OH NO! Aquaplas? Dead Horse?

[tgmartin]

Sure, I know many associate the term "Aquaplas" with the sandy, thick white coating on some models of JBL cones -



but I see the name popping up on what appears to be OTHER kinds of speaker cone/surround treatments:

- a clear or translucent coating that claims to be "rubbery" or flexible when dry


- another that is also clear and flexible but "tacky" when setup AND flammable


- yet another that appears to be PVA (like Elmer's and Mod Podge) for foam surrounds



Is "Aquaplas", as a term for speaker applications, now in the same league as "Kleenex" is when referring to paper napkins? The bottles of stuff on Epay show (R) for registered trademark.

I'm searching for the treatment that Speakerlab used on their DAS2 5.25 inch Polypropylene woofers in the 80s. It's a thick, rubbery, translucent stuff that appears to have been applied after the cones were assembled in the baskets as it covers part of the foam surrounds and appears to have been rather carefully painted on, presumeably to add mass and dampen them. In the process of cleaning up the rotted surrounds this coating started to loosen from the plastic cones. I'd like to recoat these things after the foam job and get them back to like new condition. HELP?

 

[AlanInSitges]

Back in the 90s we used to sell adhesive-backed sheets of something called Aquaplas that you were supposed to cut out pieces and stick them on the back of speaker cabinets, under turntables and CD players, etc. We kept it right next to the "CD Stoplight" pens. As I recall it was a trademark of one of the companies who made speaker stands...Sanus maybe?