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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: mrserv0n on August 03, 2007, 10:22:55 pm
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Well my die hard cabinet is abnormally sized and does not fit through either outer door in my home. going to have to attempt to dissemble it :angry:
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Bummer. Why not build an addition on to your house that surrounds the cab?
Paul
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You don't have any oversized windows?
Hmm, why not cut a hole in the wall of the house and make the cab "built in"? ;D
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We just been playing on the back porch lol. I do have a window but brother wont let me take it apart, might do it when hes not home.
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Does any part of the plastic shell come off?
I almost bought one of those cabs at a recent auction. I wondered at the time how tough it would be to move around. If I would have had a way to get it home, I would have had a $10 Die Hard cab and probably have had the same trouble you are having.
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How much to narrow is the doorway? Could you take out the door frame and get it in? If you pull the trim around the door and run a saws-all around the frame. It should release the frame in one piece and then you could just nail it back in. Had to do it once for a cabinet.
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How sad :(
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T8erbug, Yea it would JUST squeeze in if I removed the door frame, but its not my house I just rent a room so im not allowed to remove his door frame.
I could take the walkout basement window out when noones home and get a buddy to throw in there but then it would be trapped in the weight room with the same problem haha.
I have to believe the cabinet can be disassembled. Its a really strange plastic cabinet. I just need a extremely powerful drill to get out the rotten screws.
It sits on a 34" metal pad that looks like it was built to the bottom of the cab to never come off, could be wrong but there are 4 large iron rods coming out the bottom welded in there.. tommrow in the daylight ill have a better look at how its put together... hope she doesnt get too lonely out there :(
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On the screws, if they wont back out you can usually use a drill bit half the diameter of the head to drill just deep enough for the heads to pop off. After you take the panel off you can use a pair of pliers to remove the rest of the screw.
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I was able to pretty easily disassemble the cab in just 2 pieces with 8 screws and fit it into my door! Time to clean in up and I will post some pics!! ;D
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I was able to pretty easily disassemble the cab in just 2 pieces with 8 screws and fit it into my door! Time to clean in up and I will post some pics!! ;D
Hehe, it should be actually easier to clean it while it is disassembled. Lucky you ;D
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Man it sounds like you're starting to have the luck I've lived with for over 30 years.. :(
Hope you get it inside before the rain!!!
VG
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I hate trying to get cabinets into my basement. When I got my millipede I checked to make sure it would fit and everything but I forgot that people take up space also. So nearly a broken hand latter and a few people we got it down.
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There were a number of reasons I wanted to build my cab from scratch, and not dealing w/ this kind of problem was definitely one of them...
(Ended up carrying all the pieces to the basement first then
assembling it there)
The other main reasons?
> didn't want to hack a good old cab
> wanted the experience (pride?) of building it myself
The con's?
> No "original" cab (yet, heheh)
> More expensive? In looking at some of these posts
you guys are getting amazing cab finds. Bravo. :applaud:
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I hate trying to get cabinets into my basement. When I got my millipede I checked to make sure it would fit and everything but I forgot that people take up space also. So nearly a broken hand latter and a few people we got it down.
This should solve your problem.
(http://www.balancestrap.com/pro-moving%20strap-1.jpg)
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I heard mention of some rusted or rounded phillips, and i have a solution. Most of the time a square head bit will fit in perfect and remove said stripped screw. I've had to do that on a number of occassions when some knuckle head did that.
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It's a Die Hard cab... couldn't you have gotten it inside through the ductwork? :dizzy:
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I bet you said "Yipee-kay-yay mo..." when you finally got the cab in :laugh2:
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It's a Die Hard cab... couldn't you have gotten it inside through the ductwork? :dizzy:
Yes, but he can only get it up to the roof to throw it off.