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JBL C38 Blueprints?

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just to clarify i did NOT check on the Forums at LH yet. The admins are being nice enough to keep denying and deleting my registration.
 
Jed, that rudimentary diagram is enough for any finish carpenter to build a set of cabinets. The only thing that changes is whether you use a 12" or 15" woofer, and even then the center point is the only critical dimension.
 
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Jed, that rudimentary diagram is enough for any finish carpenter to build a set of cabinets. The only thing that changes is whether you use a 12" or 15" woofer, and even then the center point is the only critical dimension.
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I would tend to agree, except I think the details of the grill slot and grill are missing.
 
the grill slot is my issue my C38's have the bottom of the "frame" blown off so i was hoping to find the more detailed version in the event the person i have refinishing them needed it.

He hasn't even seen them yet so i was just trying to be prepared..

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Thanks zonker nice post with great detail. I am hoping to keep the slot and use them as they came D130,075, N2400.

i'll post pics once i get them back from the cabinet guy.
 
Happy to help. I bought those cabinets empty, no legs, for $80, and I think they'd been beat to hell and it looked like maybe someone had put heavy plywood-type veneer over the original veneer. A shame, but at least they have new life now.

That grille looks like just a sheet of Masonite, huh? And the bottom was painted, instead of veneered. Is that the stock design?
 
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My earlier edit disappeared. The original grille was an aluminum frame with aluminum beading press fitted over the fabric into channels. The frame was secured in the slot by screwing two triangle chocks into the interior side of the frame.
 
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Your grille fabric has just been placed on a thicker masonite or wood frame, which fills the slot. Your thin edge feet will "trespass" into what was the empty pass-through area for the fabric/screen. Somehow yours had the front bottom fractured, the most common area to be damaged.

Mine had a drop with the original owner onto the front legs, and the owner screwed a support plate into the damaged bottom area. You can see the chock at the top, and how the screen would slide out once the chock is removed.

 
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