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Dear Leslie,
These decals are the black rub-on letters to replace the original black printed numbers behind the volume slider (nr's 1-10). How do you restore the black lines?
Greetz,
Dave
Some confusion over here. You were talking about the Beolab 5000 classic. The ones I have are all in good condition regarding the text. Where needed I used a "Rotring" pen. Mecanorma or Letraset can be used as well. Try Marktplaats or Ebay.fr
Brengen & Ophalen
Recap Beovox Cona, not sure if this usefull but will do it anyway.
First time I opened a Cona...
And this is how a driver (M70 filler) looks like from the inside, interesting...
Leslie: @AdamS, you mean the one on page 5? It's just an ordinary black wallplug that has to be cut on length. Would you like me to send you some (for free) except for posting costs?
@AdamS, you mean the one on page 5? It's just an ordinary black wallplug that has to be cut on length. Would you like me to send you some (for free) except for posting costs?
Hi Leslie,
Yes, that's the ones. I've tried to find some here in the UK that are the right size but with no luck. If you can spare six, please that would be superb!
Would you like me to PM you my address details?
Sure, no sweat. Would you like me to cut them on length? Gimme a PM and I'll take care of it.
Today a day off but did not do anything. Holland in grief....
Leslie, you earn a big cold beer
My re-capped M75 are my precious diamonds.
Thanks Christian, with this kind of weather, yes!
Beolab 8000, bad scratches on the bottom part of the alum. cabinet. What to do?
I might as well paint the base.
Gonna recloth the fret in white (has been ordered). I want to have it all white so I painted the fret not to see any black behind the cloth.
Which color
Bought it from a private person. This came from a B&O dealer. Speakerset from a RL35/45?
Beautiful painting.
Unfortanetely the frame is made of plastic so I will change that into aluminium (later).
I am not familiar with those speaker drivers but they are neither RL35 nor RL45.Doesn't look like B&O, I think.
Martin
Thanks for dissapointing me Martin But I know it wasn't, but it came from a B&O dealer and the cloth looks familiar with the cover of some B&O CD's I have. Gonna check that!
Finally I finished my decal layout for the Dirigent I'm working on and found a mistake on the lay-out.
Looks like B&O made a little mistake on the 2pin DIN symbol. If you compare the plug on the chassis and the symbol you will see that it's the other way around. Spade on the symbol should be on the right side. And a little mistake on the word "Glodestrom", whatever that means. Will do it again...
I guess i should be Glødestr.
//Bo.A long list...
Leslie:Looks like B&O made a little mistake on the 2pin DIN symbol. If you compare the plug on the chassis and the symbol you will see that it's the other way around. Spade on the symbol should be on the right side.
Or perhaps the assembly worker just riveted the sockets the wrong way around (they are not on a PCB as far as I recall, so it doesn't matter if you still wire them right)...
Can't get to my 610K (one year newer I suppose) but here's a picture of the rear panel - it appears to be the same way.
BO must be right on the wording, it means the heater current of the valves.
--mika
Thanks Mika, just rotated the DIN plugs on my decal sheet. Not sure if that was wise to do but it needs to be correct.
Another two 8000's that are almost finished.
Hmmm, one tiny dent on top panel. Anoying..
New top panel, need to remove the speakerhousing (12 screws) in order to get access removing the panel with only one screw
After 3 attempts I finally finished my decal.
This is how it was.
And this is how it is now.
And new aluminium frames for my loudspeaker paintings. Honestly, they sound a lot better then the RL45's I have.
Next job is completing my Beolabs 8000's. 4 woofers need to be replaced. Thought the amps were defect so I swapped them with donor amps. No result.
Forgot my Cona, new caps...
I am always wondering the quality of your lettering works and would like to start also to improve the aesthetic of my works.
Where to start from, I do not know.
I have a practical example it concerns the lettering of the Beomaster 3000, the one with the sliders, I renovated it electronically and brought it back to life. It is this one: http://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=336
The area I am talking about is the front panel the aluminium where the marking is weak and the sliders marking: "Tuning, Volume, Treble, Bass, Balance"
Thanks a lot for your guidance
Alain
Bonjour Alain,
Waterslide decal. Youtube is your friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkawGOSFjWQ
What I did with my Dirigent is a sort of workaround. Made a picture exactly in front of the chassis.
Used Powerpoint to paste the picture as a background layer. On top of that I put all the symbols and text (many fonts available) and resized them until they fit the symbols/text as seen on the picture. Then I deleted the picture and that's it. Sorry, you need to mirror the whole lay-out and print the decal either on laser or inkjet. Simple right?
By the way, bought my decals at www.paperspecials.nl The owner Anton gave me lots of support in guiding me. Thanks!
By the way, if your looking for sliders for BM3000 I think I must have them somewhere in my closet. :-)
New caps..
Next step on my Dirigent is making replica's of the knobs. Few are missing.
Challenge? I don't know, will see....
Thank you Leslie I will look at this very carefully.
Concerning the sliders I wills send you a pm
Nice work!
What speaker cloth do you recommend for recovering speaker frets?
Thanks
Depends what you want to recloth.
Made my first attempt to reproduce the knobs for Dirigent and 608 valve receiver/amp.
Leslie:Made my first attempt to reproduce the knobs for Dirigent and 608 valve receiver/amp.
Leslie, I am impressed by your relentless pursuit of detail
Thanks Ed, still need to drill the holes and paint the front to finish. But that shouldn't be that difficult.
Leslie:But that shouldn't be that difficult.
Never say that before a job !
Im going to guess the knobs go onto a round bar with a flat side ???
Are your replica knobs hard enough to take a thread ? There are some work arounds if not.
There's no threaded hole inside, just a square nut that needs to put inside. Have those and if not I'll make them, no sweat. In the mean time I made more knobs. First I had a shortage and now I have plenty. :-)
Knobs almost finished...
Now I can complete my 608 amps and 609 Dirigent.
B&O is fun...
Looks really good Leslie! Please give us a small how-to tutorial
Wouter
Leslie: First I had a shortage and now I have plenty. :-)
First I had a shortage and now I have plenty. :-)
This sentence describes perfectly your work ;)
Good job !!!!!!
Best regards and see you soon.
Wouter: Looks really good Leslie! Please give us a small how-to tutorial
Wouter, Youtube has enough tutorials showing you how this works. Or else pay me a visit if your in the neighborhood.
As always, good job Leslie ;-)
All you need now are few other valve amplifier 608 (or Dirigent or Mini 609/610 ...) without knobs to have something to put your nice knobs on
My advice, if I may: in the next round (if there will be the next) make the slightly different version for the amplifier 610. Those knobs are much more rare and more desired because there is no other B&O model, which had the same ones, I think (Martin will correct me if I am wrong).
You can get a good price for them I think...
Regards,
Theomaster
Vintage Bang & Olufsen
Well, I made enough to cover my own 608's and Dirigent and have no intention to make them again for selling purposes. But maybe if I have a 610 with missing knobs surely I will make them. At least I know how to make them.
Looking at Mika's picture below it looks like the B&O assembler at that time didn't do a proper job mounting the 2p DIN sockets. Or was it the man/women who did mine as well...
Great work, my friend.
You are a real example to follow.
Thanks Menahem, like I'm following your expertise with much interest although not always easy to follow.
Leslie: Or else pay me a visit if your in the neighborhood.
Or else pay me a visit if your in the neighborhood.
Will keep that in mind!