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Remember to keep taking photos, and above all, be gentle with it and you will be successful..

Looking at the white wadding. You can see where the copper-coloured film has stained the wadding and also permanent indentations in the wadding. The idea of the wadding is to gently but firmly press the copper-coloured film strip so it makes a secure contact with the mylar sheet and also to ensure the mylar sheet makes an evenly distributed pressure so the mylar sheet contacts the metal grill evenly.

Simply relocate the wadding by turning it so you are using a fresh section to hold down the film strip.

Now inspect the inside of the brown casing. You will see the remnants of where there was once a small strip of foam. If its still there it will immediately disintegrate as soon as you touch it. Remove it and suck out the dust with a vacuum or tip it out. Locate a similar sized piece of thin foam. This might be hard to find but I used a piece that was in a stereo cartridge box and cut it down with a Stanley knife. It's going to be trial end error here but when you get it right, stick it down to the brown casing in exactly the same place as the previous decomposed one.

You can see what it does; when reassembled the foam will press onto the copper film strip to secure it to the mylar.

We have just, hopefully again, rectified another major cause of the tweeter to fail.

Just about done. Here are some photos. One shows the position of the decomposed foam in the brown casing, the other shows a section of new foam in position.

The next post is reassembly.. not quite as simple as you might imagine.