26-10-2015, 05:45 PM
"Don't use speaker cloth to try out the tech, use an old bit of calico or anything else that's hanging around"
'Tis an idea Lawrence and I have thought of it and it will almost certainly go in perfectly and be so good you wont want to take it out !! But it then leaves you with a messy job of cleaning the cabinet of all the glue before doing it again with the real cloth. And you can bet with Sods Law that wont go in as great as the cheaper cloth. Why? well lots of reasons but among them is muslin has no pattern or distinct weft and warp lines, then the stretch of the real cloth may be a lot less, you maybe a bit more tense, the wife may have give you a bad time that morning for working on radios while the house is falling down etc.
For me I have tried every tech that I have read about and devised for myself probably doing over 50 radio cloths now. The reason for so many is that I have done some more than once not because I didn't get a good result first time but simply with hand sight it was a bad choice of cloth and I couldn't live with it. So I always, whatever the method, think it out and the chance of success and if its seems + then use 'proper' cloth. If it works first time then pour a beer but if not I have bought at least enough for another go.
Gary
'Tis an idea Lawrence and I have thought of it and it will almost certainly go in perfectly and be so good you wont want to take it out !! But it then leaves you with a messy job of cleaning the cabinet of all the glue before doing it again with the real cloth. And you can bet with Sods Law that wont go in as great as the cheaper cloth. Why? well lots of reasons but among them is muslin has no pattern or distinct weft and warp lines, then the stretch of the real cloth may be a lot less, you maybe a bit more tense, the wife may have give you a bad time that morning for working on radios while the house is falling down etc.
For me I have tried every tech that I have read about and devised for myself probably doing over 50 radio cloths now. The reason for so many is that I have done some more than once not because I didn't get a good result first time but simply with hand sight it was a bad choice of cloth and I couldn't live with it. So I always, whatever the method, think it out and the chance of success and if its seems + then use 'proper' cloth. If it works first time then pour a beer but if not I have bought at least enough for another go.
Gary
