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Alex: Hello Floatplane! And welcome to Alex week. 2 00:00:03.069 --> 00:00:08.375 We are starting it off with a bang with some speakers that absolutely do not work. 3 00:00:08.375 --> 00:00:13.246 This is going to be similar to that video where I took apart a TV to try and fix it, 4 00:00:13.246 --> 00:00:16.383 minus the bit where I had no intentions to fix that TV 5 00:00:16.416 --> 00:00:18.051 and some of you weren't too happy about that. 6 00:00:18.084 --> 00:00:22.522 Today though, these guys are going to get fixed and it is going to be excellent. 7 00:00:22.589 --> 00:00:25.892 These right here are Mackie CR4 studio monitors. 8 00:00:25.892 --> 00:00:30.497 I have had them for eight years I believe? And they're absolutely fantastic. 9 00:00:30.497 --> 00:00:35.802 They are excellent little speakers that very simply just sound good and are cheap. 10 00:00:35.835 --> 00:00:39.406 But there is a problem with them being cheap, they break. 11 00:00:39.672 --> 00:00:42.275 Let's see, let's see what the problem is. 12 00:00:42.609 --> 00:00:45.945 Crab rave here... turn this on. 13 00:00:47.514 --> 00:00:49.582 (sarcastically) Wow, that's a lot of sound. 14 00:00:50.917 --> 00:00:54.454 So the problem is the speaker selector switch right here. 15 00:00:54.454 --> 00:00:58.124 As you can see, I have some tape on it that was sort of holding it. 16 00:00:58.324 --> 00:01:01.661 And if I just fiddle with it for a bit... 17 00:01:04.431 --> 00:01:05.999 We almost heard a click there. 18 00:01:06.299 --> 00:01:06.900 Alex: Oh! 19 00:01:06.933 --> 00:01:07.767 Sammy: Oh we got- Oh! 20 00:01:09.102 --> 00:01:11.604 Alex: So we can sort of hear out of the right speaker right now, 21 00:01:11.604 --> 00:01:13.039 left isn't working at all. 22 00:01:17.110 --> 00:01:17.610 Alex: Yeah. 23 00:01:18.845 --> 00:01:22.182 The speaker selector button completely does not work. 24 00:01:22.215 --> 00:01:26.119 And this is a problem, but it's the sort of problem that's so common 25 00:01:26.119 --> 00:01:30.690 that it's almost not even a problem anymore, because iFixit has come along 26 00:01:30.690 --> 00:01:33.460 and written up a whole little guide on how to do it. 27 00:01:33.493 --> 00:01:35.528 They say the difficulty is difficult. 28 00:01:36.162 --> 00:01:37.697 I don't know, it looks pretty easy to me. 29 00:01:38.064 --> 00:01:42.435 On my specific speakers this has been a problem for about the last, 30 00:01:42.435 --> 00:01:45.605 I don't know, five years or something like that? 31 00:01:45.638 --> 00:01:50.043 But I've always been able to fiddle with that switch and eventually get it to work, 32 00:01:50.043 --> 00:01:55.181 although recently they have just not been working at all, and that makes me very sad. 33 00:01:55.215 --> 00:01:58.318 So what better time to do it than on company time? 34 00:01:58.351 --> 00:01:59.185 Sammy: Hahahaha. 35 00:01:59.219 --> 00:02:00.453 Sammy: And for Alex Week. 36 00:02:00.487 --> 00:02:01.654 Alex: And for Alex Week. 37 00:02:02.188 --> 00:02:03.857 Sammy: So have you repaired speakers before? 38 00:02:03.890 --> 00:02:07.227 Alex: I have never repaired a pair of speakers before. 39 00:02:07.260 --> 00:02:07.894 I... 40 00:02:09.329 --> 00:02:10.330 Yeah, I have not. 41 00:02:11.664 --> 00:02:12.632 Sammy: You've done anything similar? 42 00:02:12.732 --> 00:02:14.367 Alex: I haven't done anything super similar, 43 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:16.536 but this is a really simple electrical problem, 44 00:02:16.536 --> 00:02:19.739 so we can go in here and figure it out pretty easily; 45 00:02:19.739 --> 00:02:22.675 or we don't even have to figure it out, iFixit did it for us anyway. 