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In the Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount?

Post Subject: MastorackPosted by N-set on: 7/25/2013

So here is the promissed picture of yet unfinished rack:

It's huge (the columns are 10x10cm) but still quite elegant-looking in my room. The electronics rack on the right
will be put inside the TT rack when I finish working on it. It's all thick (4-5mm) steel profiles, sand+shots and perlite
(much better!) filled
and the best is the stone: italian volcanic slate, marinated in vaginal liquids of Baltic virgins and rubbed with their brests.
The picture does not even come close to the rich, deep graphite tone it has!

The ridigity with all hiting and taping tests is OK. This is v2 actually, the 1st version was a copy of RixRax Hoodoo but was not rigid enough,
hence I cut the inner cage out...respect to RixRax if they managed to make it all rigid!.
But anyway I'm keep being surprised how elastic steel is! It's definitely not vibration free
and hiting the racks with a hand create low freq. vibrations...I'd probably have to pour it out of concrete to have it dead.
The floor did not collapse so far, moreover the 300+kg TT stand is quite easy to slide.
Phase 2 of the project is adding pneumatic suspension below the upper TT table
(the steel frame and the 4.5cm thick slate on top of the columns) and probably under the electronics cage.
This should create a big 140cmx70cm vibraplane for the TT. I also plan to interface slate to steel using 3mm sorbothane
strips and to modify the spikes a la RixRax.

Cheers,
N-ste

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