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I contemplated just pouring it in, but I don't have anywhere near the experience to be able to do that so I went by the book with my mixture. Yeah, the resin is hella thick, I'd say like the consistency of honey. I think it would be much more user friendly to use a thinner resin, at least for as small a job as I did today. Thinner mat would have been nice too. When I bought the mat I didn't consider how flexible it would or wouldn't be, I just assumed once the resin soaked in it would conform to whatever shape I needed it to. Boy was I wrong.Yeah, it was brutal being in the garage glassing. But I got it done. Now I just gotta cut out the holes in the actual amp rack, sand and paint it and it's ready to go.

Makes sense. I think I went above and beyond when I put it on my doors, but oh well, should help my front stage sound good......I hope.

Not too sure why you're telling me about the walmart resin, but ok.When I first gave it a go, I mixed 6 oz. It said pot time was 15-20 minutes so I figured I could handle both enclosures in that time span easily. So after my experiment went bad and I got good info from Stephen and zfrerichs, I ended up mixing 4oz. pots and it was just the perfect amount. This was only my second time in my life using fiberglass, hopefully I'll never have a need for it again, it wasn't fun. I guess 107* weather doesn't help much either, at least not when applying it. For curing, it's perfect! My enclosures are in my oven, err, garage, baking as we speak.

Thanks to both of you guys I was able to get both amp enclosures done in this hot ass heat. Couldn't have done it w/o ya!

Cool. Thank for the quick response.Just so I understand it better. The less hardener I put in, the longer it'll take to cure? Will it still cure as strong if I were to put more hardener? Just wondering.

Half of what's recommended on the jug of resin I have or half of what's recommended on that chart?

I went out to my garage to lay down about 4 layers of glass on each joint of my amp enclosures, didn't get past the first layer on the first enclosure cause the resin turned into jello on me. It's not like I was out there lolly-gaggin' either. I poured the resin into a bowl, poked a hole in the hardener and put in the recommended amount, mixed it up for about 20 seconds and then brushed some resin onto the enclosure. Snapped a pic. Layed down one piece of fiberglass (that I had precut), resined it, snapped a pic. Layed down the other piece of glass, resined it. Snapped a pic. Placed another piece of glass over the first piece I layed down and went to resin it, when I pulled the brush up I noticed the resin wasn't dripping. I put the brush back in it and attempted to stir the mixture, shit was like jello! WTF? The jug says 14 drops of hardener per ounce of resin. I mixed 6 oz of resin so I put 84 drops of hardener. What am I doing wrong? I need to get this right before I get it another go cause I don't have much hardener left and I want to be able to lay the rest of the glass on both enclosures. BTW, it's 107 here in Sac, prolly a little hotter in my garage. I'm using the Bondo all purpose resin and Bondo glass mat.

Haha, that's my favorite one too! Almost spit up my drink when I read that one.

Looks good vic, just wondering the same as above.When I did my isntall I did put some on the very inside of the door, where I could reach.

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Place looks good man, looks like DC Soundlab is doing big things. Congrats!

Here are my offerings. As you can see, i'm a rookie to photography but I think these one's are pretty decent. All the pics above were shot with a Pentax K100D w/kit lens Pic below was shot with a Canon A510 point and shoot

haha, ain't gonna happen bro.

Why did you leave those huge open holes exposed like that instead of covering them like you did the speaker opening?

there is no one best place for tweeter placement, it's 100% dependent on each vehicle.

Thread title is so inappropriate

I'd imagine they could wear out over time but to be honest with you bro, I think i've had to replace the main power lead fuse only once in any vehicle i've ever owned since I started putting systems in 17yrs ago. And even then, the fuse didn't blow, but it was warped somehow. So I wouldn't worry too much about the circuit breaker wearing out. If your breaker trips so much to where it wears out, I highly suggest you don't do anymore installs.

we're not on the same page because you weren't correctly stating what wire size you had. 2/0 is 2ga. But I see how/why you did that, noob mistake, no worries. So you're right, 400a fuse

200-250a fuse

before going any further, find out what size your wire is

your 2ga wire is very highly unlikely to carry 400a of current, especially at that distance, I'd imagine the wire would catch fire before that much power was carried across it. The whole point of fusing that lead is to prevent fires. I'd suggest a 250a fuse max for 2ga wire.

For 2ga wire you should use either between 200-250a fuse, anything within that range will do.

LMAO!Thanks bro, I needed that. HahaJudging from what I can see online, the XS D3400 can be had for $240 online, that alone is more than $100 more than the SVR, then I'd have to shell out another $40 for the iBar system, plus shipping for the iBar and Battery and we're getting pretty close, if not more than $300. That's nearly twice what the SVR will cost me.......... I'm a baller on a budget so this is what i'm gonna do, i'm gonna give the SVR a shot since I can get it so cheap, won't have to pay shipping and won't have to buy any accessories for it to use it the way I want to. If it doesn't work out then I'll let you guys say "I told you so" and then will get a D3400. Sound fair? I know you guys want to know how good those SVR's are too.

but you also gotta consider what you need. No sense is using a sledgehammer to kill a housefly, right?

I am a MK Battery vendor, MK is one of the largest battery suppliers in North America. We used their deep cycle batteries on the powered mobility equipment we sell and service and they do fail but most of the time it's because the end user isn't charging them like they should, or discharges them and lets them sit for a long time. We had an inservice from an MK sales rep recently and he said their failure rate is less than 5% company wide. MK Battery makes the SVR batteries so it sounds like it would be a good choice, especially since I can get it for $132