Fix ANY Dented Dust Cap WITH A BAG! Any Size
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- Hello everyone, this is the absolute best method to un-pop a pressed in center dome whether it is a dust cap, tweeter or on a subwoofer.
This will work for you given that your dust cap/tweeter is capable of physically popping back up, an exception would be if you have a vintage speaker with the old-school thin cardboard type dust cap which sometimes stay permanently wrinkled depending on the material.
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My granddaughter could not resist pushing in a Twitter on my brand new Polk 265RT. This took three minutes and it’s perfect. Thank you!
I was skeptical but what did I have to lose. IT WORKS! Thank you so much. Saved my Dynaudio D260.
@Kaysen Brecken You be the "close friend" that likes to lie in his friends warm wet bed til it goes and clammy and most surely a girlfriend free zone...
Just following the concept with a straw and packing tape, boom. Thank you my Rockit 8 back in biz !
Awesome!! Great speakers... happy to hear =D
Finally a practical video that has a sure fire way to help with the problem. (Kinda feel kinda dumb I didn't think of it myself). Sometime the simplest solutions are the best, even when you think outside the box! Well Done!
Great idea! You are genius! You rescue many dented domes in the world!
Best method i have seen, does not damage the material with glue or a stupid pin, just pops it out perfectly.
For paper dust caps, just get a dental pick kit. Poke hole in the center of the dust cap, use the dental hook to reshape the cone. Work the small lines that formed while it was creased, take your time use magnifying glasses if possible so you can use the tip of the dental pick to massage crease lines out. Then work your way around in a dizzy wheel pattern. Let it sit for a few minutes then use quality nail polish with its own brush to put a dot in the pick hole. Practice making dots with a brush on the paper plate etc, then with just a quick dot of polish black in most cases it will fill and seal the dental pick hole making it sealed again. Helps to have the speaker standing up while working the cap and then helps to lay the speaker flat on its back when you seal the dental pick hole.NOTE* ferrofluid-filled tweeter will not drip out of it* If you are concerned complete the process with the speaker laying on its back start to finish and apply a second coat of nail polish if needed.
to fix "vintage" silk or cardboard dust caps you have to make them a bit wet (like a couple touches with a sponge) and then you use the vacuum method (to restore the original shape) and you don't even have to touch the cap itself, if your vac is decent enough that is.
Thank you! I have a pair of 1989 infinity RS 5001s need to do one of them! :)
My daughter pushed the paper dust cap ALL THE WAY IN on my RSL 3600 mids. I tried everything and nothing worked. Thought they were done for... but this worked. Thank you!
@@Rjlonergan Glad to know, I discovered this method accidentally (didn't even know about the vacuum trick even back then) it was after some house warming party we had at some friend's place and he asked me to bring the trusty ol' AIWA nsx which in itself is not a hi-fi by a long shot but i loved that thing. Long story short some drunk girl pushed the dustcap all the way in and some other dude dropped some ranch on the speaker itself, come next morning and i find myself wiping the speaker with a slightly damp rag and i noticed it made the cap pliable enough then i just put 1 and 1 together and figured out that the vacuum nozzle was about the right size to fit around the cap and voila. I've fixed 20 or so old speaker sets using this method and it hasn't failed me yet.
I tried the tape method and the vacuum method on an old 15" sub with a very stiff paper dome with no luck. Gonna try this way soon.
See my suggestion above. Worked like a charm every time. We do this for customers.
You are doing gods work my guy!
I tired tape, vaccum, heat, command strips, even a hole and bent paperclip..nothing worked because caps were hard plastic. If you need a replacement woofer dust cover for Rockit 5 (my dust caps were pushed in). I got an exact dust cover replacement at SpeakerWorks.com part #DCPL112 (1.5" poly black). Also used clear glue from Amazon (Speaker Repair Adhesive, Foam Edge, Spider, High Strength, Clear, MI-3035) - these are a perfect fit for replacing damaged Rockit 5 dust caps..looks exactly like original. Remove old cap by gently sliding fingernail (or a guitar pick) around dustcap edge until you get it to separate...I then used a needle nose pliers to pull off dustcap carefully. Apply clear glue around ring where dust cap will sit, place cap, use something to hold edge down or an hour or so (I used a 1 - 1/16 impact socket from my tools as it fits perfectly on the edge of the cap). .
This is pretty cool. I've got a few midranges were the plastic dust cap is completley squished in. Gonna give it a try. I've got some very high end vintage VMPS speakers to try
Nice ,wish I thought to find this video before buying a new tweeter
For the tweeters, in most cases, you'll need to actually remove the front of the chassis, to get to the back of the tweeter, then with great care, disassemble it and push the dome back out.
Worked flawlessly for my speaker too! Tks bro!
Very creative. Well done.
I'm gonna attach the straw to my vacuum!
How about aluminium tweeter?
wow,its a great hack...nice one
This might work as long as the dust caps aren't cloth. The interweb has stores that provide different sizes of new dust caps for replacements.
