These desert resurrections from a 1960s e-waste dump are as exciting and adventuresome as vintage electronic videos can possibly get.
@rogercamp6071
4 жыл бұрын
Should have plugged in the ancient answering machine,it might've said "This is Jim Rockford, leave your name and number and I'll get back to you lol
@rogercamp6071
4 жыл бұрын
@Van Harmon yes it was, never missed an episode 😁
@AiOinc1
3 жыл бұрын
These TraVler videos and the garbage dump RCA KCS videos are some of my favorites on your channel. I always find myself coming back to this one, it's such an impressive display of diagnosis and repair to get this total junk working. I admire your skills and I one day hope to replicate them myself. I've been watching this channel almost 6 years now and I have to say I hope you stay well and keep up the amazing work, good sir. Thank you so much for all the good times.
@TheGuitologist
4 жыл бұрын
Hey Shango... Don't you know all you have to do to restore this stuff is wash it with a water hose, scrub it with a wire brush, and rescue some puppies in the middle of the video? If you do it with no talking, you'll get a zillion views.
@shango066
4 жыл бұрын
Saw your video on that. People like fiction, it's a huge seller. Not nearly the interest in logical step by step methodical diagnosis or process of elimination. The Sensational Quick Fix dopamine hit brings in the dollaz
@itselfbookshelf8472
3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget, you've got to make sure that you drag your wire-brush all over the chassis, ensuring to destroy everything in the process.
@fanofoldfans9238
4 жыл бұрын
That old set looks so industrial like a hotel set in the late 50's early 60's. I'd love to see a picture of it in it's original cabinet.
@davepike6170
4 жыл бұрын
😀 I haven't seen one of those "credit card shnarvel-garblers" in a long time! 🤣😂😆😉
@doogie812
4 жыл бұрын
I have had good success with the Beltron rejuvenation function. Like you I will tell the customer it would not last long buying enough time to get a new CRT ordered. I have even had success rejuvenating Trinitron tubes. The ability to give the customer a glimpse of what the set looked like before the tube died was a good selling tool. How else would I get them to make the investment of $400.00 for a new tube and installation?
@jetjazz05
4 жыл бұрын
4:50 - Interesting, I watch an eclectic mix of repair videos, and it's always funny to see the things that can survive and the things that degrade. The truth of the matter is even product to product same type of material can survive or perish. Car tires are a great example, some old tires can be re-inflated after sitting for 3 decades, other tires dry rot in 10 years. QUALITY components made out of material known to last are really the best bet for making a product that stands the test of time.
@vwestlife
4 жыл бұрын
Some stores and restaurants still have those credit card swipers in case their computers go down, but they're finally being made obsolete by some of the latest cards that no longer have embossed numbers on them.
@shango066
4 жыл бұрын
The new cards don't even have raised numbers and I thought the chip was going to be mandatory
@craignehring
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, this is a huge bite to resurrect this set, if anyone can get this going it would be Master shango066
@_Ramen-Vac_
4 жыл бұрын
truly one of the hardest cases yet attempted...
@joeblow8593
4 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to Pt 2. Surprised you didn't take the 8 track player, probably just needs a belt replacement 0:27 . Perhaps radiotvphononut would be interested in that portable record player 0:56.
@GNicola
4 жыл бұрын
You must be 100 years old by liking this. Your passion for it is amazing and i must confess, i really like watching you resurrecting them.
@clifffiftytwo
4 жыл бұрын
“We’ve detected a transmission from Earth - can you get one of those TV’s working?” (Twilight Zone)
@MrUbiquitousTech
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, that one's a real challenge, but I have faith, you can do it Shango! Looking forward to part 2.
@jimmy8653
4 жыл бұрын
Would like to see you setup up shop there one day and do several reserections live ?
@adriansdigitalbasement
4 жыл бұрын
Can't wait to see part 2
@sting1111
4 жыл бұрын
Not sure why this channel quirkoperculates into my feed but I can’t get enough! Keep them coming!
@mattedwardsvintageelectron7754
4 жыл бұрын
Really enjoy your videos pure legend
@tiporari
4 жыл бұрын
We appreciate you sir. You work and labor and you bring joy to people you don't know. Just wanted to say thanks.
@danielyazbek9910
4 жыл бұрын
Oh my god, this video is so awesome! Cant wait to the next part!
@scottcol23
3 жыл бұрын
Yes a credit card Shnarbler! I used one in high school when I worked a Mobile Truck Stop off I-75. That was back when you didn't have to prepay to pump gas and you could also write a check for gas.. how times change.
