[Boatanchors] Embarrassing Rookie Question

[Richard Knoppow]

On 3/14/2015 3:02 PM, Joe Connor via Boatanchors wrote:
> I just picked up a beat-up NC-200 today as my latest project. I don't have the speaker, so is it OK if I work on this radio with headphones, no speaker, and the 6V6s removed?
> Once I get this set working well, I plan to fabricate a new speaker by taking a traditional speaker in a metal box, installing a push-pull output transformer in the box, and making a cable ending in a five-prong plug. I recently did that with a Patterson PR-12 and it worked out very nicely. I doubt that I'll get lucky enough to find the proper National speaker at any hamfests this year.
> As always, thank you for your help.
>                           Joe Connor
>
     Also, FWIW, when the plug to the speaker is pulled both plates and 
screens of the output tubes are disconnected.  Only the filaments run.  
Again, some power could be saved by taking the tubes out when the set 
was run on batteries.

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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL