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Al Margheim

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  1. I finished replacing the foam and want to share a brief update on the repair. I stopped worrying about the large amount of old adhesive that I was unable to remove with rubbing alcohol and scraping after reading the instructions included with the speakerworks.com repair kit. The instructions said "Generally, it is not necessary to remove original adhesive residue." The new Alene's Tacky glue that I got from a local Hobby Lobby seems to have worked just fine over the old adhesive. When it was time to glue the foam to the outer edge of the cone I peeled back the plastic mesh on the outside of the speaker basket so I could wedge the cone up above the edge of the frame. I glued the plastic mesh back with Alene's after repairing the cone. I appreciate all of the help that I received on this forum.
  2. Thanks Guys, I'll look for some Alene's locally and hope it wasn't frozen in transit to the store. My old repair kit came with shims and dust caps. I'll use those. Al
  3. I appreciate the additional tips. I am planning on keeping the speakers (with a note attached to them to tell my kids to check current prices online before they sell them for too little at a garage sale 😬). The link to the SWK11 kit was especially useful. The surrounds in my kit are for an angled cone but their outside diameter is only 10-1/4", not the 10-1/2" OD surround that comes in the SWK11 kit. The glue in my kit is unlabeled white glue. Given that it's winter and the latex glue that speakerworks.com sells shouldn't be frozen, should I look for a local supplier for fresh Alene's white glue, or just order the Nitrile rubber adhesive from speakerworks.com?
  4. Thanks for the info. I did spend an hour or so reading woofer repair threads on the forum before I posted but I didn't see any posts that directly addressed my questions. I'm using surrounds that came in a repair kit that I got some years ago from wooferrepair@alltel.net, but I might buy some Alene's white glue so I can use fresh glue. Thanks again. Al
  5. Hi, I'm replacing the surround foam on my AR11 woofers. About 25 years ago, I had a speaker repair shop in Dallas replace the original foam and now I'm wondering if they did it correctly. The outer edge of the surround is glued on top of a hard gasket that is glued to the speaker frame. Is that normal? Whenever the articles and videos that I've consulted deal with gaskets on woofers the foam surround goes between the gasket and the metal frame, not on top of the gasket. On the other hand, the pictures of AR11 woofers that I've found on the Web do seem to show the surround on top of the gasket. Should the surround be glued to the top of the gasket or be between the gasket and the frame? Another question I have is on how to remove the adhesive that the shop used on the foam. The adhesive will soften and get gummy with rubbing alcohol, but the adhesive hardly dissolves at all. The only way I've found to remove much of the adhesive is by scraping with a sharp x-acto knife, but the adhesive won't come off unless I use enough force that the blade also sometimes removes small amounts of the paper cone. This does not seem right to me. Is there a better way to remove the adhesive? Thanks, Al
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