Watch it fizz.
@Fred_Raimer
3 жыл бұрын
He will need a gallon of eucalyptus oil LOL
@bdwilcox
3 жыл бұрын
@@canadianman000 Forget the sheep-dip. This thing needs a DeoxIT dip.
@Marcel38281
3 жыл бұрын
Pls make a video were you cleane the whole thing that would be so satisfying
@Exploited89
3 жыл бұрын
Cant be the only one that when he found out the batteries were from 2008 thought "Well, not so old after all" then abruptly realized they are 13 yrs old... right? 🙈 Time flies!
@killerbee2562
3 жыл бұрын
2008 is when they turned off analog tv broadcasts.
@mal2ksc
3 жыл бұрын
That's also the "use by" date, which is typically a couple years after the manufacturing date.
@Exploited89
3 жыл бұрын
@@killerbee2562 Here where I live it took a bit longer, 2012 as far as I remember 😁
@jussikuusela7345
3 жыл бұрын
Back in 1992 one of my teachers asked me to see if I can revive her good ol' radio. And well, I went into it and ran into batteries that were BB 1976. Perished the year I was born. Right. I checked and they gave neither the slightest motion on the meter, nor the slightest tingle on the tongue. But they looked pristine, and none had leaked. Also the radio started working right off after removing the batteries. A-O-Kay, nothing further to fix.
@killerbee2562
3 жыл бұрын
The batteries are actually from 1998. 2008 was the "expiration date."
@GeeFunk84
3 жыл бұрын
Best anti-smoking campaign video.
@darkwinter6028
3 жыл бұрын
I think it’s got stage 3 tuner cancer. 😐
@Retromicky82
3 жыл бұрын
I'd really love to see it cleaned up
@Colin_Ames
3 жыл бұрын
You’re braver than me. I wouldn’t even have brought that into my house until it had been “de-tarred”. I bet it was a decent TV when it was new.
@sebastiansmith41
3 жыл бұрын
Please fully restore that, caps, resistors the whole nine yards.
@Shmbler
3 жыл бұрын
Now here is a question for you: Does the smoker's coating prevent actual yellowing?
@sq1rlsqu4d
3 жыл бұрын
Ha, excellent question :-D
@DrTofu83
3 жыл бұрын
Nope. My old man is a chain smoker, I inherited his office for my firm, and it's chock full of yellowed *and* glazed stuff
@BilisNegra
3 жыл бұрын
I know you're not being too serious, but anyway, no. Keep in mind the actual plastic is not showing but the silver paint finish instead.
@InconsistentManner
3 жыл бұрын
I can smell this through the screen... VOM
@mrflashport
3 жыл бұрын
CigaVision! A RadioShaft exclusive. Puff'N'View Supreme edition.
@shadowflash705
3 жыл бұрын
Cigatron!
@jamesdye4603
3 жыл бұрын
Every time I see a Radio Shack product video I want whatever it is. I have strong nostalgia for RS and their catalogs were my favorite reading material in the 70's and 80's, and I still own/use an Optimus stereo system and several portables.
@VenomStryker
3 жыл бұрын
no, you should totally clean it up and get it working! Smokers choice though.....that was hilarious! :-)
@EU_Red_Fox
3 жыл бұрын
I just want to see a deep clean video. Before and after would be insane!
@1marcelfilms
3 жыл бұрын
ME IN STORE: i need your batteries guy in store: how many ME: YES
@Fifury161
3 жыл бұрын
What a cop out - I was expecting at least a full clean!
@IbrahimJafar
3 жыл бұрын
This video really gives me a strong motivation to quit smoking.
@darkwinter6028
3 жыл бұрын
DO IT! And if you can’t manage to go all the way; at least switch to a vape. Yes, you’re still steam-cooking your lungs with hot vapor, but smoking is WAY worse.
@DavePoo
3 жыл бұрын
Quit smoking or get rid of all solid objects near to you. Quitting is easier.
