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wrote:

[...] the foam surround
crumbled and fell off the driver.

Well, now I have 6 Minimus-7's, 5 with basically zero foam surround
left and one that's just on the verge of falling into pieces.

I gotta learn how to fix these foam surrounds! Either that or buy some
brand new drivers.

Tim.

Look in your phone book for "speaker repair." The foam disintegrating
happens a lot in dry climates, and if the voice coils aren't too
abraded, they can be replaced by a speaker repair tech.

The voice coils get abraded by using the speaker as the foam is
disintegrating, and they wear against the surrounding magnet and
frame.

--
Eric F. Richards

"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- Myron Glass,
often attributed to J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940