Target Stands for the Non-Handy ;)

Now that right there is ingenuity! Creative problem solving! I like it a lot. I also like the idea of using a doorstop! Thanks for this post Daniel! A lot of great ideas here.

~T.

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Yep, he "stole" it from the late Alex Green      But that's the good thing - ideas are passed to others and so the story continues. Daniel... Could you do me a favor and post some close ups from the spring door stops and how you attached them? I tried that years ago, and my stops never were held in place. I'm not a great man with the tools, but with a little help, advice (and pictures...) I could propably help myself 

Thanks, Robby

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Hey! I found that thing in a german online store! Here it's called "Galgenbeckenständer"  Thanks so much for the picture and the explanation!

Alex eh?  Well that explains it, (was that in the "Whip Cracking Made Easy" videos Alex did with Mark Allen?  I watched them years ago, but don't remember.) 

Gery also trained with Alex for a while, and considers Alex a mentor, so that makes perfect sense.

And yeah, I'll post pictures soon.  It's been a little busy lately, and that shows no signs of letting up, (for which I'm quite excited and humbled,) so if it's more than a week, a friendly reminder (or maybe even a brusque one) would be welcome.

I used a little bit of crazy glue on the rubber end of the spring because it kept flying off, (fortunately I selected the white tipped instead of the black, and I was working in my living room when I discovered this problem.)

Also, the spring DOES back out of the base.  Running it through the base and wrapping it with a little bit of electrical tape so that it can't back out helps a bit with that.  Also, I'm planning on adding a couple rubber washers and some Lock-Tite to the washers and nuts to prevent them from loosening up with the repeated shock.

I'll try to post detailed pics in the next few days.

All the best,

-D

FINALLY getting back to this thread.

First off:

Robert, I looked at those type of door stop springs, and those work too, but for what I was doing, I went with the two part version that has a circular plate that you use a separate screw to put into the wall, rather than the ones with the integrated screw.  The ones I used, are this type:  (pardon the blurriness in a few of the images.  I was using an old autofocus camera, rather than my wife's DSLR.  The images were meant for content rather than beauty, so they get the point across.)

As I said, I had to take a small round file and file out a little bit of that circular base to get it to fit on the threaded mount on the cymbal stand, but that required very little removal of metal.  Less than 40 seconds all by hand.  I wasn't sure what the diameter was on the cymbal stand, so I just took the mount end to a hardware store down the street and bought two washers and two nuts to fit it.  It cost me a little over $1 for that, then put it together:  Nut/washer/spring mount/washer/nut.  I'm afraid I don't remember the diameter of the threaded mount from the cymbal stand, but it was a standard metric threading, (my stand is from Tama.  They are a Japanese company.  Your mileage may vary.  But the cymbal mounts themselves come off easily and fit in a pocket.  Just take it with you to the hardware store.)

Then attached the spring, which just sort of threads in through that off-center hole in the base that you can see in the first picture.

I did have some problems with the nuts backing off of the threadings with repeated hits to the spring, but that can be remedied by adding a couple rubber washers to absorb some of the vibration and some Krazy Glue or Lock Tite to the threads, (I prefer Lock Tite, though I don't know what name Lock Tite is marketed under outside North America, but I know you've got it.)

The spring also can back off of the base after a little bit too.  I haven't corrected this on mine yet, but plan to try wrapping a small bit of electrical tape around the end of the spring once it's fitted to the base, that way there's less of a chance of it coming free, (in the below picture, you can see where the spring threads through the base...Just wrap a little tape around the end of the spring on that side of the base.)

The white rubber end of the door stop tends to pop off with repeated hits.  Little Krazy Glue to that, and I haven't had that problem.

That's the construction in detail.

The only other thing I'd like to point out is that I recommend getting a DOUBLE BRACED cymbal stand.  The legs will look similar to this:

The leg sections are two pieces, rather than one piece, (the SINGLE braced stand,) and they are far more sturdy, stable, and take up more shock and jarring from the hits to the mount.

Hope that helps!  All the best, and happy cracking!

-D

Thanks very much indeed, Dan. I've been away from home for a while, but hope to get started today making my own version of your target stand. It ought to be more portable and practical than anything I've used before....