Hello all,

After a long while keeping my eyes open for some I've just acquired a pair of Beovox 5702. I've been using my Beovox 3800s (which I love!) with my Beomaster 7000 and thought a nice progression would be the 5702. 

They've come from a nice lady who was left them by her late father and are in generally nice condition.

As seems to be the case the KEF passive radiator surround has disintegrated as have the dust caps on the bass drivers.

Fortunately I've managed to source a donor pair of the KEF B139-SP1037 units with the rubber surrounds in very good condition apparently (they are yet to arrive!). I've done a bit of searching but haven't found anywhere that can repair the original radiators, has anyone had any success with this?

As you can see the front grills have had an incident or two (with fetching repair work!) but are structurally solid. I'm going to recover these but would like to source a fabric that is as near as identical to the original as possible. Can anyone suggest any material matches?

I removed the drivers as I'm going to replace the caps in the crossover and was surprised to see a very fine dusty layer of oxidation on the aluminium cage of the bass unit. A good careful bit of brushing and vacuuming removed that swiftly!

The Celestion drivers look to be in good condition so I'm hopeful that these will eventually sound great.

Cosmetically everything is there and will brush up nicely with a bit of TLC and Danish oil - the only slight flaw it that on one speaker the corner aluminium trim and cabinet is a tiny bit bashed! Given the bulkiness and weight of these I'm not surprised that It made contact with a hard floor at some point in the last 40+ years!

I'm looking forward to bringing these back to life and will probably pair them up with my Beolab 5000 which should be coming back from Frede in not too long!