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    Altec Cabinets

    I have in the past constructed Altec 828 cabinets and also Altec 816.
    Looking at the designs I have I cannot see (or remember) the thickness of the wood used to make the curved horn flare on each design...
    Can anyone help with that?

    Thanks
    Tom

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    Hi, Please explore this site's

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    > The following drawing is found in it .


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    Thanks for pointing that out...

    I have used the library (that's how I built the other speakers originally)

    It seems that this particular dimension is on the 1968 enclosure plan, but not the 1970 plan (the one that I have been using this time round).

    Thanks
    Tom

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    I built one in the 1970's. A neighbor in college had two powered by McIntosh 240's. He had to put his bed in a closet loft they took up so much floor space. I lived in a barn on my parents' ranch with no one for 1/4 mile in any direction (except my parents). The barn was 60 ft. square with sloped ceilings. You could get the beer bottles we left in the exterior walls to dance.
    I found 1/4 " plywood was the thickest plywood I could forced into the curved shape. By cutting grooves in the top and bottom I got the sides snapped into place and glued. The print looks to have a greater dimension but they could have a mechanical means of bending the material with water. Perhaps two layers of 1/4" with "gorilla glue" to cement them together. The glue expands when wet and will fill any voids. My poor attempt prompted a return to the more manageable sized cabinet design (2'x3'x1') that I got from JBL for sound reinforcement. I think the Altec woofer with its' smaller voicecoil would have been preferable also. I had a D130 in it.

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    Building Altec Cabinets

    I recently built some legacy Altec cabinets. For the curved horn section I used a product called 'econoKORE'. I bought their 3/8ths thick product. It worked great!

    Here is where I bought it.

    http://www.premierwood.com/scs.asp

    Do a search on 'econoKORE' and the page will pop up. Or here ...

    http://www.curvolutions.com/econoKORE.html#
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    Carl Huff

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    fab speakers

    Quote Originally Posted by teddy.edwards1 View Post
    Thanks for pointing that out...

    I have used the library (that's how I built the other speakers originally)

    It seems that this particular dimension is on the 1968 enclosure plan, but not the 1970 plan (the one that I have been using this time round).

    Thanks
    Tom
    best speaker i am building a pair now

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