covering magnets ?

[vindictive666 (John)]

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 ?

[iceman (Mike)]

Mine just has a piece of rubber glued to the magnet. Doesn't slide.

[vindictive666 (John)]

mike what sort of rubber

[ving (David)]

or a piece of thin high-density foam... try clarke rubber

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

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.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

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

[rmcpb (Rob)]

I just use some stick on felt from Spotlight. Mine is the stylish red colour

[vindictive666 (John)]

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