Thanks guys for allowing me to lurk on this forum, I don't have a clue about these cool amps that you build, But it does have a neat fangle factor.

I have a quick question for you.

I was shopping at a local pawn shop yesterday, they have a pair of MCS 4 way speakers, the housings and the fake wood work looks great, as do all the speakers and the grill fabric looks nice too. I dont know the model number but they ar 4 feet tall, 16 inches wide and would be the perfect speakers to replace my long ago blown MCS stereo speakers that I bought in High School back in 79. I still have all the cool componet pieces, with the fake rack handles on them. I just ditched the speakers.

The problem with the speakers, they must have fallen backwards or were stacked thus pushing the screw on speaker wire post into the speaker box, I pointed that out and they marked them down to 50 bucks for the pair.

How hard of a repair would that be? can I remove one of the woofers or other speaker to access the repair? the boxes are all glued so I dont think I can take them apart without ruining them. Is 50 bucks too much for "Untested speakers"

blizz

...if you like them then $50 for the pair ain't bad. But they do not have toi be untested. You can take al;ong a 9 volt battery and (assuming you can get to the speaker jacks) use that to see if you can get each speaker to 'click". Might need some test leads with alligater clips. The 9 volt battery makes for a good click, but will not hurt the voice coils.

Most sealed cabinet speakers can be serviced through the speaker holes. The woofer should be screwed in from the front. Sometimes they put sealer on the gaps and even over the screws. Places like www.mcmelectronics.com and www.partsexpress.com have lots of speaker parts including jackplates and so does Radio Shack.

Liberty has never come from the government.
Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
-- Woodrow Wilson

MCS is the old J.C. Penney brand...most of it was made by Matsushita & is similar to an equivalent Panasonic or occasionally Technics model...same company.

Should be a fairly easy fix....I'd bet you can do it, no sweat.


BTW, I second Blizz' thought...thanks for letting us sit in, Tom.

That's how I feel anyway. Solid state is cool, of course.

Lawnmower repair? That's best done at the Bench.

I had a pair of Techniques three way speakers that sounded pretty good for low budget stuff. Had them for many years. Eventually I blew a woofer and found they didn't even have the part # in their database. So, out they went.

Liberty has never come from the government.
Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
-- Woodrow Wilson

If you can still access the terminal post you can wire it some way and it'll work.

The connection needs to be good enough so that you can give a slight tug and everything stays kosher , you don't have to knuckle down on it.

Even if you do have to go internal it's no big thing .

Take a multimeter and measure the resistance on both speakers , they should be the same and close to 8 ohms .some of those joints are just out to fleece you and at others you can find smokin' deals . How much do you know about this pawn shop ?

Take a good look at the speaker cone surrounds if they're foam they're probably rotten by now , or close to it. poke em with your finger and see what happens.