Cotton Balls in speakers

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I repaired a radio for a neighbor many years ago. He had the radio since he was a child, given to him by his parents one Christmas. He told a story of how his dad "fixed" it for him once. He said his dad took the radio away from him because he kept playing it too loudly at night when other family members were trying to sleep. When he gave the radio back, the volume control knob would turn all the way, but only a limited amount of sound would come out of the radio. The father had "fixed" it somehow to limit the volume.

I recapped the radio, and removed all the cotton stuck between the speaker cone and the radio front, and my neighbor was glad to have it working again and at full volume.

In this case the cotton was not added to cure a speaker rattle, but to limit the range the speaker cone could move to limit the output.

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