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Old 03-15-2011, 08:03 PM
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Dumbest thing you've ever done in an install?

I thought this would be an amusing topic..

The thing that you did and immediately after just facepalm and walk away for a few minutes in embarrassment even if nobody is with you

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I ain't going first though. xD

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Old 03-15-2011, 08:24 PM
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Ummmm ordered a new amp over a blown fuse was stupid, embarrasing and expensive, I have a nicer amp now but still, it was a fuse in the distrobution block, I forgotten that it was smaller then what it was suposed to becuase it was all I had at the time,
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Old 03-15-2011, 08:47 PM
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brand new ZX1500.1 just out of wrapper ....... + and - just wasnt labeled well enuff...... was to excited, had box and subs in the car for a month n a half while i waited for the amp( $$ ).....Needless to say it immediatly got bounced off the driveway. My wife still to this day reminds me of this episode

Now i dont think about how good it will sound.
i look over things 50x and enjoy how they do sound.
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Old 03-15-2011, 08:47 PM
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I measured inside a Corolla trunk for a box, built it, only to find out I forgot to measure the trunk opening and the box was an inch too tall to fit through.
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Old 03-16-2011, 04:14 AM
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Came home exhausted from work to find my new comp set at the front door. Took them inside and while looking over the nice new beefy mid it slipped out of my hand and smashed on the kitchen floor. It fell sideways so it got turned from a round speaker to a D-shape. Facepalm moment.
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Old 03-16-2011, 08:58 AM
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I was remounting my amp on the box last summer, while plugging the power cable and held the ground as I was reaching for an allen key and accidently dropped it right on the (+) terminal...power supply went poop
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Old 03-16-2011, 10:24 PM
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I didn't do it, but my buddy put a screwdriver right through the cone on one of his brand new speakers!
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Old 03-17-2011, 06:25 AM
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While installing a component set in my door I dropped one of the mids on the pavement. It was dead.

This is recent, I was plugging an amp in front of my new buddy kevinmurray and (here is my excuse) in a rush wired the amp in reverse and burned a fuse and of course looked pretty stupid hehehe.
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Old 03-17-2011, 08:31 AM
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hooked up the power wires backwards in a amp, ahhhh I think the best one was I had my sub amp on my box and the heat/vibrations melted and let loose...this was a facepalm(ddz1a was not cheap to fix)
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Old 03-17-2011, 06:46 PM
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Had my 8 cube box and 2 loose 12's on my workbench, nudged box and knocked one of them 4 feet to the concrete. Gasping I picked it off the ground and the cone would'nt move in or out. A few days go by before I investigate further. I took a rubber mallet and knocked my mis-aligned pole piece back into position. Cone moves in and out, no rub, then I emptied the contents of a selfmixing epoxy onto my shattered motor. Needless to say, that sub is still pounding.
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