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Pure isopropyl is fine. Rubbing alcohol contains isoprpopyl and lanolin, which is not fine. The stuff at the following link is phenomenal. It made old records that seemed beyond all help sound nearly new. http://www.audioxpress.com/bksprods/products/km-9.htm

You might find something interesting at http://www.biddingatauction.com/listings/categories/index.cfm?category=817747290&group=1&location=both Classic Stereo is closing its Michigan stores and auctioning their inventory online. Personally, I have neither the discretionary income or time to get excited about anything up for auction, but others might feel differently.

David, Sophia and you will be in my thoughts tomorrow.

Congratulations on your acquisition. Enjoy them! Then, after a few months consider puttung new caps in the crossover networks. It's well worth the modest cost. Contact Bob Crites (BEC on this forum) if you need help.

Being tailgated in the car in my avatar is an unpleasant experience. Your butt's barely off the pavement and the car weighs 1300lb. To discourage tailgating I put a spring loaded rocker switch on the transmission tunnel to activate the brake lights (including CHMSL on roll bar) without actually applying the brakes. Worked like a charm.

Were these $100 each or $100 for some quantity? If the first, it was a great deal. If the latter, it was a stupendous deal.

It's probably fine. From the looks of it, someone has already replaced the original seal that tends to dissolve over time. While you're in there, check the four machine screws into T-nuts that secure each woofer. Make sure that they're all secure. I supplemented those four with four wood screws (the woofers have eight mounting holes). You should also refresh the crossovers with new capacitors if that hasn't been done already. The following are links to old threads that might be of interest. The first linked thread contains links to other related threads. Ported La Scalas http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/thread/761099.aspx Four abused Lascalas need a good home - sold http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/616881/ShowPost.aspx

Dean, While there's no shortage of stupidity in this scenario, it was greed that drove the bus on this bad trip. By producing $60K to show her good faith, she was hoping to be given $180,000 to donate to charity on behalf of the heavily acccented total stranger in the Costco parking lot. Either she was a saint and would have delivered the full $180,00 to charity (extremely unlikely) or she figured to skim a handsome profit from the $180,000 to be provided by the stranger. The beauty of the con is that the crooked con artists are able to sense similar qualities in their greedy marks to exploit that greed to their own advantage. In the simplest version of the pigeon drop, the mark is shown money (bait) that triggers the mark's greed. The mark then produces money to show good faith. The con appears to combine the mark's money with the bait money in an envelope. The mark is then made to believe that she/he is holding the envelope with all of the money. In reality, the con has all the money and the mark is left holding an envelope with newspaper strips.

I'm in my 60s.

To fall for a classic “pigeon drop” one must be naïve and somewhat greedy, if not downright larcenous. I suspect the greed factor was strongly present here. Would a sensible person put $60K at risk merely to help a stranger help other strangers? It’s highly unlikely. More likely is the perceived opportunity to make some money. A gullible but greedy person thinks that he/she can keep some (or all, depending on level of greed) of the money. It’s greed that makes the “pigeon drop” work. Without it there are not enough genuinely gullible people for the con to have been around for centuries. The cliché, “You can’t cheat an honest man” comes to mind. Before anyone gets their knickers in a twist, yes, you can cheat an honest person e.g. “sell” something on eBay that is never delivered or not as advertised. That’s a far cry from coaxing a greedy fool into giving $60K to complete strangers. No sympathy here for this self inflicted wound. Even the bank’s wise counsel couldn’t overcome the combination of greed and stupidity necessary for this scam to work.

He's standing on his left leg.

Be careful. Before you use that "restore disc" be certain that it will not clear out your hard drive. If there is any possibility that using it will erase your hard drive, get the data from your hard drive, if posssible, before restoring th OS.

It should be possible for someone to retrieve your photos etc. from your hard drive, even if it's kaput. I hope it' not toast. When the smoke clears, you should investigate regularly backing up irreplaceable files (photos, etc) on DVDs. Each week I use a rewritable DVD to make a backup. The next week I rewrite the older copy with the latest files. That way I always have two copies; one that's no more than a week old and one that's no more than two weeks old. I occasionally make an extra copy on a non-rewritable DVD and store it off premises.