46 00:02:24.110 --> 00:02:26.513 Sammy: Question is, is this going to be like the car video? 47 00:02:26.546 --> 00:02:28.448 Alex: This is going to be nothing like that; 48 00:02:28.581 --> 00:02:33.686 if this is anywhere near that complicated, I will be absolutely shocked. 49 00:02:33.953 --> 00:02:36.356 Sammy: For context, Alex said it would be a four hour shoot, 50 00:02:36.389 --> 00:02:40.126 but that was a conservative guess; it was like over four hours, I think. 51 00:02:41.127 --> 00:02:43.296 Alex: Yeah, I think we ended up being... No it was like- 52 00:02:43.363 --> 00:02:44.764 Sammy: Like four hours, a little over four hours. 53 00:02:44.764 --> 00:02:45.732 Alex: It was like four and a half hours. 54 00:02:45.732 --> 00:02:48.701 Sammy: Yeah, a little over four; but we counted four, so it's fine. 55 00:02:50.770 --> 00:02:54.440 Alex: There were instructions for the mod that we wanted to do; 56 00:02:55.008 --> 00:02:58.545 and it turns out the instructions just left out like half the stuff that you needed to do. 57 00:02:58.578 --> 00:03:02.182 So there was a lot of like thinking and figuring out on the fly. 58 00:03:02.215 --> 00:03:05.852 I guess I could look at the instructions on iFixit for how to do this, 59 00:03:05.852 --> 00:03:07.687 but I'm just going to take off screws; 60 00:03:07.687 --> 00:03:10.757 I think that I do the ones around the perimeter and then it pops off. 61 00:03:10.757 --> 00:03:13.393 Sammy: You should try doing it blind, without looking at the iFixit guide. 62 00:03:13.459 --> 00:03:15.695 Alex: I think I could do it without the iFixit guide, 63 00:03:15.728 --> 00:03:20.200 Alex: but our lives will be so much easier for the wiring bit. Sammy: Hahahaha. 64 00:03:20.900 --> 00:03:23.369 Alex: If we just look at it and see like, 65 00:03:23.369 --> 00:03:26.673 okay this trace goes to here instead of having to like probe it and stuff. 66 00:03:26.673 --> 00:03:28.107 Sammy: But that's not as fun. 67 00:03:28.141 --> 00:03:31.110 Alex: It's not as fun? I don't know, I think it's plenty fun. Sammy: Hahahahaha. 68 00:03:31.411 --> 00:03:36.916 Alex: One thing before we hop in here, you can see this little hole on the back of a speaker. 69 00:03:36.950 --> 00:03:42.222 This is called the port; you might think that it works kind of like a trumpet where you have, 70 00:03:42.222 --> 00:03:46.359 you know, a horn on the end, but it actually doesn't work like that at all. 71 00:03:46.392 --> 00:03:49.963 This right here is tuning the air inside of this 72 00:03:49.996 --> 00:03:54.200 to the speaker that's in the front for a specific frequency. 73 00:03:54.200 --> 00:03:58.171 On this, it's probably like 60 Hertz or something like that. 74 00:03:58.204 --> 00:04:02.642 So this column of air here acts on the speaker as like a spring. 75 00:04:02.642 --> 00:04:07.213 And that's how you make it have more energy than just what this thing could do in free air. 76 00:04:09.415 --> 00:04:11.017 There's our speaker stuff. 77 00:04:11.017 --> 00:04:13.686 I need to disconnect some things. 78 00:04:14.153 --> 00:04:17.290 This connector is for aux in on the front. 79 00:04:17.657 --> 00:04:26.065 This one here is for our power button/volume, and the speakers... Oh sh**. 80 00:04:26.366 --> 00:04:28.001 And the speakers are staying attached. 81 00:04:28.301 --> 00:04:29.235 Sammy: Hahahaha. 82 00:04:29.335 --> 00:04:32.572 Alex: That's fine, but it might be not the best for filming. 