Big JBL Theater items for the DIY Guy. - Page 17

Anyone that just wants the internal parts to the JBL surrounds, let me know. Just send me a PM telling me how many, and your address, I'll check shipping costs. I'm going to box these up in pairs at first, at least I think that will be the best way to go for now.

Do you guys think I should remove all the fiberglass stuffing and ship that along with everything else?

Here's what I can get out of the cabinets: Woofer, midrange, tweeter, crossover, screws, and the top 1.25" of the port. The rest of the port is just a cardboard tube and it's glued in. The plastic top of the tube is pretty much for decoration, but you could probably find the correct tube diameter to glue to it.

I think I should at least include the fiberglass that was in the midrange chamber. That chamber will be very easy to make, this entire box will be very easy to make actually. I think most people here could build it better anyway.

Might be slightly higher shipping the MFW by itself through Fed Ex. I can't recall what weight I initially told people but after packing and double boxing, they're just under 24lbs each. I think I initially thought they were just under 23.

That won't change the price for pallet shipping though.

Packaged GUTS!!!

Okay, I found the perfect boxes for packaging up 1 set of internal parts from the surrounds. They weigh in about 7.5 lbs each. Not bad. When a pair is double boxed into a larger box, the weight is 17lbs. I happen to have some of those double thick boxes, so shipping damage should be pretty much zero because it's 3 layers of cardboard, plus bubble wrap and foam. Anyway, that makes things pretty cheap for shipping.


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A pair of complete cabinets from 45239 to Florida would be $46.

A pair of Guts to Florida would be $14.50.

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A pair of complete to California would be about $74.

A pair of Guts to California would be about $21.
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I now think the guts might make more sense when you look at the shipping costs. It doesn't take me that much longer to gut the boxes and package them up, so don't worry about that. Plus, if you want 3 or 4, I can find a larger box to fit 4 sets inside of. Speaker grills? Well they're 19" x 14". They aren't special, the frame is made out of plastic with the cloth glued to it. I can remove the cloth and ship that too. I might be able to find a big enough box to fit the entire grill in if you really need it.




Guys, please contact me about the surrounds, I'm ready to get these things moving.

Yes, they will be going out tomorrow.

I boxed up about 20 today along with 26 MFW's. It rained most of the day so there's not much mulching that can be done.......so I boxed up JBL's!

I'll bet 98.9% of the people could never hear the difference no matter how you built the box, as long as it's pretty close tot he original.

And for the surrounds, I'd say that REALLY holds true.

I've got your surrounds boxed up. I weighed an exact pair of guts earlier today and they weighed dead on 17 lbs like last night. Tonight they seem to weigh 17.4.......all of them that I put on the scale.

So looks like I need to get a different scale to make sure. That would stink if I sent all this stuff out and each box was off by 1 pound or something. At the end of the month I think FedEx just bills you the extra. That sure would be a nice treat!


I'm fairly confident that they are 17lbs. Same thing happened tonight with the MFW. Earlier it was exactly 23lbs. Tonight it was 23.3.


It's a digital bathroom scale that I borrowed from a lady friend. I won't tell her that it might be weighing HER wrong!

After the shipping deal with the 15's. I'm going to be extra paranoid about the stuff.

Each part of of he surrounds was removed and bubble wrapped, or wrapped in cardboard before being bubble wrapped. Then put in a separete box with packing peanuts. Then those smaller boxes were put in a double thick box.

If that gets damage, I'm switching to UPS. I have a feeling my local FedEx facility is very bad. I've had a lot of things damaged by them in the past, hopefully that was in the past though.

That's really good news. You're right, they look nearly new, I couldn't believe how nice they were.

I wonder why you didn't get both of them on the same day though? They were both sent at the same time. I'll see if I can figure out how to look up the tracking numbers in the FedEx account.

I'm still working at the surrounds.



Ricci, I did get your email, I'll contact you later tonight. It won't be a problem for you to stop by and pick the stuff up this weekend.

Tack, I looked it up and it said the other one was delivered today. Strange why they weren't there on the same day.

Glad they worked out Tack.

Guys, I'll be getting more of the surrounds boxed up tonight after work. I was hoping they'd be easier to box up, but they take a little more time. No big deal, I'm just letting everyone know.

My busy season has started, but I'll get it all done. I just stopped in for a mid day break and then I'll be dropping more stuff off at FedEx when I head back out.




JBL surround information. I'm picking out the best ones when I ship the entire cabinets. But keep in mind, they might still have scuffs on them. These aren't gorgeous speaker cabinets even if they were brand new.

They're 19X19". I've chosen a box that's 20"x20". Shipping companies would like 2" extra all the way around, but doing that means the box will be charged as 'dimensional' as well. So it would get pretty expensive for something under $50. I'm putting very heavy duty corner protectors on the sides of the cabinet. They're designed to protect shipping pallets and should offer plenty of protection to the edges. I'm putting 2 layers of cardboard over the grill to protect that part, then filling with packing foam.

The stuff I have the most of takes the longest time to box up. So give me a little extra time. When I gut the speakers, I'm wrapping each piece, then putting the guts from one speaker into one smaller box. Then putting 2 of those into a larger box.

Shipping is from 45239. Complete cabinet weighs 37lbs when packed. 1 pair of guts weighs 17.5 lbs when packed. I get about 15-20% off for shipping, so figure that in.

If everything looks okay, just send me what you want and the address. Just that simple. It's been hard going through all the emails, so that would make things go much easier.

If you want better boxing on the complete speaker, please let me know, but it's going to be much more expensive.