If I were you, I'd wait until someone figures out to make a replacement dome.
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If I were you, I'd wait until someone figures out to make a replacement dome.
Some of us have been waiting for a couple of years at this point for someone to finally make a replacement ... and so far ... nothing.
Some of us have been waiting for a couple of years at this point for someone to finally make a replacement ... and so far ... nothing.
Doggiedoc mentioned he wanted to do one pretty recently, but I don't know what happened with that. I think he needed measurements or something.
Pro Design
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My dome is still in one piece thankfully! I still haven't done anything to it yet. The gambling side of me wants to let it ride to see how long it goes before it starts to crack! Other than the dome issue, this thing is a stellar piece!
he needed me to send him a whole ED body (to take the dome off and measure everything) during my summer vacation... which i still didn't do because my free time was cut, and i wasn't at the place where the body is kept.
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*Knocks on dome..
Eisselmann
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The problem is that it's not just the dome that will deteriorate at some point but also the rubber sleeves around the "neck", arms and legs. :/
Yup. Mine have already started. My dome and sleeves are in terrible shape. I think I got the worst batch of rubber they had at the factory.
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First the original release and then this. Does the "ED" in ED209 stands for Eventual Deterioration? D ick Jones would be proud.
Yo, don´t get me wrong, ok?
But those problems are KNOWN since Day 1 and it is essentially communicated everywhere.
How is it possible that people still don´t have rubber care and wonder that this is cracking?
It´s the one thing you can do about it:
But those problems are KNOWN since Day 1 and it is essentially communicated everywhere.
How is it possible that people still don´t have rubber care and wonder that this is cracking?
It´s the one thing you can do about it:
jkno
Stormtrooper
No one did a resin recast of that rubber top to replace it when damaged?
Never heard of something final
Alice
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I was thinking of ripping the destroyed rubber off of my V1, taking an impression of the groove the rubber sits in, and then casting resin piece that I could over in some sort of speaker material. Don't think the old one would be quite the same shape as the V2, though.
fosing
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i remember gummi pfledging mine and totally missed the NECK sleeves.
yep, mine had micro cracks in the neck
Still looking at this and wondering whether to get it, by the time I decide there will be none left
Get it, plus rubber care. It´s worth it...
If you could get that to work, me and the fellas would definitely be interested.
I offered my 3D modeling services to try and get this sort of thing done. If I could get an impression of the groove it would make it much easier to model accurately since I don't own this myself.
Alice
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Doesn't everyone want a replacement for V2, though? I'm pretty sure the V1 and V2 have slightly different shapes.
Everyone does but we need someone with a rotting head to send it to DD so he can take measurements. That would likely involve the sender removing the rotting rubber overlay.