83 00:04:32.605 --> 00:04:36.042 I'm going to take a picture of this so that I don't get it wrong when I go back in. 84 00:04:36.209 --> 00:04:40.013 If I was to connect the wires to the speakers up in the wrong direction, 85 00:04:40.046 --> 00:04:43.650 then my speakers would be out of phase, which is not great; 86 00:04:43.650 --> 00:04:46.953 so if you think of it, you want your left and right speaker to both 87 00:04:46.953 --> 00:04:48.621 move in and out at the same time. 88 00:04:48.788 --> 00:04:53.293 If you flip the wires, then one of them will move back while the other one moves forward 89 00:04:53.293 --> 00:04:55.094 and it will just sound like a complete mess. 90 00:04:55.695 --> 00:04:57.964 Sammy: What does "out of phase mean", for people who don't know? 91 00:04:58.264 --> 00:05:02.702 Alex: Out of phase just means exactly that; 92 00:05:02.702 --> 00:05:05.405 the speakers are not doing the same thing at the same time. 93 00:05:05.438 --> 00:05:05.872 Sammy: Oh, okay. 94 00:05:07.974 --> 00:05:10.376 Sammy: Yeah I know, but you know, just for the people that don't know, you know? 95 00:05:11.077 --> 00:05:14.547 Alex: I'm not having success getting those speaker terminals off, 96 00:05:14.547 --> 00:05:16.182 so I think we're just going to not worry about it. 97 00:05:18.618 --> 00:05:21.287 I think everything we need to do is right back here. 98 00:05:22.722 --> 00:05:24.123 Sammy: How much did these speakers roughly cost? 99 00:05:24.457 --> 00:05:28.061 Alex: These speakers were about 200 Canadian, I think? 100 00:05:28.261 --> 00:05:29.896 And I got them eight years ago. 101 00:05:29.896 --> 00:05:30.396 Sammy: Oh, wow. 102 00:05:30.396 --> 00:05:32.398 Alex: Let's see what they are right now on Amazon.com. 103 00:05:32.432 --> 00:05:34.500 Sammy: Probably like 150. 104 00:05:34.534 --> 00:05:38.204 Alex: Right now, because they're on sale, you can get these for $89. 105 00:05:38.237 --> 00:05:40.473 Sammy: Woooow. Alex: That is a fricking incredible deal. 106 00:05:40.506 --> 00:05:43.876 Alex: I strongly recommend these guys, even if they do have this problem. 107 00:05:44.077 --> 00:05:46.979 So what our problem is, that we kind of showed off before, 108 00:05:47.013 --> 00:05:50.416 is that this switch right here, which allows you to decide 109 00:05:50.483 --> 00:05:55.221 if your powered speaker is on the right or the left, just completely fails. 110 00:05:55.221 --> 00:05:59.192 This switch does not do anything anymore, so we're going to just bypass it. 111 00:05:59.192 --> 00:06:01.794 We're going to come in here, put a little bit of solder 112 00:06:01.828 --> 00:06:06.132 and some wire on in this area right here, and that should allow us to just 113 00:06:06.165 --> 00:06:09.335 completely delete this switch from doing literally anything. 114 00:06:09.369 --> 00:06:10.636 You might think, oh no, 115 00:06:10.636 --> 00:06:14.640 what if you need to swap your speaker from left to right in that situation? 116 00:06:14.640 --> 00:06:16.075 Well, it's pretty easy. 117 00:06:16.075 --> 00:06:20.847 So I'm going to have it on the right hand side, so we can just plug these in like that. 118 00:06:20.880 --> 00:06:22.815 But if I want to switch it. 119 00:06:24.417 --> 00:06:26.719 Alex: Wow, that's all you need to do. Sammy: Whoaa. 120 00:06:26.719 --> 00:06:28.221 Alex: And they'll actually work. 121 00:06:28.254 --> 00:06:32.925 Just got some nice little wire here that we're going to solder onto those points. 122 00:06:32.925 --> 00:06:34.093 Sammy: Have you done a lot of soldering before. 123 00:06:34.127 --> 00:06:36.329 Alex: I wouldn't say that I'm like a soldering expert, 124 00:06:36.362 --> 00:06:39.365 but I am definitely like decent at it at this point. 125 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:42.135 Sammy: I always wanted to learn soldering, but it looks so scary. 126 00:06:42.168 --> 00:06:44.137 Alex: What? Soldering is super easy. 127 00:06:44.137 --> 00:06:44.604 Sammy: Is it? 128 00:06:45.271 --> 00:06:46.406 Alex: Do you want to try it right here? 129 00:06:46.606 --> 00:06:47.373 Sammy: Oh, God. 130 00:06:47.473 --> 00:06:51.344 Sammy: Okay; it's not mine, so I don't feel that bad. 131 00:06:51.811 --> 00:06:53.813 Alex: Actually, let's try soldering on something else. 132 00:06:53.813 --> 00:06:54.647 Sammy: Hahahaha! 