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I finally got around to cracking open my LEE Catenoid corner horn and found a 12" University woofer that can only be described as "puny." My questions are:

1.) Why is there some electric green goo on the frame of the driver? It does not appear to be a deliberate application.

2.) Should I remove it?

3.) Will I need a hazmat suit to do so?

4.) Should I exercise caution when I open the garage door tonight lest I get jumped by whatever it's mutated to?

5.) Has any one seen anything like this? (At least anyone who doesn't say "Soon you'll be 'one of us.'")

Thanks

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Green usually signals copper to me. Could wires have

melted/gunked/flowed over the years onto some kind of grease that was

left over from assembly?

Hell you were a child at one time. Give it the old kids smell and tip of the tongue test.

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Bob, if the Lee spent a lot of time in a very humid climate(like St. Louis,) you can get some good fungal and mold growths. They like it when the humidity is over 40% or so.

If the conditions are right, when the speaker cycles in temperature, the woofer basket would be able to lose heat faster and reach the dewpoint first. There may not be much moisture, but over the years it could result in that green slime mold that Frank Zappa would sing about...

I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little had changed
I am the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozin' out
From your TV set
You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help...no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
That's right, folks.. Don't touch that dial
Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livingroom floor
I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go

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Gotta think thebes is onto something, had a roll of clear coated copper wire stored for some years in the garage, when I went to use some, it looked like the "blob" sticky, green and yucky.

Of course, now that some neighbors and small animals have begun to go missing lately, I've been sitting here in the dark.......

Beware of the Blob,
it creeps and leaps,
and glides and slides,
across the floor and more,
and out the door,
and all around the wall,
a splotch, a blotch
BE CAREFUL OF THE BLOB! ! !

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Funny you should say that Sheltie Dave, I was just playing the song 'Let's make the water turn black'. bet if you dunked that blob into a pond of stagnant water, it'd turn black.....

Whatever it is, don't get it on your peepee!

jeepers, that was very cerebral for my 9002nd post, wasn't it?[:S]

M

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I got a little more into it this morning - the green goo seems to be dripping out of two grey metal boxes that appear to be part of the crossover. I closed the hatch back up as the stuff appeared to by drying out a bit and I figured wiping off would be easier than chipping off.

Just what I wanted - my own toxic waste farm.

What color are PCBs, anyway?

While I was poking around, I got a little on my ear and now I have a strong desire to take the speaker to the Callaway Nuclear Power Plant...

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