Neat little set Charlie, early 60's I'm pretty sure. Never seen one with the stand before, is that custom to that set?

I've got one of these in black, but not that cool stand! One way to sort of date it is that later models got nuvistors. (mine doesn't) Mine works pretty well but for an arcing hv that I need to track down.

I have a couple of those from the TV shop in Athens. One is missing a knob just as this one is.

No stand though.

Once I get the back off, I'm sure i'll find a number to look up the sams.

The stand bolts into the side of the cabinet, so, it allows the tv to tilt up and down. You can actually turn the tv upside down. Probably not a good idea while trying to watch your favorite show. :no:

Not as crazy as it sounds, if you also flip the deflection yolk, or the horizontal wires and the vertical wires, to right the picture when the set is "upsidedown". Then the set becomes a left handed set, with the controls positioned for the convenience of soufpaws (left handed people). This assumes a reasonable "top" to the flipped over cabinet. Not just lots of vents like most sets' cabinets have.

These sets were designed this way so that they could be sold in Australia too :naughty: :lmao:

Anthony

Not Mine, but drool-worthy
 

Two mint, never used 1953 Philcos.

Yow

Linky

Man! Who's got those babies? Talk about an undisturbed time-capsule!

Fess up, that's photoshopped! LOL Really, that's too cool! What's the story behind them?

Anthony

They are from this site: http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~postr/MRT/misc.htm

This was discussed on the Antique Radio Forum recently http://antiqueradios.com/forums/Forum6/HTML/001696.html

He no longer owns the sets but they were found in a closed up TV store some time back.

I have been to this museum...it's in an old school house in Huntington, West Virginia...it has a wide variety of stuff including TV, old radio, broadcast equipment. It seems odd that a museum would sell something unless a private owner merely had these sets on loan to the museum and chose to sell them.

Or unless they either really needed the money or were made an offer they couldn't refuse (visions of a horsehead sticking out of a Predicta)

Anthony

I stop in the museum when I get out that way, one of the better ones I've seen. One time I was in there they had an RCA that I think was a projection set, kinda rough shape, and there always seems to be a pile of stuff in the front room (the old gym) that I think is saved up for an auction, not sure if its yearly or? Last time I was there one of the new things in the tv display room was a CTC-11. It would seem like they would have saved one of these for the museum to display.

Maybe they are a "museum" in the same sense as a certain radio "museum" in St. Louis. :scratch2:

Found a nice little admiral 19" last week.
 

It is from 1960, sams #506,and is chassis #15e1. It is a cold chassis, with a 5u4, mounted ABOVE the transformer, on a little shelf, not attached to the transformer itself(guess this was done for beter heat dissipation). The chassis is pretty nice, with 14 tubes plus the CRT. It is in real good shape, with all knobs in place, but missing the antenna.

The cabinet is metal,kind of a tan color, wit a silverish front. and there is no UHF, and does not appear an option for it.


I took it in the house, gave it a while to warm up, and opened it up. after some preliminary checks, I decided to "fire 'er up".

SHE LIVES! I have a crt, that is in quite good shape, and not the original(it has an RCA silverama tube I am not sure if it has a date code of 64 or 66, 'cause I think the number I saw was "646something"

I have a decent picture, and pretty good reception. fly is good, and does not get hot after 10 min.or so. The caps are marginal, as the vertical started creeping up from the bottom, after about an hour(proabbly the cathode bypass cap).

All in all, it is a good find. Best off, the price was right-- FREE! A garbage find, right on my own street. I ALMOST missed it, it was between a garbage can, and another bag, and looked from the side to be a box. But somethng kept telling me it was not, so ,I went back to check, and saw the knobs on the side. At first ,it looked like a Zenith, then, after I got it home, I discovered It was an Admiral. No matter.

This is the second week in a row, i have found an old tv, near my house, in my own neighborhood, and it has been a LONG time, since I found much of ANYTHING, in this area.(see my thread on the Sony kv-9000, to find out about tonight's find) And, this was ONE house down, from where I found the MR-71 tuner, 3 years ago, that I sold on the bay, for $600, that same year.


I took a couple of pictures, but I still have to reload my camera software into my computer, after my loss of my hard drive, earlier this month. I'll get them up, soon.