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• How Much Wood Would Wood Glue Glue If Wood Glue Would Glue Wood?

  Nathaniel Graff • 08/25/2015 at 17:27 • 0 comments

  I was unable to cut out the speaker hole in the face plate, so I went ahead and glued together the outer pieces of the cabinet.

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• Episode IV: A New Cabinet

  Nathaniel Graff • 08/22/2015 at 22:07 • 0 comments

  It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. And I decided today was a good day to break apart the old cabinet and start making a new one.

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• Speaker Repair and Tolex Removal

  Nathaniel Graff • 08/18/2015 at 17:13 • 0 comments

  The speaker cone had some tears in it, including a 1 1/2" long tear along the outside edge which created an audible flapping noise at high output. The others were small punctures, also in the edge of the speaker cone.

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• Testing Audio, Cleaning the Chassis

  Nathaniel Graff • 07/31/2015 at 17:22 • 0 comments

  Since there appeared to be nothing physically wrong with the amplifier, I plugged it in and turned it on. No blue smoke. I plugged in the speaker and turned it on again. A "vorp" emanated from the speaker, and fiddling with the knobs caused crackles and pops. I grabbed a bass guitar I had gotten at a flea market and plugged it in...

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• Jumping In

  Nathaniel Graff • 07/29/2015 at 22:28 • 0 comments

  I started by unplugging the speaker and removing the grill cloth, taking pictures of screw placement and bagging the fasteners together in logical groups. The result was easy access to the collected layer of filth. Bleugh.

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