Elite by Pioneer

KLH Model 17 restoration project

Lately, I've been frequenting the local Salvation Army Family store.  Nice place to keep your eye open for stuff, but its always a hit or miss thing.   But on my first visit I stumbled across some KLH 17's.   I wasn't to familiar with them, but thought I'd check out Audiokarma.org first to get an idea if they are worth grabbing.  Much to my surprise people had good things to say about them so I headed back and grabbed them.  Only cost me 14 bucks for the pair.

They didn't look all that special, but everything looked original and intact. 

If you click on the images above you'll see the high resolution versions.  In those you can see the minor scuffs on the wood, and a few minor nicks.  Also the grill cloth is not the orignals, and we're missing the KLH badges.   Good news, the drivers worked, and they are the originals.

Over a couple of weeks, I gathered the materials I would need for this job.

Materials purchased

1. Grill Cloth - purchased a natural cotton cloth from Hobby Lobby
2. Capacitors - Used standard Dayton crossover caps from Partsexpress.com
   • qty 4 - 2uf Non Polarized 250v caps, use two caps per speaker
   • qty 2 - 8uf Non Polarized 250v caps, uses one cap per speaker
3. Clear Latex Caulking
4. Tung Oil - High Gloss Tung Oil

I spent roughly 20 to 25 bucks on materials to do this job.

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