Try this before replacing it.
Nutone door chime solenoid.
Technical advice door chime solenoids.
Looked for 3 years talked to electrician finally.
Here are the solenoid plunger assemblies on the chime base.
These are often the source of a non functioning chime.
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The 2 note long tube chime were made as early as 1939 and nutone continued offering them.
How to repair a door chime.
The most common problem is a dirty solenoid cylinder and plunger.
Nutone lb42 chime base plunger assemblies.
I just purchased this vintage telechron clock nutone door chime combination from ebay.
Had to use small oscillating saw to take out old.
The door chime was not working at all when i first tested it.
Now i have both solenoids working but the back door plunger seems to be too short.
Found a 1930 40 nutone brass door chime at a thrift store for five cents.
One of the most popular products nutone has made over the past 75 years are their long tube door chimes.
Use our interactive diagrams accessories and expert repair help to fix your nutone door chime.
If your door chime no longer provides the familiar tones and merely hums or buzzes you can probably fix it without too much trouble.
Solenoids are just a component of the mechanism but as they are most frequently the cause of trouble with of old chimes i devote a separate page to them.
Non operation is usually caused by time and age and also by well meaning homeowners spraying lubricants into the solenoids.
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Remove the cover of the chime unit.
Saved it til i could buy a little house installed it worked great a couple years then back door chime zip front door chime ding donk.
It s not that the soleniods fail they almost never do.
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