Not a question, just something I attempted that came out really well.
I got a 15y/o 6.5" Samsung subwoofer from town trash. Orig enclosure was on its back in a puddle...not usable.
Not worth spending cash or even waste new plywood on. So I decided to try to make an enclosure out of left over scrap. That fits snuggle in my shelving unit.
I Used:
-24"x13" piece of sheathing plywood left over from fixing my roof.
-A 15" sqyare piece of 1/8" sanded plywood left from skinning my fish tank stand.
-the drawer from a child's maple night stand
-A childs floating bookshelf
-base is cut from heavy MDF kitchen cabinet toe kick/trim.
-scraps of left over 2"x4"s and 1"x3"s
-used left over paint from the bathroom
-used $1 store drywall screws (2.33¢ per screw, my low expectations meant 6¢ wood screws would be a waste)
-used $1 stire latex caulk to seal
-I kept the original cardboard 2.5" port tube, Incase it got damp/weak I dried overnight with a fan. sanded both sides, painted the inside with enamel paint. Reinforced it's outside with pva glue and a paper tube/roll
Wires and clip -port taken out of a different speaker from the trash
It (alone) is powered by a 100w+50w*2 tpa2116d2 because receiver needs an active sub. All other speakers are passive.
It works pretty well.
Only caveat is: it originally had no crossovers/filters. Receiver doesn't have separate subwoofer except for volume. Was hoping the the drivers natural roll off pkus bass frequency tunning knob on the TPA3116 would be enough of a low pass filter but it's still too loud at 1.5khz.
I think I need to add an inductor.
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*PS check out the bumble bees painted on the green shelf mdf inside.
*PSS don't use a table saw to cut 1" strips of wood into 0.5" strips of wood. I have a few thousand dollars in medicals bills and 9.75 fingers left making this $2 enclosure (but that's my recklessness, not the enclosures fault)
I got a 15y/o 6.5" Samsung subwoofer from town trash. Orig enclosure was on its back in a puddle...not usable.
Not worth spending cash or even waste new plywood on. So I decided to try to make an enclosure out of left over scrap. That fits snuggle in my shelving unit.
I Used:
-24"x13" piece of sheathing plywood left over from fixing my roof.
-A 15" sqyare piece of 1/8" sanded plywood left from skinning my fish tank stand.
-the drawer from a child's maple night stand
-A childs floating bookshelf
-base is cut from heavy MDF kitchen cabinet toe kick/trim.
-scraps of left over 2"x4"s and 1"x3"s
-used left over paint from the bathroom
-used $1 store drywall screws (2.33¢ per screw, my low expectations meant 6¢ wood screws would be a waste)
-used $1 stire latex caulk to seal
-I kept the original cardboard 2.5" port tube, Incase it got damp/weak I dried overnight with a fan. sanded both sides, painted the inside with enamel paint. Reinforced it's outside with pva glue and a paper tube/roll
Wires and clip -port taken out of a different speaker from the trash
It (alone) is powered by a 100w+50w*2 tpa2116d2 because receiver needs an active sub. All other speakers are passive.
It works pretty well.
Only caveat is: it originally had no crossovers/filters. Receiver doesn't have separate subwoofer except for volume. Was hoping the the drivers natural roll off pkus bass frequency tunning knob on the TPA3116 would be enough of a low pass filter but it's still too loud at 1.5khz.
I think I need to add an inductor.
EDIT
*PS check out the bumble bees painted on the green shelf mdf inside.
*PSS don't use a table saw to cut 1" strips of wood into 0.5" strips of wood. I have a few thousand dollars in medicals bills and 9.75 fingers left making this $2 enclosure (but that's my recklessness, not the enclosures fault)
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It's more of a FUN idea than a Good idea. Took three times as long and looks half as good as making a cube from a fresh 4'x4' x 3/4" piece of plywood.
I figured the 1/8" ply would need an interior frame to reinforce it. It needed a lot more than just a frame, hence the mess of odd shaped bits of wood glued into the top and right sides
It's fits perfectly snug into the shelf cubby so only the front is visible. I put a coat of spackle over the dimples and indents, drying today. Then one more coat of that blueish-greenish-grey paint. (all my diy enclosures are that color).
Driver is mounted from the outside, to cover up my horribly cut circlr. Acoustic foam would bulge out, so no cover. End product will be a what's pictured just a little cleaner
Not till he acquired some cloth from an old discarded couch or recliner with a free sign on it in the neighborhood.
Seriously, got to love this.
Seriously, got to love this.
My neighbor took my dead gunked up generic generator off my curb on bulk trash day. I took a toddlers outgrown bedroom set off his curb.
IDK what he did with the generator, he watched me chop up the bedroom set.
The child size bed slats have been used in a dozen different projects.
Worth repeating. NO wood project is worth fingers.
Salvage more bed-slats and other bits you can use as-found.
I once went to a neurosurgeon's office about my back. He came in the exam room and visibly flinched. I had done a small job on the tablesaw just before. To him, that wood-dust smell meant he was going to be sewing fingers back on. Of course I had not scheduled an accident a month in advance, but his nasal-mind leapt to the thought anyway.
That's Funny. I go to a orthopedist/neurologyist monthly for my back the nurse walked in on me redoing the layers of gauze (it's still a bleeding open wound). She assumed I was there about the finger and told the Dr. who came running in "You have to go to the ER right now!" 🙄
We all had a laugh and It was the 1st time I didn't wait 40min in the exam room for the Dr. to show.