audition
10-11-2006, 02:01 AM
While reading another thread- this part of a post hit home.
"Those ports look big enough to stuff your arm or leg into. I hope you didn't lose a cat in there!
Bart"
We have indoor cats that dont see strangers too often, a couple of them try to run and HIDE when the UPS man comes or someone they dont know.
Due to room size limitations I had to lay my thirteen foot folded horns on their sides - Just for protection I put a pair of those stamped steel speaker protectors over the drivers being they were close to "feet-N-claws".
I never had a problem with the cats ever trying to go into the (JBL 4520) horns, that is untill they were on their sides (I use the 4520's for the LFE while in 5.1 mode). One day a cat got scared by a visitor and into one of the horns they disappeared!!! (let me tell you you can get in there yourself but can only get your arm around the first bend!) next thing I think of pounding on the cabinet to scare the cat out... BAD IDEA ... I soon hear claws on the back of the lower cone trying to climb up ,then sounds from the upper cone.... I was the fastest gun in the west with that philips screwdriver to pull a driver and end this nightmare!.
Got the cat out and the next day went to H.D. and got me some of that tough pet-proof screening to stapel into the last fold of the horn, I have no idea what JBL used for the bent plywood in the last curve of the eponential horn.... but I found out it is HARD and resists a strong staple gun very well. I thought I had things covered - till next time got a stranger and when the cat went flat-faced up against the new screen....it climbed the screen and a scared 21 pound cat CAN pull staples!!! really fast!! The next thing I know is I am hearing the "cat climbing cones" noise :banghead: Out with the philips and out with the cat:biting: . Needless to say I restapled the screening but knew I had to go to a more drastic solution (especially when I was about to get those two drivers reconed now!) so here is the final solution.
I took two pieces of dense 1/2" partical board 4' X 3' -- made my layout, got out the router and went to work.
-- the driver cutouts may look uncentered but that's just the angle I took the pics at....
"Those ports look big enough to stuff your arm or leg into. I hope you didn't lose a cat in there!
Bart"
We have indoor cats that dont see strangers too often, a couple of them try to run and HIDE when the UPS man comes or someone they dont know.
Due to room size limitations I had to lay my thirteen foot folded horns on their sides - Just for protection I put a pair of those stamped steel speaker protectors over the drivers being they were close to "feet-N-claws".
I never had a problem with the cats ever trying to go into the (JBL 4520) horns, that is untill they were on their sides (I use the 4520's for the LFE while in 5.1 mode). One day a cat got scared by a visitor and into one of the horns they disappeared!!! (let me tell you you can get in there yourself but can only get your arm around the first bend!) next thing I think of pounding on the cabinet to scare the cat out... BAD IDEA ... I soon hear claws on the back of the lower cone trying to climb up ,then sounds from the upper cone.... I was the fastest gun in the west with that philips screwdriver to pull a driver and end this nightmare!.
Got the cat out and the next day went to H.D. and got me some of that tough pet-proof screening to stapel into the last fold of the horn, I have no idea what JBL used for the bent plywood in the last curve of the eponential horn.... but I found out it is HARD and resists a strong staple gun very well. I thought I had things covered - till next time got a stranger and when the cat went flat-faced up against the new screen....it climbed the screen and a scared 21 pound cat CAN pull staples!!! really fast!! The next thing I know is I am hearing the "cat climbing cones" noise :banghead: Out with the philips and out with the cat:biting: . Needless to say I restapled the screening but knew I had to go to a more drastic solution (especially when I was about to get those two drivers reconed now!) so here is the final solution.
I took two pieces of dense 1/2" partical board 4' X 3' -- made my layout, got out the router and went to work.
-- the driver cutouts may look uncentered but that's just the angle I took the pics at....