The Superball Trick works!

Thank you Metralla for supplying a link to Mark Gdovin's comments on Tweaker's Asylum!

I spent $3.00 on 12 superballs (25 cents each) from a gumball type machine outside my local WalMart. Cruising through the Home Depot, I picked up 12 3/4 inch washers to hold them steady. The inside hole of the washers are deep enough so that they hold the superball without letting the superball touch the shelf.

I have not tried to glue the superballs and washers with contact cement yet. I refuse to glue them directly to my components! I have superball feet for the pre, amp and CD player.


I have the flexy DIY shelves which were a great improvement over what I had previously (wood racks).

This trick is another leap forward. A lot more detail, etc! Amazing!

The only weird thing is that the components "bounce" a bit when you turn off the CDP. No biggie.

http://db.audioasylum.com/scripts/t.pl?f=tweaks&m=71904

If you have no isolation devices on your system, you should give these a try! And it's soooo cheap!

Have fun!

 

A superball is a very high bouncing ball. I've seen them in 1 inch round balls to 2.5 inch round balls. It is solid all the way through and comes in lots of colour combinations. In the olden days, they were black.

They were cool because if you whipped them at the ground they'd go waaaay over your head. (Whipped = North American for "throw hard"). If you drop them on the ground, they'd come back pretty close to your hand. If you used gentle wrist action, they'd bounce back to your hand, no problem. But if the ball hit a rock or piece of uneven pavement, look out! Off it flew and you were running willy-nilly down the road after it! (willy-nilly = English for frantic chasing)

A gumball is chewing gum formed in a round ball with a shell. It's hollow and edible. Does not bounce at all!

Superballs are a toy ball and are not edible!

A gumball machine is a machine that you drop a quarter or dollar coin into, and by turning a handle, it dispenses a round object or small amount of candy. Like superballs, gumballs, smarties, etc.

Easy, huh? Perhaps you should be aware that 70% of our food is sugar based. Sugar is more plentiful than water.

Just kidding about that last part.....

 

Apparently there has been a 25% increase in the average IQ because of playstations, computers, the internet, etc.

BTW they still make the "original" Whamo Superball. $4.99.

Not bad. I should probably get one.... for what reason, I don't know. I DO have a baseball bat, though.

 

Interesting year, 1967! It is famous for being Canadashire's Centennial! I remember visiting the Centennial Train that travelled through Canadashire as a young laddie.

Personally, I can't wait for the 2067 celebrations! It should be pretty spectacular!

 

The Centennial is simply 100 years of being a nation! Expo '67 was to celebrate the 100 years (that's how we viewed it, anyway!) Our charter (The Dominion of Canada) was granted in 1867 to become independant of England. We created our own flag at that point, too. The old Canadian flag was red with our coat of arms on it. The Queen is still formal head of state with the Governor General being her representative here in Canada.

You guys had your bi-centennial recently, didn't you?

When war was declared in 1914, Canada was automatically in it. Some say that the battles that Canadian troops fought in WW1 helped us be reconized on the world stage. In WW2, we actually waited a few days before declaring war, thus asserting our independance.

Sorry for the history lesson! I believe superballs were in plentiful supply in 1967!

http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/expo67/