You can do it with just sticky tape, just make a ring with the tape and touch the tweeter gently with the tape so it sticks lightly and pulls the tweeter dome back into shape. Depending on the material you might need some gorilla tape rather than standard sticky tape.
Genius
"How to inhale all the dust and shit off your dust caps in one easy go"
Worked for me, on the second try.
Cheers,this worked for me. 👍
Wow! Very cool.
Thank you great tip
hi
will this work with a aluminium tweeter? thanks
0:16 Duck Tape?😂🤣🤣😂😂
It worked!
And remember to dust free or you'll be inhaling it lol
Awesome thanks
creative!
Epic idea 💡👍
From an engineer's perspective this make sense, but im not sure i eant to toot on my 18 year old yamaha Ns10s... I thibk im still gonna risk dying haha
Will a dent effekt sound quality? Its just a dustcap
will it work for aluminium caps as well?
A small hot glue stick works melt one side a little bit, stick it on, let it set, and pull. Hot glue and a tooth pick works too. There is no residue left behind.
Brilliant
Very noice hack. I like it.👍
Nice
What type of bnw speakers is that? What series model? Thanks 😎
Didn't work for me either.
I once knew a girl who could do that without the bag
I'll give it a try. If it works I'll comment that it did.
Best video on youtube. Period ! Fucking legend !!!
Nice !
I'll try this ... But with clear plastic to see what I'm doing, and painters tape so I don't pull away any finish.
Thank
Impossible... all that would happen is the cone would just lift up .. forget the tweeter .. the backs are usually sealed
You just saw him do it, twice, you doughnut.
@@bryanleigh6497 2 years to reply ?
I saw with my own highly observant eyes what happened and I still stand by what I said .. and I'm not a dognut I am female !!
The best way is to use a modified end on a vacuum cleaner ( with variable speed so it can be slowed right down ) place the end of the vacuum cleaner tube over the dust cap and it will suck the dent out .. this method also works with tweeter domes ... but be very careful!!
OMG I'm gonna try this since my speakers have tiny cheap paper tweeters that my toddler pushed in and the glue method rips fibers off them. This seems like something worth trying before I throw these f*ckers away.
Your title says "ANY"... but then you have an exception in the description. Also, if a woofer has a vent hole on the back side of the magnet, this technique may not work.
Hi m8, what speakers are those yellow woofers?
tech mann do u know the model m8?
tech mann thanks m8
Those are mid range not woofers
brian nemeth similar thing they didn't say sub
b&w center speaker cc6
does dented cone affect the sound quality?
no. that's not a cone. It is only a dust cover that is popped in
A dented dust cap may affect dispersion of mid or higher frequencies. Usually it won’t be noticeable on a woofer as it doesn’t play frequencies that high. It would matter on a tweeter.
Then again a lot of people can’t tell much of a difference, so it depends how much you analyse the sounds of things .
It may matter mostly for the look of the speakers in a lot of cases
doesnt matter, it look annoying as hell, like a dent on a car , lol
Should use a clear bag so it could be seen working.
LOL. Good point.
Doesn't work with 18" ....
Use a garbage bad lol
If this didn´t work for you: instead a straw, put a vacuum. I just fix my vxt4 doing that.
An easyer way is to use a straw...suck onto it...then pull.
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Do away with the plastic bag, the straw n the inhaling if dust..i'd just only use the tape, slowly n carefully stick a tape in the dented area n gradually pull it upward as you peel the tape off.. But b careful not to tape any part of the outer cone because usually they are made of some sort of paper n they would easily peel off with the tape.. Cheers! Ps pls re make a video if it i dont want no credit :)
The vacuum is not enough to pull stiffer dust-caps
Use a vacuum cleaner
That’s NOT duct tape just to be accurate.
why aren't speakers just made with concave dust caps?
Some newer ones are
Didn't work for me sadly :(
nice
KING@SPL
it woorks lol
I let my best girlfriend suck on the straw and the whole driver separated from the surround..!
Duck tape 🤣
Dammmmmnnnnnnnn
Good joke at the end...
That's stupid as hell
that was not a straw, nor was that duct tape.
LIES.
damn.. nice bro.
What they fail to tell you is if the dent has been present for some time depending on it's material the dent will develop a memory so whatever method is then used to pull the dent it will pop back in again on it's own. The best fix is to make sure that they do no get damaged in the first place !!
"The best fix is to make sure that they do no get damaged in the first place !!" - Simply brilliant insight! Seriously, Einstein level. We are not worthy of this superior intellect.
Have you developed a memory yet?
how do people end up with pressed in dust caps? Do all of you live with careless children around?
No,just inquisitive ones.Personally I always leave my speaker grills firmly attached at all times.But you gotta admit.To a young child,its very very tempting.
@@precbass , best keep the careless brats away from such things.
This method is stupid.
Brilliant