Curbside Rescue Project

xschop
xschop Posts: 5,000
edited October 2017 in DIY, Mods & Tweaks
I made a another set of the billet feet for a curbside find I'm about to customize.
Its a Kenwood KR-V6020 and the only thing I could find wrong with it was a broken headphone plug in the port....and 2 missing feet... After removing the plug with a fine set of needle nose pliers and checking the DC-offset per Audiokarma instructions, it works perfectly. I did De-Oxit all the controls...
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This faceplate is 1-piece anodized aluminum that I will make into a fine/brushed look and rehone some skills before I do this to a brand new onkyo CD player....
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,895
    edited October 2017
    Nice feet!


    PS:

    I'd have picked it up, too! :)
    i.e., you're as bad as I am ...
    repent, repent! While there's still time...

    ;)
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    edited October 2017
    Free education as I've already learned Kenwood's methodology to their faceplate anodizing. Pleasantly surprised that the control signage is countersunk.
    I'll be doing another 15% CaOH bath. The center indention strip had a good buildup.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,895
    It's kind of impressively amazing that this piece had an aluminum faceplate (as opposed to gen-u-ine plastic made to resemble anodized aluminum)!
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    And surprisingly a high quality alloy with no galvanic pitting. Makes my work much easier.
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  • xschop
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    The signage must be laser etched before the 2- step anodizing took place. I could easily polish this alloy to a mirror finish but it would ruin/elimimate the countersunk lettering....
    After 320 grit wet sand. I like the look.

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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    I did the final polishing with a plastic polymer scrub pad....

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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    Planning on a contrast for the laser etching?
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    edited October 2017
    No, just the incognito look is appealing. I hope the Onkyo lettering is the same, but I'm not holding my breath.
    Looking more closely at the innards, they're all Elna caps...and no bulging tops.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,647
    That's one way to get a silver faceplate.....I like it!
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • xschop
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    F1, Thanks to you, a couple of my pieces have now been accosted by the butyl mat treatment. It really does stop the resonances and adds a solid feeling to the sheet metal. Also, you can never have enough bling...
    Even if you wont see it....
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,647
    Accosted......that's a trigger word, I'm offended. :p
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    Somehow I find that statement difficult to digest.
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,107
    F1nut wrote: »
    Accosted......that's a trigger word, I'm offended. :p

    Quick! Go to your "safe place". :p
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,895
    I was gonna buy a new amp to push my Cerwin-Vegas, but it accosted to much.
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
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    I also find it difficult to fathom that Mhardy owns Cerwin Vegas as well.

    I was going to machine a billet volume knob, but realized there is an LED indicator I don't want to cover. I did make a billet phone plug with enough OD to just barely cover the faceplate...

    The real bonus is my G4 cellphone remote app controls this guy....Im just a tad elated...
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  • ZLTFUL
    ZLTFUL Posts: 5,652
    Kind of has a Carver vibe to it now.
    "Some people find it easier to be conceited rather than correct."

    "Unwad those panties and have a good time man. We're all here to help each other, no matter how it might appear." DSkip
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,895
    I wuz bein' facetious :/

    but, that said -- actually, there are a pair of C-Vs here. They were given to us by some good friends and they served my son well in his high school years. They're just -- umm -- somewhere down in the basement at this point.

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    Come to think of it, they were my first woofer refoaming experience :) Even went for the C-V red surrounds.

    I do have to say (back on topic), the faceplate looks wonderful, but the knobs just aren't quite doing it for me... :/
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    Just jesting myself. You're into horns, not knobs lol.
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  • F1nut
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    Horns....knobs, more trigger words. I'm telling.....ummmm, well someone.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,556
    Maybe some "High" yellow silk screened words would help.
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    Looks like this was one of the better CD players from this era (DP-8020). I'll keep an eye out for one and make it match the receiver....

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  • xschop
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    Nbrowser, I prefer the more subtle approach by offering the offended party a nice side of cheese and crackers.... to go with all that whine.
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    Who said anything about feelings? I thought F1 was a bot.
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    So he lives in his 1.3's... Now I understand hehe.
    He's a good sport. Funny too.
    I admire his uncanny ability to convey, ever so gingerly, that your project/modification is or will be a spectacular fail.
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    edited November 2017
    First time setting idle adjustment...
    I found the service manual and it states to adjust idle current to 10mV for L-R channels.
    Upon initial reading both channels showed 4.5mV... Is this normal to be out of spec this far? And does changing/adjusting idle current change DC offset to where I'd have to recheck it at speaker terminals?

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