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Old 05-03-2012, 12:36 PM   #55 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sceptre155 View Post
So like others I wanted to keep weight down. I used a 3/4 chunk of birch plywood for the plate. The amp is mounted on bracket cut from the same material and bolted to the two 7/16 bolts coming up through the floor. Smack dab in the middle of the space. So right now With the 3/4 bracket and the height of the amp I only have 1/2 between the subs and the amp. I may make another bracket from some thinner material, or I may just make the sub enclosures out of some epoxy fiberglass I have left over from working on my scarab. So as of right now they are all running free air. I've been keeping it turned down till I get time to enclose the subs. I'll leave the 6'5 running free air I imagine. If I remember right, I'm not sending anything lower then 80 hertz to them. Unless someone tells me they sound better then they already do enclosed. 105 bucks is cheaper then I thought it would have been. I have 15 bucks in material and 20 minutes in time on the one i made. So not all bad. I just need to finish the edges.
Is the sub plate paint finished? My sub box is only 1/2" thick (two 1/4" basa-core (coremat) sandwich constructed with fiberglass cloth on both sides with a fiberglass middle core). It is strong enough to support one 8" or two 8" subs and and amp. The sub box and plate weighs in at 6 lbs. I do not think most here know of the construction technique I am referring to in my sub box.

Off-topic: Is your boat a 38 foot Wellcraft Scarab? I had one myself with twin supercharged 540 big block engines back in the day. Nice offshore boat. :tup
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