So I built my first box.............Who else made mistakes?

[JonJT 10+ year member]

So I finished my first large speaker box, a 3.2 cubic foot sub box. While I can say that the box will work, it deff won't do what I designed it to do. I made so many mistakes, was impatient, and did such a bad job designing the box at the beginning that I had to seal up the port hole because the inside flare hits the plate amp! I went from a ported box to a sealed one, with a qtc of .541, all because I the amp 3 inches too far to the right.......... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

O well, live and learn. It only cost me 20 dollars to buy the wood and have it cut (since I don't have a table saw //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif ). I'm going out to buy another MDF sheet as soon as I get back from my college visit. Hurray for persistance.

Who else made huge mistakes when taking their first DIY steps?

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[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

everybody makes mistakes here and there and it's usually because of measuring. you have to measure and plan it all out before actually putting it together.

i've only made a couple of little mistakes, nothing a little sanding couldn't fix though.

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Everyone makes mistakes at some point and time. My first attempt many moons ago was made of 1/4" plywood. Man was it pretty //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif We thought it was cool to watch it breathe //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

all my cuts were off by a 1/4" at best on my first box. It was also built out of particle board. Ended up carpeting it to cover my hackjob...

 

[psych0ticnemes1 5,000+ posts]

yea my original was a thing of a beauty... not

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

Everyone makes mistakes at some point and time. My first attempt many moons ago was made of 1/4" plywood. Man was it pretty //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif We thought it was cool to watch it breathe //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

aww no pix?

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

aww no pix?

Kind of hard to post polaroids man. Didn't have digital anything back then except for a watch //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Omarvelous 10+ year member]

Everyone makes mistakes at some point and time. My first attempt many moons ago was made of 1/4" plywood. Man was it pretty //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif We thought it was cool to watch it breathe //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

RAMOS???? MISTAKES???? So not ur charachter!!

 

[Ali G 10+ year member]

My first vented box was a beast... I found it like a year later in my friend's garage and we both started dying laughing at how horrible it was. I would never put that thing in my car now... but it was bangin' when we first built it.

 

[traksta15 10+ year member]

i was smart enough to build my first box for a friend??hehehhe.......decent i guess

 

[90accordman 5,000+ posts]

Kind of hard to post polaroids man. Didn't have digital anything back then except for a watch //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

thats why we have scanners

 

[OldTymer]

I built my first box 5 years after I first started in car audio. You would think I knew better, but clearly this was not the case. I had some leftover pressboard, so I decided to make a box for a pair of MTX Blue Thunder 10's I wasn't using. When I finished, I still wasn't using them.....

I'm not sure what was worse: the randomly crooked cuts we made using a Skil saw, the WHITE caulk that eventually covered the majority of the joints, sides, and builder's exposed skin, or the elliptical hole I cut to accomodate the round speakers.

After busting my hump for the better part of 2 hours, it was time to slap the speakers in, finish the rest of beer #6, and see what I hath wrought. On the LAST screw securing the second speaker, my hand slipped and I neatly inserted my screwdriver completely through the cone of the driver. Whoops!

Last time I saw it, the box was still empty and had been adopted by several families of birds as it slowly decayed in the loft of our barn.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

i made the mistake of nailing my hand to the box. good times...

 

[4runnercrazy 10+ year member]

im just starting my 1st proted box and im freaken confused.............hopefully i wont make as many mistakes

 

[Railrocker 10+ year member]

My first box had more liquid nails and caulking than wood (but it was sealed good)//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif