What's border line to you?

[Roasted 10+ year member]

Say you make a sub cutout, and put the sub in. What's border line for having to redo the cutout on a different piece of wood?

Just curious, cuz I just did the cutout on the double baffle front for my pair of R's and they have a milimeter max side to side play. Probably more like half of a milimeter. I just thought I'd ask...

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[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

a millimeter? hell mine move a lot more than that and they're fine. It doesnt have to be perfect.

 

[Harrison486 10+ year member]

a millimeter? hell mine move a lot more than that and they're fine. It doesnt have to be perfect.

As long as it can hold a seal it should be okay....

 

[Bigrick31 10+ year member]

jsut get some weather stripping and apy it down under the sub to make sure its air tight

 

[AndyB 10+ year member]

a milimeter...dude its fine. Get some weather stripping if you really want to be sure as mentioned before.

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

Worse has been done. Was is aznrevlazn (sp?) who had the hole for his Mofo cut so big the woofer, screws and all, fell out?

 

[AndyB 10+ year member]

Was is aznrevlazn What?!?!? I do not get that...

 

[HincklNutt 10+ year member]

Worse has been done. Was is aznrevlazn (sp?) who had the hole for his Mofo cut so big the woofer, screws and all, fell out?

hahah, sucks for him

 

[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

if you see inside the box through the screw holes..

 

[Roasted 10+ year member]

I don't know why, but I just randomly thought of this and I thought I'd share with you guys, despite the fact I was the one asking the question in the first place.

If I would ever encounter the sub cutout being too big, I think this is what I would do:

First of all, what I would have to do is bust out the jigsaw and actually make my problem worse... Meaning, the sub cutout I'd have to make wider. Reason is, if you use T-Nuts like I do, it wouldn't be wise for the T-Nuts to grab only on one side... So you'd have to actually make the already too big sub cutout actually a bit bigger. If you're confused over what my explanation is saying, then this would have to be one of those "see it to understand it" type things... Anyway, I would get another piece of 3/4 MDF to fit over the top baffle, but instead of making it the entire width I'd probably slim it down a bit. For example, say my box is 15 inches by 35 inches (which it is). What I'd do is, probably make the board about 15 inches tall (same height) but only about 20 inches wide. I would cut the edges of this board on 45 degree angles... that way I could sand the living hell out of it and it would look like the sub is protruding from the box.

It's just an idea I thought of, I figured I'd post so some folks here could have some insight if they ever ran into this problem. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[GTonDubs 10+ year member]

i prefer them to be so snug once you slide them in its pretty hard to pull them back out without prying them up with somthing

but 1 mm is not anything

 

[AznRevlAzn 10+ year member]

thats because at the time i dind;t havea router //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif i **** with a jig saw //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif and i didn;t use the dry wall screws ahahahahaha.

 

[Roasted 10+ year member]

thats because at the time i dind;t havea router //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif i **** with a jig saw //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif and i didn;t use the dry wall screws ahahahahaha.

For what it's worth, let me explain how I did my sub cutout this time. I **** with the jigsaw too, and didn't have the appropriate jig for the router to cut the hole, so I resorted to something else.

What I did is drilled my center hole through the baffle. (if you double baffle, clamp both baffles together and drill the center hole through both baffles at once so it's identicle). Anyway, I took a spare piece of wood, something that was like 2 inches by a foot or so. Then I drilled a hole and put a 3 inch bolt in there. That acted as my pivot point, so to speak. That way I could spin the piece of wood I had around the baffle. Then, what I had to do was mark where my actual cutout would be. Obviously, it's always nice to give yourself some extra room so you minimize making the hole too big (you can always sand the hell out of it later). But what I did was after making some precise measurements and markings on the piece of wood I had attached to the baffle by a bolt, I drilled a SMALL hole as a guide. That small hole would guide a nail straight down through it. After the nail poked out of the piece of wood about 1/4 of an inch, it's time to get started! Make sure the hole is small so the nail doesn't slide, by the way...

Anyway, I basically made my own compass. But instead of the compass containing a pencil, it had a nail. I used that and literally CARVED out the sub cutout. Of course, I couldn't go the whole way through the baffle like this. I got maybe 1/3 of the way down. Then I flipped the baffle over and did the same thing to the other side. After finishing the other side, bust out the jigsaw. Being you carved away majority of your "line," the jigsaw part was VERY easy to finish up. A light sanding job after, and BAM. I was done. It's a pretty nice alternative for you folks who aren't so great with a jigsaw... or in my case, where your jigsaw kinda sucks. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[AznRevlAzn 10+ year member]

yeah when i first started i just took string and wrapped around it, measured it, got the circumfernece, then i calculate the radius, then i make the string that size when looped with a nail and pen.then i just kinda spiral etch it per say. Needless to say, the circle was good, just that for some god aweful reason i can never properly use a jigsaw... I am so sad D:

by the way i love my router //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif best 10 bucks ever invested through ebay //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif