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Hi John, it's a 7140M and a 17BP4.
I'd appreciate the service info but there's no hurry at all, I still have a Philco Projection set and a Westinghouse to finish before I can start anything else.
I pulled the chassis tonight so I can wrestle the cabinet into the house tomorrow, it's really a small set as consoles go.
Funny thing, the back section of the chassis is apparently unplated and is fine, the front section has a severe case of green Cadmium corrosion!
I'll have to use Naval Jelly (plus gloves and a mask) to remove it, I really don't want to remove that writing on the front though so it'll be a bit tricky in that area.
While I was out in the garage I decided to at least check the CRT's in the other two sets.
The Admiral checked absolutely dead, not a thing even at 8 volts.
I thought that a little unlikely so decided to plug the set in and see what happened and it came on without exploding.
The Horiz was way off because someone had pushed the cover against the adjuster stem and pushed it all the way in, a few turns out and it seemed to lock in.
The brightness is fairly decent so I think my adapter for the small neck tubes may be faulty.
Everything works on the set, the radio and even the turntable, it had a record on it and it sounded fine, a little sluggish but amazing it worked at all.
Next I looked at the Magnavox, Ugh, white Zinc? corrosion on every metal surface.
The tube tester probably wouldn't work on this one either so I plugged it in, after a few seconds something went pow in the back, sounded like a short burning out so I shut it down and gave up on it for now.
It's a low end Model, cheap cabinet, non remote, not very attractive really, if the (24") tube is bad it'll go to the Thrift Store.
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