1966 admiral color console television

[@Antony_Jenner]

Hey Shango hope you stay around, your vids allways brighten my day and I learn something every time I watch...

[@walterbatman7949]

I love these old console sets and the glow of the tubes aka the money shot

[@tomwold8269]

My dad bought us our first 25 or 26 inch Admiral tv in 1971. It had a great picture, but it broke down about 2 times a year. The tv repair guy would come and replace a part or 2 usually in about 15-20 minutes, and was good to go again for another 6-8 months.

[@AMStationEngineer]

"The candlelight TV repair series". Every color set from this era provokes memories of Saturday mornings with Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, and Yosemite Sam, which are most likely the cause of the successive CRT replacements. Obtaining a Zenith 24MC32 , with a decent 21FJP22, and flyback, has been on my bucket list for a very long time.

[@AMStationEngineer]

Danny "Squirrel" Washington was the TV repairman who visited about every 6 months, to do "the two tubes and a condenser dance", with an older Admiral B&W set. Ten years later, he'd drop off all of the solid state and hybrid stuff at my "garage shop", because he never learned the theory. There was a bit of a transitional problem in those days.

[@poche660]

I thought we watched the moon landing in 1968 on a color tv.

[@AMStationEngineer]

There's a pretty good chance that you did. I still remember Cronkite's ear-to-ear smile throughout the entire event, and would bet money that it was Walter's way of saying "we made it, thanks President Kennedy".

[@chetpomeroy1399]

That happened on July 20, 1969.

[@rsattahip]

Take me back as an adult to 1966, maybe the TVs sucked but people had jobs.

[@2300cbrown]

Love that Commercial intro. The drop down door with the knobs is amazing. The color indicators look practically new. Amazing. UHF knob and VHF. Look at the sparks @6:21 whoa

[@gregorymalchuk272]

I didn't know any old color Admiral sets survived. Like you said, these are unique, "Admiral did their own thing". You should do a follow-up video showing the repair of the voltage regulation, the sound, bringing the picture in, and maybe the cabinet repair too. It's a cool set. Definitely not something I'd go at with a pickaxe.

[@RODALCO2007]

You caught the fire works, so nice. At 12:27 you can see a small arc in the damper tube when you touched the control at the back. Even tubes in the hinged control panel, bad design.

[@jeffadams5510]

Nice catch-I missed that!

[@worldsgreatestride9749]

I had one of these Admiral tilt out control panel sets from brand new (model LGS5511 from 1965) and can accurately comment on it. Had the set for almost 20 years. And no the wires did not break off aside from the antenna leads. Admiral blew the strain relief on the antenna leads only. I felt the tilt out panel was quite convenient because you could stand to adjust the set plus all the controls were right there instead of divers locations. That control behind the contrast control you can’t seem to figure out on your set is a 3 step sharpness control. It went “SOFT”, “NORMAL“, and “SHARP” . Basically standard on all Admiral color sets of the mid sixties. And that COLOR FIDELITY control that always seems to baffle you is the B&W shading or color temperature control. It MUST be centered when setting the screens for grey scale otherwise you will not get it to work right. The control sets the grey scale from sepia to a blueish tone. The control worked great on color shows to richen the flesh tones when turned all the way to the left (CCW) during a color broadcast. Exclusive to Admiral. 😊

[@drfalcon4102]

good to see you back

[@古道2024]

My first sight of color TV is around 1990, it was a gift to our neighbors from a Taiwan Veteran.

[@litefoot900]

Thanks for taking the time and trouble to make these great videos. very much appreciated.

[@古道2024]

It is amazing that the tubes are still workable

[@bigalsmallengines]

From the year I was born! Love it! -Cheers 🍻 -Al

[@planetwisconsin9901]

Dang I remember Admiral TV's! We had Zeniths. Black and white 19 inch. Thing would stop working take the tubes to the tube tester at, some store, and replace the bad ones. Also tv tuner cleaner. Kids these days have it too good.

[@JimGrey]

I loved the Old TV Ads site, from which you got the ad at the top of this video. I miss that site. I wish it hadn't shut down.

[@marekmareczek6676]

This model of Admiral was featured in polish movie from 70s "Kochaj albo rzuć". You can see it working.

[@farmboy2520]

,...back in the day TV tuning,...yelling and hollering at the kids outside the living room window, asking them to turn the antenna mast,..while drinking beer and fine tuning the contrast, and color controls,...was a typical Saturday or Sunday afternoon watching analog television,...

