1984 SDA 2 restoration

JayMX
JayMX Posts: 446
in Vintage Speakers
Just wanted to drop a few pics of my most recent resto project. Found these beautiful ol gals in a garage under junk and empty big gulps. Nasty stains, water damage on one of the bases. Walnut veneer was very dry. Crayon on the backs, a couple of stickers, and lots of animal hair and snags on the grilles.
I used barkeepers friend on the cabinets to bleach them and get the stains out, rebuilt the damaged base with bondo and flipped the damaged area to the back of the cabinet. Sanded, oiled, powergrabbed the drivers and reassembled. Used our little battery powered rotary fabric mower to remove the snags on the grilles. I think they turned out pretty decent.

They sounded great, but I didn’t need them, so I let them go for $250 made a decent profit!
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Current Collection: Monitor 4a (Peerless), Monitor 5B (Peerless), Modified Monitor 7b (Peerless), RTA15TL (SL3000), SDA CRS+ (194’s), SDA SRS 2.3TL, R100's, R200’s, R300 🤩
Pairs that have passed through: Monitor 4b (Peerless), Monitor 5a (Peerless), Monitor 5b (SL1000), Monitor 5b (SL2000) (4x pair), Monitor 7b (Peerless), Modified Monitor 7c’s (194’s), Monitor 10a (Peerless), Monitor 10b (5x pair), RTA8, RTA8TL, RTA 11T, RTA12c (194's), SDA CRS, SDA 2 (2x pair), SDA 2a, SDA 2b, SDA 1b, SDA 1c, SDA SRS 2 (2x pair), SDA SRS 3.1TL (198’s) (2x pair)...and more to come, it’s a sickness.
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Comments

  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    Outstanding work! Top marks....
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,734
    Nice rescue job.
    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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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,329
    Very nice job..
    Polk Audio SDA 2.3tl Fully Hot Rodded. 😎

    SVS SB16 X2

    Cary SLP-05/Ultimate Upgrade.
    Cary SA-500.1 ES Amps
    Cary DMS 800PV Network
    OPPO UDP 205/ModWright Modification
    VPI Scout TT / Dynavector 20x2
    Jolida JD9 Fully Modified

    VPI MW-1 Cyclone RCM

    MIT Shotgun 3 cables throughout / Except TT, and PC’s
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  • Legender
    Legender Posts: 478
    Nice restoration...and another happy Polk listener out there.
    Music: Oppo103 - Parasound JC2 - Parasound A21- SDA 3.1
    Theater: Denon 3808 - B&K 7500/Emotiva XPA-3- RTi12, CSi5, RTiA7x4, PSW505
    Sleeping: Marantz 70005 - Harman Kardon 2400 - SDA 2
    2 Channel: Cary 306 SACD - Canary Audio 906 - Pass Labs x250 - PS Audio Perfectwave DAC, Polk LSiM705, SVS SB13 Ultra
    Office: Dell Optiplex, Emotiva XDA-2, Adcom 5500, LSiM 703
    Spares: Yamaha CA-810; LSi 15; Kenwood Basic M2a, Yamaha M60/M80, Polk Monitor 7, SVS SB13 Ultra
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  • Faustin
    Faustin Posts: 1,149
    Very nice work indeed.
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  • Conradicles
    Conradicles Posts: 6,130
    Fantastic job!
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    Would this work with black ones too? Or is the black just vinyl? I've got a pair that's about in the same shape as yours were and I'd love to make them more respectable looking so I can get them back in service. The drivers are perfect so it's a shape to closet them.
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