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Default Reforming the dome over a speaker cone?

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 ?


carefully cut out dust cover (the dome).discard. glue on new dust cover.