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Topic: Grilles for X1?
Posted By: VinceC
Subject: Grilles for X1?
Date Posted: 10 August 2012 at 12:32pm
Hi All,
 
Having just discovered a Void V18-1000 paper cone has been munched by a mouse that got inside one of my X1 cabinets, I am thinking it might make a lot of sense to put grilles over the ports!!
 
Has anyone tried this?
 
I would like to set them inside the ports, but that would require a small wooden batten - maybe 3/4" wide - set inside each port to screw the grill down onto.
 
This will disrupt the airflow to an extent, and reduce the port area, but would it be a significant effect?
 
Any thoughts or ideas gratefully received.
 
Cheers, Vince


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Posted By: Wrek0ne
Date Posted: 10 August 2012 at 2:31pm
A grill will not affect the sound in any way. Putting the grills on the inside is common on bp6 sub ports. Sorry to hear your cone was munched, never herd of it happening before but I could see why a mouse may find an X1 a desirable home. 

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Posted By: VinceC
Date Posted: 10 August 2012 at 3:32pm
Hi Wrek0ne,
 
Yeah, it was a bit unexpected!! Here's a pic of the damage:
 
 
Thats no way for a V18-1000 to die!
 
Thanks for the advice - much appreciated. These X1s were installed in a venue for a while, and it seems the punters will put just about anything in any available opening. I also found a bottle cork, 20p and a serviette in this one!!
 
Cheers, Vince


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Posted By: markie
Date Posted: 12 August 2012 at 2:38pm
I have loads of offcuts which would be suitable.

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Posted By: VinceC
Date Posted: 20 August 2012 at 4:16pm
Hi Markie,
 
Thanks for the offer. I still have some perforated steel in stock from previous re-grilling projects, but if I run short I'll be sure to contact you.
 
All the best,
 
Vince


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Posted By: cassiya
Date Posted: 31 January 2013 at 10:37pm
Markie..
Why not just fit round 18" grills over the speaker? That way our void is protected and your Mouse still has a home..I think thats a very good compromise..


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Posted By: VinceC
Date Posted: 07 February 2013 at 10:39pm
Hi Cassiya,
 
Snag is the cabinet is a reflex design so the little blighters could still get in round the back if they fancied a tasty Void snack.
 
I've cut some grilles to put in the ports now, and I'll post a pic once the weather improves and I can wheel an X1 out into the light!!
 
Cheers, VInce


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Posted By: odc04r
Date Posted: 08 February 2013 at 9:35am
If it's any consolation it looks like an easy repair, only needs the surround replaced.


Posted By: VinceC
Date Posted: 08 February 2013 at 6:23pm

Its a recone job as you can't repair something like that - Void have the recone kits, I just need to get round to buying one!!



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Posted By: V-ITAL Sound
Date Posted: 02 April 2013 at 6:50pm
anybody done this already?
put grills on the ports?
I want to prevent people from kicking glass and other shit in.
anybody have an idea how to solve this cheaply?
thanks


Posted By: VinceC
Date Posted: 30 April 2013 at 9:29pm
Hi,
 
Yes I have made some grilles, and I fitted out one cabinet before the winter closed in last year.
 
I've got my other 3 X1s still to do, so I'll try to take some pics and put them up here soon.
 
Basically, I cut perforated steel grilles that fit in the 4 port openings, and used a wooden batten at either end of the port to support the grill. As the grilles are pretty small, the two battens is enough to hold them in place with minimum impact on the port area.
 
They will definitely keep junk and small furry creatures out!!
 
Cheers, Vince 


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Posted By: C-Audiofreak
Date Posted: 28 March 2015 at 8:02pm
i have spotted mouse shit in the storage room where i intend to keep my x1's megatons and ev tops would really liketo seesome pics of how people have added port grills to theirs if anybody has pics



Posted By: mini-mad
Date Posted: 28 March 2015 at 9:38pm
can you no knock up some sort of wooden bungs for the X1s.....

oooooor store all the bass cabs facing downwards with the ports as flush to the floor as possible and if not make up some 6inch plinths so they can sit on that and be completely flush with the surface to stop the little blighters getting at your drivers and anything else they will pretty much eat through. if they want to get in, they will!

buy those sticky mouse pads and line they all around the storage area. and buy a few 'humane' mouse traps, then once caught wack'em with a mallet. iv found they do have problems coming back from the dead..........


