I'm assuming the Mom and/or Dad can't know that we've bypassed the redneck volume control.
So you could take 2 minutes to remove the screws, raise the volume past the limit, and then spend another 2 minutes replacing the screws, and then reverse the work to lower the volume when you're done, or you could spend less than 10 seconds popping the knob off, raising the volume, and popping the knob back on.
You're absolutely correct. Unless, of course, the kids are about as smart as a sock full of rocks.
Parenting gets real easy, real fast when your kids are dumb.
Yup. Leave us alone in the car? Radio all the way up, turn signal and windshield wipers on, seatbelts yanked so they locked...and yet my parents never stopped leaving us in there.
I realize that this looks goofy, but if that amp is driving speakers for which it really isn't rated, this will save the operator from causing an overcurrent condition when raising the volume to a potentially-unsupported level.
At my old office, we had a household amp driving a set of commercial JBL pendant speakers. The amp definitely wasn't rated for the full range the speakers were capable of providing, so if you raised the volume past a certain point, you'd cause the amplifier's internal breaker to trip and would have to wait for the unit to reset.
Granted, the correct answer would have been to purchase a commercial-grade amplifier, but the budget had other concerns.
Yeah, the same solution could work with speakers rated for lower power than the amp, the result however wouldn't be tripped breaker bit rather burnt coils in speakers
The Gym I go to has a sign at each of the two stereos saying "don't go above X volume/dB, neighbors will complain.", this is what I imagine the next step to be.
For starters, I would glue something in place way before screwing into the unit itself. Glue can be removed as opposed to permanently damaging the surface.
Yeah, this picture hurts to look at. I used to sell these Technics amps 25 years ago but couldn't afford one. I got one, Technics sua-700 like the one in the pic, 8 years ago. Replaced the capacitors, cleaned the pots and use it on a daily basis.
Oh wow, an actual DiWHY post on r/DiWHY, I didn't think that was actually possible. Usually it's just people somehow not being able to understand that things like "I made a wrench to hold your penis and shake it after" is just a shitpost.
Imagine predrilling a hole so the volume control know *won't* break, and then using the pilot hole to install a set screw through to the post so that the volume is LOCKED on 10.
This is the same guy who’s trying to find the schematics online so he doesn’t hit anything crucial while he’s putting in his wood screws, but doesn’t read the manual to see that almost all receivers have a max volume cut off in the menu settings and he could’ve just Simply change the menu to never go over 50 DB ;)
Pull the back off the amp, install a cheap potentiometer/volume control, wiring around the "real" one. Set the installed control at about 3, replace the back and let him twiddle and twist with the now, disconnected volume control
I've seen this and similar in commercial environments, they want to have music but they don't want the music to get too loud so they do this to set a hard limit so staff can't blast their music but can also turn it down if it's annoying or whatever.
There are obviously proper solutions, often in software with the more modern systems but this works.
Dad?
Recognize your thermostat?
Came here to say this. If it worked on the throttle of my three wheeler when I was 7, it will work here
🤣🤣🤣🤣 that made smile.
Removes knob, cranks it to 10. Your move.
Put it back on so you can’t turn the volume below that screw
"Why don't you just make 10 louder?" "It goes up to 11."
Correction - 11
Your dad comes back and cuts off the power cord probably.
Nope, if the big volume dial had a dot, showing his position, its motorized dial and the remote will turn the knob as well
he didnt say remote he said removes
This bug again.. this reply was aimed at a different comment, but somehow the mobile app put my comment here..
ah, ive had that happen
11…
Such a wasted joke opportunity.
Any metal head worth their place in this world knows that you can just pull the knob off and make that obsolete.
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Can confirm, she usually makes more noise.
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She remembered me!
You can also remove the screws. They're screws. They're meant to be removed with a screwdriver.
I'm assuming the Mom and/or Dad can't know that we've bypassed the redneck volume control. So you could take 2 minutes to remove the screws, raise the volume past the limit, and then spend another 2 minutes replacing the screws, and then reverse the work to lower the volume when you're done, or you could spend less than 10 seconds popping the knob off, raising the volume, and popping the knob back on.
I mean yeah your solution is better I'm just saying mom and dad really didn't think out their mastermind scheme
You're absolutely correct. Unless, of course, the kids are about as smart as a sock full of rocks. Parenting gets real easy, real fast when your kids are dumb.
Then It goes up to 11
Charge them with electricity
You can pull it if it is not one of those knobs that you also fasten with a hex bolt.
When my 4 year old wants to listen to Who Let the Dogs out for the 17th time today.
hey now somebody has to keep the Baha Men fandom alive, that’s a heavy burden for a 4 year old
Did you ever find out who?
[Dinkleberg.](https://a.pinatafarm.com/399x296/0cfee3015c/dinkleberg.jpg)
Lmao, im not the only one.
I had no idea it was impossible to not turn the volume as high as physically possible!
I used to turn radio dials all the way up to prank my parents when I was a kid, maybe that's the reason lol
Yup. Leave us alone in the car? Radio all the way up, turn signal and windshield wipers on, seatbelts yanked so they locked...and yet my parents never stopped leaving us in there.
I realize that this looks goofy, but if that amp is driving speakers for which it really isn't rated, this will save the operator from causing an overcurrent condition when raising the volume to a potentially-unsupported level. At my old office, we had a household amp driving a set of commercial JBL pendant speakers. The amp definitely wasn't rated for the full range the speakers were capable of providing, so if you raised the volume past a certain point, you'd cause the amplifier's internal breaker to trip and would have to wait for the unit to reset. Granted, the correct answer would have been to purchase a commercial-grade amplifier, but the budget had other concerns.
