[MRCA] W.S. #19 discussion

[J. Forster]

> As I mentioned in an earlier post, I recently acquired a WS #19 MkII
> setup with many accessories.  After doing some in-depth maintenance,
> alignments,

I've a half dozen WS19s, and none has required any alignment.

> and some re-building I have the thing on the air.  This is
> evidenced by being heard up and down the East coast this past Saturday
> on the OMRN.  Not the strongest signal in the neighborhood, but heard,
> none the less.  I am trying to cobble together the original headphones
> and mics as virtually all the phone elements are bad.

The only failure mode known for the mikes, is corrosion of a wire lead to
the diaphragm. If they ar open at DC thay are no good, if not, they are
good.


> I find that
> strange, but that's the way they all are.  Out of 4 mics, I have two
> with usable original elements.  To re-build the headphones, I'm using
> the smaller type earphone elements from some Walkman-type headsets.
> They fit nicely inside the original headphones and they work, OK.   Now,
> here's the rub.... As you all know, the connectors for these mics and
> headsets are those large rubber-encased 5 contact plugs and jacks.  I
> have enough good male plugs but a dearth of the female ones.  What I did
> get with this setup are two of the 20' (+/-) audio extension cords as
> would have been used, among other places, on tanks and such to allow
> personnel outside to talk to those, inside.  Remember when the Marine in
> the movie "Sands of Iwo Jima" was bringing up that M-4A3R3 "Zippo" flame
> tank?  He was using a similar extension.  Anyway, those cords have both
> a male and a female connector on them.  They're both as-new and I could
> cut one end off and use it.  But... I hate to destroy something that
> might be very important to someone, sometime.... This tome is a
> long-winded way of asking if anyone has a WS #19 audio /female/
> connector they might part with?

They are called 'drop leads'. Watch eBay. They show up as spares. The drop
leads and extension cords all use tinsel wire. They are HARD to
reterminate. I would not cut the extensions up. The jackets are also
whipped with fabric thread and laquered.

-John

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