I'll have a little more free time after next week, so I'm hoping to fix this set this summer (along with that partially rewired Philco 39-116 chassis sitting next to it in the pic). I've always liked the look of this Admiral.
I have the knobs, but not the back. The cabinet has 1 crack in the bottom I'm going to have to glue back together. And I don't really like that someone drilled a hole in the front to put an earphone jack, but I think I'm going to wind up just leaving it. I could fill the hole, but the only way it would look good is if I then painted the cabinet, which I don't really want to do.
It looks like they never made a sams for the 17T1 chassis. But I did find a schematic for it here:
http://www.earlytelevision.org/pdf/a...1_telaides.pdf I also have the sams for the 19A1 chassis which looks very similar.