Repairing damaged cone?

[adulbrich 5,000+ posts]

I was cleaning my room today and set a 15" midbass driver out in the hallway. One of the dogs came to see what I was doing, and stepped on the cone //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

The speaker still works, but I'd like to fix the hole. It's just a speaker I use when I'm working out in the shop, so I don't care what it looks like.

I was thinking about cutting up a plastic milk carton and using epoxy to seal around the "patch". Any better ideas to seal the hole with something that won't flex too much, but also won't add a ton of mass? I really don't feel like reconing it right now. I'll just beat on it until it dies

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[Mímir]

I was cleaning my room today and set a 15" midbass driver out in the hallway. One of the dogs came to see what I was doing, and stepped on the cone //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif
The speaker still works, but I'd like to fix the hole. It's just a speaker I use when I'm working out in the shop, so I don't care what it looks like.

I was thinking about cutting up a plastic milk carton and using epoxy to seal around the "patch". Any better ideas to seal the hole with something that won't flex too much, but also won't add a ton of mass? I really don't feel like reconing it right now. I'll just beat on it until it dies

i know you aren't serious huh?

 

[BOOMINGRANDPA 5,000+ posts]

parts express here u come

 

[adulbrich 5,000+ posts]

parts express here u come

It's just a shop speaker that I have in a guitar monitor box. Nothing fancy. It just needs to make noise and not sound too bad. I'm not buying a recone for it.

If I had my bucket of polyester resin and 50 yards of fiberglass mat here in Iowa, I'd fiberglass it.

 

[BOOMINGRANDPA 5,000+ posts]

lol glass it, glass it lol.. duct tape will work maybe hot glue it on if it won't stick

 

[Mayhem]

Fill in with what parts of the cone you still have and glue them in.

I'd just fill in the rest with hot glue/epoxy or just duct tape it.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

Another vote for duct tape... possibly cut up a soda can and use a strip of aluminum. CA glue does aluminum nicely.

 

[adulbrich 5,000+ posts]

Nice, thanks guys

 

[Papermaker85 5,000+ posts]

Get some ******* hemp on that shit son. What's you malfunction?

 

[tymoto21 10+ year member]

Aluminum tape would be more ridged than duct tape

 

[Hertz Mafia]

Gorilla tape

 

[adulbrich 5,000+ posts]

I'm not just going to tape over the hole. Was looking for a more rigid solution. Tape alone would flex a ton, and would it really hold anything in place? I doubt it would stick to the cone very well