Admiral Regent/C322C2 Score! - Videokarma.org TV - Video

SwizzyMan · #1 08-03-2017, 01:07 PM

Started to remove the layers of dust in the CRT areas. Set is confirmed to be from from 56' due to matching tube dates on the hv tubes and the crt. Chassis seems about 95% original. Flyback primaries ohm out good.

SwizzyMan · #2 08-03-2017, 01:18 PM

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zeno · #3 08-03-2017, 02:10 PM

Fantastic find ! You da man

After the filter cans take it slow. Get a raster up THEN slowly recap
starting with problem areas. Sry you know the drill......

73 Zeno

LFOD !

Findm-Keepm · #4 08-03-2017, 02:23 PM

Very nice. And if you save those bumble bee pulls and sell them on eBay, you might just pay for the set......

http://www.ebay.com/itm/585-Sprague-...p2047675.l2557

Those audiophiles....

SwizzyMan · #5 08-03-2017, 05:33 PM

Continued to clean the set up. Let's do the safety glass next. I am pleased with how it came out. There is so much dust built up in this set!

Radiotronman · #6 08-03-2017, 06:53 PM

Awesome rare set. It almost looks like it's a console, missing the legs. Can't wait to see the restoration in this set! I'm still trying to finish my RCA Westcott like yours.

SwizzyMan · #7 08-03-2017, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Radiotronman

Awesome rare set. It almost looks like it's a console, missing the legs. Can't wait to see the restoration in this set! I'm still trying to finish my RCA Westcott like yours.

It is indeed a consolette. It was missing its legs so I bought a set of highboy legs for it. I will probably have to stain the legs though as they are not quite the right shade of mahogany.

walterbeers · #8 08-06-2017, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm

Very nice. And if you save those bumble bee pulls and sell them on eBay, you might just pay for the set......

http://www.ebay.com/itm/585-Sprague-...p2047675.l2557

Those audiophiles....

Gee $50-$100 for bumble bee and wax caps? Most always they are bad, leaky, or way off value. When I get a TV or radio with those in it I replace them with modern types. Gosh I have thrown tons of those away. I should have saved them and became rich!

Robert Grant · #9 08-09-2017, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by walterbeers

Gee $50-$100 for bumble bee and wax caps? Most always they are bad, leaky, or way off value. When I get a TV or radio with those in it I replace them with modern types. Gosh I have thrown tons of those away. I should have saved them and became rich!

I had been watching a TV show a few years back, about people who use vintage electric guitar amplifiers.
They showed someone wanting to sell some amplifiers, and the buyers were interested, but demanded they be allowed to open the amplifiers to check the electronics inside.
When they opened them up, metal can (w/plastic cover) lytics were revealed. The prospective buyers refused to buy the amplifiers at any price, protesting that only paper lytics gave "The sound"!

Don't they know they can get "The sound" back by running a line from the power cord, through a resistor, to the grids of the input tubes?

Anyone who invested their money into a McIntosh, Scott or Fender amplifier "back in the day" certainly didn't want "The sound" A 60Hz buzz. There's a sucker born every minute!