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since there's been some talk about this lately, i figured i'd start by sharing my latest and greatest... feel free to chime in!

i was building a single 15" box for my friend. got to his house a little late, so me, him, and 2 other bored guys drove to home depot, arriving at 10 minutes til close. we run in, me assigning people various goodies to track down. i grab the wood, another friend grabbed a guy to make all the cuts for us (he was loving it....) and we got out about 15 minutes after close, 10:15. we'd all been drinking before hand , and continued during the box building process . thankfully the box came out great, but it was the little things that were funny, like the fact that we didn't consider the neighbors until AFTER we cut the hole for the sub (at 2:30 in the morning). PLUS the hole was too small, so i had to make about 8 more cuts before i got the hole big enough . then after siliconing up the box, i wrestled with both the silicone and my intoxication to try and get it off. after trying many different soaps (which i knew wouldn't work but thats all there was) i decided to try some comet. which merely led to green hands and a lovely smell.

i'm sure i'm forgetting stuff, but i want to keep it fairly short. no project seems to go as planned!

 
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hey that sounds familiar with my story but we arrived early that day and had to come back because we measured wrong and then they were closed. my hands were brown from the liquid nails and then green from the sponge

 
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I have a nasty scar from the enclosure I'm currently building. I was trimming the glass mat with my trusty x-acto knife(about a week and a half ago). Well, needless to say, I slipped off the mat, and spliced my index finger open. Fvck stitches, I used some electrical tape, and a paper towel, taped it up, and continued with the box building. Looking back, it was pretty stupid, but hell, I didn't have time to go to the hospital. I also have a piece of resined glass embedded in my forearm from not paying attention when moving the box from inside the workshop to my sanging bay I have made (yeah, it's a dusty job, and I don't want the whole place all messy, so I quarantined an area off in the garage for sanding and sanding only. I rigged it up with an old shop vac to suck up dust as much as possible. I digress. I was carrying it, sat it down to begin sanding, and I bumped into it pretty hard when walking off. I felt a stinging sensation in my arm, and when I looked, I had a piece of hardened weave sticking out of my forearm. I grapped it, yelled a bit, and yanked. Evidently, it broke off a small piece. It still hurts a little when I bump it on something, and this was several weeks ago. Ehh, sacrifices made I guess.

 
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I spent hours upon hours designing and building my current box, and it was almost done, we had siliconed all the edges, glued it all together, and then when it came time to cut the hole for the wire terminal we got sloppy and cut it too damn big. we had to smash the back off the box, scrape all the **** off and build an entire new back. Doesn't sound that bad but it was a real pain in the ***. Next time we did it we made sure we started the hole small and got bigger

That's the worst I've got, I am usually pretty careful with building boxes, knowing that I am super lazy and don't want to do anything twice.

 
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ouch, slicing your finger is pretty bad. hope your tetnus is good. i put a penknife into my thumb over a year ago and still can't feel half of my thumb, it just tingles. glad yours healed, i took 10 stitches (i was at work, if it was box building who knows if i would have gone )

 
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i'd have:
A. used bigger wire
B. glued the beejeezus out of that thing to seal it or
C. done anything but all the work you just described

i try to be careful but sometimes the best tools aren't available and THATS when the goofs come.

 
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Used bigger wire why? It was for a wire terminal, I wasn't just sticking wire thru... It was like really really off, it wasn't salvageable, it had to be screwed down and it was too big to even get any screws in. I'm talking about major bonehead move

 
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i haved had to go back to the metal store for more 2x2 steel tubing and back to home depot time and time and again for more concrete and those big tubs that look like play pools to mix it in.

 
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hmm... i bought my mekp hardener from select products in a huuuuuge container
like half a gallon, which is enough for 100's of gallons of resin
soooo
i was curious
what happens if you mix equal parts of resin and hardener
serious serious chemical reaction

the stuff gets SUPER hot (melted the plastic cup it was in)
starts expanding like mad, and smoke goes everywhere

needless to say, dont try it unless youre in a controlled environment

theres also the time where i got stuck in my car upside down
see, when doing alarm wiring i find that the most comfortable spot is in the car seat, upside-down, so you can just look straight up at the wiring. I dont know what the hell I did, nor has it happened again, but somehow i managed to get caught in the car for a good 5 minutes squirming trying to get out.
somehow the door closed on me and i couldnt reach the handle so i had to find a way to swing my body in some odd angle to flip upside-down

im sure i could find a few more stories, but i cant recall as of now

 
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I bought two large sheets of MDF to build my current trunk setup. Since I was also grabbin a ton of hardware for the project, I enlisted my friend to help me out. He brought his dad's CRV with him and off to Home Depot we went.
Got there, had everything we needed, paid, and off to the car. Cocky bastards we were, thinking we could get TWO UNCUT 4x8 sheets of MDF in a CRV. HA! After wrestling with the bastards for 20 minutes in the parking lot, I hauled the stuff back in and had a guy cut one sheet in half, then the other in even smaller pieces. Got back out, and guess what, the two halves STILL didn't fit in. Screw it, I basically put my back into it and we shoved these pieces into the car, wrecking a bunch of the interior plastic trim in the trunk.
Get back to my house - took half an hour to get the stuff out, and yet again wrecked more pieces of the car's interior trim.
Then while I was doing my jigsaw cuts, I failed to notice the fact that I was also cutting through my makeshift workbench, which was a study table my mom had bought me many many years ago. She's STILL mad about that.

