RyanM923's 10" OG Assassins 4ft^3 at 28hz build

[Fiercetimbo17 10+ year member]

Looks good, do you live in denton?

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

never seen a box built without screws, brads, or clamps...

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Looks very nice thus far.

In for moar pics!

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Looks good, do you live in denton?

Yep, but all of my box building goes on in Rockwall since all of my tools are at my parent's house...apartments FTL when building boxes.

never seen a box built without screws, brads, or clamps...

I'm using a brad nailer, which is that the hose is leading to in the second pic.

Looks very nice thus far.
In for moar pics!

Thanks. Well, after having a massive amount of leftovers, I finally got the top on...but no pics until I have the holes cut tomorrow. I still haven't decided if I'm going to roundover the whole thing or not. It's just a temp box for a couple of months, but since I'll already have the router out for the holes I might as well roundover the edges...

 

[Goldtaz1 10+ year member]

never seen a box built without screws, brads, or clamps...

And once you start using the brad nailing method you'll never go back to the glue and screw. There are folks on this forum that will argue all day that brad nailing and gluing does not build a good box, but they are so full of crap it's not even funny. The screw and glue is a waste of time IMO. There are some highly qualified box builders (including myself) that build every enclosure with the brad nail and glue method. The box I'm running right now is built with brad nails and I can play 150 Db + on the term lab with most any rap music. I don't even use clamps on anything; just lots of glue and brad nails with some human applied pressure. Take this advice for what it's worth, but I'm telling you I will never go back to screw and glue.

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

And once you start using the brad nailing method you'll never go back to the glue and screw. There are folks on this forum that will argue all day that brad nailing and gluing does not build a good box, but they are so full of crap it's not even funny. The screw and glue is a waste of time IMO. There are some highly qualified box builders (including myself) that build every enclosure with the brad nail and glue method. The box I'm running right now is built with brad nails and I can play 150 Db + on the term lab with most any rap music. I don't even use clamps on anything; just lots of glue and brad nails with some human applied pressure. Take this advice for what it's worth, but I'm telling you I will never go back to screw and glue.

I normally use drywall screws with adhesive, mostly because I like how easily it sucks the pieces nice and tight together. Since this is a low power setup, I went with brad nails since it's so much easier(no predilling and recessing screw heads). What I do hate about brad nailing is having to press down so hard in order to get a nice, tight fit...and then nailing at the same time.

But I did get the top on this morning.

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Well I got it all done...I opted not to roundover the edges since I'm only using the box for a couple of months.

 

[FloridaStanza 10+ year member]

Very nice.

 

[THUMPPER 10+ year member]

And once you start using the brad nailing method you'll never go back to the glue and screw. There are folks on this forum that will argue all day that brad nailing and gluing does not build a good box, but they are so full of crap it's not even funny. The screw and glue is a waste of time IMO. There are some highly qualified box builders (including myself) that build every enclosure with the brad nail and glue method. The box I'm running right now is built with brad nails and I can play 150 Db + on the term lab with most any rap music. I don't even use clamps on anything; just lots of glue and brad nails with some human applied pressure. Take this advice for what it's worth, but I'm telling you I will never go back to screw and glue.

my enclosures have a lifetime replacement warrenty against panel seperation

so I have tested this theory with a hammer....

I can take apart an enclosure glued and brad nailed with a simple block of 2x4

and a hammer with just minor surface damage to the MDF

with an enclosure properly glued and screwed you basicaly have to destroy

the panels to get the box apart

MDF is compressed layers...glue only bonds the surface...when screws are

applied all the layers are clamped together...the joint bond is much stronger

than the simple surface bond

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

my enclosures have a lifetime replacement warrenty against panel seperationso I have tested this theory with a hammer....

I can take apart an enclosure glued and brad nailed with a simple block of 2x4

and a hammer with just minor surface damage to the MDF

with an enclosure properly glued and screwed you basicaly have to destroy

the panels to get the box apart

MDF is compressed layers...glue only bonds the surface...when screws are

applied all the layers are clamped together...the joint bond is much stronger

than the simple surface bond

I normally use screws just because it's easier to keep the build going and move on to the next thing without having to worry about pieces moving out of square or anything like that...the screws keep everything nice and straight, so long as you can drill straight.

 

[mrflipside 10+ year member]

this should hit the lows like no other

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

this should hit the lows like no other

I don't know about that, since it's a pair of 10's and 500 watts //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif...but a F3 of 25-26hz will be nice...

 

[mrflipside 10+ year member]

ya with it tuned that low itll still get deep even with 500 watts, i had a si bm 10 that jake made in a box tuned to 30 on 300 watts and it got nice and loud

 

[chunky cumz 10+ year member]

ahh haaa

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

ahh haaa

This will dominate your SB3 setup, just wait //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif