In this exploded view you can see there's no way to replace a power
transformer bolt without yanking the speaker and its
baffle board out of the cabinet.
This unit also had a frozen Tone control. To replace the control
potentiometer, the PC board and power transformer were removed from the metal
mounting plate.
We flattened the bent mounting tab on the transformer frame before
reattaching it to the plate using a #8 screw, flat washer, lock washer,
and nut.
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To access the PC board, unsolder its orange leads (right). They lead
to the output transformer's primary coil. The transformer's
secondary coil (purple wires) can stay attached to the speaker.
You can also see the mounting holes for the Volume and Tone pots which
protrude through the metal plate, the plywood speaker baffle, and the
front faceplate.
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The pots have long, threaded bushings and control shafts that pass
through the mounting plate, the plywood baffle, and the front faceplate,
still leaving enough room for the knobs.
With their large, old-school PC-mount solder pins, these pots are no longer in
production.
We
installed a current-production pot with the needed lengths, resistance,
and taper. We used a chassis-mount pot and
hard-wired it to the PC board.
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