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I rescued a pair of Beovox P45 loudspeakers from a thrift store that supports the local schools on Florida's east coast. Here's a side view of both of them. The white material appears to be paint.
Yes, these were neglected and/or abused at some point in their existence.
The veneer glue is failing in at least one corner.
I pried off the frets (grills) using a drywall putty knife. The frets were glued in place and not clipped like the M70s, S45-2s, S40s and P30s I own.
The tweeters appear to be the same as M70 and P30 tweeter.
The midranges (or are they phase links?) do not appear familiar to me.
The woofers do not appear familiar to me either.
They look like Soren's though.
Alas - none of the woofers work. No sound comes from any of them. Three have seized cones. The one whose cone moves freely moves TOO freely. It may have a broken lead.
So - what to do with them?
Lassi's S45-2 woofer repair thread for future reference.
Think I'm going to need it.
My frets was glued too, the wood frame corner has come unglued, just a matter of gluing and press it together again, the frame construction is flimsy.
I would like to get a shot on repairing the woofers, or, depending on the price buy them, I dont need them, but as always I want to save them if possible.
PM me with your price and shipping cost, if you dont want to keep them, if you want to keep them, let me repair the woofers, only shipping and material cost.
Location: Mexico city
Let me open them up before deciding what I'm going to do with them. I may want to have a go at those woofers, too!
Let me open them up before deciding what I'm going to do with them. I may want to have a go at those woofers, too!
Ha Ha, the virus at work, and as you always say, without pics, it did not happen. My P45s (new caps) was playing a little (some 10 hours) with my BM 2400, I then shifted to the BM 4400, After some 20 hours the sound got better, I dont know if it was the P45s or the BM 4400, or maybe both, but very good sounding speakers. And wall hanged, save space. Go for it Rich.
Location: Mexico city
The project queue is down to zero, so it was time to get these thrift store P45s out again. I've disassembled the speakers completely and reread Lassi's thread on S45-2 and P45 woofer repair. Thanks to Lassi's tip, I tried to just pull the stuck woofers apart with my hands. Success!
The fourth woofer was not stuck, but common sense says it will eventually get stuck so I tried to pull it apart as well. No luck.
But then I gently tapped the side of the magnet with a hammer. Seriously - just one gentle tap. Then I tried to pull it apart and success! Just the slightest jarring during handling and that fourth woofer was probably going to get stuck.
I checked electrical continuity of each woofer. I had continuity on 2 of the 4, with these 2 each having DC resistance of 7.4 ohms.
I desoldered the leads of one of the others and then had continuity.
Unfortunately, the fourth woofer has a broken lead.
The good news is, there is still continuity of the voice coil. Just have to fix the lead, I guess. That'll be a new one for me.
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