On 02/07/2013 11:11, Arfa Daily wrote:


"Phil Allison" wrote in message
...

"Gareth Magennis"

BTW:

If you can get the magnets off the back of 12 inch speakers, the
fames make
dandy pot plant stands.

I've also a whole load of blown valve amp transformers that I have
kept for, er, I have no f**king idea why, apart from the fact that
new ones cost lots of money.

Any use for these in the home or garden?


** Errr - holding doors etc open on windy days is one.

I use any available tranny or SLA battery as dead weight when gluing
wood with Aquadhere.

So, am I the only Accutronics tank fixer out there ?


... Phil



No. I've repaired quite a few open circuit ones as well.

Arfa

Order of filures I find, all repairable
corrossion of phone/RCA sockets
tails vibrate and break at sockets, resolder and swathe in hot melt
failure of spring anchor, get into the anchor area and if magnet is
missing break up a rare earth magnet and glue the pieces around the wire
like a cylinder
brak in the coil of fine wire end - scrape an exposed piece of enamel to
establish if at the tightly wired solder point , solder in a jumper,
if inside the coil rewind with the finest wire you can find , random
scatter wound on a hand drill is fine, as many turns as you can get on
there and remount , or 200 ohms or so if very fine wire
all repaired in jobs taking les than an hour