1984 SDA 2 restoration
JayMX
Posts: 446
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!
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!
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 🤩
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Outstanding work! Top marks....
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Nice rescue job.Political Correctness'.........defined
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Very nice job..
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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 -
Very nice work indeed.
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Fantastic job!
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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.