@olradguy
4 жыл бұрын
I'm glad some one else thinks Beltron CRT testers where gimmicky
@gavincurtis
4 жыл бұрын
I have one. Total door to door CRT rejuvenation salesman gimmicky. But it is a functional tool.
@NurdRage777
4 жыл бұрын
The Like "BRAND NEW" on the paper was a dead give away. If it was so easy to repair it would have been the best seller of the time.
@Musicradio77Network
4 жыл бұрын
BTW, this is a little off-topic, over the weekend I listened to “Disco Saturday Night” on my TuneIn app which is “K-Surf” and a new person who came on board after he took over for Fred Missman since he retired, his name is Mike Johnson. He is now a new host of “Disco Saturday Night”, and the first song was played was Alex R Constandinos’ “Romeo & Juliet”, a song that you did about a year ago on a rare Patterson 1930’s console Radio was being heard. The song started at 10PM EST. I finished listening to the show at 4AM and I got tired and got some sleep.
@nodak81
4 жыл бұрын
Man I haven't seen one of those credit card roller things since the 80's.
@rubusroo68
4 жыл бұрын
still used by some retailers in the uk upto the mid 90's
@fisqual
4 жыл бұрын
The UDF near me used to use them when their credit card phone line went down. Last time I saw them pull it out was about 2009.
@ticn
4 жыл бұрын
ahh yes we're back at this dump
@qwertykeyboard5901
2 жыл бұрын
2:24 I was actually looking forward to that explanation.
@tinicum54
4 жыл бұрын
I, 1 time, rejuvenated a Zenith shitty CRT in the 90's. It was amazing. In home, Sencore, I told them it might kill it. The FAMILY GATHERED around in amazement, as did I. Like new it was.
@tonyturtle5805
4 жыл бұрын
vacuum tubes !the magic in these 2 words is best appreciated by the "old timers"-the amateur,commercial,and government operators who have followed the rapid progress of radio commuications from its beginning.they remember those days not so long ago when spark transmitters ,galena xtals,and loose-couplers exemplified the state of the art.but the progress which had been made was to seem insignificant compared with the progress following the invention of the 3 electrode vac-UUm tube by Dr. Lee Deforest.-1939 RCA
@teacfan1080
4 жыл бұрын
Now we know what that hot California desert sun does to TV sets over the decades. That definately is crispodongulated. If you manage to get any sort of picture out of this thing, you are indeed the grand master of resurrections!
@brancarr1
4 жыл бұрын
Shango you got this. This is right up your alley.
@Synthematix
4 жыл бұрын
Another quality upload fella. thank you for keeping me company.
@michaelrobertson575
4 жыл бұрын
A very ambitious project Sir!A Schematic is surely a must here.Good luck!
@LagBlowz
4 жыл бұрын
I really wish there was more stuff like this on KZitem, I’m not sure why, but it’s entertaining.
@tommybewick
Жыл бұрын
I totally know what that credit card copier is. Grew up there in the the '70's.
@trinitron4505
4 жыл бұрын
When you go to your gradmas house and she says her television is only a little damaged
@werepaw
4 жыл бұрын
It's a pity, that i never see the resurrection of the Silvertone Metropolitan TV from this dump. I like to see more of such resurrections. Greetings from Germany.
@shango066
4 жыл бұрын
In the future
@jeffreyhickman3871
3 жыл бұрын
"Crispo-taculated" LOL😆😆😆!! 18:34. Your friend, Jeff.
@MsCori76
4 жыл бұрын
Totally baked to the max! xoxo
@RODALCO2007
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent video.
@fullwaverecked
4 жыл бұрын
The effort you put into your videos is Admiral guvnna.
@morganaefectos3276
4 жыл бұрын
You passed by that TV a couple of times in older videos and i said then "ohh cmon take it".... Now i know why it was the last. Good luck!
@theannoyedmrfloyd3998
4 жыл бұрын
Someday I'd like to see an EOL video using several CRTs thrown off a 5 story firefighter training tower.
@joselu90
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks God this CRT still attached and seems to be in working condition. The other wasn't lucky 😭
@ricknelsonm
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for your hard work
@ProLogic-dr9vv
4 жыл бұрын
A 5U4 GB or 5Y3 GB rectifier tube plugged into that socket. 15:51
@haweater1555
3 жыл бұрын
2:45. The simple word for the credit card machine is an "imprinter" , or sometimes called by the trademark "Addressograph" .
