All boxes I see come with carpet around the cutout. Will the gasket still seal? Speaker always leaked in same spot on bare wood too.
It's that gray thin carpet that's typical on speaker boxes. I ordered a box and got a pioneer sub. The pioneer gasket is really thin. I tried closed foam weatherstrip and was still getting a leak. I cut away the carpet and removing the glue was a PITA. Heat gun wouldn't work. Any tips for glue removal if it won't seal with the carpet on?
I got the wood as smooth as possible by sanding, but no matter how many times I changed the gasket, turned the speaker to a different position, and also changed the starting point of the tightening sequence, it would still always leak air at the top of the speaker (not the box) when I'd check it by pressing down on the speaker. This doesn't make sense at all since the sub is so rigid, but all of the steps I took led me to believe it must be the speaker somehow. Any tips or ideas about that dilemma will be appreciated too.