Speaker Glue?

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 12 Aug 2002 8:15 am

I want to glue a titanium ring to the kevlar dust covers on a couple of Peavey 1201s. What would be the best glue to use?

Why? I bought an 18', yes feet, spring and I plan on making titanium mounts and using the speaker as a transducer, which it is. If I mount the speakers 10' in the air and suspend the spring between them, the speaker acts like a microphone and it might make an interesting sound, and if I run sound into one, the other should act like a very long reverb spring. I was testing various speakers by plugging them into an amplifier input an rubbing the cones, the Peaveys worked really well. Mike, you might want to consider this as part of your promotions.

Jim Florence · Post by **Jim Florence** » 12 Aug 2002 1:09 pm

Hey Chas, I did that back when I was on the old La Hayride circuit. I did it just about as you said, in an upstairs apartment. In those days reverb in the amps had not caught on even if it had been invented.It worked, but there was no way to control it. I had a lot of reverrrrrrrrb.
Jim

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 12 Aug 2002 1:12 pm

"Slinky-Verb"! I sure admire the real "experimenters" out there, since there are so very few of them (us?) left. Chas., any good epoxy glue would do just fine for what you're planning. Remember, though, the spring will have to be fairly tight for the mechanical coupling to be effective.

Mark Herrick · Post by **Mark Herrick** » 12 Aug 2002 7:19 pm

I noticed this article on building a plate reverb on the same site that has the ongoing saga of Mixerman's LA recording session:
http://www.prosoundweb.com/recording/tapeop/plate/plate.shtml

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 12 Aug 2002 10:47 pm

Gentlemen, thank you. I can tell you a lot about titanium, I don't know much about glue.

Great article, I have some 36" x 60" titanium sheets that are .028" that would be fabulous for plate reverbs and they only cost $264 a lb. I use them for 'thunder sheets'.

I'm going to play around with the reverb aspect a bit, but the real reason I want to do this is I plan on playing the spring: and the rings will have 1/4-20 Ti bolts, for a hole pattern, so I can mount and try other things to see what happens.