@samt4202
4 жыл бұрын
You can sometimes repair transformer windings by sending a high voltage into the open winding making it arc and hopefully welding the broken section back together. I was able to do this with a vacuum tube audio output transformer that was open on the input side with a cold cathode florescent lamp driver out of an old scanner that took dc in and had a simple transistor based oscillator driving the lamp transformer. I started the voltage low and watched the current to see when I had managed to make the open winding arc and weld itself back together. When I saw a spike in the current draw I stopped and I tested the transformer and it was working in the radio again. I hope this is helpful to some people.
@hestheMaster
4 жыл бұрын
Shango, "I'm a suppository of TV tube resurrections!" He will get a winner somewhere in the St. Philco cemetery of lost electronics very soon !
@nozmoking1
4 жыл бұрын
The owner of the shop I worked for in the 70's talked the Beltron rep into leaving their demo behind for a week and in a flurry of assholes and elbows, sockets, wire, meters, transformers and dazzling lights from the surplus joint next door(let us not forget gobbers of RTV) a clone was born. He had me spend the next week laying hands on every piece of junk we had in the shed out back, and out the door they went at $50 a pop complete with a 90 day warranty and pictures as crisp as a bag of fresh Doritos. Nearly every one came back in a week.
@rickycollins4633
4 жыл бұрын
Credit cards even now still have raised numbers and letters but I haven't seen one of those machines since the 80's.
@cookingwithchefjeff
4 жыл бұрын
I used one where I worked in the late 1990s. And my newest card that I began using last week does not have the raised numbers and name anymore.
@travis4798
4 жыл бұрын
It did sit in the hot sun for years, that most likely accounts for the baked components. Just something I would do, even if there's nothing left I would still pull tubes and transformers from the other chassis laying around. Might be interesting to see if a sun-baked tube is still functional and how well it works.
@odenviking
4 жыл бұрын
Oh i remeber this from youth and from visits at my local hospital. They stopen useing it about 2009 or there about. 😀👍👍😀 i mean the credit card reader .
@noelj62
4 жыл бұрын
Video thumbnail is a piece of art IMHO
@jetjazz05
4 жыл бұрын
1:10 - I know you hate the tv fish tanks but.. that thing could make a sick tank or terrarium or something. A terrarium with poison dart frogs, all foggy and dimly lit, heck yea.
@madmanmapper
4 жыл бұрын
shango: the yoke is missing me: no it isn't, it's right there shango: no it isn't, it's right there
@6p1p
4 жыл бұрын
i think you can check each tube what the tube they use and what CRT model. From the tube they use i think you can find similar schematic as reference to restore it. If you have tools winder the power transformer can easily rewind by yourself.
@darkwinter6028
4 жыл бұрын
Believe it or not; I actually had to use one of those credit card gizmos last year because the restaurant’s Windows-based POS system went down...
@zx8401ztv
4 жыл бұрын
Your old fluke needs a bit of love, getting dimmer and dimmer. I'm amazed that anything from the mine has any chance at all.
@swebigmac100
4 жыл бұрын
needs some beltron love
@zx8401ztv
4 жыл бұрын
i don't think the rejuve can do that much lol. I had a d.i.y rejuve and it worked but the tube emission dropped after a month. Some tubes were better, not many.
@stormzbunnies9987
4 жыл бұрын
this will be good to watch :D
@johnwilson2250
4 жыл бұрын
My parents had some tree work done about 2 years ago and the dude whipped out a credit card imprint machine from his truck. Otherwise haven't seen one in 25-30 years.
@jetjazz05
4 жыл бұрын
3:20 - Might need to free up the motor, at least disassemble it and make sure it's gonna spin alright, maybe grease a bearing (if it was nice enough to have one).
@redneckbryon
4 жыл бұрын
Are you going to test that street find TV any time soon??
@ticn
4 жыл бұрын
I'm interested in the akai tape deck. if you ever go back here, would you do me the favor of shooting a a minute overview of it, or possibly grab it at your house? if not the akai, there's a hitachi one nearby and another one in one of the refrigerators. Always found these 70s cassette decks cool.
@darkwinter6028
4 жыл бұрын
“He’s dead, Jim...”
@classiccomputers6211
4 жыл бұрын
were you ever able to resurrect the Silvertone Metropolitan set you got at this site?
@goldenboy5500
2 жыл бұрын
ever had one implode on the way back from the desert?
@uxwbill
4 жыл бұрын
I don't know much of CRT testers, so all I can say is that the meters on the Beltron do look pretty snazzy. Assuming those were refrigeration appliances that one sees at the beginning of the video, I'd love to know if any of them still have their charge of refrigerant and how much it'd take to get them working.
