Flooded lockup. Wet drivers... :(
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Topic: Flooded lockup. Wet drivers... :(
Posted By: Larry23
Subject: Flooded lockup. Wet drivers... :(
Date Posted: 07 September 2025 at 5:16pm
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Nightmare.. Arrived at my new lockup today and there's pools of water on the floor, and drips still coming through the ceiling, after heavy rain this morning. Turns out the neighbours upstairs left a bunch of large roof windows open, and it's all come through to ours.. Upshot is a bunch of my stuff got soaked, including a pile of Fane XB'S. Some of the cones are pretty soaked, the adhesive/suspension gone white where the water has been. Seems like some water may have gone into the motor system, through the pole piece vent on some. Will this have damaged the drivers long term? Thanks in advance for any help.
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Posted By: Andylaser
Date Posted: 07 September 2025 at 5:49pm
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I would be knocking on the neighbours door asking them to get their cheque book out. ------------- "music so loud, that if we move in next door to you; your lawn will die" - Lemmy |
Posted By: FOO
Date Posted: 07 September 2025 at 6:39pm
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100% an insurance claim there. Maybe they will remember the windows next time.. On the bright side... Fane XB drivers are pretty cheap compared to modern beast drivers.
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Posted By: Larry23
Date Posted: 08 September 2025 at 12:10am
Hoping it won't come to an insurance claim, as I'd planned to build new boxes for the drivers in the next couple of weeks, and insurers aren't known for moving so fast..! Tomorrow morning, fingers crossed, the guys who run the place won't be too shocked when we turn up asking for some compensation.
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FOO wrote:Posted By: Tinnitus Rex
Date Posted: 08 September 2025 at 12:29am
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I would just dry them in a warm place , all the Fane cones ive encountered are fine even after being entirely soaked in rain and then dried out ...the problem is if they are being driven at the time ..the motor internals could become rusty but you really have nothing to lose ! ------------- "couldn't we just like... use headphones?" |
Posted By: Larry23
Date Posted: 08 September 2025 at 9:49am
That's very reassuring, thanks. Was worried about fibres in the cones becoming unbounded, or the adhesive degrading/becoming hard. We've got big fans on today, drying the space out, and it's much warmer, so hopefully the cones will dry out properly too. The adhesive is already returning to its normal colour, which is a good start.
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Posted By: Jan-2T
Date Posted: 08 September 2025 at 10:33am
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Still better take plenty pictures, and communicate with the responsibles. Just in case of damage later, caused by this rain infusion ------------- Music! |
Posted By: kedwardsleisure
Date Posted: 08 September 2025 at 11:39am
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I would write them off and get a claim in with your neighbour. You never know with water damage, dry them out and they may prematurely fail at some indeterminate point in the near future. ------------- Kevin North Staffordshire |
Posted By: Earplug
Date Posted: 08 September 2025 at 11:46am
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Yeah. Take loads of photos - & video. Insurance companies are bastards when it comes to paying out on claims. If the cones are thick enough, they can survive & work. I had a couple of 18" drivers get soaked a while ago as well. Cut off the dust covers & take a good look at the magnet & gap. Maybe dose with WD40 to clean out any any water. Let them dry out & test. See what happens. ------------- Earplugs Are For Wimps! |
Posted By: jacethebase
Date Posted: 08 September 2025 at 12:10pm
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Get the email addresses of everyone involved start a email thread stating what has happened and when and the costs involved of the drivers etc damaged. This will act as evidence should you need to make an insurance claim and you can also keep a track of what has been said and hope that they admit liability. Popping round to have a chat is lovely but people can quite easily turn around and not admit liability after their insurance company has told them not to. Take loads of photos, like loads of everything. Insurance companies need proof for their underwriters to pay out. Yes, Will be nice if they just dry out but cover yourself for all eventualities. ------------- www.wedding-production.co.uk www.stage2sound.com |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 08 September 2025 at 6:06pm
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Even if they dry out, will now be lots of internal rust and corrosion in the voice coil gaps. Many years ago i bought a pair of 2445 HF drivers that had got wet, were totally useless, gaps and phase plugs full of rusty crud. About the only usable parts i could salvage were the rubber-tyre surrounds, and the terminal posts, rest went in a skip. Really sorry to hear about your loss, hopefully neighbour will play-ball and put it through his insurance as said above. ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: Larry23
Date Posted: 10 September 2025 at 12:43pm
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Appreciate all the advice guys. Fortunately the neighbours upstairs have admitted full liability. Our Nextdoor neighbour got a long vid of everything while it was going on, and we took pics of everything that was damaged. The landlord is a pretty good friend of ours and chatted to them after seeing the vid, which I guess must've helped things along! |
Posted By: MarcoAudio
Date Posted: 11 September 2025 at 7:41am
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Larry 23 Glad your getting this sorted by the neighbours who's liable for causing water to flood into and over your expensive drivers and kit!!! JBL man is correct (As always:) especially about moisture) but you can have a go and pop the V.C covers off and get a hair dryer, blu roll tissue and cottenbuds to get all the moisture out which is in there, even condensation that's built up and once there dry wire them up and try them out. All the best with it snd even after you get reimbursed for your losses you will have some back up drivers. M@rco Audio.....Bedlam/Virus
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