My new project. Dumont Television

[mkoser]

Originally Posted by bgadow

Maybe some of those caps got changed in the 60s or 70s? If they put a crt in it that late then they kept it well maintained for a long time. Seeing this makes me want a DuMont-I've never found a "real" one. A friend of mine mentioned finding one in an attic somewhere but I guess he never followed up on it for me.

The guy that I bought the set from used to be a technician back in the day. He replaced the tube in 70, and I have proof. I found the warranty card with his name on it inside the set.

But I was looking at some of the cans. The are metal with "Sprague" labels on them. They just look different.

I looked at the picture of the chassis in my sams, and it shows the cans as being black, cardboard like.

I asked the guy I bought it from if he did any other work to the set, and he said no.

One other interesting note is that the chassis was not bolted down to the cabinet. The bolts were nowhere to be found. You don't have to remove the chassis to remove the tube in this set.

The owner did mention that this set was in his family since it was new, and was delivered to the house that I picked it up from in 1950. "Bob" also mentioned that he is a Vietnam Veteran. I almost wonder if the caps were replaced in this set while he was overseas. This guy remembers everything, I can't imagine he would forget about recapping this set.

I didn't look that close under the chassis, but I do know that there are wax caps under there.

Who knows?!
MK