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[MankDeems]

I got a set of open box pioneer TSG650 6.75" speakers for $35 from best buy. Determined to make them fit I removed my speaker and grabbed my razor blade, Dykes, soldering iron, and 8 screws

Step 1 cut the speaker

Step 2 snip the wires

Step 3 chop all the plastic towers

Step 4, line up the speaker and notch a few slots with a Dremel (definitely don't use a soldering iron it's stinky and bad for you and the iron )

Step 5 screw it into the plastic, do not use screws that are too deep or you may scratch your tint or damage other things in the door

Step 6, solder your new speaker wires to the factory connector for that slick install and factory fit and finish

Final result retains factory door connector and any mess is hidden behind the door panel. These are a mild upgrade over the stock paper garbage they left in my doors when I bought it.

Zero change to outside aesthetic

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk on how to recycle paper speakers into something useful for the world

Youtube part one
Part 2

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[Bob The Builder]

Interesting, and the OP calls that tool Dykes. Gotta be an old timer or someone in the trade.

 

[JP4AZ]

I got a set of open box pioneer TSG650 6.75" speakers for $35 from best buy. Determined to make them fit I removed my speaker and grabbed my razor blade, Dykes, soldering iron, and 8 screws

Step 1 cut the speaker

Step 2 snip the wires

Step 3 chop all the plastic towers

Step 4, line up the speaker and notch a few slots with a Dremel (definitely don't use a soldering iron it's stinky and bad for you and the iron )

Step 5 screw it into the plastic, do not use screws that are too deep or you may scratch your tint or damage other things in the door

Step 6, solder your new speaker wires to the factory connector for that slick install and factory fit and finish

Final result retains factory door connector and any mess is hidden behind the door panel. These are a mild upgrade over the stock paper garbage they left in my doors when I bought it.

Zero change to outside aesthetic

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk on how to recycle paper speakers into something useful for the world

Youtube part one
Part 2

pretty innovative! I would have never thought to do it that way.

 

[MankDeems]

Interesting, and the OP calls that tool Dykes. Gotta be an old timer or someone in the trade.

I worked at a junkyard for 6 months but i'm just a 23 year old fork lift op from way up north, love AVE

 

[catshreds]

I worked at a junkyard for 6 months but i'm just a 23 year old fork lift op from way up north, love AVE

diagonal pliers = dykes.

 

[Ozarkbeard]

Interesting, and the OP calls that tool Dykes. Gotta be an old timer or someone in the trade.

That's what we called them at SW Bell (now AT&T).

 

[MankDeems]

That's what we called them at SW Bell (now AT&T).

knipex is pronounced according to the employees

 

[Maverickman74]

I worked at a junkyard for 6 months but i'm just a 23 year old fork lift op from way up north, love AVE

I'm 39 and have never heard another name than dykes, maybe snippers, but thats just a blanket term.

 

[Bob The Builder]

I'm 39 and have never heard another name than dykes, maybe snippers, but thats just a blanket term.

I have also heard the names Diagonals and Flush Cutters. Dykes is all I have ever called them.

 

[Jk87669]

I have also heard the names Diagonals and Flush Cutters. Dykes is all I have ever called them.

25 and that's all I've ever heard them called, but I'm in a trade lol in the trades a lot of the old terms linger around because you get trained by the old timers lol

 

[Radman73]

Navy vet here, never heard or used term other than dykes.

OP, great job on the speakers and thanks for the write up.

 

[TyPope]

Navy vet here, never heard or used term other than dykes.

OP, great job on the speakers and thanks for the write up.

I concur... 53 yo Air Force Aircraft maintainer (ret) here... Dykes... or "Diagonal Cutting Pliers", I suppose.

 

[BoxxerDad@50]

Interesting, and the OP calls that tool Dykes. Gotta be an old timer or someone in the trade.

LOL DYKES ....

 

[Bob The Builder]

LOL DYKES ....

LOL, yeah I was a little hesitant to mention it, not wanting to get clomped with the ban hammer, at least until my Maverick comes in.

 

[Tim d]

I think the " paper garbage" sound just fine

I got a set of open box pioneer TSG650 6.75" speakers for $35 from best buy. Determined to make them fit I removed my speaker and grabbed my razor blade, Dykes, soldering iron, and 8 screws

Step 1 cut the speaker

Step 2 snip the wires

Step 3 chop all the plastic towers

Step 4, line up the speaker and notch a few slots with a Dremel (definitely don't use a soldering iron it's stinky and bad for you and the iron )

Step 5 screw it into the plastic, do not use screws that are too deep or you may scratch your tint or damage other things in the door

Step 6, solder your new speaker wires to the factory connector for that slick install and factory fit and finish

Final result retains factory door connector and any mess is hidden behind the door panel. These are a mild upgrade over the stock paper garbage they left in my doors when I bought it.

Zero change to outside aesthetic

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk on how to recycle paper speakers into something useful for the world

Youtube part one
Part 2i think the "paper Garbage" sound just fine.to each his own

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