Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

Sorry for the "Get Smart" style tease! ;-)

The follwing is pretty much what I posted on the Modularsynth.net
forum today. I thought I would post it here too in case some of you
haven't looked at the pictures in my photo folder here, or in case
you had and were wondering what the heck I was doing, this should
explain things a bit. For those who don't care or have been there and
done that, I appologie for my on going noobiasm.

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You can read the details over on Muff's forum if you like but long
story short, I got all side stacked from more important issues with a
minor obsession over the screws that hold my MOTM modules in the
rack. Inspired by a comment by Jeff L. about how one can
become 'snow blind' looking at a big sea of similar looking modules
and it can be difficult at times to quickly determine where one
module ends and another begins. I thought replacing the black
mounting screws with something that would stand out more might help.
(lol, it's not like I even have enough modules to to have this
problem yet but . . what the hell! ;-)

I started looking around for alternatives and fell in love with
socket head cap screws. They look more industrial/aggressive than the
standard Philips screws to me.(and sort of like a cross between a
little jack and a little knob) So at first I tried alternating black
alloy and stainless steel and while that looked pretty cool, there
wasn't a much of a visual difference between the two. Then I picked
up some blue and red anodized aluminum screws and tried a setup where
I alternated the colors every time a module changed. Really easy to
see module separation but . . . it wasn't 'me'. I also tried same
colored screws per module type which I liked a little better but
still not what I wanted.

So finally I discovered CHROME PLATED screws and I'm a happy camper
now!
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Check out the pictures in my photo album.

If you want to do this too, I got the chrome screws from
www.chromehardwaresupply.com (talk to Chris at extension 109). It
cost $66 for 100 8-32 3/8" socket head cap screws. Compared to what
the standard MOTM screws cost they are really expensive but, I think
it's worth it! ;-)

If you like the anodized aluminum screws better I got those from
www.fastener-express.com

And if you like the chrome or colored aluminum but don't like the
socket head style, both companies have a few different styles to
choose from.