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Old woofer salvage?

Delsan

Delsan

Nov 21, 2015
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So I have this old 10" woofer from a GK Neo 410...It was making unpleasant buzzing sounds in my cab, so I replaced it.

Question, can these be salvaged by people who know how to do amp repairs? I really have no use for it, figure I could let someone who knows what to do with it have it. I'm not trying to make this a sale thread since I really don't know if it's good for anything, but if you want it, here's your opportunity
 
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Ok
jazzbass_5 said:
I've recone some speakers and it's really not that hard, just need to find the recone kit and decide if the cost of the kit is worth the repair in comparison to the cost of the speaker.
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Except that's not a stock speaker in any regard (assuming it's one of GK in-house built speaker) and my understanding from talking with a forumite regarding a similar problem, recone kits are not available. The challenge is the combination of parts. While they might be available to a recone shop with access to the industry parts suppliers, by ordering individual components by measurement then creating a kit from them, it's a costly way to create the kit and takes a lot of time because some the measurements need to be within a few thousandths of an inch to work. The driver (and most drivers) is not valuable enough to do down this particular road, generally the driver needs to be worth a couple hundred dollars (or be unobtanium) to make this worthwhile.

I would check with GK to see if a kit might be available, even if it is, it might be cheaper just to buy the new driver.
 
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agedhorse said:
Ok

Except that's not a stock speaker in any regard (assuming it's one of GK in-house built speaker) and my understanding from talking with a forumite regarding a similar problem, recone kits are not available. The challenge is the combination of parts. While they might be available to a recone shop with access to the industry parts suppliers, by ordering individual components by measurement then creating a kit from them, it's a costly way to create the kit and takes a lot of time because some the measurements need to be within a few thousandths of an inch to work. The driver (and most drivers) is not valuable enough to do down this particular road, generally the driver needs to be worth a couple hundred dollars (or be unobtanium) to make this worthwhile.

I would check with GK to see if a kit might be available, even if it is, it might be cheaper just to buy the new driver.
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The recones I did were 18" emience omegas. The cone kit was worth the cost the speakers were given to me :)
 
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jazzbass_5 said:
The recones I did were 18" emience omegas. The cone kit was worth the cost the speakers were given to me :)
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Right, fairly expensive speakers and (factory) kits are available as well. One advantage of the Omegas (and many of larger Eminence speakers) the is that they are fairly easy due to the geometry of the basket and relatively large, wider tolerance gap. There are others (such as the shallow JBL models) which leave no room for error (either in labor or parts tolerances)
 
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agedhorse said:
Right, fairly expensive speakers and (factory) kits are available as well. One advantage of the Omegas (and many of larger Eminence speakers) the is that they are fairly easy due to the geometry of the basket and relatively large, wider tolerance gap. There are others (such as the shallow JBL models) which leave no room for error (either in labor or parts tolerances)
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Agreed, I farted out a pair of Emience Kappa pro 10s and it wasn't worth the recone kit to repair them.
 
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