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Author Topic: Hack-a-CIEM: Pirate's story  (Read 13802 times)

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Re: Hack-a-CIEM: Pirate's story
« Reply #70 on: February 08, 2014, 05:47:07 AM »

Dunno man that picture with the red painted molds is for some reason... disturbing... DT-990 flashback... :-0
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Re: Hack-a-CIEM: Pirate's story
« Reply #71 on: February 08, 2014, 09:09:15 AM »

Dunno man that picture with the red painted molds is for some reason... disturbing... DT-990 flashback... :-0

Haha, that isn't paint, it is silicone. Mold Max 60 is ferrous red colored. I can say that these first pouch molds will have a hole here and there, as a bit got damaged by carelessness before it fully cured. I can of course fix that tiny issue - it's not in the critical place - or of course try Rebound 25 brushable for another pouch.

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The above pic is alginate in gypsum support - sucky indeed. I have a way, way better material - fast thixotropic (read: brush-on) silicone for body doubling, I'm eager to try it out but not exactly in the form you described.
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Re: Hack-a-CIEM: Pirate's story
« Reply #72 on: February 16, 2014, 09:29:05 PM »

Darn, the silly forum logged me out while I was writing a post.

Long story short, I've made a clone of my outer ear and the pouch mould. Had to made new impressions, as Mold Max 60 is too hard/brittle for pouches and holds on to impression silicone way too well even with unsealing agent. Removing that would take eons if it's at all possible.

Body doubling is tricky - have to use huge amounts of vaseline (incoming nasty jokes) so that the hair are safe. First time I haven't applied it everywhere the silicone flowed... that was quite painful.
In the final and decent (but not perfect) attempt the silicone was applied by a friend - he made a few minor mistakes though.

Both Rebound 25 and Body Double are extremely good brushable thixotrophic silicones, but I could use a working vacuum pump to remove air bubbles. With the aid of Smoothie surface smoothening spray, I can fix any minor issues by hand pretty well, should they occur.

Pouch mould will be used to create a silicone shell (again out of either Body Double or Rebound), which will then be used for installation of the tubing, dampening and the driver.
I'll attempt RE-400 first - but I need to fix a broken trace there. Should that fail, TWFK from Brainwavz B2 is on the standby, with a slightly more aggressive dampener than the original one.
The requisite ear canal volumes until the second bend are: ~1 cm^3 for RE-400, ~0.33 cm^3 for TWFK. I'll compute the exact placement and tubing based on the 3D model made earlier.

This means a shallow insertion on RE-400, even slightly shallower than with long RE-272 biflanges. To achieve that, I might have to rotate the driver and bend the tubing into an S shape without kinks or create an acoustic chamber larger than the tubing I have. (Largest diameter is 5 mm inner.)

The ear doubles are for the ear and cheek simulator to be done later.
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