Here's that "rust-bucket" Packard Bell model-46a that I've been restoring this past week... it's the one I had the "sleuthing the oddities" thread about here the other day.
http://www.nostalgiaair.org/Forums/Messages/607/M0064607.htm
I was almost heartbroken to see what the guts of this radio looked like when I unpacked it...as I had not seen the inside at Ebay time.
Plus the speaker wasn't even attached to anything... maybe doesn't even belong to this radio. I had to build a mount for it.
So I was really relieved that I was able to re-cone and salvage this thing.
Anyway... onward to the cabinet next week... let's see how that goes...lol
This thing doesn't even have lamp sockets... they solder right to the bulbs...lol
The speaker doesn't have a name on it that I could see.
So I wasn't even sure it was original. It is an ED speaker though for sure.
It looks to be exactly the same as the speaker in this other thread over at ARF ...except for the mounting bracket and hexagon outer ring.
But the metal covered field coil and the output transformer mount are all exactly the same:
http://antiqueradios.com/forum ... hp?t=92784
I couldn't see any place on the chassis for how the original speaker might have been mounted and I didn't see any mounting arrangement in the cabinet either... so I made my own.
I had to drill two holes in the chassis and screw upward into a wood block. Then I rested the field coil body on that. Then I ran a strip of plumbers tape ( that flexible metal strapping with holes in it) through the bottom of the field coil frame and screwed it down onto the top of the wood block.
Then I drilled another small hole in the chassis front and used a long screw to fix the speaker basket to the chassis firmly.
Now it's as solid as a rock!.
re-coning:
It's never exactly "easy" and usually a bit of a challenge... but hey... what's new! ...lol
At first I didn't think I'd be able to re-cone this very well as the entire old cone was torn off right down at the voice coil.
So I very carefully snipped out a small section of the old rotten cone from right where it came off the voice coil about the size of a 1/2 dollar.
(I think I can safely use the term "1/2 dollar" here because we're all old enough to know of them.. but them there young'uns out there now wouldn't have a clue)
Then... I very very carefully glued that back onto the voice coil sleeve top with Elmer's white glue and let it dry fully.
Then I cut the bottom opening of the new cone a little larger than it came... so as to allow the outer edge of the new cone to rest on the basket and have the inner center area just rest exactly on the old "1/2 dollar" cone with a bit of over lap.
When I could see that the new cone was resting cleanly down on the old center and also gently resting on the outer basket... then I stopped trimming the inner hole... and glued the center part to the old part with Sobo brand fabric glue and gently laid a quarter down over that part so that its weight will just hold it firmly while the glue dried.
Then I tested the sound and glued the outer part to the basket with clear tacky craft glue.
... and then I re-glued the outer cardboard ring ( which had also broken into 5 pieces too) over that and held it there with clippy clothes-pins till it all dried.
Oh yeah.. then I found me a little tacky-bottomed felt or non-slip rubber cabinet pad/foot that was just large enough to fit over the center hole and stuck that on to serve as a dust cover over the voice coil.
Seems real fine now.
.... another 45 cent replacement speaker cone put to good use!
BTW.. does anyone know where I can locate the 4 correct knobs for this thing?
The 2 center ones can be set-screw type, round.. and the 2 outside knobs could be sort-of wedge-shaped for switching.
But I'll take any 4 set-screw knobs that will work. 2 of one type and 2 of another type.. or all 4 the same... anything that works... ok?
I'll pay or barter or whatever.. thanks.
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