where can i find parts for some old model 5's

OpusRob
OpusRob Posts: 2
edited August 2006 in Vintage Speakers
I am new to this forum, and very pleased to have found it, since I have had a tremendous experience with my model 5's from 1983. One of them is a little sick - my kids knocked it off the stand, broke the banana post and damaged the mid range cone. Is there a way to get a replacement driver somewhere on this site, or directly through Polk? Would it be relatively close to the original, or even a vintage part?

Thanks for any help you can give, and thanks for having such a cool forum!
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  • DollarDave
    DollarDave Posts: 2,575
    edited August 2006
    OpusRob wrote:
    I am new to this forum, and very pleased to have found it, since I have had a tremendous experience with my model 5's from 1983. One of them is a little sick - my kids knocked it off the stand, broke the banana post and damaged the mid range cone. Is there a way to get a replacement driver somewhere on this site, or directly through Polk? Would it be relatively close to the original, or even a vintage part?

    Thanks for any help you can give, and thanks for having such a cool forum!

    Welcome! Here you go -

    http://clubpolk.polkaudio.com/service/models/
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited August 2006
    Welcome. Sorry about the Polks. Polk customer service is great. Click the telephone contact button in the top right corner of this page for their number. They can help you. Mention that you are a member of the forum and they may give you a discount on replacement driver. What do you mean by damaged? Did it tear the cone area or just the center dust cover, which may be fixable.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited August 2006
    If you need a replacement binder, email me dorokusai@comcast.net and I'll send you an original for free. Just let me know if it's black or red...and that you have some mechanical ability ;)

    My fellow patriots offer good advice and I'll only add that if, you need a new mid-bass driver...yes, it's an equivalent. You may even think about upgrading the tweeters(RD0194) in that gem, as they are miles above the original.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • OpusRob
    OpusRob Posts: 2
    edited August 2006
    Thanks to you all for your help. I am going to get busy working on this little project before the school year gets going and I lose all my time. I have a friend with significant technical savvy who can help. He describes the problem in terms that I can't reproduce adequately, but my understanding is that something inside the driver is off-center, due probably to the fall that caused the demise of the banana coupler. You can push the driver slightly to one side and the vibration stops, but when you let it go a nasty vibration slowly returns. As a temporary measure, I reached inside of the dust cover papery thing and pushed until the speaker acted as it should and then replaced the speaker in such a way as to let gravity help us, but the vibration returns at higher volumes, which leads me to believe that replacing it is the best option. I hope this makes sense to those who know the terminology.
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