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Re: Are S60 tweeters available or repairable?

justw — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:39:48 GMT

Well, as it turns out what was wrong with the tweeter was the glue which held the inner cylinder to the back plate the the backplate to the magnet was disintegrated and the inner cylender had the voice coil pinned to the side. I destroyed the voice coil geting the front off not knowing the vc was pinned... Now I have one less tweeter. Other than that I've recapped the crossovers and these S60s sound great.

Re: Are S60 tweeters available or repairable?

auric — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:57:19 GMT

These may be repairable and worth trying simply to keep as many of the drivers in circulation.

Likely what has happened is that the voice coil has partially detached itself from the membrane. This happened to the midrange on my M150.

The fix is to dismantle the driver then carefully re-adhere the coil back to the membrane. Use "super glue." Place a tiny drop on the loose end and gently secure it to the membrane. Once it is held in place you can run a very tiny bead along the edge that doesn't have glue. Less glue is better so use sparingly.

You want to use a light density adhesive because extra mass will affect the transient response of the tweeter.

Now that you have an extra pair, you can experiment :)

Derek

Re: Are S60 tweeters available or repairable?

justw — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:14:43 GMT

Thanks. Those will do. Duhhh, it never occured to me to search "worldwide". I still may try to exorcize the buzz in these. Does anyone know if voicecoil kits are availabe for these?

Re: Are S60 tweeters available or repairable?

Dillen — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:56:16 GMT

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PEERLESS-760302-TWEETERS-BEOVOX-S60_W0QQitemZ200236794362

Martin

Are S60 tweeters available or repairable?

justw — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:31:53 GMT

I have a tweeter from and S60, 6303, that has a bit of a buzz that makes me think the voice coil is rubbing or has some crud in the gap.With music and with high frequencies it sounds fine but when I put 500 HZ or so into the speaker the tweeter has this slight buzz. I thought the caps were out of tolerance but quickly substituted others and no change. Is there a suitable replacement available or any rebuild kits or someone who rebuilds these. They look like a Peerless tweeter that Polk used but the Polks were 8ohms. Any help or guidance would be appreciated.