Those celestion 8's are great sounding little speakers as far as 8's go - way more bass and a smoother break up!

Some of the hemp cone Weber 8s have more bass, but they can also be kinda dark. The Alnicos fit the silver face Fenders but not the tweed, nor the old black face nor the very early silver face Champs. It's tight but they do fit.

Yep. They had a habit of getting broken if the cord pulled across them

No offense, but shrink wrap won't prevent a wire from breaking.

Not my call, though it would be tricky to have a speaker that cleared the OT and filter cap can

The board becomes conductive. I explained this last week in the Clark Penrose video.

@@PsionicAudio yes I just watch it I had no idea that the board was conductive that fender used. I have watched other techs often isolate the preamp ground from the power amplifier ground and NOT tie them together as a modification to reduce signal to noise ratio. In all fender and marshall ams the preamp ground and power amp ground are tied together soldered to chassis ground/earth ground which I'm guessing causes noises and bad signal to noise ratio. I didn't know floating the ground isolating it from the power amp ground would be a good thing to do. What are your thoughts about this?

I guess. Seemed a promising choice for harp use, but nope.

I don't know what brand the paperweight is. It's already boxed up to give to the owner.

Could have been any of these. here's the list, with corresponding numbers you'd look for on the stamp. My '76 has the Oxford. Cheers! Altec-Lansing -# 391 CTS - # 137 Electro-Voice -# 649 Eminence -# 67 Jensen - # 220 JBL # 73 Oxford - # 465 Rola -# 285 Utah -# 328

About 725 for eyelets.

@@PsionicAudio I'm sorry if I didn't make the question clear, Lyle. I was asking about the temperature for the circuit boards of let's say a Fender Blues Deville. I usually keep my iron at 800 degrees. That is too high for a circuit board. That could destroy the solder tabs. Thanks for your response again. 👍

750 on most PCBs. But I work fast.

@@PsionicAudio Muchos Gratias Senior 🙂

Not a silly question at all

I’d have to add the WGS Veteran 30 sounds way closer to a UK V30 than the current Chinese made V30’s by Celestion. I was pleasantly surprised! The Retro 30 was great for a 1x12 combo that needed tighter bass and worked well for me, alas to each their own. Cheers!

Goes back to the owner.

@@PsionicAudio you should build a new cabinet to bring out the lows of the new speaker. The little 8” speakers in my Vox Pathfinder amps move earth with the amount of bass they shove out. It’s the box they are bolted into that’s creating all the low end. Oversized semi-open back, roughly 16”x15”x8” (edit: it appears champ cabinet is as large if not a smidge larger than a Vox Pathfinder combo box, interesting, nothing special about the cheap Chinese pressed steel Vox 8” speaker?)

No. About a minute to do the work. The extra time was to show how it was done and to explain the concepts behind a reliable solder connection and the things that can go wrong. I've seen so many botched speaker solder jobs in my time. So yeah, many people don't know how to do it right. I was trying to show that. If you have a problem with that, watch something else.