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Old 05-10-2013, 10:56 PM
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I replaced the fried resistor, cleaned the tuner, replaced a weak 6SN7 vertical oscillator tube and made a crude repair to the broken fuse holder.

These old Admiral sets used and odd fuse size. It's the same diameter as modern fuses but they were shorter.
Someone jammed a full sized fuse in there and broke the mounting. I'd like to find a source of these shorter fuses, but I don't think they are made anymore.


This crumbling power resistor still tests OK, but I plan on replacing it.


Those tweaks definitely helped. I now get clear reception through channel 3 and better vertical height.
I just realized the image is much too wide though. This set has a rectangular mask and a lot of this image will get cut off.
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