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Originally posted by grrr223
I understand the desire to protect your babies, but does anyone else think these pelican cases are overkill? |
That's the point -- they're our audio babies!
If you decide to put those HD-600's that you'll be getting in a lesser case and drop it (assuming you decide to carry it around at all), you'll quickly understand just why I use such a case.
If I was to get a new foam set for my case, pluck out just enough for an egg, and then close the case around it and drop it off my roof, I'd be surprised if the egg was cracked.
VERY off-topic story:
This reminds me of a funny story from way back in high school. For Physics class extra credit, we had to come up with a way to protect an egg from breaking from a fall from the highest part of the football bleachers -- don't know how high it was exactly, but it was high. Man, the
elaborate stuff some of the students came up with.....some fella suspended his in the middle of what looked like a sphere by Buckminster Fuller. Another person had a shoebox with an egg suspension system strung diagonally across the inside, made of a pair of nylons (pantyhose). Anyway, a key point here is that there were no extra points for fancy presentation -- your egg either survived or it didn't.
Anyway, one of my best friends and I went to a local major chain drug store to get some ideas. It took all of a minute to figure it out. We saw these
immense car wash sponges and bought two. At home, we cut them in half, plucked out enough for one egg, placed an egg inside, closed the two sponge halves, and duct taped it shut. Needless to say, we discovered that no matter how high we threw our sponge-encased eggs in the air, ground impact didn't break the eggs through the sponges.
The morning of the official drops, everyone thought we'd cheaped out with our ten-minute sponge contraptions. Well, our eggs survived, but the Buckminster Fuller-lookin' device did not save its passenger -- I don't remember if the pantyhose device worked or not. Several made it, several didn't. None were as simple as our sponges. Our eggs survived, we got the extra credit, so we didn't much care about our devices' lack of style!
Our other extra credit projects included a toothpick bridge (had to support as much weight as possible, and let's just say that I didn't get anywhere close to the 108-pound record -- the bolt that held the weight-holding bucket buckled my bridge, and then putting the empty bucket on that broke it), the catapults, and the cannons (purely mechanical, no explosives allowed -- my buddy and I used obnoxiously-patterned rolled-up linoleum for our cannon tubes). Ah, memories....
Sorry for the off-topic story, but it came to mind....