Welcome to the club AFRS!  :D

Have fun on the project, I've got one too that'll be modded soon.

Be sure to keep us posted.

Bob

Don't forget to flare your ports. and exact center with the top one.
the top port and postion is really important.

maybe you already know maybe not, just something I think is important. Look forward to your impression of it.
we all love pics

good enough 60.

I believe that it helps port noise and has made a differance when ever I use ports. That is not to say that its always the rule.
Lots of stuff does not have flared ports and seems fine. I have had some little bass reflex speakers with no flares and never bothered to flare them.

Can I admit I like the look better as well as it made a differance with some of my bigger stuff.

peoples choice I guess, and why make more work for yourself if you don't have to, if it works fine without it leave it alone. I do it out of habit now.

Time for an update I think. I’ve been so busy I haven’t had too much time for the HWK. But still a bit

Still haven’t sent back my faulty driver but that’s going to happen soonish. I went to sort out some heavy duty speaker cable and some Speakon connectors but they were out of Speakons so theres one on order for me. I have marked everything out, im going to try to glue the lids and baffles tomorrow as well as drill screw holes. I’ve also been chatting to a mate who’s doing a furniture building course that was on about some special saw he has for doing the holes, so he’s going to give me a hand as well.

As for flaring the ports im not planning on doing much more than sanding down the corners, this should b alright, there not high excursion drivers (Xmax 5.5) and I can always get the sandpaper out again if they do get noisy.

No pics today im afraid, not much need, unless you want to see my pencil skills.

Thanks for all the help, any more construction tips will go down well

Ok got round to getting the drill out today, side panels are all full of holes. Also got round to gluing the lids and baffles and even screwed them together as well just to be sure.

Also sourced some 6" pipe
So now all ive got left to do is cut some big holes and glue it all together .........and send back that driver
Got a pic of today’s work for you all as well, the holes are a lot neater than they look. http://img97.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscn03424sl.jpg

Bob, I don’t have a router but my mate has some special hand saw tool thing, can’t remember what its called but its going to take some time to cut through the 42" it’s got to. Im gona leave the top and bottom unglued as they create the best seal, although installing the drivers is going to be a bit fiddlier.
Funny you mention the weight of this thing ive weighed all the bits earlier and it comes to around 10stone on my bathroom scales, thats ridiculas. I love this thing

Yea im going the no-noncence route, again why i chose this design, and 10stone=63.5kg=140lb=brick house

Naa that’s with the drivers, its still a beast though, any one out there put any handles on this thing, any bigger and it would be a permanent piece of furniture. if it sounds good ide be temped to build 2 of them, just to have 2 of them. haha. maby to go with a pair of imperials...hmm ??? if only i had the space, or the money, which reminds me, gota find a job  :'(

I should have said a full time job, im working a bit, keeps me afloat, I ended up finding this diy speaker community when I realized I couldn’t afford anything beefy enough. Anyone want to give me a job??lol. I can build a HWK if you like

Got hold of my top port today, an off cut form a drainage pipe, a lot sturdier than a can, should be perfect. Only update at the mo, lids n baffles still drying.

Hi again, yea its been a while but im still here got caught up in work ect..(although still no new job), anyway i think you can probably guess what ive found some mote time for, well i finally sorted out all the bits and bobs i need, even got a return sorted for my other driver which ill b sending off tomorrow.
Anyway a pictures worth a thousand words, or at least a sentence or two. http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hwkbitsdk0.jpg this is just showing the top port and some bits including some nice 4mm speaker cable (some things are just worth doing right) about half an hour later that all looked like this http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/992/hwkinnerdspg7.jpg it was tough work hammering those 16 fixing nuts in place, or so i thought until i came to solder the driver in place, i had already fixed it in place as i broke my other iron and just wanted another thing to do as i asked round to borrow another. I cant stress enough, trying to solder while inside a HouseWrecker is practically brain surgery, do it before u put it in the box, I think bob had the right idea here by making the middle chamber separately and just sticking the sides to that. Anyway I got there in the end, and here it stands http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4886/hwkfulej0.jpg i used silica bathroom sealant to create a seal on the lid that would allow me to remove it if the time came.

IT’S ALIVE!!! yea thats right, using only one driver for now (all i got) 100w from the amp and an inducer that crossing over somewhere around 160 although seems to be letting in far too much high frequency content, with the other speaker in parallel its 200w with an 80hz crossover. And the driver in the bottom, the idea is that when the other arrives i can just drop it in and seal the top.

so how does it sound.....well.. .it sounds fantastic. I don’t have the power to wreck the house (yet) and when turned up to high the bodged crossover really colours the low mid especially with vocals, but thats me not the sub.
As for the bass, oh my god, even set up badly this massive box makes the best bass i think ive ever heard in my life, no you don’t get chest thumping carnage (yet) but for everyday listening that soon becomes fatiguing. The House Wrecker just fills the room (smallish by the way) with ungodly-deep atmospheric bass, that tells you the resonate frequency of everything you own, running test tones this thing rolls off around 18hz which really gets the floor shaking, obviously with the 2nd driver this is going to raise but thats impressive (time to get finding nemo out me thinks). Back to the bass, the pub where I work at has a fair sized rig for the space (2x12,2x15 for top, 2x15 sub) and although everythings set up great it doesn’t have the room swamping bass the HWK has. The last sub i owned was some ex display Mordant Short compact sealed thing that I ended up taking back, i just got port noise from it, the plate amp hummed like a vibrator, and no matter how much twiddling with phase adjust and crossover points I couldn’t get it to melt away with the rest of the sound. Housewrecker - turn it on, falls in place seamlessly, sounds fantastic, especially with music. i cant even imagine what kind of improvement going isobaric will yield, although if i had to criticize something, watching the matrix earlier gun shots could be a tiny bit tighter, but hay im no expert and the jury is still out on that kind of thing until ive properly finished it, when you’ll probably have me ranting on even more.
Kinda got carried away there, lest just say first impressions are good, very good Thanks so much to the whole Decware family.
More to come.....