Ponty56 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 It appears my pictures are to large but I saved these cornwell birch raw speakers from the trash man last Thursday. From my understanding this model would not have had edge banding veneer and just a raw birch veneer around the sides. I also understand this model wouldn't normally have a grill, and someone screwed what looks to be correct size grills on these. It also has the stands on them. I would like to find correct ish birch veneer and restore them visually as they would have come off the showroom. Could someone suggest where I could source some? Does anyone sell reproduction input jacks? Does anyone sell reproduction baffle/insulation? I plan on purchasing some components from CritesSpeakers for the restore. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Travis In Austin Posted June 23, 2020 Moderators Share Posted June 23, 2020 Welcome to the Forum, there will be a lot of helpful folks who have done exactly the project you are about to embark upon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Welcome and congrats! Sounds like they may be decorator type. You have to downsize the pics In order to fit using paint or other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OO1 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Cornwall Decorators , did not typically have any grilles , but some dealers installed wood trim around the fronts and a standard Cornwall grilles from a non-Decorator was used - as well as badges , your speakers are 1983 model year - here is what klipsch mentionned about Cornwall Decorators 2. Cornwall Decorator series were later given various grille fittings. The first was a standard sized grille with Velcro tabs that would simply be surface mounted. In later years a trim kit with a grille was developed. 1st and 2nd picture shows Velcro with grilles , and no trim kit with a regular Cornwall grille ---3rd picture shows an added trim kit which was 4 pieces of trim nailed to the motorboard , and the grille fit in the frame - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OO1 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 ---- finding these Cornwalls was your lucky day -- the factory input terminal are seen often on Ebay , there are no reproductions - - for baffle insulation , I have never seen any on this forum , regular insulation foam is adequate - -if you place a wanted add in the garage sale , for any components , forum members will respond , and , welcome to the forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 9 hours ago, billybob said: You have to downsize the pics In order to fit using paint or other. If you are using MS Windows, I would recommend paint.net. Works better than paint and it is free. Originally done as an intern project at Microsoft. https://www.getpaint.net/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Woofers and Tweeters Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 12 hours ago, Ponty56 said: I saved these cornwell birch raw speakers from the trash man last Thursday. Look at you go hero, nice save. Happy for you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Those aren't decorators, they're just missing the grills. Awesome that you got them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC39693 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 @Ponty56, welcome to the forum... great score. Ask questions here there are lots of folks who can help you but you’ve already made a major score. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OO1 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Ponty56 said: those are regular Cornwall 1 --------and Marvel indicated that already --k33 woofer - K77 tweeter -K600 midrange horn - you would have to unscrew the rear cover to show us what these hide for a midrange driver --IS IT A K55V ? - perhaps - please unscrew the rear cover and take a picture showing the internals ---------do these speakers sound good - did you plug them - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ponty56 Posted June 23, 2020 Author Share Posted June 23, 2020 I have the grills, whomever owned them before i saved.them had them fastened with screws to the motor plate. One needs a new frame, they both have the klopsch badge and both will need new fabric. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty56 Posted June 23, 2020 Author Share Posted June 23, 2020 I have the grills, whomever owned them before i saved.them had them fastened with screws to the motor plate. One needs a new frame, they both have the klopsch badge and both will need new fabric. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OO1 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 looks like a mouse got in there or something of the sort --------you have to remove it all wear gloves , -and desinfect the inside -regular sound foam can replace this shredded mess - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty56 Posted June 23, 2020 Author Share Posted June 23, 2020 2 hours ago, RandyH 000 said: looks like a mouse got in there or something of the sort --------you have to remove it all wear gloves , -and desinfect the inside -regular sound foam can replace this shredded mess - Yeah i concur there were definitely mouse droppings in there. I anticipate a complete tear down and new veneer as well as rebuilt components. Hoping to sell my machII's to fund this project otherwise it may be put on the backburner for other priorities. But nonetheless they will be restored! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OO1 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 the internals may not need to be rebuilt , I think you should remove the internals , then desinfect the wood , the ex-owner saw the mouse damage and they threw these out , 2)- test the DCR of the 2 woofers , the 2 Tweeters , the 2 midranges before even assuming anything is wrong ------woofers are 4ohms , tweeters 8 ohms , midrange 16 ohms - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 23 hours ago, Jeffrey D. Medwin said: would you briefly tell us how this new Paint is improved in your experience. I use Paint a lot, and would like to know. Thanks ! It has better export options, and editing tools available. It will also do layers. Look at is a a Photoshop lite. It's under 10mb in size, since it hooks into the Dot Net libraries in Windows. If you are a Windows hater, you may not like it, but it works well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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