Grimness. I am actually Bozo the clown... I checked the alignment of the FR chassis units in the FR tubes, having managed to stick the hardboard pads on with a hot glue gun. For some reason, I couldn't make the speaker be the right height in the tube - the pads were too high! Then I looked again at the plans - I'd drilled the stupid holes at 0.5" from the top, not 0.25"! Fool. And there isn't really space for a new 5mm hole beside the old 5mm hole without breaking through the side...
Fortunately, I'd gone for a 3 bolt solution, with two bolts at the bottom and one centrally at the top. So I was able to reverse that, so now it's one at the bottom and 2 at the top. And I remembered this time to use a 4mm drill, and use the 5mm taps I have to tap a proper 5mm thread into those holes! So it was kind of a result. Some pictures...
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| Set screws looking cool in the new tapped hole |
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| Originally specified bolt in tapped hole - original hole also visible! |
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| Set screw screwed in vs. cap screw |
I ended up taking the pads off the speaker units of course, because they are now in the wrong place. Fortunately the glue didn't appear to have adhered too well, and they came off far too easily!
I've also been spraying the various parts over the holiday on the occasion that it's not too cold or wet outside, and there are no micro-people around who will DIE if they inhale overspray. They required an additional can of paint - the bases are really sucking the paint up, but typically MDF is never going to accept a finish on the cut edges without some kind of primer. Ha! I don't care. It's industrial chic, right?
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