digital designs recone?

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

when i cut the dustcap off, how am i making the cut, right in the center of the glue, at as close to the angle of the cone as i can get? do i need to be careful about depth of the cut?

if it is a cold solder joint or something, wouldnt that be a manufacturer defect that they would replace free or at reduced cost? just shipping the ****ed thing back and forth will be a good 80 bucks.

 

[trebor 10+ year member]

when i cut the dustcap off, how am i making the cut, right in the center of the glue, at as close to the angle of the cone as i can get? do i need to be careful about depth of the cut?
if it is a cold solder joint or something, wouldnt that be a manufacturer defect that they would replace free or at reduced cost? just shipping the ****ed thing back and forth will be a good 80 bucks.

Call them about the recone kit, I started working there today and they mentioned something about sending out recones sometimes.

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

any word on taking the dustcap off? i'd hate to take it off, fix the problem then find out i screwed it up to where i can't reattach it and need a recone anyway.

 

[NDMstang65 10+ year member]

Not sure how strong that 'carbon fiber' is..i've ripped it with my hand before. You may be able to smack it with a wrench and shatter it.

All you'd be out is a dustcap, if you need one i'll send it to you. Granted it won't be a carbon fiber one, but at least you may not be stuck doing a whole recone..

 

[boomin spl 10+ year member]

they use some nice wording on their description of the dust cap. carbon fiber-lol

 

[Redlineaudio 10+ year member]

if it is a cold solder joint or something, wouldnt that be a manufacturer defect that they would replace free or at reduced cost? just shipping the ****ed thing back and forth will be a good 80 bucks.

Shipping should not be that high. Hell you could drive it down to them.

 

[djman37 5,000+ posts]

if you have a composite cone 18 and composite dustcap, send it in. Composite 18 cones are like $345 and you don't want to purchase THAT field kit! maybe cut the surround and spiders from the former, cone and dustcap and send that in to be re-fitted into a kit? At that point, it'll be no different than a regular field kit.

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

so i cut the thing apart today. coil shows obvious signs of abuse, and one tinsel on each side is burned up just before it exits the spider. i'm assuming this is typical of blowing a sub by clipping/too much power and not of cold solder joints?

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

and what could have caused both to burn up like that at the same time, problem with my amp? like i said it was wanging just fine, i turned it down, when i turned it back up to where i normally have it if i'm bumping, it played about 1/4 second, paused the same amount of time, played another 1/4 second, then nothing.

amp wasnt showing any protection lights or anything out of the ordinary.

 

[yunvme666 10+ year member]

previous clipping and it was on its last few strands of tinsel..... i did that the first style 3515s.... them wires can only take so much heat ......good luck......

 

[DBDRAGGUY 10+ year member]

DD recones for my 9515's are $125 so the 18'' should be around the same. You will need to get some pics of the motor and serial # to show proof of what you are reconing.

 

[DBDRAGGUY 10+ year member]

so i cut the thing apart today. coil shows obvious signs of abuse, and one tinsel on each side is burned up just before it exits the spider. i'm assuming this is typical of blowing a sub by clipping/too much power and not of cold solder joints?

That is some serious discoloration on that coil as I have run over 4kw on a 95 coil and never had it look like that.I tend to find the limits of the suspension as the failing point on 95 series DD's. I am now running 10 layer spiders for some super stiffies.

 

[lincolntc690 10+ year member]

sorry to steal the thead but yunv u got pmed