133 00:06:55.848 --> 00:06:57.483 Sammy: Damn, you back out so fast. 134 00:06:58.785 --> 00:07:02.288 Sammy: No, because for like keyboards, right? Like there's like soldering, hot swapping. 135 00:07:03.156 --> 00:07:07.493 I feel like I'm limited by the keyboards I can buy because of the hot soldering options. 136 00:07:07.727 --> 00:07:08.728 I can't do. 137 00:07:08.728 --> 00:07:11.731 Alex: This one is not the easiest of soldering jobs. 138 00:07:13.533 --> 00:07:15.868 Sammy: I thought you just scared I was going to ruin your speakers. 139 00:07:16.836 --> 00:07:17.970 Alex: I am scared that you're going to ruin my speakers. 140 00:07:17.970 --> 00:07:19.105 Sammy: Hahahahahaha. 141 00:07:20.106 --> 00:07:23.576 Alex: Just because this one's like kind of fine; it's this isn't super small, 142 00:07:23.609 --> 00:07:25.611 it's not like SMD soldering or stuff like that, 143 00:07:25.611 --> 00:07:29.682 but it still is going to be a bit of a pain in the arse. 144 00:07:29.682 --> 00:07:30.750 Sammy: How much is that one? 145 00:07:30.750 --> 00:07:38.024 Alex: Oh, I don't know, this thing; I think it starts at like $600? 146 00:07:38.958 --> 00:07:43.396 But it might actually be with like the stuff that we have, way more than that. 147 00:07:43.396 --> 00:07:47.233 What makes a good soldering station is both the amount of heat 148 00:07:47.233 --> 00:07:51.404 that it can dump into something and also how fast it heats up. 149 00:07:51.404 --> 00:07:56.609 So like this right here, you just set it down and it cools off to like air temperature; 150 00:07:56.642 --> 00:08:01.814 so it is now currently at like 150 degrees C. 151 00:08:01.814 --> 00:08:04.951 I pick it up, it is now at 380. 152 00:08:05.585 --> 00:08:10.289 It is incredibly fast, and also if you have like a really large board 153 00:08:10.456 --> 00:08:12.959 and you start soldering with a soldering iron that sucks, 154 00:08:12.992 --> 00:08:17.063 it just can't put the heat in there, because you need to actually like melt the stuff 155 00:08:17.096 --> 00:08:18.030 for it to solder well. 156 00:08:18.030 --> 00:08:23.169 And if you have cold solder joints, it just will pop right off and you won't have a good day. 157 00:08:24.036 --> 00:08:27.039 This right here will make sure that you can melt pretty much anything. 158 00:08:27.340 --> 00:08:32.578 I need a small pair of pliers and we're going to play the spending more time 159 00:08:32.578 --> 00:08:38.184 cleaning up the shop and finding tools game than actually doing a project. 160 00:08:40.052 --> 00:08:40.887 Alex: What the f***? 161 00:08:41.187 --> 00:08:42.154 Sammy: Hahahahaha. 162 00:08:42.188 --> 00:08:44.924 Alex: We have a spot where wrenches go, why the f*** are these here? 163 00:08:44.991 --> 00:08:48.027 Now we're just going to add a little bit of flux here. 164 00:08:48.594 --> 00:08:51.197 Since this, I guess it's kind of just becoming a soldering tutorial. 165 00:08:51.230 --> 00:08:53.866 Flux just simply protects the stuff. 166 00:08:53.900 --> 00:08:58.738 When things get really hot, they like to oxidize and just get really gross really fast. 167 00:08:58.738 --> 00:09:00.706 Putting flux on there prevents that from happening. 168 00:09:00.740 --> 00:09:02.408 It just kind of protects the stuff that's in there. 169 00:09:02.441 --> 00:09:05.411 In the spirit of doing things correctly, we also have this little fan. 170 00:09:05.444 --> 00:09:08.281 This just simply sucks up the smoke and bad stuff. 