Thiel Owners

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Well that didn’t take long! I made the mistake of taking my grill covers off for a few hours and my 6 year old couldn’t resist the urge to touch the tweeter on one of my 3.7s while I was out of the room. She dented it pretty good. Check out the pictures. Any tips or advice? Thanks for the help.

Bighempin - try masking tape or rig a vacuum cleaner to a small diameter tube to suck it out. I suggest a vacuum bypass in your tube, such as a hole you can cover with your finger to adjust vacuum pressure. Too much vacuum pressure could rupture the foil.

TomThiel- Thank you for the response. Do I need to remove the little black cage that is over the tweeter to use the vacuum or masking tape method? If so, how do I do that? Thanks

Bighempin - I have never seen that tweeter up close and personal. I believe that tweeter module comes out of the midrange mount. But that's risky business for a non-adept. I personally would try it in place. Your child's finger went in the center hole, so the failure geometry exists within that central area.

Andy 2 - Beetlemania and Holco (?) both reported improvements with internal wire. I have wire from StraightWire and Cardas in my comparison kit. However, the wire itself in the 2.4s is pretty high-end. It is 5-9s, high purity, low oxygen, long crystal, high polish 18 gauge solid in teflon jackets, precision twisted at 2.5 / inch. We first developed that wire in 1978 via our access to aerospace instrumentation solutions. The ITT aerospace 6-9s wire is no longer available, but current Thiel wire is as good as is available for its type.

Now, all that said, I believe there is possibly room for improvement via multi-gauge litzed bundling. Remember that a manufacturer occupying Thiel's cost-effective niche, can never afford state of the art, every decision is balanced for optimizing cost-effective balanced performance. But I will be substituting more sophisticated wire to compare its performance with stock.
I should note that in the development of the original 03 in 1977, wire purity for hookup and coils was paramount to getting listenable results from the phase coherent configuration, as I have elaborated earlier in this thread. I am very tuned in to wire, wire was in my purview during Thiel's first 20 years.