Rayetta's Helpful Hints
Trial and Error Derived Instructions for the Manufacturing of Anti-Vibration Pads, also Known as Rubber Telescope Tripod Shoes or Telescope Tripod Shiver Preventers/Reducers
Since these seem to actually steady the tripods a bit more expeditiously than occurs in their absence, I, the LDR decided to comment further upon them. In lieu of providing a Safety Manual for these items, however, I have decided, arbitrarily, to combine some saftey issue tips with some additional information on their manufacture.
Safety issue tips. If you smell them long enough in a closed space before they cure, you will probably die. If you get the rubber on your hands and then lick your hands to get the rubber off, you will probably die. The rubber you get on your hands is more or less soluble in nail polish remover, but if you drink the nail polish remover, you will probably die.
Now, go to Home Depot or some other store that vends silicon rubber bathroom caulk. It comes in a variety of colors including clear, white, copper and some other colors, maybe. Crumby and Lomo are the ones that went to the store so they may know more about color options, but I doubt it. Although, Crumby sometimes memorizes that sort of thing.
Once you pick out a color, or colors, and also pick up a caulking gun if you don't have one of those already, you will need to decide on a methodology for making rubber pancakes. Following the procedure I shall provide, anon, you can make them as big or small as you want, so size is irrelevant to the forthcoming.
Find a nice flat surface. Get out the wax paper from the drawer. Take scissors and cut the wax paper into long strips of about 3" width. Take the long strips and fold them to make headband like things about 1" thick. These headbands will be a three, one inch thickness of the wax paper once folded. Make a circle out of this 3 thick strip of wax paper to the circumference of the size shiver preventers/reducers you want to manufacture and tape the exposed ends together. This is the mold for your shiver preventers/reducers. The more of these wax paper headbands you make, the better, maybe. Then put down lots of wax paper flat on your flat surface. Spray the flat wax paper with Pam. Then spray all the insides of the wax paper headbands with Pam also. Spray on as much Pam as you can stand to spray. So now you have a bunch of the same size wax paper headbands sitting on the flat surface on sheets of wax paper, all sprayed down with Pam.
Now you are set for the stinky part. Find someone who knows how to operate a caulking gun. Have them squirt the caulk onto the wax paper inside one of the headbands. Have them smooth out the caulk inside the headband to as uniform a 5mm depth as they can manage. Repeat this procedure inside all the headbands.
After a while these things will dry out. After they do, dry out, you can peel away the wax paper, maybe, and stick them together using a thin application of more caulk. Using this procedure you can stick as many together as your heart desires, eventually obtaining the thickness you believe you require for your shiver preventers/reducers.
Alternatively, if you don't want to make lots of headbands you can have someone else squirt in the rubber caulk as above to a depth of whatever, let that dry, and then have them squirt in some more caulk and let that dry, etc. until the desired thickness of the shiver preventers/reducers is manifest.
Do all this in a well-ventilated location, like perhaps a neighbor's backyard.
Once these items are cured, they should bounce when you drop them without leaking liquid rubber. Also, try poking them with a toothpick if you think they are still liquid on the inside.
the LDR
Since these seem to actually steady the tripods a bit more expeditiously than occurs in their absence, I, the LDR decided to comment further upon them. In lieu of providing a Safety Manual for these items, however, I have decided, arbitrarily, to combine some saftey issue tips with some additional information on their manufacture.
Safety issue tips. If you smell them long enough in a closed space before they cure, you will probably die. If you get the rubber on your hands and then lick your hands to get the rubber off, you will probably die. The rubber you get on your hands is more or less soluble in nail polish remover, but if you drink the nail polish remover, you will probably die.
Now, go to Home Depot or some other store that vends silicon rubber bathroom caulk. It comes in a variety of colors including clear, white, copper and some other colors, maybe. Crumby and Lomo are the ones that went to the store so they may know more about color options, but I doubt it. Although, Crumby sometimes memorizes that sort of thing.
Once you pick out a color, or colors, and also pick up a caulking gun if you don't have one of those already, you will need to decide on a methodology for making rubber pancakes. Following the procedure I shall provide, anon, you can make them as big or small as you want, so size is irrelevant to the forthcoming.
Find a nice flat surface. Get out the wax paper from the drawer. Take scissors and cut the wax paper into long strips of about 3" width. Take the long strips and fold them to make headband like things about 1" thick. These headbands will be a three, one inch thickness of the wax paper once folded. Make a circle out of this 3 thick strip of wax paper to the circumference of the size shiver preventers/reducers you want to manufacture and tape the exposed ends together. This is the mold for your shiver preventers/reducers. The more of these wax paper headbands you make, the better, maybe. Then put down lots of wax paper flat on your flat surface. Spray the flat wax paper with Pam. Then spray all the insides of the wax paper headbands with Pam also. Spray on as much Pam as you can stand to spray. So now you have a bunch of the same size wax paper headbands sitting on the flat surface on sheets of wax paper, all sprayed down with Pam.
Now you are set for the stinky part. Find someone who knows how to operate a caulking gun. Have them squirt the caulk onto the wax paper inside one of the headbands. Have them smooth out the caulk inside the headband to as uniform a 5mm depth as they can manage. Repeat this procedure inside all the headbands.
After a while these things will dry out. After they do, dry out, you can peel away the wax paper, maybe, and stick them together using a thin application of more caulk. Using this procedure you can stick as many together as your heart desires, eventually obtaining the thickness you believe you require for your shiver preventers/reducers.
Alternatively, if you don't want to make lots of headbands you can have someone else squirt in the rubber caulk as above to a depth of whatever, let that dry, and then have them squirt in some more caulk and let that dry, etc. until the desired thickness of the shiver preventers/reducers is manifest.
Do all this in a well-ventilated location, like perhaps a neighbor's backyard.
Once these items are cured, they should bounce when you drop them without leaking liquid rubber. Also, try poking them with a toothpick if you think they are still liquid on the inside.
the LDR
posted by ray pistrum at Tuesday, January 17, 2006
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