Why Thank you Mike60. No doubt this new level of excellence will go down as one of America's greatest success stories!! LOL!
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Until recently I used upside down yogurt containers (the tall ones) painted black but the upgrade itch got to me so now I have a better, more stylistic level of homemade elevators. 6" X 6" cuts off a board with dowel rods inserted into precision holes that I drilled in the wood. The finished product resembles goal posts.. The crossbar has plastic tubing over it to protect the cables. After the high gloss paint job dried I stood back and realized I reached the zenith of cable elevators. |
I went on one of the auction sites and bought some old antique insulators from telephone poles. They are ceramic or glass and kind of cool. Took me a while to find a set of all the same as well as having a groove type top. I believe they call them Mickey Mouse Ear type. Sonic improvement? Nah... I did it to impress myself. Good luck, JD |
Two words.... Tinker Toys |
I made my own from antique glass insulators from power and telephone poles. I built platforms from MDF and cylidrical lengths of oak for the upright supports. I wrapped a layer of Dynamat around the ends of each oak post so that the glass insulators would not vibrate when placed over the oak posts. I use rubber bands to secure the cables onto the insulators. They look cool and do their job. Searching for and collecting the various size, shapes, and colors was fun too. Of course the blue insulators sound best! |
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I would suggest that you make some elevators out of whatever comes to hand (coffee cups, toilet paper cores, chopsticks held together by rubber bands, whatever) and then listen. I have mine up on some homemate elevators but really doubt that I could hear any difference in an A/B test. Yeah I know, I need BETTER (i.e., more costly) ones :-) |