[sdiy] Spring is in the air!

[Peter Snow]

"R. D. Davis" wrote:
> 
> Hi, congratulations on all those neat finds!  Wow... garbage days here
> are not nice like the one's there.  Here, it's now even illegal to
> remove so-called "garbage" found on the curb.

We have a healthy sub-culture of garbage picking here and sometimes stuff disappears as soon as it
hits the curb.

> Given that the "wood work" is particle board with platic veneer, have
> you thought about extracting the keyboard and circuitry and building a
> new enclosure for them?  Can you find a way to use the keyboard for a
> DIY synthesizer, while still retaining it's original cheesy
> functionality and sound (e.g., by switching the keyboard between a DIY
> synth and the old Lowery circuitry)?

I was thinking along those lines.  I don't think it would be worth much if I fixed it up and tried
to sell it.  However the manuals would be great for a synth and the bass pedals could be turned in a
Moog Taurus kinda thing.  I guess a lot depends on whether all the functions are on one big mother
board or on sub boards.  I'll know later this evening.

> > My wife is mad as hell!
> 
> Why?  She does at least have a footpath of some sort, through things
> you collect, so as to be able to get through the house, doesn't she?
> :-) Not having collected a wife yet, I've not had to worry about the
> consequences of collecting other things.
> 

That's what I said. But after I regained consciousness, I did clean up some of the junk... :)