New product feeler - elastomeric glue for enclosures

[Anthony Collova 10+ year member]

Yeah, that’s right. Elastomeric glue.

We have been reformulating our vibration coating Spectrum for the last few months, and the chemist I have been working with developed a vibration damping glue.

We have a couple of industrial uses for it, as well as home theater sheet rock type projects, but here is the basic idea.

For a sub enclosure, rather than using lets say... 3/4 inch MDF, you would use 2 1/4 inch thinner sheets and apply this product between them.

Then cut them up and make a box.

The overall thickness is reduced, less weight, but a much, much stronger box that is dead solid (as far as resonance goes). Apply a layer of Spectrum on top of the box as a final coat, rather than carpet (which looks great by the way) and you have one tough, light, dead box.

Any thoughts?

ANT

http://www.secondskinaudio.com

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[bigj06040 10+ year member]

send me a sample and i will let you know lol

 

[Wkbdkid 10+ year member]

ill take some.....

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

Sounds like a neat idea.

 

[WulfComp 10+ year member]

I've got a couple boxes in the works, two will be identical. wouldn't mind trying it out, and doing a comparison.

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

I'd like to witness the result; Are we talking brute strength in wood?

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

Sounds pretty sweet!

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

id be willing to try it as long as costs arent more than 11 ply birch

 

[Death By Bass 10+ year member]

dont believe it.

but goodluck with that anyway!

 

[lrgnation 10+ year member]

i must be the only one that does not see the point.. I doubt it would work any different than just using regular 3/4" mdf. The product does not sound like it would be cost effective to sell because it would be a pain in the butt to do all that work just to have a slightly reduced weight. I guarantee that glue plus the 2 sheets of wood would be more money as well.

Put keep throwing out ideas. Just finished my ss install

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

I'd suspect the HT crowd would be into it more than the mobile enthusiast; All we need are rock-solid enclosures.

If the product does /that,/ we're down. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

It seems to me that an elastomeric would be to reduce ringing at higher freqs;

Is that accurate?

 

[Nukedsodapop 5,000+ posts]

i must be the only one that does not see the point.. I doubt it would work any different than just using regular 3/4" mdf. The product does not sound like it would be cost effective to sell because it would be a pain in the butt to do all that work just to have a slightly reduced weight. I guarantee that glue plus the 2 sheets of wood would be more money as well.
Put keep throwing out ideas. Just finished my ss install

I think he means you just use thinner wood and put this in the gaps?

I dont know I'm not sure

 

[Relax 10+ year member]

Absolutely! As long as it is cheaper then normal 3/4 MDF, and equally strong.

We sell a foam product at my work that is essentially 2 sheets of High Density Fiberboard (or Masonite) with a foam piece glued in between. The stuff is close to as strong as the normal particle board (not MDF by any means) yet it weighs a lot less. Pretty neat.

 

[Jybfan04 10+ year member]

I would love to try this for an upcoming enclosure provided you give me an estimated qoute on the products via pm.

 

[delvryboy 5,000+ posts]

I see 2 1/4" sheets glued together being split open when trying to screw the panels together.