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What is the correct way to repair a small tear in a speaker cone?

Take it somewhere for a re-cone.

not an option,i need home repair tips

You could try to fix it, but I don't think it will sound good. Maybe you could find a reasonable priced used replacement. I'm not trying to be Debbie Downer.........good luck.

Search the forum at the Weber VST site - somewhere on there, there's a procedure for it. I followed it with great success to patch a couple of Celestions I got cheap off eBay.

Basically, you push the pieces of the tear back into the hole, then brush on some white glue, and lay in some toilet paper (yes, toilet paper). Then more glue, more TP. Several layers on each side, then let the whole lamination dry... good as new.

You can just barely see the patch on this G12H-80, at the top, around 11 o'clock.

Originally Posted by Rich_SSearch the forum at the Weber VST site - somewhere on there, there's a procedure for it. I followed it with great success to patch a couple of Celestions I got cheap off eBay.

Basically, you push the pieces of the tear back into the hole, then brush on some white glue, and lay in some toilet paper (yes, toilet paper). Then more glue, more TP. Several layers on each side, then let the whole lamination dry... good as new.

You can just barely see the patch on this G12H-80, at the top, around 11 o'clock.
Thats cool! Cornholio speaker repair.

That's about right. White glue dries hard though and some people prefer using a more flexable glue like rubber cement. Sometimes you can repair a small hole with the rubber cement alone and not use a paper patch over the tear. A tiny piece of lightweight single ply paper towel works well too. Lew

This is useful info. Vaultworthy perhaps?

I like to use silicon caulk. It works great, Elmers is too rigid and breaks easier than caulk or rubber cement. Bare in mind that the peaker is moving back and forth hundreds and thousands of times a second. That is a lot of pressure on relatively brittle elmers glue.

If the tear isn't too drastic, you can repair it with a little trip to the drug store- go to the cosmetic section and pick up a bottle of SALLY HANSON'S HARD AS NAILS, this stuff is used to repair fingernail's, and has small fibers in it, and works great. Used it many times with no regrets. Very thin glue, but when it dries, the fibers hold it all together.

this definitely looks like vault material

I did it with coffee filters and craft glue (dries tacky) on some 10quot; bass speakers. It quot;workedquot; but the sound was nowhere near as good or as efficient as the speaker reconed.

Hi, all, my first post, was referred to the forum by Matt @ MartinSixStringCustoms go easy on me.

I used the Elmer's slurry / toilet paper strip in layers method on both sides of the cone on a 23 year old Jackson 12quot; 50Watt rms.

When it was completely dry, I put a very thin layer of red silicon over the back section, and used some india ink to dye the repair black on the front.

I let it cure for a couple of days, but I'd swear by this repair. My only concern wsa the silicon, but you can't tell any difference in tone.

These are powerful speakers, and I'm pretty sure, irreplaceable. They still have the Jackson logo in the center cone.

So, I, too give this process a 'thumbs up', esp. if you don't have anybody close by to recone for you.