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If Paul gets to be sloth, I am a Dodo

2001-02-11 by bruce@sigalarm.com

Ok,

Lets talk about slow in the head.  Once upon a time, I wanted to build 
a modular synth. I ordered some rather nice kits from Synthtech, and 
through a miracle of UPS, they arrived. 

I carefully looked at the Synth-Tech web site.  It had a lovely list 
of "buy me before you start" stuff.  Heck, I have done electronics 
projects before, so some of it I had.

But I went and made sure I had everything before I started.  But I was 
stuck finding the solder on a rainy Southern California afternoon 
(anyone see the problem yet).

I was down, for in my limited Dodo mind, I lacked the solder to 
construct the first parts of my beast.

So I opened up my MOTM-900. Vowing to solder the small number of 
joints using the spool of "no clean up" that I did find.

So there in a little bag is some solder.

At this point, I am flabbergasted.  I check the other kits, hell... 
they have solder in them too.  I have been looking for 2 days for this 
stuff.

Guess I am too careful, I was not going to risk losing anything 
before I started building, so I left everything in their little bags.

So yes, now I know that solder comes with the kit.  I am now enjoying 
myself.

Bruce

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