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“Make My Pussy Pop Like Coca Cola” 😂WTF! Made me spit my coffee out when you said that. LOL 😝

Hi Shango,

I'm very glad to see you got it working well in the end. We all break stuff sometimes, I've had my fair share.. That cracked core you found sure was interesting, maybe it was younger me who did that, who knows.

I've finally had my first successful transistor radio repair. It was last month on a GE p-746a. All bad capacitors, bad driver, and bad output transistor. Currently working on a 1934 Gilfillan 4-T, going good so far. Power transformer checks ok. Perhaps I should make a video of repairing a radio someday.

I'm also getting my first car, it belonged to my Grandfather. It's a 1987 Cherokee Wagoneer. I look forward to getting it on the road after our mechanic gets it running good! Needs a new radiator, fan, tires, etc.

Take care and I look forward to more of your videos,
Nick

I love how you can be such a proper loon when it comes to date codes.
Total deadpan delivery as well.
Nice

Wow, bring back childhood memories. Fell asleep with a Regency underneath my pillow. Listening to KLVI in SE Texas. I’m 67 now, imagine the am transistor top 40 music in 1960’s. Would love to find another one.

The "interstage" yellow coated transformer with the stylized "L" was made by Lionel the model train maker.  The yellow coating is MFP (moisture and fungus proof varnish) applied to electronics sold to the military for use in tropical environments.  That radio was made with whatever Jewel could get surplus cheap.  Not proud that the front of the case advertises  "Made in USA".  I would bet that the Lionel transformer cost the US Government more than the entire cost of the Jewel radio at retail!

p.s.  The case was made out of cardboard laminate with plastic leather coating.  Cheap and nasty.  🤢

Looks like something an eighth grader built for the science fair.

As soon as I saw Bette Davis, I knew which film it was. LOL.

EDIT : Only Bette Davis could do a roll like that.

Damnit Shango! Its almost 2am here and now I want to watch this 😁

Love the videos, I've been watching for years!

Mosquito wants to drink synthetic blood

Great video. I am a man from the 50's so I grew up with valvular radios and early transistors. All my old radios still work, crude but still working. Cheers from Patagonia Argentina.

A reminder of the "good old days" when tech like this wasn't so cheap and not built to the most impressive standards. Its easy to see why the Japanese with their tight pricing and focus on improving quality became so dominant for so long

You know it will be a tough one when Shango posts a 1h plus video about an AM radio and uses both the scope and the HP generator in the first half. Great video as always.

At 11:08, how many of you tried to kill that bug on the screen?

Don’t you just love it when you realize that somebody else with a bigger screwdriver was under the hood before you got there to fix what they did? Can you say frustrating boys and girls?

"Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" one of my most favorite Betty Davis - Joan Crawford movies! I remember that scene with the radio, and I guess I didn't notice it was a "Jewel" and I've seen the movie a few times.

When Bette Davis was doing the publicity for "Whatever Happen To Baby Jane?" she would sometimes be asked where was her co-star, Joan Crawford. Gleefully, she would reply "She's dead, and lying on a beach in Santa Monica" to general laughter!

Baby Jane,, Great Movie.

That audio transformer looks like a well known war surplus job that had 3 windings at 10,000 ohm CT, 2000 ohm CT, and 600 ohm CT.  was popular with hams in phone patch circuits, and also was used in transistorized inverters to get low current B+ voltages for portable tube rigs.  It would make a good replacement for transistor audio driver transformers, though a bit on the large size (ok in radios of this era though).  That "Lionel logo on the transformer clinches my ID of it.  The audio output transformer is attached to the speaker.
Those IF transformers are as broad as a barn door.  Those cans are too old to have silver mica issues.

The movie was intense as Davis and Crawford hated each other in real life and it showed in their interactions on the screen