While restoring an Admiral 30A12, I ran into some issues and wasn't sure if was normal behavior or something wrong. So, since I have several other sets with the same chassis I decided to quickly restore another. I say quickly because I gain a lot of experience while working on that 30A12.
First, here's a look at it when I first brought it home. It was a cheap, local craigslist find.
I pulled the chassis out for transportation. Good thing too since all but one of the mounting bolts were gone.
This is a 10" model in Mahogany cabinet from 1948.
Ugh, that's going to take some work.
Nasty chassis that had been home to some rodentia.
The lower chassis had seen better days too.
Inside and back together. At least I have all the knobs and the CRT is good.
