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In Reply to: RE: Electro-Voice Regal lll posted by CraigI on January 20, 2017 at 11:59:38
Another newbie question. The woofer surround has separated from the cone in two places. How do I re-attach the surround to the cone? I got some cloth surround sealant from Vintage-AR but now I'm not sure if this is what I should be using. It seams this sealant is used to keep air from flowing through the cloth surround. Does it also attach the surround to the cone? If it does attach the surround to the cone do I apply it between the cone and the surround?
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Craig
Try a bit of the surround sealant and see how it works. In the past I've made my own speaker dope for this when the surround on one of our Pioneer CS88 in the HT started to separate. I used some DAP silicone rubber in a tube, and I thinned it with xylene as is said on the label, and it worked fine. Silicone rubber comes in different colors (looks like your project would need clear) and can be thinned with various things. I used the DAP because of the xylene which seemed a milder solvent than acetone, and I didn't want to melt the rubber surrounds on the Pioneers, but this is likely not that much of a concern on the accordion surrounds on the EV woofers.
I love the smell of rosin core solder in the morning! It smells like music!
Paul
Paul,
Crossover parts are on order. The smell of rosin core solder in the morning will be soon. Any recommendations on solder? Any reason to replace the wires in the speaker? What do you think of the possibility of the mid horn being 24-26 ohm originally; makes the calculator work.
Craig
Craig
Solder has tended to go lead-free in recent times. Radio Shack has (or at least they used to) Lead- Free Silver Bearing Solder 96/4 # 64-025 but ti's difficult to work with as the solder joints tend to look "cold" (read: not nice and shiny). So it can make an impatient expert into an amateur. I have a lifetime supply of good old Kester "44" Sn 60 which always gives good results, but I dunno if you can still buy it.
Wire: Monster XP is good, reasonably priced and easily available.
A check with your DMM of the original L-pads may reveal more of the mystery, though you should disconnect them first. A reading between the center lug and one of the other ones should reveal either a very low reading or the maximum value of the L-pad as you turn the knob to the end points. Also look for a resistor added to the L-pad which may affect the circuit impedance. To re-iterate: you stated that the T35B's are marked as 16 Ohms units, but measurements show them to currently be 8 Ohm units. If the L-pads don't match the driver they will actually change the crossover frequency as the knob is turned up or down, and it's difficult to imagine EV designing it this way.
Paul
PaulI measured both L-Pads. The low readings are 0.2 and 0.7 ohms. The high readings are 104.2 and 103.8 ohms. Both are disconnected.
Craig
Edits: 01/26/17
Measured my new L-Pads 0.1 to 7.5 ohms
Craig
This starts to explain some of the mystery of why the parts values n the original crossover didn't seem to make sense, and the nominally 100 Ohm L-pads seem to account for the missing Ohms to match the parts. As to why they did it that way I can only speculate. In the page of the 70's EV catalog I posted here they were expecting that DIY'ers would use a "building block" approach which would mean starting with a "full range" woofer in a suitable box which would be made. Later you would add a tweeter for some highs. After you had that awhile you would add a midrange horn for "presence". The mid horn and tweeter were presented as add on tone controls.
As you'll be nearing a time when you can compare the new crossover to the old one, it might be time to move this up page to a new thread, as we're stretching the limit of how far we can go to the right down here. Hopefully the speakers sound better!
Paul
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