@Colaholiker
3 жыл бұрын
This video makes me so happy that I never started smoking to begin with.
@Retromicky82
3 жыл бұрын
I had relatives that smoked like a factory chimney and when they gave me there small crt it was so thick in caramel colours it was so satisfying when it came off . Sadly some plastic gets super brittle
@WilliamAndrewPhilipBodie
3 жыл бұрын
Most of their lives livin' in the Smoker's Paradise :_:
@DavidWonn
3 жыл бұрын
I would have died if you introduced the video with, "Hey smokers." Haha.
@laurensa.1803
3 жыл бұрын
"Adrian2 here."
@WillOnSomething
3 жыл бұрын
"Adding an SSD and installing TempleOS on a 1980s Realistic Portable Color TV"
@Gadgetman1989
3 жыл бұрын
Right?!
@laurensa.1803
3 жыл бұрын
@@WillOnSomething The irony. Adrian just posted a video in which he added HDMI to an Mac...
@oturgator
3 жыл бұрын
7:14 The unmistakable interaction with a misbehaving TV set, taping on the top and hoping for the better
@brennonr
3 жыл бұрын
Another thing that brings back memories. When i would stay at my dads house, my "room" was in the laundry room (it was a really big laundry room) there were 6 kids so you got what you got. I got to have a TV a lot like this one. Mine was Realistic Portavision Micro TV 16-103A TV it was great for teenage me. We didnt get many channels but the PBS channel would show Dr Who at night and that was great.
@MartenElectric
3 жыл бұрын
Adrian you've just ruined that beautiful champagne finish 🤣
@mal2ksc
3 жыл бұрын
I had a car with the color of "champagne" and the only difference between that and silver was the hint of tobacco color. It was less of a tint than this TV has.
@bandbgamesroom
3 жыл бұрын
Image was glitching at the end from the Windex running down the side into the pots :P
@chetpomeroy1399
3 жыл бұрын
Technically, the material that is on the set's cabinet is actually cigarette tar, not nicotine (although there may still be traces of the drug in the tar). I quit smoking 38 years ago.
@belzebub16
3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the VCR my granddad gave me when I was 12 or 13 (around 1995), which I thought was super cool, but he and his wife were heavy smokers. So the audio head was so badly convered in nicotine, that the audio wasn't coming through anymore (that's why he gave it to me), but after a lot of cleaning with alcohol it was working again. The only problem was, that when the machine got warm it smelled of nicotine, but hey, I got a VCR :D (and no, that didn't make me a smoker)
@twocvbloke
3 жыл бұрын
I've worked on (well, scrapped, cos they were dead!) computers that were this bad, the added issue with PCs being that the fans draw dust in, the dust sticks to the tar deposits, more tar settles on the dust, more dust comes in, etc., until it forms a dense, thick, nasty layer of insulation that burns out components that can't breathe (much like the smokers!) resulting in a premature death (also much like the smokers!!!), nasty habit... :S
@thorsteinj
3 жыл бұрын
Isn't this also a problem with electronic fires? Could obviously apply to all kinds of fumes (extraction fans etc.) but it's always never made sense why one had to be so careful with electronics. Always shutting it off completely, unplug it in a thunderstorm and so on - of course non-flammable PCBs helps but maybe most of these fires actually got worse due to the indoor climate we used to have? One blown component and boom you have a cake of dust just waiting to join the party. Just a thought!
@StuBonham
3 жыл бұрын
Adrian's Analogue TV Basement? Yeah, I'll still watch it. Great stuff as always Adrian!
@glonch
3 жыл бұрын
Oh come on... you need to do a series on this - it would be an epic clean-up!
@SimonZerafa
3 жыл бұрын
Duraleek batteries with a Nicotine Glaze, sounds tasty! 😉
@5roundsrapid263
3 жыл бұрын
As Shango says… Welcome to flavor country. 😄
@drrattenkaiser5275
3 жыл бұрын
When I was young, I worked in a TV store. There was a television to be repaired once, and the inside looked as if the owner had been smoking through the television for years.
