Admiral 20X122 restoration p3o?

Recapping is done and the set powers up, but no picture or sound. Time for some troubleshooting!

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• Admiral
• 20X122
• vintage
• antique
• television
• restoration
• repair

[MrRaddios]

nice video more problems than i expected i think i like this tv over a new one

[bandersentv]

@MrRaddios Yeah, interesting though  I hadn't had problems like these before.

[oooowwwwdddd]

Say fella, that sure is a very nice TV set you've got there. But Sears is having a sale on new LED HD television sets now. They are larger than this one and have a color picture too. They're even flat like a painting that hangs on your wall and take up less space than yours does. It's not that yours isn't nice and all, but, maybe you should consider buying a new one instead of trying to fix this one.

[bandersentv]

@oooowwwwdddd Surely you jest :D

[maynardcat]

I always enjoy all the details of the problems you encounter, and all the circuit tracing and work involved to solve them. Great Job !

[bandersentv]

@maynardcat Thanks. It was fun to finally get this old set running.

[hoppes9]

100% point-to-point wiring. It's no wonder those things cost a fortune in their time!

[bandersentv]

@Maxxarcade Not that I'm aware of. This set was almost stock when I got it. I suspect the previous owner just stopped using it when it developed problems.

The best wick I ever tried was Techspray Pro Wick 1804. I wish I had stocked up at the time. It's hard to find now and rather expensive.

I do use a solder sucker for the bulk, but often need a little wick to remove it all.

[umajunkcollector]

@OlegKostoglatov There was a big place in Cleveland called ElectroSound that did a lot of warrenty work. Me thinks they hired kids fresh out of vocational school to work the "lines". They charged me 75$ to fix my VCR that ate tapes, i.e. the belt or that little wheel. I bet they could do at least four/hour. Once I took an old Fisher VCR to them, and they said it needed an IC chip - no longer available, i.e. too hard to fix for them.I bet it would cost almost the same as a new VCR - to fix chips!

[OlegKostoglatov]

Yes, and one too many shops pulled that stunt so most of them are now out of business. If it took him three hours to replace that $4 part maybe, but surely he had serviced enough VCRs that it would not have taken him more then an hour to track down a mechanical fault, that smacks of incompetence.

[Maxxarcade]

Wow, lots of little problems that needed to be sorted out on that one! Did someone work on it and not finish it before you got it?

And that Solder wick is one of the few that actually works! Chemwick is pretty good too. But I've been totally spoiled by my desoldering gun these days, and only use wick on occasion for simple stuff. I also use Kester 60/40 rosin for everything still.