[Vintage-Audio] OT? Speaker re-coning

Wed May 1 12:23:07 2002

Hi Rick

I did refoaming on my pair of large advents with a kit
from www.partsexpress.com

Mike

--- Rick Gouge  VER7RiK <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thankyou Ed, I was looking for info on the speaker
> foam replacment. 73 Rick
> VE7RiK
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Tanton" <[email protected]>
> To: "Vintage-Audio" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:35 AM
> Subject: [Vintage-Audio] OT? Speaker re-coning
> 
> 
> > I don't know if this is OT or not... but thought
> I'd mention that I am
> > in the process of 'reconing' (it really should be
> called: "refoaming")
> > my AR-91 speakers. Old speakers with foam
> surrounds (it's a circle of
> > foam that connects the main cone to the edge in
> the largest speaker
> > [woofer/etc] in a so-called "bookshelf" speaker)
> have them 'rot' (that's
> > what they call it-the foamed plastic stuff
> literally disintegrates) and
> > hence fail. I let mine sit for several years after
> they did this, and
> > finally got my courage up and bought a replacement
> kit (~$30 for the
> > pair.)
> >
> > You can do a search on "speaker reconing" or, I
> dealt with:
> > <http://www.simplyspeakers.com/2doityourself.htm>.
> Their phone serrvice
> > and subsequent kit was very satisfactory. A small
> generic pamphlet on
> > how to do it, the 2 foam surrounds specifically
> for my speakers, and
> > more than enough glue for the job. Commercial
> estimates on this job
> > seemed to be over $100 each plus shipping.
> >
> > Wow. It's not that hard to do, and works like a
> million. I just wanted
> > to put this out for others who may have thought
> they had to junk a
> > perfectly good-otherwise-set of expensive
> speakers.
> >
> > 73  Ed Tanton  N4XY  <[email protected]>
> >
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