Philco 60 restoration

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Originally Posted by GuyIncognito

This article about the restoration of an Atwater Kent 206 describes (among other things!) a method for making a new voice coil/cone (look about half way down):

http://ludens.cl/Radiohis/ak206/ak206.html

(It seems implied to me that he fashioned a new spider out of card stock)

While his restoration wouldn't bear up to scrutiny of a concourse-type inspection, you certainly can't fault this guy's ingenuity. The lengths that he goes to to revive this old set are nothing short of inspirational!

Since you have all the other bits and pieces of the speaker, perhaps a similar method could be improvised...? He had access to a lathe, but maybe a somewhat less precise "former" could be attempted with a vertical fixed dowel rod and a concentric circle marked on the work table as a guide for the outer edge of the cone?

Wow, that is really cool!

Originally Posted by Reece

This would be a tough one to recone ["don't try this at home"] since the voice coil is gone. You could buy a new cone and adapt it to an existing v.c. and spider but too much is gone here and it has the old style spider. This looks like one for Hank Brazeal. You don't need all that money you have, anyway.

I think you're right about it being too tough for me right now. I've read lots of high praise for Hank, perhaps I'll give him a try if nothing else works out.

Originally Posted by mbates14

I have a pacific radio tombstone that i parted out. the cabinet was too far gone. Would that speaker work? id have to go see it again. but if it would work you can have it + shipping.

Thanks for the offer. The original is 6" in diameter with a field coil about 1,140 ohms. The output transformer has a DC resistance of 420 on the primary and less than 1 ohm on the secondary.