Changing dust cap on Fi BTL

[Jager 10+ year member]

I keep blowing the dustcap off of my btl. It is starting to pull the cone up. and it looks ugly. Can I get a larger diameter dustcap to cover where the old one went and where the cone started to peel, or will that make the sub sound different?

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[GLN305 10+ year member]

The BTL probably has a 6'' or smaller dustcap on it, so you can put an 8'' on it. Fixmyspeaker.com has them as do a few other companies. The sub should sound the same after the dustcap change.

 

[97maxima 10+ year member]

might want to take the time to glue the dustcap on properly. what are you using for glue?

 

[mast240 10+ year member]

^^^ this.... make sure you use proper CA glue on it, to seal properly

 

[Jager 10+ year member]

Yea I wish I would have just used CA glue, but a lot of people on here recommended Goop... and it did a horrible job. The dustcap started coming of at a comp, and a guy there had ca glue and he fixed it for me, and the CA is holding strong, but the other half that was still help down by goop has pulled apart again. Ill take pics to show what im talking about, I just want a bigger dust cap to hide the peeling cone

 

[mast240 10+ year member]

who the hell, on here, recommended goop bro? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif

 

[Jager 10+ year member]

http://www.caraudio.com/forums/subwoofers/308686-ca-glue-dustcap-reattachment.html

i dont think i researched as much as i should of though... goop was just easiest for me to find. laziness on my part. but i did take extra care to sand dustcap flat again and get it ready to be reglued. goop just didnt hold it

 

[pro-rabbit 5,000+ posts]

I have never had good luck with the few times I tried to use(this was years ago though). I stick with higher end CA glue now.

 

[slim2fattycake 10+ year member]

I used goop for dish dust caps. But You have to give it good pressure for a long time for it to set.

 

[mast240 10+ year member]

http://www.caraudio.com/forums/subwoofers/308686-ca-glue-dustcap-reattachment.html
i dont think i researched as much as i should of though... goop was just easiest for me to find. laziness on my part. but i did take extra care to sand dustcap flat again and get it ready to be reglued. goop just didnt hold it

just read through that whole post... you had a few people giving you good advice, and a bunch of people giving you bad.... sounds about right for this site, lol

 

[Dirtrider4eva 10+ year member]

or some heavy apoxy...

but your going to need to remove the excess from the first two times before you decide to reattach it.

 

[Jager 10+ year member]

So what brand of CA glue would you recommend using?

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

Yea I wish I would have just used CA glue, but a lot of people on here recommended Goop... and it did a horrible job. The dustcap started coming of at a comp, and a guy there had ca glue and he fixed it for me, and the CA is holding strong, but the other half that was still help down by goop has pulled apart again. Ill take pics to show what im talking about, I just want a bigger dust cap to hide the peeling cone

You're donitrong. Goop > CA glue for dustcaps. There's a couple guys around here that do 160+ and that's all they use. I do a lot of recones and I've had far fewer fail that I used goop on.