1958 ADMIRAL TV Set - CRUSH IT OR PART IT? I need you guys to decide!

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"How Long have you been down here?
"4,999,450,852,312 nano seconds. Ever since that awful day when...when...transistors were invented. I've seen it all"
- The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1998)

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The TV appears to be a "transformerless" power supply model-the two large selenium rectifiers.Save those,too if you are parted the machine out.This type of TV had the tube filaments wired in series across the line-like some old Christmas light strings-and the two selenium rectifiers were used as a voltage doubler to rectifiy and increase the voltage to a higher DC voltage to run the set.The tubes in these are indeed unique-no longer made.
Sad the shredder in your area is in a bad neighborhood.Would have been interesting to visit.
Too "rescue" that TV-the Brave Little Toaster would have quite a job on his hands-or levers.Would need Kirby,Blankie,Lampy and the Radio to help.Was a nice TV in its day.
 
Stephen.....

Here's a photo of my Admiral "TV" if you want to call it such, but as you can see in the photo, I'm missing the four knobs on the front of the set. I'll probably dye them to match the Maroon knobs that are on the set, but I think they will still look GREAT on it! Thanks again, I'll be in touch via email soon!

Steve

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Admiral C21E12

I have the brochure for this.
Mahogany Grained Finish $259.95

NEW ! "Thin As A Dime" styling in smart console design opens the way to exciting new room planning ideas. Thrilling new Admiral Slim Line cabinets fit flush against the wall...

DELUXE 330 chassis.
 
I doubt it...

$100-$500 in scrap? LMAO! How do you figure that?

With the four little knobs already pending, I'll dismatnle and eBay the remains and pitch the cabinet.

Oh and I got a lead on a guy who has a bunch of old TV tubes, I'm not sure whats rare, how I can tell if its good or bad (I have no tube tester so I'm not sure there are any ways to visually tell if the tube is good), and just whats good to have in general. He says he has a big tube that came out of a floor model radio that is several inches high and 3 inches in diameter.
 
My mom and I are big estate sale fanatics and we go to at least six of them every weekend and we go back on sunday for "half price day." Anyway we found a 1950 Admiral tv cabinet in a blonde finish that was missing all of the internals except the built in antenna and we paid $50 on half price day for it. when we got it home I took a 20' 80's tv, turned the color down to black and white and slid it in to the cabinet and it fit perfectly! Since there are no original controls on the cabinet and no way to get to the toshiba controls, I found the remote for the toshiba and when I want to use the tv I just open the flap on the admiral and the remote sensor works right through the empty hole. Its so perfect I haven't told any of our guests. We only use it for parties as a conversational piece, so no one knows the truth about my laziness. I cant share pictures of it on here until we rotate our furniture from the forties to the fifties in three months, but the ad below is of the same tv that we have so I guess that works too. 


 


<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>P.S. Notice how the ad says, "huge 19 inch."

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We are playing taps now...

Or are we? I just got gone dismantling the TV and the chassis appears to be restorable if someone was brave enough. After I cleaned out the cabinet, the front legs are surprisingly intact but the back legs are another story. For the most part, the rot is confined to the bottom half of the frame.

Any ideas on how to go about parting the chassis or selling as complete? was this particular model rare?
 
Oh and some more good news...

The faceplate has only very minor pitting and easily be re-plated or re-painted. The screen is good and most of the rubber/plastic parts survived. There is a piece of trim at the bottom of the faceplate that is rusty but salvageable.

The remains of the speaker grille showed what once was a beautiful fabric of white and gold. What a shame.
 
Re:1958 ADMIRAL TV Set - CRUSH IT OR PART IT?

I remember seeing an old TV at my granddads house much like the pictures you have here. My granddad took it to the SIMS electronic scrap yard in Greenwood MS and if I remember correctly, he returned home a happy man having made a good deal with all that stuff! I guess it makes sense to take old/used metal appliances down to the junkyard instead of just trashing it, why not make a few bucks out of it?
 

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