stewblack Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 What is to be done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Maybe suck it out with the hoover hose 🙂 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigguy2017 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Maybe pull the dent out, carefully, with sellotape? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloc Riff Nut Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Or with a pin(very carefully)😱 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewblack Posted July 21, 2019 Author Share Posted July 21, 2019 Oh my God. All these things terrify me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloc Riff Nut Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 I had an Aguilar db212 which I decided to open in the front room. As soon as my back was turned my daughter was poking her finger into the dust cover thingy. The vacuum cleaner option worked for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky 4000 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 54 minutes ago, stewblack said: Oh my God. All these things terrify me. One of my hi-fi speaker cones has cat damage (as if the cat thought that the speaker had disrespected the cat in some way), but it still sounds fine. 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 1 hour ago, stewblack said: Oh my God. All these things terrify me. Don't do anything. It won't affect your sound. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itu Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 As said, it is just the dust cover. If it was not there, you would see the magnet and a part of the coil. Take a vacuum cleaner and open the tube from the side (you know that sliding thing that you should use while vacuuming curtains). Put your hand to the cone and the tube to the dust cover. The cover takes its own shape. Done. If not, close the slider a bit. Repeat ad lib. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Starr Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 Yes suction, though I've done it in the past by just sucking through a tube. It gives you a bit more control but a vacuum cleaner which was adjustable would work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 I would leave it. It makes no difference being like that and there is always a chance of damage doing anything to correct it, so unless you want to show it off and it is really bugging you, leave it be! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Dare Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 If you use the hoover, once the cone has resumed its shape, don't pull the tube from it without switching off the hoover first. That's the most likely way to damage it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teebs Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Embrace the character that it's created! Add some graphics...hey presto! 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dood Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 I, like the sellotape method mentioned above, use a small bit of tape, gently push it on to the centre of the dent then gently pull the tape to hopefully pul that dent out. It's worked every time for me anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewblack Posted July 25, 2019 Author Share Posted July 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Dood said: I, like the sellotape method mentioned above, use a small bit of tape, gently push it on to the centre of the dent then gently pull the tape to hopefully pul that dent out. It's worked every time for me anyway! Thanks mate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dood Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 19 minutes ago, stewblack said: Thanks mate No worries! Hope it works out alright! Be gentle though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 The worst case solution, proved many times in the 70s and 80s - pinhole, tehn a pin bent 90 degrees to pull it out. Then a drop of nail varnish to seal the hole. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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