[sdiy] Satisfying DIY

[Tim Ressel]

Ouch! As usual, our beloved Mr. Bissell cuts right to
the bone. Yep, gas is starting to pinch. Rule: Don't
piss off the corner grocer.

I was thinking about pulling the truck with a
thouroughbred race horse and stringing christmas
lights all around it. Then it would be a high-bred
electric...

--Tim (pun intended) Ressel


--- harrybissell <harrybissell at prodigy.net> wrote:

> HAH... silly American
> 
> You fall in our nefarious TRAP !!!
> 
> so no CAR payment, eh ???
> 
> we fix you GOOD !!!
> 
> we make domestic gas prices go up uP UP !!!
> 
> Take your money long time, Joe...
> 
> H^) harry  (secret member NWO)
> 
> (I avoided mentioning HOW we raised those prices...
> that exercise is
> left to the
> individual :^)   Maybe I should go into POLITICS ???
> 
> "If elected I will slash taxes, raise per-capita
> income... and instruct
> NASA that
> in ten years, we will have a quiet, reliable BBD
> !!!"
> 
> Tim Ressel wrote:
> 
> > Tom,
> >
> > I have the exact same story, except it is a 1971
> Chevy
> > pickup. Can you say 'no car payments'?  I figure
> the
> > $300/month payments i was making will keep
> > "Truckasaurus" (fossilized transportation) in
> upgrades
> > and repairs forever, with cash left over. I do
> most of
> > the work myself. It is lots of fun, and save Big
> Moola
> > come repair time.
> >
> > Synth-DIY tie-in? Oh, well, I carry my synth gear
> in
> > it... :-)
> >
> > --TimR
> >
> > --- Tom Arnold <xyzzy at sysabend.org> wrote:
> >
> > > While not 100% sdiy related ( except that I
> listen
> > > to my music on it ), I
> > > finished rebuilding my Dynaco ST120 amp finally.
>  I
> > > have another one to
> > > finish up which I'll do tonight after I finish
> my
> > > 3031 case project...
> > >
> > > I finally did locate some diodes with the proper
> > > voltage drop.  I couldnt
> > > find any large caps to fit the space of the
> original
> > > power supply caps, so I
> > > wound up getting modern snap-in's and making PVC
> > > rings that fit the mounts,
> > > and gluing the new caps into the rings with
> > > silicone.  I replaced every
> > > electrolytic cap, every chunk of silicon, and
> the
> > > two tant's ( with ones with
> > > 3 times the original voltage rating... ).  Also
> > > replaced ( and uprated )
> > > every 2watt or larger resistor and made sure
> that
> > > any previously warm
> > > resistor or diode was now properly spaced off
> the
> > > board. One thing that was
> > > harder then I expected was finding good
> transistors.
> > >  The MOSFETs I needed
> > > for the power supply ( 2SK1058's ) are tricky to
> > > find to put it mildly, and
> > > decent high voltage TO3 case outputs are a
> little on
> > > the scarse side these
> > > days.  Once I found a suitable part, I did find
> > > multiple manufacturers, it
> > > was just hard finding a current device to use.
> > >
> > > This was extremely satisfying work to do and was
> > > just the ticket to get me
> > > in good spirits for working on harder projects.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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> > >  - Tom Arnold       -  Free Synth DIY webspace
> > > http://www.sdiy.org
> > >  - SynthGeek        -
> > >  - BBD Fanatic      -  "...is it a virus, a
> drug, or
> > > a religion?"
> > >  - echo evho wjxo   -    Juanita Shrugs. "What's
> the
> > > difference?"
> > >  --------------------
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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