Remember these?
For the youngens out there they are called CDs. These days most people stream music or watch it for free on YouTube. But I digress..
I don't play CDs so they are to become part of my MTMMMES V3 project.. <insert diabolical laughter>.
First I removed the CDs and cut them to this shape (they were originally round kids)
You'll see why below.
To each a used my favorite double sided tape to add a piezo to each of the 6.
Next I cut out little squares of rubber and added some double sided tape all around each cd.
Done it looked like this, with tape added ready to stick it to the metal plate.
The metal plate has around 12mm or rubber glued to it with contact adhesive. I tried if first with 6mm but on hard hits i could hit the metal.
Here is one ready to go. (thank you Sia for your CD)
Here is 5 of them done waiting to be installed.
While they were waiting I was installing Sia. Those little white pads are velco.. "Perfect" I thought last week when I spotted this set of velcro pads with self adhesive..
These velcro pads are rubbish. They are weak, flimsy and suited to school projects where you want to stick a removable image to a piece of cardboard, but I digress.. I needed better velcro.
I got to cutting out little triangles of proper velecro
and i used contact adhesive to add the hooky bit of the velcro to each corner of each pad. 24 of them. I gottta say here, there nothing in the world stickier than a small piece of velcro with a thin layer of contact adhesive spread over it's back. Putting then down on the table was comical and took several minutes in some cases. At one point I had accidently picked up 5 of them stuck all over my hand.
Whats better way to spend a sunny Sunday morning on the East Coast of Australia to have freshly brewed cup of coffee and cut out the other side of the velcro for the wooden posts.
All done just a matter of adding all the pads. They stick great now.
Video to follow.