ZEUS121996 Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 So I picked these up on Saturday and with the weather being nice decided to break them down out side. On the woofers is a bluish film that makes everything stick to it. Almost like a spray adhesive that never dried. Attached are the cabs broke down and one woofer with the blue glue. Anyone have any idea what it is or how to clean it off? TY Mark Quote
Frzninvt Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 That is damping fluid on the woofer, they came from the factory that way. Guessing that is a CTS manufactured woofer as I had a pair of LWE-I's (Louis Erath) speakers that had the same type fluid on the woofer surrounds. a/d/s (analog and digital systems) now defunct used the same fluid on their textile dome tweeter. It was one of the best tweeters that they made but everything adheres to the stuff. I would not try to take it off you will do more harm than good. Quote
Schu Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 (edited) verticles... not decorators. nice score! Edited March 9, 2015 by Schu Quote
ZEUS121996 Posted March 9, 2015 Author Posted March 9, 2015 (edited) Vertical Decorators! See the tag on the link https://community.klipsch.com/index.php?/topic/155427-fs-73-cornwall-vertical-decorators-white-500/ Mark Edited March 9, 2015 by ZEUS121996 Quote
angusruler Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 so, what's the difference between verticals and decorators? or are they the same thing? Quote
ZEUS121996 Posted March 9, 2015 Author Posted March 9, 2015 (edited) Decorators are plain as hell, no grill, no trim, nada Verticals are the way the speaker is laid out, the idea was to put the tweeter in a position you could either stand the speaker up or lay it down and the tweeter would still be up. It was suppose to fit into bookcases or as the name implies in a corner or against a wall. IDK how common Vertical Decorators are Mark Edited March 9, 2015 by ZEUS121996 1 Quote
moray james Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 verticles... not decorators. nice score! Those are vertical decorators, very nice find. Time to rotate the woofers 180 degrees. A medium stiffness paint brush can be used to sweep off the dust. Best regards Moray James. Quote
ZEUS121996 Posted March 10, 2015 Author Posted March 10, 2015 verticles... not decorators. nice score! Those are vertical decorators, very nice find. Time to rotate the woofers 180 degrees. A medium stiffness paint brush can be used to sweep off the dust. Best regards Moray James. Thank you Mark Quote
ZEUS121996 Posted March 10, 2015 Author Posted March 10, 2015 So once I sweep away the dust, will be able to spray paint these woofers as Colter has shown or will this not work? TY Mark Quote
jimjimbo Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 Spray paint the woofers? I must have missed that.... Quote
moray james Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 So once I sweep away the dust, will be able to spray paint these woofers as Colter has shown or will this not work? TY Mark Colter's comments are not posted in this thread. I assume you want a specific color or you want the two cones to match? Sure you can spray a light coat of color on your cones it is not going to have any negative impact but you must mask the suspension and not get any paint on those. Hope that helps. What color are you going to paint the cabinets? Best regards Moray James. Quote
ZEUS121996 Posted March 10, 2015 Author Posted March 10, 2015 (edited) In Colters thread he spray painted the entire woofer including the suspension with 3 coats using a flexible vinyl paint from SEM for cars. He told me he has had no problems with the performance of the woofers. The plan was to do some bondo work, spray paint the woofers, fronts and backs satin black, veneer in walnut to match my Belles and add grills. But after seeing Budmans Decorators with raw birch faces he has me rethinking the plan. Not good. Now, i used a medium stiff paint brush and it cleaned out the surround OK but they still look ratty. The pictures are of the worst woofer, it is better but just not where I would like it to be Edited March 10, 2015 by ZEUS121996 Quote
JJkizak Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 Vinyl paint still has some stiffness and that would worry me some. You can bend the hell out of it though. JJK Quote
moray james Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 Colter would not steer you wrong. birch veneer would look very nice so does quarter sawn fir. There are a lot of solid colors that also look mice and the Altec VOTT Grey is nice too lots of visual options. Quote
ZEUS121996 Posted March 13, 2015 Author Posted March 13, 2015 (edited) So I tore these down and started knocking the paint off. In between I worked on cleaning up the woofers so I could shoot them with some paint. This is the one I havent sprayed Edited March 13, 2015 by ZEUS121996 Quote
ZEUS121996 Posted March 13, 2015 Author Posted March 13, 2015 (edited) Here's the other after 3 light mistings, Edited March 13, 2015 by ZEUS121996 Quote
ZEUS121996 Posted March 13, 2015 Author Posted March 13, 2015 (edited) Of course being Friday the 13th doesn't scare me! My neighbor came by to see how it was going. He decided he wanted to take a pic of both woofers and proceeded to drop his phone into the woofer that was sprayed. I'm guessing this is going to need to be re-coned. Who would I use here in Chicago?Jason? Edited March 13, 2015 by ZEUS121996 Quote
ZEUS121996 Posted March 13, 2015 Author Posted March 13, 2015 The cabinets are coming along, although it looks like one of the bottoms was wet at some point Quote
Thaddeus Smith Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 and proceeded to drop his phone into the woofer that was sprayed. you punched him square in the nuts, right? 3 Quote
ZEUS121996 Posted March 13, 2015 Author Posted March 13, 2015 (edited) No I just took a valium. Now I might pull out the Ithica Un ******* believable! Mark Edited March 13, 2015 by ZEUS121996 Quote
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