I use to have heaps of these little radios growing up as a kid.

Nice repair. When I was a kid in the 70's, I had a TG&Y radio that looked just like that. They must have made billions of them.

When I couldn't get to the screw to remove a knob, I drilled a hole . I had to, the knob was loose, and the label was welded on.

Great tips for checking out the various stages of the radios.  We're not all experts to begin with so these tricks are really useful!

Great fix. Sometimes it's amazing what replacing 1 59 cent transistor can do.

It's GREAT to see people interested in old transistor radios, regardless of  how cheap the make and model. Thanks for these great vids.

I’m one of those “ new guys “. Started collecting a couple of years ago, know absolutely nothing.
It will take me some years before I can attempt anything.
But I will learn🙂

Actually AM Can go that far even during the day on clear channels.  I live in South Dakota, we listen to KFYR out of Bismarck for most of our radio news and such.  When we were snow-birding it, and going to Arizona for the winter, my Jeep had the AM radio button still set for Bismarck.  One afternoon, while my wife was in the Dollar General in Topock, I turned on the radio that was still set to Bismarck, and damned if the radio didn't play Bismarck. I listened for over 30 minutes while the wife was buying food, the next trip I tried and it still worked a week later.  Then we drove over to Bullhead City, still worked, and at Lake Havasu City, same thing still worked while parked in the Walmart Parking lot, and at the London Bridge.  550 on your Radio Dial, KFYR Bismarck ND

Looks like a '74 date code on the speaker.

I had something like this as my first radio as a kid. I broke it taking it apart. I still break most radio I take apart.

Radio.shack.sold this one.too,nice repair.

The lighter fluid can soft the dial glue, I use it to remove the camera body leather covers.

I got one of those in yellow.

I had a radio like that except it was red. The reception wasn't that great. It is what it is. I'm impressed how your radio is working since you fixed it. Mine never worked as good as that!

Stewart and a 9volt Duracell , that’s the combo I want to rely on when the SHTF situation comes !

Excellent! I love brown through hole boards the most! Oscillator trick I honestly didn't know (younger)!

I saw a radio that looks very similar to this at a thrift store today. The color was blue and the brand was Dyn.

Thanks for bringing back memories of solder joints under the dial from 50 years ago! It's so frustrating. I must have damaged several of those aluminum discs trying to carefully pry them off

Nice repair I hope that all governments keep am and fm broadcasting  without introduction of digital transmission.

I would have checked the ferrite antenna tuned circuit before working on the IF transistor. On the other hand, you may have already tested the transistor and confirmed that it was the problem. Or perhaps the fact that injecting a 455 kHz signal produced no audio output confirmed that the fault was indeed in the IF transistor. Great job and excellent tips. You have encouraged me to repair my own rádios. Thanks for sharing!