Hi, I was able to pick up a pair of the Alpine swx-1042d. The guy had said that one of them was blown, but willing to throw in @ not additional cost. I did my research and found the common problem of the rubber surround coming unglued from the cone. So.... A tube of super glue later I have 2 that's right 2 of these monsters for $100. Measured with meter and each vc right under or at 4 ohms. And zero vc rub.
The issue is that this gentleman did NOT include the fuses used to wire the vc to different resistance. Can anyone tell me where can I pick up 2 sets for my new found friends? Or if regular car fuses will work the same, and if so the amperage of said fuses/jumpers. Lastly I am waiting on some pre- fab boxes to arrive I tried hooking both ( 1 at a time) up to a JL audio jx-500/1d at 2 ohms to make sure that they were good to go. The sub that I fixed sounded pretty good minus the fact of not being mounted. The other sub you could hear rubbing or rattling but when you put them on the mm they read fine, and when pressed on the center ( the normal vc rub text) of the cone and pressed down flexing it some, can't hear a thing. Absolutely zero rubbing of any kind, no noise whatsoever. Sounds healthy. Put power to to them, like I said, 1 only at high excursions a little flapp sound from being on in free air. The other sounded like possible blown more than being on in free air.i don't get it.
Sorry so long, but I had a couple of questions. Thank you in advance for your time and help with this and I will look forward to hearing from one of you all.