Thanks, again.

The "vampire bites" were actually fairly easy to smooth out with fingers and finger nails.

I appreciate the suggestion to swap diaphragms but the one that works, works fine and it has the original red-wax seals. Since I really only need one in good working order (have a really old one that's been working for decades) I think I'll use the good one and keep the "bad" one as eye candy around the house. The goal here being a sort of Franken 030 with LE175 added. Yeah, I know—if I had some 130As I'd be better off but the D130s have been in my house for nearly as long as I've been alive. It's a bit of nostalgia and I always felt there was a upper-mid "hole" in the 030. That's how I got started on EQs 45-years ago. Figured an LE175 could fill that hole.


Still need one clamp. Only ones I see are on Ebay and appear to be copper and are from Hungary.