[Tubejunke]

My first really old set was an RA-109. I got it in about 1983 and it had been sitting in a storage building of a junk/antique dealer for a number of years giving homes to local field mice. Oddly, the man running the store was the area's first television sales entrepreneur and he had sold the set new back around 1948 or so to the wealthy president of Stanley Furniture Company. It came back to him as junk in the late 70s.

I always think that this story is fascinating and regret having to let the monolithic set go (as usual) for space needs sometime back in the late 1990s. At any rate, I remember a nasty looking bunch of black cobweb looking stuff had somehow made way behind the safety glass, so this was my first crt pull just to get the dirt out. It was not very hard to do, but I remember being real nervous having read the shock hazard stickers on the tube as well as reading up on the subject of handling crts in a real good book that the library had back then.

I have had a love and fascination with the DuMont company and the sets of their good years although I never have never managed to find another one. What I want is a round tube table model. Gonna be hard pressed to ever find one within driving distance.