The Klipsch resurrection

Tin, do you do sidejobs or mainly just personal projects? I have a pair of Large Advents that you recommended in your other thread that need re-coning that I've been too lazy/chickenshit to do.
 
Birdie2000 said:
Tin, do you do sidejobs or mainly just personal projects? I have a pair of Large Advents that you recommended in your other thread that need re-coning that I've been too lazy/chickenshit to do.
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Didnt they just need the foam surrounds? Can you send me a pic?
 
Oh, yeah, re-foaming is what I meant. I was thinking of the cone because of having to put those spacers and such in to align it.
 
Large Advents have a very loose voice coil tolerance, you shouldnt have to use shims to align it. The trick is to lightly exercise the cone back and forth while the glue is still tacky. This should center the voice coil.
 
remove them

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install them

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And how unwound can that be? lol

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347convert said:
HUH? lol. its way to intricate for me.
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Youll just have to solder the wires to the binding posts. Strip some wire, bend it into a half-circle, set it on top of the solder point on the binding post, heat with soldering iron, touch some solder to it, make sure it has a shiny look...done ;). Just dont do it in your undies, hot solder makes for a bad dick hickey.
 
One down! Man, this is tedious work. Coming along great though.

All new wiring, new ground bus, new caps, and a little cleanup. The ground bus is the bare wire you see connecting all of the negative terminals.

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A comparison to the stock crossover.

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got2boostit2 said:
So Tin are you the man for stereo repair? Know anything about B&O turntables? Also have a pair of Infinity speakers I'd like to recondition (son-in-law blew then out years ago). Oh, and wanted La Scala's back in the day, just no room in my cribs for those monsters.
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Wow I cant believe I missed this one. Which Infinities are they? Are you sure something is blown or are the foam surrounds rotted off of the woofers? Infinity mostly uses foam material to attach the speaker cone to the frame, and they rot out after about 15 to 20 years.
 
Tin said:
Wow I cant believe I missed this one. Which Infinities are they? Are you sure something is blown or are the foam surrounds rotted off of the woofers? Infinity mostly uses foam material to attach the speaker cone to the frame, and they rot out after about 15 to 20 years.
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Foam is rotted off (blown in my mind). I'll have to remember to look at the model. It was a cheapie pair of bookshelf speakers I bought in college....er...mid seventies......er. Just could not throw them away.
 
got2boostit2 said:
Foam is rotted off (blown in my mind). I'll have to remember to look at the model. It was a cheapie pair of bookshelf speakers I bought in college....er...mid seventies......er. Just could not throw them away.
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Get me the model number and Ill see about fixing them :)
 
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