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Nothing particularly interesting, just a little detail work today in creating the door membranes, aka shower curtains. I did this by scrounging up a good plastic bag of suitable thickness, my long-service box of 3M Strip Caulk and a fresh blade in the Exacto knife.

I remember when I was a field rep for one of the Japanese auto manufacturers in the early 90's and - uncharacteristically - most examples of a certain models had a water-leak problem due to a production error. The fix was ... installing extra, ad-hoc shower curtains under the door cards and around the speakers. They worked!

The original water damage to my 924S's right door card would have been averted had whichever tech was in here before me replaced the membrane seal, so I wanted to ensure that mistake wasn't repeated.


Reasonably strong but not overly thick plastic sheet sourced from a bag; 3M Strip Caulk and some black duct tape where I'd had to make a cut for the door handle Borden cable. I reused the foam padding around the door handle.


The right side door still had the individual membrabe to protect the speaker.


The left door was lacking both the speaker membrane and the foam around the door handle, so I replicated both

By using the strip caulk, if/when I or anyone else has to go back into the door's gubbins for some future repair, I/they should be able to carefully peel back this plastic sheeting and restick it once whatever we're working on is resolved, protecting the fragile door cards and eliminating water leaks ... at least through the doors.

Thanks for checking this out.

John
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