An Admiral 26X56A followed me home...

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I stumbled across a craigslist listing for this set for $70 but wasn't really all that interested.
A few days later though I was giving a friend a lift that would take us right by it so I arranged a visit with the seller.

It turned out the set had passed down through the family and had been fairly well looked after. That is except for the control door of course
He remembered watching the set as a child and said one day the picture shrunk down to a small white dot and they retired it to the basement.

I had brought along my B&K 440 to test the CRT and the seller had no issues with me popping off the back and hooking it up. We waited about 10 minutes and it was reading 0 emissions. I cranked it up to 7 VAC on the filament and it just barely improved. While we were waiting, I mentioned the broken control door and the difficulty in finding replacement picture tubes - especially a 16GP4.

He was selling the house and was very motivated to get rid of this and some other stuff and said I could have it for $20.
Before I could even respond he said just take it for free. I think he was happy having it go to someone that would at least attempt to resurrect it.

So I brought it home along with this XRay tube lamp his father had made.


Packed face down for the ride home.


Here it is on my back porch. I do have all the knobs.


Looks to be in good shape inside.


He's also selling this stove. If anyone is interested, let me know and I can put you in touch.