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Am i doing it right terry? lol. i need some pointers on how to flare AND flange a 6" PVC pipe.

basscort11 wrote:

ok well if i do regular PVC. i found some a friend is giving me. how do i go about smoothing it? resin it? fine grit sand paper then paint? shurtape all over it?

I think Sanman's main point on the PVC is the flares. They're very difficult to do properly so using pre-fab flares is the way to go. Also, I got some pvc from a job site once and used it. It was just for testing and it was filthy. Believe it or not, just cleaning it with soap and water was worth .4. Brand spanking new pvc is fine, but used stuff usually has a ton of nicks, and swirls and holes and imperfections that cause turbulence. I can't tell you the best way to smooth it out, but you definitely need to.

BTW- SonoTube is cheap as dirt. Lol.

I hand sanded with 60 grit paper than resined it with 3 thin coats. Mixed a little hot. Than sanded with 220 grit. The hot oil in a turkey fryer is the way to go on the flairs

so u resin your pvc made aeros? makes sense but never thought of that.lol

i ran a crx at mwspl finals that had the wooden rings aero in it

2 18's
4 z1's
brad frigards old crx

he was 1 db behind me thats it it was crazy loud, and had me on my damm toes lol

ya under wrong name
or is this angie

my account is locked for some reason lol

well i tried flaring them today with a heat gun and it would flare over the bowl but when i tried to put the flange on it flat on the ground it kept splitting the pipe and i got mad and said screw it and put it up for the day. so you boil hot cooking oil then put the pvc pipe in there for how long? then how do you go about flaring it?

BTW thanks for the help guys.

I was able to do it with the heat gun but it sucked!
The oil needs to be near boiling put the pipe in untill it starts to get floppy. Than push it on the jig. Make sure you are holding the pipe plumb. You should make a wood jig for the flair. But if a bowl is the shape you want I guess use it. But I can't imagine it is all that bell shaped .lol

actually i found using a heatlamp reflector works pretty good.lol

heat lamp i saw at home depot. yea i can flare it on the bowl but when i push it on the ground to make it a bell it tears. so it needs to be like super flimsy chris?? i guess i wasnt getting it hot enough. does anyone have any flares they can hook me up with?

dude find the point on the bowl where it needs to start flanging it and take and cut some mdf rings to mount on the bowl at that point then when u shove it down on it it will flange it too

GENIUS! never thought of that. i may do that tommorow. so if its tearing then its 100% not ready right?

Right. Tearing is not good . But if it isn't perfect. You can use bonding to make it so.

ok so i finished the box for the most part like a week ago and never posted pis. i put pvc ports in and flared the inner part. on the outter part i kept it flush then put some double rounded over mdf rings for the flare. i then put some metal tape to make it all one smooth surface.

i am going to resin the box and when i do i want to know if i should resin over the tape and all that or take it off and resin over the liquid nail seem?

Yea just bondo and resin it

ok now bondo only needs to be a super thin layer right so i dont take away from port area correct? and can i not just go over it with resin? i have to have bondo to cover it?

Bondo only to fill and smooth any problem areas then resin and sand