Scored an Admiral 19A11

[Crist Rigott]

I'm starting on the cabinet now. I remember reading somewhere what it takes to remove the channel plate that is usually warped. Can anybody point me to where I read that? I don't want to break that Channel number plate!
Thanks.

[Crist Rigott]

I got the channel plate off with no problems.

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by Crist Rigott

I got the channel plate off with no problems.

You're daring! I never had the nerve to pry one off. I adjusted my tuner by simply taking the chassis out.

[Crist Rigott]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

You're daring! I never had the nerve to pry one off. I adjusted my tuner by simply taking the chassis out.

What I did was to use a 3/16 dowel and a small hammer to "drift" it out from the inside. Tapping lightly on each "pin" and move it a little at a time. No prying. 2 of the brass retainers stayed in the cabinet. I used my flush cutter to get them out from the front side.

[Crist Rigott]

I've cleaned and polished the cabinet. Then I refilled the lettering on the front of the cabinet like Bob did on his video. I used some satin acrylic paint from Walmart and it turned out pretty good. Then I got to thinking that he used white on his black cabinet and I also used white on my brown cabinet. Looking at it now, I'm thinking I should have used perhaps a light tan or Khaki color. I scrapped the lines on the Channel Plate and they stayed a Khaki color. What color did Admiral use on their brown cabinets?

[decojoe67]

I looked closely at my original brown example and it looks like the lettering is a cream color rather than stark white. I would say redoing all the lettering in stark white would be acceptable though.
It seems the white dots on the channel plate must've been molding injection marks that were just filled along with the lettering at the factory.