help with an admiral

[pugs5061]

Hi Jamie,
David is exactly right. You need to go through the paper and Electrolyte capacitors first. I would find out if your Grampa had a CRT tester also. That is how you find out if the picture tube is good. This test can be done at anytime with or without the chassis in one piece but most people check them before anything else because of the expense of replacing it if it is bad. If you don't have access to a CRT tester they are quite prevalent and not too much $$. Back to the capacitors, at 55 years old, experience has told us that many of them are bad just due to age. The capacitors either leak and go out of tolerance or dry up and go out of tolerance(you can't necessarilly see this). Testing them is really not that realistic because you need to take them out of the circuit to do this. If you are going to take the time to do this why even bother when 1) It would probably take more time than replacing them at that point. 2) Even if they are good they can go bad as soon as voltages hit them. 3) New ones run from 30 cents to $1.00. (not Electrolytes but there are very few of them) 4) If they go bad later it can cause other major components to go bad also costing $$ and making troubleshooting much more difficult.
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