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Old 7th Apr 2008, 3:12 pm   #1
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Default Red / Green Toaster Speaker Cloth

Just restored one of these and I thought I'd mention this for anyone else with a red or green KB toaster on the 'to do' pile. The cloth on these is some kind of natural material, something along the lines of sea grass, with a black thread weaved through it and it seems a favourite among moths etc.
A passable copy can be made by using a patch of white cross-stitch cloth (no. 18 count) which can be bought cheaply on ebay. Using a thick black thread (I used Anchor no. 8), alternately stitch across every two holes in the cloth and you should get the exact stitch length. It's very tedious unless you know someone who will do it for you with more experience and patience at this kind of thing, as I fortunately did.
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Old 7th Apr 2008, 3:35 pm   #2
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Default Re: Red / Green Toaster Speaker Cloth

Top job Trevor, the new cloth makes such a dramatic visual difference. I am tempted to spray mine red now after seeing that one .
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Old 7th Apr 2008, 4:22 pm   #3
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Default Re: Red / Green Toaster Speaker Cloth

Are they all painted or were some of them moulded that colour. A little OT I know but you may have seen an earlier thread of mine where I was asking obo a friend for a possible purchase of a coloured toaster. Had to be original though. I told him they were uncommon and would require a lot of dosh which he seemed quite happy about. Somehow I don't think he will get an offer
Getting back OT I noted that the last toaster I repaired had the usual white cloth on the outside but it was a green colour on the inside. Maybe they reversed the cloth on some models to make them look a bit different?
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Old 7th Apr 2008, 5:08 pm   #4
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Default Re: Red / Green Toaster Speaker Cloth

I don't think the red ones were ever painted... but I've never had one, so Trevor may be able to correct me there! Certainly the tuning scale uses different colours from the standard version, so a cream one couldn't be exactly "converted". As regards the usual set's speaker cloth, my impression was that it had been blue-green but on my example and many another I've seen had faded to an off-white on the exposed side: so mine has been reversed and reattached.

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Old 7th Apr 2008, 10:18 pm   #5
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Hello Trevor,

I must say that's very impressive.

Also, and I didn't know this, but the cloth in the red one is different from that used in the cream one.

You learn something every day.

Nice job for sure.

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Old 7th Apr 2008, 10:21 pm   #6
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Default Re: Red / Green Toaster Speaker Cloth

Paul is spot on. The red versions at least are a solid colour, I think the green ones are the same. They have red / gold scales and the speaker cloth is completely different.
Regarding the cream ones, the speaker cloth was a fairly deep green colour to match the tuning scale (as seen in the sales literature) but they always seem to be badly faded.
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Thanks, Trevor, that's interesting: looks as though mine has lost some colour even on the "good" side, and it'll be kept from sunlight now as reversal only works once My imagined hat's certainly raised to you for coming up with what looks a very persuasive replacement of the original cloth on yours.

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