[@justincase3880]

That commercial was “Admirable” .. nice touch …

[@wadehicks9270]

Great work and video Sir. I mainly serviced solid state sets myself. I tried at a few tube sets but wasn't the best at it but watching your videos are showing me a lot I missed out on. Done ever stop making videos way to much great stuff we'll all be missing.

[@scottwall4669]

Our tilt out control center was always kept in the open position...telephone repair man father thought that ten thousand openings would fracture a wire. Good info Boxy!!

[@frankpitochelli6786]

A lot of those 60s era Admirals had bad HV regulation. However, those chassis would run even when smoke was pouring out of them. I've worked on many of those models, brings back memories.!!!

[@thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154]

unusual to see uhf and vhf on a colour TV I don't remember it being that way in the UK but then I was only about 6 years old when that set was new !

[@fuzzwack1]

That was fun,I love Fireworks!!

[@wdavem]

The ark had good color, hopefully the picture will as well.

[@radiotvphononut]

As you probably know, the later RCA tube sets and their earlier solid state sets had a tilt-out control bin and I didn't care for them (especially the models with slider controls). If you sneezed too hard while standing close to the set, the picture would go crazy. At least in the RCA's, the tuner was stationary.

[@juliancascio7345]

Zenith much better than any RCA!

[@PecanPie1102]

It would be nice to see it working. Love your vids. I remember watching All the cartoons of 60s & 70s in color they had the best color saturation.

[@MsCori76]

Shango your video was just as good to watch as Chris's. Can't wait to see more from you. :)

[@dvv45]

glad to see you! enjoy your video's! Thank you.

[@randymoyer5351]

I wish i could find a nice working set like this or RCA, as these older sets were the best, but i'm looking for a console with radio tape and tv sort of thing, as great sound and they look good too, like we had when i was a kid.

[@garydunn3037]

I live in the UK and way back in 1971 we got a huge cabinet floor standing colour tv withdoors that closed when not in use. It had a 26" tube and was manufactured by Baird,which I seem to remember was part of the Thorn EMI group. Can anyone else rememberthese big tv sets. They were, I suppose, the equivalent of the large screen TV's of today.

[@MVVblog]

0:38 Ok i am convinced, i want to buy one !

[@williamcross1414]

We used to have Admiral back in the younger childhood days.

[@chrisvictrolaguy6689]

Nice looking set.Good video.

[@johnschroeder6288]

You have WAY TOO much fun doing these old sets!

[@williamsquires3070]

Well, this one isn't as crapped out as the ones you got out of the desert. It isn't full of mud and rat droppings; always a plus in my book! :)

[@morjhult666]

Great vid! Dat finger thoo 2:21

[@ZONNEKAT]

Welcome To shangootronics.....where the Future is made today. ☺

[@jrk1]

love this 4k repair video!

[@jerrycarriera8648]

Great video and welcome back!!! I hope you do a follow up to diagnose the audio issue. Your vids are top notch!!!

[@justsumguy2u]

It's interesting that the sound worked at first, but then it died. Diagnostics on this should be interesting.

[@JENDALL714]

Admiral TV's had fallen really far by the time I started working on Televisions in the 90's. I remember one Admiral that if you unplugged the TV while it was on, it would erase the EPROM. The company had to send us this box from the factory to re-program the EPROM. Didn't solve the problem that when you unplug the TV while on, it erases everything. It was only a small 15" TV, so it was portable, so it was common to be unplugged and moved around. I think this was the last television that I worked on, to carry the Admiral name. I haven't seen anything with he Admiral name in years, not television's anyway.

[@cmans79tr7]

Jendal, you may want to see my (just posted) comment elsewhere here regarding the Admiral brand.

[@ldchappell1]

People must have really loved their sets back in the day to go through the trouble of tube replacement. I wonder how much the bill was? I've owned many color CRTs over the years and never once replaced a picture tube. Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever had to pay anyone to repair a television.

[@Synthematix]

Yaaay shangos back with another awsome tv vid, nice one mate, an english friend.

[@fredfabris7187]

Thanks for your videos!

[@kaz57zipurs]

hey shango066! love ya videos, especially the ones when ya go find old teles in the deserts, yo! ya buddy Chris posted this video a couple of weeks ago, I still watched yours though, yeah! I really like old electronic stuff, got their own smell about'em, yup! and ya get to turn knobs on stuff, yay!

[@IcelanderUSer]

In 1964 only 3.1 percent of households had a color set. They were very pricey too.

