[tvcollector]

I picked up an old Admiral console locally from an ad, i get it home and plugged it in and turned it on, and noticed the tubes lit up, and the high pitch noise, like any other crt noise, so i guess the flyback was getting HV, and i noticed a transformer humming noise, i was playing with the volume, and there was a little crackle, like a dirty control, no sound like a station not being picked up, and the picture didn't come on, and i noticed the CRT tube didn't lite up.. All of a sudden i heard a loud explosion, like air coming out of something, and a burst of white smoke that filled up the room for the most part, and a weird smell like a damp type smoke, looked like it was coming from under the chassis, near where the power transformer is.. I looked under there and could not see anything that looked like it got fried. and none of the tubes looked like they exploded. All i know is that i unplugged the damn thing right after.. I wonder what did this? anyone have a clue?


When i looked at the chassis, i saw all the paper caps still there and the huge original electrolytics.. I hope it was something replaceable that blew up..