One Cone Mis-aligned?

Squishman

Squishman

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My RS-3000's just arrived via Fed-Ex and one may have been damaged in shipping. One cone is bent to the right. I was going to install new surrounds myself, Now it appears I'll have to bring them in to Midwest Speaker to have it diagnosed and repaired professionally. What are your thoughts on this? Does it look serious? @TLS Guy or anyone!
 

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TLS Guy

TLS Guy

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My RS-3000's just arrived via Fed-Ex and one may have been damaged in shipping. One cone is bent to the right. I was going to install new surrounds myself, Now it appears I'll have to bring them in to Midwest Speaker to have it diagnosed and repaired professionally. What are your thoughts on this? Does it look serious? @TLS Guy or anyone!
It could be a bad surround replacement job, or the suspension is damaged. Remove the driver and examine the rear suspension. Likely this driver needs a total reconing.
 
Squishman

Squishman

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It could be a bad surround replacement job, or the suspension is damaged. Remove the driver and examine the rear suspension. Likely this driver needs a total reconing.
I removed the driver. The basket looks fine. The cone itself also looks fine. It's how it sits inside that is bent, although, that might be part of the cone for all I know. I do not know much about the internal structure of a driver. I watched about 10 different videos on repairing the surrounds. That was all for naught if I have to bring these in. They have such crap hours at Midwest. Tuesday-Friday 10 am to 4. Just heinous for me to get up there during that window of time. But if I must, I will. I'll look into shipping them to Roseville. Anyone else have a clue what's going on here structurally? If that one needs re-coning, I'd have to do them both obviously.
 
Verdinut

Verdinut

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Most of the suspension is missing. Those drivers had foam suspension that dried. New foam suspension would need to be installed, and it would require to have the exact compliance as the original. That's about impossible to find nowadays. IMO best thing to do is to return them for refund if you can. The seller is a swindler.
 
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Squishman

Squishman

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Most of the suspension is missing. Those drivers had foam suspension that dried. New foam suspension would need to be installed, and it would require to have the exact compliance as the original. That's about impossible to find nowadays. IMO best thing to do is to return them for refund if you can. The seller is a swindler.
Suspension? The surrounds? Those only last 20-25 years. Of course I bought them knowing that. I am referring to the cone being bent to the right. He is not a swindler. Bad packer, yes probably. Fed ex beat the h. e. double toothpicks out of the box. But you should anticipate that and pack them accordingly.
But this damage has nothing to do with the surrounds being deteriorated.

Hoping someone pipes in here to tell me what they think is going on here. You cannot simply move the cone leftwardly. It moves in and out like it is supposed to of course, but it is imoveable (is that a word?) to the left to make it straight or centered. I am not forcing it. Because something I do not understand is going on here.
 
Squishman

Squishman

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Oh, by the way, I know something happened during shipping. Based on minor cab damage also (that I fixed) and the condition of the box.
 
Squishman

Squishman

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TLS Guy looked them over and he says the cone and voice coil appear to be in fine shape. It just got shoved over a bit and was slightly jammed a bit but does not appear damaged. Then he offered to repair the surrounds for me so I left them there I am going to order the parts.
 
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