@ViliamJakubek
4 жыл бұрын
Where is this wonderland of abandoned electronics and things...🙃
@flyguille
4 жыл бұрын
the keyword in that guaranty is "MOST".
@combycat
3 ай бұрын
What type of place is this? Cuz I want to found one near where I live and go to it
@Joetechlincolns
4 жыл бұрын
I remember the credit card cachunka machines. I was just a little rascal then.
@abc-ni9uw
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video s66
@0tt0z
4 жыл бұрын
Cant wait for part 2! I love the trash pile resurrections.
@gustavogoncalves3083
4 жыл бұрын
GREAT SHOW!
@janosnagyj.9540
4 жыл бұрын
Is that an Akai CS-M3 at 0:08 ? :) It would be a challenge to resurrect it :)
@danmiller6890
4 жыл бұрын
Sure looks like it!!
@user-gh6bl1jr2z
Ай бұрын
,,and then you go.....'' buuumm😂😂😂😂
@coondogtheman
4 жыл бұрын
I would have a field day in this place. Electronics city. I'd grab that record player and some of those stereos. The credit card slider thing and that answering machine.
@gregorymalchuk272
4 жыл бұрын
Here is a link to some pictures and the backstory of TraVler corporation. They produced TVs between 1951 to 1965. www (DOT) tvhistory (DOT) tv/1950-59-TRAVLER
@Ronnocbot
4 жыл бұрын
“Crispotaculated” 😂😂😂😂
@cliff987
4 жыл бұрын
You're like some kind of bizarre meta-hipster. A prototype, a Prometheus of hipsters, who stole snark from the gods and then made a quip about the eagle they sent to eat your liver. A mine exploring, dumpster diving, vintage artisanal shabby-chic electronics restoring prodigy with an unabated, nearly decade long streak of sarcasm. They should have sent a poet.
@markmarkofkane8167
4 жыл бұрын
How about that portable phono? Fixable? Interesting video! And you go....lol.
@josephcote6120
4 жыл бұрын
The thumbnail immediately made me think of the old BOC album Mirrors.
@iamdarkyoshi
4 жыл бұрын
It'd be interesting to encase the bare windings in some sort of resin that boiled a little and produced bubbles before curing, I'd imagine it might spread the wires ever so slightly apart
@flhusa1
4 жыл бұрын
what you left those tubes in that old chassis?
@KAFKUBA
4 жыл бұрын
...and then you do this!...classic
@abcsd1254
4 жыл бұрын
Could that be a 1955 model 517-82? The picture on the SAMS folder looks similar but I’m not sure how the chassis look.
@rogertyler3237
3 жыл бұрын
Do You Think It'll Work In Another TV?
@petemiksich5760
4 жыл бұрын
Trav-ler manufactured televisions from 1948-65, according to Wikipedia.
@tatethomas808
4 жыл бұрын
Nice BELTRON CRT tester.
@Cyberpuppy63
4 жыл бұрын
B&W TV tube don't have a Red/green/blue emitter.
@BPJJohn
4 жыл бұрын
FrankenTV from TraVlervania, its alive!
@Ideal1980
4 жыл бұрын
You dont want to grav that tapedeck?
@evanscreekbrahman7511
4 жыл бұрын
Is there a resurrection video that stands out as being the most impressive or most unlikely??? Asking anyone familiar with the subject matter.
@enzoperruccio
4 жыл бұрын
Not really. All of them are just as impressive, but I think the best one was that Philco Ford that he picked up from a mine. That thing was filled to the brim with rat poo and dirt but only needed a new fuse to get going.
@_Ramen-Vac_
4 жыл бұрын
There are a few older ones with a baby doll prop which are funny.. I forgot which ones tho. one in particular when he gives the doll a little blast of wd-40 or whatever in its mouth.
@evanscreekbrahman7511
4 жыл бұрын
@@enzoperruccio Yeah, that one is definitely a front runner. Seems to me there was one from a dump that was just all staved to hell in back and it too was packed with mud. Would LOVE to see someone interview the Shang-u-lator because he's such an off-camera enigma ;>
@suzakule
4 жыл бұрын
wow, you don't see too many CRTs with ion traps any more :o
@Trev0r98
4 жыл бұрын
Who else came here for the "Shkarzle Schnarvler", @00:26 ? So much win.
@NurdRage777
4 жыл бұрын
This CRT TV is a real die hard !
@justincase3880
2 жыл бұрын
“A miner for a pot of gold” …
@JessHull
4 жыл бұрын
I swear I only watch these videos to learn all the weird nomenclature shango comes up with. "credit card shnarvel-garblers"
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