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Chad, first, congradulations on a decent find. in the area where i live, when i was collecting sets, i could find just about every brand but Dumont. yours is in amazingly good shape considering the age.
i saw the you-tube video that you posted with the rejuvenator connected. in the video, you stated that you could not get it to rejuvenate or get any kind of emission during the test. allthough you gave the filament plenty of warmup time. i also noticed that there was no crt "brightener" attached to the tube on the first video that you took of the set. to me, that indicates that the tube was was not killed by the brightener.
the only conclusion that i could come up with is that someone in the past killed the crt by going "overboard" with their rejuvenator, OR, one (or more) of the pins on the crt plug on the neck of the tube is making a bad connection. the best thing to do (before giving up on the tube entirely) is to heat the pins on the crt plug with a soldering gun. that might be where the problem is. i run accross this same problem on a set that i restored years ago. the tube almost got sent to the trash, but as a last resort, i tried heating the pins up & found that the tube was pretty healthy.
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