A 416 dilemma. What to do?

[Panomaniac]

Oh, right. Now I see. Well could be, I suppose. They don't look that bad, but one never knows.

Can they be taken apart? Should I make field coil drivers out of them? Just hate to see any Altec gear go to waste, but it may have to.

[Tom Brennan]

Use them in an open baffle; many people that make OBs like them even though they usually sound bad.

[airboss]

Oh, right. Now I see. Well could be, I suppose. They don't look that bad, but one never knows.

Can they be taken apart? Should I make field coil drivers out of them? Just hate to see any Altec gear go to waste, but it may have to.

Let me qualify what I'm about to say with a disclaimer. I used to take speakers apart all the time when I was a kid just to play with the magnets.

Unless the entire speaker frame is made of alnico, my guess is that those magnets will come apart. They may require riveting or welding to put back together. Not difficult when you want to rescue them. It seems to me though, that to rescue an LTV altec frame by distroying an older one would not make sense UNLESS, the basket on the earlier 416/418/421 had been run over by a buss full o' hippies. I'm surprised that Bill H didn't have some sort of solution, ie refitting with new magnet assemblies.

Otherwise I'm with others that say toss them.

I've got two suitable 15" non LTV baskets and one 417-8C LTV. I've got a very early straight 417(so suffix) that is not ling.

Question: Can recones be taken off and moved to a new home, or is that glue forever?

Another option, have Weber re-cone them into a 15" guitar speaker, with aluminum dust covers. Nobody cares about Qts in an open back cab. Might make a nice Vibroverb.