Thank you,comrade! :beige:
That said:
If you've got wood floors you don't need this hack, the standard "HoChiMinhs" will do nicely. If they're missing, self adhesive rubber pads (the clear/colored ones for furniture) would be the most simple/effective choice! [
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Unless the floor is carpeted, you don't need the feets hack at all. if you're not leveling a MacShelf™ you don't need the "high heels" and rubber pads would be better on a solid floor/surface.
If you want to do it for the looks alone, it'd be/look better to use a much thinner "platform" to tie the feets together and then add the rubber pads. I used a one piece 3/4" MDF Platform with 3/4" MDF laminates (I had a lot of MDF scrap and cutoffs lying around) for the feets' "risers" for simplicity. They're meant to hold the Q700s on their "platforms" and the radius of the semicircular portion/width of their "tombstone" cross-section was determined by size of the holes I needed to tap for the 3/8" Hex Bolts selected for the leveling heels.
If you're not lazy, there's no need to remove the inner set of plastic "brackets" the way I did. Several were broken/chipped after their HoChiMinhs fell off, long before I acquired my Q700 Trio, so I felt no pressing need to cut slots in the Platform for the remaining brackets. The Platform is unattached, the Trio just sit on them, locked in by the "risers" side to side, and by the outer pairs of brackets, front to back. The could be restored to their feetless mode just by lifting them off and installing rubber pads . . .
. . . whatever, it seemed like a good idea at the time . . . and it works! }
This is just another of my "Practical Mods" that barely qualifiy as a "Hacks" to begin with. But I thought it'd be really
to create the MiniQuadraFeetsMac™ from the only (or so I thought at the time) feetless member of the Quadra family. [
] ]'>
That said:
If you've got wood floors you don't need this hack, the standard "HoChiMinhs" will do nicely. If they're missing, self adhesive rubber pads (the clear/colored ones for furniture) would be the most simple/effective choice! [
] ]'>Unless the floor is carpeted, you don't need the feets hack at all. if you're not leveling a MacShelf™ you don't need the "high heels" and rubber pads would be better on a solid floor/surface.
If you want to do it for the looks alone, it'd be/look better to use a much thinner "platform" to tie the feets together and then add the rubber pads. I used a one piece 3/4" MDF Platform with 3/4" MDF laminates (I had a lot of MDF scrap and cutoffs lying around) for the feets' "risers" for simplicity. They're meant to hold the Q700s on their "platforms" and the radius of the semicircular portion/width of their "tombstone" cross-section was determined by size of the holes I needed to tap for the 3/8" Hex Bolts selected for the leveling heels.
If you're not lazy, there's no need to remove the inner set of plastic "brackets" the way I did. Several were broken/chipped after their HoChiMinhs fell off, long before I acquired my Q700 Trio, so I felt no pressing need to cut slots in the Platform for the remaining brackets. The Platform is unattached, the Trio just sit on them, locked in by the "risers" side to side, and by the outer pairs of brackets, front to back. The could be restored to their feetless mode just by lifting them off and installing rubber pads . . .
. . . whatever, it seemed like a good idea at the time . . . and it works! }
This is just another of my "Practical Mods" that barely qualifiy as a "Hacks" to begin with. But I thought it'd be really
to create the MiniQuadraFeetsMac™ from the only (or so I thought at the time) feetless member of the Quadra family. [] ]'>