Sub in a bucket®

 

well, i was emptying some water out of my well (nice name) and thout, i wonder....? yep, sub bucket had an inch of water in the bottom. thankgod i thought to seal the amp in with a plastic bag and more tape.

well i dried everything out, including the cardboard on the sub, and sealed it with grey silly-cone sealent. "caulk " as it is called. if caulk will keep water in a shower then caulk should keep water out of my sub.

...caulk

thing still sounds awsome too. if you open the hatch and put your head in the car it sounds like ***, but with the hatch down it sounds better then the poneer IMP600 i used to have in my jeep charookie. only thing i miss about that car.

 

the revenge of the bucketsub

 

did u really hook it up again or are you teasing us? LOL This thread is funny

 

haha wow, just wow, thats classic **** man

 

BWAH HAHAHAHAH!

 

As funny as this is I can contest to this situation. Back when i was like 15 years old, i Put a 12" in a metal cansiter, put a 5lb wait in the bottom (so it wouldn't make a ting sound when the metal contracted) and sealed it with duct tape also. I AM 100% SERIOUS, that thing slammed big time, and its such a joke because of the material involved and everything, but man, i will never forget that. It might as well have been in a nice wood box, cause no one was telling the difference. I just got some major flashbacks to my teenage years reading this thread. Also thought i might add credibilty to the topic... LOL... thanks for the read!

 

maybe you guys should go work for subwoofer-box design companies... BucketSub^tm

$999.99 (installed)

 

Cut the bottom of the bucket off and fit another one.

Then you'll have a bass cannon.

 

no i am not teasing. i dried it all out, put some desicant (sp?) in there and sealed er` up (with silly-cone this time) and now its back in battle. thing still hits too!

 

back in the battle lmao


This is my fav thread on TGO for sure!

 

One Idea I had was to use some of that green drainage pipe city crews use for drainage etc.. that way you could customize the length.. perhaps mount it sideways and put a sub on each end.. The Original bucket sub for this thread is still great.. heck as long as it works.. no one said it had to be pretty. There are all sorts of creative ways to add sound to a vehicle.. especially a thirdgen, where space is a premium.

 

i encourage all experimentation on this type of enclosure, under one condition:

do not spend alot of money.

if you have the cash then get a ported bandpass box and never look back. the 10inch sub in this bucket was given to me by my cousin who got it free with a ported bandpass box. he then replaced it with a sony x-plode. but the advent 10 (current bucketsub) sounded AWSOME in the ported box.

other then that one rule i say go nuts...

 

If you're thinking about that I would suggest Form-a-Tube. The cardboard tube forums for concrete. Cut to length, go nuts with fiberglass on the outside. Vary cheap 'tube'.

 

HAHAHAHAHA...That is the funnys S**T ever!!!

 

oh ****! I wasnt the only one who thought of the bucket sub! I've got a 12" 300w sub with no amp in a 3 gallon bucket (clear too!) and it sounds damn good!!! The screws even lined up perfectly!! It is there to hold me over till I finish my wheel well fiberglass boxes. The even the taillights rattle!

 

well, i am sad to report that bucket sub is no more. about two weeks ago i threw it away. i kept the amp and the bucket.. the sub finaly gave out. if you turned it up load enough to hear it it would distort. i think the voice coil seperated or somthing. i don't realy know what happened. perhaps one day i will put a 12" in one of those home depot buckets i could call it " bucketsub II cruse control"

EDIT* RIP bucketsub 04-28-2004 to 01-28-06. thanks for 21 months of performance and a good chukle.

EDIT AGAIN* well nostalgia just bit me so i re-read all of this and noticed somthing, about a year ago reported that the sub was blown, and then three months later i reported that i was emptying water out of the bucket.. i never told anyone i guess, but as it turned out there was some loose wiring causing the static (bad ground or somthing) i re-wired the sub and taped it back in (before using caulk a few months later) and it sounded fine. i also figured out how to use the loww pass filter on my deck for the pre-outs which made the thing sound waaaay better. but alas, those days are gone now.

 

I just saw this thread and I figured I would give some input.

My shop built a custom enclosure for a JL 12W7 sub based off of a 5 gallon bucket. The customer wanted the subl to look like it was floating in the trunk of the car, so we used a 5 gal bucket and attached tubes to the side which connected to the outer frame of the box. the outer frame was what gave the sub the airspace it needed, and in the end, he had a sub box he could put his hand right through.

It's hard to understand... I'll have to dig up some pics at the shop today.

-Jim

 

i think i get it. i think that is AWSOME that you though of somthing like that though. it was probably for a show rig right? if it was for a daily driver that guy is nuts.he probably had a binch of blingin' lights in it too. and a big sign that said "STEAL MY CAR AUDIO EQUIPMENT" on his bumper thats why bucketsub was cool. totaly under the radar.

i have seen some cool "floating amps" but never a floating sub. totaly awsome!