No screws?

[supermaxx123 10+ year member]

if you don't cut your wood very straight, screws do help quite a but. As for me, all glue for the most part.

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

yea they do speed up the build, but I still pull and fill before routing the edges if I use them but that's just to make sure the box last no hard edges to chip, but I have also never made boxes for comp use just daily drivers.

 

[wenn_du_weinst 10+ year member]

the screws I use will self sink and actually pull the wood apart if I would back out.

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

if you don't cut your wood very straight, screws do help quite a but. As for me, all glue for the most part.

Thats when you cut a new piece and use a guide bar and some clamps or even screws to hold down the guide if you have too, then fill them later with tightbond and wood dust mix.

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

the screws I use will self sink and actually pull the wood apart if I would back out.

oh counter sunk bugle screws just below the top surface of the board?

 

[wenn_du_weinst 10+ year member]

yeah, I also don't use mdf. If I try to back them out they will pull at least the top ply off. My next box will probably be mostly fiberglass so I won't have to worry.

 

[double 07 10+ year member]

You wait until I see that carpenter that built my garage onto my house!!!!......I could have saved some money on fasteners and just glued & clamped it to my house.....LOL............Just kidding guys........I for one am an ole school builder and will always use screws in my enclosures.....

 

[av83 10+ year member]

Thats when you cut a new piece and use a guide bar and some clamps or even screws to hold down the guide if you have too, then fill them later with tightbond and wood dust mix.

I clamped straight edges to the wood as a guide before every cut. I don't have a lick of carpentry experience. Not even shop class in school. But it just seemed like common sense to do so. Btw, cutting 45's for the first time in my life right now... Not hard except for when I drooped my first cut and dented the 45 degree edge so bad that I had to start over, lol...

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

I clamped straight edges to the wood as a guide before every cut. I don't have a lick of carpentry experience. Not even shop class in school. But it just seemed like common sense to do so. Btw, cutting 45's for the first time in my life right now... Not hard except for when I drooped my first cut and dented the 45 degree edge so bad that I had to start over, lol...

If you have no help use a table or saw horse set to catch your drop pieces, keep both hands on the saw pressing over towards the guide and down/forward with steady low pressure.

 

[av83 10+ year member]

So I just put my port walls in. I had glued them together using 90 degree clamp, and then after that dried, clamped in the 45 that goes on the corner. Set in the enclosure on the titebond, placed 100 lbs of iron on top to clamp it down.... and then, well after it was too late to fix, measured the port. The back port wall is a hair under 1/8 of an inch over the 4 inches it's supposed to be away from the rear panel. The other, longer, port wall is exactly right. 4 inches. So I have 11 inches of port wall a tad off, and 14 inches that's perfect. I don't think there's any going back, either. How bad is the damage here... anyone know? Other than that, its going well. Just SLOW, lol.

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

I don't think it will make any difference at all really what are you saying it's off by 3/32 of an inch?

 

[av83 10+ year member]

I don't think it will make any difference at all really what are you saying it's off by 3/32 of an inch?

pretty much exactly that. for eleven inches.

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

I just don't think your going to experience anything negative from it.

 

[av83 10+ year member]

Almost done. Just have to cut out holes in the front baffles and put the top panel on.

The section of the port that's a tiny bit off. My only real mistake so far.

I just don't think your going to experience anything negative from it.

Hope so. Thanks for the feedback in this thread, too.

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

looks good just remember to wait the full setup time on the glue before you power it up, looks like you should be done in the next 2hrs or so max.