CDX2 drawer and baby

You need a fire guard. That’s what we used. 

Good idea. Due to the fact that my Hi-Fi system is placed in a “non dedicated” wood rack, I may install a cut metal grid only in front of the CD player but I need to invent a kind of mechanism to open and close the grid easily 

High wall shelf. When he is older you can let him put his LP12 on it...

Stu

I have all the kit (except loudspeakers) in an alcove and used to have a drop in wooden gate across the front, low enough for me to step over easily. This was known as "Daddy's play pen" and even as teenagers with the gate long gone, my kids used to recognise that this area was totally off limits. Teach them early....

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David

I had some friends who taught their toddler that anything hi-fi wise was bot and all they had to say was "do not touch; it is HOT"

I found it very amusing on the very very few occasions they ever called in to visit (with toddler, which was not a thing I encouraged).

How do you teach a child that something is hot.............

You could just fit the transit bolt that locks the drawer closed. It's a bit of a faff but it does the job. 

Whatever you do though, make sure you have child protectors stuck on the shelf so that any curious child can't pull the player off the shelf.

A more practical idea than my gate may be to have some sort of screw in post which screws into a wooden base under the CDX2 in front of the drawer, so the drawer can't be opened without unscrewing the post. You would make it a temporary wooden base of course, not a Fraim shelf (!) and put up with the notional effect on SQ until he's old enough to do whatever he likes anyway.

But these things are an arms race, as my dad admitted later about the time when aged five I reportedly sussed his new lovingly-created complex interlocked back gate catch in about two minutes, enabling me to go on playing with my mates on the wasteland the other side of the road. That's probably when he first knew I would one day be an engineer (and not an evolutionary biologist, for example chosen at random.....)

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David

Nick from Suffolk posted:

I had some friends who taught their toddler that anything hi-fi wise was bot and all they had to say was "do not touch; it is HOT"

I found it very amusing on the very very few occasions they ever called in to visit (with toddler, which was not a thing I encouraged).

How do you teach a child that something is hot.............

It's all gone to hell in a handcart since smacking was outlawed......

Why not teach your kids that your hifi is something that they should not touch? I've had two small children when I owned a CD5X and some large floorstanding speakers ... it's doable 

A counsel of perfection I fear. I raise my hat to you, but would remark that you clearly haven't met my youngest grandchild yet, aged five just, who relishes the forbidden and the dangerous (but that's another story).

Last time he stayed with us overnight we had to use duck tape to secure the door at five feet above the ground, hidden behind the handle, to frustrate his early morning exploration of the contents of the fridge before anyone else was awake.

A couple of nights earlier at his parents' home not our's fortunately he had dropped a full four litre carton of milk on the kitchen floor and it had split open. It was 5.30 am....

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David

damy79 posted:

Dear all, my little son is 11 months old and he seems very attracted by the CDX2 drawer. Can you tell me if someone of you have found a kind of drawer lock mechanism removable for us but not for babies? I know that babies are very clever and they are very fast to learn how to unlock but if you have any idea 

Use this situation to get an upgrade approved. Now is the time to swop if for an NDS. Its only the beginning. Put metal grills to the tweeters of the loudspeakers, or replace them by Ovators.

I put my CDX2 out of reach.. it instantly became toddler proof, unlike my office CD-ROM drive that had a chocolate digestive shoved in it!!!!!

Rip your CDs, stick them in the loft so that they don't get used as frisbees, and get a streamer. (Well, somebody had to say it!-)

Make sure your insurance includes accidental damage and has a low excess. Our two destroyed a couple of SBL tweeters. In the end we attached the grilles with black elastic. They never actually touched the black boxes - we rarely left them in the sitting room unsupervised, though they did fill our then VHS machine with the contents of the sorting suitcase. We had a cat that pissed on our 250 as well. All part of life’s rich pageant. 

Hungryhalibut posted:

Make sure your insurance includes accidental damage and has a low excess. Our two destroyed a couple of SBL tweeters. In the end we attached the grilles with black elastic. They never actually touched the black boxes - we rarely left them in the sitting room unsupervised, though they did fill our then VHS machine with the contents of the sorting suitcase. We had a cat that pissed on our 250 as well. All part of life’s rich pageant. 

Without exaggerating at all,  I can say that we once had a cat that was sick into the top of our Pace satellite receiver and that tripped the whole house mains. My wife was out and I was on my way back from Heathriw from a business trip. I got home to find the house in darkness and my elder daughter anxious about her GCSE sociology homework which had been to watch three particular TV adverts and write about how they were designed to influence the viewer.

I tracked down the problem and isolated the satellite receiver, then wrote a letter explaining the problem to my daughter's teacher.  As I was a school governor, I heard later that my letter made the staff room noticeboard as the most original homework not done excuse letter anyone could remember.

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David

Just looking....

Very nice photo.

She understands what is going on.

Bring back the birch.

I found a tall boy type unit that I could remove the shelves from and place my entire rack inside (cut holes in the back for cables). Not ideal obviously but did the job. 

Sadly this didn't protect the speakers and I ended up having to replace two tweeters. And extract sub-optimal loading materials from the ports. We never were sure which little darling did the damage (noticed after we had had other kids round). In fairness the shiny gold metal dome tweeters from the MA Studio 20SEs I had at the time were a bit tempting...

Our creator, whether a deity or evolution, made sure that speaker designers would think of putting grills on loudspeakers for just this reason. I think leaving them off when there are young children around is truly tempting providence!

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David

Thank you guys for your replies,

anyway the first issue is to survey my little son everytime , the second always grills on loudspeakers, third I have to move at least the CDX2 player away from him. I need to re-arrange my furniture to locate the player inside a a furniture drawer with glass door and lock the door. I know that placed in that way is not the ideal place but I think is the proper way to safe it. 

I 'm thinking to take the risk to leave the SN2 at baby height but I do not know if this may be the right chioice, knobs , pushbuttons and headphone socket can be very attractive.

It should only be for a short time. As soon as he is old enough you can put it back where it was and show him how to load and play CDs. It's nice to have the stereo as a family thing, rather than one of daddy's toys. 

My kids have never touched my Hi-Fi, a firm NO at the beginning of their living room journey put a stop to this even my dog stays well clear 

Willy posted:

Just looking....

Proudly grabbing CD5X