Picture of my almost finished flexy

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Thanks for all your advice, its built, it just needs some paint touch ups, I've connected up my CDP and Turntable and sounds great, the mid range now seems clearer than ever.

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I am very pleased with it and proud of myself, its my first DIY project that didn't go wrong.
 
Next project is the speaker stands, I already have a few simple ideas for them though.. Drain pipes, oak wood, and sand is the order of the day...

PS I used dome nuts for the spikes, on the shelve which worked well as my floor is not level, so I was able to adjust them to get each shelf perfectly level.
 
see nothing to it,but dont tell everybody or they'll all be at it ;)
nice big space at the bottom for an extra shelve when upgraditus strikes:D
 
Yeah its just for general crap, I am quite messy person so its likely that area will get full of CDs, etc, the space below is for my LPs, my dads taken all his out of my room so I only have about 20 now. I did have about 200.

I will probably but the laptop down there as well and move my DVD player some where else maybe with the TV.
 
You could try sitting the Flexy on a sand box, a box that is 4" deep and big enough for the three legs of the lexy to rest on the top plate of the box [not touching the sides of the box] and resting on oven dried sand.......you need to be careful to level it well. This will provide an excellent vibration sink for the support.
 
Good work AT! Did you come across any problems in the construction then or was it all sMOoooooooooth sailing?
 
One day I shall catch MO! out when he manages not to capitalise a "mo".

The flexy looks a nice job. Well done. There's definately a real satisfaction in seeing your hard work come to fruition, as with my rack also.

Then the damn cd player breaks.... :grrr:
 
Originally posted by Isaac Sibson
One day I shall catch MO! out when he manages not to capitalise a "mo".

The flexy looks a nice job. Well done. There's definately a real satisfaction in seeing your hard work come to fruition, as with my rack also.

Then the damn cd player breaks.... :grrr:
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There are select times when MO is not capitalised. Other peoples names tend to be left alone. Amon Tobin! There! I said it!!!
 
Then the damn cd player breaks....
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Build a TNT-Flexy one. Some 18mm rebar, an egg box, some selotape, and an old edition of Blue Peter and you should be set :)

Good job on your Flexy btw. What did you use to paint it?

~ ~ Dave
 
The CD player didn't break but my mums computer did, so she now has my old 1ghz duron and I now have a nice new XP2000 cpu board. I've been doing that all day as one of new motherboard was fualty and had to go back to shop after spending two hours trying to configure why my CD-ROMS were not working.

Anyway back on topic, the only problem I had with the construction is the rods sometimes got stuck and the shelves wouild not move, I just redrilled the holes a little bit more to give a 1mm clearence and this solved the problem.

The most fun part was leveling it, as it was simple a case of adjusting the nuts until the spirit level had a level reading.
 
How long do you think it will be before the Flexy is fully broken in?

I heard somewhere that gloss paint is better than matt paint becasue it reflects away air bourne vibrations better.

Any comments?

:duck:
 
One thing I have noticed is the mid range seems to have more detail now. Its not a huge improvement but a worthwhile one. I think some damping material will be added one day.

The best thing about it though is it makes my system look like its worth a lot of money as most budget stuff tends to get stacked on top of each other and never reaches its potential.
 
And plenty of room for garlic bread on that lower shelf ;)
 

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