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Hi,
Just a quick thread regarding our very noisy smart blue ray DVD player we bought a few years ago. This player has progressively become worse whilst playing discs; sometimes it would be quiet other times making an awful racket and we assumed it to be the player at fault.
I decided to either fix or destroy it because it was so annoying and what a surprise; with the player running making lots of racket I moved it around to find suddenly I could silence it allowing the movie to be played in peace; the four small feet were transmitting vibration into the table making the table like a drum; to think we suffered this for so long. I folded a towel into four and supported the player on this curing the unwanted noise but then it occurred to me there might be ventilation vents on the underside of the player and sure enough when I checked there are vents so the towel would be blocking these with an high risk of overheating the player?
I needed a solution so looking around the workshop I wondered if short lengths of 15mm pipe foam insulation would insulate the player from the table so I cut four "feet" using the bandsaw and inserted these under the player. Problem now 100% solved at no cost.
Here's a couple of pictures showing the new feet in position.
Kind regards, Colin.
Just a quick thread regarding our very noisy smart blue ray DVD player we bought a few years ago. This player has progressively become worse whilst playing discs; sometimes it would be quiet other times making an awful racket and we assumed it to be the player at fault.
I decided to either fix or destroy it because it was so annoying and what a surprise; with the player running making lots of racket I moved it around to find suddenly I could silence it allowing the movie to be played in peace; the four small feet were transmitting vibration into the table making the table like a drum; to think we suffered this for so long. I folded a towel into four and supported the player on this curing the unwanted noise but then it occurred to me there might be ventilation vents on the underside of the player and sure enough when I checked there are vents so the towel would be blocking these with an high risk of overheating the player?
I needed a solution so looking around the workshop I wondered if short lengths of 15mm pipe foam insulation would insulate the player from the table so I cut four "feet" using the bandsaw and inserted these under the player. Problem now 100% solved at no cost.
Here's a couple of pictures showing the new feet in position.
Kind regards, Colin.