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Tigers vs sooners, who will win this one?

Now that is one sweet turntable, amazing the talent some people have to be able to make a turntable like that.

MIZZOU 41 NEBRASKA 6, been a long time since we ever gave them a good butt kickin.

Missouri tigers vs Nebraska two hours till kick off, cant wait go TIGERS.

Greg It only took the contact cement 15 minutes to dry for me but again it was hot as heck when I was using it, I bet if it was cooler outside it might have taken a good half an hour for the contact cement to dry.

Ya there is some good prices on ebay, I think I had a whopping 18 dollars maby less than that in the sapele veneer that I used on my heresys and that included shipping. But for some reason it seems like most raw veneer on ebay is not that wide, length is no problem thow you can get some very long pieces if you want to.

Baddad I got the veneer off of ebay cant remember the guys name thow. Go to ebay and type in veneer, all kinds off it on there especally raw veneer. There is also plenty of websight out there that sell paperbacked veneer in real big sheets.Make sure you ask the seller if the raw veneer is nice and flat some raw venner is real wavy and needs to be flattend out.

Groomlakearea51. I understand everything you are telling me to do but do I need to remove the woofers to put the silicone on or just go around and over the top of the screws with the silicone without removing the woofers. I really need to take the backs off and take a look at the woofers but heck I figured its just as easy to ask you. I probably wont work on this project tell the weekend anyway but I really think it wont hurt a thing sealing everything up like you are talking about.

Tin -ear. yes I did do a lot of work straighting out the cabinets you must have very nice square corners for your veneer to lay on nice and straight. ALL dings and dints were filled and sanded smoth. Its kind of like getting a car painted what would it look like if the bodyman didnt fill in the dints and dings. I bet I spent a good 6 hours getting the cabinets ready for the veneer, my problem was lack at practice and knowlede of putty work. I just took my time and kept at it, the corners were the worst part getting them nice and square but I did it. I bet a guy that paints cars for a living could have done it in about 1/4 of the time I spent on it.

I took the backs off my set of heresys to see what drivers were in them and to go ahead and check all conections on the crossovers just really doing a check over. Speakers have no problems but what I notice right away after taking off the back panel was that there is no seal around it. The heresy is in a sealed box so I was wondering if anybody has put some wheatherstriping on the back panel before and if so has it improved the sound? It seems to me that there is no way without a seal that there aint some small air leaks. So has anybody sealed the rear panel on their heresys and found and improvement, seems like this might be a cheep tweek. Oh these are 84 models

The amp pictured is a scott 299a tube intergrated amplifier, made from 1959 to 1961, its been rebuilt by Craig Ostby. The cabinet on top of it was made by me.

Good for you looks like you fixed it.

Tom here is the trimming trick I used, After you have the first piece of veneer attached to the speaker flip the speaker over so the veneer is face down on your work bench, be very carefull, you will need a piece of wood on top of your work bench so you wont cut it up with the utility knife. I used a big piece of mdf that I had laying around,its like a piece of plywood but nice and flat . Now the tuff part making sure you keep enough veneer for sanding and not to much so you dont have to sand for a solid hour.Here is a trick I used, I took a piece of my scrap veneer that is 1/42 of an inch thick and layed it against the speaker on top of the veneer were I was going to make my cut with the utility knife, this will keep you away a good 1/42 of an inch away with little sanding left to do.Trick is new blade in utility knife, go very slow with very little pressure should take 3 or 4 passes to cut the veneer mabe more when doing it against the grain of the veneer. Be very carfull near the end of the veneer you dont want to rip it and mess it up. Once you got the venner timmed turn speaker over and take 100 grit or 150 grit sand paper on a block sander and sand it flush to the speaker, be very carfull neer the ends of the veneer if that sandpapper catches it wrong you will rip a chunk off not good. Use the sanding block like the utility knife very little pressure and take your time. I spent hours sanding down the edges of these speakrs so I wouldnt have any tear outs. Also take your finger and press down on the veneer at the ends of the veneer when you are sanding them with the block sander this will give the veneer more support while sanding that area and help avoid tear outs. Hope this helps.

Wow if its almost seased up, I bet its seen its day. My hk430 volume controll is real easy to turn after I gave it a cleaning with caig deoxit. Take the cover off of the amplifier and see if you can see whats binding up on the volume controll. Maybe a few drops of oil on the shaft of the volume controll if you can get to it might loosten it up but I doubt it. Try some 3 in 1 oil and see if you can do any good . keep the oil off of the wiper part of the volume controll only use deoxit on this part. Good luck maby it will come unseased.

Pictures of tools I used.