[@3Cr15w311]

The "color fidelity" control was likely a color temperature adjustment. The only other set (other than the one in this video) I've seen that extra control on was a 1969 Sears set that a relative had that I last saw around 1986 or 1987. I remember it being called "Chromix" on that set and was in addition to the usual color and tint. I imagine these were quite high end really nice TVs back in the day.

[@jerrycarriera8648]

My Grandmother had a 1970 Magnavox TAC (Total Automatic Color) set that had a "color preference control." It adjusted the color temperature.

[@TonyButchT]

Enjoyed the classic Admiral ad at the beginning, and the video! Thanks!

[@martinda7446]

Hi Shango, re the hinged control and your assumption it was a bad design, like anything the execution of the design is critical. Stress to jacket and stranded cable during a bending moment was well understood at the time. Recently NASA conducted tests on cable bending at cryogenic temperatures as there was no data there. I could have told them what would happen...)) Here the bending radius is very low, stranded and with appropriate gauge - as long as it's designed with a bit of thought it should last almost forever as far as the cable goes. Like you say slamming it shut is going to be biggest problem, after the catch breaks and it's repeatedly whacked... but that is when owned by Neanderthals and doesn't count.

[@jeremydenn6988]

glad your back.. i think you have the best chanel. Thanks..

[@ricknelsonm]

Great video Thank you!

[@bones007able]

the tilt control won't stay out? is it missing a counter weight ?

[@julioalejandroaldoferrarij6508]

Hermosda tv de lujo.-

[@shango066]

Hard R Salon Vibe Lionel parts

[@PapiDoesIt]

I think this was way before Admiral got demoted to Ensign. That speaker magnet made me laugh, but the rest seems to have been decent quality (sarcasm) especially the moving tuner wires.

[@stevencarlson5422]

Love to see if you can get it up to par your good at doing that shango066 if you can't no one can, I'd still like to see if you got that dirt filled philco tv going thanks for the fun videos keep them up thanks

[@TheFurriestOne]

Tilt-in controls, swanky! XD They used particle-board in the 60's? I didn't know the rotten stuff had been around that long! Nice li'l jet of fire!

[@SoddingaboutSi]

Is there a focus adjustment on these sets?

[@kg4yhr]

finally a video from you have been waiting to long don't forget field day next month 73

[@Synthematix]

Shango that tube may be dim, but its still not as dim as Justin Bieber

[@shango066]

Hey I like his new stuff the more chill Electro stuff is actually pretty good

[@Synthematix]

Im into kraftwerk, depeche mode and oldskool house

[@donbest5024]

When I was a kid we had one.the door would get stuck shut we had to get some piers to open the door to change the channel's

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

6:18 the only shame is not having the camera pointing at a different angle.

[@dmann3042000]

I had a 1975 Admiral set When did Montgomery Ward's take on the name?

[@connorm955]

I have two of those, one b&w from 1976 in a brown plastic cabinet and a color one from 1978 with the woodgrain and it has an NEC picture tube. Neither of them had instant play.

[@MichaelBeeny]

I loved the chassis of the set in the advertisement. Looked like it had been plated, the mains transformer in particular, was that gold? Not much like the real one customers might purchase.

[@circuitsmith]

2:43 it's magenta, cyan, yellow? The subtractive primary colors.

[@BeautifulAngelBlossom]

I seen one these at yard sale they wanted 2000$ for it they said what it goes for on eBay .I never seen this set on eBay . I told them they told me about Americans pickers . That also had 80$ turn tablet it was one them that plug in stearo system . They said it did not work they wanted 300$ for it

[@jeffadams5510]

Garbage?........you've repaired/resurrected worse. Please do another vid on this fixing all the bugs and throw a little wood glue at the cabinet.....

[@VGA_Guy]

My theory on the Colorama CRTs odd readings is that the filaments emit electrons better when the high voltage is in the CRT. Just a theory though.

[@danfloyd695]

Has a replacement flyback also. The original flybacks were failure prone.

[@stevehoward3049]

LOL I think the TV heard that you were going to take the pickaxe to it . It wanted to live so it delivered a much brighter picture shortly after you said you were going to kill it with is a pickaxe.

[@sirmugman]

wow a tv vid from shango066, must of won the lotto or someone gave him some money, also classy advert but needs more woodgrain,

[@ralphups7782]

The lady doing that television demonstration , was more English than Mr Marple.😱

[@Evan420]

welcome back!

[@shango066]

from where?

[@Evan420]

shango066 you were away for a while

[@douro20]

Are these things typically hard on CRTs?

[@AiOinc1]

This sounds like a good EOL set, but I'd also love to see it working before that happens.

