My Phantom voyage

[ragwo]

Why the dazzling Vidal Sassoon contraption you may ask? It is actually a plasma gun in disguise. It's hotter than Hekla and more frightening than the spawn of *insert your biggest fear here*. Half of the rest of the tools turned out to be useless removing the dust caps. You might guess which. If not, I'll give you a hint or two. They're blue and made of plastic.

So, back to the disassembling.
As the only instructions I had was a YouTube video made in a busy street in Malaysia, I practiced on the broken speaker. The mute swan was spared. 
The dust caps are glued in place with a generous amount of supreme quality French contact adhesive. In other words, it's a pain in the *insert your favourite body part here* to remove caps without turning them into this
   

Aluminum is a very good heat dissipator and thankfully the whole subwoofer is made of the stuff. When trying to heat the dust caps the woofers was equally hot. Afraid of other glued parts to disintegrate, I used a bit more force than heat to remove the dust from caps. It's important to get the tools as flush as possible to the dust cap while prying it off. If you have too steep an angle you'll might damage the voice coil where it's joined with the woofer. After some elbow grease and a bit of swearing, the dust cap was removed! 
   

Next up was the less taunting job to remove four nuts, two on each side. Please look at the following pictures twice, as I didn't bother to take pictures of both sides. If this makes you confused, please look at the pictures in a mirror the second time around.