They will. It’s a point of pride that they can still make most of the drivers they’ve ever used. I suspect they’ll bug you to buy a pair though.
They might. It’s not usually an issue with non warranty jobs.
By the standards of spares costs in this industry, they aren’t that bad but I suspect it’s worth trying to MacGuyver them first.
Thanks, I’ll drop Spendor an email and see what’s what.
Mind you, I can imagine a new drive unit (let alone a pair) being more than I paid for the speakers.
DIY first, spendy options after.
Any suggestions as to a suitable glue to use?
Horse.
Neigh, surely not?! 
I sourced replacement drivers for a set of Spendor something-or-others I was fixing for someone about a decade ago: they had no issue selling them to me without a visit to the clinic, so hopefully they’re still as helpful.
Alleene’s Tacky Glue is good for working on speakers.
Took delivery of an AVID Accent integrated amp earlier
It’s an absolute ‘meat and two veg’ bit of engineering this one. 70 watts, four line ins, a headphone amp and- perhaps unsurprisingly- a pretty decent MM/MC phono. It’s £4,500 and it is built like a lorry. Special mention has to go to the remote too;
It’s completely made of metal and would make a serviceable blackjack in an emergency.
I tested the bigger Integra a while back and rather liked it and I suspect this could be more of the same. It’s completely trad inside and out- no digital boards, interesting topology or EQ here- but there’s a certain charm to it.
Interested to learn your thoughts once you’ve had a good listen to it.
Don’t hold your breath - he’s good at buying interesting stuff, but shit at communicating what most of it’s actually like to use… 
Curiosity piqued, I hunted-out its present-day incarnation, which now glories in the title of Phaedrus Audio Francinstien [sic] WARP-III. Evidently a good deal of development has been ongoing over the years, and product quality and resolution both appear to have improved since the little-black-box days.
That it’s not a legacy product from a long-extinct ‘hifi-heyday’ company came as a surprise, even more so that it remains resolutely British (since I’d not actually read @Ruprecht’s original post…).
Rashly, I emailed its maker, and within half an hour I received a response - it’s a brand-new-only-in-prototype-stage product, but I could have one built-to-order in 10 days to a fortnight. The catch is that it’ll cost me £2,700… At £270 - £600 I’d have taken a punt, but £2,700? Ow!
The closest similar products I can bring to mind are Dynavector’s now-discontinued SuperStereo Adapters. Different approach, similar outcome, and I guess to be fair they were climbing to similar prices. What’s more, to my ears they were very convincingly worthwhile when I heard them demo’d… The problem with Francinstien is obtaining any sort of a demo, unless you consider a YouTube presntation an adequate demo…
Oh well, I need a decent Schumann Resonator first anyway…
Quick update:
Bought a bottle of Aleene’s Tacky Glue (which looks for all the world like expensive PVA, but what do I know…).
Stuck the rubber surround to the cone, waited for it to set enough to hold, and reinstalled the driver into the cabinet. On closer examination, the ding in the cone is just that (there’s no hole). I did try to flatten out the dent, but the polypropylene (I assume that’s what it is) appears to have too strong a memory and wouldn’t play ball.
just need to wait for the glue to set properly and see how they sound.
The glue is becoming transparent as it dries, so my belt and braces approach shouldn’t look to bad…
Get a nice new suit made and have a listen during fitting!
Fair cop, I don’t tend to try to say too much about the kit I buy, beyond a general thumbs up/ adequate etc.
My general reluctance is down to the fact I see any comments that I might make are all going to be subjective and highly dependent on ‘my room, my ears’ etc, so to my mind, of limited use to anyone else.
In this case I can offer at least a bit of context. I’ve thought that as my set up got better (to my ears, which typically means more transparent, more dynamic, and more palpable), there’s been a tendency to be a bit of a left-centre-right focus to the soundstage.
So I thought something like this might be interesting and the concept intrigued me. I didn’t wanna go full beans on a £2700 non demo, non returnable gizmo either, so thought I’d put the toe in the water with the basic Bride of Francinstien’ box for a couple of hundred to see what that did first.
As per photos it’s only a small box and the rear panel can just about accommodate a pair of RCA’s in (from my dac at this point), and a pair going out into the preamp, plus a small wallwart power in plug.
I’ve had it in and just looped music for a few hours before I try to give it a listen, and then I plan to switch back and see if anything’s lost etc. If I can hear anything worthwhile I’ll report back tomorrow.
I presume it’s just a bunch of Rs and Cs inside?
This is so universally true that everyone factors it in. After years of knowing one-another, visiting shows and bake-offs, swapping gear, discussing music, &c, &c, even subjective comments are easy for most of us to contextualise. So still worth doing.
My glue joints are now invisible, so I’ve spent a good hour trying to persuade the Spendors to misbehave.
Nowt to report but joy, even through an old Onkyo AV amp and a cheap BluRay player that weighs about as much as a bag of crisps. They sound like new.
I’ve picked up some bargain kit over the years, but these top the list.
Result
I had a pair a while back, sounded best with 30w class A - I had lovely Marantz MA-5 monoblocks at the time, but a cheaper route might be the DIY pass mono’s for sale on Wigwam.
