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Other Stuff => Cabinets-Speakers => Topic started by: Khristophorous on December 09, 2025, 04:51:15 pm

Title: Paper over Holes in Speaker Rim
Post by: Khristophorous on December 09, 2025, 04:51:15 pm

What do you guys do with this? It seems like just pushing whatever fastener through this would set it up to tear later. I was thinking about taking a fresh #11 scalpel blade and taking out a neat semi-circle. I read on some other random forum from a search that this is done as a means to show if a speaker is used or not - or has at least been installed somewhere before.

Title: Re: Paper over Holes in Speaker Rim
Post by: pdf64 on December 10, 2025, 02:22:30 am

Don't worry about it, the glue bead (between frame and cone edge) will prevent any tears etc spreading.
Just pushing the bolt through is absolutely fine.