Chip

I am a retired USAF fellow.  In my travels, tours of duty we call them, I picked new a set of AR2ax speakers from the Kunsan Base Exchange in Korea circa 1975.  The serial numbers are 269000 and 269001.  

Thanks to this grand repository of AR data I now realize I need to refoam my woofers and while inside the enclosures, replace the crossover capacitors.  I have ordered up the stuff to do this.  

In my highschool days some odd 55 or so years ago, I went to night school in electronics.  So I am adept at soldering, know the difference between a capacitor and coil, what an O scope can do, yada, yada, yada.

I read with great interest the restoration of the AR3a's, good stuff there.  But I would like to see a similar project for AR2axs.  

As you can imagine, I have carted these speakers from Korea, to southern California, to Arizona, to Ohio, to Germany, back to California, to New Mexico and finally to Texas.  The exterior is a bit dodgy, a few time honored dings here and there.  The woofer foams are indeed shot and I suppose the  caps due to age are toast too.

So I am about to do the woofers, while in there replace the caps.  Any advice is acceptable.  Mean while until the parts show up, I will continue to search out and read up on AR2axs.

Oh, yes, I am a retired Aerospace Engineer.  Fly Radio Control airplanes for fun and do projects like these for entertainment.  Recently acquired a Pioneer SX-750 to replace my Panasonic which developed a severe 60 cycle hum.  I let my 40 something sound engineer son take on the repairs.  And of course, that is why I picked up the Pioneer recently.  The son is not what you call prompt but he means well.  Frankly, I do not count on ever seeing it again.  I mean he has had my turntable since 1990.