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by lotas » Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:27 pm

i use both liquid nails and silicone...well i dont use liquid nails for sealant, but it acts as it anyways.

it is cured if its rubber. When silicone isnt cured you can mold it with your finger, and it feels like car wax or something, if its cured its just like rubber.

by William from NOLA » Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:15 pm

dmeyer07 wrote:The box is in the car already, and i can't have anything open as it is raining out.


I've done this before and hadn't had any problems with fumes, but will it still cure in 12-24 hours?
Just as long as all of it feels dry and you don't smell any, it's cured.

The fumes *can* mess up a sub's surround (i.e. eat it away), but some surrounds are made with material that isn't sensitive to the fumes of silicon.

Ditto on the Liquid Nails, I used it on my most current box instead of silicon. It beats buying a tube of glue and a tube of silicon!

by dmeyer07 » Sat Apr 02, 2005 6:38 pm

The box is in the car already, and i can't have anything open as it is raining out.


I've done this before and hadn't had any problems with fumes, but will it still cure in 12-24 hours?

by Jonathan » Sat Apr 02, 2005 6:35 pm

Usually I still let it cure as a general safety measure.

by dmeyer07 » Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:53 pm

Wait the subs i'm using have rubber surrounds, so i wouldn't have a problem at all because the fumes only eat away foam surrounds right>

by dmeyer07 » Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:49 pm

To make double sure that everything was sealed up, we waited for the glue to dry and ran a bead of silicon caulk over all of the box's internal seals. We used a hand-held tube of caulk, since it would be tough to get a caulk gun down inside the box at this point. Let the caulk cure for 12-24 hours before putting the subwoofer back in. Some silicon caulk releases acetic acid fumes while curing, which have the potential to destroy subwoofer surrounds.

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by Jonathan » Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:46 pm

Mainly a problem with certain foam surrounds, but it goes away after the silicone initially cures, which I believe takes about 24 hours on average when in a ventilated area.

by Ryan from Ohio » Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:42 pm

Use the silicone.

Ive never had a problem with it yet, ever.

by dmeyer07 » Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:29 pm

Lol well that didn't answer my question, and i already used the silicone. I have used liquid nails also on a diff box, it works well i agree but i didn't have any for this box.

So my question still remains...

by audiobass10 » Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:26 pm

Screw silicon, use Liquid Nails. It works better IMO anyways.

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