Repairing Speaker Foam Surrounds?

bigmush asks: "I have an old pair of speakers, and they had been working fine until recently. I took off the covers, and saw that the foam surround had started to wear out on both of the woofers. After 15 years of service, this was a sad discovery (though also an opportunity to justify an upgrade!). I found a few foam surround repair kits available online. How well do these work? What experiences have you had with them?"

Comments

Couple of things

[Fenis-Wolf]

1) Even if the repair did work, your speakers would sound slightly differant, as adding new foam would re-shape the cone.
2) From my experience these things rarely work. Just look at these kinds of things like me, you know have a wonderful excuse to justify the expense to your g/f :-D

No luck here

[Deanasc]

I had no luck trying to fix a pair of speakers a couple years ago. Admittedly I wasn't using a foam repair kit but Duct Tape instead. I guess there is in fact at least one thing that Duct Tape is no good at fixing.

Re:No luck here

[h2odragon]

ahh, but you weren't using $800/roll, audiophile duct tape, now were you.

Re:No luck here

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, is that the gold-laminated tape where the adhesive molecules are all aligned in one direction?
I've heard that that stuff rocks for audio repair work..

Re:Surround repair kits are cheap and work very we

[WildFire42]

I have done between 15-20 repairs where no kit was available using nylon mesh cloth saturated with 3M Black Weather stripping Cement thinned with Acetone

I've done several repairs with kits, but none that were "ad-hoc", so to speak, and I dreaded the thought of even using a kit, not to mention making my own surround. You poor, poor bastard.

I salute you!!!

Duct Tape

[Anonymous Coward]

get with the program and use duct tape.

Re:Duct Tape

[Unleashd]

For the speaker or the Girl friend?