The radio required more cabinet work than the picture shows. All of the front veneer needed replaced. The plywood had delaminated. This required me to replace a piece of the substrate on the lower right-hand side.
The speaker had a good cone and that's about all it had going for it. The field coil was open. The output transformer was open.
The speaker was a welded-together job, so in order to get the field coil out, I had to remove the center pole. This required me to remove the cone and voice coil and to cut the part of the pole that protruded into the back frame with a cutting disk from a Dremel tool. I then pounded out the pole with a hammer, supporting the cone side of the frame with a large deep socket so as not to deform the frame. The field coil was a relatively easy fix as the inside winding had opened, but there was enough wire to solder on to. I put the pole back into the frame and held it with some JB Weld.
The audio output transformer was open in both the primary and secondary and looked like it had been on fire. I re-wound the transformer (my first) on my home-made coil winder that utilizes a sewing machine motor. I had to rewind it a few times because I cut some of the fine wire when I placed the bobbin back on the laminations. Not a very neat job at all, but functional.
