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Topic: WTB Emmons Legs 24" |
Pete Grant
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Auburn, CA, USA
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Posted 7 Dec 2010 5:46 pm |
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| Want to buy 24" legs for a 70s P/P. |
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Bob Snelgrove
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san jose, ca
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Posted 10 Dec 2010 8:49 am Re: WTB Emmons Legs 24"
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| Pete Grant wrote: |
| Want to buy 24" legs for a 70s P/P. |
Pete!
I think any brand will work. You can cut down standard legs with a tubing cutter.
bob |
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Tony Glassman
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The Great Northwest
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Bob Snelgrove
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san jose, ca
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Posted 10 Dec 2010 5:35 pm
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Right,
Pop out the insert, tubing cut the top, not the threaded end. Done it a few times. no biggie if you have a nice tubing cutter.
bob
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Pete Grant
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Auburn, CA, USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2010 10:29 pm
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Thanks, guys. Turns out the steel I'm working on has some really non-standard legs; they're not modified microphone stands, as far as I can tell.
I may break down and do the modification that you've mentioned, though, and see if it works. I've done it before in '74 when I ordered my Emmons with short legs and got long and the same thing with Dekley in '79. I've also modified students' steels. Sometimes I can't get the insert to be snug, tough. |
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Jerry Roller
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Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2010 10:45 am
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Pete, you can place the threaded lug on top of a partially open vice to cradle it with the outside ring just past the jaws to not damage it, take a chisel and make a couple rows of "X's" around the lug. Looks ugly but that makes the lug go back in tight and of course does not show. Put a couple washers and a 1/2" nut on the threads finger tight to protect the threads and drive it into the leg tube. It should go in tight. I have done this on one set of legs that for some reason cracked the chrome plating on the leg so I have learned to watch this very closely.
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Pete Grant
From:
Auburn, CA, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2010 7:57 pm
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| Thanks, Jerry. I'll try that with the legs I have, but they're like none I've seen. They're all aluminum and resemble mic stands, but don't seem to telescope, possibly because they've been sitting around for 28 years. They seem to be solid. |
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 18 Dec 2010 10:48 am
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| When you re-insert the threaded plugs apply some adhesive (e.g.loc-tite) as well. |
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Paul Norman
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Washington, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2010 12:15 pm
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Where are you measuring to. My Emmons legs are 23 inches to the bottom of the clutch, not counting the threads or the little sliding part in the bottom of the leg. If you have 24" You aint going to be cutting off.
Maybe mine has cut down.
I dont know. |
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Dave Ristrim
From:
Whites Creek, TN
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Posted 23 Dec 2010 5:23 am
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| Jerry Roller wrote: |
Pete, you can place the threaded lug on top of a partially open vice to cradle it with the outside ring just past the jaws to not damage it, take a chisel and make a couple rows of "X's" around the lug. Looks ugly but that makes the lug go back in tight and of course does not show. Put a couple washers and a 1/2" nut on the threads finger tight to protect the threads and drive it into the leg tube. It should go in tight. I have done this on one set of legs that for some reason cracked the chrome plating on the leg so I have learned to watch this very closely.
Jerry |
I just fixed my Carter legs by popping out the threaded plugs and following Jerry's advice. I also put LokTite on before pounding the plugs back in. To pop the plugs out, I just used the smaller tube in the leg (reversing it so as not to damage the plastic plug on the Carter legs) and sliding/jamming that tube into the plug 'till it popped out. Thanks to Bob s. and Tony also. |
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Frank McBride
From:
Clendenin, West Virginia, USA
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Posted 24 Dec 2010 10:36 am 24 in. Leggs
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Pete Grant
From:
Auburn, CA, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2010 10:48 pm Please close
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Got legs. Thanks, Stan.
Thanks to the great advice on leg modification. |
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