Re-tinseling

[7ender 10+ year member]

I have a BTL with broken tinsel leads.

If I want to replace them, do you think simply cutting them about 1/4" from the cone and soldering to that would be sufficient? And of course CA/epoxying that soldered area to the cone.

Or would I need to do the full tinsel replacement...ie taking off the dustcap, finding the coil leads and resolding to it from there?

I took apart a sub for the first time last night, (RE SX/MT softparts) and looking at the amount of CA glue covering the leads I don't think there's any way i'll be able to remove it all safely and resolder new leads on.

What would you guys do?

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[7ender 10+ year member]

hmm...nobody?

 

[prcwitt 10+ year member]

I have soldered onto the tinsel lead before it was kind of a pain nut it did work.But i ran speaker wire directly to the tinsel lead

 

[SPLaudio 5,000+ posts]

how u described it works PERFECT...

 

[Zeuslicious 5,000+ posts]

Sell it to me for cheap and i'll fix it haha

 

[7ender 10+ year member]

Anyone else? I took apart a sub yesterday, and there was so much CA glue over the tinsels/coil leads i'm pretty sure there's no way I'd be able to get to the tinsels without breaking the coil leads.

Is that how all subs are? I'd really like to do it this way because i'm not sure if simply cutting the tinsel and soldering to them method will be strong enough to hold on a btl...