[Steve1812]

Hello,

You know the scene - get a microphone and clip to the stand only to find the insert to the clip has to come out.
Its stuck/screwed well in. Find a coin and then you realise you need a bit more grunt, so find piers etc.

My solution was found in a hardware shop - get a blank mortice key. The working end comes in various widths and sizes to fit the adaptor slot - plenty of leverage.
And at barely £1 or so, a very cheap tool, ready holed for attaching to wherever.

Steve

[pete10uk]

Steve1812, on 19 July 2012 - 01:04 PM, said:

Hello,

You know the scene - get a microphone and clip to the stand only to find the insert to the clip has to come out.
Its stuck/screwed well in. Find a coin and then you realise you need a bit more grunt, so find piers etc.

My solution was found in a hardware shop - get a blank mortice key. The working end comes in various widths and sizes to fit the adaptor slot - plenty of leverage.
And at barely £1 or so, a very cheap tool, ready holed for attaching to wherever.

Steve

well I've never had this issue, I've never had to remove the insert from a mic clip, on the contrary in reality, its me over tightening them because they keep coming out and staying on the mic stands, I've now started gluing them in so your blank key solution is in vain :-).

I guess its all down to where you store the reducing inserts, I keep mine in the clip but if you keep yours on the stands we'll have a problem if we ever work together. ;-(

Maybe the glue wasn't such a great idea

[Alec]

Worse still is where someone's used an unslotted adapter - grrr!!!

Unfortunately, you can never get away with having all stands/adapters in a single thread size in most venues, so the use of adapters ends up being unavoidable. Especially when touring acts bring in their own kit.

Like the idea of the blank key, mind. Coins normally do it, but I've bent quite a bit of cutlery in the past doing this...

[Dj Dunc]

Adapters almost never are unslotted, its when the bloody idiots that used the stand before you put them in backwards on the unslotted side out!

[Paul TC]

Dj Dunc, on 19 July 2012 - 04:16 PM, said:

Adapters almost never are unslotted, its when the bloody idiots that used the stand before you put them in backwards on the unslotted side out!

Nope it's when the *********** remove all the thread adaptors from the stands and or mic clips you have sent out, do not return them, and you have 10 stands and 10 mic clips that you cannot put on them for the sake of a fiver's worth of adaptors !!

[durian]

all of the above, what they said.......... horror stories from such a small peice of metal

[dosxuk]

We've got one clever clip in my main venue, which has the small and large threads fixed into the clip - the small thread is inset by about 5mm, so you can attach to either thread size. I wish all of our clips were the same, it'd solve the wandering adaptor issue!

[the kid]

I had someone screw said adapter on SO hard, it was also one that some how went in really deep, that the only way to remove it was to take it to engineering who took a punch to the middle to get some grip to twist it out.

I will have to go key hunting now though.

[Rob_Beech]

Once upon a time a man or woman invented or came to a decision upon a thread size to use to attach a microphone clip, to a microphone stand. This person was a good person. They have made something very useful. At another time, in another place, someone else came to a decision to use a thread to attach a clip to a microphone. Sadly, this thread was NOT THE SAME. THIS person, needs to die in a fire.

That is all.


Rob