racebit
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Thought you may be interested to know, I messed up while wrapping and the innards of the rod holder came out. The rubber rings are actually one piece of rubber tube or whatever material. When I pushed it up it made the rod sliding stiffer, but it's not something I recommend, as it was far too stiff and required some force to move. Attached this picture here for visuals:
That other tiny ring with the small gap goes at the bottom to keep it from sliding.
I apologize for only now seeing your posts, I have not followed head-fi for some weeks.
But that is great news you bring me. My goal is to actually lock the cups at an angle, because that is how I use them on the Empyrean, and plan to use the Elite, to avoid heat build-up which is a big problem for me. They generally keep the position, but I have to be careful and not move much, and even so every now and then I have to readjust. It would be perfect for me If I could just lock it in that position. You say it requires significant force to move, so that seems to be the lock I am looking for.
EDITED: After insisting I finally managed to remove the rods caps, they wouldn't budge first even using pliers.
So now I can even detach both phones for compact storage if travelling, as you suggest in one of your posts, very nice.
You mention that stiffness increased when you pushed the rubber tube up. I notice there is another plastic ring on the other end, so one plastic ring on each end of the rubber tube. Maybe the rubber tube overlaped the plastic ring on one end making it narrower and very stiff.
I was not able to replicate that exactly, but I replaced the rubber tube with a rectangular piece of rubber 25 x 12 x 1 mm, so a little thicker than the tube it self, and I got the rods much stiffer as I wanted. Because of that much increased stiffness it requires extreme force twisting left and right to insert the rods again. The new rubber itself gets destroyed in the process but stays there, so if removing the rod a new piece of ruber or the original tube must be used. Unfortunately when inserting I was not able to avoid scratching both rods a bit in the end where the cap screws on. I got a little sad about that, but I am very happy that the cups now are stiff and always keep the angle.
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