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 Post subject: mystery speaker
PostPosted: Jul Wed 11, 2012 3:25 am 
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this came from an estate sale and has no name on it
any idea as to who might have made this cool old speaker ?
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 Post subject: Re: mystery speaker
PostPosted: Jul Wed 11, 2012 7:53 am 
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Looks like a oaktron, by the color, here is anotherone, ImageI found on line. If you take the screw out of the cover and lift, you may see the oaktron leaf, and a part numberImage :D

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 Post subject: Re: mystery speaker
PostPosted: Jul Wed 11, 2012 11:57 am 
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thank you for the info
no leaf,but it dose look very much like the one in the photo
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 Post subject: Re: mystery speaker
PostPosted: Jul Wed 11, 2012 1:01 pm 
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Isn't that yet another cover...?

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 Post subject: Re: mystery speaker
PostPosted: Jul Wed 11, 2012 2:25 pm 
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The inner cylinder looks heavy and is welded: looks like the steel back magnetic circuit that takes the magnet's rear polarity back around front to the gap.

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 Post subject: Re: mystery speaker
PostPosted: Jul Wed 11, 2012 2:44 pm 
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It looks similar to the type of speaker that was used in the Scott 800B. A speaker like that would typically be found in a large postwar radio/phono system such as a Magnavox or a Capehart or a Fisher or some other brand name.

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 Post subject: Re: mystery speaker
PostPosted: Jul Wed 11, 2012 3:51 pm 
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The tweeter is too simple for a Scott? It looks just like a Quam 15 inch speaker I bought in 1954 but the color isn't the same.

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 Post subject: Re: mystery speaker
PostPosted: Jul Wed 11, 2012 4:14 pm 
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Will you post any numbers found on the speaker frame. That may help identify who made the speaker.


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 Post subject: Re: mystery speaker
PostPosted: Jul Wed 11, 2012 4:59 pm 
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sure
here are the numbers I see on it
3117 145
h 2915
and there is a micamold radio capacitor box mounted on it
pther then that I don't see any more numbers


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 Post subject: Re: mystery speaker
PostPosted: Jul Fri 13, 2012 2:54 am 
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918 = oaktron. The leaf gives it away :D

EDIT: sorry I got the photos confused. Seems I have a newer one from an organ with a similar basket... I think its a consolidated/cinaudigraph! 145 is the code for consolidated/cinaudigraph anyway...

http://soundup.ru/index.php?option=com_ ... 7:speakers

and the bare basket one that looks like mine:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1962-Cinaudagra ... 0955334593


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 Post subject: Re: mystery speaker
PostPosted: Jul Fri 13, 2012 6:31 am 
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Thats the other company, I could not remember , spelled the name wrong, too :oops:

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 Post subject: Re: mystery speaker
PostPosted: Jul Fri 13, 2012 11:46 am 
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WOW!!
thank y'all so much
I am going to try and hear what the old boy sounds like today when I test it out .
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