Stacking Gear. What do you use as spacers

Pauly
Pauly Posts: 4,519
edited August 2005 in Electronics
Been using the HT rig more lately and have the Oink, the DVD player and Sat receiver stacked. It does get warm so i want to add spacers for more breathing room. Have a couple ideas i think i even remember seeing the blue racquete balls cut in half being used but i personally dont want to go that route. So what do you use or suggestions before i make my decision. DIY would be nice but i want it to look good as well...

Thanks for the hints / advise..

Pauly
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited August 2005
    I know it sounds strange, but it works and doesn't look bad at all. Hockey pucks. .99 cents each on the web.
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited August 2005
    I've seen an isolation platform using marbles resting in spoons. Do that.
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  • ward91
    ward91 Posts: 338
    edited August 2005
    ive just got a cheep shelf unit fron a diy store about 5ft tall (it would be easey enougth to make one i think.)
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited August 2005
    You stack your equipment?? :eek: I'd NEVER do that!!!


    Of course, I only have one piece of equipment. :D
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  • tryrrthg
    tryrrthg Posts: 1,896
    edited August 2005
    Stacking Gear. What do you use as spacers
    Shelves! :D


    Make yourself a flexi rack. They're cheap and pretty easy to make.
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  • PolknPepsi
    PolknPepsi Posts: 781
    edited August 2005
    steveinaz wrote:
    I know it sounds strange, but it works and doesn't look bad at all. Hockey pucks. .99 cents each on the web.

    I second the hockey pucks......they blend in and disappear and are very cheap.
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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited August 2005
    I just got back from the local Home Depot and actually picked up 4 rubber spacers, about 3/4" tall. My cable box sits on my dvd player, everything else has it's own shelf. They work wonderfully. I was using small 1/4" feet that came with my sub but now I'm using those for the sub (just got a 12x12" slate slab for underneath it) and these new rubber feet give it a lot more room in between. Just over the last couple hours of running the cable box, I noticed the dvd player doesn't even get a touch of heat where it used to get a decent amount. $.88 each so I'm not complaining.
    Never kick a fresh **** on a hot day.

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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited August 2005
    well i dont have a current pic but with the 52" HDTV, the Polks and SVS thats pretty much all the room i have on the wall. I thought of a couple ways to bulid a rack over the SVS but when it came down to it i bought a TV wall mount that swings and thats what i have my gear on, so basically i have to stack at this point.

    Pauly
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited August 2005
    Goto Hobby Lobby, buy 2 3/4" or 2 1/2" x 3/4" thick wooden wheels for toys. Paint the tread surface flat black. Buy some self adhesive foam sheets in the craft dept. at Wally World, and cut and stick on the sides of the wheels. Use 4 as spacers between equipment. Cheap and works!
    DKG999
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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited August 2005
    Take a thick cardboard picture/poster tube and cut to desired lengths, paint black or wrap it with some vinyl type covering from parts express..

    just a thought...
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited August 2005
    The bones of the hookers I "dated".

    The hockey puck idea is cool. The AA crowd is a fan of tennis balls, sawn in half....plus you can add some color to your rig.

    If you want cheap ideas, post this question over in the Asylum, those folks are one extreme or the other.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited August 2005
    Thanks guys

    Pauly
    Life without music would♭
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