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No Rob, The speaker sits sideways in the bottom behind the slats, There is also a switch and a light on the bottom shelf and it was factory installed as it plugs into the tv chassis.
I got an Admiral 30A1 with the later 14" tube and bezel converson, The deForest Sanabria and the Zenith 9-S-262 from the same house in Harper Woods, About 4 miles from me.
It was from the ad I put in the paper a couple months ago, The lady kept the number then finally called me!
Funny thing is, I almost didn't go there after cancelling the first time, The way she described the items and the lack of brand names left me thinking the stuff was much newer! Her mother passed away in the nineties and the house has been sitting empty since, Lots of cool old stuff in there, even a Wurlitzer from around 1938 (looks like a 616) She said it came from the Belle Isle Casino along with a really huge and old looking pool table.
I should have taken pics, As that basement was huge and still has a lot of stuff. They are going to clean it out this week and paint it as the house is up for sale.
Oh, I just checked the tubes for date codes, There are a few with an early to mid 1955 date code. Looks like this set was built by a small company, All the tubes are mixed brands with none of them bearing the name american tv or deForest-sanabria. Also, The front of the set is void of any labels or decals for the controls and looks like none were ever put there. As far as the chassis, It looks like a standard layout used in the mid fifties. The 6AX4 Damper has gone to air and possibly the reason why the back and hv cage were laying next to the set. The back is curved at a 45 degree angle now as it sat against the basement wall for 30 years!
Last edited by captainmoody; 08-05-2003 at 06:57 AM.
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