MOTM

Greeting from balmy Ft Worth: 4in of rain followed by 93F. Current humidity 89%.

a) pseudo-intern Charles Stella is in-da-houze for a 1-week stay. He will kit up
60 of the MOTM-510s, and solder (hopefully) 28 pc boards for assembled backlog
(about 1/4th of the total). Everyone cheer Charles on as he slaves away over a
hot iron while I force him to listen to my CD collection.

b) I'm building the "golden sample" MOTM-480 VCF module this week, in order to
verify the layout and BOM before turning it over to the stuffing folks. I am
having 100 boards stuffed with the resistors and axial caps (about 128 parts),
but not soldered. BTW: this set of 100 is the *total run*, meaning when gone,
it's 'vintage'. There are ~34 left, so consider getting one if not on order. 2
VCFs on 1 board, what a deal :)

c) I've shipped about all I can until the sheet metal arrives. Some will arrive
on the 30th, the rest on Sept. 5th. At least this "down time" will let me get
these 2 modules ready to ship. And also, if you ordered a '950 supply when all
the new stuff came out, you may get that shipped as well (frankly, I need the
$$$ to pay for all these parts. I have about $3400 in bills sitting here).

d) NOTE!! The rotary switch on the '510 needs a 9/16" hex nut driver. This is an
"oddball" size (a 14mm will also work). You may want to start poking around to
see what you can use to tighten this nut. I suppose if I need future rotary
switches, I can use this same family of switches. It does seem silly to spend $7
on a nutdriver to use *one time*, but that's the problem.

Paul S.