[Doug Houston]

If you're lucky enough to get the set, and the grille cloth damage is such that the opening in it can be closed, remove the cloth from the speaker board, lay it out on a bed of smooth cloth, like cotton, face down.

Then, carefully, bring the edges of the tear together, as well matched as possible.

Then, have some iron-on patch strips eady, and a flat iron heated to temperature. Iron on the repair tape, over the joined tear. It will be hard to see if it's done carefully.

if you do this, your wife will not have an excuse to pitch the original cloth, and replace it with some of that vomit-inspiring, splotchy flower cloth, that we see so much of.