Hi everyone, today I decided to take a stab at trying to fix the tuner.
Moving the slider was quite difficult. Frede gave me some good advice to make sure that I removed the string before taking off the front cover. (I would regret this later). After removing what seemed to be about 100 screws of various sizes and having bits fall out from who knows where, I had everything open. It reminded me of when I took apart my first clock, the whole thing exploded and I still did not know how it worked.
Anyways, unfortunately everything inside looked like the day it was made, so after a bit of tinkering, out came the WD-40 and a cotton Swab and I started dabiing at all of the moving parts. Low and behold after a few minutes and a very black swab, everything freed up and now the slider moves like it was new.
Now it was time to put everything back togethor and as you can guess, re-attaching the string was anything but staright forward. I actually did not manage to get it back the way it was, but it should hold. (This part took me about 45 min.)
I still don't know how to attach an antenna as the connection for it is foreign to me. Does anyone know if there is an adapter for the cable Tv connection?