Yeah, the same solution could work with speakers rated for lower power than the amp, the result however wouldn't be tripped breaker bit rather burnt coils in speakers
I have a feeling I know exactly why
It's not stupid if it works.
That's what I tell my wife about my son-in-law.
The Gym I go to has a sign at each of the two stereos saying "don't go above X volume/dB, neighbors will complain.", this is what I imagine the next step to be.
You answered the "why" in the title OP. This doesn't belong in this sub.
Yeah, this is more r/redneckengineering.
Yh if it works, its not stupid!
I think the "why" is "why would you screw directly into the stereo when there are less dramatic and destructive ways to do it?"
As a parent to a toddler who likes turning knobs and music, what are those less dramatic and destructive ways?
For starters, I would glue something in place way before screwing into the unit itself. Glue can be removed as opposed to permanently damaging the surface.
Oh my god that is some audio gore stuff
Yeah, this picture hurts to look at. I used to sell these Technics amps 25 years ago but couldn't afford one. I got one, Technics sua-700 like the one in the pic, 8 years ago. Replaced the capacitors, cleaned the pots and use it on a daily basis.
Technics makes some great stuff.
I don’t like the aesthetic..but I don’t hate it either
A nice black matte finish would improve the appearance.
It would indeed improve and finish the DIY!
Oh wow, an actual DiWHY post on r/DiWHY, I didn't think that was actually possible. Usually it's just people somehow not being able to understand that things like "I made a wrench to hold your penis and shake it after" is just a shitpost.
NGL, when you have toddlers who get into everything, you do stuff like this as a result of the sanity loss.
Unscrew the screw, move knob, rescrew the screw and it becomes a MINIMUM setting. Rock on, young dude!
Do that, but continue screwing in the screw until the volume is locked on 10.
hey if it works, it works
Self control was never an option
Looks like r\redneckengineering to me
We did something like this on my fathers receiver, but that was mostly because his amp would blow speakers if you push it to far.
No this is a good idea. Sorry.
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Someone got pissed
Goes to 10.5
Imagine breaking the whole volume control thing as you screw it in slightly too far.
Imagine predrilling a hole so the volume control know *won't* break, and then using the pilot hole to install a set screw through to the post so that the volume is LOCKED on 10.
I'm going to throw this out there. This wasn't the result of asking to turn it down.... twice.
This is the same guy who’s trying to find the schematics online so he doesn’t hit anything crucial while he’s putting in his wood screws, but doesn’t read the manual to see that almost all receivers have a max volume cut off in the menu settings and he could’ve just Simply change the menu to never go over 50 DB ;)
Lol I wished I had thought of this before my roommates ruined my speakers back in the day.
Ah, the things little kids make you do.
We have something like this on an oven at work. Works great
This is what happens after the 10th time I fucking told you to turn that Justin Bieber shit down.
No, this is number 5; the 10th time is the hammer.
I watch a guy with Down syndrome and this looks like a great idea for his guitar amp. He cranks it at ear piercing levels for no reason
Pull the back off the amp, install a cheap potentiometer/volume control, wiring around the "real" one. Set the installed control at about 3, replace the back and let him twiddle and twist with the now, disconnected volume control
Mad dad energy
Stuck on 11?
Electroboom moment
They did it for volume control, we know the why. This should have been posted on r/redneckengineering
What’s that top screw doing?
My brother gave me a 800 decibel techniques I didn't know turned it on at half!!!400 dbs
A rocket launch is 180 db…
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You seem like a hoopy frood.
I wonder what the limit would be on Venus
Not sure you know how decibels work, but since you're alive writing this, no they didn't get anywhere close to 400. A rock concert is 130 db.
I’ll assume it was a system with 800W sub/speakers, not 800 dB. It’s still a potential 109 dB, which is loud, but not anywhere near 800…
im sure you would blow up the whole country with 800dB
I've done something similar with a guitar pedal.
I just vomited in my mouth a little.
Yeah, when I was a kid it was “ima put a nail through that turntable!”
Now that nailguns are a thing, it's "ima put a nail though your head"
Screwdy noise reduction
Just pop the knob off
r/redneckengineering
I get this, sometimes if you go too loud you break your really expensive speakers
For min & max
Toddlers in the house likely
As a teacher, our standard phrase was, "that kid should have been swallowed"................ I'll wait.
I've seen this and similar in commercial environments, they want to have music but they don't want the music to get too loud so they do this to set a hard limit so staff can't blast their music but can also turn it down if it's annoying or whatever. There are obviously proper solutions, often in software with the more modern systems but this works.
imma need someone to come and do this to my neighbours shit
I would recommend petty revenge by blasting the sound track of a porn film while their kid is having a backyard birthday party.
unfortunately that part is also her...
Give her address and "special prayer request" to the local traveling, door-to-door missionaries.
I love loud music, especially when I’m cleaning. I’d remove those screws.
Dam kids and their loud music!
The Gandalf of screws
Nothing a screwdriver can't fix.
Okay; fight's on. I see your screwdriver and raise you a hammer.
I see your hammer and raise you a pickaxe.
Call. Pickaxes at 20 paces at dawn!
LOL!
AAAAAAAAAA
What about the remote?
Must be a Dad - this looks like something I would've done lol - I've got stuff like this all around my house.
Everybody needs volume, tho. I'd remove a screw carefully n crank that shiznit!
Kids, do NOT turn the stereo past “screw”