a thoroughly done job.

Lee Brenkman

Lee Brenkman

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Continuing the clean out of the storage spaces I bring you this cone and voice coil removed from a three way (18"-10" & horn) McCauley box after it had been used as a keyboard monitor for a three day run by the band Neurosis.

AFTER the end of the gig someone in the band got around to mentioning that said monitor had started "sounding thin" sometime on the second night.

I've removed and replaced or repaired a fair number of speakers in my time but this is the most thoroughly destroyed voice coil I've ever seen.

Should I put it in the dumpster or remove the voice coil and hang it on next year's tree?
 

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Re: a thoroughly done job.

I've seen much worse.

I've even MELTED a phase plug in a HF driver. I still keep it at my desk-just to prove it can be done.

It all depends on how much for how long the signal is applied.

heat is a killer.
 
Re: a thoroughly done job.

Gene Hardage said:
It's a toss up for what can be the more brutal to a speaker - keys or DJ's. So nobody noticed any magic smoke at the time huh?!
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The smoke was just part of the show.

I have actually had a couple of speakers caught on fire-back in my days.

The first by itself catching on fire and this was BEFORE the band started playing. Just playing background music. That one still baffles me.

2: One by fireworks landing on top of the cabinet.

3: The wildest one was when I was lazy and didn't want to pull out the trees for the par cans for the gig. The band talked me into giving them lights for free-so I didn't run a controller and just plugged them in. After a little while the carpet on top caught on fire and I had left my fire extinguisher in the truck. Several people in the wedding party were shaking up bottle of coke and mountain dew and spraying them on the cabinet-while I ran for the fire extinguisher.

No real damage-but I carried the extinguisher to the side of the stage after that.

That does not count the probably HUNDREDS of drivers that have pumped out lots of smoke during gigs over the years. Just the ones that produced flames.

I got into reconing to save myself money. And to make some more on the side.
 
Re: a thoroughly done job.

Bennett Prescott said:
Nice one, Gramps! I've seen a little worse, but that is pretty excellently done.
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You should see the 18" that Langston was "playing with" with a Lab Gruppen 14K bridged into it.

He was looking for distortion and drove the amp into full limit with Don Keeles burst tones-without realizing it. He was in a hurry and-well things happen. OOPS

Can you say "launched"? So so much burnt-hugly overexcursioned and some serious "crashing down". Little wires all over the place.
 
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