[sdiy] Resisting UberDIY

[harrybissell]

Ok so I'm a Kulack !!!

I use the $1 "Sterlite" shoeboxes for parts these days... they stack nice,
this years model has latching lids...  They fit nice on the bookshelf... right
under the

dataBOOKS.

Paul, you are missing the point (or perhaps you are way more high tech than
me...)

I do some of my best work on the Sh!tter... where I do NOT have high speed
internet access...  These old paper books are great for that, And FURTHERMORE
... you don't rip out the pages you need and KEEP them... you rip out the pages
you do NOT need... and use them if necessary.

Its better than asking the guy in the next stall... "Hey... you got singles for
a five ???"

I have lots of little parts drawers with resistors, caps, etc in them... They
were $4
brand new, with bags of hardware to fill the drawers.  Sue me !!

I use the unregulated soldering iron I inherited from my Dad...  Its not ESD or
anything... has a holder and a metal base with a TRIAC dimmer built in. I use
that
to idle it. I use a scrubbrush cut in half, mounted to a goofy bracket that lets
you
swipe the tip between them for instant clean.

KESTER 44  (sorry my Ersin Multicore gave out early this year. I bought several
pounds of the good old toxic lead shit.).  If I want it clean, I flick the
little rosin
boogers off the board with a scratch awl.

I'm having fun actually BUYING parts new to stock my bench.  I'm a disaffected
ex-hippie from the sixties nearing my fifties... and I can afford this shit now.
Like
I said I'm no peasent ;^)   I'm a Kulack !!!

There are a few camps of DIY.  The high enders are building modulars that are
drop dead gorgeous.  They can AFFORD to... they are not buying a modular...
they are buying a memory. That synth they wanted as a child/man (ok Cynthia...
child/WOman...   ;^)...   now it can be a reality.

Others are the new DIY kids-on-the-block. Thank GOD they have the friends
(the olden farts) to guide them, we wish WE had...  They will sometimes do
things
on the cheap... shit.. they still get DATES for chrissakes... ;^).

I'd suggest that Uber-DIY is a good thing all told.  Lets not throw out the baby

with the bathwater.  Some old ways are good... some new ways are good.
I enjoyed builting with T-42 terminals a LOT more than my recent SMT repair
of my Alesis with near invisible LEDs...

Well, on second thought... lets throw the baby out as well....    ;^P

H^) harry uber alles !!!!

Ken Stone wrote:

> >Paul's 8-step recovery program from the UberDIY plague.
>
> <SNIP>
>
> >Instead of spending $300 on beers and smokes the next 2 months, decide to
> focus on getting a
> >great DIY setup.
>
> Well, I don't drink, and I don't smoke, but if I did what you are suggesting
> above, I'd simply have to exit the DIY hobby. For the first 10 years of my
> DIY hobby, I simply couldn't do much because I neither had the funds or the
> parts. At least now (many years later) I have a good collection of junk I
> can salvage from. It also depends on the angle of your hobby. I really think
> I would be bored to death just building MOTM kits (no criticism on the
> quality) but I've been there and done that with other kits. I have a LOT
> more fun adapting what junk I have to hand into synthesizers. That is where
> the enjoyment is for me.
>
> $20 for a DAC? No way. For under $20 I can buy a 6U rack full of high
> quality parts. Component draws? Yes, though most of my "bulk" stuff is
> stored in icecream container "draws" in a shelf system made out of card
> racks. Very neat, very functional.
>
> I have a whole pile of can type 741s just pleading for an application :) Too
> bad I actually stoop to purchacing modern op-amps.
>
> Ken
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