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RE: Restoring Acoustat Monitor 4

Posted by LutherG (A) on April 11, 2015 at 07:01:45

In Reply to: RE: Restoring Acoustat Monitor 4 posted by LutherG on April 5, 2015 at 16:33:38:

For anyone still reading this thread, the plan at this point is to use Boraxo powdered soap. They make one that is gentle and unscented - 100% biodegradeable so I'll be getting this today. I was thinking I would mix up some boraxo in distilled water, and fill a spray bottle with it. Then, having removed the panels, I could spray them down heavily with this soap mixture, allow them to soak for a bit, then gently hose them down using the "rain" setting on my hose-end nozzle with very low pressure setting... Just enough pressure to rinse the panels well without the pressure pushing on the panels. I could rinse them while they are standing up leaning against the railing of my deck... We'll see how that goes...

Otherwise, I'll have to build some kind of trough to bathe them in which would take longer, require much more water and materials not to mention that I'll have to flip the home made trough over to do a rinse cycle... I think the water bath is a better approach but will take longer and would be more cumbersome to manage... I'm open though if anyone has any thoughts on this...

I've also picked up some black oil-based enamel to paint the frames after I've cleaned them though now I'm wondering if a latex paint might be better... I just don't think latex will hold up over the long haul but on the other hand, I'm hoping there won't be any issues with fumes from the oil based paint reacting with the panels... Maybe I'm over thinking this...

I've talked to the Acoustat Answer Man Andy Szabo and he's going to flesh-out some procedures for testing the interfaces to make sure they're working properly... I hope to hear from him this coming week.

Finally, I was unable to find a professional cleaning service that would clean my grill cloths so I'm going to use the same approach that I'm planning to use on the panels and that is to soak the fabric with a boraxo soap solution from a spray bottle, and then gently rinse the grill cloth using a hose end nozzle set to a gentle spray - but the nozzle is one of those that has a bunch of small holes in it to get a rain-like spray pattern that should be able to push the dirt from the fibers without stretching the fabric...

Wish me luck! I'll post photos here of the process... If all of this works, and I'm able to get the speakers up and running again, then I'm considering replacing the Walnut end caps with Cocobolo end caps. I've already found a couple of exotic hardwood suppliers in Houston that may have slabs large enough for this purpose...

Kind regards to all,

Luther

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