How To Repair Speaker Cabinet Vynal Peel

1. I but bought a unmarried Polk Monitor 7 at SA. The vinyl is scratched in a few places with white showing through, and a few of the corners are aptitude with the MDF showing. These have the fake rosewood looking vinyl.

   Is at that place some sort of touch-up method for vinyl?

   (I apologize for asking if this has been covered a lot - I just don't seem to be able to find it.)

   I already take a pair of 7B'due south (bought in mid-70s'south), and I'm trying to come up with a mode to use the 7 with them.

   BTW, does anyone know how the seven'south differ from the 7Bs? Looks similar the same Peerless tweeters, and the midrange/woofer and passive radiator expect the same.

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   gkimeng Forum Mod, ClassicSpeakerPages.net Subscriber

   Yes, and it's pretty much the same every bit for real woods. Make full the scratches and/or gouges (employ two-part epoxy putty to rebuild bashed corners), colour the fill to friction match the background color, then "false in" grain patterns. In fact, with a lilliputian exercise the false grain in vinyl is actually easier to imitate than the grain in real wood.

   Unlike real woods, however, if the damage is also extensive for spot repairs, there is no "refinishing" technique that will restore the entire surface and y'all'll need to cover or replace it with a new surface.

3. Use a blow dryer on loftier, or a oestrus gun on low to soften upwardly the agglutinative and pare of the erstwhile vinyl veneer. Use car bondo or a two function epoxy as mentioned higher up to fill in deep scratches or to rebuild corners then recover with your rosewood vinyl or beter yet with real woods veneer. Good luck have pictures of the progress and that single would make a prissy eye aqueduct with your existing M7 as R and Fifty in a vintage abode theater.

4. so I just ordered some vinyl veneer to redo some Genesis back to their stock form....yous're advising that I remove the old veneer? can't I simply veneer over the veneer?

5. Thank you for the suggestions.

   I'one thousand not looking to do a big repair - just make the scratches non so noticeable and re-piece of work the corners in some way. I was thinking some sort of wipe-on "touch-upwards" paint for the scratches so they're not so visible. And maybe something to rejuvenate the vinyl all around so it looks a little brighter.

   I retrieve I once tried some sort of touch-upwardly paint which made vinyl gluey.

   I know how to practise this type of stuff with wood, merely have never actually worked with vinyl veneer.

   Cheers
   Al

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   gkimeng Forum Modern, ClassicSpeakerPages.net Subscriber

   I'd first with those wax crayons from the hardware store for the scratches. if you don't like the fashion they plow out, you tin can remove the wax with some goo-gone type cleaner.

   If the vinyl is simply faded or in demand of "rejuvenation," try Armor-All, the same stuff yous'd put on plastic parts in your car. If yous're going to do whatsoever patching or touching, do that before you apply the Armor-All, because filler and touchup colors may not bond well after the plastic has been treated.

7. thinking of doing real veneer for a pair of "utility" big advents as I also have a real veneer pr too and I want to stack them ( the utility comes upward a niggling short in the looks dept confronting the real thing)
   question : when y'all heat the vinyl and remove it : does the left-backside agglutinative upshot the veneering process / , and if so what do you lot remove it with ?
   cheers

9. I apply a water-based contact cement from Titebond and take not had any issues going straight from vinyl removal (I warm information technology with a heat gun and peel/scrape information technology off) to cabinet prep (i.east. filling any gouges) and veneering with paper=backed veneer.

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10. I'm boot around the idea of modding some vinyl-covered monitors I have so this is great info.

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