3/4 or 1 mdf?

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Topic: 3/4 or 1 mdf?

Posted By: car0linab0y
Subject: 3/4 or 1 mdf?
Date Posted: January 21, 2010 at 2:09 PM

which would you use? building ported/slotted box for a RE MX15.

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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: January 21, 2010 at 3:05 PM

Use 3/4 and double it for the front baffle.

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Posted By: whiterob
Date Posted: January 22, 2010 at 1:25 PM

DYohn] wrote:

Use 3/4 and double it for the front baffle.

DYohn is right...

1" MDF is a little stronger but at over double the cost (in my area atleast) it is not worth it. You get plenty of strength with 3/4" and a double front baffle. If you add some internal bracing it will be extremely strong and you will not have flexing.

Posted By: nodiggie
Date Posted: January 22, 2010 at 2:07 PM

I used 3/4 and braced it. Mounted my MX15D2 vertically cause that was the only way I could get it to fit anyway. Used WinISD and checked results against this forum's calculator as well. I stuck with 34hz tuning and it just plain ROCKS !!

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Posted By: car0linab0y
Date Posted: January 22, 2010 at 2:25 PM

nodiggie wrote:

I used 3/4 and braced it. Mounted my MX15D2 vertically cause that was the only way I could get it to fit anyway. Used WinISD and checked results against this forum's calculator as well. I stuck with 34hz tuning and it just plain ROCKS !!

Did you have to find all those specs for WinISD? I tried it using the specs off the RE website, but there were too many unknowns for it to let me proceed.

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