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Old 26-07-2005, 12:52 PM
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covering magnets ?

hello all

i dont whether this has been asked and answered before so here goes

for those people using speaker magnets what are you using to stop the magnets from scrathing the OTA ? without affecting the attraction ?

ive covered them in clear waterproof sticky tape however that is proving to be a sliding affair

i am after not costing too much solutions ?
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Old 26-07-2005, 01:02 PM
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Mine just has a piece of rubber glued to the magnet. Doesn't slide.
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Old 26-07-2005, 01:23 PM
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mike what sort of rubber
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Old 26-07-2005, 02:33 PM
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or a piece of thin high-density foam... try clarke rubber
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Old 26-07-2005, 03:49 PM
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I have a pic in here of mine. I used Bicycle inner tube cut and glued to the magnet. I don't know why yours loses grip. I have trouble getting my big one off sometimes when my hands are too cold and won't operate properly so I often just slide it up to the centre balance point where it has no balancing effect anymore.

I will go look for the pic and come back. It shows the rubber inner tube glued to one I turned upside down for all to see!

EDIT: Found it in 'Counterweight for Meade UWA' thread.
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Old 26-07-2005, 04:06 PM
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I found a close-up of it here. http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/a...achmentid=1307

The 4 bumps under the rubber are the aluminium rivets that held the magnet to the speaker. I forgot to file them off before I put the glue on it

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Old 26-07-2005, 06:30 PM
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I just use some stick on felt from Spotlight. Mine is the stylish red colour
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Old 27-07-2005, 07:31 AM
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thanks people

i found a couple of very old dishwashing rubber gloves and i cut the circles out of them and used them for backing works a treat



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