My speakers need de-odorant
Can anyone suggest a method to de-odorize speakers that came from a smoking household?The grills are the worse, but they can probably need to be re-covered anyways.
How about washing the cabinets, any magic soaps/oils anyone can suggest?
I can smell smoke on the woofer (smooooooke on the wooooooooferrrrrrr - sorry ), especially the PR which is covered in foam. Is there anyway to wash these as well...?
from the proprietor of Homer's House of Speakers....Supposedly this works even on that pressboard type of grill if you don't let them soak in water...I'm gonna try this on my small advent grills and see how it goes. It works great on plastic grills for sure...
Take your grills outside...find your garden hose, and spray them down so they are wet. then take some Simple Green or similar cleaner/degreaser, and spray liberally over both surfaces of the grill...Let sit for 5 minutes, then rinse thoroughly with water until no suds remain, then let dry in direct sunlight on a hot day so that they dry quickly. Repeat if necessary....check out the brown sludge as it washes off....
I don't know of anything magic. Murphy oil soap for the exterior wood and Febreeze for the interior....not really wetting any part of the interior but a mist. Also kitty litter and/or baking soda can absorb odor so you could put some inside the speaker box to try. Leave it for a while and see what it does for you.
Clean the grills with automotive upholstry dry cleaner from wal mart. Spray it on, brush it in, and vaccuum it off. It works great and you don't risk ruining them with water if they contain particleboard or other wood.
I've had success with several pairs of speakers. Clean the exteriors with 409.
Originally Posted by StarMoverClean the grills with automotive upholstry dry cleaner from wal mart. Spray it on, brush it in, and vaccuum it off. It works great and you don't risk ruining them with water if they contain particleboard or other wood.
I've had success with several pairs of speakers. Clean the exteriors with 409.
I think I have some upholstery cleaner lying around...I'll give it a try.
What's 409 though?
Light up a Cuban stogie and enjoy the music.
I used to use this stuff quot;Glamourine's Fabulenequot; carpet/upholstery cleaner on my '69 Lincoln. It took the musty quot;Old car smellquot; outta it. Haven't seen that product around in awhile-Too bad, it was GOOD stuff. I'd try Murphy's Oil Soap, or Scott's Liquid Gold on the cabinets. Use nitrile/latex gloves when you do, or you'll have greasy hands for a couple days.
try odor eater or put the speakers inside a large plastic bag and put some charcoals and that will eliminate alot of odor. i'm not talking about charcoals you use for BBQ - i'm talking about wood charcoals.
When i bought my JBL L250's they smelled like shit,whell not that bad but you get the idea,something happened to them while the seller had them stored in some funky appliance boxes,i think the funky smell of the box transfered to the speakers.
Anyhow i soaked the grills in the bathtub in very warm water with a couple cap fulls of johnson amp; johnson baby shampoo,after soaking for 15 minutes or so i soaked them in clean rinse water for 5 minutes,they came out clean as a whistle with no sagging cloth or frame damage.
The cabinets i wiped down with lemon oil several times,ive been using lemon oil on my Klipsch Horns amp; Line arrays for years,the stuff is great.
The hardest part was getting the smell out of the cabinet itself,i ended up taking out a woofer out of each cabinet amp; putting a small can of industrial room deodorizer in each cabinet amp; left them in there for a few months,it took the smell out of the woofers amp; the insulation.
Now i can put my face right up on the cabintes or grills amp; cant smell anything bad or musty.
Have a set of KLH Model V's that were awful but for $5 each, I decided to give them a try.
I ended up pulling the drivers out of the cabinets and leaving them outside for a number of weekends at a time. They were bad enough that they stunk up the garage for about a month before the smell started going away. I did the same with the grills, too. They're still stained from what must have been a nasty apartment but I'll eventually clean them with Woolite. I'll also spray the original pressboard grille backing with some sort of sealer.
After about a year, now, they're ok.
Cheers,
David
That quot;one dropquot; stuff works really good.
But if you can put it in a safe area with air blowing through it, that works the best. Outdoor, like a sun room, would be best.
I have added about a half cup of distilled vinegar to a spray bottle of window cleaner and have found it effective, not for the insides however.
For smoke or pet odors I use a product called Atmosklear. I don't know if it is available in your area though. It neutralizes odors. It has worked well for everything I have tried it on.
Lots of good ideas here already, but a couple caveats:
(1) DO NOT use ANY water on particle-board type grill surrounds, EVER. Don't even think of that garden-hose-spray method with that type of surround. For laminate (plywood) frames you may get away with it, if the water exposure is minimal and brief, and you dry them thoroughly (sunlit, airy place, possibly assisted by a blow-dryer on light setting) afterwards.
(2) Febreeze does not work. It just adds another disgusting stench on top of the original odor, making the problem worse than it was before. The smell of Febreeze literally makes me want to and it does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to get rid of or even diminish the original scent. I've had to throw away everything I've owned that anyone ever tried Febreeze on (before I knew what it was), and had to throw away one more thing I tried it on myself (that's when I found out what people were using on my stuff!), as well as the only-used-once bottle. I have never in my life felt more cheated by a product. I'd expect snake-oil potions to work better. In my opinion, Febreeze is a complete sham/scam/fraud, and I'm stunned that they keep getting away with selling that CRAP!
[That's the first time I've ever spelled out that word without a * in it, and I capitalize it...that should help communicate how I feel about this GARBAGE SCAM PRODUCT!]
So as not to be entirely negative, I'll add a suggestion: Baking soda helps absorb/eliminate smells. You might try putting a baking soda on it for a bit-- either dry or a wet-paste if that is safe.(?).
Be glad your odor problem is only nicotine...
When I was in California, they found an expensive and fairly new car that had belonged to a gangster, parked in a storage unit. When it was found, the gangster's rotting corpse was still in it, apparently the result of a quot;hitquot;. They couldn't sell that car at all, and eventually had to strip and crush it for recycling, because they JUST COULD NOT GET RID OF THE SMELL! I'm sure you'll have better luck with your speakers!
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