I have a nice pair of early AR-2ax speakers that I'm bringing back to life. On the first one I replaced the capacitors in the crossover redid the pots, and put a thin coat of Permatex on the cloth woofer surround. When I compared that speaker to the untouched one the difference was significant.
So far, so good. However, in the process of removing the grill of the second speaker I punched a small hole in the cone of the woofer with the wrong end of a pry bar. (Don't ask!) The hole was about half an inch long, but wasn't through-and-through for that entire length.
After kicking myself for an hour or so I researched how to patch the hole and found lots of advice on AK and on other sites using various types of glue and patch material. Here's what I did:
From the rear of the cone I smoothed out the puncture. I made a patch a little larger than the cut that I made from a coffee filter. I got some Aeleen's Tacky Glue and smoothed some on the back side of the punctured cone, and on both sides of the patch. I applied the patch, smoothed it out well, and added some more glue on the edges. I also put a small amount of glue on the cut on the front side of the cone.
The cone and patch looks pretty good now that it's dry, but I haven't actually hooked up the speaker yet to test. My question is do I need to do more than one layer of coffee filter patch?
The unanswerable question is why the heck would AR make their grills so difficult to remove? Why use both staples and glue (or more to the point, why use either)???????
Allan
So far, so good. However, in the process of removing the grill of the second speaker I punched a small hole in the cone of the woofer with the wrong end of a pry bar. (Don't ask!) The hole was about half an inch long, but wasn't through-and-through for that entire length.
After kicking myself for an hour or so I researched how to patch the hole and found lots of advice on AK and on other sites using various types of glue and patch material. Here's what I did:
From the rear of the cone I smoothed out the puncture. I made a patch a little larger than the cut that I made from a coffee filter. I got some Aeleen's Tacky Glue and smoothed some on the back side of the punctured cone, and on both sides of the patch. I applied the patch, smoothed it out well, and added some more glue on the edges. I also put a small amount of glue on the cut on the front side of the cone.
The cone and patch looks pretty good now that it's dry, but I haven't actually hooked up the speaker yet to test. My question is do I need to do more than one layer of coffee filter patch?
The unanswerable question is why the heck would AR make their grills so difficult to remove? Why use both staples and glue (or more to the point, why use either)???????
Allan
