So, what music are you listening to now?

[d-ray657]

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Bob Marley - Catch a Fire
Leo Kottke - Mudlark
Leo Kottke - Guitar Music

Up next – Weather Report – Heavy Weather – half speed master.

Just finished rehabbing a pair of speakers. By the time it was over, it was more than a rehab; they're bionic speakers.

Started with a pair of ADC 303AX – solid walnut cabinets. Scrubbed them down with Murphy's Oil Soap, and added five coats of Tung Oil. Took out all of the old gunk that had held the grills on and replaced it with Velcro.

As long as I had the drivers out, I figured I'd recap, and as long as I had the back plate off, I thought I'd add binding posts. Didn't like the high and mid switches, so I used the point on the plate where the switches had been for the binding posts - the original terminals were too close together for binding posts. Replaced the electrolytic cap with a Dayton poly.

Put them back together - no sound. Pulled the plates back out to see if I had miswired or had a short. I had a complete circuit from the positive post to the negative post. DOH! The back plate was aluminum, and I hadn't insulated the binding posts.

Replaced the aluminum plate with some fiberboard and resoldered. Got everything back together, and the old cone tweeter was rattling. Well, it turns out that the woofers weren't original anyway, so I replaced the tweeters with some I had pulled from some Mission 707s with fried woofers.

So now I have some beautiful cabs filled with new/old drivers and new electronics, and have been checking them out with the above playlist. For something thrown together, they sound pretty good.

Before Dave tells me that this post is worthless without pics. Here's a couple.





Regards,

D-Ray

[bobabode]

C'mon now, where's the nudies. You know Dave likes speaker porn!

Nice job on the cabinets for a legal eagle.

[bobabode]

Sunfighter- Paul Kantner & Grace Slick.

[BlueStreak]

Beauteous!!!

Dave

[Charles]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Bob Marley - Catch a Fire
Leo Kottke - Mudlark
Leo Kottke - Guitar Music

Up next – Weather Report – Heavy Weather – half speed master.

Just finished rehabbing a pair of speakers. By the time it was over, it was more than a rehab; they're bionic speakers.

Started with a pair of ADC 303AX – solid walnut cabinets. Scrubbed them down with Murphy's Oil Soap, and added five coats of Tung Oil. Took out all of the old gunk that had held the grills on and replaced it with Velcro.

As long as I had the drivers out, I figured I'd recap, and as long as I had the back plate off, I thought I'd add binding posts. Didn't like the high and mid switches, so I used the point on the plate where the switches had been for the binding posts - the original terminals were too close together for binding posts. Replaced the electrolytic cap with a Dayton poly.

Put them back together - no sound. Pulled the plates back out to see if I had miswired or had a short. I had a complete circuit from the positive post to the negative post. DOH! The back plate was aluminum, and I hadn't insulated the binding posts.

Replaced the aluminum plate with some fiberboard and resoldered. Got everything back together, and the old cone tweeter was rattling. Well, it turns out that the woofers weren't original anyway, so I replaced the tweeters with some I had pulled from some Mission 707s with fried woofers.

So now I have some beautiful cabs filled with new/old drivers and new electronics, and have been checking them out with the above playlist. For something thrown together, they sound pretty good.

Before Dave tells me that this post is worthless without pics. Here's a couple.





Regards,

D-Ray

Say Jesse, the picture on the wall is crooked!

Besides, that's walnut veneer. But the cabinets do look nice.

Chas

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Charles

Say Jesse, the picture on the wall is crooked!

Besides, that's walnut veneer. But the cabinets do look nice.

Chas

The lampshade too.

Dave

[BlueStreak]

The guy came and bought my Denon POA1500.....Good-bye to a longtime dear friend. A hard thing to do.

Didn't bother haggling the price either, paid the asking price. I had it running with the top panel open so he could see the guts.
I take excellent care of my gear, and it shows.

Think I'll take this cash, select some cds, fill up the Mighty BlueStreaks gas tank and go see the Atlantic.

I'll start with ;

The Beatles-Rubber Soul

Dave

[Dondilion]

d-ray:
Love the Bob Marley "Catch A Fire" album. Not because of the humongous spliff Bob is shown smoking. The track Concrete Jungle is fav of mine.....some harmonising!

Thanks for sharing your refurb efforts. Always appreciated by an old fart with all thumbs.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

The lampshade too.

Dave

I noticed that something else was crooked too, but I wouldn't want to burst the bubble of an aspiring carpenter.

Chas

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

d-ray:
Love the Bob Marley "Catch A Fire" album. Not because of the humongous spliff Bob is shown smoking. The track Concrete Jungle is fav of mine.....some harmonising!

Thanks for sharing your refurb efforts. Always appreciated by an old fart with all thumbs.

What happened, did you saw off all of your fingers?

Chas