01-14-2011, 11:42 AM
You've encouraged me to forget about any modifications. I guess I was a bit discouraged when I saw that the output was only 1 watt. I've already ordered the caps, but they haven't yet arrived. The flat oval speaker was a surprise for me, also. It seems to be in good shape with only one small tear that I have since repaired.
One of the previous owners had disconnected the speaker and sent the output transformer secondary out through an external jack. Going to have to explore that a bit more, to see if the objective was to replace a poorly performing original speaker. The small oval has good voice coil continuity; moves freely without rubbing, and responds to a battery "click" test, but as I mentioned in my posting, yesterday, the output is clean, but extremely weak.
One of the previous owners had disconnected the speaker and sent the output transformer secondary out through an external jack. Going to have to explore that a bit more, to see if the objective was to replace a poorly performing original speaker. The small oval has good voice coil continuity; moves freely without rubbing, and responds to a battery "click" test, but as I mentioned in my posting, yesterday, the output is clean, but extremely weak.