Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM
Subject: Ball:=rolling
From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
Date: 2006-07-28
The mighty gears of the MOTM industrial-complex are starting to turn and gain
momentum.
Kits are being shipping out this week, although just a few to start with. All of
the major components are on order, and ∗so far∗ the pacing item appears to be
tempco resistors (KRL is back to 6-8 weeks delivery, last year they were
quoting 3-4). I have finished 15 MOTM-310 uVCO kits, these will start shipping
on Saturday. I am also going to ship 5 '650s on Sat and 5 on Monday.
Again, for 85% of the new sale orders, the delivery will be the end of
August/first of Sept.
Shane the tech dropped off some '485 assembled pc boards and picked up 8 '480
sets to stuff next week (then he goes to Brazil for 3 weeks, lucky bastard). I
am working on some '300s and some '440s. I have to stop and finish a system
assembled in a cabinet to be shipped by Aug. 15th.
The "good" news is that I do not foresee any parts ∗supply∗ issues (I had one
part I had trouble with but that's taken care of). Now we all have to sit and
wait for part ∗delivery∗ issues. In the meantime the Indiana folks are stuffing
~80,000 parts into little plastic bags. This takes a while :) BTW, the sale is
not standing at order #259 (436 kits) if you want to guess where you are in
line. Order #106 was the first order of the sale.
On the AudioEngine front: I am ordering parts this weekend for engineering
breadboards (prototypes are next, these are most definitely breadboards!). I am
in the process of upgrading the pcb CAD software (I am using 7 year old stuff
now) but it sure costs a lot (about $5500 total). Ack.
Paul S.