Refoam your speakers in a new way with simple tools!

Refoam your speakers in a new way with simple tools!
VIDEOCHANNEL: Audiofriends
ORIGINALVIDEO: https://youtu.be/IlufGBRhU3c
Center and repair the foam or rubber surrounds on your speakers in a new way. (Surrounds etc. available on www.audiofriends.com.) We use simple tools you might have already at home. The end result is perfect. See also (2007(!): www.audiofriends.nl/pdf
************************************************

Mike Oleksa
3 years ago
Just a follow up. This worked perfectly on a pair of Boston Acoustics A60 and HD7 speakers. I glued the new foam to the cone first and then I was able to realign the voice coils without removing the dust caps by moving the center using the tension provided by the clothespins to hold the cone in place and pushing down lightly on the cone until I heard no rubbing (or whatever term you want to use for the noise and feel you get when the voice coil is off). Thank you again for this. A simple, yet effective, way to do this more confidently. It was my first refoam project and I'm very happy with the results.

Teknogod17
2 years ago (edited)
Also another trick is to make perfect rings from sheet board with a razor blade compass cutter. Then you have 2 rings. 1 for inner, and 1 for the outer lip. This way, pressure is appied equally and completely around the surround. I recommend weak, but large binder clips because they are wider and cover more surface area.

Keith Randall
4 years ago
Thank you for this video! I never refoamed speakers before and was a bit intimidated by other centering methods I saw. I tried this and it worked perfectly. The speakers sound great again! The only thing I did differently was to use 4 small clamps rather than clothe pins, but the clothe pins would certainly have worked.