[Heathkit] Mohican "Oddball" speaker found in the strangest place. . .

[Philip Atchley]

Hi all,

About a week or so ago I had mentioned the bad speaker in this Heathkit 
Mohican receiver I'm restoring.  The Voice coil rubbed and it was open. 
The original was a 4x6 inch oval with a 35 Ohm Voice coil that I figured 
I'd "never" find, short of a junker set.

HOWEVER!  Today I went down to the shop where I do part time audio work 
hoping to find an old 4x6 in either a 4 or 8 Ohm version and use a 
transformer with it.

Surprise!  Sitting on the shelf in the supply room, in plain view were a 
pair of 4x6 Ovals.  When I looked at them, they were 32 Ohms, close 
enough. Looking closely I could see the scratches around the mounting 
holes where they had bee previously mounted.  The TV tech has a habit of 
pulling speakers etc out of old sets prior to junking them as they are 
often useful in repairing another set that the parts are no longer 
available for.

Even better, these had exactly the same mounting hole configuration and 
square magnet cover that the Heathkit speaker had, only differences are 
the gold color, slightly larger magnet and the "Made in Korea" writing 
on the back.

On another note, the man who gave me the Mohican took the cabinet down 
to the body shop where he works part time and got it "color matched and 
painted".  When I get finished with it, it'll look nearly new (front 
panel is quite nice).

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
991 Different NDB's heard to date.

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