@larrywilliams8010
3 жыл бұрын
Back in the 70s and 80s, smoking was not restricted on U.S. Navy ships. After years of smokers the white walls were a dingy yellow and the gray walls took on a lovely baby poop hue. Too often cleaning just wasn't enough and we'd have to repaint the walls, and the difference is just as remarkable as you got with that TV. In the 90s, smoking was not permitted inside the ship, and those interiors not only looked better, they smelled better. And the equipment was happier, too.
@adriansdigitalbasement2
3 жыл бұрын
And some of those ships are old. I wonder if some of the original machines and electronics still have the glaze? I can only imagine airplanes too .. the coating on everything.
@VenomStryker
3 жыл бұрын
As soon as you touched the magic eraser to the side and started scrubbing, I saw the clean spot and busted out laughing. That is one SERIOUS layer of nicotine glaze....lol. Reminds me of my grandparents dining room after they passed away and we removed the pictures from the walls. :-)
@adriansdigitalbasement2
3 жыл бұрын
Wow. Yeah when I saw the dripping brown liquid I was sooooo grossed out
@DavePoo
3 жыл бұрын
Back in the day (in the UK before they banned smoking in public places), you would go into little pubs and the wallpaper would be that yellow colour. It took me a while to realise that they wallpaper had actually started out white. It was the yellow run marks in the corners that gave it away.
@kaitlyn__L
3 жыл бұрын
@@DavePoo I remember the tiles in the bathroom being that yellow in those pubs too. Who TF was smoking while on the toilet? Also I recall the wooden tables had a weird sticky residue on them, which was presumably also this stuff. Nevertheless, I’m weirdly nostalgic for that baked-in, stale-smoke smell those pubs had. Now they feel basically like any other restaurant inside. And old spilled beer stink is way more noticeable when it does happen and gets in the carpet.
@jgrimsley2000
3 жыл бұрын
The cabinet looks like it was inspired by the Commodore SX-64. The glaze was inspired by Keith Richards. Love the shout out to Shango066. That guy should have way more subs.
@MQsto
3 жыл бұрын
Realistic Portavision Color - so realistic it has smell & sooo much color even on the outside!
@adriansdigitalbasement2
3 жыл бұрын
Hah!! A "realistic" representation of the inside of a chain smoker's lungs.
@stevengilbreath
2 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a restoration of this as well!
@SabretoothBarnacle
3 жыл бұрын
Send it to Clint, I'm sure he'll enjoy it😬
@hattree
Жыл бұрын
You haven't lived till you've gotten a computer back like this and filled with dust that color.
@bruwin
3 жыл бұрын
House I grew up in had brown ceiling tiles and white pine paneling for the walls with a mahogany finish. Actually, they were white tiles and the paneling had a maple finish. The previous owners had been such heavy smokers, with my dad being not much better, that it just darkened the entire living room.
@Music-Man-Nick
3 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for video 2 in regards to this TV.
@metroboytartu
3 жыл бұрын
Shango066 would not touch this pristine nicotine coating with Magic Eraser. He would keep it as virgin as possible. Shango066 is a half brother to Chuck Norris!
@kins749
3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my grandparents' house, the walls were that same colour
@bufordmaddogtannen
3 жыл бұрын
Can't wait to see your reaction once you turn the TV on and it starts to vape nicotine fumes... 😂🤣
@tankgrrl
3 жыл бұрын
I need a shower. 😅 Also, don't quit the video before 12:18 😂
@ericjenks9596
3 жыл бұрын
We opened a false wall in our house during a bathroom renovation (it had been added 30-40 plus years before). It reeked of cigarette smoke in the house for weeks after. Crazy how it embeds itself
@lazycrypt6893
3 жыл бұрын
Adrian: Be very careful when working on CRTs. Also Adrian: Let me spray some liquid on this CRT TV while it's plugged into AC and on.
@ltsiver
3 жыл бұрын
I can hear Mr Carlson saying " doing this at your own risk, so take care."
