mid-sixties Emerson 19" b/w

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I bought this set off of a tv collector locally. It is a rebadged Admiral tube chassis around '65-'66. In addition to a thorough cleaning, this one didn't need much. New tuner tubes make some big difference! Also, the printed board was dodgy underneath the horizontal output tube so I reworked a bunch of connections there. It is a fantastic performer with a strong crt and great DC resto. The CRT is a Dumont brand(Emerson bought DuMont at some point) and the rest is made by Admiral Chicago. It is very similar to my 19" "all-channel" tube 19" Admiral set which I lost in hurricane sandy. I like the coaxial-style uhf tuning scheme on this one.
It was likely a cheap set in its day, but all these years later the pics speak for themselves(with original filter cans in the p.s.u. and mostly original tubes).
Using my laptop camera, the pics came out very fuzzy. In reality the raster is quite sharp.