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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #435 on: July 24, 2011, 02:18:09 AM »
Nice work Lofty... :wink:

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #436 on: July 24, 2011, 07:29:48 AM »
I like that Chris! :cheers:
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #437 on: July 24, 2011, 09:32:03 PM »
A bit of plumbing and electrical today.  Installed a fuel pressure gauge under the hood to confirm PSI while dialing in the carb.  Also made room for the coil packs and relocated my fuel filter.



The ECU found a home on the passenger's side kick panel.  Computer port is accessible – for the most part.



A few years back, I took a control cable from a Hammond B3 organ and a 147 Leslie cabinet combo, and used it to build a harness for my friend's Porsche Speedster replica.  I'm wishing now I had held on to that cable - it had shielded pairs running through it which would have made wiring up the crank trigger a snap.

 
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #438 on: July 24, 2011, 09:34:22 PM »
MM, I haven't heard anyone mention a Leslie in years. That was a pretty unique speaker!

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #439 on: July 25, 2011, 08:16:16 AM »
I know -- off-topic.  I've got two Electro-Voice speaker cabinets here in the living room -- and I'm listening to them now.  One's a "Cardinal" and the other is the Cardinal's big brother, a "Patrician".  The Patrician is equipped, so my dad told me (he was E-V sales manager at the time) with the E-V 18" woofer.  I drive the system with a 2-watt amplifier.

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #440 on: July 25, 2011, 01:16:55 PM »
I guess I'm guilty of hijacking this thread.

The EV Patrician is an awesome speaker! Very rare, too. I have a pair of Klipsch La Scala folded horns in my workshop driven by an old Marantz 60W amplifier but they only need a watt or so.

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #441 on: July 25, 2011, 06:22:08 PM »
Don't worry - I brought it up, and Jon joined in - you can't be accused of piracy if you're in cahoots with the Admiral.

A couple of sayings in the audio biz -

"It's not the watts - it's watt you do with them".

The other - and this one is directed toward anybody who has ever been the guilty party at the mix position of a concert or the tech doing AV for a corporate event - myself included -

"It's not the knobs - it's the knobs BEHIND the knobs".

Anybody ever gets to Milwaukee, stop by and see our company owner's microphone museum - free of charge -

http://www.sssmilwaukee.com/Microphone%20Museum.html

We're about 15 blocks away from the Harley Davidson museum, and if you show up by me at quittin' time, I'll buy the first round at Stenny's.

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #442 on: July 25, 2011, 08:01:06 PM »
I guess I'm guilty of hijacking this thread.

The EV Patrician is an awesome speaker! Very rare, too. I have a pair of Klipsch La Scala folded horns in my workshop driven by an old Marantz 60W amplifier but they only need a watt or so.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

Bass player over my back fence suffered a neck injury one day when he was driving along and saw a pair of Klipsch theatre monitors sitting out for hard rubbish collection........ I think he got a back injury loading them into his car....swapped them for some highly drooled over english reference speakers.

I have a pair of cylindrical JR's , they're really nice but I also have a pair of 12 inch Celefs...... my dad bought both pairs in 1978 .

Few understand what I'm trying to do but they vastly outnumber those who understand why...................

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #443 on: July 25, 2011, 08:07:37 PM »
I guess I'm guilty of hijacking this thread.

The EV Patrician is an awesome speaker! Very rare, too. I have a pair of Klipsch La Scala folded horns in my workshop driven by an old Marantz 60W amplifier but they only need a watt or so.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

Bass player over my back fence suffered a neck injury one day when he was driving along and saw a pair of Klipsch theatre monitors sitting out for hard rubbish collection........ I think he got a back injury loading them into his car....swapped them for some highly drooled over english reference speakers.

I have a pair of cylindrical JR's , they're really nice but I also have a pair of 12 inch Celefs...... my dad bought both pairs in 1978 .




If he loaded them into his car, they were not La Scalas-- those would fit in the bed of a pickup but not in a car-- they also weigh 127 lbs apiece!

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #444 on: July 25, 2011, 08:10:27 PM »
um, Chris- Are you building a race car, or a 'band' wagon? :evil:
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925

You can't make a race horse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig. - Bob Akin

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #445 on: July 25, 2011, 08:27:59 PM »
um, Chris- Are you building a race car, or a 'band' wagon? :evil:

Both, actually -



That was the 16th - South Shore Frolics Parade -

I'm not in this one, but me, my singer, and the other guitarist were running wireless and pimping the crowd along the route.

Took first place.  :wink:
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #446 on: July 25, 2011, 08:36:16 PM »
If he loaded them into his car, they were not La Scalas-- those would fit in the bed of a pickup but not in a car-- they also weigh 127 lbs apiece!
Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

Station wagon,

Yep, La Scalas......I just Googled 'em....

His better half got a little hot under the collar when they were brought into their very neat ,renovated period correct 50's home.....hahahahahahaha, but as I said they were swapped for something smaller, the other party paid the freight to Perth(3000miles) on them.....he was more than just a little excited when he found them, but what a quandary.....they didn't match the flat screen converted 1950's TV , the rebuilt two tone green Kitchen......

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I'm not in this one, but me, my singer, and the other guitarist were running wireless and pimping the crowd along the route.
Wireless????.....next you'll be using transistors!!!

make a donation to the poor box and say three hundred hail Leos
 
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #447 on: July 25, 2011, 08:38:39 PM »
 :-D :-D :-D :cheers:
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925

You can't make a race horse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig. - Bob Akin

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #448 on: July 25, 2011, 08:45:09 PM »
Wireless????.....next you'll be using transistors!!!

make a donation to the poor box and say three hundred hail Leos
 

Oh, dear - somebody got their Mullards in a twist . . . :wink:
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #449 on: July 25, 2011, 09:39:42 PM »
Chris, as long as we're talking about your car -- I'm wiring audio connectors.  The mic has two wires and the XLR, to which I've gotta connect the mic, has three.  Hot or ground to pin 2?  What about 1 & 3?  I'm cornfused.  Please help.
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