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In Reply to: Herbies Tubes Dampers posted by Markhh2 on January 21, 2007 at 18:09:26:
return them, go to a hardware store and get yourself a few teflon faucet o-ring for a few dollars and it does the same thing as the Herbies Tubes Dampers.
get one size smaller than the tube, roll it down the tube, it may be a little tight but that is alright .
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I've tried the high temp silicone O-rings, the finned cooling/damping unit (can't recall the name) and the Herbies. The Herbies are better hands down and by a wide margin. YMMV
...telling a saxophone player to take his reeds back to the music store, that he can just shave down a popsickle stick and get the same result!
I've tried both and there is NO COMPARISON!!! Herbies were much better...yes they cost more but they are worth it. If you are on a serious budget the teflon o-rings will work just be sure they are high temp silicon o-rings or you will have a real problem.
not the same-look at the picture on the website. These dampers have two separate parts, not just an o-ring. They cost but like he said-don't like 'em? Return them and get your $ back.
You can also simply wrap teflon plumbers tape tightly around your tubes until you get the desired thickness.While these hardware store tweaks do some of the same vibrational damping in essence, and they use some of the same materials (the teflon part), they do not use the Herbie's elastomers. That means that these quickie fixes will work (they do in mine), but not necessarily that they work as well as Herbie's.
Herbie's stuff is good and not terribly expensive when you get right down to it. So sending it back if satisfied may not be the greatest idea...
I love the hardware store "chase" for solutions, especially when they work well. I'm also wallet challenged...ahem. So that's my first mode when trying to prove the concept of some tweak. Yet I've also been cautioned that I may be getting only 60-80% of the benefits of some of the better commmercial tweaks. When the price differential is great enough, that's fine with me. Yet I have to confess that sometimes I've found the commercial upgrades/tweaks are very well worth the extra bucks for the extra performance.
So I'm not as quick these days to imply that somebody got taken and should take it back to the seller.
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