Small jigs for cutting dome tweeter flange

[gilscales]

I made a couple of sloppy looking jigs to cut the flanges off of a crapload of dome tweeters for my upcoming TLAH/SLA/SURROUNDS build.

I started with some small scraps of MDF I had laying around and just made a sled that held them secure but while cutting the first one it seemed my fingers were WAY to close to the blade!

Then I thought what can I use to hold this thing down besides my finger? and it hit me, I just cut another small scrap and put a 8/32 hurricane nut in it and fastened that on the top then ran a 2" screw through it till it made contact with the magnet on the back of the tweeter and gave it another full turn, it held like it was in a vise!

Still not satisfied with the proximity of finger to the blade I cut a couple of push sticks out of 12mm BB and glued/nailed them on the back.

Once the exact mesurements were figured out I wrote them on the jigs and now all I have to do is set the fence and cut them.

Took about 40 min. and well worth the effort to cut 56 tweeters.

[Tom Smit]

[bean438]

Why are you cutting the tweeters for the SLA/TLAH? The plans dont call for it.

Just curious

[gilscales]

Why are you cutting the tweeters for the SLA/TLAH? The plans dont call for it.

Just curious

The plans do state that the closer the center to center spacing for the tweeter array the better so I chose to cut them down from 2.125 inch of the stock flange to 1.5 inches, this also keeps the length of my tweeter array at about 60% of the mid bass line while using a 16 tweeter array