Check out the thickness of the ply wood!! Cool huh! Definitely prepare it and use wood glue. Also use screws, 8 in total, to secure it. One in each corner and two on either side of the long bits.
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Split my SVT810 last night... HELP!
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What do you do to get it up the stairs? Just drag it? You should at least invest in some skid rails and a kick plate if your going to scrape it up and down the stairs by yourself. Wow.
PL Premium > Carpenter's Glue > White Glue > Grade School Paste >Spit.
Its strong enough that you don't need screws, nails or any other kind of fastener and it expands so it seals as it goes. Its also easy to work with...wear gloves otherwise it takes a couple weeks to get off the skin...
Its just that, like Gorilla Glue, I had bad results when it expanded, pushing pieces apart.
My comment was not meant to be smart-a*#ED
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Having good clamps (or failing that using a couple nails/screws) to hold things firm is always wise. PL is pretty awesome stuff...easy to work with, quick drying and pretty much the strongest thing out there. There are a lot of guys who have built cabs with it and no mechanical fasteners that are just as solid as any cab built with screws or nails.
Look at the picture blown up, there are two wheels on the broken piece, I don't even know what for either. They look like anything they were attached to would have been totally unbalanced. Were is the input jack? Is that even a speaker?
I'm pretty it's lying on its side. The wheels are on a tilt-back section so you can move it. The speakers are up against those grey crates.
Ohhhh, so he just broke off the bottom were the casters are! Those look like some afterrmarket casters too. I wonder how long a glue job would last as that is the most stressed point while moving. I would start using a hand truck. It's like one of those pictures were you flip the picture of the pretty girl to see the old hag.
Looks like you guys figured it out! You're looking at the bottom and the missing piece is the tilt back with the casters (which are after-market!) The right side is the back of the cab and it's on it's side. The soft case on the right is actually for a floor tom.
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It's supposed to expand. You do have the either fasten or clamp the joint so that the expansion is into the pores of the wood and, especially in this case, the fractures between the parts.
What I want to know is why is that thing made of chipboard anyway?!?
I had no idea that they were made like that! Does Ikea make cabs for Ampeg now? No wonder they weigh a ton!
Would it kill Ampeg to make these out of 1/2" ply? Would that break the bank?, they're already charging $800 for them new.
Thats why if I were to be shopping for a big cabinet I'd get a Bergantino. Its better in almost every respect. The only downside? It doesn't say Ampeg.
Phendyr_Loon said:
Particle board and MDF are pretty common in other types of speaker building. They are often favored over plywood* since they are void free, denser/ less resonant, easy to machine, and of course cheaper. Void-free hardwood plywood is expensive. This one looks like it is OSB, btw.
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I flat-out REFUSE to spend my hard earned ( and increasingly scarce) money on particleboard cabs.
Particleboard makes sense for home stereo components, because it is dense and fairly acoustically neutral, but for musical equipment that's getting moved around all the time?
For that spot, I think angle-iron reinforcements would be a good idea. My 95# Peavey Classic 400 head has them, and it weighs 70# less than that 810. Incidentally, the Peavey is built out of plywood...
Ampeg has a well-earned name as the king of bass amplification, but construction like that makes me wonder if they're letting the name do too much of the talking...
I flat-out REFUSE to spend my hard earned ( and increasingly scarce) money on particleboard cabs.
Particleboard makes sense for home stereo components, because it is dense and fairly acoustically neutral, but for musical equipment that's getting moved around all the time?
For that spot, I think angle-iron reinforcements would be a good idea. My 95# Peavey Classic 400 head has them, and it weighs 70# less than that 810. Incidentally, the Peavey is built out of plywood...
Ampeg has a well-earned name as the king of bass amplification, but construction like that makes me wonder if they're letting the name do too much of the talking...
