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Looking for comments on speaker cloth - OZ4 - 03-24-2018
Looking for comments on speaker cloth for this Crosley. The stuff that is in it is one option. My other choices are whiskey rayon or new leaf reverse side from richmonddesignsinc.com. The old stuff is trash. And you can see what it looked like when I got it.
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - Nathan Slingerland - 03-24-2018
What model Crosley is that Chris? Just wondering what the original cloth looked like.
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - OZ4 - 03-24-2018
Here's whats left of it. It's in pretty bad shape. And the model is a 625 I think. It is battery powered unit and I can't find a schematic for it.
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - OZ4 - 03-24-2018
Yes it's a 625. Here are some more pics. Apparently it's an unusual one. I would say rare but no.
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - Eliot Ness - 03-24-2018
Whiskey Rayon looks good in most radios, but you can see the original pattern better in person. The reverse New Leaf would give it more of a pattern, so that's my vote.
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - OZ4 - 03-24-2018
Yes I like the wiskey rayon. I have used it some other radios. I think it's just a little too fine a weave for this big a radio. I think the grandma's couch pattern that I have shown kinda goes with the style of case.
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - Nathan Slingerland - 03-24-2018
I think this one on the Radio Museum site is Whiskey Rayon - seems like a reasonable replacement to me:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/crosley_625ec.html
It looks like that cabinet is shared between a few models:
- 625EC - 6 tubes, 3 bands, DC
- 815EC - 8 tubes, 2 bands, DC
- 915EK - 9 tubes, 5 bands
- 1055EK - 10 tubes, 5 bands
TubeRadioLand has a nice photo of the 1055EK:
http://www.tuberadioland.com/crosley1055ek_main.html
He remarks about the 'space invaders' grille cloth - perhaps that is what the set had originally?
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - EdHolland - 03-24-2018
I have no idea about originality, but I do like the cloth you show in the first picture. The subtle symmetric pattern seems to fit the style of the cabinet, at least to my eyes.
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - OZ4 - 03-24-2018
Yes the tuberadioland crosley does have the same cloth as what mine came with. The wiskey rayon I have is a much finer weave.
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - OldRestorer - 03-25-2018
Not sure... IT is not terrible but there is something about it... IT looks a little... ?? Maybe it is too light? If you tone it a little it will be more of the brownish.
If YOU like the one in it now then who cares what someone else thinks. You are the one who has to look at it every day.
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - Electrothaumaturgist - 03-27-2018
I think I read somewhere that you can soak and tint the grille cloth using teabags and steeped water to give it kind of an aged look. Never have done this myself, but might be worth checking into.
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - Paul Philco322 - 03-27-2018
(03-25-2018, 07:01 AM)OldRestorer Wrote: Not sure... IT is not terrible but there is something about it... IT looks a little... ?? Maybe it is too light? If you tone it a little it will be more of the brownish.
If YOU like the one in it now then who cares what someone else thinks. You are the one who has to look at it every day.
(03-27-2018, 05:21 PM)Electrothaumaturgist Wrote: I think I read somewhere that you can soak and tint the grille cloth using teabags and steeped water to give it kind of an aged look. Never have done this myself, but might be worth checking into.
I have done this to my teeth, not sure about cloth!
Paul
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - Electrothaumaturgist - 03-27-2018
HAHAHA! Yes. I'm not sure where I saw that... Maybe Radio Daze when I got my new cloth
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - Paul Philco322 - 03-27-2018
(03-25-2018, 07:01 AM)OldRestorer Wrote: Not sure... IT is not terrible but there is something about it... IT looks a little... ?? Maybe it is too light? If you tone it a little it will be more of the brownish.
If YOU like the one in it now then who cares what someone else thinks. You are the one who has to look at it every day.
(03-27-2018, 05:21 PM)Electrothaumaturgist Wrote: I think I read somewhere that you can soak and tint the grille cloth using teabags and steeped water to give it kind of an aged look. Never have done this myself, but might be worth checking into.
I have tried things that sound clever and they do not work, sometimes unconvential yields results. ya neva know, give it a try.
Paul
RE: Looking for comments on speaker cloth - Electrothaumaturgist - 03-27-2018
Still, I would do a little research first before possibly ruining a $25+ cloth...