Don’t use mdf use plywood and coat with resin if you must but fit up an irrigation shop or farm supply and they will sell you just what you need not 20’ pieces and it’s much easier to deal with. I tried with plywood first but it was a pita. Pvc much easier esp if you have a 12” miter saw for cutting it. Fast and easy .
One way or another I can find a way to make it work. thank you so much man, this little conversation helped me out a ton, and saved me from wasting a shitload of time with trial and error. I will try to keep the hole in the door panel as close to unobstructed as possible, but knowing that it doesn't have to have perfect clearance opens up so many more options. that was exactly what I needed to get back on track. and just so you know, between your build log and Jeffdachef is what inspired me to do this, and not just settle for some basic component and coaxials stuffed everywhere, sounding like crap.
Oh ya easy cheesy! They will fit just cut holes in door size of magnet diameter! Whole magnet won’t go into the door just an angled section of it. Honestly I bet I could do it in a couple hours so make a plan and get to it !
Headed to the hardware store right now, I think I can make it happen. so one more question for you though, your speakers actually mount to the PVC and then the fiberglass trim piece you made sits in front of the speakers?Oh ya easy cheesy! They will fit just cut holes in door size of magnet diameter! Whole magnet won’t go into the door just an angled section of it. Honestly I bet I could do it in a couple hours so make a plan and get to it !
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No cover goes over pvc and speakers mount sandwiching fiberglass between speaker and pvc because I wanted grills to mount via the speaker mounting screws , does that make sense ? Screw goes through grill, speaker, fiberglass and into pvc and the coupler ring is on there to make pvc the correct diameter to fit speaker screw circle ? Now if you were a lathe machinists kinda guy I bet you could turn out some nicer pieces but that ain’t me lol
Man I will be happy if mine come out looking half as good as yours. what ***** is I just got back from the hardware store, and the largest PVC I can get is 6in. they didn't have anything that would work for an 8-inch driver. but it's okay I will just make it out of wood speaker Rings. picked up some bcx and will resin it after it's built, so it should be pretty water resistant. other than that I think I can make this work now, but I am a little nervous about getting the fiberglass trim piece to land perfectly on top of the tubes, but if it don't line up right I will just fill in the distance with some type of spacer. thanks again for the help bro I'll be sure to throw up some pics when I get a few things assemble tomorrow.
Any progress?
Not enough to brag about man, ended up having to work Sunday and today, but I did get the piece that bolts to the door cut, and some wood rings to play with for now, but like you said the PVC is just a clear winner. Plus I would like to angle them up and towards the driver and passenger seat a little if I can, and that's going to be extremely hard to do with wood where as a PVC 45 would make short work of it. I did call a few places but no luck so far on getting people to sell me some, or finding something that will fit.
Check here for dimensions and see if it will work an remember different schedules 20 thin wall 40 std thickness 80 really thick walled so if dimensions are not here just google and find the thickness that will work for you. Couplers and other fittings fit over outside so you can cut rings off of them to make a flange to screw speakers too. Then buy it on eBay if you have non around you
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Huh ? Flare on coupler ? You mean the interference fit ? I used 6 “ pipe and cut a couple 1/2 rings off a coupler like this and glued them to the top of pipe to make a flange for speaker to screw down too and bottom to give glue more area to grip onto the wood panels but since these are bigger diameter than the pipe to fit outside of pipe they may work for you instead of pipe itself ? Depends on mounting diameter of speaker. I got lucky if fit perfectly on the Anarchy’s in 6 “ pvc
