knightfly wrote:Damn, when's this retarded technology gonna let us email SOLID things? (Imagine what that'd do for the mail-order bride biz...
Having a genuine mail-order bride (from Ukraine), I whole-heartedly agree. It would have saved me a bundle on transportation. We did get to "date" over the Internet though so at least I saved all of those dinners/movies/symphonies etc while I was getting to know her. Of course, apparently she was keeping track of what we WOULD have done if I'd been living there and she made sure we made it up on the backend after she got here.
Well, it's been a couple of weeks since we've had any progress but work has finally begun on the cloud absorber/lighting unit.
pic 1 - pieces laid out
pic 2 - pieces assembled, light fixture cut out
pic 3 - accent lighting braces in and cut
pic 4 - lighting unit test fit and braced
pic 5 - lighting unit/bracing closeup
pic 6 - unit assembled
Note to add to "Lessons Learned": It's one thing to lay out a 8' x 6' project on paper, it's a totally different thing to try & pick it up and move it during construction/installation.
Aloha
Last edited by kendale on Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:31 am, edited 4 times in total.
Hi Kendale,
I need to make a few of these for my live rooms ceiling and wanted to have a nice timber finish around the outside like you have got however I can't work out how to keep the cloth wrapped insulation inside the timber frame.
Can you explain how you will stop the insulation falling out?
JohnG
I was planning on 1" x 2" strips across the expanse every foot or so. These would tie in with cleats around the inside perimeter of the frame which the cloth covered panels will wedge against, either fastened with velcro or screwed into place, similar to the ones I used for the front absorber design.
But then again, we'll see what actually happens when I get to that point.
Thought I'd just insert a note here: I changed the orientation of the rockwool supports.
I found that the 1" x 2" sagged a little when laid flat, but were a bit more rigid when laid on edge when working on the front absorber section that supports the computer monitor.
So I figured in the long run, by being orienting them on edge for the rockwool supports, they would keep the unit looking cleaner as they wouldn't sag so much due to the weight and gravity over time.
Aloha
Last edited by kendale on Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Small update: rockwool braces cut and positioned...but ran out of "T" brackets...go figure... (Note to self: just noticed I need to even out the spacing on the middle section.)
Went up to town to pick up a few more supplies (T brackets, screws, wood putty, etc.) and ended up coming home with some new Mogami Studio cables! Awesome! Brought home (3) 25' TRS - DSub snakes, (2) 50' TRS - XLR monitor feeds, and (1) 50' mic cable.
Just got through installing snakes and listening test. They sound great!
I got the cables from the Waimea Music Exchange. The owner, Paul Shaw, who just got back from the 2006 NAMM show, is now the state's one and only dealer for Mogami cables and MXL microphones (which he also brought back from the show.) He is also the Big Island's dealer for Mesa Boogie Amplifiers.
The pin-out diagram (I am told by Fostex) is the standard DA88 layout.
(Note to self: just noticed I need to even out the spacing on the middle section.)