God! How I love the desert!  I do miss spending the winters in Topock Arizona, my wonderful wife and I used to drive our 35 foot Class A motor home from South Dakota to Arizona arriving on Thanksgiving day, then spend our winter months with Topock as a headquarters and drive our Jeep out into the desert to explore. I lost my wife 4 years ago, and gave my interest in the motor home to a fellow who took over the payments, thus freed up 600 a month for me to spend on other things, like food and such. I am now 73 years old, and having spent  51 years and 4 days with the most wonderful woman in the universe, feel blessed for the experience. I guess I shall spend the rest of my  days waiting for God in South Dakota which  is a wonderful place for 1/2 the year and  a deep freeze for the other half. Still half a year in paradise is worth the other half waiting indoors for the snow to melt.  I love Shango and his videos, he has taught me so much about fixing little transistors that I now can pretty much diagnose quickly and repair most that I have purchased off Ebay.  My collection grows and the fun keeps on happening, but I do miss the desert...

in 1971 I got home from Vietnam and was stationed at Fort Lewis Washington. I was married with a young son, about 6 months of age.  I needed a car, so went to a local dealer and purchased a pink and white '58 Pontiac, we loaded it up with our cloths and such, being fairly newly weds, we didn't own a lot of stuff, and we headed West from our home town in South Dakota. The trip was uneventful, and after a few months in Tacoma, I decided to trade the car off for a van, back then vans were cool, and I was catching shit from my buddies on the base about driving a pink car (IT WAS SALMON!) a buddy on the base loved my car, so when I traded it off for a 63 Ford Econoline window van he went to the dealer and bought my Pontiac.  He had it for a couple of weeks and when he was pulling out of the parking lot of our apartment complex, the steering wheel shaft came uncoupled with the power rest of the car and the car drove into a tree.  It made me think, when driving through Montana, back then there was no speed limit and on the fairly new Interstate, I had been pushing the old car up around 100 MPH, had that let go then, well there would have been no rest of the story.

Shango's like the cool uncle I never had lmao. This video had it all.

It's kinda bittersweet watching you get one of those old cheap throwaway radios working again, only to discover that all the AM band has to offer is either Spanish talk radio or "oggy shiggy leggy mumbo jumbo" and ads.

This video has it all! electronic repair, mine exploring, close encounters of the third kind (or the weird kind actually), offroad mechanic repair... He never ceases to amaze me.

Back in 1971 when I was stationed in Vietnam, we would go to the PX and  buy little cans of spaghetti brand named MayDay.  The cans came with a small sterno  container welded the bottom of the can, you took a key and opened the sterno after opening the can with your P38, light the sterno and you had hot spaghetti after a few minutes. It was a quick meal and tasty to boot, better then most C rats that we were issued in the field.

Those guys that just walked up sound like the "day hikers" that we read about in the news all the time, unprepared.

Shango and Mine Explorers kind of crossover video with a transistor radio repair and test and nice and lengthy, been a treat! Thanks for what you do, loved this.

A resurrection, a DX test, and an abandoned adventure. It’s like Shango has released a greatest hits album and I love it!

Thanks for bringing us along.  I would probably never have seen this not for you. That wooden structure was beautiful .

Beautiful country. I like exploring videos, watching the radio repair and the mine exploring was an added bonus.

It was the perfect thumbnail image! We get to see a radio repair, a night in a mine and a desert car repair all in the same video! It doesn't get much better!

Old radios, TV's and old mines cannot get any better than this.

I salute your old soldering iron! I happen to have an ancient Weller Expert Model 8200 gun that I've been using for nearly 20 years. I found it in an old house that was being demolished, and I'm pretty sure it was used 20 years before I ever owned it!

shango time!

I remember this like it was yesterday....you have to peek those trimmers!!!....😊

What I like most about this channel is the sportsball coverage.

Shango, so sorry to hear about your soldering iron. Inanimate objects we have possessed for many years are like our friends. I lost a really nice coffee cup back in 1999. I really loved that coffee cup. I miss it very much. You have my condolences🙏

I salute you Weller soldering iron.  RIP

2 hours, awesome. And fantastic thumbnail.