I'm working on a Sony TR3550 Enjoy your video as much for the family history you relate as the cleaning and tune up ! Thanks so very much.
@haridaspanicker5888
3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. Sony made a gem of a radio. It will go on working for ever.
@doughy67
7 жыл бұрын
I'm 47 and my grandmother used to have a radio covered in a black pvc like wallet like that, your video's are always interesting love the kit builds. You give old things a new lease of life, great stuff
@vaibhavk008
7 жыл бұрын
Wow credit goes to grandmother well maintain this radio and hats of sony for such a good quality product
@joelima201
4 жыл бұрын
Good video on the Sony . This is what got me into the radio collecting world , listened to radio stations at the age of 6 , from mainland ( CKLG , CFUN ) here on the Island in the early seventies. Bought radios cheap back then in thrift shops , and had a collection . These were well built radio's in the day , enjoy working on them , keep up the good work !
@Wilfredoviquez
Жыл бұрын
What a good radio, very well built, high quality, with a beautiful design.
@whollyunaware5185
2 жыл бұрын
A gorgeous radio with booming sound, and a neat little background story, to boot! It's nice that you were able to retrieve it and get it going once again. Sony evidently designed and built an amazing number of SKU's of radios. I sorely wish they would get back to the business of superior shortwave radios like they built so many years ago.
@joehowe9020
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for showing the radios 📻 it’s nice 👍 to old radios 📻 being fixed and not trashing them
@12voltvids
7 жыл бұрын
Yes I like the old gear. I have an old Halicrafters to look at too. Very old, from the 30's
@dane.4346
7 жыл бұрын
Great video and a very interesting old radio. Makes me sad that so many people will never know how good quality products used to be available and now most things are junk. It used to be that the more you paid, the better the quality. But now it's put out cheap junk, make a much money as you can, sell your product name and run and start making more junk under a new name. Keep making your interesting videos.
@12voltvids
7 жыл бұрын
Dan E. I love the old tech. It is all repairable. I have a few real nice old pieces to look at this fall as I get back into making videos now that summer is done and the weather turns ugly. More time to spend in the studio.
@nor4277
5 жыл бұрын
I no you can fix anything ,I would love to see you fix the kinda of radios ,I like to fix and learn on,like a AA5 G.E. 1960 era clock radio,or any 60,s era radio ,I pick these kind of radios to learn on ,because of your videos and a couple others I watch I have fix five or six radios so far.And am a big fan of what ever radios you fix.thanks for your videos and time to help others.
@maryrafuse2297
5 жыл бұрын
That's a beauty. SONY's are worth saving. My first Radio was a red and white Sony TR-1820. I found one a few years ago and it is in beautiful condition.
@12voltvids
5 жыл бұрын
I wish it was mine. I have a Sony transistor 6 myself.
@lawrencecavens5760
3 жыл бұрын
Coool!! Dave, And I my dad had one that was the same model but black, And I was born in 67
@johnyoung4039
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome radio. That radio could tell some history
@infinitecanadian
5 жыл бұрын
I like it when someone has a story of times past.
@zx8401ztv
7 жыл бұрын
A good old radio :-D, and that outer case protected the plastic nicely :-D. I bet a blob of clear epoxy resin would keep that battery post in place. Depends on how far you wish to go with it :-).
@12voltvids
7 жыл бұрын
zx8401ztv Yes jb weld will fix it nicely. This is as it was when I pulled it out of the drawer. My grandmother just used to put a little block of wood in it to hold the batteries. Back then we didn't have the super glues we have today.
@12voltvids
5 жыл бұрын
Yes I know. I'll probably mix up some JB Weld and affix the battery terminal some day as I would like to fix that up. This one has been in the family for 56 years.
@robinsattahip2376
2 жыл бұрын
Those are fun to mess with. Hey radio, the world was a much nicer place 35 years ago.
@Pyridox
7 жыл бұрын
I like the old transistor radios. That one still plays pretty good, considering how old it is. Many of the old vintage transistor radios uses germanium transistors, which I think are not easy to replace these days. NTE make some generic replacements.
@UnkyjoesPlayhouse
7 жыл бұрын
I was born in 66, my first radio was a small transistor radio that ran on a 9v battery, I had it around 73-75 and it went everywhere with me, small little handheld with the small white earphone, my dad would take it to work with him during the school year, I got it during the summertime, ah memories :)
@jeffking4176
6 жыл бұрын
Unkyjoe's Playhouse I was born in ‘61. Back then, almost everyone had a pocket radio, like cell phones today, boys and girls. I recently stumbled upon two that I had. A cute little Realistic 5 transistor AM radio-the first radio I remember,my mom bought for me.
