I just discovered this channel a few days ago and I am hooked! I swear this is what I would be doing if I had been better with math and electronics. I love collecting old vintage televisions and audio equipment! The oldest I own is a 30's General Electric console radio, and a early 60's Westinghouse Jetset. I wish I had some of your 50's beauties! Keep up the good work. You have taught me a bunch already!

I am amazed at your comfort level at poking around a high voltage section - but clearly you know what you are doing! Great save of a unique TV set. Thanks for sharing and entertaining me.

The fact this was once considered portable is insane these days

Model number tags on this vintage sets often on the BOTTOM, ( RCA, Admiral, Westinghouse ) & some others. Chassis ## when used is better to have. Inked or tagged on chassis as a rule. Was a Zenith-Admiral dealer for many yrs. These were good sets, better than the newer Admirals. BTW if you want to do a hand wired set try a Zenith @1960 or newer. Easy to fix & they are almost immortal. Well done Jack ! LFOD !

When I was a kid in the 70’s I used to always repair televisions, toasters, vacuums and other appliances. Today I am 62 yrs old and cannot remember one thing about repairing tv’s. I’ve got a 65” tv that the backlights are out on and am afraid to take the repair on myself. Keep up the great work but in the future, please make sure you start off with a clean screen, it really helps. I used to clean appliances perfectly before I worked on them.

What a difference between this Admiral and Philco Seventeener. You can tell which one came first by the design ( Philco) as this Admiral seems to have a more logical placement of the insides of the chassis and much more easier to remove from the cabinet! Of course it has a couple more inches of picture tube than the Philco and Philco will fight back on that. Should be a dream to restore the components compared to the Philco equivalent. Tuners are fussy in Admiral's and perplexed my hobbyist repairman Grandpa many times back in the 1970s.

Fun to watch you work the problems out. Mine is the 17 inch model, red colored shell. It's built exactly like yours. Just having some vert. sync issues, I'm still determined to dive in someday.

That Admiral portable is from the mid to late 60's

Great project! Very few left around. Since it doesn't have an evil brightener installed you may be able to get some life out of the bulb by a "cleaning" with the proper tester. A later Sencore or B&K or Beltron might spark it to more useful life. If the cathode had been baked with a brightener, probably not.

I like this set good picture,,

Nice looking model, the restoration turned out pretty good. Just talking to my buddy about AV signals and I was under the false impression Composite was completely different than RF but he informed me it contains some properties of RF too. Mainly I'm kind of anti-RF because it tended to add noise where there shouldn't be any Ie. the signal coming from devices directly connected to the TV not having to "broadcast" so to speak. So the tuner being an obstacle to better picture fidelity would fall under that. Funny coincidence, that's one of the movies me and my buddy saw together bitd.🙂

The 'static' you're referring to is just the NTSC colorburst, known as 'dot crawl' because the set is pre-colour and doesn't have a filter to suppress that. You get more sharpness out of the picture but at the expense of the dot crawl being visible.

I had a Magnovox that looked the same. That thing had a fantastic CRT.

Amazing work!

The good old days channel 3 would be Channel 2... Channel 1 was Channel 7...that was weird... Then the the Air and Marine VHF would be on Channel 7.....FM Radio on Channel 6....then HBO or ONTV would be on Channel 13.. when fined tuned...it was fun to see U can get!!!

Amazing work. Like what you're doing here. I have a few CRTs but nothing this old (2000s) or B&W.

I remember seeing a TV set like this when I was a kid...at my grandma's house...it was a black and white type like this one...I remember we use to get stations U would not get on the basic 12 channel Tuner....I remember seeing Channel 1 on the dial...then U was UHF....U would preset the Channel..U wanted..like..we had Channel 28.for PBS...it was only one or two UHF stations...at the time... sometimes we would have one Network Station from San Diego like KCST on Channel 39 for ABC...then Later we a 83 Channel TV set in the late 1960s and Color the 1970s

My Folks Had A 13 Inch Admerol & They Had It For A Longtime. Those Old Black & White Sets Last For Ever, Nothing Last's Nowadays. It's Just Like Cars They Last For 2 Years Then They Go To Hell.

Would like to see some classic television on that set at the end. Do these have a Coax on the back?

Tuner out of adjustment maybe?

Some people sand these chassises and polish it with same color gloss to turn it into brand new !

I would buy that from you

Dose the earthy antenna station work till now in good broadcast !

what tester you used?

it looks like one shango066 got running after a lot of trouble.

Nice videos what happened to some of your older ones

HELLO LOVE ADMIRAL TV , BRAZIL THANK

I've got a free GE 430 AA5 I recapped that works until it gets really hot and then the sound fades out that I need restored. I also just found a free GE 202 six tube radio I'd like restored. Tubes and dial light lights up but I haven't done anything to it yet. Got a bad ass TS100 and can solder like a boss but not while blind. I guess I browse the Radio Attic forums or something to find someone interested? Radio is dead and I just look up music with KZfaq or ask Alexa. I'm just curious to see how many more stations... I'd pick up with.. one more tube. That grandfathered flamethrower out of Nashville is the only station that plays any music. Now that broadcast TV moved to digital TV some 15 years ago, you're not even going to be able to pick up any stations with this thing are you... sad but true. Maybe hook it up to a 2600 or Vic-20

nice TV, it's not from 1959, it's from 1960

Don't you realize that filming like this helmet camera produces unbearable moving images? You could at least cut the worst in editing, well, if there's editing.