Admiral Roundie rescue in Gallatin today
 

On my way to pay rent to the landlord, I see a pile of furniture under a awning of a mom and pop auto parts place. i instantly recognize a console tv set sitting there. had to stop and look and it is a Admiral color roundie. Since it was Sunday when i saw it and they were closed, I remembered the name and gave them a call Monday, they said the owners mother had passed away and it was hers, they asked me if i wanted it. Duh! I was able to get it home today, but it will take a few hours before my neighbor gets home and he can help me get it out of the wagen so i can take pictures of it. The chassis number is 23d1163 or a 23dw63 its hard to tell they blurred the number at the factory. the cabinet model is LD2179D
Logan

Cool! Can't wait to see pics. I love it when they turn up out of nowhere like that. Lucky dog!

Here are the first few pics, It has a 21fjp22 crt

Nice! And the price was right. It's still amazing how a set this old can still turn up that way outside in a pile of unwanted furniture. Great save, keep us posted.

Gilbert

Hi,

Nice save! More deluxe than the old Admiral Roundie my grandmother used to own. Ours was an early model and had a fairly nice picture. It was prone to needing service rather often. I wish it hadn't been thrown out. I could have revived it with a proper restoration. I do have a similar model which I did restore. After dealing with electrolytics and a few bad tubes and a Hawkeye CRT rebuild, it has been reliable.

what brand crt is in the set. someone mentioned their admiral had a dumont in it. our first color set was an admiral roundie was a great set but it was in a cheap looking cabinet i love your french looking cabinet. great score. steve

Congratulations ! That is a nice set. Love that cabinet style. If only I could find a Roundie in the trash or at a Goodwill.

The crt actually has Admiral printed on the bell, Is there a code number or something that points towards the actual crt manufacturer?
I slowly brought the set up on a variac with a amp meter and there is audio hiss but no HV and the crt filaments do light up. cross your fingers for me as i dig deeper into this beast. Logan

WOW nice find, and a reverse chassis too boot, the transformer is on the wrong side. :D Is the cabinet Blonde, or that pickeled oak finish???

I believe another member on here has the same model set but with tambor style doors that cover the front. His produced a very nice picture and was found in a simial way to yours. Cant wait to see this one up and going. Nice find!
-Tony

Very nice find! I hope the CRT is good!

Good news and bad news on the roundie, Bad news is the nylon tuning shaft for the UHF knob has broken off, I turned the knob normally " i'm not a gorilla" and it sheared right off. The good news after some slow variacing, and cleaning some connectors..... I have first light!! It's dim and a little bit purple but there is almost a discernible image. Yeah!!! Logan
P.S. i think the wood finish is a Pickled Oak.

Nice!!!! I love that model. It has the "backwards chassis" That thing should restore beautifully, I hope you can find a tuning shaft or fix the old one. rcaman, that was me who has a Dumont in their Admiral. Mine is a '65 with the 3-G11 chassis. Yours looks like a late '63 or a '64. Careful with that convergence yoke, that is the kind that is super easy to break. Great save Logan!!

I've seen lots of ads for the Admirals with that control panel but never seen a set in person. This looks like the same chassis as my T1000. (mine is the cheapest of the cheap) I was just tinkering with mine this week, trying to figure out a HV problem. Although it is a 'reverse' chassis, they took lots of cues from RCA. Not hard to work on. Great find!

if that tuning shaft is like an rca,then i have several.good looking set-cabinet looks similiar to my 15.hope that crt is good.admiral made a decent set back then and yours looks unmolested.not like the stuff we been finding lately.great find and save!!!