Nightmare soldering problem with some resuscitated cones

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Caution, stroppy thread

Recently, two cones on some rather nice transmission line speakers died. I was sure it hadn't been overloaded people told me exactly all the things the test, that the end of the day it was indeed the springy wires under the diaphragm that had bad contacts. One of them is probably worse off than the other, because the bad contacts seems to be inaccessible near the magnets core, and I took some advice to cut its open anyway so it's very dead now.

The other one has the same problem on the solder points on the edge, I've tried to solder close to the wires where dry solder less contact worked, but I'm not that good with a soldering iron, and the fragile contact point I have found got covered and melted eventually through having really dodgy solder material. Now I can't even get any contact from touching the sound signal onto the springy wires themselves. Which look like a braided copper. I think the conducted it is probably inside. I can't believe how bad the quality of these TBL cones are! It's hardly worth saving, I guess people should know that TBL RTL2 use use really fragile cones! And this was supposed to be a gem of their line.

RTL2 is 220 millimetres depth = dodgy edition

[kelticwizard]

Well, what can I say?

Just for the heck of it, try taking meter leads and probing as far along the wires until you get a reading of some ohms, (6R or 3R) on your meter?

Perhaps you can save them by splicing in new wire.