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Uh oh... I let my shop become plugged with another project... it’s a younger fella with a square body ton GM pick up... got a soft spot for those... he’s putting box crossmembers in. He was gonna put a flatbed on it, I said “no way, come over and fix your box”.

Second pic is my long overdue square body project, 6V53 DD. Gotta finish this over the summer...
 

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Uh oh... I let my shop become plugged with another project... it’s a younger fella with a square body ton GM pick up... got a soft spot for those... he’s putting box crossmembers in. He was gonna put a flatbed on it, I said “no way, come over and fix your box”.

Second pic is my long overdue square body project, 6V53 DD. Gotta finish this over the summer...
That is a big hunk a iron ya got there!
 

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Oh, it was “island garbage day” today also. Found the hidden spray bomb in there. Napalmed my woods, had to dig out the hose...
Did that once back in the day [60's] burning trash in 55 gallon drums, a can of mom's hairspray got left in and a fireball came roaring straight up about ten feet, big noise.
 

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Couple pieces of sheet metal through my friends shear and break, dirty ol’ flux core welder and a few tremclad spray bombs later... nice to see an original box on the old truck, lots of locals have a boner for “flat bottoms” as they call them here... junk fabricated flat beds. Don’t see many survivors here.
 

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Got the cabinets home. Installed wiring and speakers in one. Did a frequency sweep with a shunt resistor and she came in at 34hz with 8” ports. Lengthened the ports to 12” and she only dropped to 31-32hz. Was shooting for 26-28hz... I would have to cut away a bit of a gusset board to go longer with the port.

Sounds good, One cabinet really not enough for the shop, that’s why there’s three more!
 

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I eould think that is good enough for you to be unable to hear yourself shout What The F--- anymore, wouldn't you? :thin::tshirt::headbang:
 

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Been pounding a few tunes here, so far I’m impressed with these drivers. After the frequency sweep I had this one cabinet hooked to the Mx3000 by itself so 3200 watts bridged @ 4 ohm and they didn’t object at all. Even with 1600w per driver. I didn’t push things real hard for long but did blink the clip lights once or twice. Nice deep lows on the kick drum. I then wired in the lo-max in series which gave me 2400w/4 drivers for 600w per. This is the configuration these speakers will see when all is complete. Two Mx3000’s bridged with 8 ohm load for 600w x8 drivers. They bump pretty good at 600w each and I would expect them to live at that no problem. I can feel a little heat on the dust cap after a few hours of playing, but not that much above ambient. I think these four cabinets will fill this fairly large space with some pretty thick bass.

Edit. These drivers don’t come with back gaskets... just noticed that today when I actually went to screw then in semi permanently...
 
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