pucho812
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Was thinking about use pipe combined with pipe flanges to go between base and tops as speaker stands. Anyone know where I could find how much weight it can support at the various diameters?
pucho812 said:Was thinking about use pipe combined with pipe flanges to go between base and tops as speaker stands. Anyone know where I could find how much weight it can support at the various diameters?
Gold said:I will once again give away my design for super freakin killer speaker stands. No one I know of has taken my advice.
Fill a base or bucket with sand. Put a 3" pipe into the sand to the height you want. Fill that with sand. Take a short piece of 2" pipe and attach the speaker platform to it. Take the 2" pipe and nest it in the 3" pipe.
The speaker is now super decoupled. It can be a little tricky to keep the sand where you want it. You can use your mechanical engineering skills to keep the sand where you want it. I have tricks for that too.
pucho812 said:interesting. So the base is a bucket?
How do you move the stands after being built without spilling sand. hmmmmm
joaquins said:I would use liquid silicon as the one used for mold pieces. It could just be putted on the sand to keep it there or it could be all of it if the bucket is not a problem.
pucho812 said:hmmmm now I am thinking sand could be used in other areas as well, floors, inside the walls. etc. How well does it keep sound in and out? might be ontl something here
Gold said:joaquins said:I would use liquid silicon as the one used for mold pieces. It could just be putted on the sand to keep it there or it could be all of it if the bucket is not a problem.
The idea is to have the loosest bond possible without having anything move. Sand is unique in this way. It has the density of concrete but can convert mechanical energy into heat very efficiently. Having a hard bond to the edge of the container like with silicone will decrease performance quite a bit.
joaquins said:A simple and small bag of sand just under speakers does quite well for decoupling speakers and you don't have all this problems, then you just build the stand as you want.
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