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coloring/dyeing/painting surround

Windwalker

Windwalker

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Have a pair of Jensen LS-2 speakers I'm getting ready to refoam
The originals were a blue-green color
Can't find the OEM colored surrounds anywhere

Is is possible to just paint new grey foam surrounds, before installing?
Any special paint needed?
 
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I wouldn't use any kind of paint on a foam surround. Something tells me it will effect the compliance of it and stiffen it up. If anything, I would lean more towards a food coloring.

But again, what it will do to the foam is anyone's guess. You might want to try it on the old surround and see the reaction it has. Try a different color so you know what area you did. That stuff is cheap enough to experiment with. Any food/supermarket should have it.

Good Luck with your experiment.
 
Someone here (HomerW?) was coloring surrounds so that his EPIs looked correct. Don't know how or how it came out.
 
go to a shoe repair store and buy meltonian's leather dye you may not get an exact match but you should be able to come close when you first apply it you'll think you're ruining the surrounfd but they come back to size

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kbott said:
go to a shoe repair store and buy meltonian's leather dye you may not get an exact match but you should be able to come close when you first apply it you'll think you're ruining the surrounfd but they come back to size
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Humm,, have a shoe store just around the corner
Wonder if Ritz dye would work also???

Ahh the stores we have to visit to be in this hobby-Lowes, Home Depot, Michaels, Hobby City, June Fabrics and now shoe stores(though come to think of it I need some new laces and they're always less crowded than Wally world)

ETA: that's pretty close to the color I need, you recall what you used?
 
that color is olive, but the palette is pretty wide I'm sure they have more of a bluer color as well when I had originally done a pair of KLH a few years ago I had bought some ritz dye but as I was talking to the clerk at the counter she suggested a shoe store. it works great and is just like a spray paint can
 
kbott said:
that color is olive, but the palette is pretty wide I'm sure they have more of a bluer color as well when I had originally done a pair of KLH a few years ago I had bought some ritz dye but as I was talking to the clerk at the counter she suggested a shoe store. it works great and is just like a spray paint can
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Wonder how much the grey changes the color desired

analog addict said:
You do indeed. What you don't know is I taught him that trick. If your shoe color doesn't work, PM me and I'll fill you in.....
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The trick is that you must have Dye or Stain and not paint. Paint will add more weight and cause problems. I'd order an extra surround and try 3 or 4 different methods while leaving a part uncoated. The one that leave the least residue is the one you want. Use the least dye you can get away with. Don't dye any area you can't see. You should be fine then. Oh... and if one brand of surround is lighter in color get that one, it takes dye better.
Rob
 
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