Here's a little DIY for pods if you are not comfortable cutting gaping holes in the door trim.
What you'll need:
Tweeters
Ping Pong balls (that's right!)
Pencil
Circle stencil
Insulation Tape
Sharp Knife / Scalpel
Sand Paper roughly 500 grade
Dremel + drills
Flat/Matt Black Paint
Steady Hand and a good eye
AND MAKE SURE YOU MEASURE TWICE!
Now this is what I did:
First, take your tweeter without any casing and measure its diameter to see how much of the pingpong ball needs to be cut off.
Then put the ball through a stencil and mark off the cut with a sharp pencil:
Next, cut along the line as carefully as possible to make sure the fit later is as perfect as possible:
I did get the cut imperfect, so I sanded the edge down on sand paper, holding the ball so that it wouldn't flex making the edge/plane warped.
Mark a screw hole with a pencil, judging the position by eye. In my case, it later turned out it had to be a little further away from the 'top' by some 1cm (~1/3in).
Now take an appropriately thick drill (match against the screw you'll be using), and using slow rpm on a dremel, drill the hole. The ball is very soft so it'll take 1/2 a second.
Make the same hole on the other ball, and a hole for the wiring at the 'top' of each one. BTW it is a good idea to work on both sides simultaneously.
Take the tweeter and wrap some insulation tape around it so that it goes in better and fills any holes between the tweeter and the cut edge. You can add tape to make up for a hole that's too big.
Paint the balls with black paint (after cleaning and drying) and let dry, repeating the process several times.
Then run the wires through the top/centre hole.
...and the same for the other side. (I decided against the grommets between the ball and panel)
Now this is where I was a fool and took pics without my card in my camera, so...
What you see here is the mirror interior panel with the speaker screwed in.
The way to do that is to place the ball against the panel with the door closed, place a pencil mark firmly through the offset hole in the ball, and then take the panel off.
Drill the mounting hole just so wide that it holds the mounting screw (just visible here) tightly.
Place the panels back to back and make marks for the two holes on the other panel.
Drill the other holes - this way they'll be identically positioned.
Now run the wires through the panel.
Take a screw, put a small grommet on it, and with the ball against the panel, screw the screw in.
Now push the tweeter in gently, while pulling the wire in completely, and this is what you should be left with:
This is what it looks like in full view.
And with the door closed
Bang&Olufsen for $5 total hehe.
What you'll need:
Tweeters
Ping Pong balls (that's right!)
Pencil
Circle stencil
Insulation Tape
Sharp Knife / Scalpel
Sand Paper roughly 500 grade
Dremel + drills
Flat/Matt Black Paint
Steady Hand and a good eye
AND MAKE SURE YOU MEASURE TWICE!
Now this is what I did:
First, take your tweeter without any casing and measure its diameter to see how much of the pingpong ball needs to be cut off.
Then put the ball through a stencil and mark off the cut with a sharp pencil:
Next, cut along the line as carefully as possible to make sure the fit later is as perfect as possible:
I did get the cut imperfect, so I sanded the edge down on sand paper, holding the ball so that it wouldn't flex making the edge/plane warped.
Mark a screw hole with a pencil, judging the position by eye. In my case, it later turned out it had to be a little further away from the 'top' by some 1cm (~1/3in).
Now take an appropriately thick drill (match against the screw you'll be using), and using slow rpm on a dremel, drill the hole. The ball is very soft so it'll take 1/2 a second.
Make the same hole on the other ball, and a hole for the wiring at the 'top' of each one. BTW it is a good idea to work on both sides simultaneously.
Take the tweeter and wrap some insulation tape around it so that it goes in better and fills any holes between the tweeter and the cut edge. You can add tape to make up for a hole that's too big.
Paint the balls with black paint (after cleaning and drying) and let dry, repeating the process several times.
Then run the wires through the top/centre hole.
...and the same for the other side. (I decided against the grommets between the ball and panel)
Now this is where I was a fool and took pics without my card in my camera, so...
What you see here is the mirror interior panel with the speaker screwed in.
The way to do that is to place the ball against the panel with the door closed, place a pencil mark firmly through the offset hole in the ball, and then take the panel off.
Drill the mounting hole just so wide that it holds the mounting screw (just visible here) tightly.
Place the panels back to back and make marks for the two holes on the other panel.
Drill the other holes - this way they'll be identically positioned.
Now run the wires through the panel.
Take a screw, put a small grommet on it, and with the ball against the panel, screw the screw in.
Now push the tweeter in gently, while pulling the wire in completely, and this is what you should be left with:
This is what it looks like in full view.
And with the door closed
Bang&Olufsen for $5 total hehe.
for creativity with the pingpong balls..
but don't quote me on that.. off to the dollar store.
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