[Boatanchors] Speaker repair

[Moe Fretz]

Coffee maker filters also work well.

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Moe Fretz
Collection and Preservation
Canadian Tube Radios, Communication Equipment, Vintage Ham gear and
Military Radios.
Hallicrafters, RCA, National, Hammarlund and Racal.

www.radiopreservationguy.com

Don't part them out ---- Restore them.

Cambridge
Ontario Canada



On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I use rubber cement and pieces of "Big Chief" tablets or newsprint.
>  Basically, a "Big Chief" tablet is just newsprint without the printing.
>  When I don't have a tablet handy, I just tear off a piece of the Dallas
> Morning News!
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
>
> Website:  http://k9sth.com
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Bob Jackson <bob at nofrowns.net>
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Speaker repair
>
> I've been using a very different approach ...
>
> I bought several packages of black paper napkins one Halloween some time
> ago. They're really "el cheapo" quality. Depending on the extent of damage
> to the speaker cone, I TEAR off one or more pieces of napkin so the edges
> of
> the piece(s) are feathered, and then stick it/them over the damaged area
> with nitrate dope using light strokes and a soft brush. I bought the dope
> at
> a hobby store. (Nasty fumes - use in a well-ventilated area). I use nitrate
> dope instead of the more available butyrate dope because the latter shrinks
> a lot. Sometimes more than one layer of paper is required and/or two or
> more
> coats of dope. The really cheap black napkin paper readily accepts the dope
> and contours to the folds in the cone easily. Better quality "dinner
> napkins" are too repellant to moisture to work well. (Ask me how I know
> this!) I've even repaired dime-sized holes in this manner with very good
> results.
>
> Bob  AG5X
>
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