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Hi John, 

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From: "john mahoney" <jmahoney@gate.net> 
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:50:31 -0500 

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>From: "Dana Countryman" <dana@danacountryman.com> 
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>> Regarding Moogerfoogers in a MOTM/Dotcom world... 
>> http://www.danacountryman.com/misc/MF-101a.jpg 
>> I'll admit that I haven't tweaked the electronics yet... 
> 
>Dana, I'm expecting delivery of a MF-101 Stooge panel, too. Can you 
>elaborate a bit on how you did the conversion? I am interested to 
know 
>what pots, switches, jacks, etc. that you used (or reused). >> 

I ordered DPDT switches and jacks through Mouser. I got the push 
button switch from Roger Arrick. I got the LED holders from Radio 
Shack. 

Also, it 
>looks like you have a mix of Moog knobs and 2 non-Moog knobs (at the 
>top); why is that?>> 

Good eye! That's because I used the pots off the Moogerfooger, but 
the design of the top two pots were physically too wide and 
interferred with setting the module into the dotcom. The Moog knobs 
have a half-moon shaft, but the other pots I used are full-round, 
thus the need for different knobs to fit those kinds of shafts. 

My biggest mistake was that I should have left the originial Mooger 
jacks mounted on its' printed circuit board, and should have just 
tapped wires off to the new jacks on the stooge panel. 
Getting all those jacks desoldered and removed was a hassle, and I 
accidentally took a few printed circuit tracings away from the PC 
board when I desoldered. It's still a little messed up, so I need to 
get in there and find out where the missed connection is. 

I used a 4-pot L bracket that I got from Larry Hendry, too. I'd 
advise using teflon mounting nuts and bolts, something that I didn't 
do... There's a danger of shorting out parts of the PC board tracings 
with metal mounting bolts... 

I'd do several things differently, if I had the chance again. 




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>> Also, if anyone's interested, I can also post a photo of my 
>> solution for making my MOTM modules (I only have four) 
>> look more "Dotcom"-ish.... 
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>[raises hand] Yes, please! 
>-- 
>john 
> 
>.. 

I'll try and do that soon... 

- Dana 

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