Punctured tweeter dome

Sooooooo freak incident today. While screwing the tweeters into the new sail panels a screw dropped into the sail panel. The tweeter magnet then pulled the screw up through the dome puncturing it.

I’ve emailed Focal about repair/replacement but wondering if there’s another solution to repair the dome and not buy another tweeter.

 

Old school rubber cement as thin as you can brush it on to cover usually does the trick.
If you think you can hear it after the fix then get a replacement but we have been using rubber cement in the business forever and a day!

 

Something like this? What about a little flex seal?

 

sadly when its damaged like that the sound will never be quite right even if you fix that.. im sure focal would sell a replacement for a reasonable price (i'd hope)

 

Flex seal would most likely seal the hole but it might be thick enough to effect the performance of the tweeter. Flex seal worked great at patching my subwoofer surround though.

Rubber cement sounds like it would be the better option. you could also try tissue paper and regular elmers glue.

 

No that looks like adhesive for conning or repairing the edge of the diaphragm and not the material in the center where your hole is?
You also don't want to use Elmers Glue as it will dry hard thus limiting the travel of the speaker in use and changing the sound.
The tweeter works just like the woofer and is actually moving to squeeze out the sound all the time but you just can not see this as it is too fast at the frequencies that it plays,so inhibiting that free movement is the second thing you are trying to not do.

This is rubber cement


The main idea is that you do not want the out of phase waves from behind the hole to be whizzing thru the hole which would likely be something that you can hear actually.
Further I cant tell if the tweeter is sealed from the rear but if you can push the tear into the hole so that less rubber cement is needed to close the hole in front the better the whole thing will be.
When I said a thin repair that is exactly what I meant.
As you load other mass onto the surface of the tweeter you will also be changing the the way it sounds.

Now as I already offered and others have echoed it might not work and might sound like shit once done.
So what?
It is already torn and there is nothing to lose trying a repair.
Most people will not hear or notice this in a truck anyway.

 

I can't get to it from the rear but I'll try to take a toothpick and bring it up.

 

It's an inverted aluminum dome tweeter. it's supposed to be ridged.

 

got the glue on. Actually had to do another coat as the glue went in the puncture. I didn’t dig it out any cause I knew I’d cause more damage (which I did anyway when I stupidly dropped another screw in the sail panel).

installed this one today and I actually can’t hear that it’s damaged surprisingly. I still have to install the driver side tomorrow so that will be the final verdict.

Thanks for the help everyone!

 

That's good to hear so far. Hope the other one works out good too.