You're going to love this, fixed my subwoofer, stuck all 4 cats to the apartment ceiling and I also got bonus points for sticking the neighbors cats too, muwahahahaha.
Couple of months ago, next door apartment neighbor goes on vacation so it was the perfect time to fix the broken RCA jack on the rarely used subwoofer on the suround sound for "war movie week" at tom's house.
During inspection of the subwoofer, with plenty of assistance from the cats, I discovered, due to cheap manufacturing, that the RCA jack had broken off the circuit board. Undeterred, I hooked up with the standard analog speaker wire option.
I vetoed the cats movie selection of "Song Birds", put on "Saving Private Ryan" instead and about 15 minutes into the landings at Normandy, it sounded like the Germans scored a direct hit on my sub woofer. The sub woofer had totally dry rotted from age, fortunately it didn't blow through the apartment wall or injure a cat, (I wish).
I ordered up a brand new and much stronger sub woofer speaker from Parts Express dot com, warning, lot's of audio eye candy there. During installation, with the cats distracted with the packaging materials, I managed to punch a hole with my cordless drill into the foam ring of my new speaker. Ooops is too late and yes, I'm an idiot but I was able to make a perfect repair using automotive black RTV sylicone gasket seal.
Once again I vetoed the cats movie selection of "The Lion King", remember that I'm much bigger than they are and put on "Band of Brothers". Much to the cats chagrin, my subwoofer was emitting the worse fingernail on chalk board sound you ever did hear in your life so it's back to work bench, (kitchen table).
I decided to go for broke and attempt "open circuit surgery" on the broken RCA jack circuits. While a hot soldering iron doesn't make a good cat toy, I managed to facilitate the repairs using strands of copper wire, tweezers, patience and plenty of advice from the cats.
With popcorn in hand, a round of Frisky Treats for the cats, we all settle in for for an evening of "Cats the Musical" and that's when the cats got stuck to the ceiling. Instead of "Cats" we got Peter Kuran's "The Atomic Bomb Movie". Gee whiz, don't know how that happened but it sounds awesome, subwoofer kicks cats butt for sure.
Yeah, I know that was kinda mean so I made up by serving the 4 little monsters a special treat of Fancy Feast and tuna fish warmed up gently in the microwave which they eagerly gobbled up.
So all is well now except for the two pictures that I blew off the wall but that's ok, I'll hang those securely before watching "The Bridge at Remagen" or "Combat with Vic Morrel" or "Platoon" or "Animal Planet" or "Das Boot" or,,,,,,,