Reply 28300 of 28673, by lti
PD2JK wrote on 2024-09-05, 05:59:I gave these speakers a Deoxit treatment, the pot meters and power switch that is.
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So we have a 120 Watt (PMPO) speaker set, equipped with 15 W woofers + 3 W tweeters, and the amplifier is capable of giving 2.1 Watt. Per channel I hope. 🤣
I need to do the same thing to the old Harman/Kardon HK-206 speakers that are plugged into the TV in this house. I don't personally watch TV (at least nothing new), but there was a good movie on last night. For the old Badcaps members, that's the same set of speakers that I recapped back when I was in high school (because the caps were actually bad - two vented, and every single other electrolytic had capacitance out of tolerance). I'll throw a can of Faderlube (or maybe plain Deoxit since the lube might protect metal contacts in encoders like mouse scroll wheels) on my next order at a place that sells it (Parts Express or Digikey).
I've been ripping DVDs today since a different version of MakeMKV worked on my modern desktop (having a full-size SATA drive is nice for availability and price when I need to replace it - drives fail much more often than discs). I found two that have circular scratches that make them unreadable. One failed without having scratches, but there is a weird cloudy-looking spot on the bottom (maybe the layers separated).