Anyone have Experience with Vinyl?

[btdickey99 5,000+ posts]

I am just designing a new box for my W7, and am not wanting to cover it in carpet. I am wondering if anyone has covered a box in vinyl, and how it looked.....?

Any other suggestions of other ideas would be great too.

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[PSturmer 10+ year member]

i use vinyl on a lot of my box's and it works great. its nice because you can use screws and you dont have to plug the wholes

here are some builds i have done.

the best way i have found to do it is take one piece and wrap all four sides of the box with. on the bottom use a staple gun and use 3m spray adhesive for everything else. on the uncovered sides take 1/8'' board and cut that and wrap it and put it on the side like in this picture you can see

 

[bigmandengo 10+ year member]

where is a good place to get vinyl?

how is this stuff?

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&Partnumber=260-761

they say its sold by the linear yard. so would that mean if i ordered a quantity of 2 then i would get a piece thats 54" x 72" long or 3 would be 54" x 108" right?

 

[Troydb 10+ year member]

where is a good place to get vinyl?
how is this stuff?

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&Partnumber=260-761

they say its sold by the linear yard. so would that mean if i ordered a quantity of 2 then i would get a piece thats 54" x 72" long or 3 would be 54" x 108" right?

It is called "black taco" on partsexpress' site. lol //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[audioarsonal 10+ year member]

I get my vinyle from a fabric store.Like PS said wrap the box front,top,and back with one piece of vinyl.I use headliner adhesive because it is alittle stronger than regulear 3m.

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

This is the first box I used vinyl on, so the edges are pretty crappy. The box overall looks pretty good. You can see I also put vinyl on the amp rack.

If you put a little thought into where the seams end up, you can make a great looking box. I used 3M Super-70 spray adhesive.

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

 

[audioarsonal 10+ year member]

If you have done it a couple times you can get the seams to disappear praticaly.You need to overlap the pieces and cut them together.But this does take some time and skill to make it look good!I do this on fiberglass boxes where the contours can be challenging.

 

[brsofla]

The best place to buy vinyl is at a fabric shop. Not the Rag Shop, but a real fabric place. The fabric is 54" wide and you can buy as many yards as needed. Great selection of colors and tectures. About $15 - $20 a yard.

I just went through a box build and the vinyl would have worked except the face of the box was not flat. My friends dad is a cabinet maker and he went a little overboard with the edges and he built in a raised JL logo section in the face. Well, it all went well until we tried to get it to fit around all the edges. Even with mad stretching and a heat gun!! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/mad.gif.c18f003ab0ef8a0d9c27ca78d77a6392.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/verymad.gif.3f39c5c2fd57527b671fad3efdfac756.gif

After spending an hour, we backed up and used fabric...much easier

If you build a box with a flat surface the vinyl should work like a dream. Probably look a lot better than fabric, too.

Do NOT use the enviromentally safe contact cement (green). I bought a gallon of it at Home Depot and it does not have the sticking power to hold fabric to wood. Stick with the red can or even better go with the 3M spray.

Good luck

 

[THUMPPER 10+ year member]

I use "Marine Grade" vinyl for the enclosures I build....

it looks better and it has more stretching characteristics

than the regular grade vinyl..it costs slightly more

but it's worth it

 

[BrianChia 10+ year member]

i use vinyl on a lot of my box's and it works great. its nice because you can use screws and you dont have to plug the wholes
here are some builds i have done.

the best way i have found to do it is take one piece and wrap all four sides of the box with. on the bottom use a staple gun and use 3m spray adhesive for everything else. on the uncovered sides take 1/8'' board and cut that and wrap it and put it on the side like in this picture you can see

I like the look and the simplicity of that! Nice tip, thanks.

 

[KINGDELL91 10+ year member]

i use vinyl on a lot of my box's and it works great. its nice because you can use screws and you dont have to plug the wholes
here are some builds i have done.

the best way i have found to do it is take one piece and wrap all four sides of the box with. on the bottom use a staple gun and use 3m spray adhesive for everything else. on the uncovered sides take 1/8'' board and cut that and wrap it and put it on the side like in this picture you can see

WOW those are sweet i hope mines can look good as those... HOW did you do the cut outs for the Subs??? ALso the corners???

 

[btdickey99 5,000+ posts]

it looks like a lot of nice work done......Now I just need to find a dub7 to buy

 

[PSturmer 10+ year member]

WOW those are sweet i hope mines can look good as those... HOW did you do the cut outs for the Subs??? ALso the corners???

the wholes for the subs you just a knife to edge

 

[miker 5,000+ posts]

Corners are even a ***** w/ soft carpet...