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[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by M3-SRT8

I would keep the original tuner. Just get the channel strips from a donor set and snap them into place, tuning slugs and all.

Does the set have a Q series tuner, or a G series?
The Q uses a 6BQ7 RF amp. The G series uses a 6AG5.
IIRC, the Q series came out in late 1951.

[bigaudioal]

Mine is an "F" series tuner. 6CB6 RF Amp. Kevin offered his "Q" series to me and then realized that it probably would not work.

[bigaudioal]

Either I am very lucky or EVERYTHING is on eBay. Just scored a "F" series Admiral tuner for $12! Pics show the underside of the turret and the channels are marked, 8F, 9F, 10F . . . etc. Same as mine. Same number of contacts for each channel. Think I am in business!!!

[bandersen]

Wow! Looks like someone got really mad at that tuner

[bigaudioal]

Originally Posted by bandersen

Wow! Looks like someone got really mad at that tuner

I don't understand it. Channels 3-10 were all exactly the same. You'd figure after you destroy 1 or 2 tuning strips you would have stopped. Had to feel or hear the crunching and snapping, you'd think?!?!

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by bigaudioal

Either I am very lucky or EVERYTHING is on eBay. Just scored a "F" series Admiral tuner for $12! Pics show the underside of the turret and the channels are marked, 8F, 9F, 10F . . . etc. Same as mine. Same number of contacts for each channel. Think I am in business!!!

It's been ages since I worked on one of those. Forgot about the F series.
I'd be tempted to try the Q series tuner. It's a little hotter! Same IF frequency.

[Phil Nelson]

Originally Posted by bigaudioal

I don't understand it.

Might have been a kid messing around. When I was young, my pals and I did unspeakable things to stuff that was lying around discarded in my Dad's garage or Grandpa's outbuildings.

You are lucky to find a tuner so fast. Fortunately, Admiral was a big seller back in the day.

That picture looks very promising!

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[bigaudioal]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

Might have been a kid messing around. When I was young, my pals and I did unspeakable things to stuff that was lying around discarded in my Dad's garage or Grandpa's outbuildings.

You are lucky to find a tuner so fast. Fortunately, Admiral was a big seller back in the day.

That picture looks very promising!

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

Guess I was SUPER lucky that the adjust screw for channel 7 was sitting in a good spot for me to even get a picture to begin with. There was definitely almost no sound. When I popped out the channel 7 strip, the adjust screw fell out into the turret. Along with 3-4 other adjust screws and a ton of that paper like substance that makes up the adjust "tubes." What are those tubes made of?

[Kevin Kuehn]

Originally Posted by bigaudioal

What are those tubes made of?

Paper. Probably wax or resin impregnated. Same deal with many IF transformer cores.

[wa2ise]

Just thinking that you might be able to salvage one or more destroyed strips and, if you are on a CATV system that is still analog and has an interesting channel between channel 6 and 7, you could make a channel strip to tune it in.

[bigaudioal]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

Just thinking that you might be able to salvage one or more destroyed strips and, if you are on a CATV system that is still analog and has an interesting channel between channel 6 and 7, you could make a channel strip to tune it in.

That would be cool to try. I am on DirecTV and have it run into my agile modulator. I built a dipole antenna for it for channel 7 frequency, so I am pretty limited to that right now.

I also have a digital converter box for over-the-air broadcasts. But have not set that up yet. Doesn't that need channel 3 or 4 on the original tuner to work correctly? Since those two channels are in the same shape as my channel 7 channel strip, I think I need to wait for my eBay parts tuner to arrive before I can mess with the TV more.