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Post by funbun on Mar 21, 2020 16:06:02 GMT
Now I need to get the long 10-32 screws and the storm window clips...but that might now be less easy than getting the synth here, since the whole state of Illinois is on lockdown now. No unessential movement, otherwise you'll get a misdemeanor writeup and fine.
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Post by Lugia on Mar 21, 2020 18:48:56 GMT
Mmm...the shotgun is more of a "next county over" sort of fashion accessory, I think. As for canned food, though...the BIG thing in the stores here has been toilet paper. Paper towels, too, but T.P. flew off the shelves...there were even altercations over it in places.
Typical America, though...far more concerned about unpleasant bodily functions than basic survival necessities.  |
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Post by admin on Mar 21, 2020 20:59:38 GMT
It's not just America, TP has been midst from shelves here in Australia and also in Germany for weeks. We also had fistfights in Aussie stores over it. People are really the same everywhere.
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Post by rodney on Mar 25, 2020 5:12:04 GMT
Yeah, As far as I understand, In the USA, there is at least some toilet paper that depends on China for supply so it will become shorter in supply for a time. However, Australia does not depend on China for TP, at least. So, by behaving like jerks, we have totally forfeited our long-assumed right to make fun of Americans. I am hoping to get some rice next week sometime. First world problems though. At least I can stop worrying about looking for a job and just try to invent one (or three). I have a neat recipe book coming up on Kickstarter - 200 ways to cook toilet paper and hand-sanitizer. Please buy it!  |
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Post by Lugia on Mar 25, 2020 21:47:00 GMT
Actually, that "toilet paper is made in China" rumor is utter BS as far as the US market is concerned. In fact, that nonsense got mentioned in a report I saw last night (featuring some belligerent Trumpist Karen packing a Dollar Tree's ENTIRE INVENTORY of t.p., paper towels, and napkins in her (what else?) $60+k dual-cab pickup and her "other SUV" which I assume she uses for slumming, as it's much smaller and less 'compensatory') when the psychotic hoarding was being discussed.
We get less than 5% of our paper products from Chinese factories here in the USA. There are NO shortages of any of them, save for the ones caused by panicky, sociopathic people such as the one I mention above. And that's because making paper products is a complex process involving some very bulky machines, nasty chemicals, and goods that don't ship nicely (or at all!), and the finished products don't have enough overhead to even consider importing them.
Also, some parts of this country won't put up with that sort of nonsense. It's probably good that Karen was down in Florida (another "Florida 'man'" sighting, I suppose), as there's enough luddites down there that she could get away with that with only a slightly-bruised ego. Trying the same thing in Illinois might get your tires slashed, vehicle burned, and also some well-deserved hi-speed dental work from Dr. Fist by numerous people. We don't put up with that crap here. Fighting OVER goods = bad; putting a hoarder/gouger at the epicenter of a riot regarding their actions = priceless!
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Post by young Protoboard on Mar 26, 2020 0:04:37 GMT
Last week in Central California, US, I went shopping. There were three bottles of hand soap in the entire store; two were left opened and had half the soap missing. I purchased the full one and counted myself very lucky.
We are still experiencing shortages of basic groceries. Some things tend to be gone everywhere, such as paper products, rice, and pasta, and others are a crapshoot based on how recently that store has restocked. My local grocer has posted estimated delivery schedules of eggs; they run out in under a day.
It's likely going to stay bad or get worse when the US federal government has to announce that the "temporary" restrictions, social distancing, etc. need to be extended. I expect US hermit life will have to continue for another month, at least.
There has been SOME pushback against resellers; states with anti-price gouging laws have some legal teeth and some stores are refusing returns for paper products, leaving the vulture-scum of society with $30,000 in TP and a personal loan they can't pay back.
EDIT: I'M GONNA RETIRE ON MY TP FORTUNE, AIN'T NO COSTCO RETURN POLICY GONNA STOP ME
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Post by MikMo on Mar 26, 2020 6:43:19 GMT
People over here in Denmark started to hoarding and stockpile TP when the primeminister declared lockdown. It was gone from the supermarkets in a day or so. The next day one of the supermarket chains put TP on sale, just to demonstrate that "we have plenty of everything, no need to change your shopping pattern". Even the queen in her TV speech declared stockpiling for unacceptable.
What did happen though is that the biggest online shopping business in Denmark got an 80% order/costumer increase over just a few days. We use them all the time and have done for a year or so, and now you have to wait, sometime for hours just to get to their web site. And before they could usually deliver next day, now its 5-7 days before delivery. I guess they are laughing all the way to the bank.
