[dba-Tech] Speaker Refoaming

I've learned that one of my 1991 vintage sound system main speakers
has a crack in one of the woofers that I thought would necessitate the
replacement of the speakers. I did some searching though and found
that broken drivers could be repaired and I have found a local company
that does that. I dropped off the drivers for both speakers there last
Saturday and hope to have them back in two weeks. While they were
being repaired I thought I would use some even older speakers - these
are from 1971 or so, sersiously old, but after hooking them up I
popped off one of the grills and found that these speakers are in
really bad shape too and also need to be repaired. I have found places
that sell kits to do this "refoaming" yourself. I even found an online
video that shows how to do it. It seems doable but I'm wondering if
it's as easy as it seems.

Has anybody here done it?

Here's the site with the how-to video - it's at the bottom of the page.

http://www.wooferrepair.com/faq.html

The kits I've seen cost about $25 - $30 - plus shipping costs.

The place that is doing my speakers now estimated that they would cost
$33 each. So basically It costs an extra $35 to have them do it for
me. I'm thinking that may be money well spent in order to have it done
by someone who knows what they are doing. But there is some
satisfaction in doing something yourself too. These older speakers are
not used that much, so I may not notice if they are exactly perfect.

-- 
Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com