I fixed my two Monitor 5 woofers from the rough shipping/glue failure

BentMike

I bought couple Monitor 5A on eBay. Guy tried real hard to pack them well, but UPS must have slammed them hard because the magnets were off both of them. No damage to the boxes, so I knew there was no reason to hassle UPS for insurance money. I decided to make it into a learning experience and tried to fix them.

It took me all night to do it but, I didn't have to buy anything.

Here is a link to an album with captioned pictures.

https://picasaweb.google.com/100767276460953028406/PolkAudioMonitor5SpeakerReassemblyRepair?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCN-9j9Gm3s6g0wE&feat=directlink

I just hate to throw things away if there is a possibility of fixing them, but this is probably too much trouble anyone not compulsive. i am curious if anyone else has succeeded at this and how it was done.

I am also interested in the original manufacturing process. The glue is between the magnet and pole pieces not around the outside like my fixer uppers. This means they had some way of getting them together without adjusting like I did. I used to work with automotive cam and crank sensors which we would assemble with demagnetized magnets, them charge them up with a big magnetizer. The success of this depends on not having a very large air gap between the magnetizer poles and the magnet; it have to be would be one go-to-the-hot-place magnetizer; you would have hard time magnetizing an assembled speaker.

Does anyone here know how the speakers were put together?

BentMike

Drenis

Thanks for sharing that.