Re: Make your own headphone foam replacement?

I took a set of Realistic headphones out of long term storage, to find the foam earcups had turned to two piles of dust. I cut new ones from the black 1/2" dense foam computer stuff comes packed in, using a quicky hot foam cutter I made up from an old variac and some nichrome wire. Best way I found was to make 2 cardboard discs to act as guides; made 2 pretty good repros this way.
JR


digitaltoast wrote:

I got a pair of Pro-Luxe NC2 Noise Cancelling Headphones from Maplin a
couple of years ago. They're great! Except...somehow, somewhere, I
lost a bit of foam.
They look like this
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c180/digitaltoast/proluxe_nc-2_headphones_7cm_55cm.jpg
The foam is oval, 7x5.5cm or so. Can't find it anywhere. I've tried
Maplins, the importers, even the makers (who don't send out spares).
I've even looked on ebay to see if anyone was selling a broken pair.
It seems a shame to junk a decent pair of headphones just because of
this. Any idea

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