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I need two 4" speakers and lugs to resurrect some old patio speakers … I can’t find a store locally that has them. The cool wooden speaker cabinets are from a 1950 school room PA system … art deco 6" square framed boxes with a tweed cloth. The kind I grew up with where the American Flag was hung by, and we said the Pledge of Allegiance every morning before announcements. Radio Shack will sell you a complete phone kit for the entire family plus lost insurance so when your 1st grader loses their custom one at the playground you can get a replacement. They don’t stock pieces of stuff anymore. Your lucky if find AC/DC adapter but you can order it for home delivery. *HI FI* Component stereos ? Gone. X generation is growing up to a world of MP3 noise with cheap ear phones. Home Electronics ? Gone. Technology break through are pawned out to 3rd world shithole to mass manufacture .. including service skills with it. A friend of mine mentioned once if he gets laid off again from a computer company .. He is going going to get a license for AC home repair. You can’t outsource that. Some day .. when they find a buried soldering iron it will end up in a museum of some lost culture who built crude devices from electronics. —-== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com – Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==—- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups —-= East and West-Coast Server Farms – Total Privacy via Encryption =—-
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well duh what do you think god invented google and the UPS man for?
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > I need two 4" speakers and lugs to resurrect some old > patio speakers … I can’t find a store > locally that has them. The cool wooden speaker cabinets are > from a 1950 school room PA system … art deco 6" square framed > boxes with a tweed cloth. The kind I grew up with where > the American Flag was hung by, and we said the Pledge of > Allegiance every morning before announcements. > Radio Shack will sell you a complete phone kit for the entire family > plus lost insurance so when your 1st grader loses their custom one > at the playground you can get a replacement. They don’t stock pieces > of stuff anymore. Your lucky if find AC/DC adapter but you can > order it for home delivery. > *HI FI* Component stereos ? Gone. X generation is growing up to a > world of MP3 noise with cheap ear phones. > Home Electronics ? Gone. Technology break through are pawned out > to 3rd world shithole to mass manufacture .. including > service skills with it. > A friend of mine mentioned once if he gets laid off again from > a computer company .. He is going going to get a license for > AC home repair. You can’t outsource that. > Some day .. when they find a buried soldering iron it will > end up in a museum of some lost culture who built crude > devices from electronics. > —-== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com – Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet > News==—- > http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ > Newsgroups > —-= East and West-Coast Server Farms – Total Privacy via Encryption =—-
Hi, Not yet, as long as I am alive, LOL! Tony
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http://www.loudspeakersplus.com/?gclid=COeb0uHfn4cCFSFvNAodlhqV4g maybe? product search for 4" speakers returned 200 results.
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crutchfield.com – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > I need two 4" speakers and lugs to resurrect some old > patio speakers … I can’t find a store > locally that has them. The cool wooden speaker cabinets are > from a 1950 school room PA system … art deco 6" square framed > boxes with a tweed cloth. The kind I grew up with where > the American Flag was hung by, and we said the Pledge of > Allegiance every morning before announcements. > Radio Shack will sell you a complete phone kit for the entire family > plus lost insurance so when your 1st grader loses their custom one > at the playground you can get a replacement. They don’t stock pieces > of stuff anymore. Your lucky if find AC/DC adapter but you can > order it for home delivery. > *HI FI* Component stereos ? Gone. X generation is growing up to a > world of MP3 noise with cheap ear phones. > Home Electronics ? Gone. Technology break through are pawned out > to 3rd world shithole to mass manufacture .. including > service skills with it. > A friend of mine mentioned once if he gets laid off again from > a computer company .. He is going going to get a license for > AC home repair. You can’t outsource that. > Some day .. when they find a buried soldering iron it will > end up in a museum of some lost culture who built crude > devices from electronics. > —-== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com – Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet > News==—- > http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ > Newsgroups > —-= East and West-Coast Server Farms – Total Privacy via Encryption =—-
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> the American Flag was hung by, and we said the Pledge of > Allegiance every morning before announcements.
I remember those days too. Hard to believe we ever made it through such times, what with the blatant patriotism and gasp…occasional prayer. Back then you respected the teachers or you found yourself in the hallway getting acquainted with a hard piece of lumber. Funny I don’t recall any shootings or stabbings in my schools. Yeah, things were a tad different back then… ef
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>well duh >what do you think god invented google and the UPS man for?
I remember when that speaker announced the death of president JFK. Sad day in the 5th grade…
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> I remember those days too. Hard to believe we ever made it through such > times, what with the blatant patriotism and gasp…occasional prayer. Back > then you respected the teachers or you found yourself in the hallway getting > acquainted with a hard piece of lumber. Funny I don’t recall any shootings > or stabbings in my schools. Yeah, things were a tad different back then…
Ah, for the days when there were no shootings or stabbings in school. Just adults beating on children with a 2X4. If only more adults would beat children there would be less violence.
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> Ah, for the days when there were no shootings or stabbings in school. > Just adults beating on children with a 2X4. If only more adults would > beat children there would be less violence.
Exactly. There WAS less violence. ef
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> > Ah, for the days when there were no shootings or stabbings in school. > Just adults beating on children with a 2X4. If only more adults would > beat children there would be less violence. > Exactly. There WAS less violence. > ef
now don’t get all political on me, but are you sure there was less violence???? I’ve spent a lot of time reading local newspapers from the 20s and there is nothing happening today that didn’t happen then unless it’s done with new technology and more lawyers while larger cameras are watching.
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> what do you think god invented google and the UPS man for?
