Admiral roundie find
 

Funny thing happened on the way to the TV convention. I found this Admiral roundie for $20 at a thrift store. It is a RCA CTC 11 clone set. I would put it at 1961 for a year. The 21FBP22 in this set is awesome!!! I put it on the tester and it popped right to green on all three guns!!! The lytics will all need to be changed. The tube and CRT filaments light but no raster. The flyback is also good in this set. I am glad I decided to thrift store hop on the way to the convention!!!! :D

polaraman

Wow that's awesome. i wish there was stuff like that around here. Cool how they stuffed the rectangular mask around the round tube. I love that cabinet as well.

Very interesting set, looks clean too! :banana:

Very very classy looking color set there. 20 bucks and the important parts are all a-ok, damn!!

Great find, Rich! I also like the mask... kinda different from the RCA cousin. Man, for 20 bucks, that's a steal!

Man - you lucky... Wow - that's a neat looking one too. Wish I had that kind of luck, nothing like that around here. The thrift stores around here almost never even have TV's period, NEVER found a tube set there. Nice find!

-Ian

That set is awesome!
 

Polaraman must have some magic to get all these great sets.

The CRT frame is very interesting in that it looks to have been made for a rectangular tube with a roundie adaptor frame inserted. I never saw that before.

That IS a nice one, and Admiral color sets that early are pretty rare.... I remember when I was about 3, my mother took me on a visit to one of her Air Force friends. They had an Admiral color set similar to that one, but it had more controls lined up vertically than this one. Probably earlier or later model, but it was a roundie. This would have been around Christmas '70, and the TV was old and been repaired a lot as I recall the owner whining. I remember all this so clearly because I was warned sternly by everybody to LEAVE THAT TV ALONE!!!!!!!!! Of course I had to sneak over and turn ALL those knobs! Luckily that TV wasn't turned on while we were over there visiting, and I suppose that the kids of my mother's friend probably got blamed when Dad got home that night... Also a couple years later, I fooled with those same peoples' garage door opener, and I screwed that up too... I never got caught for either :angel:.

Charles

A super catch! I know that Admiral had been trying the color market for a long time. I have some service manuals from them including one from the CTC-5 era using a 21AXP and a later one that looks more like this chassis. In the photos in that manual you can just make out the RCA insignia on all the parts!

You've sure got a keeper here.

Was that CRT frame used with a rectangular also?
 

The CRT frame is very interesting in that it looks to have been made for a rectangular tube with a roundie adaptor frame inserted. I never saw that before.[/QUOTE]

My guess is that they wanted it to look as much like a rectangular set as possible and that mask accomplishes it nicely. When cross-shopped with, say, an RCA, I think this would have looked more modern. Some of the clones appear to use the same exact mask as RCA used but this must be unique to Admiral.

I can't get over how CLEAN the whole shebang is-the cabinet looks immaculate !! Please, please get some pics of it running ASAP !! <grin>

I can notice the same big deflexion coil! :D
Why the chassie on that the components (electronic tubes, capacitors, transformers) is vertical, not horizontal? :scratch2:

If you did not have the chassis on the side you would need a lot of vertical space to have the chassis sitting under the picture tube. My guess? Space savings.


polaraman

Timeless cabinet design - and in such good shape! Can hardly wait to see pictures on it!