Paul,
If I'm reading this right, you are hand assembling the nuts and washers on
the pots for the kits. Wouldn't it make more sense to pack them separately?
After all, we have to take most of that off anyway to put our modules
together.
(Anything to get my kits here faster.)
John Loffink
The Microtonal Synthesis Web Site
http://www.microtonal-synthesis.comThe Wavemakers Synthesizer Web Site
http://www.wavemakers-synth.com > a) I have finished the ∗kit∗ inventory. As you can imagine, the pre-
> Christmas
> rush and the rush after I got back has depleted the stock down to the bare
> walls. I only have 31 kits ∗total∗ in stock. So, I am gearing up the slave
> labor
> (wife) to start the pre-kitting process. This involves prepping the pots,
> jacks
> and switches. No, they do NOT come the way to see them in the kits from
> the
> manufacturers. The Bourns pots are the biggest pain: they come in "sheets"
> of 45
> that are press-laminated together, and every pot has 'perf marks' for
> individual
> extraction. Which is a ROYAL PAIN because I want to get at all 45 at once.
> Then,
> I have to assemble the 2 nuts, the lockwasher and the flat washer. I did
> around
> 300 of them in 4 1/2 hours (then my hands started to swell up and I quit).
>
> The same is true for the Spectrol pots (easier somewhat, they come 80 in a
> box
> without the plastic wrapping) and the jacks. It's going to take 2 FULL
> WEEKS to
> prep all of these parts, for both existing back orders, the '510 and the
> '480
> kits, and have some extras. This is not the actual kitting, just the pre-
> kitting
> (it's about 8,400 individual parts). Once this is done, however, things
> tend to
> go rather quickly, the slowest then being the IC packing. The R & Cs are
> not
> done by me, nor is the solder bagging. Once the pre-kitting is done, I can
> do
> all but the VCOs very fast (1 full kit set per day). The VCOs are slow
> because
> all of the 0.1% resistors (done by me).
>
> So, most of the 31 remaining kits will dribble out over the next 2 - 3
> weeks,
> but that's all. MOTM-960s are in fab as well (50 of them!).