Building a cabinet

Hi All,

I am thinking about building a cabinet and have a question about the baffle. For typical construction, do you sink the speaker mounting screws flush into the face of the baffle, allowing for the adhesion of the grill cloth? Then I suppose for speaker replacement, you the speaker screws remain in the baffle held in by the cloth? Sound right?

Thanks!

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Might have finally found an answer after a day of scouring the web. Looks like installing t-nuts in the baffle is the way to go. Thoughts?

A Fender style baffle (that has the grill attached to it) has a rim of 1/4" x 1" wood around the face to hold the cloth away from the baffle. This prevents buzzing and rattling of the cloth against the center area. You can buy speaker mounting screws that have a small area near the head that is a slightly larger left hand thread and will screw it into the board. The rest of the mounting stud is a standard machine screw thread that the speaker and attaching nuts mount to.

There are other ways to do this but this is how the Tweed and blackface Fenders were done.

I use the t-nuts. Seen too many speakers with holes in them from the stud type mounts.

I use t-nuts, too, works great. I do it like this. Sorry for the crude picture. I left out washers.

steven

Typically, and how I build baffles, the average baffle board is framed with 1/4" x 1" ply or masonite to allow an air space between the speaker and the grille material. I predrill and screw in four 8-32 machine screws (round head, flat head, whatever) to mount the speaker, then wick in thin CYA to make sure the screws won't move. That's it.

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Thanks for the help guys.