Crazy woofer mounting

Tom_S

Just saw this on Audiokarma -

Wharfedale 507.2 - woofers mounted with what looks like a big bayonet type mount. Dealers had a special tool to remove them and this guy made his own.

6thplanet

How weird.

Wolf

Twist-lock?

dcibel

A lot of engineering just to avoid having screws visible on the front of the speaker. Something tells me "there must be a better way"

ugly_woofer

Could it be to speed up assembly?

squamishdroc

Looks like a Ford fuel pump removal tool

Ron_E

@dcibel said:
A lot of engineering just to avoid having screws visible on the front of the speaker. Something tells me "there must be a better way"

It might be a way to decouple the driver from the front panel.

https://techtalk.parts-express.com/forum/tech-talk-forum/1373256-to-de-or-not-to-de-that-is-the-question

Ron

dcibel

I have my doubts on that. It still looks to be rather "coupled", just installed with tabs instead of screws.

6thplanet

Yup.
Screws=$$