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I am pleased to have found this older thread. I'm transporting two really mint 1973 Khorns from Italy at Lago Iseo to Cologne in Germany next Friday. that's about a 1000km drive. I am now in Italy because the area is absolutely beautiful. That's why we've added three days of vacation to the transport. Now my issue.  I had rented a van that was big enough but not too big. In Germany they call it a Mercedes Vito or similar, the size of a VW bus without seats in the back. These vans are relatively moderately sprung with coil springs. To my annoyance, the van rental company did not have such a car available on Monday morning although I specifically wanted to rent it. Now I got an “upgrade” for the same money. A car in the class of a Mercedes Sprinter. These vans are 3.5 tons total weight with approx. 1.5 tons payload included. That's far too much for the Khorns. If the Khorns together weigh approx. 160 kg, then the van is barely loaded. It has very tight leaf springs at the rear, it bumps and jolts when driving when the van is empty. I had already packed 12 woolen blankets and 30 cardboard boxes for the smaller van with coil springs. I didn't have time to add any more protective material. I'm thinking of buying a cheap foam mattress here in Italy at IKEA tomorrow, about 10 cm high. I hope that this will give me enough extra absorption/suspension if the van hits hard. I want to transport the Khorns lying on the front so that the bass chassis doesn't get ripped out if the Khorns are transported upright. Of course I separate the tweeter section.  I will remove the side grills. But I still have no idea how to attach the safety traps. I've never had a Khorn before. It looks very delicate in photos. Especially the open panels at the back are certainly not suitable for lashing straps. If anyone has any tips, please let me know.

If you’re playing monopoly on your monopoly board, are you going to change the rules because it’s your game and you get to choose whatever you want because you paid for the monopoly game? 

Right, and there was a time where you could own people as property, and you could do whatever you wanted with them, and you wouldn’t be breaking any rules or laws. ** my point is is just because something is within the rules doesn’t necessarily mean it’s right**   No one is arguing that Klipsch is not within their right to do whatever they want on this forum. If you throw a party are you seriously going to tell people to stop talking about a movie you don’t like just because it’s your house and you can boss people around? 

Boys this isn’t the way I choose to spend my time so I’ve expressed my opinions and will leave it there.. 🙂   Take Care, miketn

It’s simple if I own the home and pay the bills it’s my home but I do invite people in if they behave.. 😉   Klipsch owns and pays the bills for this home/space and they do invite people in within certain guidelines to enjoy sharing this place.   As far as anyone from Klipsch being here is irrelevant and not required to enjoy this space.

OK, fair enough, but who is the person that made these rules and enforcing them? I’ll be happy to retract what I said if I’m wrong.

Some of the off-limit topics on this forum weren’t always the off-limit topics (that has changed a lot!). And I would say that this is not Klipsch ‘s house (their barely ever here), IMHO we should be the ones that dictate what type of discussions we wanna have as long as we’re not disrespecting anyone in the process I don’t see the issue. If I want to compare this with that, or if I want to talk about upgrading this, or modifying that …who cares 🤷‍♂️.    Again I’m speaking my opinion so I’m not expecting anyone to agree or disagree. I just think the policing, and censorship has really ripped this forum apart., and drove so many former members away …There’s barely anyone ever logged in compared to what it was years ago. That didn’t happen on accident. I’ve had plenty of conversations with people that have left this forum, and why… so I’m not just making this up. 

Wait! 😮 I appreciate Klipsch having this Forum but it's far from being their  house or home...In fact, how often do you see anyone from Klipsch Here? 🤔 I have been uninvited  here before,but the reason I keep coming back (here and AVS) is to give advice and see if anything interesting is going on.  Yep. There's the rub. Actually, not too many places left where you actually know folks and in the age of Google who needs a forum? 🤓

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