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I lost my screws! (out of my compression drivers....) [message #36536] Mon, 20 May 2002 13:15 Go to next message
Adam is currently offline  Adam
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I was looking through my parts today and I noticed that I have lost two out of the six screws used to hold the diaphrams onto my Eminence PSD 2002 compression drivers.

I had to remove them because they got cooked and I'll have new diaphrams for them soon. However, I won't be able to mount them properly without these screws :(

Does anybody know exactly what they are so I can get some more? I know it's annoying because they are such small parts but they are rather important.

Wayne, you got any extras kickin' around?

Adam

I'm curious [message #36537 is a reply to message #36536] Mon, 20 May 2002 15:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
dbeardsl is currently offline  dbeardsl
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I'm curious as to how you toasted those diaphragms.

Was it a freak accident, some wires touched, or a power surge?

Or was it just plain high power use, melting the coils or ripping the suspension?

I like that every part that could break in my 4 Pi's will be 50$ or less :-)

Re: I'm curious [message #36539 is a reply to message #36537] Mon, 20 May 2002 15:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Adam is currently offline  Adam
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Well actually I didn't break them. My school did. They were from the speakers I sold my school. It was either amp clippage or just overpowering. Yes I know you are surprised by the overpowering, but I sold them the speakers like a year and a half ago and I didn't put an L-pad on the CD (!!!!). In any event, when I took them all apart, the wires were melted in a couple places on the coil, the 'sourround' on the diaphram was cracked in a couple places I guess from overexcursion, and some of the coil windings had come off, they were in pretty rough shape.

I still have them around here somewhere.

Adam

Re: I'm curious [message #36540 is a reply to message #36539] Mon, 20 May 2002 16:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Oh, anyway what happened was when they returned them to me to fix, I just took the diaphragms out of two other 2002's I had laying around, doing nothing. So for a while I have just had the magnets in the drawer with no diaphragm. I'm preparing to build a bass reflex system with those 2002's plus my spare Kappa 15's so I can sell it and make some quick cash (hopefully).

Too bad the quick cash means I have to invest in new diaprhams and about $150 dollars in crossover parts plus box materials :(

Adam

small screws [message #36541 is a reply to message #36540] Mon, 20 May 2002 16:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Paul C. is currently offline  Paul C.
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I would assume Eminence uses American threads... I don't know. But both American threads and metric, in a number of small sizes and lengths can be found at your nearest hobby shop. Look for shops that cater to R/C model airplane and R/C car racers. The Dubro airplane hardware has many sizes from 2-56 to 8-32 thread, and the R/C car hardware (orange and yellow packaging) has a lot of metric sizes.
Re: I lost my screws! (out of my compression drivers....) [message #36543 is a reply to message #36536] Mon, 20 May 2002 17:14 Go to previous message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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You definitely must have used a different crossover than we do.

I keep a stock of replacement diaphragms, but I have to admit that very, very few people need them. In fact, I've never sold any at all. Crossing them over 3rd order at 1600 with 10dB attenuators - No way to blow 'em. A person would need a few thousand watts of full-power screaming siren sound or something, and even that would take out the protection bulb first.

Anyway, I'll check the screw sizes later tonight. I can't do it right now, but I'll check for you and let you know.

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