July 15th.
Here’s one of the cabinets fully assembled, just awaiting
doors to be fit, and painted. The legs
are glued in place, using solid dowel pins, and one or two deeply recessed
countersunk screws. These things are
never coming off.
This enclosure is a little bit different, as it has a
permanent panel installed. This location
will still have a door on it, but the inside is dedicated use as a downward
firing subwoofer speaker.
Here’s a little bit better view of the backside of the
subwoofer portion of the cabinet. The
speaker goes in the bottom, and fires downwards towards the ground and the
dedicated single channel 500watt amplifier will be flush mounted on the back.
One necessary addition.
I notched the bottom and side panels to facilitate airflow to the
cabinets. Since I know that at least two
will be taken up by audio or video equipment, I would need to ensure adequate
airflow to the components. These notches
and large cutouts will allow access to wires, connections, and allow thermal
convection airflow to take place. Once
the doors are closed, you’d never know they existed.
Ok, it’s time to try out my new paint method. I purchased a Wagner Control Spray Plus
painting system. It’s not anything like
the regular Wagner Power Painters of the past.
This uses high velocity air to distribute paint. I’m painting the door frames in this
photo. It worked very surprisingly
well. It’s not the perfect end all, be
all solution, but it worked better than my broken down air compressor and the
brush method.
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