Speaker Grill Cloth Repair Adhesive, MI-3035

The driver in my driver's side Bose woofer started making a weird vibration during bass heavy songs. I googled it, and apparently this is a known issue in Mazdas with the Bose system. Fortunately someone suggested that it's as easy as using speaker glue to fix it. I took apart my door and went to work on the speaker. I used way waaaaaaaaaaay more than I probably should have, and I used it all around, not just on the part that was already loose. The stuff takes forever to dry, and it dries not solid, but sort of rigid, but flexible. Apparently this is by design. The speaker sounds great now and no flapping. If the flapping comes back in the next year, expect me to come back and edit this to a one-star review. At the moment though, I'm happy to have spent eight bucks on this rather than a hundred-and-fifty bucks on a new speaker. The only odd thing I will mention is that when I got the stuff, I tried it out inside to see the consistency and what I would be dealing with and it was pretty thick. Once I had it outside in the intense Georgia heat, it became like water. The consistency has never gone back to being thicker than it is. It still works though, so I won't ding a star from it; it's really odd though and maybe worth mentioning. This was written in 2019 and I'm editing to add that now, in 2021, more that two years later, it's still holding strong. Absolutely thrilled I bought this rather than getting a new speaker. Going through my old reviews here in 2024 (late March), and I still have the same car, and same speakers in them. Not a single problem. Maybe a year ago I started seeing people upgrading the speakers to aftermarket kits and started kind of hoping these speakers would start to fail. No joy, they continue to crank away. Maybe I need to up my bass even more and see if I can shake them loose. This glue, however, is shockingly good. The price has increased a couple of dollars, but still easily worth it.

This stuff worked great on two original aluminum drivers out of 1991 Hartke Transient Attack bass cabs that came with a working 1991 G-K 800RB head which I had just acquired dirt-cheap from the original owner (yeah, you're jealous. haha). the 410 cab had a dust cover on one of the 10" speakers that was separating from the aluminum cone. the 115's dust cover had been previously repaired with brittle super glue, which was also separating - for this one, I had to buy a new dust cover due to the design, but purchased one slightly smaller in diameter (135mm since the 5" I tried was a little too small and was making contact with the voice coil wires) so it had a perfectly smooth contact area. I prepped the cone by gently removing what I could and then cleaning the area to be glued with acetone on a q-tip and vacuuming any dust/debris that might have fallen around the voice coil. Application of the glue was different for the two speakers, but using a Lazy Susan allowed me to hold the glue steady in hand while rotating the project and accurately delivering a clean, smooth "bead" of glue with the other hand. I allowed them to sit for at least 24hrs with a large wrench socket to weight them down. Both speakers (27yrs) sound perfect again and this sick vintage rig has been annoying the neighbors for a month now. Let's keep the old USA gear alive! PICS: the extreme close-up with the more-grey cone is the 10", while the other two are the big ole 15" (you should note the old superglue - tell your friends: do not use superglue).

Used this to fab up grilles for a pair of small (bookshelf-sized) speakers... constructed them using 1/4" plywood, too thin to groove for spline to hold the fabric in place. This cement worked -perfectly- for the task, as it tacks up and sets very quickly and holds well. It also goes a lonnnng ways, I used less than a third of the tube to make two 10" long by 5" wide grilles. Definitely "yes" I would recommend this product.

This is a good contact adhesive. I used less than half of one tube doing two large shelf-top speakers. I would expect one tube to be enough for a pair of floor-standers. The adhesive does work well for speaker cloth replacement. It’s easy to apply and dries as you would expect. I’m not convinced though that it is anything more special than a small tube of regular contact adhesive. If so, it’s crazy expensive for the amount.

Reglued alum vc former to 9" alum cone, on a dual VC, high excursion woofer with 750 watt amp. The repair is holding up playing loud bass tracks. And it also glued broken tweeter terminal tab back into plastic frame. These both on expensive "high end" speakers, saved me a lot of money instead of buying new woofer and new tweeter. Thank you!

This unfortunately comes without instructions, which is too bad because if you try to use it like a typical glue/paste, you'll get frustrated. After one failed attempt and using too much of this glue, I realized this works like rubber cement: you put a thin layer of the adhesive on both items to attach and then you let it air dry for 10-15 minutes. Then you press it together and it's stuck. In less than 12 hours it's fully hardened. Once you understand that, then the rest is easy, and you'll realize this works quite well. There's a fair amount in there, so if you use it as intended it will last quite a while (although I suspect it will dry out before you use it all). Much easier to use than the white glue people recommend for speakers.

The cloth on my 30 year old speakers was coming loose in places. This was a cheap, easy fix, just put some adhesive on the frame, wait for it to become tacky, then pull the speaker cloth taut and press onto the adhesive.

This works very well. The video by the manufacturer (found by Google search) was very helpful. The one thing I would do differently from their instructions is that I would not smooth it using a non-gloved hand - you don’t want transdermal absorption of those solvents.