My new (vintage) Tannoy Cheviots!

[walpurgis]

Plenty of speakers then.

I've got three pairs of Tannoy DCs and enough various drive units to build about five or six pairs of other speakers (and a couple of TTs to rebuild). Keeps me occupied.

[walpurgis]

After a bit of experimentation on a spare surround, I've found the best way (for me) to dope the new foam cone surrounds. Not surprisingly, it turns out the 'Alene's Tacky Glue' that I used to bond the surrounds to the cones gives the best results.

Here's one surround with the doping just applied, it looks a mess, but it'll be fine:



Same speaker with the surround nearly dry, it looks just right and has only slight tackiness. A near perfect match to the appearance of the original Tannoy surrounds:

[walpurgis]

The second plinth now reconditioned, new feet installed and refitted onto the cabinet after giving the veneer on the base a final finish and wax.

[walpurgis]

Todays jobs:

Just stained the second to last cabinet side. looks good.



The surround on the second driver with freshly applied dope coating.



The surround doping nearly dried.



Inside the cabinet. Horrible push on spade connectors serving the rear connection terminals, one of which was split and making poor contact (no doubt there are more serving the crossover and level/roll off controls, I'll look at them in due course).



I found some speaker connection posts with suitable looking gold plated tags.



The old spade tag alongside the gold plated replacement.



The new tags soldered on using silver solder and smartened with a bit of heat shrink sleeve.



Job done!



I've refitted the drive unit. I'll look into replacing all the internal wiring at some point, at least I'll have something decent to solder it to. One more cabinet panel and the veneered front edges to refinish, a clean, polish and a tweek here and there inside and basically, they're restored, anything further will be upgrade work

[walpurgis]

I've finished my Tannoy Cheviot 3128 speaker restoration.

I'll post some pictures of the final result once I've got my 'den' tidied.

I'm listening to some Shpongle though them right this minute and they sound bloody marvelous.

[walpurgis]

Here's a picture of the final result.



They look so much better than when I first got them and sound every bit as good as I'd hoped they would. I've had several pairs of 12" Tannoy dual concentrics, but these are by far the best sounding.

[Rare Bird]

Nice job geoff, whats that then 4 months! taken me that long to think about doing summat

The Tannoy 'Dorset' (T185) & 'Mayfair' (T225) are my fav's tho

[realysm42]

They look great, well done; bet they sound good too!

[chelsea]

Nice work.
Always good to see a lovely vintage item brought back to life and enjoyed.

I have a real soft spot for old tannoys.

[Rare Bird]

It is nice to see old items restored, glad they were kept original.

What get's up my back is people axing old pieces up for pointess modifications..If your gonna mess about with old pieces chaps make sure they are 100% reversable mods, you wouldnt like it if someone chopped your big toe off & grafted it on the end of your willy would yee!