recone

Hi AKers. I have a simple question for driver mavens: How much of the surround and spider weight should be included in calculating moving mass? Background: I am doing my first recone on a buzzing JBL 122A-1 woofer from an L166. The last service on this driver made a mess of it and I am...

Howdy- acquired a group of 605b Altecs- unfortunately several of them had been damaged because someone left them loose in cabinets with detached crossovers and ruined the cones. Both the the high and low frequency drivers function and show correct ohms. 2 questions- 1-since the voice coils...

I have never done DIY reconing but I am considering reconing two vintage 12" woofers. Has anyone used recone kits from Speaker Exchange or Simply Speakers? Details on the experience and pics would be great. Many thanks!

Hi guys, I recently acquired by dads old Altec and see that one of the woofers is original (or at least it seems to be without removing it, plus he doesn't recall ever messing with it), but the other has been re-coned with a different kind of cone, it has ridges and its shiny. I would like to...

Hi, I recently bought four speaker cabinets for 40 bucks, each one had an Altec Biflex 412c in really good shape in it (plus pretty cool triangular cabinets). All the speakers seem to be in pretty good shape except one. The outer cone of one has a small little hole in it, I will attach some...

Hello. Any recommendations on where to get my 10” woofer reconed? Preferably in the SF Bay Area, but willing to ship. It’s the woofer for my Beovox M75. I did an ugly refoam on it and there is a slight rubbing with voice coil. Speakers sounds good at lower volume, but starts to distort once...

Hey Guys - I'm planning on restoring my old JBL L100's that my father gave me long ago, but wife put me on a budget. I wish I had taken better care of them when younger as they are in rough shape and been through a lot. I'll definitely have to re-cone the woofers and refinish cabinets, but...

Hi everyone, I am currently in the process of restoring a pair of KEF 107s, complete with the original matching KUBE. They had a single previous owner who took good care of them, a retired sound engineer with a severely failing hearing—more on why that might be significant shortly. Talking to...

I just had a pair of speakers reconed trying to have them match so both channels would reproduce music the same way. Speaker #1 now measures 11.4 Ohms after recone Speaker #2 now measures 14 Ohms after recone What's up with this? Is it normal? Both are supposed to be 16 Ohm speakers. Please...

Hi there! Newbie to this forum This will be my first audio project. There is no one where I live in Maine that repairs hifi equipment. I'm looking to DIY refoam one of a set of speakers (the other was done about 10 years ago but one of them is dry rotted and first sounded blown and now is not...

Hello fellow Akers I hope you find yourselves well. I recently acquired a pair of JBL L7’s and one of the woofers looks like it got shot...not sure if it was hanging around all those looters and took a rubber bullet in the side :biggrin: Anyway, I’ve attached a picture so you all can see the...

Hello Fellow Ak’ers! I have a pair of D130’s that need to be re-comes and I wanted to see if anyone has any suggestions as to what recone kit I should use. And go figure, while writing this post I peeked inside the cabs and one D130 is 16ohm and one is 8 ohm and I thought they were both 8 ohm...

Ok, needed garage speakers as I spend a lot of time there and bought a yamaha receiver/amp from some CL guy who worked on speakers and loved JBL. A year later I have a cheapo set of JBL's, L100s, L40's, L88's (need help) and L150's (really need help) Learned about buying speakers in the dark...

Hello there fellow AK’ers I recently acquired a pair of DQ-10’s that needed the woofers refoamed, which I subsequently completed with good results. Upon closer inspection I noticed that the 5” drivers with rubber surrounds were also beginning to deteriorate so i removed the rubber surround but...

Hi all, longtime lurker first time poster. I have been looking for an inexpensive speaker restoration project to get my feet wet in some of the basics of speaker maintenance (refoaming and recapping) before I attempt to do it on my Dad's old AR4xas. Finally I found something that appeared to...

I've seen many posts where someone refers to a speaker being "reconed", even though the discussion is about replacing the foam surrounds, which I thought was termed a "refoam". Are the terms interchangeable? I always thought a "recone" would be replacing the cone and the surround. In fact...

Excited to get my newly acquired JBL L116 speakers working I purchased a recone kit online the other day. I successfully cleaned off of the rubber surrounds and cut ito the dust cap. Being the first time doing this I didn't pay attention to how deep the voice coil goes in to magnet. Any body...

I recently picked up a pair of Mirage M-460 speakers. I was amazed at the sound of these...not even considering the fact that one of the woofers needs repaired/replaced. Everything seems to be in pretty good shape on these except the one woofer...the surround seems to be pealing away from the...

Hey guys I looked around the net trying to find a recone kit without any luck. Would you guys know of a place to get a kit or even a replacement woofer that would be close to the original? A modern upgrade is fine but that would be last on the list.

Hi. Picked up a pair of Aegis One speakers pretty cheap. Noticed one cone was bent out of shape and the sound was off, but thought I could straighten it out. When I had them home and pulled out the driver, I realized there was a 1" split in the cone around the edge of the dustcap. Not...

I'm giving my son a pair of HPM 100's. They were out in my woodshop for many years and they both need a lot of work. re-veneer, new speaker fabric, Recap and recone both woofers and 1 mid and tweeter. I've never done a recone but I'm sure we could handle it. I'm usually good at finding whatever...

I've got a pair of old University Mustangs that the voice coil is seized and the accordion surround it petrified. I'd prefer to recone them rather than attempt to attach a new voice coil, spider and surround to the old cones. I emailed Midwest and Springfield speaker to see if they either had...

I have a pair of JBL LE8 Coaxial speakers with the Whizzer cones. Ohm readings are good on both and I was getting ready to refoam them, then discovered that one of them is rubbing on the coil. Not good. The other seems to be OK. So the question is what to do about the pair? Find someone to...

Hi, I have reacquired my BC3 speakers...lent to my son when he went to Africa 11 years ago. He is back and so are the speakers, both slightly the worse for wear. The HF2000 had separated due to humidity.. the surround came apart. I have repaired those and they work very well. As far as I can...

Recently I found a pair of Altec 19s for an unmentionable price. Let's just say it was a good deal ;) I just barely managed to fit them into my car! I had to remove the woofers and the horns in order to lift them. They are mighty heavy speakers after all. :) After I got them home I...