Homemade Super-Neo Woofer: THE CHEVELLE RESTORATION IS DONE, dampener recommendations??

[jbarnes3123]

20+ notifications. Got excited. It was just comments. Going to cry in the corner now.

[STEvil]

yeah I think i'd be a bit worried about 5/16 thread failing too..

You could build a "spreader" which basically does this same function, just a bit of work to build it..

[randall.pool]

You could always use a couple of screw jacks. The type that comes in most vehicles. You build a frame that you bolt the jacks to(top and bottom). You use the upper frame to support the upper plate and then just take turns screwing down each jack.

[Dwn4BassAlan]

You could always use a couple of screw jacks. The type that comes in most vehicles. You build a frame that you bolt the jacks to(top and bottom). You use the upper frame to support the upper plate and then just take turns screwing down each jack.

lol thats actually a really ingenious idea if you could get a reasonable top frame and and aluminum jack. But if the jack got that close to the motor structure it would be a real problem considering scissor jacks are almost always steel.......and I only have 1 big aluminum jack, but it would be harder to control them anyway.

Update: I got the aluminum rods cut, both the square rods for the top plate attachment, and the 1/4" pieces for separating basket/top plate for the cooling.

I'll post the pics when I get home.

[STEvil]

steel screw jacks might be ok, just a bit of work to peel them off once done lol. Maybe put a chunk of aluminum between the jack and motor/magnets.

The hardest part would be sourcing some aluminum square tube to bend to build supports for the top and bottom plates to set the jack on probably.

[Dwn4BassAlan]

steel screw jacks might be ok, just a bit of work to peel them off once done lol. Maybe put a chunk of aluminum between the jack and motor/magnets.

The hardest part would be sourcing some aluminum square tube to bend to build supports for the top and bottom plates to set the jack on probably.

Whats the aluminum tube for? You mean the part that the jack would support? If so, I had a slightly easier idea.

I was picturing something like this; the top plate on bottom, with a 1/2" piece of wood on top of it, then I would screw holes in the wood and then screw the basket on to hold it firmly and sandwich the wood between the plate and basket, then use a jack on both sides that the wood rests on and slowly lower it downwards. So then when it's on I could unscrew the basket, remove the wood, easy breezy.

But of course nothing can be that easy. I would need a way to hold the bottom of the motor down, but it has to be removable without sliding over the magnets obviously, and since it will be on the ground assuming that I use aluminum jacks it would be a little challenging.

It if could use steel jacks I could get some elevation and then use my wood clamps, but they are ridiculously permeable. I took the jack out of my moms mercedes to test it out, and I almost couldn't pull it away even though it wasn't attached......I don't want to risk a slip during the combination and then having the plate just smash down causing irreparable damage, so I think I'm gonna have to stick with my idea for now, unless I can borrow another aluminum jack and figure out how to keep the bottom motor piece completely still.

[STEvil]

Thats why I suggested the aluminum tubes. Wood would be "easier" but would be even weaker...

You put two tubes (two because they need to be bent around the pole to be able to slide in/out) against the top plate (underneath it), and two against the bottom plate (on top of it), then set the jacks between the tubes and let it down slowly.

[Mtnbikecrazy55]

Shit I just typed up this whole thing but i somehow lost it. Fuck!

[Mtnbikecrazy55]

So here it is again. Make a cage/ack. Bolt base and magnets to the bottom. Then attach the top page to a bracket that's connected to the top plate with bolts that are in the holes where the basket will go. Have everything lined up perfectly. Shims optional. But would actually act like a shim rather than a wedge and could be nice and reasonably loose, so not jammed. Anyway, then weld that bracket to a threaded rod. I originally thought fine threads so that it would bring the two parts into contact slower, but then I thought about the magnetic power stripping the fine thread. So then I thought big teeth but then I thought deep thread but then i thougbht how flat the planes of the thread would be and with the magnet force being so strong to make the pieces hard/inpossible to turn, so then I thought a large coarse thread hardened steel like the thread of a crank puller so even stronger threads/sfeel, and then slowly ower the bracket by threading it down. From a precicely mounted nut that would be welded to the center top of the cage/rack.

Kind of like a hydraulic press looks with a clamp screw looking thing instead lol.

I can draw a picture if you want to if you even care at all lol. For all I know everything could be together already lol

Good job in school, well done.

[Dwn4BassAlan]

So here it is again. Make a cage/ack. Bolt base and magnets to the bottom. Then attach the top page to a bracket that's connected to the top plate with bolts that are in the holes where the basket will go. Have everything lined up perfectly. Shims optional. But would actually act like a shim rather than a wedge and could be nice and reasonably loose, so not jammed. Anyway, then weld that bracket to a threaded rod. I originally thought fine threads so that it would bring the two parts into contact slower, but then I thought about the magnetic power stripping the fine thread. So then I thought big teeth but then I thought deep thread but then i thougbht how flat the planes of the thread would be and with the magnet force being so strong to make the pieces hard/inpossible to turn, so then I thought a large coarse thread hardened steel like the thread of a crank puller so even stronger threads/sfeel, and then slowly ower the bracket by threading it down. From a precicely mounted nut that would be welded to the center top of the cage/rack.

Kind of like a hydraulic press looks with a clamp screw looking thing instead lol.

I can draw a picture if you want to if you even care at all lol. For all I know everything could be together already lol

Good job in school, well done.

lol I've been doing chem, psych, and english for the last 6 hours, I can't even form the slightest idea of this contraption. I'll re-read tomorrow when I'm not in a metal state equivalent to being on LSD.