The
Sound Enclosure Box is 9 1/2" wide by 10" deep and 20 1/2" tall. Its
total net weight is about 7 pounds. The material is made from 3/16"
thick Acrylic. The top features a lid that opens to the left, allowing
the user to access the Vita Mix blender to add more ingredients and/or
use the tamper during operation. The front door allows you to load and
unload the container from the blender in the sound enclosure. By so
doing, you simply open the front door and grab the Vita Mix container by
the handle, move it upwards about 1 inch (this will open the lid
upwards). Then move the container out by slightly dipping it towards
the front.
We installed a
front top bar and panel for stability (clear in the picture left above
and better visible bottom right). The front bottom panel adds also
stability
to the sound box. The door access in the front gives you perfect
load/unload and blender control. The keypad is easy accessible. Once
you turn on the blender, ready for soup speed, close the sound
enclosure box door and have fun watching the blending process.
The blender factory has advised us to allow ample
ventilation so the blenders won't overheat while operating inside a
sound enclosure. These ventilation areas are on the left and right side
panels on the bottom 3/8" inches by 9 1/2" inches. Either side of the
ventilation areas can be used to exit the power cable. Our design in our opinion is adequate for the ventilation (see the warranty and disclaimer section). If
you are concerned, you can make these ventilation areas bigger, or request a custom
modification of your assembled sound enclosure box, or the parts kit
you desire to buy from us. And if you have your own design, well, you
are welcome to copy ours with your own modification(s) and make your own
box. SEE WARRANTY AND DISCLAIMER SECTION for more info. Hopefully you can tell us about your own improvements.
You
may have seen and perhaps even used sound enclosures that opened to the
top in order to remove the blender container. The advantage of our
design, the sound enclosure opening towards the front and top to add
and remove, working around your needs, is that shelves could be placed
above within 10+ inches (subject to custom designs...). It gives the
consumer / user control over the sound enclosure. If you wanted to
remove the container through the top lid, simply just do it.
Each door / lid has been installed
with 2 acrylic hinges. All seems and joints are welded / bonded
together with a IPS Corporation non-flammable # 3(TM) Adhesive Solvent.