The Interesting way Atwater-Kent Designed Their Radio Capacitors in 1931...

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  @user-mr3nq6uq5d · 7 months ago

  Thank you Ronnie for another awesome video! You are doing a great job! Always enjoy watching! Your videos make Sunday brighter!😊

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• BI

  @BillyBabs1951 · 7 months ago

  Thanks for your great videos. They are such a distraction from all the crazy news!

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  @vintageadventureswithrobert · 7 months ago

  Remember, those resistor color codes are pre 1935 RMA color codes. Before 1935, all makers of radios had their color codes. Also, look to the chassis number and also the early and late versions of that set.

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• SG

  @sgath92 · 7 months ago

  Restuffing is fun sometimes. I've come to enjoy it but I used to hate it and see it as a chore. Nice thing about AKs, Philcos and RCAs of this era is they're so well documented!

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  @kenlanier2131 · 7 months ago

  Cant wait to see this baby fire up.

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  @dlschgo · 7 months ago

  I bet the metal plates act as a Faraday cage. I'd put them all back.

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  @dnpmod · 7 months ago

  Until the next one.. I'll sleep tight now 🤗 It's always soothing to watch these videos a 1am. Nighty night Ron 😚

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  @sgath92 · 7 months ago

  One thing I find is helpful in these situations, is they make these vinyl stickers for electricians that they sell at some hardware stores & electrical supply places. Looks like a note book but each page is filled with tiny vinyl stickers with letters, symbols or numbers on them. You can then put one on the end of every wire you remove so its easier to remember what wire goes where. I.e. every wire pulled off terminal 1 gets a 1 sticker, every wire off terminal 2 gets a 2 sticker etc. Then draw a diagram with the numbers on it and it is a lot harder to get "lost" in the pile of disconnected wires later.

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  @FishDS9 · 7 months ago

  Rome wasn&apos;t built in a day people! <br><br>Thanks for the video Ron

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  @jaythomas7750 · 7 months ago

  1930 was about the time that A.A. Kent decided to shut down the engineering department of his radio company and let it run on momentum until manufacturing finally shut down about 1935. He had already decided not to cheapen his radios to stay competitive during the depression.

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  @douglashoff95 · 7 months ago

  They used to use one conductor in the line cord as a dropping resistor for the filament circuit in some radios. This gave these the moniker of &quot;curtain burners&quot; because this wire would overheat and cause a fire. So resistor wire was apparently quite common in those days.

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  @livingdeadbtu · 7 months ago

  That was a great and clean repop!!! That chassis is a work of art... They did a good job putting her together back in the day