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detailed fiberglass box construction ??
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<blockquote data-quote="evo2k3" data-source="post: 125714" data-attributes="member: 546246"><p>first off just buy mdf for the speaker mount....thats the leats of your cost. mat vs fabric....thicker does not mean stronger and mat is actually stronger, fabric is used to build curves and such. the reality is, the stuff you buy at walmart is not that bad....i picked up matting and resien from home depot and its great. dont buy rope, cause this is how that works: you need a "chopper gun" it chops and sprays the rope, you need a second gun, much like a paint gun, but ment to handle the resien, and you spray with both at the same time, this is generally used to build rediuclous thickness (boat hulls and such) it sounds like you are doing you 1st glass job and thats just going to create a mess for you. the diferent wieght mats (4oz/ft...6ozft, ect) build greater strenght, but are not nessasary for your use.....remmeber that a box is one of the weaker things fiberglass is used for, your going to need to do 8-16 layers (depenent on the sub thats going in there, 8 layers for a jl w0, 16 for a jl w7 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif ) dont used the random matting, its a mess and not strong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="evo2k3, post: 125714, member: 546246"] first off just buy mdf for the speaker mount....thats the leats of your cost. mat vs fabric....thicker does not mean stronger and mat is actually stronger, fabric is used to build curves and such. the reality is, the stuff you buy at walmart is not that bad....i picked up matting and resien from home depot and its great. dont buy rope, cause this is how that works: you need a "chopper gun" it chops and sprays the rope, you need a second gun, much like a paint gun, but ment to handle the resien, and you spray with both at the same time, this is generally used to build rediuclous thickness (boat hulls and such) it sounds like you are doing you 1st glass job and thats just going to create a mess for you. the diferent wieght mats (4oz/ft...6ozft, ect) build greater strenght, but are not nessasary for your use.....remmeber that a box is one of the weaker things fiberglass is used for, your going to need to do 8-16 layers (depenent on the sub thats going in there, 8 layers for a jl w0, 16 for a jl w7 [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] ) dont used the random matting, its a mess and not strong. [/QUOTE]
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