RL 140 Foam Rot

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Without wishing to stir up a hornets nest, I am looking for some sound advice!

My RL 140's are both suffering with foam rot, the drivers are ITT brand. Should I attempt repair

(never done this before🤔) or just get new drivers?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers Beer

Paul

 

The original drivers are 6 ohms, practically impossible to replace with anything else.

Worth repairing the original drivers but tolerances are extremely tight in this type of driver so I wouldn't recommend you try your luck on these if you never did anything like this before.

Also worth replacing the old and dried out capacitors in the crossovers while in there. A kit is available. 

Martin

What will changing the capcitors in the crossovers do?

Paul

Generally, it will brighten up the sound, bringing it back to where it was originally when the filter capacitors were still fresh. Not all redline speakers capacitors are bad, still many owners become positively surprised after a re-cap.

Martin

How much are the kits please?

Also do you still have 4 drivers?

Paul

Paul, you have a PM.

Martin

Could you please also send me a PM regarding the capacitors!

Mange tak

Brian

Done !

Martin

Hi Martin,

 

I am also getting a little distortion from one of my redlines. Think the foam must have gone.

 Can you let me know cost of kits..? I will then send in to a high end speaker repair man to complete the repair. They have not been worked on for some time so think the capacitor set would also be a good plan, so please send me the costs on these also.

Thanks in advance,

Guy

Guy,

Welcome to Beoworld !   🤒

I don't sell refoam kits, only the cap kits but
I'm sure your high-end speaker repair-shop will have all the parts needed, probable even audiophile caps.

Martin

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