They charge $9 for one of their own hex wrenches (standard metric sizes), as an example of how over priced their accessories are. I'm assuming the price for this will be more than I want to pay. I've also contacted SME about ordering a blank arm board from them.
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Tri Mai says he can help me figure this out if I want to go this route. I'm considering making the existing arm board work, but haven't decided yet how. The plinth is something else, I'm not sure the material. The arm board looks like machined aluminum. I appreciate it because I know you own a Tri-Planar and it was your recommendation on these forums that I began researching them.įor the record, the plinth of the SME deck is not the same material as the arm board. One day, few hours, be ahead of 99.9% which is being generous, as I doubt if even 0.1% have done the kinds of things I'm talking for your advice, Ralph. Guarantee it will not take long to hear what's going on, in fact you will be surprised how fast and obvious it is, and it don't have to look pretty or anything. You can for that matter even hear the difference between one screw and two, tight or loose, tape or screw, etc. Anything from tape to clamp to a screw or two, anything to hold the arm in place long enough to play a little music. Right now is the best time, you can easily experiment with different things as simple as cutting pieces of wood, acrylic, etc and trying them out. As if I haven't heard with my own ears how much better it sounds. Probably some wannabee is right now typing away at a post getting ready to flame on me for the impossibility of this sounding any good at all due to the imprecision of the hole slop, inability to ground vibrations, lack of constrained layer damping, or whatever. My arm sits in a hole and seems quite stable and fixed, yet its really just sitting in a hole held in place by its own weight. Because this is not rocket science, nor is it even science at all.
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Big mistake everyone makes is thinking they can figure it out or take advice and do that and be done.