Well in the end I bought a Faital Pro 3FE25-4 speaker from a German online retailer since it was described as a "drop-in" replacement for the original speaker. Cost was 14.85 but more than that for transport by DHL unfortunately. Dismantling the SB Radio is fiddly but not hard - you do need some very small Torx screwdriver bits (two different sizes). Obviously disconnect the battery pack first (if you have one) - this will also allow you to push the facia out from the case from behind rather than prise it out from the front.. Definitely the hardest part (as suggested in Joe's blog) is getting the actual speaker removed, because the four fixing srews have been waxed in, and removing the wax is a real PITA. In the end I had to use long-nose pliers to get the screws started, and the heads were pretty wrecked by the time I got them out. Fortunately. I had some similar sized items in my "assorted small screws" box - with simple Philips heads so much easier to fix - and no wax this time. Oh - and removing the foam circle from the old speaker (presumably some form of damper) required a thin blade and some ripe Anglo-Saxon! Super-glued on to the back of the new one. Interestingly, the Faital speaker is heavier than the original one (548gm v 496gm), even though the magnet assembly looks smaller. The new speaker is still a bit "tight" and needs to be run in for a while, but it sounds much better than the farty old one.
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