Retractable handles?

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Marko Rooseno · #1 Post by **Marko Rooseno** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:20 am

Hey guys,

I'd love to put these handles on the cabs I'll build next year.

http://www.mesaboogie.com/Product_Info/ ... System.htm

It's kinda like those retractable handles you get on small luggage bag.

Anyone know the manufacturer of these things or something similar?

Thanks guys!

DAVID_L_PERRY · #2 Post by **DAVID_L_PERRY** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:25 am

Penn Fabrications:-
http://www.penn-elcom.com/ProductList.asp?GC=350

fender3x · #3 Post by **fender3x** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:20 pm

Hope you'll report back about them. I have thought about putting something like that on my overweight O10...but I am afraid it will rattle. Looking forward to your experience!

LelandCrooks · #4 Post by **LelandCrooks** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:23 pm

In the states do this:

http://www.sciplus.com/category.cfm/sub ... tegory/181

I have used them, and they are very good.

Marko Rooseno · #5 Post by **Marko Rooseno** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:26 am

DAVID_L_PERRY wrote:

Penn Fabrications:-
http://www.penn-elcom.com/ProductList.asp?GC=350

Oooohhhhhh.. Pretty.. Me likey.. Think I'm getting one of those..

fender3x wrote:Hope you'll report back about them. I have thought about putting something like that on my overweight O10...but I am afraid it will rattle. Looking forward to your experience!

Well, if you're that patient.. Cuz it's looking like I'll be starting to build next year after my wedding..!!

Please please please pray that I'll still have enough cash to buy the supplies..!!!

Frankenspeakers · #6 Post by **Frankenspeakers** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:57 am

(stands off to the side whisteling the funeral dirge alternating with the Wolf theme from 'Peter & the Wolf' at no one in particular)

fender3x · #7 Post by **fender3x** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:08 pm

Marko Rooseno wrote: Well, if you're that patient.. Cuz it's looking like I'll be starting to build next year after my wedding..!!

Please please please pray that I'll still have enough cash to buy the supplies..!!!

Build now! Build fast! Sound gear will be seen as "yours." All projects that are "yours" will be easily trumped by projects that are "ours" (read that "hers")...you know, furniture, kitchen cabinets, house painting, and so forth...forever!

Mikey · #8 Post by **Mikey** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:04 am

fender3x wrote:Build now! Build fast! Sound gear will be seen as "yours." All projects that are "yours" will be easily trumped by projects that are "ours" (read that "hers")...you know, furniture, kitchen cabinets, house painting, and so forth...forever!

Sad but true ... especially if that something that benefits YOU is something that keeps you out of the house, playing music. She WILL use every trick in the book to keep you from spending your time and money on building speaker cabinets. If you really want new cabs, if you don't build them now you'll probably never have them.

"New" couples always need a lot of crap (well, the woman does) ... washer, dryer, dishwasher, fancy fridge that spits ice cubes, new (insert every room in the house here) furniture ... and now that you're a couple, YOUR time is her time ... so you'll paint the house the color she wants it, do all the landscaping the way she wants it, build her the little white picket fence she always wanted ... yada yada yada ... but don't ever come home and ask her what in the hell her lazy ass did while you were at work all day!

Bitter? Me? NO! Never!

Seriously ... maybe I exagerate a LITTLE, but when I read Fender's post, it really clicked. Brother, if you really want new cabs, build them now, ASAP, as fast as you can. You can thank Fender later.

Frankenspeakers · #9 Post by **Frankenspeakers** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:56 am

One more little hint: If you ever want to buy another thing off of e-bay make sure your paypal accounts and all your financial stuff is done BEFORE the big date. (the alternative is having to justify every nickle spent from your -I-mean-her-joint account) the motivation is that she will (in $10 and $20 increments) buy 300 dollars worth of foofoo stuff, stuffed critters, videos, whatever... this means you have to do your ebay on her schedule... and loose out on the best deals and get an earful for spending $80 on a necessity (well necessity to you that is) oh, and now you have to work off the price you paid in kind around the house before you can use what you bought! when it was your money initially! three words: do it now!

fender3x · #10 Post by **fender3x** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:43 pm

Ok, we shouldn't scare the guy too much. There is *some* hope. Eventually she may get so sick of you, that she'll be happy to have you disappear into your shop for a while. Unfortunately, that could be several years and bambini in the the future...so my advice is still to get those cabs made ASAP.

Tim A · #11 Post by **Tim A** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:50 pm

I spent an entire summer/fall building custom cabinets and counters, plus everything else for her kitchen. From June 8 - December 15 2004.

Or was it 2005?

At any rate, she'd have an awfully hard time whining about me building a few cabinets now.

Oh yeah, plus I convinced her that my then-current table saw wasn't accurate enough for cabinetry. Result was a new saw and various other tools too numerous to mention.

I could sell you guys half of my clamps and still have enough left to build 4 cabs at once....