Restoring vintage woofer paper surrounds

[noviygera]

Hi guys,

As you know, a lot of vintage woofers have paper surrounds, that get fragile or may have already started showing splits.

How do you revive or reinforce or make these compliant?

What do you use and how do you do it?

 

[Galu]

One might apply a thin coating of a sealer which is non-shrinking and permanently flexible, like this one:

https://www.halfords.com/motoring/p...LS*MTcxMzg5ODI4MS4xLjAuMTcxMzg5ODI4MS4wLjAuMA..

Alternatively one could use tissue paper and a PVA adhesive that dries clear and flexible, such as Anita's or Aleene's original tacky glue.

 

[GM]

Lineco Inc. Archival Quality neutral pH adhesive.

 

[Mark Tillotson]

Perhaps Japanese tissue would be useful here, its widely used in book repair as its very thin and strong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_tissue

 

[planet10]

I have made old Philips useable by coating the surrounds with puzzlekoat/modPodge.

dave

 

[Cal Weldon]

All good suggestions. Just one clarification. Around here, tissue or tissue paper might refer to a facial tissue and that is too thick. The tissue paper needed is the kind you see stuffed into gift bags and used to make model aeroplane wings.

 

[Galu]

Yes, and the Japanese tissue paper mentioned by Mark is used for covering flying scale airplane models.

I built quite a few of those in my youth!

https://www.wind-it-up.com/pages/tissue

 

[noviygera]

Thanks for the fantastic advice! Lots of good options so I will make some experiments with all the above suggestions to figure out, which is the best.