Topic: Protecting capsules

[philR]

so i've got a set of neumann skm-140's and am looking for something to protect the capsules when they are in my bag.  i'm to the point where i have my AK40 caps on the ORTF bar just laying in my bag and when i get ot the show i just pull it all out and clamp to a stand.  i'm just afraid of damaging the caps when they just sit in my bag attached to the ortf bar.

what do some of you do to prevent damage to your active caps, but still are able to setup very quickly?

[philR]

yeah, i've thought of that, but i'd really like to leave them attached to whatever bar i'm running, be it the ortf bar or a kwonbar.  i've found it's hard to do that with the film canisters on them.  +T for the help though.

[JAH]

yeah, i've thought of that, but i'd really like to leave them attached to whatever bar i'm running, be it the ortf bar or a kwonbar.  i've found it's hard to do that with the film canisters on them.  +T for the help though.

can't you jsut slide the film can ove the caps even w/it on the bar...just no film can lid? should work just fine..it does for my 140's.

peace
jah

edit*** make sure you wash the can out well as it could rot your screens.....

[philR]

how do you keep them on without the lids?  and what is in the canisters that would rot the screens?  i've never heard of that.

[F.O.Bean]

phil, sorry of highjacking your thread, but do you know any people from columbus OH

i was out there for moe in feb and my friends said they know a taper named phil from CO

their names would be michael aka Reeb
 and Ben Norris

my best friend went to college w/ them in Ohio Northern U

sorry, just wondering

[philR]

whoa, you better believe i know them bean.  i went to high school with reeb, and know norris pretty well too.  mike was actually just out here to see yonder and moe with me.

small world.  +T for the connections.

[F.O.Bean]

whoa, you better believe i know them bean. i went to high school with reeb, and know norris pretty well too. mike was actually just out here to see yonder and moe with me.

small world. +T for the connections.

NICE!

def a small world bud

+T backatcha

[JAH]

how do you keep them on without the lids?  and what is in the canisters that would rot the screens?  i've never heard of that.

I use my smal dpa screens and gently push them into the cans....very tight fit....when I pull the mics out the scren usually stays put and when it is pulled out, the screen has the shape of the cans...kind of funny till it bounces back.
Not sure why the "rot"...the screens started to get gummy...and the white cans I used turned yellow.....I was talking to another and they mentioned screen rot too.....later on this board someone mentinted that they had to be washed out due to the chemicals of the film.

so now I only use the cans in transit and not storage.
oh and how do they stay on....very welll ;-)

peace
jah

[silentmark]

backatcha

I'm always experimenting with different configs, and locations. So its a fresh set up every time for me.
I'd use the DPA boxes, but I taped my cables together, and can't. So, I keep my mics in the 35mm containers, sandwiched in *foam in a tupperware container. (*egg carton style texture).
Maybe something like that that you can fit your t-bar into?

good luck

Yeah I use the film containers for storage and always have a different config depending on the situation, still the setup time is very quick, shrug ...

[kskreider]

I have the 140's and use the film canisters as well.  (no digi-cam here yet, sorry)  There is plenty of room for each capsule and a small bag of dessicant in each canister.  (I just moved from a VERY humid environment)

I don't slice the lid quite as much as in the pic above so it is much more of a tight fit.

[krebsy]

I've been using a pelican 1010 case to hold the capsules. They fit in the case nice and snug with the stock Neumann screens on them.  I just cut a small notch on the side of the case to run the extension cables through.  Plenty of protection, and I can be up and running in 5 min.

[jeromejello]

i have long known of the dangerous chemicals in film cans, when at least for consumables 

i found these small m&m mini containers at big lots for .33 (full of yummy m&ms too) and they fit my at853's with the stock windscreen (the double one) perfectly... almost too snug... the nice thing about these: color coded and hinged lids.