I've had these speakers since the first year Kristie and I got married (25 yrs ago) I think they were the first piece of furniture we ever bought... Over time the foam on the woofers got brittle and cracked and I stopped using them. They stayed in the living room for the past 5 years not even hooked up and this week I decided that I would fix them. I ordered the foam kit from Simplyspeakers.com AWESOME company to work with and it took me about an hour of my time to fix and 4 hours of glue dry time... I ended up welding some stands that fit the base and I raised them 14 inches and are now using them as my computer speakers and man am I back into a little slice of rock heaven again...
You can see the woofer is cracked which makes for terrible sound of course...
The foam just came out in chunks, it was brittle and sticky at the same time..
I pulled out all the big pieces I could and then started cleaning out the small stuff so there would be a good surface to put the new foam kits.
More Cleaning
I used a very moist paper towel with isopropyl alcohol and dabbed it on the foam and it helped to make it dissolve.. Over and over being careful not to hurt the woofer.
That flat edge is where the new foam glues to the woofer..
I used my dremel and cleaned the aluminum woofer frame so the glue would stick well. They say you don't have to but my OCD told me it had to be done..
This is the outer edge, you wait for the inner to dry then you glue the edge to the aluminum..
Add the black pressure ring by gluing it right to the top of the foam.
let everything dry and VIOLA your done, new speakers for less than dinner.
You can see the woofer is cracked which makes for terrible sound of course...
The foam just came out in chunks, it was brittle and sticky at the same time..
I pulled out all the big pieces I could and then started cleaning out the small stuff so there would be a good surface to put the new foam kits.
More Cleaning
I used a very moist paper towel with isopropyl alcohol and dabbed it on the foam and it helped to make it dissolve.. Over and over being careful not to hurt the woofer.
That flat edge is where the new foam glues to the woofer..
I used my dremel and cleaned the aluminum woofer frame so the glue would stick well. They say you don't have to but my OCD told me it had to be done..
This is the outer edge, you wait for the inner to dry then you glue the edge to the aluminum..
Add the black pressure ring by gluing it right to the top of the foam.
let everything dry and VIOLA your done, new speakers for less than dinner.
