Speaker grills - real garbage
05-17-2013, 10:01 PM
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Speaker grills - real garbage
As many of you probably know, I've been working on radio problems (this is in a different thread) and I'm hoping that i'm closing in on that problem. However, a large part of the issue has been to disassemble the speaker grills and speakers. I've done this a number of times over the last 26 years, the last time was to replace the front speakers that had turned into doggy poo about five (or ten??) years ago. When I have to do this I inveriably have to repair the threaded grill surrounds.
As an aerospace engineer I am very familiar with design engineer foibles. Designers always are convinced that they can assemble (or disassemble) something as long as "special tool number !@#$%^*) is available. Additionally, the often spec the part to be made of unobtainium. This means that practically anything is possible. Matter of fact, many jet engines are designed such that major components like the entire central core can be replaced on the wing if anybody was crazy enough to try it.
Anyway, I have to believe that the designer at Porsche who layed out these speaker rings never once ever tried to assemble one and, given that it is 30 years ago that they were designed, may he R.I.P. Then again, if he was a bad guy, maybe the devil has him sitting in a 928 trying to put these rings in place and every time he breaks one he gets 100 wacks.
So, now that I have blown my cool, does anybody out there have a way around these crazy things? Somebody mentioned that there was a guy out there who made aluminum parts to replace the b/m and I would imagine that guy has probably retired as a billionaire by now. Besides that, has anybody come up with any other tips?
As an aerospace engineer I am very familiar with design engineer foibles. Designers always are convinced that they can assemble (or disassemble) something as long as "special tool number !@#$%^*) is available. Additionally, the often spec the part to be made of unobtainium. This means that practically anything is possible. Matter of fact, many jet engines are designed such that major components like the entire central core can be replaced on the wing if anybody was crazy enough to try it.
Anyway, I have to believe that the designer at Porsche who layed out these speaker rings never once ever tried to assemble one and, given that it is 30 years ago that they were designed, may he R.I.P. Then again, if he was a bad guy, maybe the devil has him sitting in a 928 trying to put these rings in place and every time he breaks one he gets 100 wacks.
So, now that I have blown my cool, does anybody out there have a way around these crazy things? Somebody mentioned that there was a guy out there who made aluminum parts to replace the b/m and I would imagine that guy has probably retired as a billionaire by now. Besides that, has anybody come up with any other tips?
05-17-2013, 11:35 PM
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All i can say is that i'm pretty sure every manufacturer is like this... people think doing a timing belt and water pump is hard on our V8 longitudinal layout, try out a Chrysler 2.7L V6...
05-17-2013, 11:55 PM
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Just a short reply to Mat:
I'm not a great admirer of anything associated with government but, believe it or not, the U. S. Army requires that the serviceable components on its helicopters be able to be removed with just three tools (and all of the tools have to be conventional like crescent wrenches). At least, that's the way it was twenty years ago (I've been retired for quite a while).
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I'm not a great admirer of anything associated with government but, believe it or not, the U. S. Army requires that the serviceable components on its helicopters be able to be removed with just three tools (and all of the tools have to be conventional like crescent wrenches). At least, that's the way it was twenty years ago (I've been retired for quite a while).
Barney
