My First Fiberglass Enclosure
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Topic: My First Fiberglass Enclosure
Posted By: saiyaneye
Subject: My First Fiberglass Enclosure
Date Posted: January 02, 2006 at 8:24 PM
I am going to be soon starting on my first fiberglass enclosure here in a few weeks. This will be going into my 1981 Ford LTD (big ass trunk 
)It's going to be for my two 15" 15-PR154D Memphis subwoofers, it is going to be about 7 cubes. The drawing is not to proportion it's just the basic layout how I want it.
Here is the basic design I have for it (I made the design in MS Paint and Adobe Photoshop).
I have the cylindars made for me already. I found some tubes in my garage that fit my sub perfectly and I am going to fiberglass over them. I just need to get some wood rings cut for me because I don't have a router to cut circles and wood rings.
The material of the tubes is a real think cardboard (kind of like sonotube). Also here is a picture of one of the cylindar tubes I have, I was just going to paint it and fill in a gap at the bottom w/ body filler, but I changed my mind do to some persausion from some people on some other boards to fiberglass over this (inside and outside). I am going to have to cut a large hole in the sides of both tubes as drawn in the picture above.
This is a picture before sanding it and putting like 3 more coats of body filler in the "crevace" with body filler. Which after I got done filling it, I figured fiberglassing would be a good idea and I did all that body filler for no reason...lol
This will be my first attempt at fiberglassing so I have a few questions. What are all the things I will need? I know I will need fiberglass resin (two gal?), fiberglass cloth, fiberglass mat, and what else? How could I get the fiberglass cloth to stick to the tube while I am glassing it?
)It's going to be for my two 15" 15-PR154D Memphis subwoofers, it is going to be about 7 cubes. The drawing is not to proportion it's just the basic layout how I want it.Here is the basic design I have for it (I made the design in MS Paint and Adobe Photoshop).
I have the cylindars made for me already
. I found some tubes in my garage that fit my sub perfectly and I am going to fiberglass over them. I just need to get some wood rings cut for me because I don't have a router to cut circles and wood rings.The material of the tubes is a real think cardboard (kind of like sonotube). Also here is a picture of one of the cylindar tubes I have, I was just going to paint it and fill in a gap at the bottom w/ body filler, but I changed my mind do to some persausion from some people on some other boards to fiberglass over this (inside and outside). I am going to have to cut a large hole in the sides of both tubes as drawn in the picture above.
This is a picture before sanding it and putting like 3 more coats of body filler in the "crevace" with body filler. Which after I got done filling it, I figured fiberglassing would be a good idea and I did all that body filler for no reason...lol
This will be my first attempt at fiberglassing so I have a few questions. What are all the things I will need? I know I will need fiberglass resin (two gal?), fiberglass cloth, fiberglass mat, and what else? How could I get the fiberglass cloth to stick to the tube while I am glassing it?
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Posted By: darthness
Date Posted: January 02, 2006 at 8:56 PM