Refoam Speakers- Best Adhesive?-Bose Soundcraft

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Hi,
Plan to refoam some inexpensive Bose Soundcraft Speakers (8" woofer/ 3.5" tweeter)-I picked up the speakers for free-Woofer surrounds are crumbling- tweeter is perfect.......I removed the foam nicely- have the shims--I see that Elmers white glue is a glue that is commonly used- that would be good for cone to foam--but foam to the metal basket?--Will white glue hold foam to metal?- Also--any knowledge about these Bose Souncraft speakers (no model #-only says "Syncom Tested")
Thanks, Marc

 

[Urizen]

Aleene's Tacky Glue, typically available at your local fabric shop, or mass retailer, for use on both the cone and the basket.

 

[BPFisch]

From what I remember those speakers were designed and built by Soundcraft and used Bose drivers. Not great, but not real bad either. I've found a little info on them in the past by digging around on the net using different Google searches.

My first set of speakers were a set of Soundcraft by Bose with 8" woofers and 3.5" cone tweeter. Parent's bought them for me back in about 1980-81 or so when I was starting high school. Still got 'em! I've refoamed them and they actually do a good job in my bedroom system with an old Kenwood receiver.

 

[dshoaf]

Soundcraft was a Bose private-label brand who also carried other brands like Interaudio. They were the same basic box but had different grille and trim arrangements. Having multiple private label brands allowed Bose to sign up dealers in the same local market and allow them to sell essentially the same speaker under multiple names.

Bose sold these through their dealer networks only, didn't advertise them, didn't publish list prices or offer them up for review. Dealers used these to package with a receiver and turntable in package-priced systems, typically sold in the 60s and 70s. Selling margins in private-label were higher for the dealer, while Bose brand speakers were sold at higher-value price points.

BTW, many, many dealers used this selling technique without Bose speakers, so it wasn't anything unique to that well-bashed brand. From a marketing/MBA standpoint, its a good case study in expanding your potential market, while not eroding the perceived value of the flagship brand. BMW does a similar job with the Mini, where the down-market Mini doesn't lower the value of the BMW-branded cars and just expanded the BMW business into new markets.

Back to those little 8" Speakercraft speakers, that bottom of the line model was my favorite of the whole line of 4 models. The top of the line used the 10" woofer from the Bose 501s. The 8" was later used in the original 301, too. The private-label Bose speaker line predated all but the 901s, too.

So, now you know why you don't find much about them on the 'net.

Cheers,

David

 

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Aleene's Original Tacky glue, drys clear and flexible.