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i was just reading through a tutorial i saw somone just put the coat of resin+hardener onto some fabric and kept applying the resin onto it without any fibreglass matting.. does it work properly? .. is it even strong ?
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QUOTE (austin-towers @ Jul 13 2007, 01:35 AM) 
Usually its just used to get a solid form to glass on to. It's fairly solid but not particuarly strong, you wouldn't use it on enclosures etc.
what about pods? .. and pillars? .. ..
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I made a parcel tray for my s13 using the material used to make trackies, it worked good i cutout plywood rings to fit the speakers glued them to supports and the supports to a 6mm plywood base cutout to the shape of the shelf, then i just streched the material over the whole thing, stapled it to the bottom and painted it with resin until it soaked all the way through. it turned out good it's strong but if your not going to support the speakers in any other way you will need to glass it.
QUOTE (austin-towers @ Jul 13 2007, 01:55 AM)
I would say pillars would be alright (tweeters) but i'd use at least couple of layers of glass on pods, resin is very brittle on it's own, but it depends on application. Anywhere its holding weight or sealing off an enclosure, i would use glass.
This isn't really the right section mate, try installation next time.
This isn't really the right section mate, try installation next time.
it is the right section man its a install and fabrications question he asked isn't it.
but anyway yeah resin over a nice absorbant material like flannel is good enough for pods. if u use enough resin and make it a decent mix not to hot
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ah ok my bad hahahahaha
QUOTE (fr33ku @ Jul 13 2007, 09:54 PM)
I made a parcel tray for my s13 using the material used to make trackies, it worked good i cutout plywood rings to fit the speakers glued them to supports and the supports to a 6mm plywood base cutout to the shape of the shelf, then i just streched the material over the whole thing, stapled it to the bottom and painted it with resin until it soaked all the way through. it turned out good it's strong but if your not going to support the speakers in any other way you will need to glass it.
Yeah the stuff is polar fleece. It's fine to resin that and make speaker pods out of. I know a friend who used it to make his own custom bodykit even! Polar fleece is at least 2mm thick, and thats all u'd glass to, so why waste money on glass when you don't need to?
Subwoofer enclosures tho.. nah.
Why is that guy editing every single post he makes to a dot?
Yeah the dots make it hard to follow this thread hey.
I make my pods with fleece that i get from spotlight,you buy it by the metre.
Its thick and soaks up a huge amount of resin,very strong for pods.
Sub boxs need glass matting and i heard the rule of thumb is you should be able to stand on the box with out it breaking.
hope that helps
Nathan
ps. do a search on fibreglass and there heaps of good threads to answer all
your questions.
I make my pods with fleece that i get from spotlight,you buy it by the metre.
Its thick and soaks up a huge amount of resin,very strong for pods.
Sub boxs need glass matting and i heard the rule of thumb is you should be able to stand on the box with out it breaking.
hope that helps
Nathan
ps. do a search on fibreglass and there heaps of good threads to answer all
your questions.
I made some inner door pods (to sit behind my door cards) initialy using the fleece and resin method, but ended up adding fiberglass matting which made it so much more stronger..
edit: Oh good, I just noticed daniel had bumped a 2007 thread, ha
edit: Oh good, I just noticed daniel had bumped a 2007 thread, ha
Hmm. I didn't even notice. LOL.
I still wonder why he edited all his posts..
I still wonder why he edited all his posts..
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