{"id":53676,"date":"2022-08-16T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=53676"},"modified":"2022-08-13T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T12:58:18","slug":"video-the-erres-ky-418-radio-set-wwii-era-assembly-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/video-the-erres-ky-418-radio-set-wwii-era-assembly-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Erres KY-418 radio set WWII era assembly line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1940s-radio-manufacturing-NL-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53677\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1940s-radio-manufacturing-NL-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"832\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1940s-radio-manufacturing-NL-1.jpeg 832w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1940s-radio-manufacturing-NL-1-300x223.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1940s-radio-manufacturing-NL-1-768x571.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1940s-radio-manufacturing-NL-1-624x464.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Adid, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiomuseum.org\/r\/erres_ky418ky_41.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erres KY-418 Radio set<\/a> assembly line. You must watch this:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p2feO-YxjGI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/p2feO-YxjGI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">My heart goes to the poor guys who work under all that machinery noise with no ear plugs or with no mask when spray paint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Everything is hand made in-house even the loudspeakers, coils or the rotary switches&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Just remember that WWII is on while it was made and I don&#8217;t think the KY-418 was a cheap radio&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Regards, Adi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you for sharing this, Adid. You&#8217;re right: there were a few generations of folks who lost much of their hearing early on due to the constant noise on factory floors.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That said, I&#8217;ve been enjoying these videos of early radio production lines. Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adid, who writes: The Erres KY-418 Radio set assembly line. You must watch this: Click here to view on YouTube. My heart goes to the poor guys who work under all that machinery noise with no ear plugs or with no mask when spray paint. Everything is hand made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288],"tags":[8269,464,4094,4093,681,676],"class_list":["post-53676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-adid","tag-antique-radio","tag-nostalgia","tag-videos","tag-vintage-radio","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dXK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40186,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/1961-film-tuning-in-radio-sarawak\/","url_meta":{"origin":53676,"position":0},"title":"1961 Film: &#8220;Tuning In Radio Sarawak&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"October 16, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adid, who writes: Hi Thomas, I just watched this very interesting DX film about RADIO SARAWAK. 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The rack has no significance in that scene (that dates to the 1980's) may be because it was cut much shorter than in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/white-gold-1024x753.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/white-gold-1024x753.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/white-gold-1024x753.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":48951,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/adid-offers-two-simple-mods-for-the-xhdata-d-808-or-any-portable-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":53676,"position":2},"title":"Adid offers two simple mods for the XHDATA D-808 (or any portable radio!)","author":"Thomas","date":"May 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adid, who shares two inexpensive mods he made on his XHDATA D-808 shortly after taking delivery of it in 2018. One is simply clear tape over the display to protect it from scratches. 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