171 00:09:08.314 --> 00:09:10.550 We are literally melting lead. 172 00:09:11.017 --> 00:09:14.687 So you don't really want to, you know, breathe that in. 173 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:17.924 For the little amount that we're doing here, it doesn't really matter. 174 00:09:17.924 --> 00:09:21.961 But if you're doing a whole bunch of soldering, you want like a proper extractor, 175 00:09:21.994 --> 00:09:24.630 not even something like this; that's a little bit janky. 176 00:09:24.664 --> 00:09:26.432 Yeah, I'm definitely making it worse. 177 00:09:27.033 --> 00:09:28.000 Oh my God. 178 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:29.135 Sammy: Hahahaha. 179 00:09:29.168 --> 00:09:32.071 Alex: There's two ways to do this job that we're doing right here; 180 00:09:32.438 --> 00:09:38.244 you can add in some wires, or you can just use some solder to bridge the two little connections. 181 00:09:38.411 --> 00:09:40.947 I was originally thinking that we could do it with some wire, 182 00:09:40.980 --> 00:09:44.650 but we have really crappy wire here and it seemed 183 00:09:44.650 --> 00:09:46.719 like it might just cause more problems than it solves; 184 00:09:46.752 --> 00:09:49.121 so I'm just going to add in some solder instead. 185 00:09:49.589 --> 00:09:53.125 Oh, I had it done and I wanted to make it look good. 186 00:09:55.194 --> 00:09:56.495 And I've made it so much worse. 187 00:09:57.496 --> 00:10:00.032 Sammy: Did you make a hole? Oh, you burnt the rubber. 188 00:10:00.232 --> 00:10:01.667 Alex: Yeah. I burnt the rubber a little bit. 189 00:10:01.667 --> 00:10:02.435 Sammy: Hahahaha. 190 00:10:02.468 --> 00:10:03.536 Alex: Wow, this is horrible. 191 00:10:03.769 --> 00:10:06.706 I had literally done the job and I just wanted to make it look better, 192 00:10:06.706 --> 00:10:09.041 and now it's worse than before. 193 00:10:09.141 --> 00:10:11.310 Alex: Okay, actual wire; I'm going to find some good wire. 194 00:10:11.377 --> 00:10:13.946 The other one had a bunch of strands, and the problem that I was having 195 00:10:14.013 --> 00:10:16.849 is that the strands were just going all over the place 196 00:10:16.882 --> 00:10:18.317 and you really don't want to short this out. 197 00:10:18.351 --> 00:10:20.252 Alex: There we go, that'll work grand. 198 00:10:20.286 --> 00:10:22.888 Now we just need to do that one more time here. 199 00:10:22.888 --> 00:10:26.125 Well, I have definitely done way better soldering jobs than that before. 200 00:10:26.125 --> 00:10:28.327 I've also done worse, but not by a whole lot. 201 00:10:28.361 --> 00:10:29.195 That was pretty bad. 202 00:10:29.228 --> 00:10:30.563 We might be done. 203 00:10:30.630 --> 00:10:32.898 I do want to give it a test, 204 00:10:32.932 --> 00:10:35.901 and if it works I want to apply a little bit of hot glue. 205 00:10:37.103 --> 00:10:38.404 But I think we might be fine. 206 00:10:39.305 --> 00:10:40.239 Sammy: Wow. So easy. 207 00:10:40.339 --> 00:10:42.375 Alex: Yeah, it was legitimately very easy. 208 00:10:43.342 --> 00:10:44.610 Alex: Easier than I expected. 209 00:10:44.777 --> 00:10:49.081 Sammy: So since you did the likes goal for the AIO in a TV, 210 00:10:49.181 --> 00:10:50.383 what's the new one for this one? 211 00:10:50.416 --> 00:10:52.385 Alex: Well, since we're doing a speaker upgrade, 212 00:10:53.452 --> 00:10:57.556 I have a 21 inch concert speaker that we got in for a while ago 213 00:10:57.556 --> 00:10:59.992 to make an absolutely massive subwoofer. 214 00:11:00.026 --> 00:11:04.196 We never managed to get around to that project, but we could. 215 00:11:04.230 --> 00:11:08.434 3500 and we make an Hawthorne sub is what it was called. 216 00:11:08.434 --> 00:11:12.805 It's like a really fancy you see in and see it out sort of enclosure for a subwoofer. 