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and without the bits of plastic baffle. I find the baffle helps.
Only takes a few minutes, so why not?
The speaker is held down with caulk. Remember to keep
caulk away from the cone. I glue the styrene to the sides of
the speaker with solvent (MEK or a commercial product). A
future column will cover some methods to make quick work
of this fabrication.
Using the shell as part of an enclosure
Folks who have followed my columns know that I prefer to baffle
the sound, rather than to enclose the speaker. However, there
are times that an enclosure is about the only possible game. The
pre‐designed enclosure [2] discussed previously is one case.
Another kind of installation is where there is no place to put
the speaker except to build an enclosure using the bottom of
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