Rescued a Admiral B&W set today
 

Hey all, my local antique store had a 50/60's admiral b&w set chassis c24m21, the tag on the front said "will make a great craft project. Dog bed? Bar? etc. well today is %50 off sale and i'm looking at the set thinking what is probably going to happen to it. So i ask the guy if i can plug it in, he does and i can see some light and static on the speaker. long story short $24 and i get it home and a few little adjustments........... anybody crave one of these? had one as a kid etc. I didn't want it turned into a useless fad object.
OOps i think should have gone in the rectangular tube tv section.

Good save!

I am glad you saved it!!!

I think you did the best craft project of all: "TV restoration". (-:

If you can make the ETF meet there are folks that like working TVs.

That is a screaming mid-'60's console TV. Very nice. It looks like a TV right off the set of Bewitched! :)

Bewitched had a rectangular color but if you have seen the show the tag which shows the make is never on it. And that show was running when there were lots of roundys, but chose the rectangular sets.

Hey again, don't think i can make it to the ETF. I'm kinda a home body. lol I'm secretly hoping our local radio club "music city vintage radio club" will branch out into tv sets one day.
I googled the chassis number and Radiomuseum com/org whatever says it is from 1960. there is one bad thing with this set, it has a tube brightner on it and is extremely dim without it hooked up. i don't suppose anyone has a bright 23gp4 lying around?
I did find a old advertisement on newspapers.com from Mar 61 where this model was on sale for $229 in Texas, must have been a close out sale.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/61749968/

Thank you, but i haven't replaced a single part on it. I knew it was probably going to be gutted, that is why i risked a full powerup to make a snap judgement. I would never do this to a color roundie or a historically significant TV set. I'm amazed it didn't release magic smoke. I just think it has the will to live! well that and the fact it was made in Murica!:banana:

"A few little adjustments" count as restoration work to me. You saved it from the destroyers, that is the important job.

Our radio club has one meet during the summer where TV's are included.
The CRT can be rejuvenated probably just once. I might wake up a little more.

Well, not really. We did try that at one of our July swap meets a few years back. (I brought over 70 TV sets, selling about a third of them, mostly at less than I originally paid for them.) Unfortunately there were not a lot of sales from the other TV sellers. Those that did bring sets mostly overpriced them for this market, leading to complaints from sellers that the buyers didn't want to pay their prices, and from buyers that said they could find sets cheaper elsewhere. I think most wanted to see what would happen, but by not bringing anything along themselves, yet expecting everyone else to bring stuff, they spoiled it. However, as you have noticed, our WARCI club must have about 10 members that are also on ARF & VK as TV collectors. And bringing TVs is welcome at any of our WARCI events. The only restriction is that we don't want TVs placed in the donation auction at the end of our swap meets, because if not taken, we must pay to have them recycled.

www.warci.org

Some of the TVs at the WARCI TV meet, July 20, 2014.

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WOW!!! I wish I WAS there!!! So many cool televisions!!!

Then make it so!

I've seen plenty of radio meets from various clubs were a radio vendor has a vintage TV or two in the mix. I don't think I've ever seen a radio meet where a mix of actual radios and non-radio (but tangentially related items like TV HiFi, literature etc) items was not welcome. Most clubs allow/get a nice (sometimes astounding) diversity of ephemera in their swapmeets. :thmbsp:


It is not uncommon for me to drag TVs to meets...Even did that at the last WARCI meet.

Beautiful pictures of beautiful TV's.
Thanks.

I wish we had swap meets like that in Aus. Very slim pickings here WRT vintage TV.

If only we could take our sets on a cross-country tour like a circus, my area sucks for buyers, so I get all bargains when they show up on CL or free at the curb. My nearest TV-collecting friends are in neighboring states of Maryland, Virginia, New York and Jersey of course.

I take TVs to my local 2x a year radio swap meet and sometimes I actually sell one. Some stand holders have a couple of TVs that are way more collectible but I bring the most:sigh:

That Admiral is exactly the kind of TV I love to add to my collection, though some here prefer table-top post war sets.

I hear ya! Here we have no clubs, no swap meets, no nothing. If I had been at that event all the photos are from I would have wound up having to bring a container back to Barcelona and some explaining to do once it got here. Our only real options are "vintage" websites and ebay, both of which are populated by sellers who want 450€ for early-70s junk, and the occasional old tube sets.

Sometimes I wonder if it would be worth trying to start a Europe-wide meet once a year or something...

I wonder what European club this fellow is bragging about..." I went to a special meeting of a radio club in central Europe in 2007 and true they had 3,890 members and it was nothing for 600 to 700 + to turn up to a meeting!"

That was a quote from this thread on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816...1740462092388/

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Here are a couple pictures of sets I sold on Craigslist a few years back, just to make some room. More than half of them were working.

http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...1&d=1519483172

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Beautiful!

Soooo jealous!!