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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!
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.
£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 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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Ronnie: £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.
Brengen & Ophalen
Leslie: Ronnie: £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
Check Ebay for pure white or off white!
Don't spend to much money for things you can do yourself!
The green ones are the originals, blacks are mine
Great! Thanks very much. Looking forward to an improved looking pair of speakers.
Thank me by showing pictures of the result (bad and good!)
No problem, will upload the finished result.
It's probably too late, but if you go to the store and buy some black stockings (pantyhose) it is literally the exact same material as the 6000 frets, really easy to work with, and conveniently already sized for the 6000s. AND people have two legs so you only need one box. Stick them on with hot glue on the back and you are good to go!
elms:It's probably too late, but if you go to the store and buy some black stockings (pantyhose) it is literally the exact same material as the 6000 frets, really easy to work with, and conveniently already sized for the 6000s.
And you can select from a number of exciting patterns! Just make sure the seams are straight
(Great idea, BTW.)
--mika
elms:buy some black stockings
But he wants white!
Leslie: elms:buy some black stockings But he wants white!
okay, so get white pantyhose then. Do you remember "Schwanensee"? Those ballet dancer pantyhose are white ;)
Ralph-Marcus
Sounds good, the cheapest and quickest way.