hispls
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So you were one of the very first internet trolls back in USENET days. Congratulations for being a pioneer, you'll fit in fine around here. I lurked this board a couple years before posting myself and I can assure you it has ALWAYS been trolling and nuthuggery.And I'm **** good at it too!
I learned this approach to online forums way back in the daze of Usenet Newsgroups. I still drove a few of my last aircooled VWs and started to frequent rec.autos.makers.volkswagen.aircooled (RAMVA!) and I lurked a while as I always do before posting my first post. When I made my first post it was asking a question about people's experiences with dual carburetors on them. I posted a very polite inquiry and got almost NO response! I rethought my strategy and reposted but this time with the title of my post "Dual carburetors ****!" and then IN my post started off "Now that I've got your attention..." and them I said something about that I had posted before and reiterated my request for information. I got a LOT more responses, one even from a guy who said he'd seen my first post but didn't reply to it!!
So it's people's very tendency not to help at all online unless provoked that shaped my Internet personality!Like me so far?
John Kuthe...
That said, if you built your box correctly it is already inflexible and airtight. If it is not rigid you need more layers of wood or bracing, if it is not airtight you can remedy, that with caulking, glue (making better cuts to start with), or flooding/coating the inside with polyester or epoxy resin. If you want batting you should use poly-fill, though apart from T-line it has NO PLACE in a woofer box. While you can "trick" a little more low extension out of a system with it, I find you do not gain the extra output that would come from using an actual larger volume of air .
Just sit back and apply some logic. If you "need" butyl/aluminum deadening in a box to begin with you missed something in construction that could still be remedied better and cheaper with other materials. At 3$ a square foot and up, even if it would "help" something you probably have better options.
