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<blockquote data-quote="Craig Hauber" data-source="post: 7339" data-attributes="member: 272">I&#039;m just stabbing in the dark here that someone may know some of these DIY repair answers.1)Does anybody have a good source for reconing parts? I have a hobby of restoring antique radios, speakers and backline and would like to rebuild some speakers.&nbsp; Need shims, glues and generic cones and spiders.Would also like to get started on more current speaker reconing too, figured the parts could work just as well for ancient speakers as well as more recent stuff2)What do you use to dissolve existing glues on cones.&nbsp; Would like to re-use some coils and spiders as I doubt they are replaceable.3)What do you use to seal the cloth accordion-type surrounds?&nbsp; I notice they don&#039;t hold air when you put them together fresh out of the cone-kit.4)I have some really old speakers (50&#039;s-60&#039;s) that have always-sticky goo on the cloth surrounds and some are dried out and cracking, what do you replace that goo with to make it sticky and pliable again?5) were ancient tube car radio field-coils battery voltage or something higher from the vibrator circuit.&nbsp; Were they part of the power supply like in home radios.&nbsp; (I&#039;m fixing one up that I can&#039;t find a schematic for and&nbsp; someone cut all the wires before I got it and trying to guess how it all goes together <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Thanks for any help</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Craig Hauber, post: 7339, member: 272"] I'm just stabbing in the dark here that someone may know some of these DIY repair answers. 1)Does anybody have a good source for reconing parts? I have a hobby of restoring antique radios, speakers and backline and would like to rebuild some speakers. Need shims, glues and generic cones and spiders. Would also like to get started on more current speaker reconing too, figured the parts could work just as well for ancient speakers as well as more recent stuff 2)What do you use to dissolve existing glues on cones. Would like to re-use some coils and spiders as I doubt they are replaceable. 3)What do you use to seal the cloth accordion-type surrounds? I notice they don't hold air when you put them together fresh out of the cone-kit. 4)I have some really old speakers (50's-60's) that have always-sticky goo on the cloth surrounds and some are dried out and cracking, what do you replace that goo with to make it sticky and pliable again? 5) were ancient tube car radio field-coils battery voltage or something higher from the vibrator circuit. Were they part of the power supply like in home radios. (I'm fixing one up that I can't find a schematic for and someone cut all the wires before I got it and trying to guess how it all goes together :-) Thanks for any help [/QUOTE]

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