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Oh, I'm not sure how they are oriented, that would require taking them out as the grilles are secured on with a wooden trim frame. I haven't done that yet. Didn't want to risk breaking them. Not sure how fragile they are or how the cabinet is put together. Additionally the drivers are mounted with nuts and bolts and if I…

Dude, 15 year old Mercedes are going for 20k around here. Don't worry.

So I hooked them up to my trust K502 model amplifier, the 11BM8 tube deal. I call it "The Bomb" because people always ask "What the hell is that?!?!" I casually say "My bomb." and they look at me like "Oh sh, is he serious??" Anyway, they were a bit flat at first and then the tubes warmed up sufficiently. There was ample…

I will say this. I have an old RCA console stereo that needs restoring and if these EV 12TRXB drivers are that good, it's be worth finding another pair for the console stereo repair. 'Cause the RCA drivers in them weren't all that impressive. But with the modern compact electronics, I could build a Bluetooth based stereo…

Well, I changed sources and the bass response improved dramatically. I'm thinking that set of RCA cables from previous testing was bad. But they were rocking pretty hard at 35% throttle. They were loud enough that the kids working on their Camaro were complaining it was too loud. I'll mess with the 11BM8 amp tomorrow.…

Ok, so, update. They work. Replaced the wires with 16 gauge speaker wire 'cause that's what I had sitting around. Pretty scientific, huh? I tinned the wires and jammed them in to the posts on the drivers like Ken's documents said to. Then I hooked them up to a NAD 902 because it's low power and gave it a signal from an…

He's 94

It's not the spiders in Texas that are the problem. It's the friggin' grasshoppers and locust that get to be the size of a baseball with hooks for feet and if they happen to land on you, those hooks feel like needles digging in to you skin. They don't even bite, they're just dumb and fly in to you and they hurt when they…

It's not a brown recluse if that's what you are concerned about. It looks like it's either one of the many different grass spiders or one of the many different funnel weaver spiders. The picture is too blurry to be sure. Both can have an owie for a bite but are way, way more likely to run and hide instead. You'd literally…

Sorry I'm so late to this. Just finally catching up with life after a more than hectic July. Honestly, Delta, Moen and Gerber are the only brands I use anymore. Gerber will outlast you. Moen stands behind their warranty 100%, no matter how old. Delta stands by their warranty too and I only ever needed it once and that was…

You know what? I've seen that statistic and I think I know where I can get it but it'll have to wait until after summer camp week. But it was not a good trend and I can point to each spike and tell you what crap fiscal policy out of Trenton caused it.

All that is well and good but I feel like ATTOM isn't looking far enough at the future. They are claiming that foreclosure rates will be at "normal" levels by 2023 but the problem is that all of these houses being sold at 10-50% over asking/market value are going to end up with many home owners upside down on mortgages.…

Elon himself posted this to Twitter

No

Your wish has not been granted. That's half of what I was doing yesterday and today. The other half was fixing cars. Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes. I didn't see this thread until late last night and I didn't check the forum this morning because I woke up late and was angry with myself for sleeping in when I have…

They basically were. Same idea but more robust surrounds, baskets and motor structure to survive being put in a car door and stuff. They weren't as sensitive as the drivers from the home speakers so they needed more power to run them but they looked and sounded just like the home speakers.

Heh. Y'all have no clue how this works. Musk wants out because of material breaches of contract from Twitter. He's saying that Twitter is basically trying to commit fraud. Twitter now needs to pony up the details or they're going to court. There's no forcing Musk to do anything. If they don't pony up and it does go to…

Honestly, the drivers alone were probably $2500-$3000 new if they are what I think they are. His description is crap as well as his pictures. But all of it was new as early as 2008 and all of it's been discontinued since at least 2014. It's all car audio stuff. The DLS Iridium line was one step below their top of the line…

Not if it's all rotten! Besides that, it's got gall mites and there's 3 trunks coming off the main, one is still alive with a bunch of small offshoots, the two others are very dead. One has rot from old storm damage and the other has a black knot infection which is likely what killed that trunk. The tree's no good for…

Haven't posted to this in a while. So I never got around to finishing up the post about the laundry room because I haven't finished it yet. Lotsa reasons why, company got bought and employment was in question, materials shortages started happening again, costs of stuff is going back up, I hurt my arm/shoulder messing with…

If the cell size is tiny with a fraction of a volt and a fraction of a mAh then they can charge and discharge it as fast as a capacitor. So if it takes, say, 30 seconds to run a charge and discharge cycle, that's 2 cycles per minute. So to get to 200K cycles, that's 100,000 minutes which is about 1667 hours which is about…

I'm tellin' ya, we're heading off a cliff https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/attom-q1-2022-housing-risk-report/

17 years ago at this point

Unless she has a secret Camaro somewhere, I'm gonna say no.

You're getting off topic, folks.

Just saw a report, U.s> 1st quarter growth for 2022? -1.5% Folks, we're in a recessions and have been for months.

The Eastwood kit, if it's the same one I remember seeing several years ago now is rated for the old non-safety glass in really old cars, like stuff before 1960. If so, that will likely do what you are looking for it to do.

Sooo...interesting news today. Heard from my local town council, well one of the members, that a real estate development group that owns a significant amount of property in town that is either undeveloped or dilapidated has been dragging their feet for at least 3 years now. They have been squabbling with the town over…

Hey Phil, what were your symptoms? 'Cause Jackie and I were just talking about this over the weekend. Been a rash of kids locally getting sick, passing something around like a hot potato. One of the kiddo's friend's moved a B-day party over it because they had 5 people in the house, all of them had gotten sick roughly…

Prices are still fairly high around here. The other benefit is that I have some work I need to get done and it's beyond what the beer and pizza help is capable of so I need to find a contractor. My recent one retried because all his help either got sick (cancer) or went elsewhere and the replacements he found we absolute…