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Old 03-07-2017, 06:32 AM
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Dumont RA-109-A3

My son and picked up a Dumont RA-109-A3 "Sherbrooke" yesterday. We drove out to Platteville, WI to get it. It was listed on craigslist. We carried it home on my car's DIY roof rack. We pulled the chassis and broken crt before we lifted the cabinet. I didn't realize how heavy Dumonts are. The set is missing the speaker/output transformer, some knobs, phono cartridge and the back cover. The 19AP4 crt was cracked open under the tube base, useless.
Does any one have a picture of the back cover of this set?
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Old 03-07-2017, 11:27 AM
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Ed,

Your back is probably very similar to my Westbury. My 19AP4 is dead too. Some day I may just have to sub in a 17BP4 or such. I may have few spare knobs around here some place.


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Old 03-07-2017, 12:03 PM
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Thanks for posting the picture Kevin. I'll post a few pictures of the cabinet/ knobs in a day or two.
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Old 11-17-2017, 10:12 PM
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Well, I finally got to recapping this set a few weeks ago. I purchased a used 19AP4c CRT from the ETF this last summer. I still have to test and repair the phonograph yet.
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Old 11-18-2017, 10:33 AM
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Nice work, Ed! There's nothing like a DuMont

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Old 11-18-2017, 11:05 AM
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That is a real good picture on that set.
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Old 11-18-2017, 04:51 PM
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Nice work! Those early DuMonts are my favorites.

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Old 11-18-2017, 04:56 PM
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I like it.
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Old 12-12-2017, 01:10 AM
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Thanks for all the kind replies.
Has anyone who ever repaired or restored a Dumont with the ferro-resonant power transformer ? The transformer on this set hums louder than any television I've repaired. It's only the transformer, no hum in the picture or sound. The transformer also gets hot too hot to touch after a couple of hour in operation.
Could a leaky 1.75 - 2.0 mfd 800vac (yellow dot) cause the excessive transformer hum and heating ? The cap is connected accross the 800 vac secondary winding.
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Old 12-12-2017, 09:29 AM
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Ferro-resonant power transformers do tend to run hotter and noisier, but it does sound like yours isn't working right. That cap forms a resonant tank circuit and is critical to the proper operation of the transformer.
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Old 12-12-2017, 01:20 PM
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That cap is a dead short in my Westbury. I think others have found them bad too. I'm not sure what could be use as a replacement, but possibly a few 1000v metalized films in parallel. I wonder if you could hear the difference if you fine tune the value?

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Old 12-12-2017, 01:53 PM
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I agree with Bob. I've never owned a Dumont with that trans, but I have owned a few VRT equipped SS Zeniths as well as some line isolation VRTs. They work best with a substantial load, and when loaded run on the hot side, but too hot to touch sounds wrong.

The caps used by these are typically motor run AC can type (paper in oil non-polarized IIRC). Look for the AC voltage rating of the original, and match capacitance as best you can in a replacement.
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Old 12-12-2017, 03:55 PM
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I find it interesting that the Sams for this set doesn't even list a Dumont part number for this capacitor, much less part numbers from other capacitor manufacturers.

Could it have come with the power transformer?
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Old 12-12-2017, 04:08 PM
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Thanks for the responses. After the holidays I'll pull the chassis, yoke, and focus coil and test the set with another cap. I may try your suggestion also Kevin, I have some 1uF 460VAC caps I could combine.
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Old 12-13-2017, 06:41 PM
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Do you guys feel this application needs an AC motor run type(film in oil) in order to effectively dissipate heat? I was planning to try AC rated film caps and see how warm they get. If not too bad I was then going to try re-stuffing the original can.
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