After reading the thread about the replacement of capacitors in vintage passive B&O speakers, I desided to check my BeoVox S75's. But when I took out the bass speaker (SEAS) I found out a terrible fact: my speakers had been get mouldy and they look horrible! The bass speaker and the smallest (tweeter) had a load of mould behind and under the medal framework. Also the bass's cable connector were snapped out of the medal. The speakers work and from the front they look perfect but the discover of mine made me so depressed... :(
Attached is a photo of the bass speaker to help getting in what I am trying to explain
1) How does the mould affect the speakers in general? And will it spread or cause anything else?
2) How I should try to remove it? I wiped with paper and it did get a bit better, but not perfect
3) How should I fix the cable connector's? Should I just glue them back?
4) When (someday) I'll replace the capacitors, anything special to keep in mind? The old ones are (except one) rated 40v, shall I order new ones with same voltages or higher? Keeping the capacities of course the same. I compared the values marked in components to the part list in the service manual (on this site) and they differ quite a lot (47 mfd marked as 50 etc). Is this normal?
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