i know some of you hate/enjoy my absurd postings here....
have you been keepin an eye out for what hilarious stupids will i post next and try to shoot me down? =)
yeah, i'm here just to 'liven' things up with funny nonsense so here goes....
yes, recycle for the future!

the idea came from building my very own sound sticks 2 (yes i enjoy making things, even stupid things)but i failed to find any suitable 'container' and the closest i can find in the junk yard on sunday is....

what does it looks like?

like this?

so i'm gonna make it look like a tube thingy instead of sound sticks, spray the top with metallic spray on the inside, make down firing sub....
ok first i check the size of my spare woofer salvaged from the ton of altecs i keep for hobby/obsession?

ok this ones fits best.... =)

but this one fits into my other spare smaller woofy!!??

make big or small?
then should i put in 4.1 or 2.1? you want to help me pick later when i start making sats?

i'm gonna have to measure and cut the bottom of the bottle with a saw blade to fit woofy later
this should be cool, if i arrange the parts inside to looks like the innards of a tubey
ok stay tuned and give me some suggestions, ideas, moral or de-moral support =) because i'm gonna do it anyway since i bought the parts!

Haha, looking for to the results xD

Will the bottle be hard enough to hold itself from the pressure of the subwoofer? Unless its like hard, though plastic i dont think its going to work?

Unless you reinforce the bottle and make it heavy.

lol wow
never thought of using these plastic bottle coolers
I normally use these bottles for rocket building XD

i think the subwoofer/bottle you gotta stuff some foamy fillings to prevent unwanted sound

btw where'd u get that altec woofer from?
dun say it's from the 2100 cuz... u noe

ohya,I tot u wanna build them out of aquarium tank?
i remember u said so

This post has been edited by power911: Sep 13 2010, 05:28 PM

^ agreed.. the plastic might be a little too soft, might produce a "vroom vroom" sound

pet bottles usually can withstand high pressure thats why used for 'rocket' if use for sound solid lar!
its heavy enough and strong by itself and has nice smooth shape inside to nicely reverb your bass, so don't put any spoonge inside!!
comes with a free built in bass tube too =) wah hehe tommorow i cut it up and let you know how it sounds like la

i think i should do the big one?

big is better cuz heavier
but not sure lar,building a rocket is simple only,can withstand that pressure
ofcoz can withstand the bass power from the subwoofer but then will it sound nice? later vibrate vibrate the whole subwoofer move around your house lol
that you gotta experiment a bit oso

wanna learn how to build a rocket out of it?

This post has been edited by power911: Sep 13 2010, 05:52 PM

*spoiler*
you can have it when i'm done with it =) just belanja me eet sushi at asia cafe =) drinks i buy myself

lol?

Respect mate!

Yeah, anxious to know how well it works...

The round rubber feet on sound sticks 2 I think you can use the circular float haha

ohya,u should add some LEDs and wire it parallel with the subwoofer driver
(get the ohms and power rating correct)

and throw them into the bottle
when bass come U got urself a DISCO WOOFER!!!

what do you think?

This post has been edited by power911: Sep 13 2010, 08:54 PM

when i reach home from the office today.....
i straight away went to work cutting the bottle and i found out i couldn't cut it open with my small knife.. it was simply too thick
it was a pro because it would mean the bottle is 'strong' enough for bass
but pain in the ass to cut it open
so i went to heat up a nail over the stove and melted a portion of the bottle
the poke hot nail trick works... but it looks like an ugly mess, so i decided to saw it instead
i wrapped the bit with a cloth to keep my hands from self destruction =)

arrgh it was hard work with my puny bit and i wasn't getting round.... i'm going to my cousin's place later to borrow his jigsaw tool

as ghetto as that sounds, you probably would need to dampen the insides to prevent the ugly resonance at higher than usual bass frequencies. Stability is the least concern because objects have very different resonant frequencies and act very differently when subjected to high energy waves (ie: bass frequencies)

You can use metal and it'll still vibrate like crazzzzy.


let this be a motivation so you will work on MDFs on your next project. They arent exactly expensive either so it fits the "on budget" diy theme.

it's not cool anymore if i do it like everyone else =)
and its way 'cooler' when you can see the insides of it
i am also anxious to find out what will it sound like when i fit it in later tonight =)

you can always go get a dremel (aka mini wheel sander) to round off the uneven parts
make sure you use low speed,you don't want the plastic to melt and cover your sanding bit


This post has been edited by power911: Sep 14 2010, 06:44 PM

interesting project, good luck

great stuff bro, i love ghetto DIY, all da best

woots! lotsa moral supports

I'm gonna give mine too!