The so called "retail prices" charged to the uninsured are essentially meaningless. As has been pointed out previously, the amount the insurer is willing to pay is ALWAYS substantially less. Nevertheless, I have observed providers willingly, if not eagerly, accept the same amount from the uninsured, rather than receive nothing.

Contact that guy in Arkanas. That would be Bob Crites (BEC on this forum). He will be able to supply any parts or information you need to return your La Scalas to as good as new.

Before doing anything drastic check all of the connections at the crossovers. Before disconnecting anything take digital photos of the existing connections so that you can get everthing properly reconnected. Then disconnect one of the tweeters at the crossover. Use a AA battery to confirm operation. Hold the negative lead (polarity really doesn't matter for this test) against the bottom of the batter and then scratch the positive lead on the positve terminal of the battery, If the voice coil is good you will hear scratching from the tweeter; if not, you won't. If the tweeters work during this test, then one by one, discinnect, clean and reconnect each lead at the crossover. If the tweeters don't work, contact Bob Crites (BEC on this forum) regarding some tweeter options. You should also ask him about new capacitors for the crossovers. You'll enjoy your Corwalls for years.

That's Lucas warm. They would prefer it cold but the Lucas refrigerators aren't up to the task.

I would not be comfortable regarding polarity without opening the chamber and personally confirming the polarity. Using a 1.5 volt battery, if the cone moves forward (away from the magnet) the lead touching the battery's positive terminal is +, if the cone pulls back (toward the magnet), the lead touching the battery's negative terminal is +. Mistakes such as incorrect polarity, steel screws anchoring air core inductors, etc. straight from the factory are not unheard of.

Such a museum would not be legal in this county. You could never get it to stand up in court.

Thanks OB I've never met an "Ex-Marine." It seems, once a Marine, always a Marine. Good men and women in any case.

I just sent an email to our son in Afghanistan telling him of our plans to attend the local Memorial Day ceremony so that he could plan a phone call accordingly. We now have The Army Times sent to our home. It breaks my heart to see the names and photos of the young men and women who have paid the ultimate price. We must also remember to honor and thank those who return, but bearing scars (physical and otherwise) as reminders of their service. OB- I understand Semper Fi, but please help with "Delis Harryo."

I agree David. It looks like it will be a shorter series than the pundits predicted.

Naturally, I'll be pulling for the Wings, as well as the Pistons. How pitiful it must have been for our remote-less ancestors who had to actually leave the La-Z-Boy, walk to the Muntz, turn the channel dial and then adjust the rabbit ears to switch between two different games? By the time you returned to your seat, your fire brewed Strohs (or Faygo or Vernors) was warm. Be thankful for that button on the remote that lets you toggle between games.

Maybe the pony turned out to be lame. This is a better photo of the tweeters. Bob Crites has indicated that they might not be easily repaired. Oh wel . . .

The attached Zip-File has several photos. Lest anyone be confused. The Mid-range drivers were placed on the woofers for the photos; they're not connected to the woofers. These were in plywood enclosures slightly smaller than a Cornwall. The midrange and tweeter were in a sealed sub-enclosure. Given the degree of deterioration of the enclosures, it was not possible to verify if the bass enclosures were sealed or vented; my guess is sealed. Everything is EV. The woofers and mdranges have cast frames and HEAVY magnets. They could probably be re-coned and brought back to life. The tweeters now appear to be T-35s [edit: several people have correctly indicated that these are not 350s]. One actually works, but they could both benefit from new diaphragms. The crossovers were also EV and included attenuation pots. Overall, they looked like they were reasonably well constructed EV kits, probably from the late 50s or early 60s. If anyone has an interest in restoring any of these, shoot me an email or PM. Other than the T-35s, they're nothing I want to invest time or money in, but I'd rather see them restored and returned to service, than end up in a landfill.