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Before proceeding with alignment, I remembetred the grommets for the tuning cap had to be changed.
They were fully flattened and crumbling.
It was easy to extract them, but 38-12, at least this version (this tuning cap has the threaded posts close to each othere; there is another version where they are much farther apart) does not make it easy to put the new grommets back. The reason being, the metal ferrules, that go inside the grommet, cannot be easily pulled out (they are mushrrom type, with the wide end facing up) due to the fact that the tuning cap assembly is bound to the tuning shaft, that is mount to the chassis, and so the cap cannot be extracted or, at least, pulled far, without undoing the tuning string routing, which then would require some extra skill to put back.

I took a shortcut: I used some small grommets, that many years ago I cut in half, to push under the ferrules, having pulled the cap just enough so the spaces around those metal ferrules would be sufficient for the grommet to go around that ferrule. Then the other half goes from teh chassis side, and then the washer and the nut. The ferrule dictates the height of the cap, so there is no concern about the height of the dial to change.

I will go now and attempt that alignment after all.