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Step 11
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The speaker is fastened to the case with small clips held down by two nuts.
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Use a 5mm nutdriver to loosen the nuts.
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You may find the space a bit tight to fit a nutdriver in close to the case edge. If so, you can try using needlenose pliers instead to loosen the nuts.
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Once the nuts are loosened, you can separate the speaker from the case.
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Step 12
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Here's the circuit board, earphone jack and speaker after they've been removed from the case.
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Notice that there are components mounted on both sides of the circuit board. Perhaps the resistors and capacitors on the solder-side were a last minute design change?
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On the other hand, the circuit board is so tightly crammed on the component side there probably wasn't enough room for everything on one side.
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Step 14
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Here's the component side of the circuit board.
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You can see the various components in these views of the circuit board. Remember, these are all discrete components here -- no integrated circuits! But state of the art at the time, a lot of circuitry crammed into a small space.
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Six of the gray components with an oval cross-section (marked or stamped with "Sony") are transistors.
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The 7th similar looking gray component is a varistor. It's the one at the front left of the circuit board in the 3rd photo in this series.
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Say, do they still teach the resistor colour code in schools these days? :)
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