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Old 09-05-2011, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by old_coot88 View Post
Yeah if the base were intact that would be true. But there looks to be a BIG chunk broken out and missing, and the resultant gap rather sloppily filled in with epoxy. 'Least that's the way it appears to my enfeebled eyeballs.
Yes, indeed there is a big chunk of base missing and the epoxy was slopped in. I did some more work on the set and have a better picture. So, for now I'll just leave the old CRT in there.

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Originally Posted by Zenith26kc20 View Post
I noticed that your Admiral in one of the pictures has the picture off center. Mine is like that too. My focus/centering coil is all the way and, it will fill the screen but still is off to the left. Are you able to get decent centering or is this a trait of these TV's?
Yes, I have a pretty good centering range with the lever. The horizontal centering is also effected by the hor. drive, hor. lock and hor. sync.

I found a few out of spec resistors in the hor. oscillator circuit and just replaced them all. That threw the oscillator off a bit so I went through the adjustment instructions in the service manual. When I finished with all that, here's what I got. The horizontal linearity isn't perfect, but overall not too bad I think.

First picture is from my Leader LCG-400, then a local low power OTA VHF transmission. Last two are from a converter box.




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Originally Posted by Red Raster View Post
What a nice clean chasis and what luck my 12X1 looks the same.
Not so clean topside This set came from Florida and I suspect the humid air contributed to this rust. I'm going to tackle it with some naval jelly then paint the worst areas to keep it at bay.
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