[@moisessan1]

Belleza

[@johnmoyer2849]

The sylvania D12-20 chassis was the best as far as picture quality.Very few problems.A hybred chassis.

[@worldsgreatestride9749]

What chassis or Sams is this?

[@rsattahip]

Is that a 25AP22a CRT? Those had a lifespan of only 2-3 years if used frequently.

[@josephbeasley5193]

does this TV have a stereo mux? why 3 speakers?

[@orange70383]

That sweep tube looked like an expensive 6lf6 or maybe a 8950.

[@theeverydaylifeofdillan259]

I got that modil i love it

[@godfreypoon5148]

9:07 - "It cut it in half like an arc welder." Not much of a Welder are you, Shango? ;)

[@JustSomeGuy1967]

Dam brother...where have you been ?

[@robertoreyesjimenez7156]

😍😍😍

[@WinnerWinnerEmmaDinner]

Were you the youtube user with the video of the abandoned vintage home with all the really old kitchen appliances in tact and the abundance of magazines? When the person went back to do a second video it had been trashed. I thought it might have been you but not sure :/ I've been right back through your videos and can't find it. Thanks.

[@josehugobarrerasanchez4396]

Cuidado ay un ARQUEO en el FLYBACK😱😱😨😨

[@Rotttman]

Hi Shango

[@sirmugman]

woooo! we have fire or something burning out, i think it was one of those "its better then what the others have" moments, a flip down thingy, so yeah stupid idea but at the time ppl liked it

[@robinsattahip2376]

Did you glow in the dark after messing with this X-ray machine? (smile)

[@randymoyer5351]

Fix that, would be a great Tv!!!

[@PCBoardRepair]

3:55 RCA Coloramatic

[@Synthematix]

Wish my internet was fast enough to play 4k

[@marekmareczek6676]

When part 2?

[@blakestevenson4012]

About time B

[@chetpomeroy1399]

With that high voltage creeping up, and the fact that there was no lead shielding on the high-voltage rectifier tube and the back of the CRT, I shudder to think about the *extremely dangerous* levels of X-radiation to which Shango may have exposed himself, since he was *very close* to the back of the set. It would have been advisable to bring a properly-calibrated Geiger counter, set to highest sensitivity, to assess the possible danger before proceeding.

[@jerrycarriera8648]

I was thinking the same thing! I remember reading in Consumer Reports back in the mid 60s that Admiral, Olympic and Packard Bell emitted the highest level of radiation. They used to test for X-Rays back then. Hopefully, no damage to either of the guys!

[@bobweiss8682]

Even under worst case malfunction conditions, the X-ray levels from a color TV wouldn't approach "extremely dangerous", for any reasonable interpretation of those words. The horizontal oscillator and damper tubes pose no X-ray hazard AT ALL. The tubes that caused the X-ray scare of the 1960s were the HV rectifier, shunt regulator, and the CRT itself. The April 1968 edition of Popular Science had excellent coverage of the issue, and it is available via Google Books.

[@chetpomeroy1399]

Well, I am relieved to hear that that what you've said was true, Bob. As you are aware, the techs who worked on these color sets, both out in the field and in the shop, were exposed to X-radiation on a daily basis for several years; there may have been some sort of cumulative effect. It's likely considerably less than the exposure experienced by hospital X-ray technicians, who are required to wear lead vests for protection. Thanks for the Popular Science reference!

[@cttv90108]

that should be our next video. Vintage color tv to x Ray machine conversion.

[@chetpomeroy1399]

I've had a look at that article, by W. Stevenson Bacon, which in my mind seems to downplay the exposure hazard, referring to such emissions as "weak" X-rays. The safety standards for exposure to doses of ionizing X-radiation 50 years ago are likely much less stringent than the safety standards that exist today, since we know much more now about what happens to people who receive frequent, long-term exposure. Additionally, if Popular Science accepted ad revenue from, and/or the author of that article had some sort of economic relationship with, one or more television manufacturers, this would cast a shadow on the objectivity of that article, in my opinion.

[@rickjohnson1632]

hey shango, isnt this a old vid?

[@smileypete4625]

I seem to remember the ad, there's also 'Admiral Hybird Color Tube Console TV Vintage' but it's definitely a different set.

[@teacfan1080]

Shango's friend Chris filmed this TV the same time Shango did. I watched Chris' video on his channel and he used the same ad. This video here was from Shango's camera. Both did a great job checking this TV out.

[@toddt6730]

Put it on Ebay as slightly used

[@billfrug]

Hey let's put the controls on the inside.

[@Bobbythefanman]

woof woof