Inexpensive start to a 606 style cab?

**Altec Best** · April 8th, 2011, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by GM

so may just have to get a pair for a 511/421 'poor man's' 606 assuming the 421s are still OK after being 'attic/closet queens' for going on 41 yrs now.
GM

GM if they been face down without any kind of rotation for 41 years.I guarantee they will need to be reconed.That's what happened to my woofers 416B's that I just bought recently for my project.Bill was having the darndest time getting them right.He determined that they must have been stored face down for a long time cause the coils weren't even close to being in the gap.Spiders were shot,he tried to bring them back "No Sale" with weight on the cone for about a week.So they had to be reconed.But they are identical WRT specs now.He sent a measurement analysis of the woofs when he sent them back.

**Old Guy** · April 8th, 2011, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by Cal Weldon

Same thing up here $60

http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/30049364

OG, westend9 was talking only about the backs being 1/4"

The frame part is 3/4" but I bet he's right about the backs being thin. They always are.

My bad.

Again only a few bucks to reinforce though.

Weather is getting better may actually buy a pair to investigate.

**Cal Weldon** · April 8th, 2011, 10:20 PM

I'm tempted...

..no, no I'm not. My wife has reminded me that the speaker room is full and is now spilling out into another room so I guess these can wait. I do have another pair of 604-8H's that need a good home though...

GM · April 9th, 2011, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by Altec Best

GM if they been face down without any kind of rotation for 41 years.I guarantee they will need to be reconed.

No argument and why I've periodically set them outside face up on concrete on a bright, hot, Summer day till they bottomed out, then drove them a bit with a ~Fs sine wave for awhile before storing them face up for awhile until the old Heathkit died some years ago. Anyway, got it fixed last week enough to work, though I doubt it's all that accurate now, but good enough to work the 421s once it gets hot enough outside and hopefully the ~seven years I've only rotated them in the closet was enough to keep them from needing a re-cone. If not, I'll sell them as is and they will be just one more thing I held onto for too long in a 'penny wise, pound foolish' way.

GM

**AltecLansingFan** · April 10th, 2011, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by Cal Weldon

I'm tempted...

..no, no I'm not. My wife has reminded me that the speaker room is full and is now spilling out into another room so I guess these can wait. I do have another pair of 604-8H's that need a good home though...

There is no need at all to build these in the speaker room, maybe the kitchen is a much better place!

**Cal Weldon** · April 10th, 2011, 11:40 AM

And if I put a cupboard door on them she might think...

Hmm...

A.L.F. you're a bad man to put those ideas into my head

**Old Guy** · April 11th, 2011, 07:51 PM

I emailed for the assembly instructions...shows the back to be "pegboard"

Still I think can be rescued.

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Includes one of these only thing I can think of is if you want a female cabinet?

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Anybody wants the PDF I can email it. I just made a couple jpegs from it.

GM · April 11th, 2011, 08:28 PM

Agreed, bracing is mostly just time and if the other panels are 3/4", then still well worth the price just to save having to layout, cut the angled panels and finish them. No clue what the b00bs are for.

GM