So far so good. I'd also found some plastic angle at the friendly local electronic surplus store. Just the ticket for the top of the baffle. I cut pieces to width and marked the place on the card the angle would mate.

You don't need to cut plastic card all the way through when making a straight cut across the entire piece. Just score the entire cut, then bend until it snaps. Once cut to width, I checked fit.

I first scored the card with an X-acto knife to the inside-the-aluminum-trim width of the M70 baffle.

The metal grill material turned out to be a false start on making grills (frets) for the M70s. So I went down to the friendly local electronics surplus store on my lunch hour to see what I could fashion some grills out of. Lo and behold, look at this 20" x 30" plastic card.

[quote user="Olin Shivers"] Dillen has already provided me with the one hard-to-determine spec, the coil inductance (however, he also recommended leaving the coils as-is), and he went on to say that he can probably get a full schematic up on the download section behind the paywall pretty soon, so I'm going to wait for that and get the

[quote user="Evan"] [quote user="burantek"] [quote user="Rich"]I keep throwing ever higher and higher bids at 4000s and 4400s and keep getting sniped out of them on Ebay.[/quote] Get in the car and pay a visit to JaffBay. [/quote] [/quote] That is funny! Actually the whole family might be in Blue Ridge for a week around

[quote user="Peter "] Don't you have a 4400? That is the one I would choose - a lovely looking receiver and superb circuit design. [/quote] Negative. I have a cosmetically shot but electronically fine BM2400, an electronically shot but cosmetically fine (but in pieces) BM2400, and an all around nice BM1900. I keep throwing ever higher

Missed a BM 4000 - no big deal. There will be others.

No - someone else sniped it from me with less than 5 seconds to go. I guess the M70s will have to wait a little longer.

Sniped with less than 5 seconds to go.