Can a fiberglass enclosure be ported?

[PowerNaudio 10+ year member]

peanut packing stuff. helps to get the volume of the enclosure once the box is done.

if not then just split the enclosure with imaginary lines and take your measurements from there.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

i usually measure the area, and build to a equivalent size/volume that a square box would have.

 

[ace_800 5,000+ posts]

azbass- your like 40 minutes away from me, near ft dix/mcguire. After you look at the links think you could help me out with the build?

 

[expo5.0 10+ year member]

search "drew wilson fiberglass how-to" i have some super old pictures there of ported fiberglass enclosures being bult

can maybe snap some newer ones of stuff that doesn't **** so much

 

[Mugen 10+ year member]

Well, you'd have to let it dry for a while, but you could always do what you learned back in HS sciences...

Fill that bish with water and then figure out the volume from there.

 

[Calikid 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/word.gif.64b12e39f936af3b4fff38a1c0bd0244.gif i was about to say that.

 

[PatFitz9 10+ year member]

http://www.explorerforum.com/fiberglass/fiberglassing.htm

 

[96civ 10+ year member]

peanut packing stuff. helps to get the volume of the enclosure once the box is done. if not then just split the enclosure with imaginary lines and take your measurements from there.

If you're going to take the time to fiberglass, why not take the time to get an accurate measurement of the net volume. The packing peanut method is very crude and inaccurate -- using water or another liquid will provide better results. It just takes a little time to cover the inside of the enclosure with trash bags or whatever you want to use, but you end up with more accurate data.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

a good fiberglasser. does not need to fill the enclosure with anything //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[expo5.0 10+ year member]

i'm with you-

i've got a very good sense of what size enclosure i'm building as i go

 

[96civ 10+ year member]

Not every person is a good fiberglasser though.

 

[PowerNaudio 10+ year member]

If you're going to take the time to fiberglass, why not take the time to get an accurate measurement of the net volume. The packing peanut method is very crude and inaccurate -- using water or another liquid will provide better results. It just takes a little time to cover the inside of the enclosure with trash bags or whatever you want to use, but you end up with more accurate data.

there is a shit loads of ways for you to get the measurements of volume in the enclosure. the peanut packing is very accurate for what is worth. if you want to fill your enclosure with water cool go for it. but the different wont be marginal enough to make a difference.

i have build enough enclosures to know on the design stage what the enclosure volume is going to end up being like.

the peanut package material is the most commonly used and less messy thats why i suggest it.

 

[luv2bass 10+ year member]

I was wonderin how to people measure the internal volume of fiberglass enclosure fitted into the side of a trunk

water.

drop in premeasured amounts of it and see how many will need to fill it up.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

You can use packing peanuts before you glass which would keep you from finding out after you've gone through a bunch of resin that the box is the wrong size. If you can't get within 0.1 cf in your measurement with packing peanuts then you need to rethink trying to build an enclosure at all.