Also a note to Americans why used the Corona crisis as an excuse to buy a weapon please note that you will need high precision laser sights, a virus is VERY little. Also you have to count on a good deal of collateral damage as the virus has a habit of locating it self in the upper part of the human respiratory system......
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Post by Lugia on Mar 27, 2020 0:08:58 GMT
Also a note to Americans why used the Corona crisis as an excuse to buy a weapon please note that you will need high precision laser sights, a virus is VERY little. Also you have to count on a good deal of collateral damage as the virus has a habit of locating it self in the upper part of the human respiratory system...... Can't I just get a Heckler & Koch 9mm semi-auto that sprays bleach instead of bullets?
OK, enough silly. It's PICTURE TIME!!!! Apologies for the crap-grade resolution here, but I forgot to pick up AA batteries for the real camera, ergo this was shot on a cheap-ass Insignia tablet.
Shot #1 here: this messy-looking area is the still-under-construction modular "sandbox", or at least the right end of it, which is where you can see the huge black metal stand that's in place for the AE:
Now, here we see the Tektronix PS282 in its native habitat:
So, here's how the magic happens. In this shot, you can see part of the voodoo...2" 10-32 screws and those little metal things are storm window clips. They make these in plastic as well, but I went with the metal ones to make as sure as possible that something's not going to go "snap" at the wrong time:
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Post by Lugia on Mar 27, 2020 0:16:28 GMT
OK...now we pick up where we left off...
Now, the other part of the secret formula: heat-shrink tubing. Measure off a bit to match the depth of the AE cabinets:
...and after a bit of fun with a butane torch, we get these:
By putting the tubing on these like this, you can avoid marring the case with the screw threads. Next, you HAND-TIGHTEN the screws down (avoid the temptation to whip out the power tools...not a good idea here) and swing the clips up before finally and gently tightening the screws one last time. Once that's done, the result looks like this:
Pretty cool, pretty neat. Note that the point where the 2 x 20 cab hits the line where the screws tap into the stand lines up very nicely with a gap between modules. No controls obscured, either. Yet more in post the next, due to the 3 attachment police...
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Post by Lugia on Mar 27, 2020 0:18:44 GMT
Anyway, after getting the first pair of cabs on the stand, a similar process followed for the top pair. But in this case, the screws were put in place, then the bottom side of cab #2 was rested on them while I secured the hinge kit between cabs #2 and 3. With that done (sorry, no pics of that dicey part...a bit difficult to wrangle a cheap tablet AND an expensive synth at the same time), a bit of velcro was used to make sure cabs #1 and 2 weren't going to tip forward. Stick that on, and we arrive at:  Ugggh...that resolution...anyway, we arrive at the above. Note that this isn't perfectly lined up vertically; if you look at the bottom of cab #4, that cab tips forward slightly so that its lower edge rests against the front foot of the rack as a "stop". The next two are more or less in line, and the top cab tilts back to match up the velcro sides, which are on the back of that cab and on the large 6U resting-plate on the top of the stand. Final results of the install look like this right now, but in a bit should get more straightened-up once I finally get to the wiring/implementation of the sandbox in a bit. This now looks like: And you can see the entire sandbox area in all its glory.
From back to front and up to down, in perhaps the crappiest resolution I have EVER posted on the Interwebz (don't buy Best Buy house-brand s**t, folks!), we have... Arturia MicroFreak, six TenTec 1253 regenerative shortwave receivers, a four-channel dual window discriminator (originally used for neuroscience applications) made by Frederick Haer & Co., a Fairchild 791 square wave generator atop a Wavetek 142 function generator, my 22-module Digisound Series 80 in a custom build by Kevin Lightner from many, many years back, a rack with a Symetrix quad gate, Zoom 9120 multieffect unit, and a Korg SDD3300 on the left, and a Furman power unit and a MOTU 828 mkII FW on the right for use with Ableton's CV Tools; the two loose patchbays on the cigar box there go in the final two U of that rack. Two MS-20 minis, a Landscape Stereo Field, Casio SK-5, two BeatStep Pros, a Keystep, Uli's Pro-One clone (because, in theory, if he now "owns" the Curtis chipset, he should be able to make a clone of a CEM-based synth with a certain degree of competence), Yamaha VSS-30, both KOMA Field Kits, an ancient and still got it Mackie 1202, CAN OF DEOXIT (hey, I didn't fib in that particular thread here...I really DO keep cans of that in grabbing range), a rarebeasts Wicks Looper Acid, Bastl Softpop and bitRanger, Folktek Mescaline, the corner of a Hammarlund HQ-100 communications receiver, and on center stage in showcase...no, not James Brown...it's the four-cab mo'fo from Murnau, GARGANTUA. Home at last!  |
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Post by NightMachines on Mar 27, 2020 5:53:18 GMT
Spectacular!!! Thanks a lot for sharing! That looks like a great solution to keep those racks safely in place with the storm window clips.
