1951 Crosley Model 11-119U Radio

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by RJMiranda

The rattling sounds may be caused by the speaker or the cabinet. In either case, the cotton pad is damping the sound and so helps some.
I would try to separate the speaker and the cabinet. If the distortion ceases, it was something vibrating in the enclosure.
Or it may be the speaker... maybe you can try with another one.
Remember your chassis is AC/DC, so don´t touch it while the AC cable is connected (or use an isolating transformer). Unless the chassis is made from bakelite, like your Westinghouse. Anyway, it is not safe to touch anything metallic (speaker, control axles, IF transformer screens) unless the power cable is disconnected. Reattach the knobs to the controls to be able to operate the radio safely.
If the cabinet is not guilty and you get distortion with another speaker, we are dealing with some amplifier trouble, keep us posted.

Well I tested it out again in the cabinet and it seems that the rattling noise it made before without the cotton ball in the back of the speaker had settled down a bit (its not nearly as noisy as it was before) but it still rattles around a bit none the less which I'm wondering if it might the cabinet because the speaker isn't attached to the cabinet its attached to the chassis so maybe the speaker is rattling against the cabinet since its just sitting up against the cabinet and not attached to it...