FINALLY! DuMont RA-108 Mansfield lives

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After months of frustration and not being able to track down why I could not get a signal through on my RA-108, I did some intense reading about the inductuners. Thanks to those folks who have posted online about servicing these tuners, I discovered that the rear slider was misaligned. Only thing I could think of was it came out and someone in the past just shoved it back underneath and it was in the wrong spot. Instead of being at the extreme rear of the tuning barrel it comes in contact with when the tuner is bottomed out, it was in the center of the barrel and not sliding at all when the tuner was turned. Lucky it did not break. So I gently popped it out and re-aligned it where it should be and viola!!!

Set looks ok for its first image. Have to go through a proper setup now, but cannot wait for my Mom to see this set working, as it was the first model TV she remembers watching as a little girl.