Speaker repair
This follows on from the discussion about replacing a speaker which then led on to trying to restore one.
This is one speaker that I restored some time ago, a Philips 8”, I found it amongst rubble near a factory I worked at at the time. It was an extension speaker but the wooden box had been out in the rain and it fell apart, the cloth speaker sack was holed and falling apart, the speaker cone was damp and just to add to the fun had a load of earwigs crawling around the cone. The frame was rusty and the plating falling off. But after drying off, apart from a small amount of damage and a loose central spider, which needed gluing back onto the cone, it was still good (the light part of the cone at the top of the picture is a reflection). I removed the magnet to clean it and to get to the frame, after some rust remover had worked I painted it in silver. I drilled two fixing holes, for some reason it already two smaller holes, but I would prefer to use clamps now as this is what was originally intended.
Geof
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8th Dec 2009, 5:17 pm
