In article .com,
says...
I have a nice die-cast Radio Shack bookshelf speaker I bought probably
15 years ago that I use on my SW/Ham radios. It's not a perfect speaker
but it's fairly mellow, not at all tinny, and extremely durable.

I think Radio Shack sold them as outdoor/patio type speakers when I
bought them and I seem to recall the name "Minimus-7".

I go to look at Radio Shack and they don't have anything like this
anymore. They've got some really crappy plastic-tinny sounding speakers
that I don't like at all, and would probably break the first time I
looked at it funny.

What speakers are available in durable die-cast housings these days?
And I hate tinny sound (like comes out of a PC-clone speaker). I
refuse (just out of abhorrence of the sound) to look at any PC or
PC-with-amplified-subwoofer crap speakers.

Did I mention that I don't want any PC speakers, and they all sound
awful? (Hint, hint, DO NOT SUGGEST THIS OPTION!)

Tim.




Go to Ebay and buy used Minimus speakers...

Search for minimus, radio shack, and RCA, the last brand on them..

I have a set of the RCA and two set's of RS Minimus, and the RCA and the
newer of the two Minimus are exactly the same, except for the RCA logo.

RCA:

http://cgi.ebay.com/RCA-70-WATT-Mini...ers-Model-PRO-
X55AV_W0QQitemZ5857897453QQcategoryZ94907QQrdZ1QQc mdZViewItem

BDK

"RHF" wrote in message
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ML,

The way 'we' the Visualize Words that make-up a Link/URL .

Some See "partsexpress.com" as : Parts Express .Com

while others see "partsexpress.com" as : Part Sex Press .Com

with both my eyes crossed - xx ~ RHF

At my old job, I used to not get to Parts Express'
website for just that reason.

--Mike L.

On 24 Jan 2006 07:36:04 -0800, wrote:

I have a nice die-cast Radio Shack bookshelf speaker I bought probably
15 years ago that I use on my SW/Ham radios. It's not a perfect speaker
but it's fairly mellow, not at all tinny, and extremely durable.

I think Radio Shack sold them as outdoor/patio type speakers when I
bought them and I seem to recall the name "Minimus-7".

I go to look at Radio Shack and they don't have anything like this
anymore. They've got some really crappy plastic-tinny sounding speakers
that I don't like at all, and would probably break the first time I
looked at it funny.

What speakers are available in durable die-cast housings these days?
And I hate tinny sound (like comes out of a PC-clone speaker). I
refuse (just out of abhorrence of the sound) to look at any PC or
PC-with-amplified-subwoofer crap speakers.

Did I mention that I don't want any PC speakers, and they all sound
awful? (Hint, hint, DO NOT SUGGEST THIS OPTION!)

Tim.

These sound like an old Grundig console.

http://www.cambridgesoundworks.com/s...em=c1pcwzzz z

Michael Lawson wrote:

At my old job, I used to not get to Parts Express'
website for just that reason.


The IT department wouldn't let us access "Accurate Screw Machine
Company", and they were our source for oddball electronics hardware.

--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Back in the olden days,all companies had names like Acme or Ace.(unless
it was a company in the old Three Stooges movies such as,We
Beatem,Cheatem & Screwem) There is an Ace Bolt & Screw company here in
Jackson that sells fasterners.
cuhulin

In article ,
says...
Back in the olden days,all companies had names like Acme or Ace.(unless
it was a company in the old Three Stooges movies such as,We
Beatem,Cheatem & Screwem) There is an Ace Bolt & Screw company here in
Jackson that sells fasterners.
cuhulin




I used to work for a place with many names:

AAA plumbing
Action Plumbing
AAA Able plumbing

And about 8 more. They used to look up customers that called on a giant
rolodex thing, and if they had problems with them under another name,
they made sure they never saw that name this time. They had a ton of
magnetic signs.

They sent me to a house one day with a water heater, and never told me
to cover the actual company name up with one of the other ones. The
owner of the house sees my truck and goes ballistic. He was going to
call the police if we didn't leave immediately.

I got chewed out, even though it wasn't my fault. At that point, I knew
two things:

I was way too honest to work there much longer

I was going to get fired soon. And I did.

I had a job 3 days later, so I didn't give a ****.


BDK

wrote in message
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I seem to recall the name "Minimus-7"


They are great, I use them on 3 of my receivers with RS DSP 40's (5 watts
out) to drive them. RM~

Michael Lawson wrote:
wrote in message
What speakers are available in durable die-cast housings these days?

You can find minimus-7's and 77's on eBay.

I did, they arrived, I hooked them up and after a couple of hours they
were just like my other 15-year old Minimus-7's - the foam surround
crumbled and fell off the driver.

Well, now I have 6 Minimus-7's, 5 with basically zero foam surround
left and one that's just on the verge of falling into pieces.

I gotta learn how to fix these foam surrounds! Either that or buy some
brand new drivers.

Tim.

On 3 Feb 2006 18:00:41 -0800, wrote:

Michael Lawson wrote:
wrote in message
What speakers are available in durable die-cast housings these days?

You can find minimus-7's and 77's on eBay.

I did, they arrived, I hooked them up and after a couple of hours they
were just like my other 15-year old Minimus-7's - the foam surround
crumbled and fell off the driver.

Well, now I have 6 Minimus-7's, 5 with basically zero foam surround
left and one that's just on the verge of falling into pieces.

I gotta learn how to fix these foam surrounds! Either that or buy some
brand new drivers.

Tim.

Refoam Kits from Burbank:

http://www.speakercity.com/Merchant2...e=refoamkitstd

wrote:

[...] the foam surround
crumbled and fell off the driver.

Well, now I have 6 Minimus-7's, 5 with basically zero foam surround
left and one that's just on the verge of falling into pieces.

I gotta learn how to fix these foam surrounds! Either that or buy some
brand new drivers.

Tim.

Look in your phone book for "speaker repair." The foam disintegrating
happens a lot in dry climates, and if the voice coils aren't too
abraded, they can be replaced by a speaker repair tech.

The voice coils get abraded by using the speaker as the foam is
disintegrating, and they wear against the surrounding magnet and
frame.

--
Eric F. Richards

"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- Myron Glass,
often attributed to J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940