MOTM Madness continues!

[Paul Schreiber]

I'm in the middle of finishing up my 1997 tax return (yuck!) so I will try to
take a couple of 'low tech' photos of all 3 finished modules later tonight. Eventually
I will get much better ones. The panels are black, painted with polyurathane
paint that on the front side has a 'textured' finish (anti-glare for stage lights).
The back side is painted, but without the texture. The steel pcb mounting
bracket is also painted black.

Lettering is white expoy silkscreen, which uses the Moog modular font and
'tick' marks. Very similar to a MiniMoog, but slightly different. The silkscreen
paint is baked for 25 minutes in an oven: it is rock-hard. The panels are made by the same
company that makes Dell's computer cases (and some of Compaq's).

Hopefully, those of you that have built these and have better cameras will
take pictures, too. I may even try to put a panel in the scanner.

The capacitors Dan are referring to are Thomson metallized polyester, that
I use because they are kind of pretty (bright yellow) but more importantly
are clearly stamped with the value (in about 6pt type) and have better
audio characteristics than ceramic. Critical caps, such as the S&H
cap, are polyproplyene.

After taxes, I'll start boxing up the MOTM-100 kits for shipment this week. There
are plenty of kits all boxed up and ready to go! Please email if you have
questions.

Lastly, several have asked if I will sell portions of the kits (pcb, pcb+panel, etc).
The answer is yes, please email me for your specific request.


Paul Schreiber
Synthesis Technology
www.synthtech.com


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From: 	Dan Higdon[SMTP:hdan at charybdis.com]
Sent: 	Sunday, April 26, 1998 6:07 PM
To: 	synth-diy
Subject: 	Re: MOTM Madness continues!

I too got my first kit (ring+vca), and all I have to say is,
"Paul Screiber is a madman!"  (That's a good thing, btw)

I'm just going to write down some of my thoughts (all positive).

This kit is, if anything, OVERLY high in quality.  I mean, Paul
has individually bagged each type of part separately (bags
labeled), and he cut and stripped all the wire!  The MOTM
hardware is built like a tank, and panel looks INCREDIBLE.
Top-quality on ALL the parts.  The PCB is even really nice.
If you've never soldered with plated-through holes, you're in
for a treat.  Paul even includes two kinds of solder in the kit!

The PCB mounts to a steel plate, which in turn mounts to the
front panel.  The PCB's pots (soldered to the board) also attack
to the front panel.  In this kit, there is only one pot that has flying
wire, along with two switches and six jacks.

I started construction last night - got all the "organic solder"
parts mounted (resistors, caps, chips, diodes) easily.  I would
suggest keeping a magnifying glass or loupe handy for reading
some of the cap values.  Oh yeah - not a ceramic disk cap in
sight.  Paul even uses these little "yellow box" caps.  I hadn't
seen those before.  I suspect the more experienced of you out
there have.  The pots look extremely durable, as do the jacks
(switchcraft).

I guess you could say I'm a happy customer.  Once I get this
baby finished, trimmed, and mounted, I'll probably have more
to say.  But at this point, I'd say that Paul is well justified in the
price he's asking.

Hopefully Paul will get some more photos up on his page
soon so you can see what we're talking about.

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hdan at charybdis.com
There's no one left to finger
No one here to blame