Temporarily Sealing an aeroport

[ARSkemp 10+ year member]

My current box is 8ft^3 tuned to 38hz with 3 6" aeros for 4 12" SDC2.5s

For the hell of it, i was thinking of temporarily blocking one of the aeroports, which would tune my box to around 30-31hz.

I've seen port blockers for 4" ports and smaller, but is their anything that i can do to seal a 6" port temporarily?

people don't recommend to tune these subs that low, but i still want to hear it for myself just for the experience.

I know i could just screw a piece of mdf over the port, but i really don't want make extra screw holes in the box, is there any other more temporary options?

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[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

jam something in the ****en port

 

[thegreatestpenn 5,000+ posts]

get a sweater and fill the hole with it to the point that you don't feel air being pushed through it

 

[Pioneer~Saturn 5,000+ posts]

Some home audio setups have rubber stoppers for plugging aero ports...you might be able to find one

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

use a rag, a towel, a shirt, your head, cmon man , this isnt too hard

 

[ARSkemp 10+ year member]

i know i could just jam a bunch of clothes or towels or something in it, but i wasn't sure if that was going to be a good enough seal. Will it harm anything if i don't seal it well enough or would it just sound like crap?

keep in mind that if i did this i would prob be playing some chopped and screwed stuff that i wouldn't normally play (maybe stuff around 25hz or so)

i just don't want the clothes to go shooting out which will bring the tuning back up and prossibly hurt the subs.

 

[schrummy 10+ year member]

jam it with something then use duct tape to make sure it wont go anywere

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

nerf football FTW...

 

[Kil4Thril 10+ year member]

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/1VNG9

 

[alvitae 10+ year member]

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/1VNG9

Good idea, I never thought of using that. We have some rubber tubes at work you blow up with an air pump to stop up pipes for leak checks that are like that.

 

[pr-festiva 10+ year member]

i like the nerf ball idea lol

 

[Rashaddd 5,000+ posts]

If you dont want to do any of the other options, with the MDF you could use the same holes as are already there for the port mounting

assuming you used screws to put those in and not glue