GOOD LUCK BRO!!!

Jigsaw might work, just use fine teeth blade. By all means BECAREFUL. You're working with mains operated power tools. Watch the fingers!
Keep us posted!

you the man! if no1 is interested, im more than willing to take this monster XD will belanja u makan. if nt, next time help me DIY another one (can be anything else XD) XD

Erm....good idea and interesting project. But is that bottle high density enough? otherwise the bottle will be singing....or you had the plan that the bottle singing together with the woofer?

we will know once he completes his project

who knows if these pet bottle bumps serious bass

dremel might be a little over power for this XD jigsaw is a smart choice tho

would love to hear more lol.. your mod is tempting me to try making speakers with RM5 tupperwares available @ DAISO

thank you guys for your morale support! =)
i just got back from dinner with my cousin... too late to test the sound...need to sleep
i kinda suck at this kind of thing... my advice is to go slow with the jigsaw, otherwise it will jam and the plastic will melt messy
which...i found out the hard way!
so here is my lousy handy work =)

nice stuff keep it up dude!

using soldering iron to cut also helps, then finishing with sand paper on broom stick.

awesome sh!t man.........

love the ideas.

Tried making speaker boxes out of pringles cans but then gave up halfway.

respect

not bad XD
those cuts are pretty clean too (I can't do that well )
a little bit rounding off is enough d

soldering iron? no way man! =) my iron is awesome weapon..but not for melting plastic. the smell,smoke and damage!!?? on top of that the thing will look like marshmallow man
sand paper and broom stick? haha ugly lor... all blur blur scratchy and dusty... also take hours to file such thick plastic....

hmmnn later i go sneak out to hardware shop for lunch and buy some parts to affix the speaker to the round thiny so that can test the sound later!

haha nice 1

probly reinforce d PET bottle with concrete

i'm not making a tandoori stove dey! =)

aha,dun forget the foamy rubbery speaker gasket to prevent air leakage

you don't want air coming out from the side of the speaker but only through the port

i bet the bottle will dance with the bass together.

it'll definitely dance together. we will see how it goes

ok ok you guys are getting impatient =)
rush home!!!
lunch time....eating from a box in front of the crap i bought

the hot nail trick again for holes....

ugh imperfections....need to jig saw it down again...

soldered the cable directly into the mothership

on the power and blast.... hmmnn nice! not as bad as you guys described. just a little dance vibrate on MAX volume because the thingy not airtight and not heavy enough
vrooom vroom? no... n...sounds smooth rumble.... should be okay when i reinforce the base and dunk the components and transformer later.

i lazy to comment la i need to eat and go back to work so just look at pictures la!

but u ll never noe d tandoori stove will rock

http://www.royaldevice.com/custom.htm

This post has been edited by endau02: Sep 15 2010, 01:12 PM

won't it sound like got echoes?
wow

can buy another iron mah... try 2 source it in cash converter

nope, solid as i expected... the bass port buffets smoothly(i tested using tiesto)

soundprank_-_Transitions_I.mp3 the file that you senedd me is awful quality like toilet paper... no wonder yours got strange sounds

i've got a better weapon called hot nail! =)

This post has been edited by beggarmaster2000: Sep 15 2010, 02:19 PM

That was an alternate poor man method, i done that before, need more work to get good finishing.
The soldering iron is not the main soldering iron, get another RM10 cheapo one will do.
Look like marshmellow all those settle with sand paper....or just broom stick only.

pics! or you didn't do it!

