AR6 resto - I'm scared of pots.

[Copa1934]

Stay off the pot! Drugs are bad! M'Kay
Maybe somebody's has bypassed the pot and removed it, or it a earlier version. Can you see the hole wher the pot was? Post some pics. My Ar4x's had bad solder joints at the tweeters and one also needed the rivet on the connection terminal on the tweeter soldered to make a connection.

I may have to check the rivets on my AR3a speakers. I didn't detect any issues, but once open, may as well check to play it safe. Definitely some of the easier pots to service, though not necessarily the easiest to get at or remove (hate having to De-solder stuff, time consuming).

 

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While this is primarily an AR-6 thread, at least one issue has come up which also pertains to the AR-4xa mentioned by jameswei. Each of these speaker models were issued with various permutations. The AR-6 had at least three different crossover configurations - - some with pot, others with switch. Similarly, AR-4xa had both switch and pot versions, and it can also be found with both cloth and foam woofer surround. Most likely, some of this probably was a result of using up available parts from the 4x speaker when that model was phasing into 4xa production.

As Pandovsky has noted, I believe that all the AR Euro models employed switches for high frequency controls, and I think all Euro tweeters were rear-wired.

To the OP futureman's question, it can't hurt to roughen up that small nichrome wire before re-soldering to the pot tab - - - just be careful since this wire is very stiff and is usually so short that there is no extra slack.