Sunday Jan 2
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Walter Knapp wrote:
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>>Hi Walt--
>>AllOrings suggested the Buna product line because
>>the rings are more elastic. Do you happen to know
>>the sizes that worked for you? I can see if this
>>size range is well represented in the $10 sample
>>kit. Thanks! Rob D.
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>The Buna are more elastic, but not as durable, note this from their
>material page: "Poor resistance to sunlight, weathering and ozone." You
>would need to watch them more for cracking. These are the standard
>hardware store o-rings. The silicon are stretchy enough, remember that's
>what Rycote uses. Buna is also one of those that would stick to the mics
>over time in my SASS, where the o-ring is continually pressed against
>the mic. The only disadvantage of the silicon I've found is that they
>are fairly easily cut or torn when setting them up. I have used the buna
>o-rings in the past because of easy availability.
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>Anyway try some of various ones. The smallest width of o-ring they have
>in lots of sizes is 1/16, which is what I use. The SASS/MKH-20 takes a
>fatter o-ring but that's special to it, 1"x 1 3/16"x 3/32". On the size
>chart the ID & OD will give you the diameter of the circle of the
>o-ring. You would size them so that there was a little stretch. Rycote
>ones are stretched about 10-30%. The diameters you would need would have
>to come from your suspension. It's like sizing rubber bands, but less
>stretch.
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>As far as what sizes I have, I've got 1/16 silicon in a variety of sizes
>all the way up to several inches in diameter. As I noted I've been
>accumulating the various sizes for future use. Rycote suspensions don't
>take near that large a o-ring. Somewhere around 1" diameter or less.
>When you compare their prices on replacement o-rings to Alloring's
>retail prices you will see just how much they are engaged in highway
>robbery.
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>Walt
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>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
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