Amp Rack Thickness-Whats your usual
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Topic: Amp Rack Thickness-Whats your usual
Posted By: MBZ oe
Subject: Amp Rack Thickness-Whats your usual
Date Posted: August 05, 2004 at 6:37 AM
What thickness and material do you guys use when building ampracks and doing general trunk construction work?
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Posted By: Alpine Guy
Date Posted: August 05, 2004 at 9:09 AM
1/2 or 5/8 mdf is what i use when building stuff that dosn't need to be super strong, , but it has to hold up to viberations, , and bumps in the road and such.
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Posted By: ice4life8269
Date Posted: August 05, 2004 at 10:36 AM
1 inch plexi...... and you can do great lookin stuff with it
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Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: August 05, 2004 at 10:35 PM
I have used 1/2 inch MDF for amp racks as well as plexi and fiberglass and aluminum and a few other materials I dont even know what they were. For panels and what not I generally use 1/4 or 5/8 mdf.
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Posted By: MBZ oe
Date Posted: August 06, 2004 at 12:44 AM
Sorry for the terrible quality. I couldn't upload it any other way. I am going to build a "display type" amp rack this time with the amps are standing standing stacked in front of eachother. Like they are standing for a class picture. But laying/angled slighty rearward. I was thinking hardwood might be the most durable for this? Maybe I should use metal brackets for support. Whatever I use it will be carpeted. ------------- BOOM, BOOM, BOOM BOOM....
Posted By: MBZ oe
Date Posted: August 06, 2004 at 12:45 AM
I'd love to do plexi if I had a way to cut it.
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Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: August 06, 2004 at 1:31 AM
Jig Saw and a plexi glass blade, thats all I have ever used. Make sure you leave some space between those amps so they can breath. One suggestion for you, why not put one sub on each side of a amp rack that you build in the center. That way everything is symetrical, which usually, at least in my opinion, looks better.
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