[rca2000]

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.