I took the grill off my amp today, to find that someone had smooshed the speaker's dust cap right in good and proper. Thought I'd share the approach I took to un-dent it.
There's stuff called black-tack - it's like a feral, vicious version of blu-tack, but if you haven't got any I suspect blu-tack will work just as well. You could even use a loop of gaffer tape, or anything with similar adhesive properties.
I got a little lump of it, and gently massaged it into the middle of the dust cap. Pressure, movement and time all cause this kind of adhesive to stick more, so you can be gentle enough to not press too hard on the dust cap, and still make it stick well.
When you think you've got a good connection, just pull, and the dust cap will pop out. (You will, of course, do this in such a way as to not pull any further than you need to)
You may find that there are some sub-dents left over. You can just pull these out in the same way until your speaker looks good as new.
BOOM.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Who would have thought playing with smooth round things would be fun?
Love the hoover idea, I have used those little 'sucker' things for pulling/ lifting smooth objects out of tight places like recessed lamps, but that wouldn't work on fabric speaker cones.
Just have to go easy on the suck I guess!