I found this while shopping with the wife. Funny thing is, I just started looking for a radio to tinker with this winter for my f1. any one have a 3 prong speaker connector or know why there are 3 prongs? I could always just make one but I need a diagram to know what's positive and negative and what the 3rd leg is for.

 

My memory is shakey, its been a long time, but wasnt the three legs for
a speaker with a transformer on it? used with a viabrator .
not written in stone but Its seems about right.



field coil

 

Could be for a field coil speaker (one with no permanent magnet). Do not just try to fire that radio up without having a tech walk you through it or some other means of assuring that power is right and there are no aged, shorted capacitors in it.

 

Why zzzzzzzzzzzzz oh. LOL

 

Saw your PM. As for the dial *****, trucks were round, cars were flat. The car version dial ***** may be reproduced. Check the car catalogs from DC, Mac's, etc. Look for 48-51 Ford car radio.

 

I had one of those aged capacitors in my floor radio blow up. It sounded like a shotgun and left all kinds of its tar-like innnards everywhere. I was happy that I didn't have my head stuck in the back checking things out.

 

You can probably get them 3-d printed.

 

I have a little background in electronics, I did a two year course at the vo-tech back in high school in the 90's. Plus i have repaired guitar amps and video game systems. I'm thinking about replacing the guts with a newer setup. Worst case scenario, i'll just wire it up to light up and hide a digital media player somewhere else.

 

If you open up the case you will see that there are only 2 wires connected to the 3 pin socket. Connect the 2 wires from the speaker to the sockets that contain wires, no polarity to worry about, how you connect the speaker wires is unimportant.

 

I have some options. I will not be rebuilding the radio back to factory, But i figure i'll either do something easy or something challeging. Easy would be to Disconnect everything and just have it light up while hiding a new digital receiver in the glovebox. Or the hard way which is to gut the radio and install a new digital receiver in the chassis and wire it to the on/off switch on the radio. I would have to find a bare bones receiver that has a potentiometer switch. We use Ipods and mp3 players, so a cd player is not needed.

 

Hi.

My opinion is that it would be a pity not to repair this radio. It is pretty easy and schematics are widely available on the net, sometimes even for free. Please keep it original as far as possible.
I would gladly do it for you, free of charge . If you cover the freight to me in Sweden, I will pay the return.

It is AM only, which in Europe is pretty useless. I think there are still plenty AM stations in the less densely populated areas in the US?


If you want to listen to a modern source, it is easy enough to add a hidden switchover to you can play an ipod over the original radio and spkrs.

PS. There is a real radio-phantom over on garage-journal, he may be able to help you out.


Best regards

Ola

 

I want to see what and how you do this on yours. On my Monkey Face I have a 48 Mercury radio that I'm having rebuilt, and then want to add another radio that I can run my iPod and USB.
But keep me posted...