[drh4683]

A box was on my doorstep when I got home this evening and this is it! The guy packed it very well, made it in one peice. This a very impressive radio to say the least. Its built very solid, its case is completely metal, with grey crinkle finish paint giving it a very robust quality look. This must have been as case of the executives at Admiral ordering their engineers to create the best product they know how to beat out their neighbors. The radio works excellent and does come with its original Admiral AC adapter. The power supply caps are shot, the radio hums terribly on AC as well. With battery power, the radio performs flawlessly. While I have not compared it to a TO side by side, I do think this radio might be more sensitive than the TO. Its extremely sensitive on SW picking up all sorts of stations with good selectivity and is a very hot AM DX'er. I was pleasantly impressed with how this thing performs, not to mention how nice it sounds. FM also works extremely well which is usually a short coming on 60's radios. Aside from 46 years of exterior dirt build up on the case, I'd say it will clean up like new. It was never serviced and the guy who owned it never hacked it up. Factory fresh inside yet. Of course the date stamp year has to be smudged, but it appears the radio was built on October 1, 1965. Parts are dated 1965 in the radio as well. The antenna mast alone is close to 3/4" OD at the lower section. It'll be an interesting one to take apart and clean and recap. I need to study how they got the chassis in there, the panels on the side look like they snap on the case frame which cover the chassis mounting screws. I'll also need to reglue the front metal nameplate as it basically fell off once I unpacked it. I don't think the radio got used since about 1978, or thats the last time someone put batteries in it. It had Quasar batteries with 78-03 date codes on them but they didn't leak too bad so no damage done to the battery box.
Its a very nice quality unit, aside from some original nichicon capacitors, this radio is all American parts. I'll eventually put some new sprague atom caps in there, so it'll have more American parts when I'm done fixing it than when it was new...