Monitor 7 project!

Hello,
I have been lurking here for years. The information is wonderful. Thanks to all who take time helping newbies like me.

I have a couple pairs of Monitor 7bs. After many, many years of wanting to address the XO's I bought two 7c crossovers from eBay and had them re-worked recently. I bought the extra XOs so I wouldn't have a pair of speakers down during the crossover rebuild. I plan on redoing the original 7b crossovers soon. I hope to do them myself this time. I will need some help then I am sure.

I bought this pair of 7s off eBay about 20 years ago. I had already snagged a couple pairs of 10s a few years earlier thinking the 10s were the way to go. I still remember when my stepfather bought home a brand new pair of 10s in 1978 and a Sherwood Receiver. I was amazed at the sound and couldn't wait to get my own one day. I bought the 7s for my fish room because the size of the 10s were too large for the space. I didn't expect the 7s to sound better than the 10s but I always thought they did. Much better I might add. I told my stepfather shortly after getting the first pair of 7s I thought he bought the wrong speakers in 79. He still has his 10s, by the way, and unlike me with my stuff he takes care of his and these still look new today.

I am going to attempt to post some pictures of my project and I welcome any advice/criticism.

I wanted the pictures to show the sound damping material the way it was when these were made.

I also wanted to note how I snugged up the hurricane nuts using another hurricane nut. I used the #8 hurricane nut from parts warehouse and a 13/64 drill bit.

Dynamat was used, the first two speakers turned out quite sloppy. I had to trim the dynamat from the radiator's basket down by the flange on the first one I did as I had it too close to the gasket and it wouldn't fit in the speaker hole with the dynamat this far down on the frame. It was not easy to get off after pressing it to the cage.

I used all new gaskets on all speakers and crossovers to insure they were sealed well.

I used loctite powergrab on the drivers. I should have done this last month as much to my surprise one of the drivers had locked up. I just checked it a few weeks ago and it was fine. I am glad I had a few spare MW-6502's laying around.

As far as the tweeters I broke a terminal on one of the original peerless tweeters last winter trying to de-solder the wire, so I replaced them with two from mid-west. As far as the replacements from mid-west...I placed these next to my other 7bs with the peerless tweeter, I stacked them right side up then I inverted the top pair to get the tweeters next to each other. I listened long and hard to these two pairs trying to compare the sound of the new with the old. I couldn't tell a difference with my 56 year old ears. I did replace the mid-west tweeters with a couple peerless I picked up of eBay a few weeks ago just to be authentic. However these didn't come from a pair of polks, as some of you probably noticed, because there is no hole in the dome.

I finished these yesterday. The entire project took about 8-9 hours, but I think I could do it in 6 now that I have done a pair. I listened all night to these and the sound is much better than before of course. I am happy, I just wish my wife was!

Thanks,