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In Reply to: RE: Lovin my MMG's, except..... posted by tinnitusintx on February 16, 2012 at 19:26:06
Oh, man! When you said your MMGs were "framed" I expected that you had either replaced the frame or reinforced the frame. That is why I did not even address this. What I see in the pictures is side-trimming, which hardly does it, much less with common lumber.
So, there is yet another opportunity still to be tapped. No wonder you could not like the drums!
As you try the range of good comments here, please DO consider really reinforcing the frame, or building a new one. In my case, I simply put oak harwood sticks (search for "Stixbees") and the performance boost was instant, undeniably strong and...extremely cheap.
Of course, if you are planning to sell them and go for the 1.6s, you may not want to alter the MMGs.
I do have to say that to get 1.6s to clearly surpass properly modded MMGs you may have to properly mod the 1.6s.
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JBen , how in the world I missed everything about those is a mystery to me. I saw the P-frames, but the Stixbees went right under my radar. I did however, use something similar to temporarily brace up my MG-2.5's. I used some 1"x2" Poplar set on edge and formed into right-angle triangles, screwed into my sockless 2.5's. I resisted the urge to pretty it up as motivation to get on with hardwood frames tho' :^)
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Neat test rig, Rickey! At least they don't offend the eyes as the P-frames did. Experimentally, the darn things worked great but, well...let's just say they could help those wishing for a divorce.The Stixbees were so named by my wife, relieved that the thinner & hidden things were now doing the trick.
Poplar was what I almost made the Stixbees with. Then I found that the oak was more likely to match the performance of the thicker wood I had used for P-Frames. The P-Frames were 2x2. The Sixbees had to be 1x2 in order to fit under the cloth. It worked. I posted the diagram and that was it.
LOL! Unlike Dawnrazor, I did not make much noise. As we all know, he bought all the stock he could on the makers of the stuff for Razoring PLUS as many shares of Radio Shack as he could afford after promoting the Magwire, Oak wood producers offered me no incentive. ROFLMAO!!! (wow, I had not used this acronym since, like last century!)
T_TX: I may still have a picture or 2 that show part of the Stixbees when unclothed. I'll have to boot an old PC for it and I'll post it later.
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Hey J,
LOL! Unlike Dawnrazor, I did not make much noise. As we all know, he bought all the stock he could on the makers of the stuff for Razoring PLUS as many shares of Radio Shack as he could afford after promoting the Magwire, Oak wood producers offered me no incentive. ROFLMAO!!! (wow, I had not used this acronym since, like last century!)
ALL I can say is that the venture capitalists who financed all this thought it was genius and they appreciated the shill based marketing approach. The ONLY check box on their list I missed was the Ponzi aspect which I AM working on...
I too missed the stixbees. I would have lost money that there was a Jben post I had missed. Looks like a nice addition but I would change the wood type for certain. Maybe the maple producers would work with you??? And why not an aggressive name like "The Vice Mod" or something...
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