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Originally Posted by jr_tech
I'm surprised to see the pencil box door missing so early in the life of the earlier (1950) Admiral... as we find them today, the door is usually gone, but apparently the doors were taken off or broke off when the sets were fairly new.
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Take it from someone who has been alive long enough to remember when such sets were in regular use ;
Even when only a few years old TVs of that time weren't anything close to today's "set it and forget it" affair , and the controls had to be regularly tweaked as the set ran to keep things on track . The hidden controls thing may have looked all futuristic and all , but weren't very practical and most folks quickly tired of opening and closing that damned little door every time the picture needed to be made to stop rolling (the #1 drift adjustment) or to adjust brightness & contrast as it seemed each different TV show was filmed in different enough of locations to require setting the picture right when changing channels .