I'd just use a sandpaper to remove any sticky plastic off my soldering iron
works perfectly every time without side effects

haha! i found murder suspect no2 !!
your father is very angry if it belongs to him and you do that

ugh... what amp to put niside now

one thing i learn from this diy craze is ALWAYS have a proper tools to cut, puncture hole & smooth your work material..

Saw this wile searching for amps!

SOS

his is crude la.... he practically shat a brix inside


This post has been edited by beggarmaster2000: Sep 16 2010, 12:50 AM

Pics?
Thats was my secondary school experiment....
Now it was a phail and in rubbish bin long ago, a lesson for myself.

pics for my other mod? coming soon....

i am flattered to be an inspiration for your ghetto mods =) and i am also looking forward to see yours as well =)

this was unit was from my secondary school experiment....

it had a fake woof lol

i was lousy modder back then, it didn't turn up as good
but i had my favourite tda7375 inside!!

you guys thinking what i'm thinking?

aww....i wish i have such magic hands of yours!

after the amps done.. try it on isobaric lol .. so how crazy the bass can go
i didnt expect it to be a downward blasting sub woofer.. great idea man!!

it might or might not sound as great as those high end multimedia speakers but heck, its a hell lots of fun building ur own one...

so they def sound better than low to mid end multimedia spkrs

not fake la,it's a passive radiator.
passive radiator acts as a bass port to prevent port whistling

This post has been edited by power911: Sep 16 2010, 10:15 AM

sorry guys... i just got back from party... damn tired(alcohol breath)
need kasi muka my friends today...can you spot my ciggy box?

hmmn will work on it asap
need to pickup aluminium sheets to mount the amp and tranny inside tommorow

also i saw the real ss2 today... it is only less than half the size of mine!
damn, i built mine on overkill mode i guess?

Why you want to draw a pink censor on the guy/girl there...?

yea... why censor them lol?

shhh....dun tell others, its Megan Fox, she dunwan others to noe she noes TS.

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Added on September 17, 2010, 1:38 amoops =x

This post has been edited by quest_5692: Sep 17 2010, 01:38 AM

they umm some friends punya friends i don't know what name also at the place drinking free shooting us with bb guns

grrr i hate it when the manufacturer decidie to split the amp into a few pieces...now i need to 'simply-fly' the amp
but before all that i need to make sure if its still working.... i am also re-capping all the 'chang' beer caps

i did not manage to buy aluminium shits to hold the crap together inside today =(

here comes the 'boring' part of banging up the amp
almost done hooking all the connections together,recapping and making it smaller...

need to clean the heat sink with solvents to get rid of the (original)thermal paste all over it and make it shiny again

i see progress

i spent a few hours yesterday trying to rewire something i dismantled years ago....
most of the caps, trace and components has gone bad....even the volume pot is dead
after 3 assemble, check, test later i got it back to good working condition...but it was already late at night. so i couldn't blast test it and my friends over the other end of the world is beckoning me to attend our raya mabook special

this morninh i woke up with a terrible hangover but i couldn't wait to test blast my labtec amp
i will not wire the thing up properly until i mount the components into the 'tube' later
WOW, the results was surprisingly clear, crispy and soomth. it was so unlike the old labtec set that it came from...

yes, the sub i made still vibrates a little and stuff. barely noticable dancing, just sounds a little off surprisingly for i haven't seal the leaking parts and reinforce the base.
overall performance at current state is like what you guys said... better than low and mid range stuff

hmmnn...next will be the satellites... i need some inspiration for design and material again...

im still following....

mixture of edifier and h/k ss..

hehe i was thinking of shopping for sats on monday
it is actually a mixture of altec, labtec and i don't know what yet for sats
the one i use in picture is just for 'testing' purposes

That amp and preamp is familiar, I bet its from Labtek Pulse 424 (yea I know its right in the first place ) I have one before, the preamp broke. Tried to fix it but since I have zero experience back then (maybe 8-9 years ago, forgot the exact date) I throw them out.

the amp construction insdie for LCS2424 is a fail but the TDA7375 inside is quite nice sounding. they have many flaws back then...but after mod... sounds nice.
years ago, for stock speakers they sound alright. i think they made it as a low budget altec acs45.1 competitor
originally it had not so good speakers, horrid caps, 4560 opamp, bad cabling, bad design for splitting the pcb into 2 pieces...etc... but after 'fixing' it up with panasonic caps and shortcutting the cables. wow its nice really! i'm glad i picked this for my project.

i was thinking of something like this for sats.... aquariom shop can make i think



heh i was busy with my life lately, i would like to thank you all guys again for looking at my pics and really nice comments/suggestions
it really made my brain juices flow =)

This post has been edited by beggarmaster2000: Sep 19 2010, 10:02 PM

GOOD LUCK BRO...

