1946 Packard Car Radio Part 2

Thanks for the tip on the wago connectors !!! Great video as always take care !!!!!!

I have recollections of Coca-Cola cleaning up chromed parts back in the day.

7.55. God I hate that notification sound. Theatre, pub, restaurant, bus, train, plane when on the ground, coming from a neighbours garden, even on a bloody rib boat in the Antarctic in range of ship WiFi. Can't escape even when trying to relax with a video. Drives me nuts. Apart from that, great video. Put your phone on vibrate only or silent.

Definitely the oval one. It's like night and day

Oval for sure. When I was young back in the last Millennium bikes actually had chrome on them and I used fine steelwool to buf it to perfect shine. Good work so far. I look forward for the next part.

Hi Vern. You’re wise to leave the tuning selector in tact and lubricate it. I have a 50 Buick and recapped it. It’s working beautifully. It’s very heavy and removing and installing it back because of the position one is working, upside down.

Very nice result. Making a side by side speakers comparison (skipping video between) it seems to me that the original one is giving a more extended speaking voice. It might be that with music the oval one give better results. It would be interesting to test them in real time with a switch to have a fast comparison as for transistor on curve tracer😬. Beautiful and rare to see video subject. Thanks for the sharing.

Nice Job ! I am restoring a Delco radio on my work bench !

I must say that was excellent Vern. You are a good salesman especially when it comes to Wago connectors. I see how good the hold is on the wire is when the lever is flipped down with the case.

Excellent work on those caps. Tight areas to work in. Agree the oval will perform better. Looking forward to the alignment. Good work 👍👍😉

I have been using a FlashForge at work for years and I am getting one for my home !

Impressive job, thanks for posting!

Don't know where you're located, Vern but AM 900 out of Nashua N.H. plays oldies commercial free. It's transmitter is along the Nashua river with radiated power 900 watts daytime, under 100 at night. I've got a 1953 Chevy car radio on my workbench and it picks up Chicago at night from Massachusetts! The kicker is it operates on 110 volts as someone adapted it to do so eliminating the vibrator. My first vehicle was a 53 Chevy as well...

If you are using an SLR type camera, there is probably a dummy battery that can be used to power the camera externally. There WERE some communications receivers that had 500khz IF's, Collins radio made some mechanical filters at that frequency. Auto radios almost always had 262khz (+/- a few) IFs. They had RF stages for fringe area reception, and the lower IF for better selectivity. Home radios usually left out the RF stage, and used and IF of 455KHZ for better image rejection (without the RF stage). Early superhet sets all had RF stages, and IF's or 100KHZ to 175KHZ were common. The lower IF frequencies could provide higher gain with early tubes. I remember when I was in Jr High School, the electrical shop had an old Buick car radio hooked up to a battery charger playing. It was about as big as that Packard set, but had 12v Octal metal tubes in it (including an 0Z4 rectifier). The output tubes were 12V6GT's.

OVAL. Only concern is the field from the big ceramic magnet.

Vern, I would never trust that speaker that came apart. If you can fit the other, that will be better, I think.

Car radios have always had 262.5 khz IF

Hopefully you can replace the loctal sockets which are not gripping the tubes well. They can still be had from ebay, etc.

The oval speaker is better, using cone technology which was rare if it even existed when that radio was made. It's no more wrong to use it than to use a solid state vibrator replacement.

I love your videos, but when you have a written comment on the screen, could you leave it on for a few extra seconds? I can read fast, but not that fast. Your comments are interesting, but I can only get the first few words before it goes off the screen. Thank you for entertaining and educating me.