AutoTuba 14" wide 8" driver
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 10:35 am
So far this build has been going good with only a few minor hiccups. I'm trying to recycle as much scraps as possible to keep the cost of this build down since it's going in my gf's car (luck her). My skills are improving with each one of these builds (minus the SLA's, but that's cus I can't math good). I also learned a new trick or two.
Here's panel 1 glued, screwed and nailed
Squeeze-out was so pretty I had to take a pic. Perfect line of squeeze on both sides. Kind of a unicorn for me.
This is where I had an epihany. Why not use the packaging the drive came in as your template? After finding center on the baffle and cardboard, lined it up and drew my circle. Then cut inside the line for safety and then you got a baffle. Also my first build that I cut the baffle with a jigsaw and not a router. Way faster and looked almost as good. Just need a jigsaw that blows away the dust for you
That's the MCM 8" I'm using.
BTW, whenever I'm finding center, I keeping thinking it looks like the start of a Dead Kennedy's logo. I use to draw them a lot in school.
Driver mounted to baffle and what happens? Baffle slap. So I had to trim about a 1/16" all the way around. That ring is what I cut out. I got some skills
I'm liking the new retention blocks a lot better than t-nuts or hurricanes. F that.
Another thing I learned for cutting the angles a lot easier, is to place the panel on side panel pencil lines it corresponds to and make a mark to find the needed angle. Connect the dots on the width and down the length and you'll not only know exactly where you need to set your saw, but also the correct way so you don't cut it backwards. Panel 1 angle cuts are dead on as to the layout. I hope this lucky streak keeps going.
Here's panel 1 glued, screwed and nailed
Squeeze-out was so pretty I had to take a pic. Perfect line of squeeze on both sides. Kind of a unicorn for me.
This is where I had an epihany. Why not use the packaging the drive came in as your template? After finding center on the baffle and cardboard, lined it up and drew my circle. Then cut inside the line for safety and then you got a baffle. Also my first build that I cut the baffle with a jigsaw and not a router. Way faster and looked almost as good. Just need a jigsaw that blows away the dust for you
That's the MCM 8" I'm using. BTW, whenever I'm finding center, I keeping thinking it looks like the start of a Dead Kennedy's logo. I use to draw them a lot in school.
Driver mounted to baffle and what happens? Baffle slap. So I had to trim about a 1/16" all the way around. That ring is what I cut out. I got some skills
I'm liking the new retention blocks a lot better than t-nuts or hurricanes. F that.
Another thing I learned for cutting the angles a lot easier, is to place the panel on side panel pencil lines it corresponds to and make a mark to find the needed angle. Connect the dots on the width and down the length and you'll not only know exactly where you need to set your saw, but also the correct way so you don't cut it backwards. Panel 1 angle cuts are dead on as to the layout. I hope this lucky streak keeps going.
