Hey, y'all - Arkansas newbie here

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Originally Posted by Ncotham

I've acquired our original 1954 Admiral Model C2226 cabinet that I grew up with . . . . . . I've got the deck stacked against me - ALL I have is the cabinet. Nobody knows what happened to the chassis, tube or speaker. Looks like the TV was gutted at some point for parts, such a shame because the cabinet IS the one we had all those years.

A good theory is that a repairman took the chassis into the shop to be repaired, and returned a verdict that the set was not worth repairing, so your parents said to junk it.

Your first problem is to figure out what chassis you are looking for.

Admirals of that era are known by their chassis numbers, instead of their model numbers and the number you listed is a model number.

Using data from:
http://www.earlytelevision.org/tv_sc..._diagrams.html
I see that you are looking for Admiral chassis 22A3.

Schematic diagrams for this chassis are in Rider TV book 15, page 59 and elsewhere.

By the way, if the CRT trim survives, you also should determine what size picture tube your set has, as some chassis were supplied with more than one size tube. I have no knowledge of this model

Originally Posted by Ncotham

I sure hope y'all can help me! I'm a computer systems engineer, so I've had training in electronics in college years ago and know my way around a soldering iron, but applying that knowledge to TVs will be new.

Hey, it is all in your mind. You've got to stop thinking like a transister and learn to think like a tube and the sets will talk to you and tell you how to fix them!


Oh, from http://www.tvhistory.tv/index.html

I see that your set was made in 1954, was 21 inch and cost:

[need photo] 1954 - (C2226) 21" console, wood (mahogany), $339.95

James