Originally Posted by
tomee
Hi,
I'm refoaming a pair of LE14A woofers (1975 vintage, from L55s) which have good cones and the spiders seem good (no sagging) but the dust caps (or 'domes') have been pushed in on both woofers. So, I'm cutting the domes off to be able to shim these, and replace the dented domes as well.
According to the JBL parts lists, the LE14A center dome that comes with the recone kit is this:
50201 D/DOME, 4.025/DIA 3.975/ID.775/HT PAPR/B $1.74 USD
But this one:
70330 D/DOME, 4.125DIA 4.11ID.825HT PPR/BLK 1 $2.22 US
is 0.1" larger. Should I use this to replace a damaged dome, or the original sized dome? Or would a generic 4" paper dome, that I can get locally, work fine?
As an aside...I have carefully cut the original dome off one speaker, and wetted it and reshaped it back into a dome using a ball as a form. I could reuse this if I had to. The reshaped dome is actually very presentable. Would anyone here even bother with this, or am I trying to be 'too original'?