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[Phate]

So I had some shit in the trunk that I forgot about, and went for a drive over a winding road near my house.  Of course, things shifted around, and hit one of my subs, making a nice hole all the way through the dust cover and the cone.



There was an entire piece missing, which I had to shake out of it:


BTW, all of these are taken with the webcam in my laptop.  Batteries were dead in all my cameras.

I kinda had to pry up the cracked parts to get them to all go back on top of each other so the cracks could line up.


After using a shitload of superglue, and making patches with electrical tape on the inside of the cracks (to hold the glue up in there), I got the piece that broke out that I recovered wedged/half taped into place, and glued that in.  At this point I found out there was another shard missing, so I just said fuck it, and wadded up some electrical tape and glued it in.  If this fails, a new piece will be made out of JB weld. 


I figure, worst case, the thing is slightly messed up, but not leaking anymore, and I can use it until I buy another one to replace it for $50.  I just got sick of hearing the thing bottoming out even at lower volumes.  I guess I'll find out tomorrow.


These can't hurt either.

[turbohf]

Sasha Grey....

what where we talking about? 

[Phate]

Sasha Grey....

what where we talking about? 

lol, I figured you can never go too wrong with that.

[Jorsher]

mmm sasha grey

imma make her sasha white

[1slow91hf]

another good repair is

cover back of cone with duct tap
coat outside with just enough JB weld to cover
firmly press another piece of duct tape over the JB

[Doug]

Best repair is the trash can, crappy Kenwood subs

[Phate]

Best repair is the trash can, crappy Kenwood subs

If I had the cash to just replace these now, I would.  But this seems to work.  The tape/JB weld/tape was plan B, if this didn't work.  These subs also aren't bad at all for only costing $45 a pop.  I think I might have to add some epoxy to the repair, to make it just a little more solid with the rest of the cone.  But it doesnt leak anymore. They'd sound a whole lot better if I gave them all the power they wanted.  I'll eventually downsize to a single 10 or 12 running 4 or 500rms.  Its not a bad first system though.  Factory bose system from a nissan maxima, nigged to interface with my pioneer deck (including relays to turn on individual amplifiers, DIY RCA connections, etc), a profile mono amp for the subs, and the two kenwoods.

[Doug]

I have a 12" MTX Thunder sub, mad cheap brand new

[crttaz]

Drywall mesh joint tape and shoe goo.

[Phate]

seems to be holding up pretty well so far, and I've cranked it as loud as I ever have with some Pendulum.  And I still have my JB Weld for other things, which is pretty nice.