Been quiet lately... too much DIY ?

[Tony Clark]

> Class...
> I expect a report from all US members tomorrow following the holiday
> weekend.
> World class members... no excuse! Unless you had a national holiday,
> emergency,
> etc. Then a note from your mother (or wife) will suffice. Your
> assignments are still
> due on time...
> your Teacher !!!

   Shoot, my wife's out of town, so I have no albi!  *sob*  Ah well, in 
spite of me having to work yesterday (and no, I don't just mean mowing 
the yard, which I did as well)...

> I've been
> 1) Building my MiniModular (about half done... want to wash it tomorrow
> in ozone-safe <don't worry, still toxic to humans...>  defluxer before 
> putting in the pots and polystyrene caps. Spent a hour painting in the 
> lines in the tiny little pots. Used fluorescent red and a 5-0 
> paintbrush (left over from negative retouch... eh oldtimers ???)

   I have been slowly building mine but it will take me some time as I 
figure out exactly how I want to finish it.  I ran out of machined 
sockets so had to order those plus some 072 (which if you guys weren't so 
cheap and ordered the ACN versions, they wouldn't be on backorder... ;)
   And speaking of backorder, does Mouser carry ANY XT crystals??  I 
checked every single damned 4.00MHz crystal in their catalog and ALL of 
them were on backorder!  Sheesh!
   Some of the things I'm pondering right now is to banana-fy or not.  
I'll have to take the face-plate to the old milling machine and lengthen 
the jack holes by 40 mils on each side to accommodate the flatted shafts 
of common banana jacks.
   Doing that will also prevent me from using the 9mm pots, so I'll 
probably use the 0.500" pots I used on my VCO's, but I do have to make 
sure that they'll fit in the somewhat cramped spaces.  I'll connect the 
pots to the board by locking AMP headers (which I have tons of here at 
work) and then use a pair of swivel standoffs so that the PCB can hinge 
down for easy access.

   As for other projects, I'm going to be receiving a 4-voice with only 
one lonely SEM unit...so I'm tempted to clone the SEM circuitry and fill 
out the rest of the empty spaces...

   Tony

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