View Full Version : Andrea clone of DuMont?


Phil Nelson
10-30-2009, 10:01 PM
The chassis in this Andrea VK12 looks a lot like the DuMont RA-103 that I'm trying to finish.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170399310537

Presumably a little newer, with AM radio, too. Check out them strings & pulleys behind the dial. Does it have a clutch or something to drive all of that from one tuning shaft?

Phil

bandersen
10-30-2009, 11:14 PM
Wow! That is one sweet tuning dial.
Yeah, I suspect a nice clutch & transmission behind that shaft.

batterymaker
10-31-2009, 07:44 AM
Twenty-odd years ago, my girlfriend's dad had the table version of that set.

kx250rider
10-31-2009, 12:51 PM
I don't think it's a DuMont chassis... Andrea and DuMont were competitors, and as far as I know, neither traded with each other. The construction is similar though.

Charles

Phil Nelson
10-31-2009, 01:04 PM
A DuMont tribute chassis, then :)

Phil

Bill Cahill
10-31-2009, 01:41 PM
Nope. It's definately a Dumont clone. Right down to the 12JP4 picture tube, and, Mallory INputuner.
Dumont designed thes sets for Andera, and, Andrea put their own information on them.
I have the table model set with a smashed dial glass. Has anyone got a spare dial glass they could part with?
Bill Cahill :sigh:

M3-SRT8
11-01-2009, 06:34 PM
The chassis in this Andrea VK12 looks a lot like the DuMont RA-103 that I'm trying to finish.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170399310537

Presumably a little newer, with AM radio, too. Check out them strings & pulleys behind the dial. Does it have a clutch or something to drive all of that from one tuning shaft?

Phil

That TV has been refinished, and not too well.

LJB:smoke: