[Vintage-Audio] OT? Speaker re-coning

[Phil (VA3UX)]

Good post Ed !.. Not one week ago I pryed the grills off my old AR-2's - 
they haven't been used in years. Nothin' but a ring of air where the foam 
used to be. I put the grills back on and thought, "I'll worry about that 
tomorrow. Yea, that's it. Tomorrow."  Well now I know what to do about 
it.  Thanks for the info.

Phil

At 11:35 AM 5/1/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>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  <n4xy@earthlink.net>
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