I went to an auction today and I bought a Craftsman portable radial saw, a homemade workbench frame (angle iron frame) and two buckets of stuff. All for $15. The saw works great, just needs a new blade. And I will use that bench stand.
In them buckets, one had a bunch of old screwdrivers and some nuts and bolts. The other bucket had two speakers, about 6" diameter rated at
60W. The label says they are Marine Speakers, (made for wet locations).
Well, they will meet the wetness test. Both of them buckets were half full of ice. We had heavy rains last weekend, the pails filled with water and some snow, and then we had a freezing spell.
The screwdriver pail will be fine. But those speakers were literally frozen into a block of ice. Yet they have plastic cones. As soon as I got home, I used a small hammer and gently chipped away most of the ice. The speakers were still sealed in factory plastic bags (so they were new), but the water got thru the bags. So ice on the outside. Ice between the cone and frame, around the spider, and everywhere.
I sat them on a heat register in the house and let the ice melt off of them. They are now completely without ice and appear dry.
But I onder how much ice got between the magnet and coil. Will the magnet rust and sieze up the coil? I'm almost thinking that maybe I shoul hook them to an amp and let them play (if they stiull do). I'm thinking the heat from the coil will dry things out deep inside there. Or, should I let them completely dry first? I have left them on the heat register so the blower an heat dries all the way into the magnet.
What would you do?