Foam under speaker grill

I'm repairing a Rowe R-74. All the foam stripping has rotted and turned to dust. When I removed the speaker grills to clean off 40years of grime, there appeared to have been some foam between the grill and the backing chrome metal mounting plate, but that had turned to dust as well. Does anybody have any suggestions for replacing the various foams throughout a jukebox. I think I can get by with some weatherstripping around the doors and such, but I really could use some advice on what to put between the speaker grill and mounting plate. thanks.

"Weatherstripping" is about the only thing they used--remember the "life" of a jukebox was only supposed to be 5 years--then they wanted to sell the operator a new one ! Most of the "stuff" used around speakers was "open celled"--now, was that because it is less expensive, or because it absorbed sound better ? --I would bet on the first reason Ron Rich

Thanks Ron, I'll stop by Home Depot tomorrow and pick up some thin weatherstripping

The foam used between the upper grills and the casting was to help prevent dust but more than likely to stop any rattles, the same can be said for the lower speaker grills that had similar material fitted.

I suggest that you some of the thin packing fleece (I have only seen this in white however) you could use some thin cotton material however.

Old radios had a cotton dust covers on them back in the day.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man
UK