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Oh I see what youmean, Mike. Listening to radio usually takes about 8-10 hours of my day, internet? Never this much!
I'm glad that some f my age says they have that feeling they always wanted to be a radio speaker, som are lucky and some radio stations are not as much income-orientated... So back to hardware: here some old-fashioned services use radios in their showroom or shop to show this feeling they have for the things they did themselves. Or repaired. The other thing that came to my mind was this "change-the-whole-car" thing, I couldn't get my pair of speakers repaired, and the only problem of them was the konus was falling to pieces, a change needed still haven't found a person to the job. Always want me to buy new ones, but Hey, you should hear them when I put on an LP record! That sound is amazing! Also I have this "new" type of RCA plugs on the back of the amp, that has is contact faliure, so now I can only listen to RADIO!!! :~)
Also I don't see why they cannot open dissassemble or dissmount companies, it is not a hard or dirty job for unemployed and as useful as never anything before! No junk, recycle and keep the world clean.

Re-coning a speaker, or replacing the voice-coil is going to be considered a pretty specialist service these days. I think there might be an antique radio place somewhere here in England which would take on such work, but it wouldn't be cheap (and especially not if you needed to ship big speakers from eastern Europe!).


A new type of RCA plug? What's it like?

I have repaired torn speaker cones before, with Nail Polish (not mine, of course! ), to bridge the gap between the tears in the cone.
That used to work with older paper cones, but I've never tried it with the newer multi-chemical cones.
BTW, my G/Friend used to get really annoyed to apply her Nail Polish and there would be small paper fragments in it, I can't think where they came from, there must have been a "paper storm" while she had the bottle open!.

I've just managed to breathe life into an old green set that I've had here for a few years.
Like the radio's of the time, it was made with a Bakelite body and had 5 valves.
I nearly fell off my chair when I switched it on and it warmed up, giving the National Programme, instead of the usual explosion and blue sparks.
Having said that, the blue sparks would have been more interesting, they were talking philosophy(sp?) on the National Programme!.
The National Programme is more like the BBC, than the BBC is!.