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Advice on Philco 70A basket case
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11-16-2011, 08:46 PM
The spyder and voice coil on my cone are OK. The cone itself has a couple of repaired tears in it but overall I think it is useable. I removed it carefully.
I still have had no luck figuring out what the round "cap" on the end of the field coil pole/pin is. I'm not sure if it has to be removed somehow or does it just get pressed through the hole along with the rest of the field cole pole piece?
Central Arizona is not exactly a hotbed for machine shops. I called a couple of automotive machine shop places with no luck so far...
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Re: Advice on Philco 70A basket case - by morzh - 11-15-2011, 12:08 PM
Re: Advice on Philco 70A basket case - by retiredinprescott - 11-16-2011, 08:46 PM
Re: Advice on Philco 70A basket case - by Arran - 11-20-2011, 01:19 AM



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