@TheErador
3 жыл бұрын
I was yelling inside.
@ltsiver
3 жыл бұрын
The best part of this was the nicotine "glaze" removal and Adrian's disgust.
@JVHShack
3 жыл бұрын
If only a certain clip from "The Mask" could have been inserted... "Ssssmokinnnn!"
@CrazyTechReviews
3 жыл бұрын
Oh man, I don't know who I'm more proud of... You for voluntarily bringing that into your house, or my stomach being a trooper while watching this
@testcardsandmore1231
3 жыл бұрын
I worked at a TV repair shop for a while in the early 2000's. A customer (a smoker) complained over bad picture quality and wanted his TV to be repaired. My colleague cleaned the screen and the glass that was in front of the CRT. Problem fixed!
@CommodoreFan64
3 жыл бұрын
My dad was a heavy Marlboro Lite 100's smoker(partly what sent him to an early grave), and I know the smokers glaze/hue/film all too well, and everytime I would come back from my dad's place growing up(parents split when I was around 2), my mother would leave my stuff on the porch to air out for a day, or two, and sometimes have to wash my clothes 2, or 3 times to get the smell out.
@Jimmyzb36
3 жыл бұрын
Nicotine Glaze. Well said! I once made the mistake of loaning a Peavy Amp to a Nightclub band leader. When I finally got it back, it STUNK up the house. Never again...
@freednighthawk
3 жыл бұрын
As a smoker from my teens up until 7 years ago (my 7 year anniversary of quitting was 3 weeks ago), and having had to clean computers and stuff from the smoke of my and both my parents, I both sympathize and apologize. Hopefully someday we can fully eradicate smoking. Oh, and as a side note, if you have a dollar tree nearby, grab some of the "LAs Totally Awesome Cleaner Degreaser". It cuts through smoke tar like nothing else.
@coryengel
3 жыл бұрын
This is definitely better than “second-channel material.” Maybe you should have called this channel “Adrian’s Analog Basement.”
@shaynes.9773
3 жыл бұрын
I hope you do a part two on this, Adrian. I kinda think this little TV would be really nifty if it gets totally fixed up. I remember little TV/ Radio combo sets similar to this Radio Shack unit in the MacLeod's Hardware store when I was a kid in the 70's - 80s. I really wanted one when I was a kid to have in my room to hook up a video console and watch my favorite shows of the era. I was never able to sell my folks on the idea of letting me have my own TV at the time though. I guess I have a nostalgic fondness for these TV combo units. Watching this Realistic TV get repaired in a video would be really cool. I hope it can be restored.
@javierdavidferreiros8834
2 жыл бұрын
This TV is very pretty for portable retro gamming. Greetings.
@JasonHalversonjaydog
3 жыл бұрын
was hoping you'd do a restore on that, would be really neat to see a before and after cleaning and fixing. the poor things been through a lot, it deserves a good clean and some TLC
@dhpbear2
3 жыл бұрын
I believe the 'Realistic' brand *alone* would have me running and screaming!
@cee128d
3 жыл бұрын
I got so fed up with working on computers infested with this crap from smokers I started charging a $100.00 US NON-REFUNDABLE fee, paid in advance just to look at one of them. I haven't had to deal with one since and I don't regret it.
@PJBonoVox
3 жыл бұрын
As a smoker (I wish I wasn't...) I gotta ask... do people still smoke in their house? Did you see these regularly?
@cee128d
3 жыл бұрын
@@PJBonoVox Yes. I saw then way too often, and still do. Fortunately I don't have to work on, touch, or smell them now that I've imposed the Decontamination fee. I have lost some customers though, but I don't care one bit.
@hankw69
3 жыл бұрын
Although I've never smoked, I was raised in a smoker's home. I never realized how bad it was until I went into the service after high school and had a non-smoking dorm room in tech school. Upon returning home on leave I realized just how bad it was. I'm sure that I went to school every day growing up reeking of tobacco smoke.
