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Old 12-16-2017, 10:40 PM
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1963 Admiral

I bought the set from this thread. Many thanks to Kevin for posting the link in the curbside as I surely would not have seen it otherwise. I contacted the seller, Craig, back on December 1st and agreed to buy the set, but school prevented me from picking it up until today. It was about a 45 minute drive each way, but definitely worth it because I got to see some interesting items in his collection. He has a functional late-1940s Motorola VK-101M tv which he demonstrated. A set from this period is not a common sight around here, seeing as how it predates the first tv station to go on the air in the state by several years.

As far as the Admiral, he tested the CRT for me with his B&K and the results were ok but not great. The emissions for blue and red were midway into the good range, but green was down near the threshold between good and bad. It will be interesting to see what the Beltron has to say about this tube, but I suspect it still has some waking up to do. This one has the bonded safety glass so it will need to have the cataract removed. I did notice the CRT is an Admiral-branded 21FJP22 with a late-1963 date code, so it is very possibly original to this set. I haven't looked closely but at quick glance the chassis is also full of Admiral tubes so who knows, maybe this set didn't see much use. The cabinet is nothing special, basically just a veneered wooden box. The finish is in nice shape with minor signs of wear, nothing too serious. I do have the legs and back cover. Overall this thing needs to be thoroughly cleaned, inside and out.

It's also worth sharing the story Craig told me about how he got this set in the first place... He was on a road trip and spotted the tv on the side of I-70 in East St. Louis, Illinois. He was going highway speed when he passed it, but immediately knew what this thing was because of the CRT cataract. He told me these sets are too new to be of interest to him personally, but he thought someone might want it so he went back and saved it. And this only happened about three weeks ago. These things are still being thrown away in 2017. Unreal.

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