At 09:39 AM 5/7/03 +1000, Robert Moore wrote:

I remember in the 70s there was a big fad on concrete hi fi speakers
enclosures (I kid you not!). The construction was based on small
gauge chicken wire as reinforcement and styro-foam beads as aggregate
(we all had bean bags, so they were freely available ;-) I'm not sure
how it would go as a material for flat sheets that laid horizontally
- they wouldn't take a lot of weight, I would guess. But as material
for hollow uprights? Hmm ...

Rob

I actually built one of those, but with REGULAR concrete. It weighed about
400 pounds.


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