Here are some better pics of the '66 Admiral console. I got the new thermal breaker installed and thats good. Cleaned up the chassis. Need to align the VHF tuner though. After some trouble shooting, the IF strip appeared to be OK and alignment was good. The photofacts do not give you tuner alignment info, so I need to send it out to louis stangle at QTS in Texas.
Someone spilled some kind of fluid and it splashed all over the front of the TV. Looked like grape juice or some kind of soft drink. The only way to effectively clean that was to disassemble the entire TV including the CRT. That way I could actually wash the front escutcheon. Fortunately, all of the drink came off simply with water, didnt even need to scrub it. It was all over the speaker grille, around the CRT, so you couldnt clean it too well with everything in place. disassembly was the only answer to effectively get it all off without the fear of getting the speaker wet and water running down past the CRT escutcheon.

It cleaned up well and the drink didnt stain anything.

Anyway, its all back together for now. The picture is OK, but do not have proper picture/sound tracking due to a misaligned tuner. with a tuner subber, the picture is perfect. The set still has its original flyback and it looks like a big blob of tar. I understand these original admiral flybacks were notorious for failure and dripping wax on carpeting through the ventilation screen under the set.

When I pulled the CRT out, I noticed it was a replacement from october, 1970 and is an Admiral tube with an Admiral EIA number. It replaced the infamous 23EGP22 that was orignally equipped in this set.

Note the tag on back of the set. I like seeing these kinds of things. The manufacturer wanted the customer to be satisfied and confident with their product. Something that is long gone now. This admiral is a very well built set, and a very nice solid cabinet. Also note the dual horizontal 6JM6 outputs. The good news is, the 6JM6 is only worth about $5.00 on ebay. Cathode current of a single 6JM6 is 125mA.

Great job Doug, thanks for sharing! That chassis looks almost the same as the 3G11, it's a pleasure to work on in my opinion. Did you have to replace the primary wire on the 6JM6s? It looks like new, mine fell apart the first time I disturbed it, had to make a new one, anode too. And you're right about that wax, the HV tube socket was full of it so I replaced the socket with a new one just to be sure of a good connection. Do you think it would be OK to just give the questionable spots of the fly a coating of low acid silicone? I really don't want to disturb it too much. Enough about my problems, That is a great set Doug, I'd really like to see the picture once you get that tuner fixed. If the picture looks half as good as the whole set, you couldn't ask for much more!:thmbsp:
Mark

Those Admirals just ooze character! The color 25 emblem is a great touch.

Those Admirals just ooze character! The color 25 emblem is a great touch.

Yes they do and yes it is! I love that set!!!:smsex:

our admiral roundie 21" had the same color emblem on the control door. it also had a chassis close to yours with the dual output tubes. i would love to have it back or find another but that probley wont ever happen. you just dont see many old admiral color sets now. steve

Doug -

Great looking set!

Re: your tuner - I have a service manual for chassis H12 and 1H12, which looks similar to yours, but with a single HO tube. It mentions Admiral service manual S1007A for non-power-tuning models. Don't know if this helps or where you could get a copy...

-Jim

I have some Admiral books...I'll check for that number, just might get lucky.

That's a real nice looking Admiral! Admiral is one of the brands that I didn't see too much of around here during the '90's. I saw more Motorola's than Admiral's. You may want to go ahead and contact QTS if you feel like you need to get that tuner rebuilt. I talked to them a few months ago and business wasn't that great. I don't know if PTS still rebuilds these older tuners. Anyway, their prices seem a little high to me.