Recone Video

[macaroonie]

Here is a fellah fixin up a bass driver. Not a JBL but the video is good enough to give you the bones of the process. He does have some 'interesting' techniques but he gets there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBESgmThEOo&feature=related

[rs237]

sorry reconing without spider and without voice coil ????

regards

juergen

[clubman]

The finger as a glue applicator is nice touch. :blink:

[JBL 4645]

I rated the video awesome, :D so what was with soldering iron during the first few minutes. The heat glue gun nice touch at sealing the cone with the coil section nice.

[macaroonie]

He is using the soldering iron to soften the glue attatching the old cone residue to the coil former. He retains the old coil and spider. I'm not at all sure why he does not refoam only but hey neat enough job once he is done.

[Allanvh5150]

But I dont think I would trust him with any of my JBL,s.:)

[priji]

Interesting techniques and very good results

Thank you :applaud:

[ratitifb]

i'm not a reconer but i'm affraid about
1- over heating voice coil
2- voice coil support tube rolling and deformation of the cone shape during reconing work?

30Hz tone test after glueing ?

[gonzothegreat]

I wouldn't trust the woofers from a pair of Panasonic Thrusters to this hack. I could see replacing the cone/surround assy if it was warped or torn but this driver looked OK except for the surround. Go figure. The theme from MacGyver was a bit tacky IMHO.

FYI there was a video elsewhere on YT of the rotary woofer unfortunately it consists of a quick shot of it in action and two guys going "Whoa" in their best impression of Keanu Reeves. Too bad we can't HEAR the bass the thing is cranking out because of the crappy YT audio (just like all the "MASSIVE SUBWOOFER DEMO" vids). Dumbasses...