Pioneer SK-353L renovation + customisation

[bugpat]

Hi all,
Hoping everyone is ok in these dark times...

I found this small box 3 monthes ago in a car boot sale, and paid 5€ for it.
It was working almost OK, but very dirty and some stains and scratches. Good sound for a "just tone box", and a real audio in line.
So having a little time yesterday (I did a lot of work while in lockdown for 46 days here in France, like rebuiling the motor of one of my old cars, rebuilding the brakes on the second one, garden, paintings, electricity in the garden and the carport, repairing the roof of the pool house....)
So I cleaned it a lot, dismantled it, de-oxyded everything, repainted the grills in black instead of grey, and the very dirty white speakers in red, and added a Li-Po battery 3S/2650 mAh.

Now I'll use it to work outside, really a nice little box !

Before :

After :

 

[Mystic Traveller]

Nice find in the wild and great job done!

 

[goodman]

Congrats for this nice Pioneer. After restoration look very good! I like red speakers.

 

[Fatdog]

Good job on the cleaning - it looks brand new now. Also, red speakers really should have come in all of them!

 

[floyd]

Looks great with red speakers. Awesome!.

 

[Bru87tr]

The red with black grills looks awesome, nice job.

 

[Radio raheem]

Nice....wonder what an sk 909 would look like in this style

 

[Reli]

Looks great! Black grills allow you to see what's behind them better.

 

[T-STER]

Yeah that looks well good, im interested in the lipo battery, can you tell us what you used and how it wires in?

 

[bugpat]

I simply wired a plug at both batteries wires (+ and -), and used a 2600 mAh / 3 S with a li-po saver to not over-discharge it... I have 2 of these batteries, they fit both in the compartment, so hours of music...

 

[Jboulukos]

I’m curious, what were the steps to painting the speakers?

 

[bugpat]

I simply removed them, hide the chrome caps with tape and sprayed...