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13 years 9 months ago #11773 by bee
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are they for a new project tony, or from one of your older designs.

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13 years 9 months ago #11774 by tony.a.s.s.
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They were the plugs out of the MX series of cabs. Thankfully I don't have to do them any more.

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13 years 9 months ago #11777 by saul
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seen a few methods

as you say, main ones:

cradle method- goes in between driver and horn itself and then plug fixes to the cradle

or the turbosound/ASS way

i know which i prefer...

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13 years 8 months ago #11783 by tony.a.s.s.
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tony you need to stop posting pics of your art up, it gets me all excited... lol. again fantastic stuff...... if mine turn out any where near these ill be happy. Do you use a lathe to make them....[/quote
I've never had a wood turning lathe, so I've had to use an unconventional method with the plugs I made, you need a very big sander.


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13 years 8 months ago #11796 by bitzo
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I had some thought about this. So the material and the thickeness belong to the weight of plug. So I guess if using foam for the plug is good.
I want to cover it with carbody filler and then make the support with steel wires like centauri.

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13 years 8 months ago #11797 by saul
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Tony.A.S.S. wrote: I've never had a wood turning lathe, so I've had to use an unconventional method with the plugs I made, you need a very big sander.

smiley36

you nutter smiley20

I personally prefer the turbo/ASS way because it makes the throat nice and rigid, and doesn't put the baffle/flange of the horn under any more pressure than necessary, which is an issue with fibreglass.

with wood horns not so much, but i like the idea of it bracing the throat

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13 years 8 months ago #11799 by tony.a.s.s.
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I'm quite sure that if you got hold of a plug that has only thin flanges for support at the baffle board, you could move it. When the plug supports are more of an integral part of the plug and fixed into the sides of the horn, it becomes really rigid and stable. My method was always to screw through the inside of the flare into the flange. This pulled the plug tight into the horn. On all the MX cabs, the hatches on the sides are purely access panels for this purpose.

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13 years 8 months ago #11800 by mykey-
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saul wrote:

Tony.A.S.S. wrote: I've never had a wood turning lathe, so I've had to use an unconventional method with the plugs I made, you need a very big sander.

smiley36

you nutter smiley20

I personally prefer the turbo/ASS way because it makes the throat nice and rigid, and doesn't put the baffle/flange of the horn under any more pressure than necessary, which is an issue with fibreglass.

with wood horns not so much, but i like the idea of it bracing the throat

as long as you're not firing a cannon ball through it you'll be fine

you're all going to get Kiwi poisoning if you ain't careful
:lol:

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13 years 8 months ago #11805 by saul
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mykey- wrote:

saul wrote:

Tony.A.S.S. wrote: I've never had a wood turning lathe, so I've had to use an unconventional method with the plugs I made, you need a very big sander.

smiley36

you nutter smiley20

I personally prefer the turbo/ASS way because it makes the throat nice and rigid, and doesn't put the baffle/flange of the horn under any more pressure than necessary, which is an issue with fibreglass.

with wood horns not so much, but i like the idea of it bracing the throat

as long as you're not firing a cannon ball through it you'll be fine

you're all going to get Kiwi poisoning if you ain't careful
:lol:


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