Hi, pleased to meet everyone! My name is Ken, living in Colorado. Have been in electronics as a tech and mainframe engineer, but not into audio too exclusively. I do a lot of experimentation with different things. What lead me here? I'm researching re-foaming techniques to save a few bucks and would rather repair than trash stuff. Some of the videos on You-Tube are really good, but, you have to remember that mostly, they're trying to sell product.
I'm looking at re-foaming kits, and, really, feel like the kits are over priced, being that there's about 2 cents worth of foam there. I'm wondering if anyone has ever experimented with other materials, like different weights of cloth, or other things? It's a real shame that the speaker manufacturers don't put a more durable substance in their products. What other fabrics could be used? Other glues, contact cement maybe?
I'm looking at re-foaming kits, and, really, feel like the kits are over priced, being that there's about 2 cents worth of foam there. I'm wondering if anyone has ever experimented with other materials, like different weights of cloth, or other things? It's a real shame that the speaker manufacturers don't put a more durable substance in their products. What other fabrics could be used? Other glues, contact cement maybe?
Welcome aboard!
I presume you are talking about speaker repair? I believe the newer foam formulations have solved the rot problem, so it would be a proper, permanent fix if you went that way. I repaired some odd-ball drivers with torn paper surrounds that I couldn't find suitable replacements for many years ago, I used an old dish towel to cut a round peice from and glued it with rubber cement. It worked pretty well all things considered. It sounded OK, but I have no idea how it affected frequency response.
Mike
I presume you are talking about speaker repair? I believe the newer foam formulations have solved the rot problem, so it would be a proper, permanent fix if you went that way. I repaired some odd-ball drivers with torn paper surrounds that I couldn't find suitable replacements for many years ago, I used an old dish towel to cut a round peice from and glued it with rubber cement. It worked pretty well all things considered. It sounded OK, but I have no idea how it affected frequency response.
Mike
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