stevew's astro build log

[Pyro_By_Nature 5,000+ posts]

Alright man, let me know.

 

[Nismofreak 10+ year member]

well some bad news //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif today my mom tripped over a parking block and broke her hip.so I will be building a wheel chair ramp so the build might not be ready for the 15th I'll try my best //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

thats **** man. Hopefully she gets better

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

well some bad news //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif today my mom tripped over a parking block and broke her hip.so I will be building a wheel chair ramp so the build might not be ready for the 15th I'll try my best //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

**** man, sorry to hear it. Hopefully shit turns out alright

 

[stevew007 10+ year member]

**** man, sorry to hear it. Hopefully shit turns out alright

well she went under today she has 4 screws in her hip and a busted arm //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

I'll work on the ramp after work the next couple days and be back to working on my van this weekend

 

[b4ss_h34d 10+ year member]

**** man sorry about your mom.. hope she gets better soon... good luck on th evan man.. its commin out badass

 

[stevew007 10+ year member]

**** man sorry about your mom.. hope she gets better soon... good luck on th evan man.. its commin out badass

well it still has a long way to go but thanx

 

[731outlaw]

looks good wish i had a van to build

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

well she went under today she has 4 screws in her hip and a busted arm //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif
I'll work on the ramp after work the next couple days and be back to working on my van this weekend

Damn man, sucks to have a busted arm when the bottom half is messed up two, not too convenient.

Hopefully the healing don't take too long, no idea how a busted hip goes. Good to hear you'll have time to get back after the van though.

 

[stevew007 10+ year member]

Damn man, sucks to have a busted arm when the bottom half is messed up two, not too convenient.
Hopefully the healing don't take too long, no idea how a busted hip goes. Good to hear you'll have time to get back after the van though.

well as for my mom she has 2 bad knees,arthritis,2 strokes,she cant see worth a crap,diabetic, the list goes on for her so I dont think she will ever fully heal

 

[Nismofreak 10+ year member]

well as for my mom she has 2 bad knees,arthritis,2 strokes,she cant see worth a crap,diabetic, the list goes on for her so I dont think she will ever fully heal

dam that sucks to hear, hopefully she does heal. she went threw alot

 

[stevew007 10+ year member]

ok here this is reconing 101 with steve (I am not a pro at this so if you have anything to add feel free)

ok I had the clean my baskets from the old woofers so start out by cutting the cone and coil out then you need to cover the the gap with tape.then i used a grinder with a cutoff wheel to clean off all the glue.BEWARE doing this will make some nasty smoke and it WILL BURN your eyes so I used a small fan right by me when i did this helped alot. ok now that you've got all the basket cleaned up blow it off with some compressed air.then take the tape off and blow it out with compressed air.take a good look in the gap to make sure there is nothing in the gap before you start.now if there is stuff in there i like to use a shim with double sided tape on it and just slide it around in the gap to pick up all the crap. oh and my shims are just the run of the mill file folder.you can use several different things to do this they just need to be on the thick side.because if you use paper it will take forever //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

so my parts came in on wed

i started out glueing my double spider pack together started the center then the outside

I use the nice paper clips you can get from almost anywhere the help out

so now i have my double spiders all glued together

well before i glued my spider's togther I made sure my spider's were lined up on the coil just high enough so half the coil was in the gap. then that brings me to gluing the spider's in the right place.i made a jig from a peice of pvc so the coil and spider would be lined up perfect sorry no pic of it

 

[stevew007 10+ year member]

here is a pic of the bottom

so now i have my coils done and ready for some solder

I wrapped the coil winding around my shortened tinsel lead and soldered then I pushed them againest the coil and glued them down

ok i forgot the pic of me shimming the coil so i will get a pic of the last sub tommorow.but when shimming the coil make sure you make it to where the coil will barely move and put them in evenly around the coil.you can also see the string i used around the coil to give everything more surface area

now i glue the string in with a good amount of glue

 

[stevew007 10+ year member]

now i use my paper clips to hold up the surround so i can run a good amount of glue around the woofer basket.once done i pull the paper clips and use them the hold the surround done so it will be nice and tight.

so now that everything but the dust cap is glued in place It's time for the dust cap.BUT FIRST DO NOT FORGET TO TAKE OUT THE SHIMS. you can als give the cone a shove or two and make sure there are no problems. so I used a tape mesure to center up my dust cap and glued it by hand for best looking glue

DO NOT USE ACCLERATOR ON THE DUST CAP just let it dry with some weight on it.

ok so now you are almost done dont forget to zip tie your leads to the basket.

I'm sure there is a couple things i forgot i will update my post as i remeber.

ok update on the last woofer i shimmed my coil then droped on the cone i glued in my string on top then i pull out the whole thing and glued a string around the bottom of the coil where the cone meets.i made sure that i put it back in the motor the same way I pulled it out.then re shimmed the coil, then glued the spider down, then glued the cone down.worked perfect. because I did not do this to the other 3

(bottom string) i sat on the floor and glued the string in while it was in the basket took longer but will add the strength since i did not have a triple joint.

thanx for looking

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

Nice man, can't wait to check this out. Guessin its going to be pretty damn fun

 

[Nismofreak 10+ year member]

nice steve. can't wait to hear the car at the show!!!