bigmanjbmopar
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Just picked up this kit.
https://reconingspeakers.com/product/delco-4x10-diy-standard-recone-kit/
Had been fretting about the old speaker, funny story bought an old AM only thumb wheel of ebay guys said he didn't know if it worked or not. me being me had to take it apart and try to fix it. found an old dirt dobers nets in there got that cleaned up checked everything else and it fired right up of course with an antenna plugged in.
Get it installed in the car and wow old am stations coming to life. Get on the road and get to cranking up a ball game (last spring) and all of a sudden pow little pop and no more sound, first thought dam radio was bad and just blew out.
Get home take the radio out, don't see anything wrong, start scratching my head, sleep on it and during the night it hits me hey check the speaker, sure as shit pulled it out and it had just disintegrated lol
I guess the old paper was just too brittle and I got one more good blast out of it before it went out. So I was looking at getting a new one, even one of those dual ones etc and thought man the cost of everything is just going up and up wtf? then yesterday I get an idea, wonder if it can be fixed start looking around and find that not only can you recone your old busted speaker but there are lots of videos on it as well as services to do it for you.
After cleaning up the old one I have and looking it over I thought man this is easy I just need the kit, start searching tonight and found this one. After looking for 4x10 speakers online this kit shipped to me was cheaper than an old NOS on or even a newer modern one. So what the heck give it a shot under $40 can't go wrong. I will take lots of pics when the kit shows up
Here is a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqkF_2ZBQ4Y
https://reconingspeakers.com/product/delco-4x10-diy-standard-recone-kit/
Had been fretting about the old speaker, funny story bought an old AM only thumb wheel of ebay guys said he didn't know if it worked or not. me being me had to take it apart and try to fix it. found an old dirt dobers nets in there got that cleaned up checked everything else and it fired right up of course with an antenna plugged in.
Get it installed in the car and wow old am stations coming to life. Get on the road and get to cranking up a ball game (last spring) and all of a sudden pow little pop and no more sound, first thought dam radio was bad and just blew out.
Get home take the radio out, don't see anything wrong, start scratching my head, sleep on it and during the night it hits me hey check the speaker, sure as shit pulled it out and it had just disintegrated lol
I guess the old paper was just too brittle and I got one more good blast out of it before it went out. So I was looking at getting a new one, even one of those dual ones etc and thought man the cost of everything is just going up and up wtf? then yesterday I get an idea, wonder if it can be fixed start looking around and find that not only can you recone your old busted speaker but there are lots of videos on it as well as services to do it for you.
After cleaning up the old one I have and looking it over I thought man this is easy I just need the kit, start searching tonight and found this one. After looking for 4x10 speakers online this kit shipped to me was cheaper than an old NOS on or even a newer modern one. So what the heck give it a shot under $40 can't go wrong. I will take lots of pics when the kit shows up
Here is a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqkF_2ZBQ4Y
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I have one to do also, show me the way
