Well, tonight I decided to fix my RL45's which had a nick in the cloth. I planned to put an inch wide red line over the gash with an acrylic paint. Anyway, I popped into the local DIY shop and decided to kill two birds with one stone by using (acrylic) spray paint, as I needed some for another non-related task anyway. So I use masking tape and get the line all set up and spray. I remove the tape and discover the paint has soaked into the nearby cloth, leaving a horrible look like I just splilled paint in a rough line. Following this, I decided that rather than paint the entire cloth red, I would make it a feature and went on to use a combination of a lighter orangy/pink colour regular paint, a black marker pen and a ruler. I must say, the end result is probably not to most people's tastes, but it does look quite funky and I have a fairly retro look in the flat anyway. The end lesson for people? Always really think once, twice and three times before you think about customising or doing work on any B&O equipment whatsoever. If needbe, ask Beoworld or a friend for a second opinion, even if you're fairly confidany about what you're doing.

Calvin, can you please do some pictures.

Craig

Calvin:

Well, tonight I decided to fix my RL45's which had a nick in the cloth. I planned to put an inch wide red line over the gash with an acrylic paint. Anyway, I popped into the local DIY shop and decided to kill two birds with one stone by using (acrylic) spray paint, as I needed some for another non-related task anyway. So I use masking tape and get the line all set up and spray. I remove the tape and discover the paint has soaked into the nearby cloth, leaving a horrible look like I just splilled paint in a rough line. Following this, I decided that rather than paint the entire cloth red, I would make it a feature and went on to use a combination of a lighter orangy/pink colour regular paint, a black marker pen and a ruler. I must say, the end result is probably not to most people's tastes, but it does look quite funky and I have a fairly retro look in the flat anyway. The end lesson for people? Always really think once, twice and three times before you think about customising or doing work on any B&O equipment whatsoever. If needbe, ask Beoworld or a friend for a second opinion, even if you're fairly confidany about what you're doing.

Pictues????

Any pictures

Last night we helped Mobeyone to wreck a £175 lampshade so you're not alone!
Come on Calvin, we need photo's

Andy T.

I'll get some done tomorrow when I've hung them up. I'm waiting for the NoMoreNails to dry on the brackets I screwed and glued up. I should say thatnks to joeyboygolf for selling me the two of them! Maye I should have waited a day or two to write the post but I wanted to get it off my chest, so to speak.

As an aside - if we can help anyone destroy anything even more expensive please ask!

Calvin:

I'll get some done tomorrow when I've hung them up. I'm waiting for the NoMoreNails to dry on the brackets I screwed and glued up. I should say thatnks to joeyboygolf for selling me the two of them! Maye I should have waited a day or two to write the post but I wanted to get it off my chest, so to speak.

Now that could be interesting! Hung over anything expensive????

Well here's a picture of one of the speakers. You really can't see the tear in the cloth now. Being a film man myself, refusing to buy a digital camera, I've had to crop two poor quality webcam shots together. Obviously I need to paint the wires for my newly mounted speakers. I'm also quite tempted to extend the pattern on the speaker cover, maybe a combination of horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines to create an almost Mondrian-esque look

Struggling to see this

Andy T.

I would never ruin any original B&O. It's morally incorrect to me.

The former owner of my Beovox M150 speakers talked about he might had painted them black before the auction which I won. I told him if that was the case I would not have been bidding at all.