here, but I imagine the process is the same. - already mentioned in the Workbench section, albeit for RL6000's, thanks to stevem for the link and Beomuse for the info.
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Thanks Dave, all packed and ready to go. They seem quite chuffed at getting a steady flow of work from here. Capacitors I hadn't thought about, but fabric yes: it's finding something with that same amount of stretch that I'm having trouble with ...and then the colour! I thought a nice subtle tiger stripe ... :O
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Fran
Cheers Chris for that quick reply😉
You know, I only live about 6 miles from a firm called Caligen foam. Maybe next time I'm down there in deepest Accrington I could call in and speak to someone from the lab and get a detailed explanation to share with everyone.
Andy T.
It would be interesting, Andy, if only to find out if they are even aware of it, because it isn't just the foam on these speakers that is affected. I recently had an urge to use some film, after 10 years of digital (I'm a photographer). Digging out my old darkroom equipment, I opened up an old Paterson contact printer with a foam backing, dating from late '60s / early '70s. That had gone to dust and I'm not aware if it went through a sticky phase. As a by the way, that had never seen sunlight, but had lived (mainly) in a badly insulated but dry attic, in a cardboard box.
Fran
...it's not just the contact printing frame you need to worry about - the light traps on a lot of 70's cameras is disintegrating, too! Minolta & -even, dare I say Leica R's are affected, though my 1937 Contax III is too old to have used such new-fangled materials!
Material Science is just that - a science! Who'd have thought that components would have lasted, and still be sought after, 20 - 30years after their sale!
Maybe (hopefully) now they know better.
I don't believe that the B&O conversion is obselete - I bought the same radiator to port conversion from my dealer (Durham) this very year for a pair of RL 60's
I listen to a pair regularly and I still have a set of parts in my loft if anyone cares to make me an offer!!.
I contacted B&O directly via their website a couple of weeks ago. At first they denied the conversion kit ever existed, but then they came back later saying the kit did exist but was no longer available - at least not from them directly. They couldn't tell me which dealers might have it.
Does anyone here have a contact at a specific B&O dealer I could get in touch with, to see if they can get it for me?
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