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Lee Gordon
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 Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:23 pm Post subject: I Bought a Gun |
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No, I haven't turned into Todd, I bought this gun:
http://www.amazon.com/Master-PG151-Professional-Powered-Dispensing/dp/B0000224TQ/ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
As I've mentioned previously, I'm building a new VO booth from scratch and the construction calls for the use of two substances that are dispensed with caulking guns. Between layers of drywall in the walls and ceiling, there's Green Glue, which has the consistency of raspberry jelly and comes flying out of a standard manual caulking gun like nobody's business.
But the other stuff in 30 ounce tubes is acoustical sealant, and it has the viscosity of concrete that has 90% gone off. I gave myself severe wrist cramps just meting out the 20 linear feet I ran around the perimeter between the two layers of MDF that form the floor. So, I made like Tim "the Tool Man" Taylor and opted for -- arh, arh arh -- MORE POWER!
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heyguido
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| Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, baby! Power tools! 
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Scott Pollak
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Doesn't take much to excite you, does it? 
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You know me so well. 
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I should know that threads like this will have misleading titles  I was hoping to see your new 1911! |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 11:33 am Post subject: Re: I Bought a Gun |
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| Lee Gordon wrote: |
But the other stuff in 30 ounce tubes is acoustical sealant, and it has the viscosity of concrete that has 90% gone off. I gave myself severe wrist cramps just meting out the 20 linear feet I ran around the perimeter between the two layers of MDF that form the floor.
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It had never dawned on me to go looking for a 'power gun' that could deal with caulking material tubes. Thanks for the tip.
At the risk of 'thread jacking' this bit of humor and going back to the basics of your project.... tell me about your thinking on the floor. Will your booth be sitting on a slab... or on a floor that might be a transmitter of sound from below or from outside. From your post I gather you are using the acoustical 'caulk' to isolate the two MDF layers from each other. Here is my curiosity: What, if anything, are you doing to isolate the original floor from the floor made of two layers of MDF? |
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SWEET!
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Lee Gordon
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| Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 12:11 pm Post subject: Re: I Bought a Gun |
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| vkuehn wrote: | | What, if anything, are you doing to isolate the original floor from the floor made of two layers of MDF? |
I don't believe in the "belt & suspenders" approach; I believe in the "belt & suspenders & and a piece of rope & another belt" approach. Therefore, the platform upon which the rest of my booth will be mounted, has been constructed thusly:
2x4 framing, on top of which is (loosely) attached a layer of 1/8" mass-loaded vinyl, on top of which are two layers of 1/2" MDF that are sandwiching an application of Green Glue (2 tubes worth), and just in case any noise wants to leak into the space between the two layers of MDF, I ran that bead of acoustical sealant around the perimeter.
In the joist bays created by the 2x4s, I have installed batts of Roxul Safe 'N Sound insulation, and the whole thing is further isolated from the (carpeted) floor with 2 dozen Auralex U-Boat floor floaters.
I have pictures that I can assemble and post in another thread, if anyone's interested.
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Scott Pollak
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| heyguido wrote: | | You know me so well. |
I was actually directing that towards Lee!
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Leslie Humble
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Love what you are doing Lee. You are a serious man.
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People who put roofing on houses buy something that looks like that with a "walking cane" attached. They throw shingles down, let the small spots of adhesive hold shingles in place and they go down a row a shingles not much slower than a machine gun.
My house was about 10 years old when we began losing a few shingles here and there. I hired a local one-man-roofing enterprise come and repair it. He said most of my staples we in at an angle. Common today with this power staplers. Instead of stutter-stepping over 6 inches every time they fire the power tool, they stand in one place, lean over and hold the long-handled power stapler at and angle and do maybe 8 or 10 shingles before moving their feet. Staples at an angle give up, and on a windy day you begin losing shingles here and there.
FINAL OUTCOME: Two or three years later a good hailstorm came through. The insurance adjuster looked at my roof and wrote a check. I had a heart-to-heart chat with the roofer who did the replacement roof. "I don't want to see power nailers leaning over at angles while they work." |
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Lee Gordon
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| Scott Pollak wrote: |
I was actually directing that towards Lee! |
He knows me so well. 
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Lee Gordon
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| soundgun wrote: |
Sure beats lugging a compressor and hoses around. |
Sweet! I guess they don't call you Soundgun for nothing. I have a battery powered finish nailer and a few pneumatic nailers and staplers, but none of the gas-powered type.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 11:15 pm Post subject: Re: I Bought a Gun |
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| Lee Gordon wrote: |
I have pictures that I can assemble and post in another thread, if anyone's interested. |
ABSOLUTELY!
I, for one, am very interested in what you are doing...AND the end results you achieve.
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