Sonotube Wall Thickness

Dryseals · 24th March 2006, 10:06 PM

I'm working a ton of overtime for the next two months and will only have a few minutes each night to play with my speakers. So for a quick toy, I was looking at building a couple of sosntube type subs. The vendors in the area that sell the sonotube are not open during my off hours, but homedepot and another local are. I found the concrete forms there, but I was wondering on the wall thickness of the sonotubes.

Can anyone giver me the wall thickness of the sonotubes, the forms I found may work, but I want to be sure.

Thanks in advance.

soloxp · 25th March 2006, 05:56 AM

I just got the 18" diameter sonotube and the wall is 1/8". I think as you go in diameter it get thicker...not for sure.

bwbass · 26th March 2006, 06:41 PM

There's a size chart on their site here (PDF): http://www.sonoco.com/resources/fibreforms.pdf

Though the ones I've seen at Home Depot were not Sonotubes, they were Quickrete forms, and the walls on those were much thinner.

Dryseals · 27th March 2006, 09:57 PM

Thanks for the chart, I was hoping the sonotubes would have a much thicker wall. I'm thinking now of a tube within a tube and a filler. Another thing that got me wondering was a tubes within tubes to create a type of horn. Just a thought.

bwbass · 28th March 2006, 05:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Dryseals
Another thing that got me wondering was a tubes within tubes to create a type of horn. Just a thought.

"Folded" Sonotube TL Sub Complete!

...or a TL.

24th March 2006, 10:06 PM	#1
Dryseals diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Texas	Sonotube Wall Thickness I'm working a ton of overtime for the next two months and will only have a few minutes each night to play with my speakers. So for a quick toy, I was looking at building a couple of sosntube type subs. The vendors in the area that sell the sonotube are not open during my off hours, but homedepot and another local are. I found the concrete forms there, but I was wondering on the wall thickness of the sonotubes. Can anyone giver me the wall thickness of the sonotubes, the forms I found may work, but I want to be sure. Thanks in advance.

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25th March 2006, 05:56 AM	#2
soloxp diyAudio Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Texas	I just got the 18" diameter sonotube and the wall is 1/8". I think as you go in diameter it get thicker...not for sure.

26th March 2006, 06:41 PM	#3
bwbass diyAudio Member Join Date: Oct 2004	There's a size chart on their site here (PDF): http://www.sonoco.com/resources/fibreforms.pdf Though the ones I've seen at Home Depot were not Sonotubes, they were Quickrete forms, and the walls on those were much thinner.

27th March 2006, 09:57 PM	#4
Dryseals diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Texas	Thanks for the chart, I was hoping the sonotubes would have a much thicker wall. I'm thinking now of a tube within a tube and a filler. Another thing that got me wondering was a tubes within tubes to create a type of horn. Just a thought.