advice to fix/replace black grille

Elpelotero · Mar 14, 2006

My grille has a hole and I'd like to fix/repair it. Mesa charges 200 for a new one, and I dont want to pay that. What are my options?

fredster · Mar 14, 2006

Elpelotero said:
My grille has a hole and I'd like to fix/repair it. Mesa charges 200 for a new one, and I dont want to pay that. What are my options?

This place sells the cloth if you're DIY-minded:

http://www.vibroworld.com/parts/tech10.html

It's a little expensive, but the only cloth I've found that claimed to be Boogie-compatible. They might send a sample if you ask - I never got that far.

musicbox · Mar 14, 2006

i bought a square yard from avatar for $15. it was enough to re-do an avatar, and a nomad. just enough for a 4x12. i have no idea how close this is to the boogie cloth, but it sure beats $200..

Dann'sTheMan · Mar 15, 2006

Check out this this thread over at HCAF. hal9000 has recently customised the grill cloth on his F-100 (looks fantastic) and wrote an excellent guide on how to do it. Should be all the info you need to redo yours!

Big smiles,

Andy.

hal9000 · Mar 15, 2006

Elpelotero said:
My grille has a hole and I'd like to fix/repair it. Mesa charges 200 for a new one, and I dont want to pay that. What are my options?

Hi Elpelotero, what amp are you repairing the grill on? Like Dann'sTheMan said (Thanks for the name check Andy), I recently redid the grill cloth on my F-100. I bought a yard of Mesa Tan Jute grill cloth from Vibroworld which was $34.50. So, if you follow the tutorial I posted, it should be a pretty straight forward job. In all, it took me 45 minutes to remove the staples from the speaker grill and about 30 minutes to get the new grill cloth on. BTW, the cosmetic mods I did for my F-100 aren't available from Mesa except for the tan grill.