davidro Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 G'day allAs some of you might know I've fixed one speaker of my AR-3A yesterday. Today's challenge I'd have thought was going to be fixing broken flanges. That was taken care of somewhat easily. But now I face the real challenge.The mid wouldn't sound at all!The high's fine. The woofer works. I opened up the speaker again and looked for a defective joint. But all was fine. Still it wouldn't work.Is there something I can do about it? It worked with rusty pot before I replaced caps and pots.Any help would be much appreciated.Photos are after the restoration: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidro Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 This is driving me nuts.I've bought a DMM and checked every joint. They're all connected with each other and I get some ohms everywhere.I even checked between the speaker cable jack and the front wire board. There's signal and the mid would make some static noise even.But when I actually hook it up to the amp, the mid is silent. Not even some static noise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidro Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 G'day all, I've finally fixed it - the hint was here: http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2010/03/05/restoring-the-ar-3a/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlspeak Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 G'day all, I've finally fixed it - the hint was here: http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2010/03/05/restoring-the-ar-3a/Isn't the internet a wonderful thing for information?!Now, just imagine how difficult it would have been 30 yrs ago to solve the same problem.... :-))Cheers mate. Enjoy the music.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidro Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Yes. Well if there was no internet I wouldn't even have dared to restore these babies! Ok 'babies' may not be appropriate choice of words as they're older than me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danajohnhill Posted September 24, 2011 Report Share Posted September 24, 2011 Ha ha! I am happy my webpage provided some helpful information. But I should give credit where credit is due: almost everything I know about my treasured 3as I learned from this forum. When I couldn't figure out why my midrange wasn't working, someone asked if I had remembered to sand off the lacquer on the copper wire after I'd cut out the pots to clean them. No, of course I hadn't! Once I did I was back in business. The internet is, indeed, wonderful. Sites like this are the reason why.Congratulations on your restoration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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