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[warek]

G'day there

My brother is making me a sub box and he has some melamine timber left from a kitchen he recently contructed. He suggested if we used that for the sides and back and mdf for the front we could make it from left over timeber at no cost.

It will be a single 12 inch sub, running of 180 watts with size 400*400*700 sealed box.

Would melamine be suitable?

Thansk

[bobo333]

melamine will be fine, the only difference will be the normal pva wood glue you would use to stick the box together wont work as well on melamine so youd need to use some other glue, as long as it is a decent thickness (~18mm or more) you wont hear a difference between mdf and melamine

[Tiger]

You'd wanna use melamine glue for that kind of contact.

Personally... if you'd wanna mix/match boards.... deaden the inside with a brush-on deadener and use a damping aid SIMILAR to Dacron.

And seal it well with some Sikaflex

[MADTRAV]

melamine is a compound board based around Chipboard. its non porous due the melamine coating so it will build a sealed enclosure but its a lot less dense than MDF so has a higher resonance. d definetly use a urethane based product to seal it and glue it together, ie Sikaflex227 or Liquid Nails premium, and either double layer the Melamine as it is only 16mm think, or add at least one layer of some sort of sound deadener, ie brush on or Dynamat.