white speaker advice. please

[Van Presence]

so what is the best option for making my white speakers sexy again? mostly just yellow spots/stains, and i fluffed up an made a dirty black smudge. idiot!
is there a trick to clean or is paint the easier option? what sort of paint?


bonus credit if you can guess what they out of

 

[jimmyjimmy19702010]

I've heard that tennis shoe whitener (the stuff that's applied with a soft sponge on the end of the bottle) works wonders:View attachment 28847
It's not a paint as such so it shouldn't affect the sound of the speaker. You just keep applying coats until you get the colour restored.

 

[blu_fuz]

^ I actually have some of the sneaker whitening. Never thought to use it on my speakers instead of sneakers.....

 

[BoomboxLover48]

Great idea James!

I hate painting...

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[Northerner]

White acrylic artist paint thinly applied with wide soft artists brush...they'll look like new

 

[Northerner]

I think sneaker whitening might be more wet than acrylic paint?...dunno not used it since the 80's lol

 

[blu_fuz]

The shoe white is very runny and very wet.

 

[Styleking]

The issue with using shoe polish (either white or black) is there's no even flow when using it directly out of the bottle. If you're planning on using it, which I wouldn't recommend since I tore a speaker using shoe polish, would be to squeeze it out of the bottle into a cup and use a paint brush to apply. I've used flat white spray paint with good results.

 

[T-STER]

White acrylic artist paint thinly applied with wide soft artists brush...they'll look like new

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[Reli]

Personally I would go with a spray, since the coat would be thinner than you'd get by using a brush

 

[BoomboxLover48]

Personally I would go with a spray, since the coat would be thinner than you'd get by using a brush

I agree with Reli! Fine layers to hide the stain can be applied with thin coats of aerosol spray. I hate over spray on dust caps. Give extra room to cover them. Any gaps without paint can be touched up with an artist brush.

 

[superlew]

The issue with using shoe polish (either white or black) is there's no even flow when using it directly out of the bottle. If you're planning on using it, which I wouldn't recommend since I tore a speaker using shoe polish, would be to squeeze it out of the bottle into a cup and use a paint brush to apply. I've used flat white spray paint with good results.

^ Yeah, what Jerry said.
I know some get a little nuts at the mention of one speck of over-spray on a nearby cone, but I find flat white Krylon (specifically Krylon) covers yellowed and dirty speakers very satisfactorily in one light coat. I suppose you could throw on more coats, but just one does the trick when it's behind a grill.

https://boomboxery.com/forum/index.php/topic/19168-refreshing-some-pioneer-woofers/

 

[Hisrudeness]

You get more options with diluted acrylic paint. You can mix at least.
Not all the speakers are pure white. Most of them are slightly off white when new. You can mix a tiny bit of black to get the right colour with acrylic paint. With a spray can or shoe sponge you are committed to whatever colour the can or sponge is.

 

[Hisrudeness]

This is an old thread on S2go on the work Lee did with my Pioneer last year.


http://www.stereo2go.com/topic/blaster-teeth-whitening-at-stereomad-s

 

[duckman]

You get more options with diluted acrylic paint. You can mix at least.
Not all the speakers are pure white. Most of them are slightly off white when new. You can mix a tiny bit of black to get the right colour with acrylic paint.

Good point Rory, and if you check @ your local paint store they may have CO2 cartridge kits there that have a small jar (like a small jam jar) to put your paint (colored to your taste) in and use as a spray. I have used them many times for small & touch up jobs and have adjustable tips.

If a slightly off white is desired, most latex stain blocking primers (Zinsser brand Bull Eye 1-2-3 for eg ) are off white toward cream color and will take care of stains with more certainty as every stain condition is different.


The lid can be used to possibly cover dust cap too if right size, or find a similar sized cap on other products around the house.

 

[BoomboxLover48]

Careful with acrylic paint because it will make thickness variations. We don't want to make a pancake over the cone paper.

Thickeners are used to make acrylic paint stable without any pigment settling during storage. So the paint should have some viscosity associated with it.

 

[Hisrudeness]

Careful with acrylic paint because it will make thickness variations. We don't want to make a pancake over the cone paper.

Thickeners are used to make acrylic paint stable without any pigment settling during storage. So the paint should have some viscosity associated with it.

The acrylic paint you'd always dilute a little with a little water anyway.

 

[Northerner]

You can apply acrylic paint very thinly...it's a doddle, takes no time and is dry in seconds

 

[BoomboxLover48]

If it is a water-borne acrylic will swell or might deform cone paper (depending on the type of paper used) and glued areas can get loose. I would go with solvent-borne aerosol paint. Non volatile content is very low and we can apply thin films just to hide the defects. Solvent will leave fast from the coating to coalesce the film. So thin coats with an aerosol spray will be the best way to do this job.

 

[Hisrudeness]

To each his own.