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speaker dropped on floor, can it be saved?

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poomwah

Jan 26, 2008
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#1
ok, I posted this, but I'm not seeing it anywhere, so if it winds up posting later, sorry about the double.
anyway, a guy I've been emailing pulled one of the speakers out of his cabinet to see what it was and dropped it on the floor, about a 4 foot drop. said it landed face down and after he picked it up "the voice coil was rubbing" he hooked it back up and it doesn't work anymore.. is there any chance of saving it? or is replacement my only option?
 
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a guy I've been emailing pulled one of the speakers out of his cabinet to see what it was and dropped it on the floor, about a 4 foot drop. said it landed face down and after he picked it up "the voice coil was rubbing" he hooked it back up and it doesn't work anymore.. is there any chance of saving it? or is replacement my only option?


Just curious as to why you would be replacing a speaker for a guy you are emailing....

Perhaps you've been emailing yourself?:rollno:
 
#6
poomwah said:
ok, I posted this, but I'm not seeing it anywhere, so if it winds up posting later, sorry about the double.
anyway, a guy I've been emailing pulled one of the speakers out of his cabinet to see what it was and dropped it on the floor, about a 4 foot drop. said it landed face down and after he picked it up "the voice coil was rubbing" he hooked it back up and it doesn't work anymore.. is there any chance of saving it? or is replacement my only option?
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A drop like that will often shatter the epoxy bonding the magnet assembly together, which cannot be repaired.
 
#7
I'd be replacing it, because I was going to trade my 810 cabinet for his 115 and 210... and he offered to add some cash to the deal for dropping the speaker... so I needed to figure IF that would be necessary and if so how much it would cost.
so, no, I didnt drop it. If I had dropped it, the story would have been MUCH more colorful
 
#9
Hi.

^+1. A dropped speaker is seldom repairable. Obviously nothing prevents You from trying if the voice coil just popped out, the basket is warped etc. The speaker is junk anyway, You really can't make things any worse.

Detached magnet OTOH is a paper weight. I've "repaired" quite a few when I was younger. If You get any sound out of them longer than a sec or two, consider yourself lucky. The longest of mine was about 30 seconds or so, not bad for couple of hours worth of scraping, cleaning, centering and gluing :hmm: ;).

Regards
Sam
 
#14
I've never touched a speaker while it was being used before... is it normal to get a static like sound when you touch the cone on a speaker while its playing... the one that didn't get dropped does that :[
 
#16
billfitzmaurice said:
A drop like that will often shatter the epoxy bonding the magnet assembly together, which cannot be repaired.
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When I was a youngster I dropped a Jensen 15" er and the magnet completely broke off and the speaker was perfect otherwise.

I made the mistake of holding the magnet over the metal frame and trying to put them back together. The frame came flying up off the table and slammed together crunching the voice coil. I did fire it up and burned up the VC. Hey I was 15.

I called the local speaker reconing shop and they said NO PROBLEM, replaced the magnet where it needed to be and reconed. Of course my frame checked out OK. BOB
 
#17
The good news is that if you DO detach the magnet from the basket..... now you can find all those pesky nails from the last time the roof was replaced........ Tie a rope to it and drag it through the grass, you'll find 'em all.....

Aside from that, dropped speaker is generally NFG afterwards.
 

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