[HAM] My B3 find.

[David Anderson]

True, but it will only get worse with time, and your speaker cone is not supposed to be vented. 

IMHO, I would get it reconed. Try www.tedweber.com They still make an exact reproduction of the P15LL and list the P15LL as one of the few speakers they still work on. "Still working" and "working right" are two different things. Having those gaps around the edge is going to cause the cone to move in an irregular way, not to mention altering the stiffness of the suspension.

My brother, who used to be the star speaker reconer for an audio company, reconed my F15LL (which I bought with a torn cone), and the results are stunning. But you do want to take it/send it to someone who knows what they're doing, someone who will get the voice coil properly positioned in the pole piece, etc... As I have said many times before, it's not hard to recone a speaker, but reconing it *well* requires some skill and experience. The first reconing of my F15LL was actually done by Orange County Speaker, who did do some good work for me on other speakers, but they were the ones who used the wrong voice coil (8 Ohm rather than 16). And when we tore their work apart to recone it with the proper voice coil, we were not impressed with the quality of the work, i.e., how seams were glued, etc...

David 

-----Original Message-----
>From: ted at wetnoodle.net
>Sent: Mar 8, 2007 9:30 AM
>To: hammond at zeni.net
>Subject: [HAM] My B3 find.
>
>It's not a blown woofer, it's just pitted from the years. Looks like maybe moths or something ate holes in the woofer. 
>Still works just dandy, as there is not a full separation of the cone from the houseing, just a few holes. 
>Of course I don't dime the amp on the Leslie wide open, and don't plan to until I get the 
>woofer fixed. But at moderate volumes she's holding up. 
>ted