Ziggy,

I just received the Alternate Tuned kit from you and want to know what I should use to glue the passives on?

Thanks for shipping them to me!

Take care,

Corey

I know this is a question for Ziggy (not me ) but I couln´t find weldbond so I used sikabond 540 which is a kind of elmers but it is water and humidity proof. I Apply it with a brush on both surround(of passive) and cabinet and used a rolled-up cardboard strip to fitt over the surround. if you do one at a time you place the cabinet on its side (with the port facing up) drop in the new passive (all glued up) place the rolled up strip of cardboard ,tapped so it wont unroll (roll up enough to cover the outside of the passive) and finally place some weight on top (a few big books should do it)

JUst thought Id drop in the thing about the cardboard as I´ve seen some people are going to the length of routing a special disk to do the same thing

I just put the glue on both sides and let it setup (as directed by the instructions on the glue bottle - maybe 10 minutes?), and then pressed them into place. For the first hour, every 10 minutes or so after, I would run my index finger over the flat ring-part of the passives (contact point) to make sure they adhered fully. Worked fine - nothing fancy.

Thanks Ziggy and guys.

corey,

did you get the gelled drivers as well?

Hmm, I wonder if you're the first?  I haven't seen anyone here yet yell about their gell

Yeah, it makes sense to me. I'm just being lazy and don't want to desolder my driver to send it in (and not have something to listen to for a while!).  Let us know what your turnaround time is for the driver.

yes bonded. and yeah, it's a little tricky to get it in there.

John,

 Your passives are on the way, put them in the UPS drivers hands myself.

 Don't forgt about the rest of the mods that goes along with the passives.

  Mod away
    Bob Z.

Hrappur,

  Yes it is, they cost $54.00 plus shipping.


              Bob Z.

[quote author=zinker  link=1129235225/15#15 date=1129929013]Brad,
I am assuming that you sold your other pair of modified 206s. I had been hoping that you were going to spring for having the spare set gelled and give us a report on the difference.
I  ordered the new passives after reading about your experience with upgrading to the Alt tuning and since you seem to be more adventurous than most with mods to the HDTs I intended to follow your lead. How's that for pressure?

OK Corey, all ears are awaiting your report!

Anyway, I am off to pick up the bottle of weldbond that I hunted down locally. Anyone still looking for it can order it online from Dick Blick (an art supply store).
Happy Modding!
John [/quote]

I still have the extra set of drivers. Yes, I'll likely hang on to them for use when (if I ever get around to it ) getting my drivers gelled.  Also, I have a pair of back-horn cabinets (design/pic given below) that are all cut out but not put together that I'll probably eventually put them in and sell (as I didn't realize it before cutting all the wood that these cabinets are too big for my room!).

http://gallery.audioasylum.com/cgi/view.mpl?UserImages=21168

John,

  Just the foam, there 6 pieces in each cabinet. I don't think the different type of foam would make that big of difference.

  BobZ.