[Scott Dorsey]

jakdedert wrote:
No kidding. I bought a dud 57, couple of years ago, figuring I could
take advantage of Shure's $45 flat-fee refurb. Opening it up, I could
see that the voice coil wire was broken at the solder joint to the
terminal strip that connects to the transformer leads.

Long, Long story short, it took me about two hours to splice little bits
of wire to the broken one, get it all reassembled without breaking it
again, and redoing it when that failed.

But I did get a working 57 out the effort for cheap, if you don't count
the time....

It's a good skill to have. While it's not worth the money saved to do
this on an SM-57, once you get the hang of doing it on an SM-57, you
will be able to do it on an EV 666, And it sure is worth the money on
a 666....
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."