Feel good about my speaker situation.

[Sir Auros]

I was going to take out the original speakers and put in a pair of computer speakers in the NFL Blitz cabinet I'm converting, but once I saw how light slipped through the grill, I decided, why waste the originals?

I found a cheap pair of Kinyo speakers ($5.99) at Big Lots, and mostly disassembled them tonight, and spliced the speaker wires to the original wires. I put the originals back in the cabinet, turned the speakers on, and listened to a few songs on my ipod. The sound quality was fine, and it looks like this will work.

I did run into two problems. One is that I can't get the power cable out of the back of the right speaker case unless I break or cut it. Not keen on getting shards of plastic to the groin, so anyone know a good way to cut through plastic? I'm considering heating it up with a hair dryer and taking some sort of blade to it.

The other problem is that I can't remove the pcb board from the piece of plastic that has the volume knob attached without removing the volume knob. I could get some pliers and yank or something, but I would prefer to save the knob for reattachment when I want to move the volume control to the control panel.

EDIT - Now have a pic. It's messy, but I'll clean it up when I'm ready to use it.

[richms]

Assuming you have a terminal block or something in the arcade cab, then just chop off the plug, pull the wire thru and crimp on a couple of QC's or whatver your terminal block needs, saves the space of a socket, otherwise put a new plug on the end of the wire.

Or smash the speaker case or use a nibbler so that its relativly safe.

[MPTech]

If you don't have a Dremel Tool, it would be a great tool for cutting the case you describe.  Buy a cutting disk (they are replaceable.  These will cut through anything (I cut a heavy-duty Master Padlock last weekend) so plastic is like butter.

[Sir Auros]

Tinsnips actually tore through the back of the speaker, and I think I'm just going to mount that hole faceplate into the lip under my CP. The hole could be cut and the screw mounts are already there, so...