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Originally Posted by keager 
I removed the dust cap from the cone and found another dust cap I guess. However it is fibrous material(outer one was plastic), and it is incredibly dense. I could not push my utility knife through it,and dont want to get to carried away.
My goal with removing the dust cap was so I could use shims to align the voice coil and surround when reassembling. My only thought to remove the inner dust cap is to use a dremel? That just sounds like to much that could go wrong. I have looked online and found a few techniques using batteries or low voltage power supplies to move the cone in and out during glueing to get everything in line. Any suggestions?
I removed the dust cap from the cone and found another dust cap I guess. However it is fibrous material(outer one was plastic), and it is incredibly dense. I could not push my utility knife through it,and dont want to get to carried away.
My goal with removing the dust cap was so I could use shims to align the voice coil and surround when reassembling. My only thought to remove the inner dust cap is to use a dremel? That just sounds like to much that could go wrong. I have looked online and found a few techniques using batteries or low voltage power supplies to move the cone in and out during glueing to get everything in line. Any suggestions?
That inner dust cap was probably the original idea, but it might have been too small to look "cool" on such a big driver, so they just glued another bigger cap to the cone for looks. You say it is fibrous but you cannot cut through it with a razor knife? Can you see the back of it through the voice coil? You could use a hot razor blade to see if it will "melt" through the seam. An xacto knife is much thinner and the razor sharp edge might just push right throuh if it is hot.
