Har! In one succinct email you have summed up almost all the MOTM
MYSTERIES OF LIFE!
Cabs - there is no official support for wide wooden cabinets. Many of
us are building them, however. You will see email references to "flat
rails" from time to time. These are 1/2" wide strip steel with
drilled and tapped holes, designed to be mounted to a wooden cross
rail. Paul looked into providing these awhile back, but there's no
joy yet. I'm building a cab right now that employs wood rails with
threaded brass inserts installed. Others just find nice looking black
wood screws and screw directly into a wooden rail.
Panel dividers - that's colored tape applied to the panel edges that
you see on Dave Fulton's synth. I had white ChartPak tape on my
modules awhile and loved the look. Unfortunately, tape can and will
deteriorate, and ruin the panel underneath, so I removed mine while
looking for another solution. I've looked at brass channel which
slips over the edge, but it spreads the panels out to where they need
nonstandard hole spacing, and it's a bit too wide anyway. So no joy
there either - yet.
Panels - Stooge Larry Hendry and Stooge Moe (that's me) provide this
service. No panels are stocked, everybody orders what they want.
Kinda like Girl Scout cookies, except we pay up front. Your timing is
pretty good, because there will be another opportunity to order in a
couple of weeks.
Great Beyond - I can't provide any info on toe Kobol voltage
standards, but the MOTM standards are on the official website. They
are fairly, well, standard for the industry.
Moe
Dave's Hot Rod MOTM Shop
http://www.users.qwest.net/~daveb2 --- In motm@y..., Bruce Henderson <bruce@s...> wrote:
> Ok,
>
> I took a look at the links Larry was kind enough to post, and that
> raised some questions.
>
> 1) Cabenets. All of you guys seem to go for the 19" cabs. That's
fine,
> but I am more interested in something wider (wider is better as the
> ancestors say...). So the real gating issue here would be the
rails to
> mount the MOTM modules on. I know that SynthTech has ones that are
19"
> wide, what if I wanted 24"? Paul, that monster truck modular you
had at
> NAMM was pretty broad in the beam, what were those mounted on?
>
> 2) Panel Dividers. I took a look at the beefy modular that Dave
Fulton
> put together for Threshold. Nice job. But check out those little
> "things" between the panels. Multi colored strips of whatsit?
What are
> they? How were they made? I like it, how do I build some?
>
> http://threshold.opb.org/Generation/motm/nmotm4.jpg shows it pretty
well
>
> 3) Panels Panels. I read the back discussion on the list, and there
are
> references to folks having made up custom panels to allow "OPM"
(other
> people's modules) to look more MOTM like. Any of this stuff still
left
> for us late comers?
>
> 4) Modules from the great beyond. For some reason that I cannot
> explain, life has left me with 2 RSF Kobol expanders, a I & II
panel.
> They work nicely together, but I have not a clue if the MOTM stuff
will
> speak the same language from a voltage perspective. My wee Frenchie
> bits did not come with documentation. Anyone out there in
AnalogLand
> have an idea of compatability?
>
> Thanks for putting up with the questions. I find this whole thing
> pretty neat.
>
> Bruce