@jeffking4176
6 жыл бұрын
Nice history of a great radio. Recently found a radio-same model as the first one my mom bought for me.( Realistic 5 transistor). Got me collecting radios,now. That thing may not have much inside, but look at that huge honker of an antenna ❗️Won’t find a chunk of ferrite like that in a modern radio (except maybe a C.Crane radio).
@arongooch
7 жыл бұрын
Very cool radio and am tempted to get one of those power supply modules to modernize an old power supply I have.
@12voltvids
7 жыл бұрын
Aron Gooch The power supply is excellent. Will actually go up to 50 volts but I only had a transformer that outputs around 36-40. I built it with what I had on hand. Transformers are expensive. The old transformer has the original radio shack price sticker on it. That's how old it is.
@tonycosgrove6433
7 жыл бұрын
That's when good radios were made to last like the power supply you made
@rsattahip
6 жыл бұрын
That dirty volume control is an improvement over CNN.
@joebrock9784
Жыл бұрын
We use penny's grandpa stuff too that pitney's humble sides behind the moment a copper battery terminal which I remember what happened to be a sham out of the batteries
@theanimatronicscollectoran4193
5 жыл бұрын
Those radios from that time then had good quality. They could certainly work for more than 30 years.
@OldSonyMan
4 жыл бұрын
I bought a similar vintage sony radio, and got it delivered to my mum's address for convenience. Unfortunately the postman put it in the recycling bin and it got recycled on the same day. I got my money back from eBay but it certainly was a bit of a learning curve for me and my mum!
@12voltvids
4 жыл бұрын
If you saw my rant on Canada post you know my feelings about not only them but fed ex, ups, and DHL as well. They could use a trained monkey and get better results.
@OldSonyMan
4 жыл бұрын
@@12voltvids thank you for the fantastic videos, I collect everything Sony but despite going to technical college in the 80s, I am very nervous about making repairs (especially soldering) but you give me the confidence to have a try. Big thumbs up.
@rogertyler3237
3 жыл бұрын
I Remember Listening To WDGY AM 1130 Then I Switched To FM 97.1 KTCR Then I Started Listening To K102 FM
@yrulooknatme
5 жыл бұрын
I just got a deal on an old boombox with am fm... realistic brand... I fired it up and the radio sounded excellent and I listed to it for bout 20 min... then today I turned it on and it sounded like the stations weren't coming in near as strong but I grabbed one and went about my business and in a couple of minutes it sopped working... powers is on but the am and fm are not pulling down any stations??? what could that be... it's like a capacitor or another component failed??? or what ever captures the signal failed??? can you point me in a direction to look at.. thanks
@andrewagner9212
4 жыл бұрын
Is that a switching power supply, if so would be better to use an analogue transformer supply, its quieter.
@12voltvids
4 жыл бұрын
It is all I have. Normally this would run on batteries.
@TerryMcKean
7 жыл бұрын
Wow!... that wooden Sony is a valuable collector's item... congratulations to the owner for scoring that one. Your Sony is awesome too.. especially since it's a family heirloom and thus priceless.... cool antenna in that set, ... lots of capture area along all that ferrite bar, and the link-coupled external antenna connection is the icing on the AM-DX-listening cake :-).
@12voltvids
6 жыл бұрын
Yes it is cool. Will be repairing that one next probably as it won't tune anything. Bad caps no doubt. That one goes back to 1956. Speaking of AX DX, I have been playing around with my old Sony XR-A37 AM stereo car radio. As you know car radios are pretty good. Was pulling in signals from all over the place last night including some AM stereo stations. I should make a video of that next time I go hunting for signals. I use a Cushcraft AP8 vertical for the antenna.
@TerryMcKean
6 жыл бұрын
Right on.... and definitely, car radios with their RF amps in the front-end can definitely pull in the weak stations, especially when hooked up to a nice long-wire antenna and a good ground connection.
@golfman9290
7 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the AJAX 8 transistor radios that my parents bought me and my sister when we were kids in the 60s, listening to radio Caroline and Luxembourg, I found, by accident, that by selecting a Sw.frequency on a 40s cabinet radio that I had, I could block the MW frequency in her room next to mine, and replace her music with a annoying high pitched tone, which was useful if she Pissed me off. Later bought a second hand Shaub Lorenz, now that had some guts in it and volume.
@MrWasim100100
3 жыл бұрын
nice video grab some step down power transformer and voltage regulator for your radio power supply run your radio on that supply... it should work fine without noise
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
Will work fine on batteries too. Going to fix that battery case some day.
@dalegirard8453
Жыл бұрын
I have a windsor transistor radio that is motorboating and volume not working until turn it all the way
@vibra64
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks loved this video.
