I don't know if this will get me a tee-shirt or not, but I have to tell this story.
But first sincere thanks to Don, Ryan, Joe and Mike for the input on
Inspired to Restore! Before I buy those books and change those caps, I'm adjusting
my will to include you all! Just in case those caps bite me.
And I only offer this because I've spent hours reading other posts of varied lengths.
This may only be amusing to me, but at least it's documented.
And maybe someone else having problems will "Look for The Obvious".
The latest.......
After only finding this site over the weekend, buying my 409 cleaner and scrubing away,
I thought I'd turn my attention to what I knew would be an expensive part of my restoration
of my Sunn Solarus.
The bottom speaker,(2/12inch in an open back cabinet) quit working some time
ago. I seem to remember the setup still sounded pretty good, so I never did anything
about it.
Shortly after I 'retired' this amp, I went to work for a Hi-Fi store in Nashville. Always
a BIG fan of JBL, I convinced them to send me to JBL school, since I was already doing
repairs/reconing of JBL consumer products. So in 1985,I returned to work as an
Authorized Servicer of JBL Transducers.
This lasted a couple of years, then the store closed.
Meanwhile, the Sunn was in storage, or in the attic, or somewhere.
Take a deep breath, almost done.
Fast Forward to Jan 10, 2000. I've found Eminence...
http://www.eminence-speaker.com/Pages/Home/HomeF.html
and I'm sending an Email asking where to get this 12" reconed to original
specs. I take my volt/ohm meter over to the cabinet just to see if the
voice coil is open or shorted.
But for some reason before I test with the meter, I reach in and feel
the contact point where the voice coil wires attach to the frame/wiring
terminations.
There was no wire leaving the right terminal.
I just couldn't help but start laughing at my stupidity!
Feeling around on top of the spider, I find the loose wire.
After years of packing up and throwing all those cables in the back of the
amp, something must have landed in the open section of that speaker and
snapped the wire.
Soooooo, tomorrow, I'll attempt to remember my younger days and see if I can
re-connect the 15 year old Speaker!
I just hope the voice coil isn't as rusty as my memory! ! !
Anyone interested in the outcome?
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