Don't you just love kids.....

[Chong Warrior]

My 3 year old took a dislike to one of my speakers this morning, the little cherub that he is....

 

[Chong Warrior]

I've just had a go of sucking out the domes using an empty mini eggs tube. They look a lot better but I'm never going to get them perfect as the domes are very stiff and have creases in them. The tweeter seems to have survived as it's a very soft rubber so it just pops back out. At least none of them have ripped, I think their main purpose is to keep dust out of the drivers?

No idea why he did it, he's never even taken the covers off before in the 9 months I've had them. I've now stuck blu-tac in the sockets so the covers are harder to get off...

 

[Chong Warrior]

I've managed to get the lower driver cone looking almost like new, the top is a lot better but creases are visible.

I've given the speakers a real workout this afternoon and as far as I can tell there's no obvious effect on the sound. So I've stuck the covers on and as Tony says try to forget it ever happened.

 

[Chong Warrior]

You did a good job with those, after seeing the top cone in picture in the OP I thought you had no chance of getting it to look like a cone again.

You and me both lol!

Yep, they're dust caps;

I've got quite a few speakers with pushed in dust caps, and while they don't look quite so nice they still work fine, even if they now don't look quite so pretty...

I thought they were

They do look a lot better now you've pulled the cones out now. The important thing is to not make a hold in them while trying to fix them...

That second pic looks 100 times better than the first.

I'm happy with the results from a couple of minutes work, I'm wary of over doing it and causing some real damage so I think I'll quit while I'm ahead.

 

[Chong Warrior]

I feel your pain , my bundle of joys efforts ...

Ouch!