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<blockquote data-quote="DNick454" data-source="post: 5959482" data-attributes="member: 600755">It&#039;s possible the basket was bent and that the surround landing, spider landing, and voice coil gap weren&#039;t perfectly alined linearly and the voice coil just rubbed itself to death. I would try and figure out exactly what caused the issue before dropping more cash on a recone if it may do the same thing again. The sub very may well have been dropped during shipping and bent the basket just slightly.If you&#039;re sure that the basket is good and want to recone it. Then I suggest taking compressed air or a vacuum and getting all large particles out of the voice coil gap. Then take a business card and put some tape over it with the sticky side out and slide it in the voice coil gap and run it around a few times to pick up any smaller particulates. Lastly, take some acetone or some kind of alcohol based cleaner and wipe it in the gap with a paper towel wrapped over another business card. Let it dry, and make sure the new recone kit is installed and the voice coil is perfectly centered in the gap. Once the recone is installed, press on the sub and listen for any rubbing or any noise for that matter. If you hear anything....ANYTHING, don&#039;t bother powering it up because you&#039;re just going to throw more money down the drain by cooking another recone.Hope this helps.Nick</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DNick454, post: 5959482, member: 600755"] It's possible the basket was bent and that the surround landing, spider landing, and voice coil gap weren't perfectly alined linearly and the voice coil just rubbed itself to death. I would try and figure out exactly what caused the issue before dropping more cash on a recone if it may do the same thing again. The sub very may well have been dropped during shipping and bent the basket just slightly. If you're sure that the basket is good and want to recone it. Then I suggest taking compressed air or a vacuum and getting all large particles out of the voice coil gap. Then take a business card and put some tape over it with the sticky side out and slide it in the voice coil gap and run it around a few times to pick up any smaller particulates. Lastly, take some acetone or some kind of alcohol based cleaner and wipe it in the gap with a paper towel wrapped over another business card. Let it dry, and make sure the new recone kit is installed and the voice coil is perfectly centered in the gap. Once the recone is installed, press on the sub and listen for any rubbing or any noise for that matter. If you hear anything....ANYTHING, don't bother powering it up because you're just going to throw more money down the drain by cooking another recone. Hope this helps. Nick [/QUOTE]

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