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Excellent work!
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Watching your videos on the WR-8, I think I've figured out what that wooden plug in the speaker is for - it might be a deflector to distribute sound around the room, compensating for the upward-firing speaker.
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That looks great! You have more patience than I. I would have taken one look at it and sent it in for reconing.
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I've seen similar vintage speakers going for around $20. I imagine reconing costs a lot more than that. |
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It cost me about $76.00 I'd have to try to find his address, but there's an older gentleman who will do it for $60 and I'm told he does an excellent job. I didn't find out about him until I had mine done.
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Progress update
I've broken the cabinet down as much as I can and have been gluing all the separated veneer.
The veneer has separated at virtually every edge. I wonder what happened to this cabinet - high humidity, heat, crappy glue ? Here's some of the original finish. I've ordered up some Dark Walnut Mohawk toner lacquer - should be a good match. I'll try golden oak for the center board. I also picked up some new speaker cloth from AES that is a perfect match to the old fragments. Here's a dry run. Here's the old filter capacitor. It's pre-electrolytic so that huge box just has a 2 MFD, 3 MFD, 3MFD and 0.05 MFD in there. The new ones are a little bit smaller I'd like to remove that old block of tar but it's being stubborn. I figure it will shave at least 5 pounds off the weight if I can get it out I've tried a heat gun and the oven. Only got the first layer of tar out so far. Last edited by bandersen; 01-07-2010 at 03:21 AM. |
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Maybe put that capacitor box in the oven for a while to soften up the tar?
Also I was watching some early episodes of 'Homicide: Life On the Streets' and noticed in the Lieutenant's office there was a what I think was a 'Columnaire'. Just caught a glimpse of it. Nice work for sure. |
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I've tried that. It did soften up the tar, but the guts just wouldn't slide out. It's tough to work with a big, heavy, hot box oozing tar! I'll give it another go soon.
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Turn it upside down pop it out. Sorta like a cake or loaf of bread. Another thought might be to insert a couple of long lag screws or screw eyes into the tar. Would give you something pull on. |
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I finally got it out
Thanks for the suggestions. I let it cook for about 30 minutes @ 300ºF while upside-down. Gravity finally took over. I like that idea about the screws - I'll try that next time Last edited by bandersen; 01-08-2010 at 02:28 PM. |
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My, that's unpleasant! I bet the house will smell of tar for a few days, Febreeze be damned.
Do you think there will be enough room in that box for the new caps? It looks kinda tight. ;-) |
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I keep a corkscrew around for such purposes-really works well on the more traditional multisectional lytics we love to restuff.
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Yum, yum !! Do you know what the values of the damthaing were/are ? I'd wager you can put modern ones back up in the space vacated by that nasty mess & no one will be the wiser...I sure won't tell...(grin)
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