N Cook wrote:

Any car panel-beaters on board.
You know thew ones. A large angular dent in a car body panel and you hand
over some cash and they say turn round a second/ walk round the block. Then
they kick the panel, but they know exactly which spot to kick.
Working speaker but the large perforation-type front grill kicked in or
dropped so it touched the cosmetic dome at the centre of the cone leaving a
number of depressions.
I tried heating with a hot air gun to maybe soften and sucking with a vacuum
cleaner hose - no good.
Tried some dabs of hot-melt in the dents, alowing to cool and pulling in
conjunction with 1 pound weight in some undeformed areas re-created the dome
and then lightly heated with hot air to remove the glue - but didn't cleanly
release and had to dust with toner powder to matt it out - but otherwise a
re-formed dome. Anyone been here before with better ideas. ?
Weights and vacuum cleaner ?

Leaving it alone usually works well enough. Pressing the cone right
back should ensure its up enough not to foul the pole piece. Doesnt
look so hot at sale time, but as you say they can be difficult to get
out.


NT