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 Dec 28, 2003 - 8:24 PM
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Just to update you guys, I held the MDF speaker ring on with wooden dowels and hot glue today, and then cut apart an old t-shirt and stretched that fabric on and then held it on with hot glue. I then applied a coating of resin and MEKP to the fabric and I'll let it sit overnight to harden. Here's my progress so far.
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Dec 28, 2003 - 8:29 PM
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 Enthusiast Joined Aug 30, '02 From Ohio Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
nice progress man.
Keep the pics comming
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Dec 28, 2003 - 8:53 PM
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 dude, i cried laughing when i saw this because the facial expression is priceless. This post has been edited by Andason: Dec 28, 2003 - 9:04 PM -------------------- i am awesome
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Dec 28, 2003 - 10:13 PM
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Administrator Joined Aug 23, '02 From Seattle, WA Currently Offline Reputation: 14 (100%) |
Hmm...I don't find it very funny, but maybe it's just me. If you think it's funny because my face is red, it's because I was outside in twenty degree weather for about half an hour.
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Dec 28, 2003 - 10:16 PM
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Enthusiast Joined Jun 26, '03 From Wisconsin Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
I just think it looks like something straight out of show choir. This post has been edited by Andason: Dec 28, 2003 - 10:16 PM -------------------- i am awesome
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Dec 28, 2003 - 11:19 PM
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 Enthusiast Joined Dec 26, '02 From Alabama Currently Offline Reputation: 2 (100%) |
those filler sheets are awsome. I got the video from select products. The guy makes a sub box like yours in one day!
One sheet of fiberglass on bottom, resin, sheet of filler, resin, sheet of fiberglass, resin. When he was finished he trimed the edges and let it cure. in 24hrs it was ready for the ring and such. =Great stuff. |
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Dec 28, 2003 - 11:25 PM
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Enthusiast Joined Jun 26, '03 From Wisconsin Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
it shouldnt take more then one day. -------------------- i am awesome
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Dec 29, 2003 - 12:24 AM
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looks great man.
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Dec 29, 2003 - 3:34 AM
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 Enthusiast Joined Jul 12, '03 From Chatham, Ont Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
Hey man I was actually trying to find a page with that same process, I think it may have been posted a while back on this site, know what im talking about at all? But ya when I start my buss I think Im gonna get some molds together and make and sell enclosures, you beat me to the celica market though
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Dec 29, 2003 - 4:41 AM
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Administrator Joined Aug 23, '02 From Seattle, WA Currently Offline Reputation: 14 (100%) |
You're planning on starting a business making enclosures without making one before? They're a ton of work for each enclosure. And the link to the how-to I'm using is posted earlier on this thread.
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Dec 29, 2003 - 2:46 PM
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 Enthusiast Joined Aug 30, '02 From Michigan Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
any more progress coomer? me and my friend are going to do a similar thing for his probe, and were going to make a little somethin-something custom done for the MR2
doesnt have to do with audio though.also you said you made your own rings? we were going to get ours off of selectproducts.com probably. --------------------  Believer, you'll leave her, in leaving them all No but I don't buy it Like anything you do, as anyone you are Cause I'm... Ten Speed, of God's Blood & Burial |
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Dec 29, 2003 - 10:06 PM
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Administrator Joined Aug 23, '02 From Seattle, WA Currently Offline Reputation: 14 (100%) |
The resin on the stretched t-shirt material is still drying, and it's taking forever because it's about twenty degrees outside, and this batch of resin and hardener also has acetone in it, to thin out the mixture so that it can soak into the MDF ring a bit better. -------------------- New Toyota project coming soon...
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Dec 30, 2003 - 10:07 AM
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 Enthusiast Joined Aug 29, '02 From Dallas, Tx Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
Man, I don't know how you're even getting that stuff to cure outside!!! Its not even supposed to work under those conditions.
You have some kind of magic voodoo? Or are you just a really determined kid without a garage?
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Dec 30, 2003 - 10:47 AM
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Administrator Joined Aug 23, '02 From Seattle, WA Currently Offline Reputation: 14 (100%) |
Determined kid without a garage...hehe.
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Dec 30, 2003 - 5:44 PM
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Enthusiast Joined Oct 3, '02 From Va Team 6gc Currently Offline Reputation: 1 (100%) |
My stuff is taking forever to dry outside as well, I've been usin a hair dryer to speed up the dryin time for mine.
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Dec 30, 2003 - 6:41 PM
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 29, '02 From Dallas, Tx Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
I bet your moms/wives/g'fs wouldn't mind if you put your 'art' in the oven on about 180 for a while.
Tell them it doesn't smell any worse than oven cleaner.
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Dec 30, 2003 - 8:27 PM
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Administrator Joined Aug 23, '02 From Seattle, WA Currently Offline Reputation: 14 (100%) |
Now that it's stopped snowing, I think I'll set it outside with my space heater pointed at it.
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Jan 1, 2004 - 8:32 PM
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Administrator Joined Aug 23, '02 From Seattle, WA Currently Offline Reputation: 14 (100%) |
After leaving the enclosure in my shed with the space heater pointed at it all night last night and this morning, the resin on the t-shirt material dried. So today I cut off the excess material around the outside and sanded it, and cut out the inside and sanded that too. Tomorrow the first layer of fiberglass and resin will go on the outside of the box if I can make it to the store to get some more brushes, and hopefully I can have it ready for paint by Sunday.
Here's a pic of my progress so far. It finally is beginning to look like a subwoofer enclosure.
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Jan 1, 2004 - 9:11 PM
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Enthusiast Joined Nov 29, '03 From Auburn, ca Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
beautiful
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Jan 2, 2004 - 5:00 AM
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Coom, its a master piece
Good luck, and keep updates comming
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