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i forgot to mention that if you happen to come up with any spare channel and fine tuning knobs for a 7 inch admiral let me know
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I have a 7" Bakelite admiral with the chinese grille that is broken out around the chassis bolts near the back on the bottom. Not sure which way to go with this one since I don't have the missing pieces.
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INCREDIBLE!!!! Congratulations!!!! Thanks for sharing the photos! I'm sure stories of this find will be retold for generations.
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It's a shame that a guy leaves all that stuff behind with no "plan". Just think what good he could have done by donating that stuff to the TV history museum. The money could easily have finished their CRT rebuild room.
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i have a checkerboard admiral but could use the fine tuning and channel knob , do you have a picture of this Chinese damaged set ? curious to what the damage looks like.
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I should feel like Alice in wonderland!°
I check if I could use some ortikons as far you like to sell them. I checked one of mine and it is called "8093E" Have to say, that I am not familar with them. Will check more out. Do you saw this: -Motorola VT73 / 7" portable: floor panel and back -Admiral bakelit 7": back -7" crt hose (shield against x-rays) -knobs (channel selector and one of the front knobs) for Westinghouse H 196 -top antenna adjuster knob for Zenith porthole It will be great if you could help me out! I am sure that this will be one of the best days of your life to trump around on this yard with all the TVs! TV-collector
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I picked up the last few CRTs and a couple of 'hidden' TV sets from the storage unit this morning. Found another Alligator skin Raytheon portable which is missing all the knobs and fabric is ripped on one side, a Silvertone 12" pushbutton set, a Crosley 10" with the continuous tuner on the left hand side. Best CRTs were in the last load, too! NOS Dumont 12QP4 Teletron, a 10FP4, and a couple more 7JP4s and 10BP4s.
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> Some of these sets I'm keeping for my own collection but other sets and CRTs will have to go to recover the investment.
And i know where the RA-103 is at this moment SR |
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Andrea T-VK12
While picking up a different set I bought from Justin's "hoard," this Andrea T-VK12 caught my eye. It's a set I've been interested in acquiring some day, so I picked up this one from him as well.
It came without a picture tube, and two knobs are missing (focus and radio tuning). It appeared to have no service work done on it previously, except for some updated tubes. Most tubes were dated April 1949, but there were a number from 1952. There was evidence of one or two blown electrolytics, and a dead 5U4 rectifier. With a full recap, a new 5U4 and a few other weak tubes replaced, a good squirt of DeOxit into the Inductuner, and some mechanical lubrication of both the radio and TV tuners, it came to life very nicely. Here I'm subbing a 12JP4 in place of the missing 12QP4 CRT. No alignment touch up was necessary -- not even for the sound. There's a bit of herringbone interference in the above picture from my nearby DTV converter box. I'll take a nicer picture sometime in the future and post it -- perhaps when the set is all done. The cabinet is pretty decent, and will look very good after refinishing sometime in the near future. I like the dial -- you push the tune control knob inward to momentarily light the dial when it is operating in TV mode. I guess they didn't want the dial competing with the picture in terms of lighted stuff on the front of the set. In radio mode, the dial lights up continuously. Anyone have two spare knobs for this model? The function is printed on each knob individually, but I'd be happy with any matching knobs, even if they don't have the correct functions printed on them. |
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Nice work Tom! It'll be incredible with that NOS 12QP4 in it.
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Really, if it hadn't been for StellarTV buying the bulk, the bulk would have ended up in the landfill I think. It's really a shame, but thank goodness this came out the way it did. Great find and thanks for helping out others who need parts or whatnot.
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I've deleted everything related to race and politics from this thread in the hope that it will get back on topic.
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@ Andrea Television
I like the scale, is it the first combo showing a radio scale and a TV channels scale on one plate? In the 50s combos were common in some northern european countries. (Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Germany) They had TVs and the radios mounted on one chassis. So its logical that the scales showing radio bands and TV channels. Example: http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=h...d=0CIgBEK0DMCA TV-collector
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Boy, isn't that something! Talk about a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Has the estate been cleared of vintage sets and equipment yet?
Chris
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