Celestion speaker gasket

fretfinder

What kind of gasket should a Celestion Blue have on the front of the rim, for mounting from the rear (ooer!) as normal in a guitar combo cabinet? Mine currently has the compressed paper type of gasket but three of the pieces have come off in transit. So while the simplest thing would be to glue them back on, I could replace them with the hard foam type if that would be better (and if I could get hold of any obvs). Thanks. 

ICBM

Card/compressed paper.

Just glue them back - I use PVA wood glue. Unless you mean they've come right off the frame? In which case use rubber solution glue.

bertie

[pedant]  thats  front mounted  /  rear loaded    [/pedant]  

mount = speaker
loaded = cabinet side

so mounted on the front of the speaker loaded FROM the rear of the cabinet

ecc83

In the case of a completely or partially missing gasket, IIRC Celestion put a spare in the box to allow alternative front mounting. Any music shop that handles drive units should have a few kicking around.

Dave.

fretfinder

ICBM said:

Card/compressed paper.

Just glue them back - I use PVA wood glue. Unless you mean they've come right off the frame? In which case use rubber solution glue.

Thanks. Three of the pieces have come off the frame but they’ve left a layer of ‘paper’ attached to the frame, seemingly well attached, so I was going to use Titebond. 

ICBM

fretfinder said:

Three of the pieces have come off the frame but they’ve left a layer of ‘paper’ attached to the frame, seemingly well attached, so I was going to use Titebond. 

Yes, that will be fine too.

fretfinder

ICBM said:

fretfinder said:

Three of the pieces have come off the frame but they’ve left a layer of ‘paper’ attached to the frame, seemingly well attached, so I was going to use Titebond. 

Yes, that will be fine too.

Thanks. 

bertie said:

[pedant]  thats  front mounted  /  rear loaded    [/pedant]  

mount = speaker
loaded = cabinet side

so mounted on the front of the speaker loaded FROM the rear of the cabinet

Haha I did wonder… I googled it and it said paper/card gasket on ‘front mounted’ and I thought no it’s not that cos mine is going from the rear onto the bolts that are already fitted and then nuts tightened from behind. So that can’t be ‘front mounted’, and I still don’t understand why it’s called that!