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Post by bearheadwood on Mar 27, 2020 6:44:04 GMT
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Post by young Protoboard on Mar 27, 2020 16:25:11 GMT
Very nice. The storm clips are quite clever. Is the top edge of the top-most cab secured with them? If not, I could see the top edge getting pushed like a lever (if eg. the whole thing pitches up and backwards and the top cab hits the wall) and the storm clips on the bottom edge stay rigid, potentially damaging the bottom edge of the cab. But, that failure mode may not be likely and not worth the effort of fixing, depending on how the stand operates.
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Post by Lugia on Mar 27, 2020 20:45:21 GMT
Very nice. The storm clips are quite clever. Is the top edge of the top-most cab secured with them? If not, I could see the top edge getting pushed like a lever (if eg. the whole thing pitches up and backwards and the top cab hits the wall) and the storm clips on the bottom edge stay rigid, potentially damaging the bottom edge of the cab. But, that failure mode may not be likely and not worth the effort of fixing, depending on how the stand operates. Right...no, the highest clips are at the bottom of the upper pair of cabs as a "rest". What keeps cabs 1 and 2 in place are some Velcro bits that you don't see in the pics. There are two bits on the upper corners of cab 2, and a strip across the top of that 6U panel that mates with a strip on the backside of cab 1. Originally, it was just the latter, but the "tilt" seen on cab 2 was a little irritating. It's not going anywhere now.
...and you can easily make use of Velcro with an AE, since even a populated 2 x 20 cab weighs about the same as a big stompbox!
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Post by rodney on Apr 2, 2020 4:23:13 GMT
Fantabulous! I like the trick with the storm window clips.
The sheer scale of your little sandbox is breathtaking.
You are just going to isolate yourself in there for a couple of years, right? r.
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Post by audiojack on Apr 2, 2020 16:23:48 GMT
Can we get a hi def image of the rack so we can be really nosey? |
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Post by Lugia on Apr 2, 2020 19:43:54 GMT
Can we get a hi def image of the rack so we can be really nosey? Sure...that was the idea in the first place, but when I found that the camera's batteries were kaput, it was already after the lockdown had begun in Illinois. So I had to use something with an embedded camera, and it came down to a choice between the crap-level Insignia tablet or my Nintendo 3DS, and I surmised that the 3DS probably wouldn't be the better choice. When I go out this coming weekend for supplies, I'll have to remember to pick up some AAs. |
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Post by young Protoboard on Aug 29, 2020 22:57:40 GMT
Longest run to the store for batteries, ever. I wonder if the police got him for breaking quarantine?  RIP Lugia you were loved, you will be missed |
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Post by Lugia on Aug 30, 2020 0:18:46 GMT
Longest run to the store for batteries, ever. I wonder if the police got him for breaking quarantine? Nah...still around. Presently waiting for some new bits from Murnau for the monster. After all, what you see in the pics above was built/shipped before some of the present modules existed, and I'm working on getting those added right now. Those blanks are all module slots, except for the upper left...that's where the Nanobridge gets mounted. |
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Post by Gaëtan on Sept 1, 2020 12:12:29 GMT
Show it patched now !
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Post by Lugia on Sept 3, 2020 1:12:49 GMT
Eh...OK, let me drag the TASCAM over to the Sandbox tomorrow and I'll see what I can cough up. Sort of a bitch to transfer out of it for multitrack, but I can sling up a 2-track something or another, I spose... |
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Post by Gaëtan on Sept 3, 2020 5:03:59 GMT
Eh...OK, let me drag the TASCAM over to the Sandbox tomorrow and I'll see what I can cough up. Sort of a bitch to transfer out of it for multitrack, but I can sling up a 2-track something or another, I spose... I meant a picture, we want to see the spaghetti goodness |
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Post by moruial on Sept 3, 2020 7:26:32 GMT
And sound! I'm curious about what will come out of that beast too because it already looks beautiful |
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Post by rodney on Sept 4, 2020 13:00:55 GMT
I fear you might've become afflicted with the same thing as me - adding modules and generally tinkering about with it instead of actually making music.
Now I feel compelled to dismantle my amplifier, again...
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Post by young Protoboard on Sept 4, 2020 16:40:22 GMT
I fear you might've become afflicted with the same thing as me - adding modules and generally tinkering about with it instead of actually making music.
Now I feel compelled to dismantle my amplifier, again...
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