At almost $10 a piece, I can get a 2.1 system in good working condition around here. But I guess that was the point of your repair/exercise, wasn't it. 
Fits the thread pretty well. Bonus points if you use an adapter with voltage rated very close to the absolute maximum rated.
I posted this repair on a pair of cheap Acousitc Audio speakers a while back... and looking at it again, I certainly should have put it here in the worthless repairs thread.
Seems that paper towel and latex house paint make for a decent surround material. Perhaps I should post pictures of these two with some details how to make them. The Nova-18 speakers were my first try... and they still work! 
I actually listen to / abuse those speakers quite often. They don't sound good, but there is something about their heavy speaker cones that produces a strong vibration in the chest and makes them sound 10x louder than they are. And being mid-range "bright", they actually sounds OK for everyday listening. Also, after all these years of me occasionally abusing them (cranking the volume to silly levels where the speakers distort... but still don't burn out for some reason), the paper surrounds have finally broken in to the point where they don't make any noise with high cone excursion (>5 mm each way). This is where the paper towel + latex paint helps on my "improved" versions, as that material doesn't need breaking in to get rid of surround noise. It's still an extremely lo-fi repair, though.
Bonus points if you use an adapter with voltage rated very close to the absolute maximum rated.
Of course, that's what happens when you couple a heavy, thick, paper cone with a 1" voice coil and a very weak motor (small magnet + large magnet gap): motor can't control the cone, and the cone does whatever it wants pretty much. Couple that with cheap shallow cabinets (check 
), and it's an audio disaster... or a success, if you're trying to annoy your neighbors. 
Nothing like a thumpy bass going through multiple walls. Almost like taking a hammer and hitting on the walls.
It's the strong bass that I like about them. However, the #1 thing that I absolutely hate about those headphones is how tight they are on my head, and I don't have a big head. They are over-the-ear design, so after about 1 hour, my ears felt completely numb. I remember playing around with some woodworking clamps in my uncles workshop when I was a kid - particularly, how I thought it was funny to tighten them around my head (and maybe that explains my loony behaviors at times ). These headphones simply reminded me of that with how tight they were. Ugh!
... but it works, for what they're worth.
Those old flash drivers are actually quite reliable. In my case, I use mine as a temporary backup of Word files and other important documents - at least until I get files synced across other computers too. I've had that flash drive since high school. I remember my mother bringing it back from work one day and asking me if I needed a flash drive - I did! Back then, I had signed up for a computer graphics (early days before it eventually got renamed to "graphic design") and didn't really have many choices to store my files for later viewing/work at home. Back then (mid 2000's), floppies were out of the questions (especially for Photoshop files), but we often still burned CDs as a way of saving and moving around files. When the first flash drives came out, it was a revelation of how quick and easy it was to move files. So I've been using my 512 MB Sandisk since back then and never really stopped using it. I think I've re-written it with data more than several times over now... and yet also still have a few files from back then that are still readable.
Those old flash drivers are actually quite reliable. In my case, I use mine as a temporary backup of Word files and other important documents - at least until I get files synced across other computers too. I've had that flash drive since high school. I remember my mother bringing it back from work one day and asking me if I needed a flash drive - I did! Back then, I had signed up for a computer graphics (early days before it eventually got renamed to "graphic design") and didn't really have many choices to store my files for later viewing/work at home. Back then (mid 2000's), floppies were out of the questions (especially for Photoshop files), but we often still burned CDs as a way of saving and moving around files. When the first flash drives came out, it was a revelation of how quick and easy it was to move files. So I've been using my 512 MB Sandisk since back then and never really stopped using it. I think I've re-written it with data more than several times over now... and yet also still have a few files from back then that are still readable.
I guess that one wasn't too boring. It certainly must have made a small pop doing this.
That would make it not boring (according to "gamer kids" today) and still good? 
But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. I picked it up last November from someone on my local Craigslist. It wasn’t very close to where I live, but was close to a family friend that I had to go visit anyways. So after watching the posting on Craigslist for a few weeks and seeing it getting...
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