[NJARC] field coil speaker replacement

[Bill Zukowski]

Thanks for all of your suggestions.

The customer has opted to have the speaker rebuilt, so I sent it out 
yesterday.

Thanks again,
Bill

On 4/19/2017 2:17 AM, Bill Zukowski wrote:
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> Has anyone successfully replaced a speaker field coil with a resistor? 
> I've read about people doing it, but never actually spoke to anyone 
> who actually did.  (Perhaps it's something I'd find on Snopes)
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> I'm restoring a Zenith 5S-126, the small cube radio with a black dial. 
> The voice coil is scraping and therefore the sound is seriously 
> distorted.  Connecting another speaker to the secondary of the output 
> xfmr sounds perfect.  However, substituting a resistor for the field 
> causes audio distortion (B+ is still within range).  Not the same 
> distortion as with the scraping voice coil.
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> In the meantime, might anyone have a 6" replacement speaker with a 
> 2100 ohm +/- field?  Or how about some hen's teeth?
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> Thanks,
> Bill
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