@MatroxMillennium
3 жыл бұрын
This channel feels more like "Adrian's Analog Basement"
@aenoymotors
3 жыл бұрын
You watch Shango? That's awesome... His videos are informative and hilarious.
@EngineeringVignettes
3 жыл бұрын
Now you know what the 70's smelled like :D I had to repair a larger version of this nightmare once. Customer complained that the colour was off. I just cleaned the screen. Look at it this way, its not tobacco tar, its the preservation covering that time-locked the set into the 80's preventing it from going yellow from UV. ... The liquefied cigarette squeezins is a bit disturbing to watch though. Like watching chewing tobacco juice slowing roll down the jaw of a chewer that's already had his stroke. :/ - - -
@mrchrome5403
3 жыл бұрын
I want to see you take this apart really soon and clean it and service old caps ect and do a restoration to the old girl i used something similar as a kid in the 90s
@thegodgen
3 жыл бұрын
:D i love shango66 i knew u watched him. on one of your main channel videos i seen one of his vids playing on a small screen on the bench
@theJohnnyPinball
3 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't have even brought that in my house
@ChristinaGXL
3 жыл бұрын
I neeeed to see this clean!
@adamsmees4250
3 жыл бұрын
i once bought a little standalone 60s bar that was even more glazed than that, took a hose, bottle of washing up liquid and a shed load of clothes to get it clean! i stank of stale cigs for days!!
@deansundquist9601
3 жыл бұрын
I imagine this TV was inside some sort of gangster den, while all kinds of disturbing actions in the background were ignored by a few watching some sort of programming on this little unit.
@schmatzler
3 жыл бұрын
I am so happy that Smellovision has not been invented yet.
@valshaped
3 жыл бұрын
That you saw Windex dissolved the goo and still went at it with a melamine sponge just makes my bones itch
@Mr_Meowingtons
3 жыл бұрын
oh god!!!! I can smell it from over here! I get things like that from smokers to work on and I need to give them a bath in Windex before I work on them lol Windex works so good at getting that crap off its all most magic!
@ville_syrjala
3 жыл бұрын
I'm curious if that works on cables with a rubbery coating? I unwittingly bought something from ebay once that had the glaze. The plastics and electronics cleaned up ok with normal stuff, but the cables were resistant to soap, alcohol, vinegar, coffee, etc. Eventually I just hung the cables in the basement for a couple of years after which the smell had finally become tolerable.
@markfernandes5674
3 жыл бұрын
Yep fun job that nicotine glaze. Many years ago we had a typing pool using Decmates. They were allowed to smoke. Had an IT call that the keyboard had stopped working. Yes it had. Took it back to base and infiltrated it with alcohol - which went in clear and came out a vile-smelling yellowy-brown! Also washed out were some (metallic!) tinsel remnants from their Christmas decorations plus the odd staple... After a thorough clean it actually worked but oh what a fun clean-up of the aftermath.
@beatadalhagen
3 жыл бұрын
That glaze is making my eyebrows itch from all the way over here.
@hardlyworgen71
3 жыл бұрын
That thing needs a full RetroManCave cleaning montage.
@Fred_Raimer
3 жыл бұрын
I had to watch this twice because I laughed all through the first time
@ZacabebOTG
3 жыл бұрын
It's like in The Simpsons where they clean the screen of the TV in Moe's and it goes from black-and-white to color.
@KennethSorling
Жыл бұрын
What a disgusting hunk of ancient junk! I love it! I want it. I want it desperately!
@wimwiddershins
3 жыл бұрын
Imagine the owner's lungs... Apparently inhaling a stack of Windex will clean them out.
@russellhltn1396
3 жыл бұрын
Imagine the lungs of anyone else in that household from secondhand smoke.
@HighestRank
3 жыл бұрын
@@russellhltn1396 I have neighbors with several small children, including an infant, and can say without reservation that they don't give half a fuck nor two shittes about who else has to deal with any part of their behavior.