 
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im on my pda so this will be short but one time, while making kickpods, i did the glassing on my bench, and some excess resin spilled, ran off the table, and i somehow "glassed" my pantleg to the bench. i think theres still a peice of my jeans stuck to the bench!

 
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HAHAHAHHAHAH that's a good one

 
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you can make bombs with two part glue


just add both parts to a water bottle, put the cap on and throw it

 
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see, this makes me happy. this forum is finally strting to pick up again... back in late 2001, and all through 2002, this board was a wealth of information, and there was always people doing things. me, mohwkboom, whiterabbit, alex053, sqcivic, and a few other oldschoolers would have great threads going with the most absolutely ridiculous arguments that would go on forever. this thread, the midbass thread, and 1 or 2 others make me happy....

 
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i have a box bulding story.

ok it was a 3 man team, i was cutting metal, would hand to the guy welding, then the 3rd guy was two pannels back sealing it up with liquid nails. ok...fresh liquid nails on the pannel caught on fire from a spark from the welder....OH ****!!! man on fire. the apron he was wearing was where all the exess liquid nailes ended up....just imagine a guy on fire, jumping off the top of a 1994 toyota lifted on 35's hahahahahahhahahah.

it burned its self out pretty quick and he escaped with no harm...

good times at 3 am.

 
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You were making a box out of metal?

 
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frame of 2x2 steel, one sheet of 1" 13 ply birch on the inside of the frame, 16ga steel on the outside, fill the middle with concrete and rebar. face of box was a sandwhich of half inch aluminum, birch wood,another half inch of alum.

back wall 9" thick of concrete and rebar, roof of box was 3/4 U beam steel. each piece weighed about 85 pounds. took us all nite to cut the 9 pieces that made up the roof, then we filled those with concrete also

what you dont make boxes like this??

 
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maybe a black box for an airplane

i love the man on fire story. it's like something out of a "vacation" movie

 
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black box for an airplane isnt 44+ cubic feet with a port you can sit in

 
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How's this?













4" of wood
6" of concrete
1" plexi
4x one of a kind triple voice coil 12" subs
18,000 watts from 12 amps
16 batteries

= 166.5 dB on the AC sensor, good for 2nd loudest overall in Canada, 3rd in the world in dB Drag Extreme 3-4

Is that enough box for you?

Got pics of what you built? I love looking at SPL vehicles

 
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The amp rack is different now, there are only 8 batteries in the car in that pic, and the power distro has been moved from plain view off to the side, I thought I had completed pics but I don't, but you get the gist of it anyway.

 
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And best of all, it's a Civic!

 
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How many of us can admit to building a box too big that wouldn't slide in after we were done building it?

 
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Not here, I use a box building technique called measuring to prevent that problem

 
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Measuring is for wussies

 
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Not my own, but I witnessed it all first hand. Coworker in the wood shop, drying a just resined enclosure for S500. Using a heat gun on relatively low setting, as anyone who knows glass its flammable stuff. All well and good, except he had not routered out the hole for the sub. Fumes build up inside the box, heat up, and BOOM, box goes up in flames. BIG flames, like to the ceiling (16' ?). Coworker runs, another coworker comes running in with extinguisher in hand, goggles, and a respirator. Funniest damn thing I've ever seen. Room has double doors, all glass, so you can see the smoke just filling the room like crazy. Fire extinguisher man has no chance in there, comes out coughing but OK. Now we can hear the fire engines, and two seconds later dozens of Watertowns finest come flying into the building, knocking over benches, throwing ish everywhere. All of this while myself and a couple other people try to pull some of the $400,000 some odd $ worth of cars we have in the shop outside. Firemen go in , letting more 02 into room, now bigger flames. They were worried about the fire spreading into the upstairs offices, so they proceed to smash every ceiling tile and light in the place. 5 mins later its all out, you would never know the fire dept was there if you saw the place (minus the wood shop) and we have ammo for anytime this guy busts our *****. Classic. We had a good laugh and new wood shop!

 
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the wall i put in my civic was to big..had to cut off about 6 inches from the back of the box and re nail