217 00:11:12.805 --> 00:11:14.206 I don't know if we'll actually do that, 218 00:11:14.206 --> 00:11:16.809 but something with the big boy sub would be pretty fun. 219 00:11:17.143 --> 00:11:20.312 It would be really funny to put it in the back of Linus' van. 220 00:11:20.312 --> 00:11:25.584 I suspect that it would be large and powerful enough to literally blow the Windows. 221 00:11:25.584 --> 00:11:32.892 Alex: It's like 3000 watt and designed for like, you know, concert venue sizes. 222 00:11:32.925 --> 00:11:33.659 Sammy: Hmmm. 223 00:11:33.693 --> 00:11:36.328 Sammy: I guess, actually... actually, while we have this open 224 00:11:36.362 --> 00:11:38.898 I actually have a question about how speakers even work. 225 00:11:38.964 --> 00:11:42.768 Cause like what, what makes a good speaker I guess? 226 00:11:42.835 --> 00:11:46.572 Cause in my head, I thought it was like this or like, 227 00:11:46.605 --> 00:11:49.108 it was like the shell part that made it sound nice; 228 00:11:49.141 --> 00:11:54.480 but from what it seems like, it's the interior that makes it better? 229 00:11:55.281 --> 00:11:57.983 Alex: The shell is a little bit of what makes a good speaker, 230 00:11:58.050 --> 00:12:01.387 but half of the battle is just your crossovers. 231 00:12:02.021 --> 00:12:04.156 So like, you can see that like we have our woofer here, 232 00:12:04.156 --> 00:12:07.660 which is going to play the lower notes and the tweeter up here, which is the higher stuff. 233 00:12:07.693 --> 00:12:12.298 And making sure that those cooperate with each other properly 234 00:12:12.298 --> 00:12:14.734 Alex: is actually really, really difficult. 235 00:12:14.967 --> 00:12:15.501 Sammy: Oh. 236 00:12:15.534 --> 00:12:19.038 Alex: So you need to have it so that this one right here, you know, 237 00:12:19.038 --> 00:12:23.442 stops playing at the exact same time that this one right here starts playing. 238 00:12:23.509 --> 00:12:28.147 And you need those to add up together in a way that makes sense 239 00:12:28.180 --> 00:12:31.817 and is in phase, which is, we'll say that again, 240 00:12:31.851 --> 00:12:35.020 but in this situation, it's kind of like you want for... 241 00:12:35.054 --> 00:12:41.227 let's say 4000 Hertz to be played at the exact same time on this one, as this one. 242 00:12:41.260 --> 00:12:46.065 And if they aren't timed perfectly, it will cause really weird stuff and it will sound bad. 243 00:12:46.065 --> 00:12:52.037 Even just simple stuff like the distance between here and here can cause issues. 244 00:12:52.037 --> 00:12:54.774 And that's why some really high end speakers like the... 245 00:12:54.807 --> 00:12:59.111 what Kef makes, will have a woofer with the tweeter in the center; 246 00:12:59.145 --> 00:13:02.414 because then you don't really have to worry about the phasing issues between the two, 247 00:13:02.414 --> 00:13:03.949 because they are physically in the same spot. 248 00:13:05.251 --> 00:13:07.753 What also makes good speakers is just the design. 249 00:13:07.787 --> 00:13:11.190 The enclosure for this was designed for these specifically, 250 00:13:11.223 --> 00:13:13.859 and if that's not perfect it can sound kind of bad. 251 00:13:13.893 --> 00:13:17.563 And how much you spend on the different stuff. 252 00:13:18.030 --> 00:13:20.065 These not a whole lot was spent. 253 00:13:20.132 --> 00:13:25.137 They sound decent, but they don't sound like amazing; they won't blow your mind. 254 00:13:25.204 --> 00:13:27.640 Speaking of, should we see if we fixed them? 255 00:13:27.673 --> 00:13:28.874 Sammy: You don't wanna go full blast? 256 00:13:29.775 --> 00:13:35.314 Alex: We can go full blast once we like have it put back together. 257 00:13:35.381 --> 00:13:38.884 Alex: One reason why we also wouldn't want to go full blast is how I mentioned that 258 00:13:38.918 --> 00:13:43.823 the back of this acts as a spring for the woofer. 