[Ron Ramirez]

...Why don't I reinstall everything in the basement? Those cabinets are heavy with the speakers installed!

Yes, they are...

...but nevertheless, I changed my mind.

It was just so much easier to solder everything together at the workbench.

So...I installed the midrange and a woofer/tweeter combo in one cabinet last night along with one crossover. I tested it to make sure it sounded OK, then finished it off by installing the back and soldering the new wires to the screw terminal board.

Tonight, I repeated the process with the other midrange, woofer/tweeter combo and crossover in the other cabinet.

They are ready for me to haul upstairs.

Looking back, I can't help but think about some of the things I could have done differently. I wonder if I should have used 3M Super 77 on the plastic "cloth", the open weave notwithstanding. Of course since this isn't really cloth but plastic fibers, I don't know how well Super 77 would have held it.

And the bottom trim...I'm not happy with the obvious spots where the nail heads are.

But I have done the best that I could do.

I'll post an "after" shot or two once they are upstairs. They are working, and they sound very good.

One more thing. I noticed that the midrange speakers have date codes although I did not see any on the woofers. If I'm reading them correctly, one is dated August 1958 (588 ); the other, May 1960 (605). So now I have an idea of how old these speakers are.