Nimrod Webber wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 01:27 |
My hands are itching… here is my next project.
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Any insights are welcome…
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Nimrod,
I love your ideas.
I could be completely wrong but given the fixed geometry of your tilting mechanism, doesn't the design work more or less well depending on how tall the speaker cabinet is which dictates how high the CG is? The further the CG is from your mechanism, the larger the mechanism must be to rotate the cabinet around that CG.
Would a counterweight extending straight down (and offset back to miss the mast of the stand) from the bottom of the mechanism move the CG down? If so, would allowing that counterweight to be adjusted up and down a shaft allow you to put the CG wherever you wanted allowing the size of the mechanism to be fixed yet allowing its use over a larger range of speaker sizes (because you can move the CG)? Using something like this it would seem a larger range of speaker sizes could be balanced on your mechanism allowing them to be adjusted to some position where they would stay and be clamped to stay in place rather than the clamping part of the mechanism having to carry weight.
Sorry for the poor wording of that last paragraph, your idea is exciting and I'm struggling to get the thought out in a hurry.
I wish I had your ambition to actually realize my ideas.
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Dan