THE BIGGER IT IS, THE CRAZIER IT IS, THE BETTER IT IS!!!!

SUPPORT SUPPORT!

for the sats... why not use those oxygenizer water bottles?
they look smoof and sexy

can i book you to pimp my car? haha, pimp vios's back to a portable party powerhous lol. so when i open, its all blaster lol.....

or just the audiophile way, open the inner part of all the doors and fit in real good speakers in between....lol

By the look of it, I don't think it'll fit

i have a few different sizes of speakers to choose from, so i'm not worried about size... but i think i want to go with 3 inches?
go to careefour and aquarium shop later at evening and look whats in market first
heh, im a hack and slash guy. i will be last person you want to do such things to your beautiful car lol
on the other hand, you still can look for class T amps and stuff to shove into your ride?
this guy chchyong89 is more expert
dancing bottles again mer? >_< glass mar heavy and solid

i really like the idea of glass speakers http://www.gstspeakers.com/index.html
have a look...its awfully nice

This post has been edited by beggarmaster2000: Sep 20 2010, 04:19 PM

ok guys.... i'm back from carefor.... are you ready to look at my new glass sats??

Looks good but... its glass, how you gonna put the wires inside them to the driver? You can't just cut them like plastic

i plan to do this if i can find the rest of the glass 'parts'
need 2 cave glass lens

updates?

TIP TOP la bro!

lol be patient guys

bro, ive a 4 yr-old sound stick ii ... d sub jz died leaving d sticks wrkg onli ... interested?

he will sapu them all... including the dead subwoofer

wow... this is his lucky day

wooh he is sure a lucky person if he can fix the subwoofer

well he can do it lol

i will pmed E1 - AKG oledi...

this weekend only i continue doing my crap too tired from work hurgg *shrugs*
so sorry guys =(

This post has been edited by beggarmaster2000: Sep 23 2010, 08:44 PM

okay okay its the weekend already....
i went shopping today and bought clothes at bb plaza
also......... i met up with E1 - AKG, nice guy. Honestly =) or at least thats what i think about him =)
so the story goes......

if you want to purchase something very special to treat yourself or your loved ones, E1 - AKG has got some good deals for you!

the set i received from E1 - AKG is a little old, well used, well loved and the capacitors in it was dying (the left and right channel is not balanced, sound quality was a little inconsistent) but.........

WOW! its sounds so lively. a little more than i expected!
At the comfort of home, i can really hear what it sounds like because it isn't noisy like in the shopping mall.
this gave me a total new point of view to about building my very own SOUND SICKS hehehe
when it came to sound quality differences, i realized that i was building my sound sicks according to the regular 'computer multimedia' gaming configuration.
this event was a real eye opener and gave me better idea how to continue building my sound sicks

mmmmmm this can be considered my 'childhood toys' that i couldn't afford to buy then lol =)
today, my wish came to me in a big baby diaper box

glad tat my faithful sound stick ii has found a gd home! now waitg 4 d sound stick iii ...

how much is ss3 gonna cost?

LATELY i have no mood to make fun stuff for prospering Lowyat.net.
Thanks to Mods for NOT protecting MY threads from flamers.

Too much politics here and corruption here. oh, I'm just another nobody.
I'm not angry but after all my contribution here i get pissed on. so i guess i will be moving to my own blogspot =)

I WIN you all LOSE =)
i even have a feeling Badcaps.net will welcome me with arms bigger than this rotten place.

Many thanks to the few nice people in-between . you know who you are =)