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Can't say that I'm all that surprised, but it is still awful news that the money never actually went to those charities.

I wanna go there.

Bitch betta be comin to CJ.

wat.

Whoa, now that is pretty bizarre. I hadn't thought at all about the fact that you have an F5 too, I was just jumping on it because of how cheap the parts were. And here's where it gets even weirder, after reviewing numerous options for inputs and volume control on my Beta22, I've decided to go with just a single pair of XLR inputs (leave source switching to the DAC), and a Joshua Tree for the attenuator.

Well shit.

This: FS: Pass DIY F5 parts kit - diyAudio

Not to get in the way of some fine thread derailment, but I'd just like to mention this here. I hadn't asked for anything in return for working on Miguel's K1000s, but since he's such a great guy he has just indirectly bought me a bottle of Laphroaig QC (indirectly, because he was originally going to be sneaky and have a bottle shipped to me without telling me, but Georgia's liquor laws suck donkey balls). Yay! Thanks Miguel!

Meh, knives are probably a more reasonable expenditure, but I don't really cook much. I don't even want to think about how much my anime DVD collection actually cost though, at some 500 or so discs. It's fun to drop EoE on unsuspecting people... their brain just doesn't work right for a few days.

Yea I like that one animu with the giant robots too, it was neat.

I dunno, she could probably give Alucard a run for his money, she's got some pretty tough spellcards.

Oh don't worry about that, she was locked in a basement and always fed prepared meals, so she doesn't understand the concept of normal vampire feeding. She'd just obliterate you where you stand.

Huzzah! I'm so happy.

That was quick.

That picture keeps cracking me up.

happy birfday pops!

Yeah, remember this is the same guy who gave a presentation about Grado pads for that Atlanta meet Tyll put together last year.

Heh, me neither. That's the one spot where I really don't like listening to them, yet I can't count how many times I've seen people whose preferences range from all the way in to all the way in + 1 degree.

Well I just reinstalled the diaphragm and glued it in place, and soldered the voice coil wires back down to the posts, and so far everything looks good. I'm going to let the glue dry overnight before I run some test tones through it to make sure it's properly centered in the gap, but I feel no rubbing when moving it by hand, and I get normal readings for DC resistance on the voice coil, so I'm going to go ahead and say the operation was successful. On the subject of earspeaker position, that sounds about where I've settled on positioning mine. I initially preferred them all the way out, until I got used to the way the K1000 images.

Here's a quick pic I snapped after soldering on the new extension: Didn't come out perfect, but the original wire wraps around the new one slightly so it'll be fine from a functional standpoint. I put a tiny dab of glue on the solder joint to secure it to itself and the string so it won't get flexed when the driver is moving, which I'll wait to fully dry before finishing the repair.

Oh boy, if I'm gonna take an after pic I'll have to do it much neater than usual, since what looks fine to the naked eye might look awful with a super close-up pic. The process itself isn't that bad if one is comfortable working with such small wire in the first place, it's pretty much a very scaled down version of soldering two normal wires together. I'll need to tin about 1mm of the end of the wire that goes to the voice coil, and also do the same on a new piece of magnet wire to go the rest of the way (there's not enough slack to reuse the existing wire). The tricky part is getting both wires positioned so they overlap slightly and then soldering them together; generally this is a process of trial and error, and they often end up slightly crossed rather than perfectly parallel. After they're soldered and I've reinstalled the diaphragm into the main housing, I'll wrap the new wire the rest of the way around the string, and solder it and the undamaged wire back down to the posts at the PCB.

Heh, I appreciate the kind words Miguel, but I enjoy working on things for other people far, far more than for myself or some random guy hiring me to do it. The piece of metal in the picture you've highlighted is the second bit of metal debris I mentioned to you before. I took the picture before taking it out so people could see where it actually was. I also went and twisted the front wires a little more and was able to get the break to stick out from the rest of the bundle. Take a look at this pic, keeping in mind these wires are about the thickness of a hair: I do wish I had a spool of magnet wire as ultra friggin small as is used on headphones though, I only have really friggin small magnet wire.

Actually I was already working out plans on how to go about repairing it if it were on the voice coil itself.