Speaker Repair...?

Polkaroo
Polkaroo Posts: 16
edited December 2007 in Speakers
Hey, I just bought the Polk RTIA7 speakers and was going to give my old Yamahas to my 13 yr. old son. Thing is, he pushed in the center of the woofers when he was a baby. (He still denys it) Does anyone know a trick to gently pull these back out to their original shape? The paper is not ripped at all, just pushed in a bit...
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited December 2007
    The dust caps. I have used a vac with great success on many woofers. Make sure you use caution. You don't want to rip the dust cap of of the cone. Also you can try tape to pull them back out. Or you can buy new dust caps from Partsexpress.com
    Please. Please contact me a ben62670 @ yahoo.com. Make sure to include who you are, and you are from Polk so I don't delete your email. Also I am now physically unable to work on any projects. If you need help let these guys know. There are many people who will help if you let them know where you are.
    Thanks
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  • Polkaroo
    Polkaroo Posts: 16
    edited December 2007
    Thanks for these ideas. I guess this is quite common with young kids around the house. God help him if he lays a pinkie on my RTIA7's though....LOL.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited December 2007
    You can also try to 'kiss' them out, pucker up and suck.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • Yashu
    Yashu Posts: 772
    edited December 2007
    It's not just young kids. I have seen tweeters poked in in every store I have ever been in, from the uber expensive audiophile stores to best buy to fry's to midfi shops, to everywhere.

    I don't know what it is, but there is something about those domes that make people want to poke them, whether it is a 30,000 dollar B/W speaker to polk RTi4s up waaaay high on a shelf where you know it was an adult, the calling of the dome cannot be resisted for some.
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited December 2007
    It LOOKS like a button. And we all know, WE just can't resist the BUTTON!!!LOL
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • nms
    nms Posts: 671
    edited December 2007
    Yashu wrote: »
    It's not just young kids. I have seen tweeters poked in in every store I have ever been in, from the uber expensive audiophile stores to best buy to fry's to midfi shops, to everywhere.

    I don't know what it is, but there is something about those domes that make people want to poke them, whether it is a 30,000 dollar B/W speaker to polk RTi4s up waaaay high on a shelf where you know it was an adult, the calling of the dome cannot be resisted for some.

    Hell, I did it the first time my dad pulled the covers off his 10Bs in front of me when I was little. I couldn't fathom how this little tiny thing (the tweeter) could make so much noise, so I had to poke it. I got my hand chopped out of midair for that. Never again, lol!
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited December 2007
    If you owned a store , You could always sacrifice a pair of speakers...modify the tweeters with a momentary switch behind the dome rigged to a really loud alarm...also with the alarm sound the speaker sprays forth a harmless dye to really pinpoint the offender :D

    Nothing worse when looking at new speakers then to see caved in drivers.
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  • Yashu
    Yashu Posts: 772
    edited December 2007
    For real... I will never forget when I went to this one store to check out the Krell and Mac gear... they also had about every B/W offering. I liked the CM1s, but the guy took me to the ultimate theater room, with those Nautilus speakers, and when we took a close look he pulled off the grille and there they were, both tweeter AND midrange domes pushed in, on both channels. Like... WTF.
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited December 2007
    On paper dust caps on woofers, if the vacuum fails, I've used a pin. Works fine on paper.
    -Ignorance is strength -
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