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.