Do like this, I gave the instructions to Rudy, (Harry Pierce) and his 3702 8" drivers are playing okay even with the bend in the voice coil, Shim, shim, shim

[quote user="Leslie"] Finally Martin, you're back! I'm convinced, because of all these good advises that shimming is a need to do refoaming the right and precise way. However, and I have not done this shimming method before, I wonder if this is really necessary for small diameters like CX50/100 drivers? Other thing is, would people

Below the black wheel is the volume potentiometer, check that, and is your balance slider working properly

look here and here , may be only your volume slider, but why not do it all, when open And welcome to the forum

Søren if you continue this way, all Beoworlders going to Struer in May will visit you, to see your collection, on the way to Struer. Maybe you should plan a Struer warm up party.

Clean and flatten where broken off, epoxy a wall plug of same dimention to the fret.

Good price Leslie, but I only need a BM 5000, the rest I already have, found one yesterday in German bay, but I couldn't bid on it because of restriction it went for 39 Euros I think, too bad

Did you look for a BM 5000 pizza type too I allways wonder from where and how you get all your stuff.

[quote user="Leslie"] This explains a lot! [/quote] Very good thread Leslie, I dont doubt that you are very handy with your fingers, we have seen what you can do several times, but for me, not shimming is like working in the dark, you just dont know if the cone is centered. Consider that 0.1 Mm is 2-3 human hairs ( one of mine is 0.04 Mm.

Here is what Martin said in another thread I've written a lot about this subject and with all that can go wrong I am afraid to sound negative. My main concerns are all the woofers that gets damaged in DIY-attempts. The CX woofers are still available but almost all other 1980's B&O woofers aren't and modern replacements just aren't