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Re-covering beolab 6000 grills

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Ronnie
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Ronnie Posted: Thu, May 17 2012 7:56 PM

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!

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rednik replied on Thu, May 17 2012 9:13 PM

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.

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Ronnie replied on Thu, May 17 2012 9:29 PM

£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.

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BeoIce replied on Thu, May 17 2012 9:30 PM

You may ask Darren of timeless-av.co.uk. They offer professional recover of your frets. They did mine too and they are great.

 

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Leslie replied on Thu, May 17 2012 9:33 PM

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

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Ronnie replied on Thu, May 17 2012 9:43 PM

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

Ronnie
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Ronnie replied on Thu, May 17 2012 9:43 PM

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

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Leslie replied on Thu, May 17 2012 9:58 PM

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 mineSmile

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Ronnie replied on Thu, May 17 2012 10:44 PM

Great! Thanks very much. Looking forward to an improved looking pair of speakers.

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Leslie replied on Thu, May 17 2012 10:48 PM

Thank me by showing pictures of the result (bad and good!) Big Smile

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Ronnie replied on Fri, May 18 2012 12:01 AM

No problem, will upload the finished result.

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elms replied on Fri, May 18 2012 3:01 PM

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!

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tournedos replied on Fri, May 18 2012 3:31 PM

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 Big Smile

(Great idea, BTW.)

--mika

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Leslie replied on Fri, May 18 2012 9:31 PM

elms:
buy some black stockings

But he wants white!

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RaMaBo replied on Mon, May 21 2012 2:25 PM

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

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Ronnie replied on Mon, May 21 2012 3:25 PM

Sounds good, the cheapest and quickest way.

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