Got a Dumont RA-103 Dog(mouse)House and a GE monitor.

[dieseljeep]

What HFH store was it? The one on 104th and Burleigh?
The parking lot is awful small too! That store is very poorly organized, but at least you got something, that was worth the trip.

[Phil Nelson]

Don't crank that inductuner mechanism too hard until you have a chance to pull the chassis and give it a careful cleaning & inspection. This article has some photos of the tuner:

http://antiqueradio.org/DuMontRA-103Television.htm

I've heard of those tuners having a broken ceramic shaft. My RA-113 even had a broken gear in the mechanism. Those things might have happened when lubricant dried up and turned hard, and then someone forced the tuner.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

Don't crank that inductuner mechanism too hard until you have a chance to pull the chassis and give it a careful cleaning & inspection. This article has some photos of the tuner:

http://antiqueradio.org/DuMontRA-103Television.htm

I've heard of those tuners having a broken ceramic shaft. My RA-113 even had a broken gear in the mechanism. Those things might have happened when lubricant dried up and turned hard, and then someone forced the tuner.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

I was gentle with it when turning it. If the user shaft was properly pushed in to place it felt as though it was turning other gears (silent mild resistance to rotation)....My hunch is that the tuner shaft is free albeit a pinch gummy, and all that is wrong is the user control shaft. In any event I don't intend to mess with it until I pull the chassis and can see what exactly is going on.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

What HFH store was it? The one on 104th and Burleigh?
The parking lot is awful small too! That store is very poorly organized, but at least you got something, that was worth the trip.

114th & Burleigh. The lot is small, but finding it after dark was hard enough to distract me from it.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

114th & Burleigh. The lot is small, but finding it after dark was hard enough to distract me from it.

I usually tried to stop there, when I'm in town but haven't found anything, so I didn't bother the last few times.
BTW, I hope to see you at the Landmark tommorow. I have the items loaded in my car, that you were interested in.