Speaker cones and little kids...

[DeafinONEear]

So I scored some home-theater-type monitors from my girlfriends house as everyone is moving out and no-one wanted them, so I'm like, "ok, one can always use a set of Super-Sized Auratones" and so I check them out and thier cones have been dented in by on of her roommates' little brothers...

so before I go off on my idea to try and gently suck them back up with a slightly tilted vaccum, anyone have any ideas for sucking out speaker cones?

[wenzel.hellgren]

If it is just the dustcap in the center of the speaker that is dented, this shouldn't affect sound quality of the cone.

If the cone itself is mashed, I'd suggest reconing or opening the back and pushing the cone back into place.

[DeafinONEear]

it's the nipple of two cones.

[bobbydj]

uh huh uh huh

[biasvoltage]

I pulled the dustcaps back out on a pair of JBL's I found in a trash heap when I was in high school by taking a pin and making a tiny hole in the epicenter of the dented part, then working the head of the pin into the hole and gently pulling the dustcap back into shape. It worked really well and the pinhole was too small to spot when I was done. The speakers later died when I tried to use them as PA mains.

[wenzel.hellgren]

If it's just the nipple it shouldn't matter, except for cosmetic reasons. the sound comes from the cone surrounding the center, the nipple in the middle is just a dust cap AFAIK.

You could remove them, fix 'em by hand, and glue em back on if they are separate paper/plastic than the cone.

I had a 15" bass cab with a metal cap in the center, durring one gig a huge chunk of the cap blew off. Made me feel like a tough guy of course. Didn't affect the sound one bit (that I noticed, distorted guitar on stage isn't audiophile quality...).

[Professor]

Usually little kids kill the dome tweeters, I'm impressed they actually killed the dust cap at the center of a woofer. I know my personal favorite trick for tweeters is tape. Start with scotch tape, then masking tape, then maybe gaff tape, eventually you will find ont that it sticky enough to hold onto the material and pull it back to right, and then peel off. Obviously it's harder with paper than say polypropelene or other materials, but it should work.

-Jeremy

[wenzel.hellgren]

Professor, great idea. I've got a dome tweeker that got pushed in, tape sounds like a great idea to pull it out.

[thunderboy]

I've gotten great results with superglue, believe it or not. A tiny bit on the end of a very narrow piece of card stock/heavy paper - let it set, pull the dustcap back into shape then carefully cut it away with a razor blade. I had to do this many times with my old 15" bass cab. I think I did it once with rubber cement with good results as well.

jt

[DeafinONEear]

cool ideas... thanks!

[hethaerto]

You could mash in the other cone centers for a uniform appearance.
Allen

[DeafinONEear]

You could mash in the other cone centers for a uniform appearance.
Allen

man, if there were more people with brains your size walking around this earth, there would be no war, no hunger and 24 hour orgasms!
brilliant!

[vvv]

Toilet plunger, or one of them body & fender dent-pullers.

[Rick Hunter]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAH he said nipple...HAHAHAHAHAHAHa

[markpar]

If you do decide to use tape, get some low-tack masking tape (like you use for painting and naming channels on the console) from some place like Home Depot.

-mark