[sdiy] EFM News: 3500 Modular - Part 1

[tomg]

I ment to say that you can buy blanks for a buck ($1) on my
site. They are 1/16" 3X5.25. I use 1/8th jacks so they are
thick enough not to flex, the price is right and they are basically
"good enough". Just depends on what you have already done
or plan to do, whether you want to adopt the CAM method.

Before you consider EFM let me explain... Most people know
but I've been off DIY for a few years.

That's cheep-ass-module for newbe's :) I don't do big dollar
super high quality. My thing is all about "good enough" as
high quality as I can do at low cost.

That means I never have any money and have to rely on friends
to support my sdiy habit. I'm more like a friend that makes boards
than a real business... Or did you miss my prices ?? :)  :)

I don't act like a business ether. Sometimes I have to wait to
restock until I get enough orders to buy bulk. I try to keep
stock but sometimes I get caught. Like righ now I'm fully stocked
on older boards so you could get them quick but last week I
finally mailed boards to a poor guy that's been waiting a month.
(Sorry about that.... How are things in Norway? :) )

I do it all, Kim takes orders and hands them off. It's always my
doing when something is slow going out. I get tunnel vision when
I'm working on new stuff (which is always) and just miss things.
I always make good but I can't say I'm the best parts clerk /
office manager in the business. :) Even close really.... :)

Regards
Tom


> Thanks Richard, I don't offer predrilled panels. I'm much too
> DIY for something like that. I sell blanks with vinyl overlays.
>
> The overlays come covered with application tape. You
> peel n' press then center punch and drill right through the
> overlay. When you peel the application tape off all the cut
> up bits come off. The holes in the vinyl  are cut larger than
> the control nuts so there is no puckering when you tighten
> them up.
>
> It's not a big problem to design panels your own way and
> ether have them made like I do or print them out on full
> sheet label paper then cover with a clear vinyl .
>
> I used to be a input pad guy too but I have convinced myself
> that if you have the room, a pad on every output is more
> flexible. Actually, I built a synthi VSTi and that pretty much
> cleared up any questions I had about it.
>
> Regards
> Tom
>
>
>
> > >I've been on the docs's and links all day. I still have another day
> > >at it but most of the docs and all or the price links are active.
> >
> > These are seriously great, and look like fantastic value.
> >
> > But - for me, I like to have attenuators on input rather than output.
Any
> > chance of some blank but predrilled panels so people can put together
> their
> > own configurations ad lib with a few simple mods?
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> >
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