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Old 05-17-2005, 12:27 PM   #2 (permalink)
BGizzlePatrick
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From: GHoodyear, Arizona
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While i let the adhesive settle I went to cut the fleece. Some people use real fiberglass mats but i found that fleece might work just as fine and is much much cheaper by the yard in walmart. In this case I bought me a whole bunch of regular blue fleece for about 6bucks a yard but any collor of fleece will do fine but i just love blue lol:
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I just layed the fleece down and put my piece on it and cut a good size of the fleece off. Notice i cut to where i have very big piece of fleece just to make sure it will stretch since it will adjust to the form of the tweeter housing. Just keep in mind to give yourself enough fleece to work with. You can always cut the excess off later on:
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After this i just took the adhesive again and put it on the edges of the tweeter housing so the fleece will stay on the same spot while i will stretch and pull it over the whole piece. I used the contact adhesive because it just works wonderfully with the fleece. Since its thick and sticky you can put it on and stretch the fleece over it and it stays right away without having to hold the fleece in place while waiting for the adhesive to settle. Anyways, i put adhesive on the inner tweeter trim and on the bottom edges of the whole piece:
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Just pull the fleece all the way down to the edges and make sure it looks nice and even:
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After you gave it a minute or two you can go ahead and start to trim off the excess fleece arround the edges to make it look nice:
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At the same time i also cut out the hole for the tweeter itself:
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Now the real fun begins! Go to HomeDepot or WalMart and pick up one can of Bondo Fiberglass Resin such as this one:
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This stuff is great! You just pour the resin into a container where u can mix it, drop a feew drops of the hardener that came with it into it. In this case i just poured it onto a paper plate since im just taking the piece and kinda "dunk" it into the resin:
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Last edited by BGizzlePatrick : 05-17-2005 at 04:00 PM. Reason: Broken Links
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