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Help ID 10 cell horn

LordJim

LordJim

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I have been looking for a horn to go along with my altec 291 (23834 diaphragm). I have found one for sale for a very good price. Could somebody please help me identify this horn ? I was thinking it might be an Altec 1003b or 1005b ? Thanks

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Thanks for your reply Bruno. Regarding the wide, I'm not sure. The seller is a lady, who seemed to have no idea whatsoever about this subject. I doubt i will get any further info beside the pics. The price is ridiculously good (30$, and probably 5$ for shipping), just trying to figure out how to convince my wife to put this in the apartment :( . You think this is an Altec ?
 
I'm pretty confident that it's NOT an Altec horn.

That said, if the throat is the right diameter and the bolt pattern lines up, i'd give it a try.
 
It looks very similar to my 1004B Altec but it could be a Western Electric, and their are a few that look alike, but I would have to agree with bowtie on the "if the shoe fit's, wear it" and it definitely looks like it would bolt up to a 288, 291, and for 30bucks if you don't want it send it my way, here's a pic of my 1004B horn...ALTEC416416416416416FORSALE0008.JPG
 
Hey, how much for that wooden horn it's sitting on...kidding of coarse, but I am serious about "if you don't want it, send it my way" you can't go wrong, buy it, if it doesn't work sell it to me...for twice the money!
 
A western electric would be tar filled and covered with sheet metal.

An Altec that's not tar filled will be coated with aqua-plas as the horn pictured above is.

Either would also have mounting brackets soldered or spot welded to the front, as pictured on the Altec above.
 
I was thinking that they might be Vitavox horns (Vitavox stuff looks like it must have been produced under an Altec license), but the four-bolt flanges kind of scream "Altec."

The body looks like it's cast rather than assembled from bits of sheet metal. I know that Altec made a few cast multicell horns, but I don't know if they ever made the big 2" horns that way. If it is cast, those holes in the sides would have been where the mounting flanges were bolted on. If it's sheet metal, that's where the spot welds were cut out.
 
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I see that, my cells on the Altec go separate to within 3ins of the throat flange, on the mystery horn they're what looks like 8ins+/- and my throat box is also much smaller, as far as the mounting brackets on the side, mine too would have 4 holes along the side with rivets attaching it to the horn almost like the mounting bracket metal was removed for a "stand" mount.
 
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