Getting close! Woofers, bases... Almost done

It being Sunday afternoon, and a few moments to myself, time for a little more assembly. 

I glued the woofers into the mounting plates, after clipping the wiring onto the back of the units - it would be really hard to do that afterwards. Prior to that I also drilled holes in the backs of the couplers to pass the FR unit wires through so that everything runs inside the woofer tubes. That was actually quite hard - the coupler material is extremely tough and resilient - I ended up using a sharp knife to cut some material out of the holes.

Woofers newly glued into the mounting plates

I also attached the feet onto the bases. I had been going to use 3 feet, on the basis that they wouldn't need levelling or truing, but since I wanted two get at the front and the back one would have gone where the Speakon socket is, I went with four. 

Attached base feet - it's underneath, right?

The feet look quite good, IMHO! 

I also resanded the woofer tubes and put a ring of tape 1" from the top, in readiness for mounting the speaker units on the top. I suspect this final stage is going to be the trickiest, since it involves

• Mounting the FR tubes on the mounting plates - I have to adjust the height/levelling screws too; MagicLX521 suggests using a 5mm drill bit to get the height right, good idea
• Finishing running the wiring from the FR and Woofer through the woofer tubes - involves running it through the FR tube mounting blocks and the couplings/woofer mounts, and then down through the holes in the bases; hopefully I've left enough wire spare for this! MagicLX521 glue the tube to the base first, then run the wires through the base; this is probably a good idea, since will allow me to push on the top of the tube to get it into the hole! I'd better check I can reach down the tube far enough to push the wires in the holes in the base...
• Putting the filling in the woofer tubes - the MagicLX521 kit suggests just pushing it in from the top, rather than from the bottom like Linkwitz. Since that uses a similar mount for the tubes (a hole in the base, rather than the original cup), I shall likely do the same. 
• Attaching the woofer tubes to the bases - a one-time job since it will use the acrylic glue, so better get this right...
• Attaching the couplers/mounting plates to the woofer tubes - that doesn't sound too hard, does it :-p
• Cutting the wires to length, attaching the crimp-on connectors, attaching to the Speakon connectors and screwing the connectors into the bases
• Filling the FR tubes with damping; I won't have any MDM-4 left, since it all appears to go into the woofer tubes! I'm going to use BAF that I already have, let's hope it has the right effect, otherwise acquiring another pack of MDM-4 is going to be very expensive (relatively). the MagicLX521 kit also uses two packs of MDM-3 (originally), the same size as the MDM-4, and just says "use both both sheets; stuff the FR tube with lots of wadding" without pointing out exactly where the FR tube wadding is coming from. Ha! I guess I could email them for a pointer.