@ElectricPointOfficial
6 жыл бұрын
Nice video
@axlyosef4960
3 жыл бұрын
Instablaster...
@zx8401ztv
3 жыл бұрын
Did you get around to fixing the battery contact and faulty volume control in the sony TR6080 ? it looked like a decent radio in 2017, a little clean of the grill with a tooth brush would make it fresher.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
No I haven't done anything with it since this video. It is still in the same drawer it has been in since I put it back after shooting this one. Some day I will bring this one out again and glue that battery compartment back together.
@andypalm7061
7 жыл бұрын
wow. those are interesting to check out.
@ElectricPointOfficial
6 жыл бұрын
जी खुश हो गया !
@nor4277
6 жыл бұрын
I want to ask you if the tuner cleaner and lub.Will work on that volume knobs ,I bought a fan a while back from radio shack ,I didn't no if I should have bought just a tuner cleaner or a tuner cleaner with a pub in it ,I have a seventh or older I want to no if I can use my cleaner and lubricant on it.
@craneoperator4
7 жыл бұрын
neat little 📻
@rogertyler3237
3 жыл бұрын
How come You Can't Tune In AM Stations? Not Too Many People Listen To AM Or FM Radio Cause They Like Playing Music Via Mp3.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
I listen to am and FM radio all the time.
@rahimullahkhan2733
4 жыл бұрын
I have sony radio model 6R-24 8 transister, but cutted cable wire how to repair it, plz help im so sad for this, i will be thankful to you
@hirendesai8879
3 жыл бұрын
1-Bring out both ends of copper wire & connect them, put around insulation tape. 2- find electronic s hobiest
@yusufpraditya
6 жыл бұрын
what kind of stuff to clean that volume control?
@jimreardon6599
6 жыл бұрын
Nutrol? or Deoxit D5?
@rogertyler3237
3 жыл бұрын
Why Didn't You Put 3v C Cells In it?
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
Because i didn't have any on hand that's why.
@chetpomeroy1399
7 жыл бұрын
I see that this particular AM receiver has the old CONELRAD markings on the dial.
@chetpomeroy1399
4 жыл бұрын
@@BigEightiesNewWave We can probably both agree that we're glad the unthinkable didn't happen. Thank God!
@gabevee3
4 жыл бұрын
It sounds very good. You're probably getting the hash from the display.
@jpdesroc
7 жыл бұрын
Can you give more info about your in house AM transmitter ?? Anything bought or built by yourself ?
@12voltvids
7 жыл бұрын
jpdesroc I built it. The condensed build is on my channel and the full 3 hour component level build is available to patreon users. Look for am stereo transmitter build. I built it only a few weeks ago. Was a kit I got off ebay. Range is about 1/2 block with piece of wire for antenna. It is a Motorola C-QUAM compatable stereo transmitter. I will be showing off some of my other am stereo radios receiving signals from it in future videos.
@jpdesroc
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks !
@Kennynva
7 жыл бұрын
Plus batteries lasted longer because germanium transistors used only half the power to run...
@12voltvids
7 жыл бұрын
Kennynva T. Correct. Actually they used even less than that. About 1/3. Only a .2 volt junction drop as opposed to .6 for silicon which means that as the batteries run down they will work until the voltage is lower.
@yrulooknatme
5 жыл бұрын
also the station indicator light is not illuminated as it was nor the fm stereo indicator lights.
@12voltvids
5 жыл бұрын
There are no dial lights on this radio.
@yrulooknatme
5 жыл бұрын
12voltvids I know . sorry for the confusion. I was asking you about the boom box I was having trouble with.
@hassanrasool3977
5 жыл бұрын
Good
@ellieokeefe2931
7 жыл бұрын
hi love all videos where can i get the power supply kit from that you built
@12voltvids
7 жыл бұрын
XXEllieXX The video of that power supply build Is on my channel. The regulator module came from banggood.com it is basically a transformer, bridge rectifier and capacitor plus a fan and the dc-dc buck regulator module. Works fantastic. See the video of the construction and read all the negative comments on my construction techniques by those that wrote a comment before seeing the finished project.
@bambangprayogi5035
6 жыл бұрын
Home made power supply, use arduino may be.
@markmarkofkane8167
5 жыл бұрын
Year I was born .
@stereomann83
7 жыл бұрын
what kind of power supply is that?
@12voltvids
7 жыл бұрын
I made that power supply a few weeks ago. Build is here: kzitem.info/news/bejne/qmiL1nawqXRqeYo
@iceberg789
6 жыл бұрын
here, you will get a proper & details understanding about these cute little devices: kzitem.info/news/bejne/pK1op56ZnKx5mmk
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