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Asking for some advice
I bought - in the beggining of this year - a 1953/54 21 inch Admiral TV. It is not with me right now, it is in storage with a friend in another state, and only God knows when will I be able to pick it up. The interesting thing is, in the same city where my friend lives there's a very skilled young guy who learned how to restore electronically these old sets, right now he is working on a 1948 Philco that belongs to my friend.
Since the person who sold me the Admiral did some kind of a testing of the CRT and said that it is still good, I am tempted to pay for the young fellow to restore the TV for me.
So I started to wonder, in the name of keeping this TV working for the longest period as possible, wouldn't be wise for me to try to find NOS flyback and deflector coil for this TV??? I would hate to spend a lot of bucks on a restoration only to find out a few months later that the TV will not work anymore because of critical component failure. Keep in mind that in my town it is not easy to find skilled labor to work on those sets, so right now the TV is just in the perfect spot for someone who wants to try to put it in working order again.
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