@robertlawrence9000
3 жыл бұрын
That looks a lot like something you would find in a Fallout game.
@peterilling1627
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome video, I love old tech.
@krz8888888
3 жыл бұрын
Welcome to flavour country
@splitprissm9339
3 жыл бұрын
The kind of cleaning spray you get for plastic lawn chairs tends to be quite effective at untarring plastics.
@SteveBrandon
3 жыл бұрын
I have a couple of 1990s Radio Shack mini CRT TVs and they didn't bother with the battery compartment because the amount of batteries it took wasn't worth the cost of the hour or so of entertainment you'd get from it running off batteries, and the TFT LCD screens on pocket televisions in the 1990s were already a huge improvement over the first generation of LCD pocket TVs from the 1980s, both in terms of picture and relative power consumption, for people who did want TVs which they could run off batteries.
@geezerdiamond
3 жыл бұрын
Oddly enough, I would LOVE to clean that! 😂
@howard81
3 жыл бұрын
I had an Atari ST like that, it absolutely stank inside and out. I ended up cleaning everything in the dishwasher about 20 times and it still absolutely reeked of cigarettes. Scrubbed the PCB with everything I could find and left the parts up in the loft for about 5 years and the smell eventually went away. I ended up painting the case! 😂
@Damaniel3
3 жыл бұрын
Devices covered with smoker's tar are the best anti-smoking ads out there. If you think there's a lot of tar on that TV, just think about where most of it ends up when you smoke.
@commodoresixfour7478
3 жыл бұрын
Mmmmmmmmmm, FLAVOR COUNTRY!!!!
@DanafoxyVixen
3 жыл бұрын
I love sanggo660, his humor is hilarious.. plus its amazing what TVs he can repair
@SudosFTW
3 жыл бұрын
I once had the pleasure of de-glazing an Onkyo tuner/amp that came out of the trash of a crazy cat woman between my house and a friend's... she smoked like a fiend. Some windex and hard scrubbing later, and it smelled more like Windex when it was done. we spritzed the inside with windex and Dawn and ended up hitting it with the jet setting on the garden hose and de-gunked the inside. Two weeks later after sitting in a hot garage for evaporation and buddy had a nice unit for his basement bedroom... we stressed it out with everything we could think of at the time for music (mostly a lot of ELO and Styx off his dad's CD collection) and that thing was just reliable as hell. He had to throw it out once it got waterlogged in a flood, insurance wrote it off and required it was destroyed for payout.
@adriansdigitalbasement2
3 жыл бұрын
That is really cool! Unfortunately I passed this TV onto someone else -- but perhaps the deep windex cleaning inside and out could have at least de-glazed it! I didn't realize Windex was so effective at getting all the tar off things.
@ReallifeBambiDeerattheFarm1
3 жыл бұрын
Welcome to flavor country! Yummy!
@judgebeeb1967
3 жыл бұрын
I had forgotten how you were forced to watch trailers at the beginning of video tapes.
@HighestRank
3 жыл бұрын
No you're thinking of DVDs, tapes at least could be forwarded.
@dansimpson6844
3 жыл бұрын
I would pass that thing along to the folks at the Hydraulic Press Channel for further testing...
@williammckeown4768
3 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see this thing restored!
@orionfl79
3 жыл бұрын
Dishwashers work wonders to remove cigarette stains. Back when I smoked, every couple of years I'd dismantle my keyboard and computer case then run the plastics through the dishwasher and they'd come out like new.
@kaitlyn__L
3 жыл бұрын
Presumably that’s due to the 65°C water melting it off, as well as the light abrasive. I have my doubts if the enzymes did much against nicotine, but maybe.
@moshly64
3 жыл бұрын
Windex is the best for getting rid of nicotine stain, strip the tv to bits & spray the crap out of it & rinse in warm water (careful of moisture absorbing components etc..)
@afkbehr
3 жыл бұрын
we need to deep clean your workbench now!
@SirenaWF1
3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking when you were cleaning it, dishwasher!!!
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