I prefer grill cloth.
I've used semi gloss Krylon spray paint on steel products.
Pros often use powder coat for metal grills.
I've used semi gloss Krylon spray paint on steel products.
Pros often use powder coat for metal grills.
You need a proper primer before paint. You don't need a primer surfacer ( which is for sanding / leveling )
In order from cheaper / less good to best:
Etch primer
Direct to metal 2K Urethane primer
Epoxy primer - 2K
The last two are more toxic, and you need good PPE with gloves and a respirator. You cannot spray this in your house, or a confined space. Outdoors is preferred if you don't have good air movement.
Prep is important, the metal needs to be degreased properly, then lightly abraded to give mechanical 'tooth'. After abrasion, cleaning again with a pre-paint solvent blend and a two - rag system, one wet, the other dry to wipe off the cleaned area before it dries by evaporation. I'd suggest lightly sanding with P180 grit on an orbital sander lightly before the final cleaning / priming. Alternately, you could use a maroon hand scuff pad.
I've not used it, but Eastwood makes a 2K epoxy primer spray can. Once the product is activated by breaking the seal on the catalyst, the entire can must be used within 48 hours.
Hope that helps. A satin black paint will give you a much more pro look than a semi-gloss. The older ( prior to about 2017 ) Krylon Satin Black was ok, but the newer formulation doesn't work as well and looks different, dries slower ~ less expensive solvent package perhaps. SEM Bumper & Trim Satin Black also looks quite nice.
At a bare minimum you should have nitrile gloves and a properly fitted respirator with activated cartridges, not a 'dust mask' if using any materials with catalysts like the Eastwood spray cans I mentioned. A dust mask will possibly keep large chunks out, but will do nothing to protect you from the isocyantes in the 2K primer.
Beards or stubble will render the respirator ineffective. You must be clean shaven in order to provide a 100% seal against your face. Autobody supply houses or a safety supply house can aid you in fit testing a respirator before purchase.
Isocyante exposure over time can cause sensitization, with different thresholds for different people. Best to keep yourself safe by spending a few dollars on safety, rather than wish you didn't.
Beards or stubble will render the respirator ineffective. You must be clean shaven in order to provide a 100% seal against your face. Autobody supply houses or a safety supply house can aid you in fit testing a respirator before purchase.
Isocyante exposure over time can cause sensitization, with different thresholds for different people. Best to keep yourself safe by spending a few dollars on safety, rather than wish you didn't.
Small Question would the Rockville RVW1500P8 work well in the cubo 15?
TS Parameters as follows:
TS Parameters as follows:
- Xmax: 7.5MM
- Fs: 28.3Hz
- Qms: 3.971
- Cms: 230.27
- Bl: 16.978
- Zmin: 8.16
- Re: 6.8
- Qes: 0.576
- Mms: 137.352
- dBspl: 91.9
- L1kHz: 2.1mH
- Sd: 88.141
- Qts: 0.503
- Rms: 6.12
- VAS: 254.028
- L10kHz: 0.33mH
I'm asking you cause I'm not a fan of cubo but if you paste the cubo HR screen I can sim your driver for you .... I'm not a horn resp whiz but I can sim different drivers now 😆
I've also seen online where they're saying it doesn't sim well in hornresp because of its hybrid nature.
Played at a Back to School Fair/Funday yesterday...10 inch tops with 1 inch compression drivers, thing was screaming...they had to tell me to turn it down a couple times haha