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Beley:

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--- Quote from: Nephasth on May 03, 2011, 03:07:40 pm ---(gotta love almost free!).
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Kinda like my speaker!  :applaud:

I have to admit though, I don't know what I'm supposed to be seeing in that pic, unless it's just a neatly drilled hole. ;)

Edit: Oh balls, I see it now. It even has a circle around it. It's like one of those paintings with the dots. LOL

I thought that was an xacto knife hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Google's being super helpful, as usual:........

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I think Nephasth was trying to show something like this


I cant remember what the real name for it is...
Nephasth:
I was showing (poorly) my pin vise drill. Never seen one of those, that's awesome. You have to manually turn the pin vise to drill, that looks like it has a mechanism to where you would only have to press down to spin the bit. I'm going to have to get one of those.
Billkwando:
First off Nephasth, thanks again for the speaker. You gotz feedback. :)

Now, as I like to laugh at myself, gather 'round and hear my tale...

I didn't end up buying any new tools. Instead I decided to improvise.



What you're seeing there is a screw, tied to my finger with a piece of dental floss. This was to prevent any possibility of dropping it below, or hitting the monitor.

So I decided to try a "self tapping screw", which is the one on the string, using only the grille as a guide for my hole(s). Hmmm. It's like a screw with a drill bit on the end.

Sure, it made a hole easily enough, but the threads are so far up, I'd have been twisting for like 5 minutes trying to get it to thread. So I ended up making a pilot hole with the tappy screw, and then screwing the rest of the way with a regular screw. I then pulled the screw out and put a tappy screw back in (the one without the string), so I could repeat the process for the other hole. Ugh.

I think I'm just gonna try it with one screw for now, and if there's no weird vibrations, just stick with it.

Edit: It's working great! Now when somebody falls on the left side of the screen, you hear it from the left speaker, and vice versa. ;)
Nephasth:
Good to hear you got it mounted without any problems and also that the speaker made it to you safely.
Billkwando:

--- Quote from: Nephasth on May 06, 2011, 08:13:02 am ---Good to hear you got it mounted without any problems and also that the speaker made it to you safely.

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Yup! You da man!  :afro:
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