259 00:13:43.856 --> 00:13:44.223 Sammy: Mmmm. 260 00:13:44.256 --> 00:13:48.494 Alex: If we have the back of it off and that is just open to the air, 261 00:13:48.527 --> 00:13:50.696 it's like not having a spring behind it; 262 00:13:50.696 --> 00:13:57.803 so it might move way too much and smack either end of like the speaker insides. 263 00:13:57.837 --> 00:14:00.472 And that's really bad for your speakers; that's how you blow your subs. 264 00:14:01.507 --> 00:14:02.041 Sammy: Oh. 265 00:14:02.308 --> 00:14:03.742 Alex: That one's making noise. 266 00:14:05.077 --> 00:14:05.511 Yeah. 267 00:14:08.180 --> 00:14:10.282 I think we have done it; that was really easy. 268 00:14:12.685 --> 00:14:17.389 Alex: This does literally nothing now, it is completely bypassed. 269 00:14:17.923 --> 00:14:21.927 Before we screw it back in, I just want to add a little bit of hot glue over my job. 270 00:14:22.094 --> 00:14:25.297 I don't know how good of a soldering job I did. 271 00:14:25.331 --> 00:14:27.233 Well, I know that I did a bad soldering job. 272 00:14:27.266 --> 00:14:27.900 Sammy: Hahahaha. 273 00:14:27.900 --> 00:14:31.470 Alex: And hot glue is a really simple way to just make sure 274 00:14:31.470 --> 00:14:35.174 that mechanical stresses aren't as much of a problem on your wires. 275 00:14:35.207 --> 00:14:38.344 Alex: And it also just, if something moves around, 276 00:14:38.377 --> 00:14:41.113 if one of these comes loose, you don't want it to short out. 277 00:14:41.146 --> 00:14:43.949 The hot glue will just kind of keep it in spot, very nice. 278 00:14:43.983 --> 00:14:46.452 It's also really good for just like waterproofing your stuff. 279 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:47.820 Sammy: Is it actually? 280 00:14:48.687 --> 00:14:51.090 Alex: Yeah, it's not like amazing waterproofing, 281 00:14:51.557 --> 00:14:56.061 but if you would just put this on like an electrical connector, it's way better than nothing. 282 00:14:56.528 --> 00:14:58.097 Alex: What do we do while we wait for the hot glue? 283 00:14:58.097 --> 00:15:00.065 Do we just do random stuff from the Q&A? 284 00:15:00.266 --> 00:15:00.399 Sammy: Hahaha. 285 00:15:00.432 --> 00:15:01.700 Sammy: You can do one Q&A question, sure. 286 00:15:01.700 --> 00:15:02.735 Alex: One Q&A question? 287 00:15:02.768 --> 00:15:04.103 Sammy: Yeah, while we wait for it, yeah. 288 00:15:04.103 --> 00:15:05.704 Alex: Oh geez, that's going to be so hard to pick. 289 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:07.706 Sammy: That's how much pressure there is. 290 00:15:07.806 --> 00:15:08.474 Alex: Where's Floatplane? 291 00:15:08.774 --> 00:15:09.241 Sammy: Oh. 292 00:15:09.541 --> 00:15:10.342 Sammy: It [came out already?] 293 00:15:11.010 --> 00:15:11.577 Alex: Oh yeah. 294 00:15:11.977 --> 00:15:13.245 Sammy: Oh, no questions. 295 00:15:14.680 --> 00:15:16.081 Alex: No, we're getting one question in. 296 00:15:16.115 --> 00:15:17.316 Sammy: Hahahahaha. 297 00:15:17.483 --> 00:15:22.588 Alex: Dmordred asks, if you could host a Q&A for Alex, what would you ask of him? 298 00:15:22.655 --> 00:15:23.822 Wow, that's a terrible question. 299 00:15:23.822 --> 00:15:24.590 Sammy: Pfffhahaha- 300 00:15:24.590 --> 00:15:27.960 Alex: DryTaco99 asks, taco or burrito? 301 00:15:28.494 --> 00:15:31.196 We could go with the chimichanga just to screw with everyone. 302 00:15:31.230 --> 00:15:35.434 But that said, tacos and burritos, both absolutely magical; depends on the day. 303 00:15:35.534 --> 00:15:38.804 Mish3lovo asks, what are you doing right now? 304 00:15:38.837 --> 00:15:40.773 I am putting these speakers back together. 305 00:15:40.806 --> 00:15:42.574 Sammy: Hahahahaha. 