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[evers 10+ year member]

I wanna make tweeter pods for my car, what material should i use? I did a search and everyone recommends something diffrent. Some say fleece others say cloth some say grill cloth and some even say spandex. What would be the stronger with out having to use fiber glass? Also when some people mention T-SHIRT material is this 100% cotton? What's the main material that I shoul be looking for? Any help will be appreciated.

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[Freelander 10+ year member]

for tweeter pods....I usually use just an old plain white cotton t shirt.

 

[TPABlazer 10+ year member]

If you are constructing something small, I find it is best to use thinner fabircs, as they wont bunch up as easily, or when they do, they wont have the size to be that big of a problem.

As far as your application, just use an old shirt. The fleece will be stronger without using any matte, since it will be able to hold more resin, but the tweeter pod isnt really a "high stress" application, so you'd be safe with t shirt.

 

[NeverEnuffBass 10+ year member]

T shirt or grill cloth for your application

 

[evers 10+ year member]

Thanx for the help so far. So what kind of T-shirt 100% cotton or the 35% poly 65% cotton?

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

THe more polyester the better reaction with the polyester resin . But what kind of tweets are you using ? Sometimes with small format tweets it's just as easy to use a piece of pvc pipe . then Mud ( filler ) it in to smooth it out. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[evers 10+ year member]

I'm gonna be using Diamond Audio m6 components. I think it's 1" tweeter.

 

[hoxie08 5,000+ posts]

im interested in what you mean by using pvc pipe and the filler....