Re-covering beolab 6000 grills

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Ronald Campbell-Stewart
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Posted May 17, 2012 at 19:56 GMT
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Hello there, 

My grills on my beolab 6000s are showing their age with holes and threads here and there and have decided it is time to recover them, I would also like to change them to white as i have seen them in person and look very nice.

I was wondering if anyone has had experience doing this, also I heard tights are the cheapest and best way to recover them is this right?

 

Your help would be much appreciated as I would like to get them looking nice as I am having a party on sunday and would be nice to show them off.

 

Thanks in advance!

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rednik (archived2)
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Posted May 17, 2012 at 21:13 GMT
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Goto you dealer, and buy some new grills.  They are not expensive and if you allow an hour to botch it yourself, are probably cheaper than wasting your own time.

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Ronald Campbell-Stewart
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Posted May 17, 2012 at 21:29 GMT
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£170 for a couple of bits of metal and thin fabric is quite a lot to be honest, seeing as the metal parts of the grills on my beolabs are fine it only seems logical to replace the fabric myself, seeing as the speakers were over two grand in the first place.

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BeoIce
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Posted May 17, 2012 at 21:30 GMT
#1969513

You may ask Darren of timeless-av.co.uk. They offer professional recover of your frets. They did mine too and they are great.

 

Regards

Martin

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Leslie (archived2)
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Posted May 17, 2012 at 21:33 GMT
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Ronnie wrote:

£170 for a couple of bits of metal and thin fabric is quite a lot to be honest, seeing as the metal parts of the grills on my beolabs are fine it only seems logical to replace the fabric myself, seeing as the speakers were over two grand in the first place.

You're right, do it yourself! Buy speaker cloths on Ebay. It's quite easy to do it yourself. I did quite a lot of those, the only thing you need is good quality double sided 3M transparent tape.

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Ronald Campbell-Stewart
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Posted May 17, 2012 at 21:43 GMT
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Leslie wrote:

Ronnie wrote:

£170 for a couple of bits of metal and thin fabric is quite a lot to be honest, seeing as the metal parts of the grills on my beolabs are fine it only seems logical to replace the fabric myself, seeing as the speakers were over two grand in the first place.

 

You're right, do it yourself! Buy speaker cloths on Ebay. It's quite easy to do it yourself. I did quite a lot of those, the only thing you need is good quality double sided 3M transparent tape.

Please could you point me to a good white speaker cloth on ebay that would be suitable?

 

Thanks

RC
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Ronald Campbell-Stewart
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Posted May 17, 2012 at 21:43 GMT
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Leslie wrote:

Ronnie wrote:

£170 for a couple of bits of metal and thin fabric is quite a lot to be honest, seeing as the metal parts of the grills on my beolabs are fine it only seems logical to replace the fabric myself, seeing as the speakers were over two grand in the first place.

 

You're right, do it yourself! Buy speaker cloths on Ebay. It's quite easy to do it yourself. I did quite a lot of those, the only thing you need is good quality double sided 3M transparent tape.

Please could you point me to a good white speaker cloth on ebay that would be suitable?

 

Thanks

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Leslie (archived2)
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Posted May 17, 2012 at 21:58 GMT
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Check Ebay for link or !

Don't spend to much money for things you can do yourself!

The green ones are the originals, blacks are mine🙂

RC
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Ronald Campbell-Stewart
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Posted May 17, 2012 at 22:44 GMT
#1969518

Great! Thanks very much. Looking forward to an improved looking pair of speakers.

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Leslie (archived2)
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Posted May 17, 2012 at 22:48 GMT
#1969519

Thank me by showing pictures of the result (bad and good!) 😁

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