I started the box winter of last year and ran out of materials halfway through. A spring and summer later I have MDF and a bandsaw. Time to get to %$ing work! Pics take about an hour and a half ago. As usual, I'll try to but usually fail at including something insightful. =)
Oh, did I mention it's a DBK2-10?
Front side pic. Imperfect seams (All of them) are bondo-ed over. The mix was not saturated enough so it must dry overnight.
Bandsaw. Works a million times better than the circular saw.
While it's not much, I find an immobile belt sander immensely useful for smoothing rough edges. Even more important with a DBK2 is you can use it to perfect the fit of the inner baffle. The process took about 20 minutes with test fitting between sandings. I take a pencil and do a quick grid pattern over the side I'm sanding, then sand until it's all gone. I do this twice to lose enough thickness to justify another test fit.
My initiation into club green! The moist uninsulated garage took it's toll on all my old boxes and this one had green stuff growing on it. I sanded and will paint the whole thing green to prevent a repeat.
You'll notice lag bolts. Since the DBK2 has to be totally sealed except for the port vent, and it's a movable internal baffle that the sub's attached to, adjusting the sub once you can get it installed can be a real headache. To counter this I used cement anchors, called "insert nuts" at home depot. I first test fit the piece clamps. Then drill the holes for the bolts deep enough that it penetrates both pieces. Then, I pull off the detachable wall and REDRILL where the insert nuts will go to the proper diameter (Since naturally the insert nuts are larger than the bolts going into them). Using a C-Clamp to prevent splitting, I screw in the insert nuts. Using a piece of scrap rubber (Just look at the garage and don't ask where I find the weird stuff I use) as an airtight barrier between the removable wall and the box, I screw the thing.
It's the craziest thing I've done building a box yet, but it paid off big time. =)
Spray painting the inner walls of the outer box or the outer walls of the inner baffle would compromise the fit of the inner baffle. I did neither. I used old duct tape to keep paint off the outer walls of the inner baffle and spray painted it away from the rest of the box. This shot was me putting the camera inside the vent and snapping blindly.
Tomorrow I'll finish the box, make it fully green, and get some listening in on it. Inside the box is going an Aura RPM Plus 10" using 400wrms off an Orion 1200D at 4 ohm. Should be interesting.
Oh, did I mention it's a DBK2-10?
Front side pic. Imperfect seams (All of them) are bondo-ed over. The mix was not saturated enough so it must dry overnight.
Bandsaw. Works a million times better than the circular saw.
While it's not much, I find an immobile belt sander immensely useful for smoothing rough edges. Even more important with a DBK2 is you can use it to perfect the fit of the inner baffle. The process took about 20 minutes with test fitting between sandings. I take a pencil and do a quick grid pattern over the side I'm sanding, then sand until it's all gone. I do this twice to lose enough thickness to justify another test fit.
My initiation into club green! The moist uninsulated garage took it's toll on all my old boxes and this one had green stuff growing on it. I sanded and will paint the whole thing green to prevent a repeat.
You'll notice lag bolts. Since the DBK2 has to be totally sealed except for the port vent, and it's a movable internal baffle that the sub's attached to, adjusting the sub once you can get it installed can be a real headache. To counter this I used cement anchors, called "insert nuts" at home depot. I first test fit the piece clamps. Then drill the holes for the bolts deep enough that it penetrates both pieces. Then, I pull off the detachable wall and REDRILL where the insert nuts will go to the proper diameter (Since naturally the insert nuts are larger than the bolts going into them). Using a C-Clamp to prevent splitting, I screw in the insert nuts. Using a piece of scrap rubber (Just look at the garage and don't ask where I find the weird stuff I use) as an airtight barrier between the removable wall and the box, I screw the thing.
It's the craziest thing I've done building a box yet, but it paid off big time. =)
Spray painting the inner walls of the outer box or the outer walls of the inner baffle would compromise the fit of the inner baffle. I did neither. I used old duct tape to keep paint off the outer walls of the inner baffle and spray painted it away from the rest of the box. This shot was me putting the camera inside the vent and snapping blindly.
Tomorrow I'll finish the box, make it fully green, and get some listening in on it. Inside the box is going an Aura RPM Plus 10" using 400wrms off an Orion 1200D at 4 ohm. Should be interesting.
