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Looking for someone with lathe/woodworking experience

post #1 of 9
9/25/10 at 2:56pm
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I know there are some skilled woodworkers around head-fi, so I'm hoping to find somebody who can help me with this.

 

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I suspect it would be pretty easy for someone who knows what they're doing. I was considering making cups for my Grados myself, but with the tools I have I wouldn't be able to make it quite as nice as this and I would have to glue multiple sections together to get the final product.

 

If anyone can whip up a few of these, please send me a PM or email. Thanks!

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post #2 of 9
9/27/10 at 9:48am

I been asked already via PM on this, I need some time to think over it.

 

But let me remark someting general: An inner diameter of 46 mm suits only for the systems that are utilized in the higher tier models, and I doubt severely that many RS1 or MS Pro owners would rib their systems out of the stock vincinity in favour of a simple woody of the specs shown above. If you want something for the "plebs" (SR60, MS1 & alike), you gotta redesign it to an inner diameter of 50,5 mm and resulting different proportions.

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post #3 of 9
9/27/10 at 11:53am
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Thanks for that information. When I was working that up I saw somewhere that the drivers were 46mm diameter for the lower end Grado models, but it's entirely possible it was wrong or I read/copied something wrong. I can't even find where I found that information now. But just to make sure I understand correctly, you're saying that the drivers for the SR-60, 80, MS1, and others in that range are 50.5mm?

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post #4 of 9
9/27/10 at 12:35pm

Yep, their drivers are 50 mm. But you need 0,5 - 1 mm tolerance when you work with wood.

 

Look here:

http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/119314/post-your-grado-mods/1215#post_6955604

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post #5 of 9
9/30/10 at 9:24am

Ah, but that's with the driver still in its shell.

The thought was to extract it from this, leaving you with essentially a pair of drivers.

 

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Or did I misunderstand the drawing? It's mainly the lip for attaching the cushions that led me to believe this.

In this case 46mm seems about right.

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post #6 of 9
9/30/10 at 9:32am

Nope, for some reason I don't quite understand, the smaller models need their plastic sound chambers to sound reasonable. I built NoXter a ~46mm woody some months ago, we digged his systems out of the chamber and placed them directly in the wood vincinity - sounded absolutely horrible.

 

I do know that Bilavideo had different findings (on a lot of things), maybe they have different acoustical conditions due to excessive weapon possession over there

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post #7 of 9
9/30/10 at 12:38pm

Shame.

 

I'll page the NRA and see if they can help me out.

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post #8 of 9
9/30/10 at 2:37pm
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Originally Posted by limpidglitch View Post

Ah, but that's with the driver still in its shell.

The thought was to extract it from this, leaving you with essentially a pair of drivers.

 

 

Or did I misunderstand the drawing? It's mainly the lip for attaching the cushions that led me to believe this.

In this case 46mm seems about right.

 



Yes, this was what I was planning on originally. Interesting that your findings and Bilavideos are so different, nickchen. I don't know what to do anymore!

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post #9 of 9
9/30/10 at 4:33pm

No intention of highjacking this thread, only wanted to get quick yes or no on this and figured since there are users with wood experience looking at this thread...

 

I have been making custom cables from some very high tech mil-spec wire and not very pleased with the RCA Connector cover/shields that come with the connectors I have been buying.

 

I would like to see if someone can make me wooden connector covers. I can provide specs, like I said do not want to burst into this thread.

 

But if you can, and are interested, please PM me.

 

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming....Thanks!

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