306 00:15:43.309 --> 00:15:46.845 Sammy: You can just finish it, you're making the video longer for nothing. 307 00:15:47.379 --> 00:15:50.349 Alex: No, we are making the video longer; that is exactly what we're doing. 308 00:15:51.016 --> 00:15:55.988 A train X starts from A at 4pm and reaches B at 5pm, 309 00:15:56.088 --> 00:16:01.961 while other train Y starts from B at 4pm and reaches A at 5:30pm. 310 00:16:02.027 --> 00:16:02.761 Sammy: Oh my goodness. 311 00:16:03.062 --> 00:16:05.197 Alex: The two trains will cross each other at? 312 00:16:05.364 --> 00:16:10.035 But it never mentions if they are going the same speed the whole time or not; 313 00:16:10.069 --> 00:16:11.070 I think it's undefined. 314 00:16:12.071 --> 00:16:17.209 Alex: Succulent asks, is the weed tent still being used for cooling? Sammy: Oh my God. 315 00:16:17.209 --> 00:16:19.211 Alex: It's not. 316 00:16:19.211 --> 00:16:23.415 Alex: I pretty much immediately just abandoned that and attached an air conditioner 317 00:16:24.049 --> 00:16:26.018 to the piping that I made there. 318 00:16:26.151 --> 00:16:29.254 That is exactly what I said you might not want to do in the video; 319 00:16:29.288 --> 00:16:33.659 but also, air conditioners are really good at making your house cooler. 320 00:16:33.692 --> 00:16:34.727 Sammy: Hahahahaha. 321 00:16:34.760 --> 00:16:36.128 Sammy: He's just doing Q&A. 322 00:16:36.161 --> 00:16:38.697 Sammy: We're already did this video, Alex; we can't do that. 323 00:16:38.731 --> 00:16:42.301 Alex: No, it's like old YouTube when it needs to be a 10 minute video 324 00:16:42.301 --> 00:16:43.369 or you don't get AdSense. 325 00:16:43.402 --> 00:16:44.703 Sammy: Hahahaha. 326 00:16:45.371 --> 00:16:48.474 Alex: CoffeeLoki asks if we're going to do a collab with Edison Motors? 327 00:16:48.507 --> 00:16:49.641 Hopefully very soon. 328 00:16:50.175 --> 00:16:50.576 Sammy: Really? 329 00:16:50.642 --> 00:16:51.210 Alex: We will see. 330 00:16:51.877 --> 00:16:53.579 Alex: It's the sort of thing where we talk to them, 331 00:16:53.612 --> 00:16:56.982 but we're both very busy and have very busy schedules. 332 00:16:57.016 --> 00:16:57.516 Sammy: Mmmm. 333 00:16:57.549 --> 00:17:00.386 Alex: And there's only a little bit of the year 334 00:17:00.452 --> 00:17:04.289 when we're able to get out there, just because of snow and stuff. 335 00:17:04.289 --> 00:17:07.793 Alex: And we want to be able to actually drive the truck, 336 00:17:07.893 --> 00:17:11.030 which is a problem when it's snowy and crap. 337 00:17:11.196 --> 00:17:14.299 Alex: I'm trying to find the dumbest question that I possibly can. 338 00:17:15.034 --> 00:17:16.335 Sammy: Oh my god. 339 00:17:18.137 --> 00:17:19.705 Sammy: For context, we finished. 340 00:17:20.372 --> 00:17:22.307 Sammy: Now, you're doing questions now. 341 00:17:22.307 --> 00:17:24.109 Alex: IsaacZ1 asks, cheese? 342 00:17:24.543 --> 00:17:25.244 Alex: Yes. 343 00:17:25.411 --> 00:17:26.845 Sammy: Hahahaha! 344 00:17:27.379 --> 00:17:29.048 Sammy: Alright, let's try the speakers. 345 00:17:30.783 --> 00:17:32.985 Alex: They sound great; we can actually crank them now. 346 00:17:33.018 --> 00:17:34.420 Alex: I never crank these. 347 00:17:36.889 --> 00:17:40.859 Alex: 89 bucks for these on Amazon right now? That's pretty freaking good. 348 00:17:41.360 --> 00:17:42.828 Right, Sammy? They sound excellent. 349 00:17:42.995 --> 00:17:43.595 Sammy: Yeah. 350 00:17:44.063 --> 00:17:47.566 Alex: Compared to a sound bar, these blow them out of the water. 351 00:17:54.206 --> 00:17:56.241 Alex: Well, huge thanks for watching this video. 352 00:17:56.408 --> 00:17:59.078 Alex: Hit like and just have a great all day. 353 00:17:59.111 --> 00:18:00.813 Alex: I'll see you guys in the next one.