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I'm going to mount a couple amps on top of a box and would like to try the floating amp look. The plan is to mount them to either wood or plexi/lexan. Let me know if this sounds right:
1 - the piece that the amp mounts to should be the exact size of the foot print of the amp. 2 - to get the floating effect, I should just use some dowel rods and pitch the amp in a way that you can't see the rods.
Now, if all that is right, how do I hide the wiring? If anyone has any pictures of some nice amp racks like this, I'd really appreciate it.
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quote:Originally posted by Andy Jones: Dowel rods---unless REALLY big will not support the weight. I would use something hollow to run the wires through.
I second that. I would try a piece of tube with flanges on both ends.
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I'd use PVC pipe. It's much more sturdy and you can run the wires into it.
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I've done this kind of amp rack about 50 times already-- you can get plexiglas "tubes" that you can use to support the amps' weight (just make them short to reduce shaking) For the flat plexi that holds the amp itself, I like carving it with flames on the side (using RotoZip or Dremel), rough sand the top of the flames and put a red Neon tube underneath. This will make the flames glow on the sides of the amp... very neat effect but this install is quite overused.
I would try something along the lines of amp racks submerged into real water.. something like that..
later
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ive seen this before...but i cant remember where..it was like the discovery channel or something...its not really water..its some kind of liquid that does not conduct electricity, pretty cool
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I just saw it on the news last night. It's being sold for fire sprinkler systems so that books, electronis, etc... don't get damanged in a fire, or at least they aren't damaged by water. The stuff evaporates 25X faster than water. The demo showed them putting flat screen TV's and laptops under "water". Pretty cool stuff.
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