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Posted By: MarjanM
Date Posted: 28 March 2015 at 9:45pm
Put some rat poison in some corner and be done with it.

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Posted By: C-Audiofreak
Date Posted: 28 March 2015 at 9:47pm
lol like the ideas good thinking


Posted By: C-Audiofreak
Date Posted: 28 March 2015 at 9:49pm
got me thinking now guys i could make some trays up that snugly fit the fronts of the x1's and stack them front down so they cannot get inside the cabs then set traps cant do the poison route as got pets everywhere too risky



Posted By: all bass
Date Posted: 28 March 2015 at 9:51pm
Originally posted by MarjanM MarjanM wrote:

Put some rat poison in some corner and be done with it.

Unless you have small kids or pets.


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Posted By: mini-mad
Date Posted: 28 March 2015 at 10:06pm
poison does bugger all.... get a sodding cat. ok that was extreme.

theres some very inventive DIY mouse traps you can build that take them out one at a time. its a slower and longer process BUT it makes you feel oyur getting some where as you kill them one at a time and you can SEE the results.

remember if you can slide a pencil into a hole, the mouse can crawl through it. i plugged a hole in my sisters kitchen by using expanding foam a little on one side and while it was curing shoved a bag of poison from the other end in and THEN stick expanding foam in the other. this way ven if the little buggers started chewing through the expanding foam (and they will) they start chew through poison. THEY WILL AND DO die this way.

you have to get inventive.... they are smart, dont think one one second they are "just little stupid mice" so wen i say flush to the floor for your cabs i do mean flush. make it so its hard to even slide a sheet of paper under them. it may mean and bit of planing or sanding of your cabs to make them straight but in the long run it will save on re-cones and drivers.

Ants!... dont get me started on ants... even more difficult then mice!




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If it sounds like a gorilla is trying to escape, turn it down.


Posted By: njw
Date Posted: 28 March 2015 at 10:40pm
  Haha, the things we have to put up with! I can remember pulling one of my HD215s out of the shed one day to find little mousy foot prints all over it, oh sh*t I thought but a quick grope around inside (oo-er!) fully expecting to get bit by said mouse or a big spider or summat revealed no damage and I just stored them face down or tight against each other after that and never any suffered mouse-munched cones. 
 
 P.S. Ants are B*stards!


Posted By: mini-mad
Date Posted: 28 March 2015 at 11:24pm
oh oh OH!.... i know, as long as you have an even number of matching boxes you COULD ratchet strap them facing each other! job done!

but still check out DIY mouse traps, some are feckin' awsome!

one of my fav's is teetering a thin length of timber (i mean like a 30cm ruler sort of bit of timber) on the very edge of a table with jam on the end hanging over a deep glass tank. the bottom of the tank had an inch of bleach in it. the mouse craws along to get the jam and falls into the tank to be found dead the next morning. just pull out the slither of timber. clean off. reset and wait for the next mouse to get hungry.




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If it sounds like a gorilla is trying to escape, turn it down.


Posted By: mini-mad
Date Posted: 28 March 2015 at 11:27pm






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If it sounds like a gorilla is trying to escape, turn it down.


Posted By: mini-mad
Date Posted: 28 March 2015 at 11:29pm


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If it sounds like a gorilla is trying to escape, turn it down.


Posted By: Dub Specialist Sound
Date Posted: 30 March 2015 at 2:10am
You cud fix that cone , with some cone from same driver and some flexible glue for speker cones

i would try , 

also no need to be bashing up mouse ect only tryin to survive doing there thing , just as we all humans are...your own fault tbh leant mtself put box toghter to stop them getting in or less chance ect, had it happen to me too over the years , didnt have a vengeance on a mouse man, 

just one of them things


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Posted By: midas
Date Posted: 30 June 2020 at 7:59pm
Resurrecting an old post, but I am looking for another pair of x1's and when it said grills I was hoping to see some others with grills. 

However this has made me chuckle. I had a club about 10 years ago now, a very old building came complete with yep, some pesky inhabitants. We spent ages trying to get rid of them. One attempt caught the bugger in a bin, thought he deserves a chance. Took him over the road about 20 yards away thought yep this will do. Tipped him out and the little bugger ran straight back over the road straight through the back door we had left open to come out of the building.... Yeah, worked well that did. 


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Posted By: midas
Date Posted: 04 July 2020 at 11:34am
Back on track, these are mine.



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