Building a Nightshade v.2 Production Unit

[sundownz 197]

A customer ordered four 15s and I am just about done with the first so I took a few pictures along the build process :

* Rear triple joint glue and ring - the ring is smaller than the gap and centered so can go down into the gap at extremely high rearward throw.

* Close-up of the glue.

* Spider pack is pressed with a laser cut steel plate and a Z v.2 motor to ensure good bonding of the glue between the frame and spider layers.

* Terminals have a locking toothed washer

* Soldered - and a dab of glue added to the stud on top of the nut and washer for long term safety.

* Special surround glue - dries flexible and won't hurt the surround material.

* Finished cone to spider joint.

* Top triple joint ring initial placement.

* Some glue added.

* Final glue bead.

* Leads fully encapsulated.

* Leads placed into the cone - care taken to allow adequate slack for high excursion.

Suffice to say the NS v.2 is put together quite well.

[sundownz 197]

Obviously this does not cover EVERY step of the process But you can get a good idea of what goes into it !

[emh9009 199]

very nice. keep up the good work!

[stevemead08 752]

Sweet looks TOUGH!

[jonbearsmt 919]

i gotta gettem

[quiet 0]

nice pics, can wait to see mine in person!

[cookiemonster 0]

Very nice pics there. Love the close-ups!

[gcs8 10]

this is like watching how its made, i love it.

[ingramk03 1]

By chance are these mine you're building?

[Kanaworm$ 292]

Very nice! I like the attention to detail and the quality of the glue joints! Sundown ftw!

[sundownz 197]

By chance are these mine you're building?

Yep ! I started on the 3rd one today.

Brandon is tied up building a bunch of woofers for Russia so I'm working on yours myself.

[sundownz 197]

Very nice! I like the attention to detail and the quality of the glue joints! Sundown ftw!

We've really spent alot of time on improving glue joints -- it's very critical in this type of woofer. We gained alot of experience with different methods on the v.1 Nightshade -- some worked and some didn't... it was really a huge learning experience in how to make woofers take more abuse.

Also, big thanks in order, I spent some time studying the work of David Moore (FixMySpeaker / PSI) down at SBN and took away some good tips from him -- having built thousands of speakers he was a great resource to learn from. I have alot of respect for Dave and his custom work and refer customers to him often -- and I am very thankful for his advise!