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    Wink And Zebedee said!

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    Got these valve springs from a V8 head today, just the right "give" for the 55 Kilos above.

    tomorrow i will make some cases for them to match the spacers above.

    Always meddling me.
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    Love it, John! The ultimate sprung sub-chassis, eh?

    Bet it works a treat...

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    Oh god no!.....

    STOP man!..... It's almost an LP12!
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    Surely using undamped springs will introduce pistonic rebound motion, will it not?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Filterlab View Post
    Surely using undamped springs will introduce pistonic rebound motion, will it not?

    Nah, the S/S cups they will sit within will be silicon damped, neoprene bottomed and a 15mm chrome steel ball will sit inside the top of the spring engaging O rings attached to the underside of the base

    Just experimenting and playing.
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    STOP man!..... It's almost an LP12!
    Funny you say that, I found a set of three LP12 springs under my CD transport does wonders for the sound (far more than they did in the LP12).

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    Quote Originally Posted by thrunobulaxx View Post
    Nah, the S/S cups they will sit within will be silicon damped, neoprene bottomed and a 15mm chrome steel ball will sit inside the top of the spring engaging O rings attached to the underside of the base

    Just experimenting and playing.
    Oooo, that's some serious playing then. Nice stuff mate.

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    Right i have run out of suitable 75mm dia s/s, so for now have had to use 60mm dia PVC rod i had lying around, mainly just to disguise the pig ugly valve springs, no silicon damping, no point untill i do it properly, also no steel ball interface, as i only want the top 1/3rd of the ball showing and these PVC pods are not deep enough due to lack of enough of the rod to make them longer.

    When i have worked out how they did it i will be putting my blood blistering rare earth magnets in something similar to the clearaudio 175 sqids each C/Audio Magix pods.
    but the springs will do untill i have, it sounds better for them imo.

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    More excellent experimentation - I love fiddling with bits and bobs that I have in my collection of miscellaneous items. Don't do it so much now though as I don't use a transport in any sense.

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