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    What should I do with these L100's??

    Well I was shocked to get a call from a local thrift store telling me they had some old speakers and receivers. And even more shocked to see they are jbl 100. I paid 13$ for 2 receivers and these L100's. I though the worst thing was the whole in the surround. After I got home and cut off the shrink wrap and bubble, I see more problems. So to list the problems, missing grills, grill anchors broken off, one woofer surround has a hole, missing white coating on woofers, both tweeters dead, one mid dead, one pot keeps turning, and screw post missing on rear. Cabinets have stains and chips. Now I need help on what to do with them?? Worth the time and money to restore? Part them out? I am one that hates to part things but it needs to be done, I will grab the Kleenex box.




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    And I thought mine were in bad shape with their painted cabinets

    Well, all these speakers can be reconed I think but I doubt it's worth the money.

    My advice is that you put an honest ad on e-pay for the working drivers.

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    "Put another L100 on the fire.
    Cook me up some bacon and some beans."

    As mentioned, there are some salvageable parts, worth more
    than your $13.

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    Just an idea ............

    Your 2 woofs are working with no rubbing right ? If so the only issues are the damage to the surround and the 'cosmetic' issue with the aquaplas coating.
    Can you post a pic of the woofer surround that has the damage please , it can poss be patched up. If so then why dont you consider doing a Zilch Econowave treatment ?
    I cant recall the $$ but it is not a great amount ( $150 ? ) much less than messing with tweets and mids etc.
    Since he is in Berzerkeley you need not incur postage.
    It will need a little surgery on the cabs but nothing too difficult. After that fill the dings and re veneer or just paint them with Duraflex cabinet paint ( black )

    Do a search here for Econowave and you will get the skinny

    Good luck , Mac.

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    Here is the link


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    Save the woofers, give the rest away. White out can be used as a filler for the damaged coating. You'll want to run some impedance sweeps on those poor abused woofers to make sure they're not demagged or rattling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by badman View Post
    Save the woofers, give the rest away. White out can be used as a filler for the damaged coating. You'll want to run some impedance sweeps on those poor abused woofers to make sure they're not demagged or rattling.
    Or demagnetized like one of mine

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    Cool Lemons to Lemonade

    Perfect for an econowave project if they are beyond resoration...Your garage system will never sound so good

    http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=150939

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eaulive View Post
    Or demagnetized like one of mine
    Isn't that what I said?

    Frustrating to have just 1 demagged. When both are, Qts pops upward and they become useful as infinite baffle sub drivers (as long as you have a few of them, there's not a lot of Xmax).

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    Quote Originally Posted by badman View Post
    Isn't that what I said?
    Argh, I read "damaged"...my bad

    Frustrating to have just 1 demagged. When both are, Qts pops upward and they become useful as infinite baffle sub drivers (as long as you have a few of them, there's not a lot of Xmax).
    Yes it's frustrating, I swapped it to the center channel so I don't feel as "unbalanced"

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    Quote Originally Posted by badman View Post
    Save the woofers, give the rest away. White out can be used as a filler for the damaged coating. You'll want to run some impedance sweeps on those poor abused woofers to make sure they're not demagged or rattling.
    LOL - I thought I was the only person to do that! I use Liquid Paper (Office Depot). "White" is too white, and "buff" is too yellow. Maybe a mixture of the two?

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    L88's a better starting point, but with skill and diligence, eWaved L100s can rock as never before.

    $220 per complete kit pair presently, including PC boards, waveguides, and USA shipping.

    Unimaginably, there appears to be an emerging market for well-executed EconoWaves™.

    If you don't want to do them, give me the cabs for prototyping....

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    $220 is the kit for waveguides, drivers, XOs?

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    Quote Originally Posted by badman View Post
    $220 is the kit for waveguides, drivers, XOs?
    Yes, with XO boards and components; you have to assemble them yourself, though we'll do that with an upcharge....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zilch View Post
    If you don't want to do them, give me the cabs for prototyping....
    There yours, I am going to see if anyone wants them as project speakers before I gut em, when I gut em you can have the cabinets, I also have some jensen model 7? cabinets in the back yard if you need them for anything.

    It just looks like the money I would have to put out in order to get these going would buy me a nice working pair with good cabinets

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