Turning a combo into a Cab, requires surgery.

[moulie]

I have an old yorkville 15-inch bass combo without the amp portion.

I would like to remove the 1/4-in. cable that provided the line out from the head to the speaker and replace it with an input jack.

The cable is connected to the speaker and plugged into the head. It has no slack for me to use it with any other head. The jack would make this a nice 15-in. cab.

As usual with yorkville, the speaker is still great.

This is kind of an introductory project and, while it would be a sad day, it doesn't really matter if I kill the old boy, so its a good project to practice with.

Anyone have suggestions on how to go about learning this? I'm thinking, in a nutshell, some basic cutting and soldering should do the trick.

A list of required parts would be helpful.

Suggestions on how to delicately open the back of the cab would be nice, too.

Thanks to all. This actually should be kinda fun.

 

[62bass]

It might be easier to buy a speaker cable with a 1/4" male plug on one end (to plug into whatever amp you'll use) and a 1/4" female connector on the other to plug the end of the cable going to the speaker into. No soldering or disassembly needed.

I've seen those adaptors at various music stores, Radio Shack and I think Carvin sells them on line.

 

[3506string]

The cheapest route I can think of installing a jack is just to drill a 1/4" hole in the cabinet and get a guitar jack and wire it up. You can find everything at partsexpess or maybe your local guitar shop.

 

[anderbass]

I would like to remove the 1/4-in. cable that provided the line out from the head to the speaker and replace it with an input jack.

The cable is connected to the speaker and plugged into the head. It has no slack for me to use it with any other head.

Check this out this 1/4" female to 1/4" female adaptor:
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These are actually made for instrument/line level applications but something like this would let you simply plug a regular 1/4" speaker cable to your existing Yorkville's 1/4" speaker wire plug, without modifying anything.
(Ive successfully used adaptors like this for years with speaker-level applications)