Yeah Yeah. I’d rather shop in at a local store and save the UPS expense. —-== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com – Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==—- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups —-= East and West-Coast Server Farms – Total Privacy via Encryption =—-
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> > Ah, for the days when there were no shootings or stabbings in school. > > Just adults beating on children with a 2X4. If only more adults would > > beat children there would be less violence. > Exactly. There WAS less violence. > ef > now don’t get all political on me, but are you sure there was less > violence???? > I’ve spent a lot of time reading local newspapers from the 20s and > there is nothing happening today that didn’t happen then unless it’s > done with new technology and more lawyers while larger cameras are > watching.
Good point. I read newspapers and court records from the early 1800s. Those guys pounded the hell out of each other whenever they got together. Every time the judge came to town for court, most of the men in the community would be up on charges of assault and battery. There was far more interpersonal violence than there is today. But perhaps when ef was a boy, things were different. Most of my research is in the south, which has always been the most violent region of the country.
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> > what do you think god invented google and the UPS man for? > Yeah Yeah. I’d rather shop in at a local store and save the UPS expense. > —-== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com – Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==—- > http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups > —-= East and West-Coast Server Farms – Total Privacy via Encryption =—-
You don’t actually save on shipping because the the store has to pay shippng too which you pay in the price and internet stores generally have a 6% price advantage on account that most of them don’t collect sales tax unless they have interstate locations or they are in your state. And you don’t drive or stand in line. (just saying). I’d rather shop locally too, but this is the reality. Won’t change until they have a national sales tax or force internet stores to collect all state sales taxes. The only thing the store has over the internet is service and touchey feeley. But if they don’t have that (shrug) whatcha gonna do?
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> > > Ah, for the days when there were no shootings or stabbings in school. > > > Just adults beating on children with a 2X4. If only more adults would > > > beat children there would be less violence. > > Exactly. There WAS less violence. > > ef > now don’t get all political on me, but are you sure there was less > violence???? > I’ve spent a lot of time reading local newspapers from the 20s and > there is nothing happening today that didn’t happen then unless it’s > done with new technology and more lawyers while larger cameras are > watching. > Good point. I read newspapers and court records from the early 1800s. > Those guys pounded the hell out of each other whenever they got > together. Every time the judge came to town for court, most of the men > in the community would be up on charges of assault and battery. There > was far more interpersonal violence than there is today. But perhaps > when ef was a boy, things were different. Most of my research is in the > south, which has always been the most violent region of the country.
Is that true? more violent than the west? Than Texas? I find that hard to believe. I guess it depends on how you measure and whom you measure. Outside of slavery, I thought southerners were right "gentlemanly."
There’s a cemetary near here called Baby Head Cemetary (I’ll let your imagination roam), and in a local history there’s a description of a Mason happening upon a fellow down by the creek skinning a Comanche whom he shot dead with the intent of making horse gear out of his skin. There’s descriptions of kids shooting violent fathers to protect their mothers, and kids robbing banks at gun point. Anyway it was a whole lot easier to get away with murder in the good old days, you just had to be a good shot and ride fast and hard or have the mob on your side.
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> Most of my research is in the > south, which has always been the most violent region of the country. > Is that true? more violent than the west?
Would I lie to you? > Than Texas?
I would include Texas in the south, but YMMV. Certainly east TX is as Deep South as it gets. Remember the James Byrd lynching in Jasper, TX back in the 90s? A half hour south of that is Vidor, TX, which until the early 80s was notorious for a billboard on the freeway that warned [n-word redacted] to be out of town by sunset. > I find that hard > to believe.
Don’t believe anything you read on usenet. Check it out for yourself. > I guess it depends on how you measure and whom you measure.
For recent decades, the Justice Department stats are easily accessible and crunchable. For earlier periods, it takes more intensive archival research. > Outside of slavery, I thought southerners were right "gentlemanly."
The more violent a culture, the more it becomes obsessed with propriety and honor, which then feeds back and causes even more violence. It’s a vicious cycle. The other piece of it is that they were drunk most of the time back then, due to lack of potable water, especially in social situations. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> There’s a cemetary near here called Baby Head Cemetary (I’ll let your > imagination roam), and in a local history there’s a description of a > Mason happening upon a fellow down by the creek skinning a Comanche > whom he shot dead with the intent of making horse gear out of his skin. > There’s descriptions of kids shooting violent fathers to protect their > mothers, and kids robbing banks at gun point. Anyway it was a whole lot > easier to get away with murder in the good old days, you just had to be > a good shot and ride fast and hard or have the mob on your side.
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"I need two 4" speakers and lugs to resurrect some old patio speakers .. I can’t find a store locally that has them. " I had seen these from JBL, weren’t exactly what I thought. But you could cut them out of the can and hotrod your boxes for maximum spl and clarity. Have to drill a small hole for the tweet though. Or fix it to the cloth in front of the *woof*. Who says DIY is dead
I think they have some bullet tweeters on the sale for $224, you could make those boxes into animal control devices! JBL says they aren’t going to make any more bullets, baby-cheeks, or slot, tweeters. Last call except existing stock and ebay etc! B-stock is returned from customer usually, full warranty Actually something like a Fostex fullranger, would be your best bet from a 6" box! You asked and I was bored! The irony is RadioShack used to sell Fostex stuff under their own lable. $32. a side, and quite possibly a dealer in your greater metroplex area. Or start cracking stuff open at goodwill
http://www.fostexinternational.com/docs/speaker_comp/pdf/fe103erev2.pdf http://www.madisound.com/fostex.html http://www.fostexinternational.com/docs/speaker_comp/line_up_1.shtml 3