cone rub

[DankStar]

selling a speaker. dude asked me to push on cone to identify if has cone rub. I never touch that part of a speaker.

safe to do? should I even bother? to me that's like asking someone to go through a head with a voltmeter to make sure it doesn't have a short somewhere. I had the speaker in an amp, it worked - for me that seems like enough evidence it works.

thanks

 

[SongsForTheDeaf]

Re: cone rub

Just tell him it has no cone rub and leave it be... if he complains again kill him

 

[SlyFoxx]

Re: cone rub

It's perfectly safe to give a guitar speaker a bit of a push. A cranked amp will push it further than you will. Just apply even pressure and don't touch the dust cap. If you're worried you can't apply pressure evenly find a round object larger than the dust cap (like a sauce pan lid) and gently push with that. If you feel a rub, that's bad.

 

[King IzzO)))]

Re: cone rub

Key word is gently.

 

[Dr. Vegetable]

Re: cone rub

Cone rub is $5

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: cone rub

naw dude dont fall for it
he will just snicker and tell his buddies
"he's rubbing his cone and will get back to me"


on a side note I have a recipe for a Cajun Rub if your interested

not to be used on those British Greenbacks
as it may be too spicey

let me know

 

[Mad-Max]

Re: cone rub

I say you tell him that if he wants to find out if it has a Cone rub, then let him do that himself. I wouldn't risk possibly damaging the speaker, then in result making it worthless.

Hell, if he's asking you to do something that could possibly destroy any chance of selling it, I wouldn't sell it to him. Bottom line. That's just stupid, for the lack of a better term, especially if you don't feel comfortable doing that.

It's possible to give it a little push, but don't make any significant difference to it.

 

[Dr. Vegetable]

Re: cone rub

For the record, this is not likely to damage the speaker, and is a common way to "tire-kick" a speaker. If the driver has been very badly over-powered and burnt out, the cone can get bound up and will not move in and out smoothly. Gently pushing in on the cone will give some small reassurance that the speaker isn't completely fried. You aren't going to damage a speaker unless you go gorilla on it.

Sometimes in order to sell something you have to humor the eccentricities of the buyer.

 

[youngthrasher9]

Re: cone rub

You better be charging a lot if you are rubbing the dudes cone and giving him a speaker.

 

[DankStar]

Re: cone rub

speaker sold without me needing to rub anyone's cone, hehe

 

[Jolly_Rancher]

Re: cone rub

what Dr. V said.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: cone rub

+10 to Dr. V.

Pushing in on a cone is very common and won't damage anything.

 

[Edgecrusher]

Re: cone rub

Cone rub is $5

Thats some cheap cone rub... Even the crack fiends here want 20 euro for cone rub.