Sir.Byrd
Lunatic Member
Last week a customer brought me these speakers to work on:
But the catch is, the two woofers that need repair are inside the cabinet! How do you get to them?
Before you start make sure you have the right tools, you'll need quite a few for this project.
You need a 5/12" hollow-shafted socket driver, a #2 philips screwdriver, a pair of needle nose pliers, a normal pair of pliers, a of wire cutters, a wire stripper, a flat tool to pry, a hex driver or allen wrench, a soldering iron, solder, desolder wick.
Optional: plastic case to hold pieces
First, you must invert the speaker:
Remove the screws you find here, carefully pry the cover off, I used a flathead screwdriver.
You'll find fluff, remove this to reveal your first victim.
Voila!
Use your socket driver here to remove the four nuts:
You will also need to remove that center bolt. I didn't have a socket driver large enough for it so I carefully used needle nose pliers, this is a very long bolt so it takes some time.
It is not necessary but highly recommended to have some sort of container for all of the parts you remove.
For some reason KEF wanted to make these extra hard, so the wires are soldered in place, I might replace these with quick connect terminals, but maybe not.
Clip the wires, making sure to leave some of the insulation for when you reconnect the wires. You could also desolder the wires, and write down which wires go where.
This is what it should look like:
Here is your first driver:
But the catch is, the two woofers that need repair are inside the cabinet! How do you get to them?
Before you start make sure you have the right tools, you'll need quite a few for this project.
You need a 5/12" hollow-shafted socket driver, a #2 philips screwdriver, a pair of needle nose pliers, a normal pair of pliers, a of wire cutters, a wire stripper, a flat tool to pry, a hex driver or allen wrench, a soldering iron, solder, desolder wick.
Optional: plastic case to hold pieces
First, you must invert the speaker:
Remove the screws you find here, carefully pry the cover off, I used a flathead screwdriver.
You'll find fluff, remove this to reveal your first victim.
Voila!
Use your socket driver here to remove the four nuts:
You will also need to remove that center bolt. I didn't have a socket driver large enough for it so I carefully used needle nose pliers, this is a very long bolt so it takes some time.
It is not necessary but highly recommended to have some sort of container for all of the parts you remove.
For some reason KEF wanted to make these extra hard, so the wires are soldered in place, I might replace these with quick connect terminals, but maybe not.
Clip the wires, making sure to leave some of the insulation for when you reconnect the wires. You could also desolder the wires, and write down which wires go where.
This is what it should look like:
Here is your first driver:
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